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Tips When Writing Your Blog Posts

By on September 29, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Blog Business, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

Tips When Writing Your Blog Posts

When you blog you need good content to make it profitable and in order to make good content you should make sure that you know a lot on the topic of your blog. Don’t choose a blog topic that you won’t be able to write articles about daily as then you might run into problems. You need a topic where you can blog about it for months on end without needing to recover topics. Once you’ve decided on a good topic that you will be able to write on then you should follow these tips to ensure you’re writing good content.

You should always use heading in your posts and make them bold so they stand out. Headings catch the attention of your readers and work well when you need to break up a big post so that it’s readable. You should also try writing your posts in point form as much as you can because then you will ensure that more people are reading your posts. It’s very intimidating seeing a big block of content and often people won’t read it so instead break your articles into point form lists.

The last thing you should do is make sure you use pictures in all of your posts. You should try using at least one picture in your post so that it livens up the page a little bit and breaks the content up. Try inserting the picture so it’s in the content. People enjoy pictures in posts so to retain your blog readership you should make sure that you’re writing your blog posts with pictures. Some posts won’t require pictures though, and you can decide on that. Basically if you can’t find a picture that relates to the content then you don’t need to add a picture, this rare but it happens so some posts on your blog won’t have pictures.

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How WordPress Themes Increase Your Chance of Earning Visitors

By on September 29, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

How WordPress Themes Increase Your Chance of Earning Visitors

Modernization has brought several changes in the lives of the people all over the world. It has greatly influenced their perceptions and standards towards a certain issue. It is has opened several effective ways on how people can make use of their own talents and expertise. Internet plays the most important role in improving the lives of the people. At first it was the online library of information. The birth of numerous varieties of networking sites has deeply enticed the sympathy of most users. Later on it became the source of income for intelligent web developers. Internet later on becomes a necessity of the modern world.

Even though the internet has indeed brought a dynamic change towards the lives of the people, their hobbies remained the same. Keeping a diary is one of the most common ways of how individuals unload their emotions. Writing a journal is also part of how they value and cherish their experiences during their ups and downs in life.

Blogging is the modern form of writing a diary or a journal. Although, both are products of the vivid imaginations and unforgettable experiences of its authors, they differ most in terms of privacy. A diary is owned by a single person only. The information it contains is limited to the author only. The author takes the responsibility of restricting anyone to read his or her diary.

Meanwhile, blogging is the exact opposite of writing a diary. The public can immediately view and read the information that the author has uploaded through the internet. Readers are even encouraged to leave a comment once they have finished reading the whole text. The readers are not restricted to read the articles being posted by the author.

Pioneers of blogging have discovered the benefits of this kind of activity. They have later on learned that they can earn money just by writing a blog and inviting their friends to leave them a comment. It even became the main significance of internet nowadays. It will take long before you can establish your own blogging site. Its progress will depend on how readers value the information you gave them.

An updated blog that contains efficient information about a certain topic is not enough to promote your blog. You also need to consider the appearance of your web page. It should be appealing and enticing to your readers. Your webpage should not contain unnecessary objects that might confuse them.

WordPress themes allow you to customize your own site. The basic structure of your site depends on the type of WordPress theme you choose. You can trace the effects of WordPress themes by using the preview tool. You must not forget to match the content of your blog to your WordPress theme. Your WordPress theme must also have the qualities to attract readers. Your WordPress theme and blog must linger within their minds. They will remember you and visit your site more often because they find your WordPress theme and the content of your blog interesting. It will eventually increase your chance of having daily visitors.

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WordPress Plugins! How to Optimize

By on September 27, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

WordPress Plugins! How to Optimize

WordPress plugins can make or break your blogging experience. Being fairly new to blogging has been a real learning experience, not so much writing articles and sending them out to all my social sites, but in trying to optimize the WordPress site so that it’s hitting on all eight cylinders, so to speak. As I read other bloggers articles I pick up bits and pieces of what they have experienced so far, and I’ve decided that having the right WordPress plugins working for you can make life a lot easier. I’ve got a list of 11 plugins, that I’m going to recommend and hopefully shorten your learning curve, and make your blogging a more enjoyable experience.

No 1. Do Follow…This removes the evil nofollow attribute that WordPress adds in comments. You need this to keep visitors coming back for more.

No 2. AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget…Help your visitors promote your site! The widget allows any visitor to bookmark your site easily with many popular services.

No 3. All in One SEO Pack-Pro Version…It’s setup and ready to go right out of the box. It will optimize your site for search engine rankings, plus shorten your url’s by adding a number at the end, versus having a url that winds up being a mile long.

No 4. CommentLuv….Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog by parsing the feed at their given URL when they leave a comment. It’s rewards your readers and encourages them to return and make more comments.

No 5. Commissions Automator…..This plugin is really needed but if you’re interested in making money on line, it’s helpful. It automatically post instant commission promotions to your blog, with your affiliate ID included, so when someone buys the product, you get the commission. Sweet!

No 6. FD Feedburner Plugin….Redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed which then sends your blog post out across the entire internet.

No. 7. Onlywire… This is a social bookmarker that will send your blog post out to millions of sites, with only one push of the button.

No 8. PostSwapper.com Plugin…..You can swap links with other bloggers to posts that are related to yours. Build link popularity automatically and easily. Backlinks are one item that is considered when webcrawlers and search engines are looking at ranking your site.

No. 9…Scribe….This plugin quickly checks your new blog post content against SEO best practices, utilizing the Scribe Content Optimizer. You get a readability score, plus see what your keyword density is so you can add more or remove some. This tool makes a huge difference when it comes to SEO Optimization.

No. 10….Tweetmeme….This plugin simply adds a button to your blog which allows your guest to retweet your blog post out to their list of tweeter followers. Nice way to take advantage of someone Else’s list.

No 11….What Would Seth Godin Do….This plugin allows you to display a custom welcome message to a new visitor and a different custom message to a returning visitor. Pretty neat. People like to be treated special so what better way to do that.

To find more information about the plugins just do a Google search, download the plugin into a temp directory and then go to plugins in your WordPress blog, click new and upload the zip file and then install. Pretty simple process and now you have an optimized blog that should bring you hundreds of visitors thanks to your new WordPress plugins.

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Three Things That Separate Successful Blogs from Unsuccessful Blogs

By on September 26, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Blog Business, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

Three Things That Separate Successful Blogs from Unsuccessful Blogs

With thousands of blogs being started each and everyday you can bet that there are lots of successful blogs and then even more unsuccessful blogs. If you want to stand out from the crowd and have a chance at becoming the next successful blogger then you’ll need to make sure you follow the below tips. All bloggers that are successful share many common traits and if you want to be like them then you need to start acting like them when it comes to blogging. I will now discuss how you can work on separating yourself from the unsuccessful blogs and working your way up to becoming successful.

In order to achieve rank of successful blogger you will need to be able to display the ability to constantly post useful informative posts on a regular basis. Typically you’ll need to post once a day and you need to make sure that the post has value in order to become a successful blogger. Many bloggers fall in the content department and it’s a shame because content is the absolute most important thing to make sure is up to par. Without solid informative content you want have many return visitors as they will not need to return to your blog if there isn’t good information. Ideally you should at least thirty minutes writing a nice blog post each day that will not only be educational but also make for conversation with your readers. The more you can interact with your readers in your blog posts, the most comments you’ll notice which is great for a blog.

Apart from content successful bloggers also always have a nice custom theme that sets them apart from the rest of the bloggers. A unique theme can stick in people’s minds and therefore make them remember your site easier. WordPress themes can be bought for roughly $100-$200 and you can basically get any type of theme for that price which is an amazing deal considering you’ll now have a unique presence on your blog and people will be able to remember you more.

The final thing successful bloggers have over the rest of the crowd is the fact that they have the motivation to work and make their blogs better. It takes hours upon hours of work to make a blog even close to successful and if you don’t put in the labour then you’ll never end up with a successful blog. You need to be willing to write everyday, build links and do a lot more throughout being an owner of a blog. IF you thought becoming a successful blogger would be simple then you should definitely rethink your decision because it’s one of the hardest things to do. There are many other things that will determine a successful blog over an unsuccessful blog but if you don’t meet the above then you still have work to do before considering how else to become better.

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How to Protect Your WordPress Website From Hackers

By on September 25, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

How to Protect Your WordPress Website From Hackers

It’s a nightmare scenario. You go to your website only to find a nasty message from a hacker bragging about hacking your site. And nothing else. As far as you can tell your content is gone and you can’t even find a way to log into your WordPress dashboard.

Would your business survive your website being shut down, even temporarily?

It Happens

That’s exactly the situation that my friend of mine found herself in recently.

Fortunately we were able to help her out, rescue (most of) her files and get her back up and running relatively quickly. But that isn’t always the case.

Turns out she could have done some things to better protect herself. Fortunately she learned her lesson well and she’s in much better shape today than she was before the attack.

Have You Really Been Hacked?

A lot of times people come to me saying, “”My site’s been hacked,”” when it really hasn’t. With WordPress sometimes plugin conflicts can cause issues that seem to the user like a hacker has messed with something. This is most common when upgrading to a new version of WordPress if a plugin hasn’t been made compatible with the new version yet.

While that can cause your site to crash, it’s not caused by hackers.

Not only that, but most of the sites I’ve seen that have been hacked weren’t just taken down by them. Most of the malicious hacks I’ve seen involved injecting some code into the site, usually with the end goal to redirect site traffic to some other website.

The Symptoms

Without going into the gory details, my friend’s case was a little different. Her site actually showed an all white screen with an error message along the lines that a plugin conflict might produce and the hacker just wanted to crash her site. Turns out he was into stealing something else.

When I did some troubleshooting I was able to get her site back up and running in fairly short order. In her words:

I must add here, that it only took Chris 45 minutes to decipher and fix what was a rather sophisticated hack!

While I’d never promise to be able to recover a hacked site that quickly, I do have a good track record recovering hacked WordPress sites.

Protecting Yourself

Here are some things you can do to minimize the chances you’ll end up getting hacked and maximize the chances to fully recover quickly should your site crash (for whatever reason).

1. Use Strong Passwords.

I honestly think this was my friend’s biggest mistake. Again in her words,

This is what got me – I just used numbers and letters and the password was – well – kinda obvious.

Make your passwords not only hard to guess, but make them more difficult for sophisticated hackers to break as well. Randomly mix in special characters (found on the number keys with the shift button) as well as numbers and upper and lower case letters. Strong passwords make a huge difference.

Both WordPress and cPanel will tell you how strong your password is. Stronger passwords offer better protection.

The trouble is, having strong passwords also makes them harder to type in. That’s why I use 1Password to manage my passwords on my Macs. I can use really strong passwords and I don’t have to remember them or type them in. 1Password will auto fill web forms for me. It’s the best of both worlds: good security & user friendly.

2. Keep Your WordPress Updated.

One of the most common ways WordPress websites get hacked is because their owners don’t keep their software up to date. What happens is that older versions of WordPress can have known security weaknesses. These weaknesses are fixed by newer releases of the software.

But if you don’t update your software, you leave yourself exposed.

This also holds true with plugins and themes. Besides, the newer versions of WordPress make keeping everything up to date remarkably easy. There’s not much of an excuse to keep you from updating things.

3. Backup Regularly and Often.

A good backup can cover for a ton of other issues by making it possible to revert back to how things were before your site crashed. When it comes to WordPress you need to back up your

Database
Theme Files
Plugins
Media Uploads

There are several different plugins and services to handle backups of your WordPress site.

But the point is backup early and backup often!

Bottom Line

I don’t believe any site is completely “”hack proof.”” A determined hacker with enough resources can break into most anything. Just watch an episode of NCIS!

But if you do these three things you will greatly reduce your risk of being hacked and make it much easier to recover if you do run into a problem.

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Three Reasons Why Affiliate Bloggers Should Utilize Datafeeds

By on September 23, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Blog Business, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

Three Reasons Why Affiliate Bloggers Should Utilize Datafeeds

If you’re an affiliate blogger then you might have already heard of datafeeds and what they can do, but if you haven’t then we’ll briefly define what they are. Basically a datafeed is a massive list of different products with certain things like price, description and pictures included within the feed. Affiliates are able to take these datafeeds and implement them on there websites.

Now you could do this yourself with hours of work and coding, but that is something most of us couldn’t even do if we wanted to. There are some new programs on the market though that makes adding an affiliate datafeed to your website effortless. Some affiliate bloggers have taken this new technology and started creating networks of blogs that sell products. You don’t need to start out with creating a network initially, but once you get use to the program and realize its power then I’m sure you’ll be starting your own network in no time.

It literally only takes minutes for you to create a new blog with an affiliate datafeed implemented into the blog, and all you need to do is work on promotions and link building. You can also add more content to your website to help bring in more traffic to the products. By using an affiliate datafeed with wordpress you not only save time, but you can choose any theme you want as long as it’s compatible with wordpress. This means your website can look just like the professionals who are selling products online. Let’s now take a look at three reasons why affiliate bloggers should use datafeeds on there blogs.

#1 – Automatic Content for Your Blog

With a datafeed you’ll be instantly adding hundreds or thousands of pages to your blog all waiting to become indexed. This is great for your website to rank in the search engines and once they become indexed you’ll see tons of traffic. All of the content is automatically inserted once you upload the datafeed to your blog, but you should change some of it to help make it more unique.

#2 – Massive Potential for Earning Money

By adding hundreds or thousands of different products to your blog you’re adding massive potential for making good revenue from your blog. Most people have a couple products on there blog and eventually make money so imagine how much money you could make once traffic starts rolling in.

#3 – Works In your WordPress Admin

Most of the software programs will work directly in your wordpress admin and I would suggest using one that does work in your admin. This way everything is recognizable and you shouldn’t get confused using the tool. Most are laid out very well in the wordpress admin with tons of details on what you need to do in order to get it working.

If you want to add an effective revenue source to your blog then you should purchase an affiliate datafeed plug-in that automatically inserts the datafeed to your blog. There is massive potential for making thousands of dollars extra per month through using a datafeed and it’s somewhat uncompetitive in the blogging market. Jump on this new technology now and cash in before everyone else begins using datafeeds as well.

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10 Best WordPress Plugins That Will Increase Your SERPs

By on September 23, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

10 Best WordPress Plugins That Will Increase Your SERPs

Doing SEO is a complicated process. However, if we understand well the technique, we can achieve the goal. In order to get better search engine ranking, we can use some useful plugins for our websites. 10 best WordPress Plugins are the important things that we can use in order to increase our serps in google. We can easily narrow the gap between success and failure in SEO by installing these plugins into our websites.

The following plugins are tested and used widely by SEOers:

1. All in One SEO Pack

This is the first important plugin that can help you customize the post title, post description, and post tags for individual page. In addition, this also can help you to customize the Cononical URLs for the entire WordPress site. By using this plugin, you can have a good chance to be listed with high SERPs.

2. Broken Link Checker

This plugin is very important and essential to your website because it can control and monitor all links in your site. Once your site has broken links, it will list out and and give you reports about dead links. This will help you control easily all links in your website. By using this plugin, you can update information regularly, and keep your site free from dead links.

3. Google XML Sitemaps Generator

Sitemap is very important to a website. This plugin plays an important role in your site because it can generate an XML-Sitemap of your WordPress site. Since then, the content in your site will be crawled easily by SES ( search engine spiders). This plugin can support for other search engines such as Yahoo, Bing, Ask and others.

4. SEO Friendly Images

This plugin will help you gain 1 point for SERPs because you have SEO friendly images in your website. A website with proper alt and title attributes in images will help you gain more traffic from Google image search.

5. No Self Pings

The internal links in your website are very important to help visitors navigate easily information. However, your page rank will be down due to the sefl pings effect. By using this plugin, you can remove all pingbacks from your own site. This plugin will eliminate the bad effect and enhance your SERPs.

6. Enforce www. Preference

Canoical issue is very important to decide your backlinks and ranking. You will have two options to think about. www(dot)domain(dot)com and domain(dot)com are two different sites when you do backlinks for your site. So in order to avoid losing backlinks, you must use this plugin that can overcome this problem. It will redirect from www(dot)domain(dot)com to domain(dot)com and vice versa. So you are again free from trouble.

7. Platinum SEO Pack

This SEO Pack is as good as All in One SEO Pack, but it has more futures when you compare to All in One SEO Pack ( index, noindex, noarchive, nosnippet…etc..). However, the usage of those two packs are the same. So it depends on the users’ decision.

8. SEO Smart Links

This is very important for SEO because it can help users and spiders navigate your site easily. This plugin can gather keywords, tags, phrases and links with your related posts in your website properly. This process will be done automatically, but you need to configure it appropriately in Control Panel.

9. SEO Slugs

This is very useful for your website to be ranked well once you install this plugin. You will have a better chance to be ranked well with many keywords in your long URL. However, some common words such as “”a””, “”the””, “”and””….are redundant to SERPs. That is why this plugin can help you get rid of these unused common keywords. This process will be done automatically once you install this plugin.

10. Robots Meta

The last but not least. Robots Meta is one of the most important plugins that can help your website to be indexed or not. It can help you to decide to prevent search engines from indexing your website or not. This will help you eliminate some pages with duplicate content. Since then search engines will not decrease your page rank.

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Is Buying Links for your Website Safe

By on September 22, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, article directory, article plugin, article themes, Blog Business, Blog Platform, Blog Posting, blogging, Blogs, Conversion, Domains, Free Reports, Google Adsense, Membership sites, Mobil Blogging, New Blogging, SEO, Themes, Traffic, Web Design, Websites, widgets, wordpress, World Internet Summit, Wp Headers, Wp Themes, Youtube Video

Is Buying Links for your Website Safe

Many webmasters frequently get into discussions with one another about whether or not it’s safe to buy links from other webmasters. Now although the search engines frown upon this type of stuff it’s completely safe for you to buy links for your website. As long as you don’t make the links look unnatural then you’ll be completely fine in the search engines, but if you do have unnatural links then you could be looking at getting de-indexed from the search engines.

If you begin buying links in blog networks and other spammy areas of the internet then you’re going to be placing a risk on your website of being punished. I personally wouldn’t recommend buying blog network links that are all associated with each other because they’ll be deemed a link farm and your site will be punished for having a link on them. You should only spend money on links that will help your website increase in the search engines and also page rank. You should be looking for links with high page rank that will move you up for the keyword used as anchor text and also will help increase your sites page rank. You could also buy links with high traffic, but these are harder to find and most of the time the cost outweighs any potential profit you could make which is the point.

There are many forums where you’ll find people selling links on their blogs and websites. Both offer great links and you should try getting both blog and website links. Try to avoid sitewide links when you’re buying links because you don’t want it too appear like a bought link. Ask the owner of the website to place your link on the homepage only. You may also be able to find some webmasters selling links on inner pages of their blogs and websites, which are also great for buying as long as they have page rank. You should be able to pick these inner content links up for cheaper then homepage links as well, and they will send the same amount of link juice so it’s a great way too save some money and purchase more links with. If the page where your link is going doesn’t have page rank then it isn’t even worth looking at too buy because there won’t be any benefits from it.

You’ll also need to make sure that you’re checking out each individual website before you buy a link on it. You’re spending your hard earned money on links so you first want to make sure the person you’re buying the links from is trustworthy. Many people sell links on monthly and yearly terms, but then a week later the link will be taken down by them. Try to avoid these webmasters as there only a huge waste of time and never result in anything good. Things you should look for before buying a link on a website is things such as how many backlinks it has, the page rank of where your link will be, cost, is the domain dropped and what niche it is. Only ever buy links that are relevant with your website because the search engines give far more value to relevant links then links that are opposites of each other.

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