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www.howtodowebmarketing.com WordPress: How to tweet your WordPress blog onto Twitter automatically. Its actually quite simple with the free wordpress plugin called Twitter tools. Twitter Tools will Tweet the headline of each blog to your twitter account with the text "New blog post: header" where header is the headline of your latest blog post. I find the default works well for me and I get visitors and comments within Twitter this way. I hope this short tutorial is of use to you. If it has helped please leave a comment and if there are any other wordpress plugins you would like explained please do comment giving the link of the plug in.

These WordPress Plugins will increase traffic Just install them one at a time and then go back to your website and ensure that your site is still running as it should be. I have used all of these plugins at a time, some of them disabled now, but none of them gave me an accident with my WordPress Thesis Theme. A few of these plugins take a little time to set properly and my suggestion is: Write down all your logins, usernames and passwords to get back to if you get a mess and forget, it can save much time and frustration later. I speak from past experience “not enjoyable Ones” and now I can write any username, password and e-down sake. It really sux when you have computer probs and lose all of your automatic logins. The best way to install them is to log into your wordpress admin panel and goto plugins> – Add> – Look. When you buy what you want to install it from right there in your site. You should see an install button on the right side of the selected plugin. If at this point do not own a WordPress blog just go to my Setting up a WordPress blog post and follow the instructions video. I have not gone into a lot of detail with these as the best explanation of plugins themselves. Addtoany: Help people share & Bookmark your content with the world’s best share buttonAskimet: Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress. com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” All In One Video Pack: This is not just another video embed tool – it contains all the features you need for video and rich media, including games, uploading and editing. All In One Video Pack Sidebar Widget: a sidebar widget that allows you to view the latest posted videos and comments to your blog. Auto Tweet: Adding a checkbox to the Write Post editor (both TinyMCE / Visual Editor and the advanced editor). When the box is checked, will publish your messages can also send mail to Twitter. If a post is longer than 140 characters, it will be truncated. Auto Tweet create a new column in the “services” table of your database to select the messages that have already been sent and will use that information to prevent duplication of messages. BlogRush Click Maximizer: BlogRush Click Maximizer allows you to control what you want to display in BlogRush. You can include or exclude any messages you want and use alternative – short and catchy title just for BlogRush. Google Analytics for WordPress: This plugin makes it easy to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download to your WordPress blog Google XML Sitemaps: This plugin will generate sitemaps. org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ash. com, Google, MSN Search and Yahoo. Hello Dolly: This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a text from “Hello, Dolly in the upper right corner of the screen admin at all pageHocus Pocus Buttons: is a WordPress plugin that gives sidebar widget with a wide range set of buttons for social bookmarking websites. But each button is only visible to the user if he has visited the corresponding site recently. The goal is not to disturb the user by using too many buttons / links (since he could probably just use one or two at all) and not only show the relevant services. Only Wire: Only Wire is a service that allows you to distribute your content to multiple social sites from one place with the push of a single buttonCustomizable Widget: Adds a customizable Widget to give you more control over how the search box looks on your sidebar. Embedding YouTube videos into WordPress: Include YouTube videos in posts or pages, and even in a widget. Works in WP version 2. 5 + Featured Content Gallery: Used to create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere in your WordPress site. Popularity Contest: This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity, with the behavior of your visitors to determine each post popularity. You specify a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated from these values. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and view reports. You can also use the supplied Widgets and template tags to show post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog. Social Profilr: Life Streaming Plugin for Word presents Socio Fluid: Socio-Fluid is a social bookmarking plugin for WordPress. For more information, check Socio Fluid website. StatPress Seolution: Based on StatPress [Reloaded] with a few more improvements (better scan statistics major search engines, modular structured code, flash charts) TagALLY-for-WP: Do you want to show more of your tag cloud? Want more people to know your blog? The plugin can help you implement these ideas. If you are the first to activate the plugin, please be sure to read tagally-for-wp-help. html file, especially “Export posts and related tags” in the file. Thesis Import / Export: Import / Export all settings Thesis and Open Hook. For Thesis Theme. We choose the Thesis WordPress Them because it is so robust Has Brilliant SEO features and is in our opinion, The Best WordPress Theme on the market today. If you want to buy thesis them you can go to our affiliate Thesis site to purchase. They have a very good support forum, with exceptional service if you encounter problems. We can also answer most questions related to Thesis. You will be presented with two options Are1: Personal $ 87USD2: Development $ 164USDIf looking at buying a personal item and want to setup made for you: Purchasing theme, upload it to your host, changing the layout, replacing the header with its own title and configure requested plug-ins when we offer this service at a cost of $ 120 USD. Just fill out the form below with your contact information so we can get your website up and running. What you need for this service is a domain name and website hosting account. Just follow the links in the resource box of this article to see the video training on our site where we show you how to do this. I’m using JustHost, only because of what they offer and the other good thing is HostGator, both hosting offer about the same so it really is about personal choice. More Plugins: Thesis Open Hook: This plugin allows you to insert arbitrary content into many hooks to thesis Theme Framework offers. Never again to edit a file! Based on K2 Hook Up and GPLed. Highest categories: Removes the prefix from the URL for a category. For example, if your old category link / category / catname it now / catnameTweetMeme retweet button: Adds a button that easily allows you to retweet your blog posts. What Would Seth Godin Do: Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and another for returning visitors. WP-smiley: Defining smilies to your path! HGK Feedback Form: Drop-in feedback / contact form for your WordPress blog. Artworks for pages and services, “Thats it for” There you have it, should keep you busy for a while and do not mind so you dont double up things, some of the social language pack seems that they will double up, but when you look closely you will notice that you can not have every site the others have done it just for what you need. It is a virtual endless list of plugins, for example. . . There are plugins designed especially for Amazon ect. . . thats why i have only covered the main backer traffic generates. If you know of a good plugin that I have not mentioned here, please leave a comment and let me know.

There are a couple of good resources your can manipulate to optimize your website for search engines as effectively as possible:
Meta Tags:
Meta Tags contain information that describes your site’s purpose, description, and keywords used within your site. The meta tags are stored within the head of your header. php template file. By default, they are not included in WordPress, but you can manually include them and the article on meta tags in wordpress takes you through the process of adding meta tags to your WordPress site.
The WordPress custom fields option can also be used to include keywords and descriptions for posts and pages. There are also several WordPress Plugins that can also help you to add meta tags and keyword descriptions to your site found within the Official WordPress Plugin Directory.
Robots. txt:
Search Engines read a yourserver. com/robots. txt file to get information on what they should and shouldn’t be looking for, and where.
Specifying where search engines should look for content in high-quality directories or files you can increase the ranking of your site, and is recommended by Google and all the search engines.
Feed Submissions:
WordPress comes built-in with various feeds, allowing your site to be viewed by various feed readers. Many search engines are now accepting feed submissions, and there are many site which specialize in directories of feeds and feed services. Simply Google “submit blog to feed directory” to generate a list of all the top feed directories available on the internet. Some of the are free, while some ask for a fee to add you links within their directories. I recommend manually submitting your blog to free directories, and just give them time to add your links.
Technorati Tags:
 
Technorati is a “real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs. ” According to the site, “Technorati tracks the number of links, and the perceived relevance of blogs, as well as the real-time nature of blogging. Because Technorati automatically receives notification from weblogs as soon as they are updated, it can track the thousands of updates per hour that occur in the blogosphere, and monitor the communities underlying these conversations. ”
Permalinks:
Permalinks are improvements to your existing URLs which can improve search engine optimization by presenting your post, page, and archive URLs as something like http://example. com/2003/05/23/my-cheese-sandwich/ rather than http://example. com/index. php?p=423.  
 
 
As search engines use links and the title as part of their information gathering, links to posts and articles within your site gain importance with Permalinks.
Sitemaps and Google Sitemaps:
As of June 2005, Google is now accepting sitemaps of your site as part of their website submissions. Google needs to have this sitemap formatted in a special way using XML. You can use the Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for WordPress to generate a sitemap for your WordPress website quickly and easily.
A sitemap or “site map” is a single page listing of all the posts on your website. It is intended for your visitors to get a good overview on what your site is about and to find a blog post quickly but it also has great benefits in the search engines as a good link is always pointing to all your blog posts. By having a link to your sitemap on all your sites pages both visitors and search engines will easily get to it and find all your posts. Also, a sitemap is automatically updated each time you edit or add new posts. This will save you alot of trouble if you have a large website with over 500 posts.
  

 

With the addition of the Plugin Update Notification into WordPress 2. 3, it is now more important than ever before that plugin authors maintain and update their plugins on a regular basis. Failure to do so may see their plugin dropped from wordpress. org while user’s migrate to other more up-to-date plugins.

Some of the most popular WordPress plugins have already been tested and listed as WordPress 2. 3 compatible plugins. Sadly many will never be compatible as their authors have given up development.

Developing a successful and popular blog or website is made easier by using WordPress, even more so now that canonical redirection and update notifications are included by default. Bloggers wishing to grow their site, increase traffic, manage content, and monetize their pages will however need to install some of the excellent plugins available. Here’s a short list of must have plugins:

“Akismet v2. 02″, without this many bloggers quickly become bogged down in dealing with spam. The Akismet plugin sends a query to the Akismet servers with every comment posted and checks the users email address and their comment for spam. Akismet will automatically reject spam giving webmasters peace of mind and restoring ‘blogging innocence’.

“Backup WordPress”, the easiest and quickest way to backup your entire WordPress install, including database, themes, uploads, in fact even the entire site with core files. We all know operating a popular site requires time and effort, and when a site goes down its good to know you have a backup.

“No follow case by case”, for webmasters who really don’t want comment authors getting any link juice from their hard won efforts to build their PR. Linking to potentially bad neighborhoods or sites that aren’t in your niche can damage our site’s SERPs, luckily the no follow tag is honored by most major search engines. No follow case by case allows you to select any comment link that shouldn’t be followed, or leave the default setting which automatically applies the no follow tag to all comment links.

“Google Sitemaps Generator”, designed to work with Google, Yahoo, Ask. com and MSN Search, this plugin will generate your sitemap in plain text and compressed format, then ping Google, Ask. com and Yahoo when you update your site. The generated sitemap will also include a priority rating for each entry based on the number of comments received.

“Mint Popular Posts” utilizes Mint, one of the best tracking packages for complete analysis of your website traffic. Find out which pages your visitors are reading, which links they’re clicking, which ad’s they’re clicking, and more.

Did I miss important plugins? Yes, what about Advertising plugins? for plugins which support AdSense, there are 2 plugins that are listed in the plugin compatibility list at the time this article written, they are “AdSense Deluxe” and “AdSense Manager”, but here is another new plugin but it’s not free (although it’s pretty cheap), “DynamicAds”, it’s compatible with WordPress 2. 3 and one of the the plugin’s features allows you to control how you want to rotate your ads in various locations on your site.

Those are the essential plugins that need to be firstly installed to your WordPress website.