WordPress Plugins and Blog Start Up

Greetings All,

After I posted those scorpion dish photos last week, many people ask me about whether they are the life or frozen ones? – They are the real ones and move very fast.

Speaking of blogging, whether you have been blogging (for business purposes) for years or have recently started, it is important to get your blog platform up-to-date.

It said there are about 65% of bloggers use WordPress for blogging, so if you are one of them, you should update your blog to the latest version if you haven’t done so.

If you are serious about your blog, I have some great blog plug-ins to tell you about today, with have 65% bloggers large community, you will find thousands of plug-ins to use with your blog. As you know plug-ins provide added functionality for your blog, but not all plug-ins are helpful.

Here is a list of “Must Have” wordpress plug-ins that will help you get the maximum benefits from your blog. They’re essential.

In addition, if you do not have a blog yet, you’ll also find a really cool video training course that shows you how to setup a blog and get visitors to it in 10 minutes.

I hope you enjoy this edition…

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WordPress Plug-ins;

“All in one SEO” Pack:
http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack

This plugin will minimize your efforts in search engine optimization — an important factor if you want traffic free, organic to your blog. It is streamlined for some best practices for Wordpress SEO. While it gives you many options the defaults reflect the settings I recommend using.

All in once SEO plug-in allows you to post unique META tags, META description, keywords and page titles that optimized for the search engines.

It also allows you to post common META tags and descriptions for in case if you are too lazy to update each page. I love this great piece of tool.

Google Sitemaps plug-in
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. It is an excellent navigation aid for your website visitors.

In its simplest form, a sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL, like when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site, so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

XML sitemaps also provide search engines the necessary information for quick indexing of your blog.
Google sitemaps plug-in automatically generates a XML sitemap compliant sitemap for your wordpress blog; pings search engines and informing them about the changes on your blog.

Permalink Migration Plugin
http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin

Permalink is the permanent link to the blog post after it moves to the blog archives, such links are indexed by the search engines, if any changes to these links normally result in a “Page not found” error and hence loss of traffic.

The permalink migration plugin automates the entire migration process, with this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website and even doesn’t affect your search engine rankings.

This plug-in is a must have if you are not satisfied with your blog’s Permalink structure and would like to change it.

Related Posts plug-in
http://wasabi.pbwiki.com/Related%20Entries

I bet you don’t want your visitors who are through search engines come to your blog post then leave your blog immediately after reading the post!

So this plug-in will output a series of “related” entries based on keyword matching, help you retain the visitors by providing them related posts and to ensure that your visitor has enough relevant content to stay on your blog.

Spam Karma:
http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma

If you have a high page rank for your blog, you don’t want just sit there and spend a lot of your time deleting the spam comments.

Spam Karma is an anti spam plug-in to help you stop all forms of automated blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenter.

This helps you concentrate on your blog rather than on the spam comments.

Subscribe to Comments plug-in
http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments

This plugin allows readers on your blog to check a box before posting a comment. Then they get e-mail notification upon further comments. This is one of the most popular wordpress plugins out there for the simple reason that it helps foster a community around your blog by encouraging commenter to come back and stay engaged in the dialog.

It is a great plugin to help you grow your blog community since it helps readers stay in the discussion they are interested in.

Wordpress Database Backup
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup

Think about how much time and energy will cost you if your blog was lost due to a server failure! If that happens, will really be a disaster. So get things prepared in ahead is important.

This plug-in creates backups of your core WordPress tables as well as other tables of your choice in the same database. It helps you in on-demand backup and ensuring that you are prepared for any disasters on your blog.

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin.html

How about to have the latest version of wordpress installed on your blog without do it by yourself painfully, is that good?

Wordpress automatic upgrade plug-in automatically upgrades your wordpress version to the latest files provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions; the entire installation is easy and effortless.

It automatically backups your database, downloads the latest Wordpress version, installs the files and reactivates your previously active plug-ins.

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Your Free Video Blogging Course

Speaking of new trend in the Internet, you may notice more and more video in the gazette. If you’ve got 10 minutes - you’ve got the time that you need to at least START Your Internet Business Using a Blog.

Before you even start getting afraid of the word ‘blog’ and start thinking that it’s something technical, I want to clear up the misunderstanding right now.

A “blog” is actually the EASIEST way to start a website - even easier than putting up an opt-in page. There is actually free software that will let you automatically install a blog within 3 easy steps. But the real trick after that is getting traffic and maintaining the blog.

A blog can provide an easy way to get traffic via search engines. It is also a great way to build a community, which is a proven path to monetizing your web presence.

Anyway, watching the video and find out what blog expert says.

They teach you how you can get everything you need set-up in just minutes and then even MAINTAIN it in just minutes a day, and how to getting traffic for your blog in 10 minutes.

Happy promote - till next time

Cheers
Ann