Blogging for Cash & Sum

I’ve noticed a lot of people are interested to install lots of plugins but really don’t make it profitable on their blog. You can have over 50 plugins that all work and make noise, but none of them are any good to make your blog stand out. (Additionally, my term of profitable also refers to helping you market your blog and also creating a brand). Since most plugins are free, it’s very easy to find them on the Internet and install them with Wordpress 2.71. Furthermore I’ve provided a link to the download page for each plugin. Hope this list will help others and it’s in alphabetical order, enjoy!

Add Post Footer

The Add Post Footer is very useful in helping you cross sell products, a free eBook to encourage readers to subscribe or other top articles that are related to your post. It allows you to enter HTML code into the footer of every post you write and is very simple to use.

All in One SEO Pack

As you can see from the name of the plugin – it’s an all in one SEO pack that assists each post in your blog to be “search engine optimised”. You can either leave your header, meta tags and description of your post just the way they are when you publish, or you can fine tune them to be more specific to keywords you want to use for search engines. I’ve found at times I wanted to add additional keywords and change the description of my post instead of having the default Wordpress summarised description. A must have plug-in for serious Internet marketers!

Bird Feeder

If you’re on Twitter and want to save time twitting – the Bird Feeder plugin will automatically feed your most recent posts in the format of: [your message] [post title] [short url] to Twitter. It’s great because you won’t have to double up by copying and pasting your posts back into Twitter or be on Twitter 24/7 (if you’re not already).

FeedBurner FeedSmith

This little gem, the FeedBurner FeedSmith takes your blog’s feed and redirects it to Feedburner. It’s better branding for your site and you won’t have FeedBurner’s domain name showing when a reader clicks on your RSS feed button, e.g. feeds2.feedburner.com/internetbusinesspath become internetbusinesspath.com/feed. For more detailed instructions.

Google XML Sitemaps

If you want to be found on Google, then Google XML Sitemaps plugin is a requirement for your blog. This plugin creates a compliant XML sitemap for the Google bots to crawl your site and it will help your blog achieve higher rankings if you want to be found on their search engine. Once you’ve install this plugin don’t forget to hop onto Google Webmaster Tools to let them know you’ve got a sitemap for them to crawl, otherwise Google won’t know.

Max Banner Ads

Monetising and profiting from your blog couldn’t be any easier. If you have advertisers and want a very streamline and easy way to insert their ads onto your blog, then Max Banner Ads is the plugin for you. I use this on my blog and it’s saved me a lot of time. It’s easy to use and can be very profitable for your blog.

RSS Feed Signature

The RSS Feed Signature is another great plugin to use within your RSS Feeds. It simply adds a customised signature to any RSS Feed that goes out to your subscribers. If you are keen on increasing your subscribers, I would suggest installing this plugin and add a “free eBook offer” to your RSS signature. If you subscribe to my RSS Feed you’ll see the link at the bottom of each feed to take you to the free eBook offer. You can read more about how to download your free eBook from the RSS feed.

Top Commentators Widget

This plugin allows your blog to display a user who has posted the most comments. The Top Commentators Widget shows other readers your highest commentator and will encourage people to find out who they are by clicking on their name. Also the highest commentators websites will be linked automatically onto your blog and can increase your search engine rankings as well. Therefore getting you more traffic and more comments all at the same time.

What Would Seth Godin Do

Most people would know Seth Godin as his name is associated with Internet Marketing Guru. The What Would Seth Godin Do plugin simply displays a welcome message on your blog for first time and returning users. It may ask them to subscribe if they’re a first time user or thank them for coming. It’s a great tool to have to create the “experience” for a user coming to your blog.

Wordpress Simple Paypal Shopping cart

If you’re like me who offers advertising on my blog and needs a simple way for advertisers to pay you, then the Wordpress Simple Paypal Shopping cart is an easy plugin to install and use. It allows anyone to pay you using Paypal which is used by millions of people worldwide and can save you time having to respond to advertiser’s email with your bank account details and so forth. The plugin has functions to let you add a “Add to cart” button and creates a shopping cart module when the advertiser or user decides to pay you. It will then redirect them to the Paypal website to pay. Very simple to use!

If you haven’t tried any of the plugins above I would highly recommend adding them to your blog. So give it a go!

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Tyrone Shum
Tyrone Shum is an internet business marketer. You can read more Internet business articles at Internetbusinesspath .

WordPress is a great open-development community that encourages its users to innovate. But a few years ago, it started getting hard to keep up with those innovations. That’s when the WordPress Plugin Repository was born (currently hosted at http://WP-plugins.org).

The repository is a place where all WordPress plugins are pulled together and shared with the community of users. But more than that, it’s a place where developers can go to see what’s already out there, what they can base their new work on, and what needs to be improved. In addition to end-user utilities that anyone can download for their WordPress needs, there are plenty of development tools, including wiki-based version control and a bug tracker, that the WordPress development community is welcomed to use. Everything is licensed under GPL unless noted in the source, so almost everything is open.

If you’re new to the WordPress plugin repository but not to the WordPress support forums, you should login with your forum username and password; they are currently synced. If you have any problems, you should email the forum webmaster to ask what’s going on. Only logged-in users may edit on the Repository, though everyone is welcome to view what’s going on.

What’s Available on the WordPress Plugin Repository?

The Repository is designed to be a complete, organized, efficient method of seeing what’s in development and what has been developed for WordPress. As such, the core offerings here are the plugin directory and a robust version control mechanism. You can also use a special interface, downloadable for free, to work with the Repository more easily. The Repository is powered by Trac, a source control management and project management tool. Subversion is a wiki tool providing version control, and is also the source management tool WordPress is using today.

Developers using this directory can host all their WordPress developments for free, even organizing teamwork through the WordPress Plugin Repository. By hosting here, they have high visibility, can easily manage their code and track bugs, and develop wiki-based documentation with end users more easily than they could ever do it by themselves.

But developers without users are like stores without customers. WordPress users, too, are welcome to download plugins that are in alpha or beta form, or to download and use the plugins that are fully-functional but not integrated into WordPress yet. There are tools available for users to:

• Browse plugins and themes available at the Repository

• Download all desired plugins and themes from one stable location

• Give their own feedback and suggestions to developers by using the tracker.

• Help develop documentation and improvements by using the plugin’s wiki page.

• Know what’s going on at all times by using RSS feeds.

Anyone developing or looking for WordPress plugins and themes is encouraged to use this resource. An email will get you the hosting you need for your project, and just coming and looking around will tell you a lot about what’s going on in the WordPress development world.

What Plugins Are Available Right Now?

While plugins are changing fast, a few core plugins are available and certainly worth the time they’ll take to check out. The best ones right now include:

Main Categories for WordPress allows you select “main” categories on your blog’s navigation bar. This allows you to highlight the parts of your blog you find most important, while still displaying everything else.

The WordPress DBManager manages your WordPress database so you don’t have to. Instead of worrying about lost data, you can use this manager to optimize, back up, restore, delete backed up databases, and even run queries for specific data.

WordPress Email allow you to send your blog entries to friends, enemies, or anyone you choose.

WordPress PageNavi gives you advanced page navigation.

WordPress Polls allows you to run the ever-popular polls and make the results public when you’re ready.

WordPress PostRatings allows you to have rating systems for your blog posts.

WordPress PostViews lets you display for users and for yourself how many times a post has been viewed.

WordPress Print will display for the user a printable version of any given WordPress blog post.

WordPress RelativeDate displays a relative date beside your post or comment actual date.

WordPress Stats displays WordPress statistics you want to brag about.

WordPress UserOnline allows you to note which users are currently browsing your blogs

WordPress Wap allows you to use a Wap-enabled cell phone to brows your WordPress blog entries from anywhere.

Other projects that are in development include:

• Joystick controls

• RPMView

• A WordPress XHTML validator

• Tons of tools for Python, including MySQL tools

• Recording level monitor

• An admin themer

• A post editor enhancement

• Fix broken links

• Palm usage manager

There are always new things in development in the repository, like new themes and small fixes such as a way to make WordPress allow dashes.

Even if you’re not a developer or interested in expanding your blog beyond what it has now, it is a good idea to check out the Repository. It’s certain that many of the plugins provided or in development today will eventually be incorporated into the newer upgrades of WordPress. By keeping an eye on the Repository, you’ll know what new developments are around the corner – and by logging in and discussing them on the wiki logs, you’ll be able to give your own input regarding how things ought to be done. While there are other places to find WordPress plugins, it’s to be hoped that most people will use the Repository in the future, making life easier for everyone.

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Danny Wirken
http://www.theinternetone.net

WordPress first appeared in 2003, is now on thousands of websites. This is a simple open-source blogging tool that in two ways, both hosted option or download free software option.

WordPress offers many additional features that might otherwise know as a WordPress plugin. This WordPress plugin allows you to create your blog to both the public and the gender of your site.

There are many WordPress plugin to choose from, if you are new to blogging is not possible to know what is best for you. Here is a list and explanation only to some of the most popular WordPress plugin available.

Top WordPress Plugin:

? All in one SEO – WordPress this thorn in optimizing for search engines, and automatic generation META tag. It gives you the opportunity to cancel the licenses and all the META description and keywords you want. Depending on the version of WordPress that you are using 2 / 3, you can simply install this plugin for WordPress and it works now.

? Akismet – this is a fantastic tool that helps in resolving the confusion of spam. Once installed, this WordPress plug-examine all of your comments against the Akismet web service to analyze whether or spam look like something real, which then allows you to check what has been found in the “comments” section of your blog in WordPress so that you can we decide whether you want to delete or not.

? Statistics WordPress – although there are many ways to acquire data and statistics about your site, most also offer many details, especially if you are new to blogging. The statistics WordPress system was specifically designed to get more information “needs a popular blogger.

? Twitter tools – this plugin integrates your Twitter account to your WordPress blog. Twitter is a micro-blogging and social networking service.

? Get Recent Comments – This plugin gives you full control over the appearance of excerpts of comments included in your sidebar. You can determine the order, the number of tracks and duration.

? DMSGuestbook – The guest book can be easily customized, which allows you to change not only color, but allows you to set mandatory fields, in which a user must provide a range of information. You can completely manage user entries and edit / remove the bodies before they are displayed.

? Video All in One Pack – This plugin for WordPress offers all necessary functions for video and rich media. It allows you to record / upload videos and import directly to your elected post.

Each of WordPress plugin has its unique advantages and can really help your blog to something easy to use. With so many to choose from plug-in value of spending some time searching through the offer and the selection of the plugin will benefit both you, your website and your readers.

New additions are constantly being added and developed to ensure that you control, so you do not miss something that could be beneficial.

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Gen Wright
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If you want to extend the functionality of your Wordpress blog, then you will want to install a Wordpress plugin that promises the utility you are looking for. The Wordpress blogging platform is an amazing tool by itself, but some people demand more from the platform so that it can be the perfect content management system for their needs.

For example, the Wordpress blogging platform cannot display Google AdSense ads automatically. If the blog owner wants to stream AdSense ads on his pages, he will have to fiddle with the HTML code of the said blog. With a specific type of Wordpress plugin however, like AdSense Manager among others, you can automate the display of AdSense ads on particular areas of each page of the blog.

Wordpress plugins are perfect for people who don’t have a deep working knowledge regarding how the blog works. Even veteran internet marketers will say that they’re not savvy enough to know each and every trick possible with Wordpress. By installing Wordpress plugins that fulfill the needs that users want to be added to the Wordpress platform, blogging – and content management for that matter – becomes a much easier task.

There are so many Wordpress plugins available today. In fact, a great number of Wordpress blogs make good use of numerous plugins to the point that they don’t look like blogs that are produced by the original Wordpress platform. They become absolutely stunning, outstandingly dynamic, and highly functional websites that rival the best products that complicated content management systems like Joomla and Mambo produce.

Not many people know how to install Wordpress plugins, however. This is what this article is all about.

Installing Wordpress plugins is actually very easy. If you know how to use Wordpress, it will only to take you a minute or less to learn how to install Wordpress plugins.

Download the Wordpress plugin you want to add to your blog. Upload the Wordpress plugin to the wp-content/plugins folder of your website. You will need an FTP client like Filezilla or your web hosting services HTML uploader for this.

Go to your wp-admin page. Log in as needed.

Look for the Plugins section of your dashboard. Find the newly uploaded Wordpress plugin. Click “activate.”

The foregoing, of course, is the manual approach in installing Wordpress plugins. Newer versions of Wordpress, at least as far as the default theme is concerned, allow for the automatic installation of plugins from admin dashboard itself by going to Plugins>Add New and browsing the file to be uploaded and installed. The Wordpress plugin must be in .zip format for this to work. Some Wordpress themes do not carry such a feature, however.

Wordpress plugins are fantastic ways to make your blog better and more suitable for your needs, and with the absolute ease by which these plugins can be installed, you don’t have an excuse not to make the most out of them.

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Samantha

Samantha Milner is a well-known Internet Marketing expert and the owner of my easy online pay that gives free internet marketing tips to all: http://www.myeasyonlinepay.com