Great WordPress Plugins: Identifying Another One Of Them Another of the great WordPress plugins that deserves special mention is ""Simple 301 Redirects"". One thing about essential WordPress plugins is that if you do not know about them or do not know how to use them, you do not realize how great a functionality you are leaving out of your content management system. ""Simple 301 Redirects"" is a good example of this. I recollect that I have been in and out of internet marketing three times over the years before this my final stay. Each time I resurfaced on the internet marketing scene, had I known about this great WordPress plugin, no doubt my search engine rankings would be higher today. I simply would have deployed it to transfer my old blog posts to the new amended/updated pages and thereby seamlessly preserved the old pages rankings. But alas, each time I resurfaced on the internet marketing scene, I simply discarded the old blog posts and posted new/updated pages of these old blog posts on my new blog without linking the two. That is one of the many setbacks great WordPress plugins like ""Simple 301 Redirects"" set out to correct. It provides an easy method of redirecting requests to another page on your site or elsewhere on the web. It’s especially handy when you migrate a site to WordPress and can’t preserve your URL structure. By setting up 301 redirects from your old pages to your new pages, any incoming links will be seemlessly passed along, and their pagerank (or what-have-you) will be passed along. Note that ""age"" and ""number and nature of backlinks"" are critical factors in search engine rankings. Any action you therefore take to preserve these for your blog posts will definitely positively impact your search engine rankings. I’ll give you a perfect example here. I wrote a blog post in December 2009. At that time, I still was not as thoroughly grounded as I am now in search engine optimization (SEO) and so was not optimizing effectively for my intended keywords. I recently changed the title and made some minor adjustments to the body of the blog post and were it to be before, I would simply have left it at that. Does it strike a chord in you that anytime you do such and leave it at that you are simply beginning your SEO for that post all over again? All the backlinks to the previous post will be gone forever. So also the age, as the new blog post will now be indexed afresh while the old blog post on subsequent visits by the Google bot will read ""not found"", again compounding your crawl errors in your Google webmaster tools. Note that all these ultimately negatively impact your page rank. So what did I do? I simply inserted my old url in the ""Simple 301 Redirects"" interface and pointed it to my new url which I also inserted in the interface and saved. Just as simple as that and wow! a whole lot has happened with those simple steps. The backlinks and age of my old blog post will be seamlessly passed over to my new blog post and the page rank of my web page preserved. Let me explain another purpose to which you can deploy this plugin that I have identified as one of the great WordPress plugins. If you go into your webmaster tools account, you will see indicated, crawl errors that resulted while the search engines were trying to crawl your web pages. You can rectify some of these errors and thereby have a more ""efficient"" website which will impact positively on your search engine rankings by utilizing this plugin to redirect some incorrectly specified links to their originally intended destination. Those links that you have control over and can still amend such as your backlinks in forums, you can make amends to. But what of incorrectly specified links that you no longer have access to? For example, links on your articles republished on other sites. This is again better explained with an illustration. I erroneously inserted a link in one of my articles which was republished on another site and noticed the error from ""crawl errors"" in my Google webmaster tools account. The link led nowhere i.e. 404 page and I subsequently redirected it to its originally intended destination, thereby preserving that backlink. This becomes very important when you realize that you can have many of such errors over time.The ""Simple 301 Redirects"" plugin’s many uses can only be limited by your imagination. In summary, the ""Simple 301 Redirects"" is one more of the great WordPress plugins.
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Artisteer – Create You Own Stunning WordPress Themes – And Much More1
Artisteer – Create You Own Stunning WordPress Themes – And Much More
If you’re online regularly you’ve undoubtedly heard of WordPress. If you’re into Internet Marketing or have a personal blog, chances are you’re using WordPress, and most likely more than a single installation if you’re an Affiliate Marketer.
I have no doubt that a new program called Artisteer will soon be synonymous with WordPress, even though you may not have heard of it …yet. Artisteer is one of the hottest new software programs to be released recently, and was the
Product of the Year by
The Red Ferret Journal. If you haven’t heard of Artisteer yet, I can promise you that it will soon be in every smart marketers WordPress toolbox. As much as you need those certain plugins every time that you install WordPress, you also need a beautiful, functional, fully W3C compliant theme. That’s where Artisteer comes in.
When you install WordPress one of the first decisions to be made is, which theme will I use ? Obviously there are tens of thousands of themes to choose from, but there’s drawbacks to free themes as well as premium themes.
Should you choose a free theme, there’s a chance that unless you really know the source of the theme, you could be getting more in the code that you want, read
malicious script. Although I like to believe that the overwhelming majority of people are honest and aren’t out to do anything underhanded, there are those individuals lurking around the Internet that have bad intentions. Also, when you install one of the popular free themes, there’s most likely hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of others using the same theme. You really don’t want to have your blog looking like everyone else, do you ?
You could of course opt for a nice premium theme. Here, even though there is most likely nothing embedded in the code that you should fear, the cost of some of the premium themes is fairly steep. It’s not uncommon to see prices in the $50-$100 for a very good WordPress theme.
Artisteer is the answer and it’s an amazing, long overdue application. Not only is this piece of software very reasonably priced at $49.95 for the
Home and Academic
Edition, and $129.95 for the
Standard Edition it is packed with features. For as little as fifty dollars, you can produce your own custom, high quality, totally original WordPress themes. When creating your own design there’s no more wishing that there was a free theme available that looked just right, or having to spend all that money to obtain a theme that you do like. Even then, there’s probably at least hundreds of other sites using the same premium theme. If you do purchase only premium themes, styles do change, what’s great-looking today will most likely look outdated in a few months.
Oh, Artisteer isn’t limited to WordPress themes either. If you’re using Joomla, Drupal, CodeCharge, or if you just need to export your stunning creation as an ASP.NET application, Artisteer is still your tool of choice. Please note that you will need the Standard Edition to support Joomla, Drupal, CodeCharge and ASP.NET. The Home and Academic Edition will allow exports to XHTML/CSS as well as supporting WordPress.
Artisteer is feature-packed, but one of the great features is, it’s a piece of cake to learn and use. With a cool feature that will suggest themes for you, there’s not even the need for you to come up with that perfect theme from scratch. When you find a look that you like, just take it from there and tweak it to your heart’s content. Artisteer allows you to easily change practically every thing in the theme to a custom setting. It’s just a selection of different pre-designed themes to choose from, selecting a suggested theme in Artisteer is just the beginning. Of course you can also use your own headers, graphics and other specific items.
There’s no longer a need to learn HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Dreamweaver or any of the other popular tools normally associated with Web design.
Artisteer creates perfectly validated W3C XHTML and CSS code. Now in version 2, the design group behind Artisteer is to be commended for keeping the software updated regularly, adding new features and never being satisfied with simply having the best program of it’s kind.
It also nice to know that you’re not forgotten after the initial purchase. You get free updates for a year after purchase, and a very moderate upgrade fee afterwards.
If you now have numerous WordPress sites, or plan to in the future, Artisteer will pay for itself nearly immediately. Even if you have just one WordPress Blog that you put all of your time and attention into, Artisteer would still be a wise decision, as you can create that perfect theme that only you will have. Of course we all know how long that new look will satisfy us, but when you have Artisteer available, just load it up and create your next masterpiece theme.
Artisteer – Create You Own Stunning WordPress Themes – And Much More
Artisteer – Create You Own Stunning WordPress Themes – And Much More If you’re online regularly you’ve undoubtedly heard of WordPress. If you’re into Internet Marketing or have a personal blog, chances are you’re using WordPress, and most likely more than a single installation if you’re an Affiliate Marketer. I have no doubt that a new program called Artisteer will soon be synonymous with WordPress, even though you may not have heard of it …yet. Artisteer is one of the hottest new software programs to be released recently, and was the Product of the Year by The Red Ferret Journal. If you haven’t heard of Artisteer yet, I can promise you that it will soon be in every smart marketers WordPress toolbox. As much as you need those certain plugins every time that you install WordPress, you also need a beautiful, functional, fully W3C compliant theme. That’s where Artisteer comes in. When you install WordPress one of the first decisions to be made is, which theme will I use ? Obviously there are tens of thousands of themes to choose from, but there’s drawbacks to free themes as well as premium themes. Should you choose a free theme, there’s a chance that unless you really know the source of the theme, you could be getting more in the code that you want, read malicious script. Although I like to believe that the overwhelming majority of people are honest and aren’t out to do anything underhanded, there are those individuals lurking around the Internet that have bad intentions. Also, when you install one of the popular free themes, there’s most likely hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of others using the same theme. You really don’t want to have your blog looking like everyone else, do you ? You could of course opt for a nice premium theme. Here, even though there is most likely nothing embedded in the code that you should fear, the cost of some of the premium themes is fairly steep. It’s not uncommon to see prices in the $50-$100 for a very good WordPress theme. Artisteer is the answer and it’s an amazing, long overdue application. Not only is this piece of software very reasonably priced at $49.95 for the Home and Academic Edition, and $129.95 for the Standard Edition it is packed with features. For as little as fifty dollars, you can produce your own custom, high quality, totally original WordPress themes. When creating your own design there’s no more wishing that there was a free theme available that looked just right, or having to spend all that money to obtain a theme that you do like. Even then, there’s probably at least hundreds of other sites using the same premium theme. If you do purchase only premium themes, styles do change, what’s great-looking today will most likely look outdated in a few months. Oh, Artisteer isn’t limited to WordPress themes either. If you’re using Joomla, Drupal, CodeCharge, or if you just need to export your stunning creation as an ASP.NET application, Artisteer is still your tool of choice. Please note that you will need the Standard Edition to support Joomla, Drupal, CodeCharge and ASP.NET. The Home and Academic Edition will allow exports to XHTML/CSS as well as supporting WordPress. Artisteer is feature-packed, but one of the great features is, it’s a piece of cake to learn and use. With a cool feature that will suggest themes for you, there’s not even the need for you to come up with that perfect theme from scratch. When you find a look that you like, just take it from there and tweak it to your heart’s content. Artisteer allows you to easily change practically every thing in the theme to a custom setting. It’s just a selection of different pre-designed themes to choose from, selecting a suggested theme in Artisteer is just the beginning. Of course you can also use your own headers, graphics and other specific items. There’s no longer a need to learn HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Dreamweaver or any of the other popular tools normally associated with Web design. Artisteer creates perfectly validated W3C XHTML and CSS code. Now in version 2, the design group behind Artisteer is to be commended for keeping the software updated regularly, adding new features and never being satisfied with simply having the best program of it’s kind. It also nice to know that you’re not forgotten after the initial purchase. You get free updates for a year after purchase, and a very moderate upgrade fee afterwards. If you now have numerous WordPress sites, or plan to in the future, Artisteer will pay for itself nearly immediately. Even if you have just one WordPress Blog that you put all of your time and attention into, Artisteer would still be a wise decision, as you can create that perfect theme that only you will have. Of course we all know how long that new look will satisfy us, but when you have Artisteer available, just load it up and create your next masterpiece theme.
How-to-become-a-webmaster-Part2
How to become a webmaster? (Part – 2)
In the first part of our “how to become a webmaster” series, we’ve discussed about the first step that you should be taking in order to become a successful webmaster. It was about registering in webmaster forums, where you’ll be learning the basics. It is to be understood that, no one is born as an expert, people become experts after practicing what they have learned. But for practicing something, you should be first of all learning something. With nothing in your brain, you won’t get anywhere. So, as we have mentioned in the first part, the key to success is to learn the basics and then practice it. In this part we’ll be concentrating on this topic.
If you want to become a webmaster, then one of the best place where you’ll be getting the right coaching is from webmaster forums. You won’t have to spend any money for it. But you’ll have to spend something else. That’s nothing, but time. Only if you are having time to spend at webmaster forums, you’ll be learning something from there. You won’t be able to learn everything the very first day. You may have to spend days or even months. That will depend on the skills that you are with, at the moment. If you know something about webmasters and what they does, then things will be easy for you. On the other hand, if you know nothing, then it’ll take you some time to learn the basics. Again, nothing is impossible, if you are with the determination to learn it at any cost, then time is the only thing that should be with you. And you’ll learn everything in no time. No doubt about it.
So that’s it, there is no need to make any investment, there is no need to hire any personal coach to teach you things, there is no need to attend any classes neither. All you have to do is – make yourself prepared to spend some time everyday, for learning the basic things at webmaster forums. This way, in no time, you’ll be learning the basics of becoming a webmaster.
We’ll throw more light on this topic in the next part of our “how to become a webmaster” series. So, stay tuned.
Five Reasons to use Social Bookmarking Demon in your Marketing Campaign
Five Reasons to use Social Bookmarking Demon in your Marketing Campaign
If you don’t already know Social Bookmarking Demon is the number one used automated bookmarking tool on the internet right now and used by thousands of webmasters. Social bookmarking is very important to the growth of your website, but the number one reason people don’t utilize them is because the time it takes to submit there webpages. With social bookmarking demon you’ll be able to submit to roughly twenty social bookmarking sites per run.
The tool only submits to this number of social bookmarking websites so that it doesn’t get blocked. The last thing you want is to have your domains blocked by search engines due to social bookmarking spam and trust me this happens. With social bookmarking demon I’ve never had this problem though due to the fact they only submit to a few sites every time. We’ll now take a look at some of the reasons why you should use social bookmarking demon in your marketing campaign.
#1 – Lots of Free Traffic
Social bookmarking websites bring in lots of traffic due to there high rankings in the search engines, so by submitting to these websites with social bookmarking demon you can attract free daily traffic to your website.
#2 – Get Indexed Faster Then Ever
You can now get your websites indexed usually within a few hours of submitting to social bookmarking websites. This is great for a new website, but it also helps individual pages get indexed a lot quicker so it’s useful for every website.
#3 – Increase Your SERP’s
Link building helps increase your search engines rankings and therefore by building links through this automated social bookmarking tool you’ll be able to increase your SERP’s. It may take a bit of time to see these rankings take effect, but there is no doubt social bookmarking links help your SERP position.
#4 – Increase Your Page Rank
A lot of the social bookmarking websites that social bookmarking demon submit too are do-follow and this means that over time you’ll increase your Google page rank by submitting to bookmarking websites. Page rank doesn’t mean much except for assisting in making money through link ad sales.
#5 – Takes Minutes per Run
Each social bookmarking run only takes minutes to complete whereas if you we’re to submit to these websites on your own it would take about an hour per run. As you can see you’re saying a ton of your time which can be used to make more money.
Automated tools are becoming a lot more popular as they allow webmasters to focus on other aspects of marketing and promotion. You will need to spend some money initially to purchase social bookmarking demon, but it’s one of the only tools that is a one-off fee with lifetime updates. This means you only need to spend the money once and you can use it for your entire career online.
The value of this is worth far more then you’ll spend and in fact it should only take about a month before you make the money back from the investment. Once you get some traffic from the sites you’ll be able to convert them on your products which will pay for the program instantly. Anyone submitting to social bookmarking sites manually is really wasting there time because in all the hours you spend doing that you could have easily automated the process and spent time making far more money then you’d spend on the software program.