5 Most Needed WordPress Plugins

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Wordpress Plugin5  Most Needed WordPress Plugins

If you already have a blog, chances are that you are using WordPress as your platform. If you’re not, you should be. There are many reasons as to why WordPress is the most popular blogging platform on the Web today. Many people don’t use WordPress as they think the Word “Blog” which means to them they have to blog all day everyday about stuff they are not really interested in. Or maybe they are interested but just don’t have the time to blog about it everyday. Well in todays world that does not have to be, there are so many wordpress plugins that you can use to automate your content.

Well first off I would like you to know that wordpress does more than just provide you with a blog, it also is able to provide you with the most amazing Sales Pages as well, which are the same as a bog in that you can still add the WordPress plugins as well.

What make WordPress such an amazing platform to produce your style of website is the ability to add the WordPress Plugins...

If you are not sure what a plugin is, it basically adds new functions to a WordPress blog. A WordPress plugin is essentially a program written in the PHP programming language that adds a specific set of features or services to the WordPress blog. All you have to do to add a new feature or service to your blog is find a relevant plugin, upload it to your plugin folder and then “activate” the plugin on the dashboard. It’s that simple.

That being said, there are literally thousands upon thousands of plugins out there (most of them are free) and if you are a newbie, you may get tempted to add as many plugins as you can to your blog. The bottom line is that you only need a couple of them to get your blog going. In order to help you with which plugins to choose, I’ve chosen the top 10 WordPress plugins that you must have.

WordPress In terms of Internet marketing and getting rankings, WordPress offers the most search engine friendly blogging platform in addition to being very user-friendly. The other great thing about it is the number of WordPress plugins which you can add to your blog and I have many of these loaded up into my site all doing their own thing.

I am constantly asked …what WordPress plugins do you use… there are so many, how do I choose?

WordPress Plugins

1. Akismet

Don’t you just hate people leaving spam comments on your blog? I certainly do, and if you dislike such comments appearing on your blog, the Akismet plugin automatically filters them for you. I don’t have time to deal with spam and I hope you don’t either. It truely does do the most amazing job, yes it does require a little setup after activation, but thats easy enough to do. So this little WordPress plugin to your must have WordPress Plugins

2. All-In-One-SEO Pack

Got to love this WordPress plugin, if you are looking for the ultimate plugin to transform your blog into an SEO optimized blog, then this is the one. It’s easy to use and before long you can be ranking for your keywords. Grab all your keywords and description and you are set to go.

3. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

If there’s one thing you don’t want, it’s for the blog to be banned from ping services. When you update or edit your blog, you automatically send a ping to let them know that your blog has been updated and that the changes need to be indexed. However, you can get banned from ping services if you end up doing this too often. In order to avoid this from happening, you need to use the MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer plugin. If you don’t have this then you can get it off me. This is another one of the amazing set of wordpress plugins that you need to get hold of.

4. Remote Database Backup

As one who has over-riden her blog with another, I cannot stress enough the importance of backup. Just as backup of your computer is important so is your website. Whatever you do on the Web, you need to have backups. Backing up data is one of those things that people don’t take seriously until a site failure happens to them. This plugin helps you backup your WordPress blog at any time.

5. SEO Smart Links

This is one of those WordPress PLugins you have to have. This cool plugin allows you to automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. Furthermore, you can set up your keywords along with their own matching URLs. A must have if you want the maximum SEO benefit for your blog.

Next post I will take another look at the Subject of WordPress Plugins as there are many more that we will add to our site. If you would like to watch a video of me putting together a WordPress Site and adding some wordpress plugins then you should take a look at Build  Website In 20 Minutes. You will see there how easy it is to install WordPress Plugins.

Free WordPress Plugins

All of the above WordPress Plugins are free, they are amazing and on the next blog post we will look at the next 5 I believe you need to have. So Watch this space…. I’ll be back, there is a start to your list… now go add those ones, don’t forget to check out the video on just how to build your website in 20 minutes and learn also how to add those WordPress plugins both Free and bought ones as well.

Gail… signing off, Your WordPress Plugins guru :-)

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WordPress Footer Plugin

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WordPress Footer Plugin

WordPress Footer is one of those amazing WordPress Plugins that really does an amazing job.

With all the WordPress Auto Plugins like the Article poster and the Video poster, not to mention the Yahoo Answers poster, you are constantly bringing information in onto your own site…. that is other people’s information… Now the question I always get is ..” If we are bringing in other people’s info all the time, then we are also sending people to other websites and even promoting other people information and maybe at the expense of what we have to offer”…. well that’s a very good point… so is there a way round that issue.

Banners
Well you can create a banner and add that at the bottom of each post. That’s a great idea, only issue with that is you have to go into each post and then add it manually.

That is time consuming… not to mention annoying… well the thing is we have our sites on automatic, so why would we want to go back in after each post and add a banner or something that sends people to our website. There has to be a better and or easier way… well there is actually.…

Enter the wordpress footer Plugin… what that allows you to do is to go into the code, very easy I might say, and add your own code into there which could have added at the bottom of every single post any or either of the following:

  1. Picture of product you are selling
  2. Banner
  3. Video
  4. Auto Responder
  5. A personal message from yourself
  6. A Text link to whatever

And so the list goes on… whatever HTML code you want or can imagine can go into the part where you edit code, add it, save it and your done.
It’s so simple anyone can do it.

When I first saw the WordPress Footer I was really excited I could see the possiblities, especially if you use the WordPress Footer to grow your database… just put your GetResponse, or Aweber, or 1 shopping cart code in and add a graphic and your done..

At the end of every article, or video, no matter if it is yours or someone else’s is your banner, auto responder, video, or personal message… how very cool is that.

Now  thats clever, check out the video it will give you step by step instructions.

Have fun and grow your business with WordPress Footer.

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WP Robot Help – How to install WP Auto Poster

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Word Press Article Poster Webinar

In this webinar I showed you how to install the new WP Article Poster, I thought it was very detailed for me :-)

and going by the comments I have received you were pretty happy with the process as well.

So go ahead and watch the video, it really isn’t that difficult once you know how.
Don’t forget you need to download the WPRobot first then whatever ones you want after that.

The new Article Poster is pretty easy to setup. So watch and take notes..

Here is the list of what to do if you didn’t get the list written down:

  1. WordPress .. Deactivate GF Auto Poster ( Only if you have this installed)
  2. Download WP Robot Zip file, leave it zipped
  3. Go to plugins in wordpress.. upload
  4. Then buy .. Article Poster
  5. Download – Unzip it
  6. Go to Your C-Panel
  7. Click on File Manager
  8. Go to directory .. Double click
  9. WP Content.. Double Click
  10. Plugins.. Double Click
  11. WP Robot..Double Click
  12. Modules..Double Click
  13. Then Click on .. UPLOAD button
  14. Browse .. Go to file you just unzipped on hard drive – Upload file called “Articles”
  15. Then go back to wp-admin
  16. Go onto WP Robot down bottom
  17. Add in keywords
  18. Set Probabilites.. Article 100%

And you’re done…

Remember to smile while your doing this…. it will help :-)

wp robot lying down

Don’t for get you can watch this in full screen… click on the button on the video screen bottom right hand corner.

wp robot lying down

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