You Don’t Have to Be A Designer To Modify Your Blog
August 13, 2008
Opposite to the basic set of WordPress Video Tutorials (covering mainly Search Engine Optimization) the focus of these advanced WordPress tutorials is on blog design. Some of the topics covered in videos are setting Content Management System, work with WordPress blog CSS Style Sheet, working with images and graphics and few more things.
The purpose of these video tutorials is to get you confidence with WordPress theme, i.e to work with the theme and to adjust the design to your needs and make the pattern the way you like.
Advanced WordPress Video Tutorials:
- Work with blog images
- Work with WordPress CSS Style Sheet
- Add and modify WordPress theme codes
- Making WordPress into Content Management System
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Blog So People Will Read It!
July 26, 2008
How can you find an audience actually to read what you have written? Your blog has been created and you have started to post. Weblog will automatically bring some free traffic through pinging and organic SEO traffic, but this always can be amended and blog traffic can be increased. Consider using the tips below to increase your readership.
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Increase Blog Traffic
July 11, 2008
„ A great site without traffic is like owning a beautiful huge store in the middle of nowhere! “
Yes, it’s MUCH about getting traffic to the web site. I am not saying it’s all about it, because you need quality content to offer as well. You see, website owner can deliver wonderful idea, amazing products, but without traffic, his business is death. So, let me say again….ITS MUCH ABOUT TRAFFIC!!! You can have fancy landing page, even forum for your website, or whatever, but without traffic, you are without a business. How to increase and get constant traffic to the blog?
If you’re just starting, you should know that blogging is a great way to increase traffic. When you are writing on a regular basis your blog will drive traffic automatically (ping and posts submission to RSS Directories). And besides that automation here are few good ways to promote your blog:
First, blog SEO
Vitally important is to optimize properly your blog for search engines. If you are new to this, I have made a weblog post how to avoid mistakes and avoid losing SEO page rank. Also I recommend putting related images to every post. You see, images are totally different type of promotion and traffic, because Google and other engines are using particular robots only for “alternative text” behind images. Discover here how properly to optimize images for your blog, and to increase traffic that way. Don’t forget to submit your blog to Google, Yahoo and MSN (although if your blog is totally new, maybe is better to wait month or two, until there is some content on the website). And above averting, if you’re using WordPress as a publishing platform or just starting with blogging watch my free WordPress SEO video tutorials (you will see which plugins are important for SEO optimization, correct permalink structure and similar matter with purpose to increase blog traffic).
Second, Article Submission
To article directories you can submit blog posts, but its better if you spin a little those articles or submit completely new. Why would you do that? Quite simple, in the submitted article, you will include a link to your web site. Submitted to many directories you are getting many backlinks and it will boost your search engine
ranking. Also it will provide direct traffic from people who visits those article directories.
Here are some major directories to submit your articles to:
Article marketing is a proven way to get traffic. It needs some time to provide results, but eventually, if done correctly and often, it will substantially increase traffic to the site.
Third, blog communities:
These sites are great way to connect with other bloggers and to use them in promotional marketing. Use tags to find your market.
Fourth, blogging traffic exchanges:
(You place widgets on your blog sidebar pointing to other blogs, and at the same time, the other bloggers are aiming to your blog).
These websites can drive traffic away from your blog, but at the same time will drive to it. Don’t worry, just concentrate on quality content. Find here some tips and techniques for making the content valuable. Also keep in mind that there is saying in internet marketing world regarding traffic “The more you send the more it returns to you”.
Anyway, these sites may not be an effective traffic generator for you. Test it. You won’t know unless you try it. If it doesn’t benefit you after a trial, you can always uninstall widgets.
Besides blogging exchanges, also common traffic exchanges, like Trafficswarm and Linkreferral, can increase traffic. They can be used for common website, but as well blog promotion.
Finally, Web 2.0 sites
There is a right and wrong way for web 2.0 promotion. I am creating the whole section about Social Network, Social News and Social Bookmarking web sites. It will be ready in a month or two. Mean time, here is one neat tool for video promotion – Tubemogul. If you are making videos for your weblog, Tubemogul will submit your video to around 15 different video sites.
This is end of the 6th step from How to create a successful blog. Happy blogging!
Perfect Articles Writing Trick!
July 11, 2008
You’ve probably heard it, the known phrase, ‘content is king’. Fine, if content is king then how the heck can we increase the quantity of content and actually produce constant documents for our web sites? I mean we’ve all been there, writing article after article in purpose for submitting and posting to our sites, blogs or article directories. And the more we write the less enthusiastic we start to become about creating a successful online business. We have to face it, writing needs time. On the other hand, as web site owners and publishers we need constant fresh content. So, how can we bypass the one thing that all internet marketers hate doing?
This is the 2nd step from web site and blog content tips, so lets see where is the content solution.
How important is constant web site content?
Well, here’s the true. At Alexa.com (web sites traffic information company) you can check top 500 global web sites, top 100 by country or browse through top traffic sites by category. Now, pay attention. What’s common for most of these top ranked web sites is a large number of pages. There are sites with hundred thousands even millions of pages. If you don’t see correlation between large content and traffic just continue reading.
Since setting up a blog is not a pain, let me show you how blogging can be useful in driving constant traffic to the site. If you already have own blog, then you probably know that with every new article you bring out, its actually opportunity for people all over the world to find your weblog content. A single page of content you write and publish provides many different ways for someone to find it. And if you are checking your web stats, then you already know that you are getting traffic from keywords that you didn’t try to optimize for. This is just happening naturally, i.e. people are finding long tail phrases that weren’t your primary goal for that article. Well, by having a lot of different pages it increases your chances to get ranked for all different phrases. Okay, you can see the correlation among large number of documents and traffic, and the blog is probably the best way to put that content online.
So, if you’re really serious about running an online business, and if you’re serious about generating a lot of traffic you absolutely need to provide constant content on a regular basis. And don’t be afraid if you’re not a good writer or simply you lack the time, because there is a solution. The solution is to hire someone to do the job for you. Even if you’re confident with writing you probably cannot provide needful number of documents by yourself. Quite simple, the solution is in using private label articles.
PLR articles are solution!
If you haven’t heard about PLR (private label rights) articles then it’s basically this – content that someone else has been writing for you, and you are able to take and use those documents as your own. Those articles you can submit to article directories, post on your web site, blog, put in an email series or any other method where you need content. From the moment you take documents they are your private and you can do whatever you want with them (rewrite, cut them or post it entirely).
So where is it? Where can you go to find a whole bunch of documents to use as your own? First let’s see what private label content isn’t. The option of taking content from the many article directories out there is possible, but it’s NOT PLR. There is one thing that limits this method and that is the fact that you cannot rewrite articles from article directories. You are required to add the author’s name that comes attached to the article you want to use. This means their link will also have to appear on your page. The other disadvantage is the fact, hundreds if not thousands of other marketers out there would be doing exact the same thing. Having the same page on your site as thousands of other people makes it incredibly hard to rank in the search engines.
So what’s the other option? The other option would be to pay for your PLR content, services which are providing you constant content for your web site. There are many services that offer content to their members. This usually means you’ll have to share the content with a limited number of people. However there are some things you need to look out for.
First, how many people will have access to the same content as you? If the service you are looking at requires you to share their content with a thousand other members, then what’s the point? In that case, you may go out and grab content from article directories.
Secondly, work out how much you’ll be paying per article. If a membership cost $100 and in that membership you’re going to have access to two hundred articles that would mean the cost per article is going to be $0.50. Therefore a membership that offered 400 articles would make the cost per article half of that.
Who is the best PLR Articles Provider?
You can do a Google search, and you can discover many cheaper PLR services, but they are also less generous in content delivery. We know that the more is better, but we have to pay attention that its not quantity so much as it is a quality. You need both, lot of documents, but it has to be good stuff. So my recommendation
is PLRpro. Why are they special? Here’s a basic overview of what a PLRPro membership contains:
- 440 articles across 11 niches (40 articles in each niche);
- SEO optimized articles;
- Full keyword research in each niche;
- Affiliate lists for each niche;
- Header Graphics for each niche;
- 5 Website Templates each month;
- Articles done in 8 languages;
- 50 PR4 sites that you can get links from to get your sites indexed and crawled.
See for yourself PLRpro is solid company, the Worlds #1 PLR content provider, and they have very well reputation not just because of the quality they bring to the table in regards to PLR articles, but also because of the additional education and material that they provide for free.
Oh, one tip for the end…these PLR articles you do not want to use just for your website. They are your own content, so submit it to article directories, too. This way, people who find your article useful for their site, will have obligation to include your name as an author and your site link. This is constant traffic source, and it’s much better situation from opposite when you’re the one who is going to article directories to pick documents. As a writer you control the situation!
Catchy Headlines and Linkbait tips
July 11, 2008
How important are headlines for a blog post?
The more you focus on readers benefits in your headline, the more readers you’ll have. Quite simple, with good catchy spiced headline you are getting people attention, and more likely they will click on the headline which is pointing some solution to the problem or needful benefit.
Here are some examples of catchy beneficial headlines which you can use like patterns for your weblog:
And here is a tool for emotional and compelling production of headlines and headings:
Plus, if we, for a second, focus on the search engine optimization for headlines, keyword stuffing (keyword overuse) will not lead you far away. It still needs to be quite catchy and spicy as possible, because search engine result pages are places where people will browse in their search to find something on the particular topic. And guess which headline the most people will click on? Of course, the one which is pointing the most benefit for them! Want a proof? Here is a video from seobook on headline topic:
Oh, by the way, with headings you are scoring at search engines, so you should have at least one on the page.
Linkbait topics
You know, linkbait is something on your web site that causes someone to link to you. To be buzz worth, 
blog post has to have at least one element of these:
- Lists,
- Videos,
- Thought Leadership,
- How to (educational),
- Something new to the market,
- Controversial,
- Humor,
- Sweet,
- Taboo,
- A Secret,
- Anticipation.
And here are some examples of linkbaits:
- Link building,
- Social news,
- Good links,
- More comments techniques,
- Nofollow bookmarks,
- Gen y is going to change the web.
Enjoy blogging and I advise you to check my other content and writing tips!
Tag plugin
July 11, 2008
For every post you can determine keywords related to your article. At the bottom of each post those keywords will be displayed, and when visitor clicks on particular tag, blog will open a new page with all posts you have made with that keyword (tag). Visitor will be able to browse through posts and see related articles for that tag. It will also help in proper disposal of your articles on blog directories.
UTW WordPress plugin
This is the 7th video of WordPress SEO Video Tutorial.
This video will show you how to install and configure Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin for WordPress weblog. This plugin will create tag pages for your weblog. That way you will get more in-depth pages and it will help Google spiders to index your blog better.
For some people this plugin is working fine, but there are a lot of complaints. If you encounter any error just deactivate the plugin in your WordPress admin.
Related posts plugin
July 11, 2008
Welcome to the 6th video of WordPress SEO Video Tutorial. This video is guide for related post plugin for WordPress blog.
Note: to setup this plugin you will need to paste the code into the theme editor. The video is explaining that very well. I just want to warn you, whenever you’re changing something in WordPress theme editor make sure to copy whole code into the text editor on your computer before you make any change. After you have the copy of the code on your computer you can safely paste additional code from related post plugin, (what you will see in the video). This way, if something goes wrong, you can always paste back original theme code to your WordPress blog.
Google Sitemap plugin
July 11, 2008
This is the 5th video of WordPress SEO Video Tutorial.
Google xml sitemaps will automatically notify search engines after every blog post. Not only Google, the plugin will notify Yahoo! MSN and Ask engines. Download Sitemaps plugin, and watch configuration.
This video will show you how properly to optimize this plugin for your WordPress blog.
After plugin set up, I suggest you sign up for Google webmaster tool and add your Sitemap.xml to Google.
WordPres Blog META Tags Optimization
July 11, 2008
Welcome to 4th WordPress SEO Video Tutorial. This video is showing you how to configure “All in one SEO” WordPress plugin, which installation you have seen in previous video. If you are using WordPress version latter than 2.5 you will find options for this plugin in your WordPress admin/ settings/ All in one SEO.
Keyword in Title tag
Its most important part of tag optimization. Your page title is the link that will appear in search results. Since it is what people click on in the search results and is the first thing people see about your site. Keyword in Title tag should be close to beginning. Title tag with 10 - 60 characters, and without special characters.
Keyword in Description META tag
This plugin enables you to put Meta description for every post so you can put keywords there. Description Meta tag is average important for search engines. However certainly it should be complement to the page title and bear in mind that your description will show up on Search Engine Results Page when someone is searching. Basically, you want to describe and optimize your posts for humans rather than spamming with too much keywords (overuse of keywords can lead to Google penalization). So do not do this:
blog | blogging | |SEO| WordPress plugin | Meta Optimization
You should write natural descriptive sentences for Meta. You want to be teasing enough to somebody click on it. Imagine yourself like you are writing an ad for your post.
Keyword in Keyword META tag
- Every word in this tag must appear somewhere in the body text. If not, it can be penalized for irrelevant specification.
- No single word should appear more than twice. Other way it may be considered spam. (I found this really hard to do).
Keyword meta tag optimization is not so important, Google purportedly no longer uses this tag, but other engines do.
Here is the source where you can find more SEO optimization guidance of this kind.
Update: In the video you can see that both categories and archives are not set for noindex search engines, but due to duplicate content possibilities, I recommend you set it like on this screenshoot from my blog. This way Google will index categories, but will bypass archives and you will bypass penalties from Google for duplicate content. You can comfortably display your archive on your WordPress weblog, they will just be avoided by search engines (your categories pages will be ranked).
WordPress SEO plugin
July 11, 2008
Welcome to the 3rd video of WordPress SEO Video Tutorial. In this video you will see how to install “All in one SEO” plugin for your WordPress blog. This way your weblog will be much more search engine friendly.
If this is your first time installing some plugin, then it’s great you will see video guide, and I suppose its much easier then reading how-to text file. Also note, almost all WordPress plugins installation is pretty the same. After the first installation, you will be confident with any plugin setup.
Download All in one SEO plugin and watch how to install it.
You may also want to check my post on must have WordPress plugins. Enjoy blogging!
Update: this video has been created with WordPress 2.3 and since then WordPress team has released upgrade version, and you will probably use version above 2.5 for your weblog. You should know that this will NOT affect on this tutorial, only pay attention that “plugins” link in WordPress above 2.5 is at the up right corner of the WordPress admin (in the video it’s on the left side).
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