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Guaranteed SEO Benefits With WordPress Plugins

By Randy R on January 19, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

Guaranteed SEO Benefits With WordPress Plugins

There are many ways to gain guaranteed SEO benefits for your website if you are using the WordPress CMS, some more effective than others. Most of your benefits will be with off site SEO but there can be some on site SEO advantages. People reading this article may or may not be aware that the majority of your SEO benefits will come from off site SEO, back linking is a huge one, especially if you are anchoring your back links with the correct text. Here I will not go into this aspect of SEO however, this article is more concerned with how you can improve on site SEO via WordPress plugins.

As you are probably already aware there are thousands upon thousands of WP plugins that all claim to benefit you in some way, not all are made equally however and sorting through all the garbage to actually find something of real use is extremely hard work, especially if you are new to WordPress and all the plugins that are available. I cannot claim to be an expert on every single plugin available, the number to be tested is just too many and would take a lifetime to test individually but the following list shows a few of the plugins that I find are most useful for my personal needs and do give me guaranteed SEO advantages of one description or another.

Your list may vary depending on the reason why you are building a WP site but I think most people will find the list to be of use for the basics plus a few added extra bonuses. While some of these plugins are not directly related to SEO they may help you to avoid disasters that will ruin your sites credibility with both search engines and visitors alike so do not be fooled by the simplicity of what some of them do. While on site and off site SEO are very, very important the integrity of your site as a whole does come into play. If your site goes down or is slow or littered with links that go nowhere these problems will all add up to a bad site that both man and machine will dislike and avoid. One more point that you should bear in mind when installing plugins: Do not over do it! I bring up page speed further into this article, one of the things that will slow your site down is a lot of plugins.

Certain plugins are non optional, a sitemap and a database backup are for example 2 things that you absolutely need but if others are going to be of little use to you, forget them! Use your head in regard to what you need for the function of your site. Never install a plugin just for the sake of it, only use them to improve functionality! WordPress plugins with guaranteed SEO benefits The first thing that any site needs is a sitemap, you don’t need to be a coding expert and create your own thankfully with ‘Google XML sitemaps’. There are other sitemap plugins out there but this is one of the most trusted out there and something that no WordPress site should be without. ‘Yoast breadcrumbs’ is a great breadcrumb plugin that will leave a trail for your readers to be able to find their way around with greater ease. If set up correctly it will also help with internal SEO as it makes the text bold for the current page in the breadcrumb trail and also allows to set your own anchor text for both the homepage and blog page. The ‘official Statcounter plugin’ is another great piece of kit for your website, while it does not offer any immediate guaranteed SEO benefits the information that can be garnered from Statcounter.com is invaluable in your future SEO decisions.

Where are your visitors coming from? Where do your visitors go from your site? What keywords are attracting visitors? With this information and more you can start to make future plans, see what is working and see what is a wasting your time. It is well documented that Google now takes into account the speed that your website loads, feeding cached versions of your sites web pages is a no brainer when you take also consider that visitors may also click away if your page takes too long to load.

Help to improve page speed by using the ‘W3 total cache’ plugin. If you also have a lot of things going on in your sidebars you may also consider ‘WP widget cache’. Something that every WordPress site needs is a backup system of some kind. I recommend ‘WordPress Database Backup’. Depending on how active your site is you can set the plugin to Email you a complete backup of your site anywhere from every 900 seconds to bi monthly. Guaranteed SEO benefits? Well… How good is it for your SEO if your site crashes and you have to start from scratch? Ever had your content stolen from your site via your RSS feed?

Then you will like the next plugin. It’s called ‘RSS footer‘, a simple yet effective plugin that shows a link on the post that they stole which leads right back to your site, if anybody scrapes your feed content the guaranteed SEO benefit is that you get free keyword optimized back links and maybe a few visitors from the thieving gits site.:-D Bonus! ‘Broken link checker’ Ever been in a rush and put a link into a post or page that is not correct only to find out days or weeks later? (Do you have some that you didn’t find at all come to think of it!?) This plugin will monitor your site and report any links that are not working so you can correct them immediately. Google hates broken links and your visitors won’t like them too much either, neither should you if you want your site to do what you want it to do and direct visitors where you want them to go. How often do you finish off a page or post and notice mistakes?

You go back and correct them and then you make a couple of improvements and tweaks to the page, hitting the update button every few minutes to put it right… Bad!! Every time you post or update one of your pages WordPress automatically pings the Pingomatic site, if you are repeatedly pinging all the time your blog can get banned from the update sites for ping spam. Cure this with ‘cbnet Ping Optimizer’ which will only allow pinging when you actually publish for the first time. Pinging on an update will be disabled hence protecting you from being labelled as a ping spammer. Best of luck with your WordPress site, I hope this information was of use to you.

WordPress Company Sites

By Randy R on December 4, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Blog Business, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

A decade ago, it is not surprising and embarrassing if large corporation did not have their own websites. Now, a company without its own website loses its credibility and respect due to vast demand in online business. WordPress websites are made for companies and individuals to compete in this competitive cyber world. Whether it is for commercial or personal purpose, websites are staples in the Internet as a form of communication approach. The success of a website depends on how appealing it is to search engines. To make websites easily accessible, WordPress are created to be SEO friendly.
WordPress can be customized easily to optimize search. The term ‘SEO’ which stands for search engine optimization, is used as a tool to gauge traffic and volume of a website. It is not difficult to change WordPress URL into a more SEO friendly one with a few simple steps. Users just need to change and update their permalink structures. The reason behind this is to create a new SEO keyword-friendly URL structure. Bloggers need not worry about their old URL because all incoming links which are associated with the old URL will be directed to the latest optimized URL.
Being a platform of blogs and commercial websites, WordPress is user- friendly in terms of site administration and configuration. Users do not have to be highly- skilled in IT knowledge but to learn a few advanced technical optimization to prevent duplicate contents and make their blogs SEO friendly. Some useless archives in the blog need to be disabled to avoid duplicates which will adversely affect blog ranking in search result. It is also wise to exclude unnecessary links and pagination.
Using suitable WordPress themes can shoot your blog to stardom with better SEO. Users can download SEO friendly templates to revamp their blogs to increase popularity and readership. The secret to choose the best template that fits your blog is the matching the theme with blog contents and blog name. Search engines will easily recognize the keywords and WordPress theme used when the blog fulfills certain SEO metrics such as highlighting its contents, onsite optimization and appropriate look and feel.
On top of that, WordPress is blog- publishing software that is compatible to many useful and SEO friendly plug- ins. Killer plug –ins like Comment Luv, Feed Footer and Who Sees Ads give your blog more functionality. WordPress is already great software by itself. With enhanced features by plug –ins, your blog will be more manageable and SEO friendly. Plug – in like Google XML Sitemaps helps to make your blog more visible for search spiders. Marking the online presence of your blog through sitemaps makes you a more successful blogger.
Also, WordPress blog is made to host a more well- structured layout. It is a design stage for corporation and individuals that need no fancy design features. Moreover, design features such as Flash and Javascript might hamper search effort as they are not SEO friendly. Search engines prefer simple but loud layouts that clearly reflect the identity of the website. WordPress websites are not heavily designed so that the websites can appear easily and quickly in the search result.
You can also optimize your WordPress front page with texts. Texts, preferably permanent ones, are personalized to make blogs more visible in search engines. More tags on the front page also optimize search especially the unique ones. You can even replace the “Read More” link with something more meaningful to your every post. This little thing makes a huge difference in your WordPress SEO.
To conclude, many people underestimated the power of SEO in elevating their WordPress websites to greater height. Through intelligent comprehension and understanding of SEO, blogging is not a mere entertainment anymore, but a sign of success in blogosphere.

Ways to Choose Best WordPress Theme For Creating Your Blog

By Randy R on November 22, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

Ways to Choose Best WordPress Theme For Creating Your Blog

A great thing about WordPress is that it is a storehouse of tens and thousands of free and highly customizable themes that you can download from the internet. Now the question that may come to your mind is that why would the designers offer the themes for free, particularly those known for their stunning and professional looks! Well, by doing so, they are in a way increasing their credibility amongst the common mass!

Now with so many themes available online you may find it a bit complicated when it comes to choose best WordPress theme for your blog…I guess I’m right! Well, this is where the contents of this article come into play. Here you will find innumerable considerations such as personal taste, monetization, niche and much that helps you to choose best WordPress theme without much hassle.

Choose your niche: Yes that’s the most important…I mean you need to decide what you blog is about…whether you’ll be creating a photography blog, a marketing blog and so one. None of us aren’t that insensible to choose pretty flowers or puppies as themes to create business blogs…isn’t it so! However, the same themes can work well when it comes to creating your personal blog. What I intend to say is that you choose your niche; you can choose the relevant themes accordingly!

After choosing your niche, your next job lies in flipping through the designs available in that category. Design does play a viable role when it comes to creating a blog. Make sure you choose best WordPress theme to give an attractive look to your blog. If you succeed in doing so then you are sure to attract more and more visitors to your blog.

If you are interested to make money from your blog then choosing the right design is of utmost importance. Layouts without any sidebars may be your personal taste but are you sure they will work wonders for your ads? Instead why not go for multiple and “”widgetized”” sidebars together with three column layout!

And there comes your personal taste…you are free to choose any WordPress themes for your personal blogs…all you need to do is use large fonts so that the text is readable.

A good thing that you can do when it need to choose best WordPress theme is downloading anything and everything that you find appealing. You can then sort the ones that look promising. Practicing this sorting procedure for a number of times will help you get your dream WordPress theme!

The 3 most effective ways to monetize your blog

By Randy R on September 5, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Blog Business, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

The 3 most effective ways to monetize your blog

Today internet is full of multiple blogs making money in various possible ways. But among them one should choose the most popular ones to earn solid amount within a couple of months. Perhaps, you thought that now I will show the google adsense income as one of them. But on this point, not everyone is successful, as for making huge income one need to choose the most popular niche and get paid per clicks more than just a few pennies. So this article is related to the 3 most wide-spread money-making methods with blogging, not including google adsense:

1. Use your blog as an online place for expert consultations and then recommend affiliate products or services.
Do not try to simply advertise this or that product. Here the most important thing is to provide your readers with real valuable and interesting information that they need to hear from a specialist in this area. Therefore before starting any blog, sit down and think thoroughly in what field you are considered to be good, even if not expert. So after you have decided this main moment, then create your blog and choose products and/or services related to your niche. It would be better to choose those affiliate programs that will provide you guaranteed monthly residual income. But you would be better first to test the products yourself and then recommend them. In this way you will gain more credibility of your readers.

2. Create and sell your own info product.
This money-making method is the alternative way, if affiliate programs are not for you, though many people are making a six-figure income every year, just by selling others’ products. Today almost everyone who comes to the internet try to create his own info product, mostly e-book. So why do not you also try? If you think over your experience in this or that field, you will surprisingly discover how many areas exist in which you have some valuable knowledge or experience you could share with others and earn money for that. So why not format this information that can be useful for many people into a unique info product? After having created your own e-book, you can promote it with various methods online and get constant income from the sales. For example, you can sell it on your blog or website, if you have one, or you can promote it on others’ sites or e-zines.

3. Sell ad places on your blog.
Today selling places to various companies for putting their banner on your website or blog is one of the most popular ways to earn passive income on monthly basis. You think it is a very hard job to find the clients to willing to put their advertising on your website? Not at all! You need just huge traffic on daily basis. If you’ll have, let’s say only 100 visitors a day, then companies will themselves find and offer you to advertise their services.

Commercial Blogging

By Randy Roedl on April 27, 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

Commercial Blogging

Experts are of the opinion that commercial blogging is the future of
blogging. Commercial blogging has been accepted as an effective way
of boosting the business of a company and that is one reason why
more and more companies are plunging in blogging to make some
serious money. However, it would not be wrong to say that making
money through commercial blogging is not a direct way of making
money. Commercial blogging can definitely help your business, but by
indirectly influencing the thoughts of the readers and potential clients.

Read on to find out how commercial blogging can help improve the
profits of your company:

Corporate blogs are the best way to interact with customers
and prospects

A corporate blog, if used efficiently can provide the best platform for
interaction with customers and prospects, which in turn will lead to
opportunities to create a positive impression and encourage them to
purchase your products or services.

Engaging employees with good corporate knowledge is ideal
for promoting services and products through blog

It is very important to engage loyal and knowledgeable employees to
blog on behalf of the company. It is very crucial for the success of the
commercial blog, as only such employees would go the extra mile to
impress upon the good qualities of the company on the readers. It is
also important that those employees have a passion for writing and
community building. The blogs written by such employees would make
the potential clients feel the sincerity hidden in the articles. In other
words, such positive impression would definitely lead to improved
business for your corporate.

Commercial blogs can be used as a powerful medium to
increase company’s credibility

While adding the blogs, it is very crucial to keep the primary goal of
the blog in mind, which almost inevitably is to up hold the reputation
of the company by increasing the credibility through the blogs. This
can be done effectively by replying sincerely to the feedback of the
clients on the blog. This will inevitably result in an impression of
enhanced customer service which in turn will encourage the customers
to continue their business with your company, which is nothing but
increased profits.

Update the blog regularly

By updating the blog regularly, you can be assured of continued
loyalty of the customers to your blog and hence to your products and
services. Regular visits by your readers imply that you will have ample
of opportunities to impress your customers with additional news and
information about your products and services.

Be openhanded with links

Like with any other form of blogging, the success of commercial
blogging greatly depends on the success of links. It always pays to be
liberal with links and back links to your corporate blog. This will result
in increased traffic which would lead to additional business.

Many big companies have recognized commercial blogging as a cheap
yet effective marketing tool. However, one of the biggest problems
with commercial blogging is that, the companies have to shell a lot of
money in avoiding articles or blogs which could hamper the reputation
of the company.

Create_a_Joint_Venture_for_Your_Benefit

By Randy R on August 8, 2010 in JV

Create a Joint Venture for Your Benefit

If you are in online marketing, you are undoubtedly looking to make some commissions on product sales or promote your own service/product for full profits. So is every other millionth webmaster. What is to set you apart? One among many can often be daunting. It can cause many to stop before they even start. Joint ventures not only give you a support system to get through the rocky start, but also the foot in the door that you need to succeed.

A joint venture is much like a partnership where both parties play to the other’s strengths in order to reach an agreed upon goal. Whether it be to get your product to the masses, generate traffic, provide a service, or just merely promote a hype, the more experienced help you have on your side, the better. Some things to consider when starting a joint venture are the benefits that your partner or partners will bring to the table, the feasibility, and the credibility that another partner brings.

Many do not fully consider the joint venture option because they would rather much make money on their own. After all, if they do it themselves, they gain the sole profits, right? But what they forget is that quantity is key. Sure, you want a marketable and quality product, but if you are not selling in mass quantities, you are not making enough profit to make it worthwhile to continue. This is where joint ventures play a big role. If you get a small group of skilled marketers together and pay a higher commission than the affiliate markets, you can dominate in your niche in no time. Domination would equal more sales which would equal more money in your pocket in the long run. And to make the deal even sweeter, you do less work. How does that sound for genuis ideas?

You may be asking yourself why anyone would want to enter into a joint venture unless they are the ones that have a product or service to market. After all, why would I want to do someone else’s grunt work? Yet if you take a look at the commissions that affiliate sites like Revenue Universe or Commission Junction and compare them to the commissions that a potential partner would offer you, you will undoubtedly find that you will make more through a joint venture project. Think about it: company A pays affiliate site B a certain amount of money. Affiliate site B pays you a percentage of that. If you cut out affiliate site B, you are making more than just a percentage; you are making the full dollar!

Online marketing is a lucrative career of which many can make a living doing. Joint ventures allow you to set up a profit making campaign that will give you residual income for months and even years to come. The key to a successful joint venture project, of course is finding the right players.

Joint_Venture_Credibility

By Randy R on July 9, 2010 in JV

Joint Venture Credibility

You have the next big idea since Google. You are motivated and have the means to create and promote this idea but lack one thing: credibility. In the day where skepticism is the number one personality trait of e-visitors, it can be hard if not daunting to ‘sell’ your big idea. Everyone always wants proof without having to pay for it; better still, they want a review from someone they trust. Without credibility, you may as well be trying to sell a burger to a vegetarian.

Just as you would not trust your coworker with giving you legal advice or your dentist with selling you computer supplies, not everyone will be receptive to an internet freshman trying to sell them marketing materials and the like. Get a backing or testimonial from Shoemoney and you are sure to boost your credibility a hundred fold. Being as how that is not very likely, and not always pertinent to the field you are in, you should be looking for a joint venture partner who already has the connections and credibility to market your idea.

Products or ideas are not always sold based on their merit; often people are not readily willing to spend their money on something they have no guarantee of working. Sometimes it is the proper sales pitch, landing page, or testimonial that gives them the extra push they need. Joint ventures should be entered with this idea in mind; gathering a group of rookies will take just as long as if you had decided against a joint venture.

Building a rapport with your clients is something that develops over time. If you do not have the time to wait, getting someone who already has a developed rapport to join you in a joint venture would be the next best option. Not only is the legwork completed for you, but they possibly have the leads already lined up that you need as well. Everyone gets what they want then; you get the customer base, and your partner gets something worth offering to them while cashing in on a nice little commission.

Creating a joint venture is a prosperous activity. It is used by affiliate marketers accross the net to develop leads and credibility. Just as with any business or shop, you will want to build up some credibility in your community to allow for more sales, repeat business, and greater chance of word of mouth advertising. Supply in the e-commerce world is usually always higher than the demand so you need a good reason to motivate buyers to your product in particular. YOu know your product is better than the competition; do not let something as simple as little to no credibility slow you down. Enter a joint venture with a well known marketer in your field and be on your way to prosperity.

Joint_Venture_Profit

By Randy R on June 19, 2010 in JV

Joint Venture is one of the most powerful marketing strategies ever discovered and if you have not been able to capitalize on it, you are missing out on a lucrative business opportunity. You cannot enter into a joint venture if you do not know what one is or what the benefits are. You have to decide whether or not a joint venture is the means to the results you want.

A joint venture is merely an agreement in which two or more partners work together on a joint goal, project, or marketing idea. It could be short term or long term, but in the end the motivation of a joint venture is profit.

There are many benefits of a joint venture that need to be considered.

* Developing business relationships for life.

Creating a joint venture with other business give you the opportunity to build relationship with them, In the long run, when their business booms and they have a good market reputation, the first person they will be looking for partnership will be those they “trust”.

* Developing an online ‘resume’

If you are able to work with business bigger then yours, you are not only earning a huge personal profit but also gaining credibility as a reputed businessman. You are also gaining references or credentials to promote your credibility further.

* Economically efficient

If you are new to the scene you are promoting, you will undoubtedly need startup capital. This can be quite cumbersome if you do not have it. Joint ventures are partnerships where the costs are divided just as the profits are. You may even be able to enter into an agreement where you yourself do not have to front any cash to begin with. Since a joint venture is also free to start, you may end up saving a lot more forming one.

* Leads and potential customers

With more people to help you reach your target audiences, you can create a few pyramids of traffic and leads. Joint ventures help you not only reach new customers, but guaranteed opt-in leads that your partners may already have.

The benefits of a joint venture may be obvious and appealing, but you also must know how to go about creating one. An efficient and proficient team is just what you will need to be successful. You should be asking yourself what you want to achieve through a joint venture. You will also want to determine who you want in your team and what you have to offer them. After all, what is to make them join you if they are going to be doing all the work? Can you offer them something they cannot refuse?

Joint ventures are a goldmine and valuable asset to e-commerce. If you want to get a head start on any of your projects, they are the means you need. Just as with any other business agreement, take the time to establish what you want and need from a join venture and work it out.