Hey guys, I did 5 posts today as a follow up on how to make money blogging. The posts today main concentrated on the plugins which I discussed earlier in this thread.
Here are the links to those five posts.
Boost Your SEO, Boost Your Traffic
Permalinks Increase Blog Traffic by 45%
Ping Google Automatically & Get Loadsa Traffic
Readers + Comments - Spam = Great Blog!
Blog & Make Tons of Money Easily
I am going to post all those articles here to make it easy for you guys to read, but I would suggest visiting my blog as there are tutorial videos also posted within the blog posts which I do not know how to embed here.
From the Permalinks Post (contains video)
Due to the nature of Google’s indexing bot, permalinks are an absolutely vital hack for your wordpress blog if you intend to survive out in the harsh blogdom these days. The rate at which blogs are being created, as well as the rate at which people are blogging in general, means that you have to truly truly stand out from the crowd in every possible manner so that you can generate the traffic that you so well deserve.
To do this, you need to ensure that you have the best possible chance at indexing as many pages on google. You not only need to be indexed by google, but you also need to ensure that google serves up articles written by you which are
relevant. For example, if you write articles about
PARIS HILTON NAKED, you need to ensure that your within your URL itself, you get a pretty link which says sumthing along the lines of
www.thisisyourwebsite.com/paris-hilton-naked/
. This will allow Google to index and to serve up your URL whenever someone searches for that particular thing.
Wordpress is a great platform, and its extremely versatile too. As with anything good though, it requires a bit of tweaking to get every bit of juice that you can from it. Permalink hacking is one such way.
Search engines want a frequently updated site with good information, and that also has a solid, navigable directory structure with meaningful URLs. Oh, and it’s also a huge bonus if your XHTML markup is both valid and semantically sound. So check out the following video tutorial on what permalinks are all about, and how you can use em to ensure that you get your site in tip top shape! =)
From the Ping Google Automatically post (also contains video)
Further to the tutorial page that I put out yesterday entitled
Part One of General Tips of Earning Tons of Money on Your Blog I want to dicuss more in detail about some of the plugins which I use to generate traffic and get people to visit my site. An important plugin for wordpress which is simply GREAT at letting google know that I have updated with another post to my blog is
Arne Brachold’s Sitemap Genrator for WordPress. I have already listed all the ping services used by blogging search engine indexers out there to get your blog indexed. This tool on the other hand pings the big G instead, letting Gbots know that its time to hit your site again.
This is why its absolutely paramount that you see this video in action below which tells you why and how to get your blog set up with this plugin.
From the Readers + Comments - Spam = Great Blog! post
When you first decide to open up a blog, for white hat purposes, I would suggest, as a general rule of thumb to never put up your email address (even one that you created using the domain that you purchased). Instead, it is much better (and much more professional) to have your own contact form, like for example,
mine. This will slow the flow of spam and thereby save you time from going through all your emails manually to determine if they are spam or not. Having your own contact form is a great way of announcing yourself, and also allows anyone who is truly interested in getting in touch with you (as opposed to spammers that mass spam thousands of emails at a go). To check out how to set up a contact form, take a look at the video below.
What happens though, once you’re a famous blogger that has hundreds of blog comments a day, or even thousands? How do you sift through everything that you need to and also have time to blog? You won’t.
That’s why Akismet is quite simply…brilliant! This plugin allows you to stop spam dead in its tracks!
Here are some of Akismet’s stats from the combined pool of all the people that use it :-
2,796,407,265 spams caught so far ( TWO BILLION SPAM!! TWO BILLION SPAM!!!)
1,550,069 so far today
93% of all comments are spam
By using this plugin, you’ll be able to get all those
Buy Cheap VIagra, Cialis, Naked, Nude, Breasts, Tits, Bum, Penis enlargement, Match.com, Fling.com type memberships out there. which are absolutely annoying.
So check out this video to see how to set it up and how to get your Akismet API key.
Between these two plugins, you’ll be able to set up a two way communication section between you and your blog readers quite nicely.
And lastly from the Blog and Make Tons of Money Easily post
As an even further addendum to my earlier post about using the various plugins and how to earn money the easy way blogging part one (for that post, check
here) , I want to talk a little bit more about one of the plugins that you could use on your blog to earn you money.
Google Adsense, is perhaps the most famous contextual advertising platform currently on the market. Granted that there are probably other platforms out there which are just as good if not better, but Google being google, have the best marketing people in any business and managed to corner the market in just a few short years. Anyway, I digress. Google is a great source of income regardless of what niche/blog site you may run, be it anime, or pets, or even a personal blog about your good ol’ boring existence. It doesn’t matter. As long as the content is clean (i.e. no
FREE PORN, PORN, or
HACKING or any crap like that) and you’re just fine! What this means is that its completely ripe for the taking. Just load up Google Adsense and enter your pub-id into the required fields and cut and paste the necessary code, and you’re good to go.
Or are you?
Truth be told, its a lot more complex than just slapping your code in any ol’ post and hoping that someone clicks on the site. There are dozens of sites out there which have been developed just with the specific purpose of creating Made for Adsense (MFA) wordpress themes and so on and so forth. The purpose? To blend in those Adsense ads so that they do not stick out from the rest of the site. To make it all seamless. Furthermore, research has been shown that the best selling ads are the large square ones (compared to the other banner ads). But nevermind all that at the moment. Ensuring that you get your best possible click-through-rate is not something which you should be bothering about before you have even installed a plugin to take care of all the ad placements in the first place.
Enter
Adsense-Deluxe. This plugin will take care of all your worries with regards to Google Adsense. With this free plugin, you can insert contextual ads from Google or Yahoo closer to your content where they are more effective, PLUS manage multiple ad sizes and formats with a simple control panel that is integrated directly into the WordPress Admin area.
Check out the video below to see it in action.
I would still recommend that you guys visit the actual blog and take a look at all the videos which have been posted there. They are great tutorial based videos and will help you with the installation as well as running of said plugins. Cheers.Once More, here are the posts below. =). Id also appreciate it if you guys told me if you like what I'm writing about, or if you guys would like something different.
Boost Your SEO, Boost Your Traffic
Permalinks Increase Blog Traffic by 45%
Ping Google Automatically & Get Loadsa Traffic
Readers + Comments - Spam = Great Blog!
Blog & Make Tons of Money Easily
-Anthony-