Word Press Plug-Ins That Can Help You

If you are writing a blog on a WordPress platform, there are some plug-ins that in my opinion are must-haves, because they will probably benefit you (and perhaps boost your traffic a little bit.)  First and foremost, as the CommentLuv Plug-In.  This is a great little plug-in, because it allows anyone who comments on your blog to get a link attached to their comment back to their own blog.  This can benefit both blogs with more traffic.  Along with CommentLuv, I also use "Simple Trackback Validation" and "GASP."  Simple Trackback Validation lets you establish some criteria for Trackbacks that you will approve, and it automatically eliminates a lot of SPAM trackbacks.

GASP stands for "Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin" and is also very helpful in reducing SPAM attacks.  

The next must-have plug-in is NextScripts Social Network Auto-Poster (SNAP for short).  This plug-in will auto-post 

all your new content to your Facebook Fan Page, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Delicious, etc.  
The free version has some limitations; howeve with the paid version you can be auto-posting
 to all your social networks at the same time from an assortment of blogs.  HOWEVER; I 
caution you, that even though this plug-in can also be used to auto-post to "Blogger," the kind 
people at Google DO NOT LIKE SNAP.  I set it up originally to auto-post to three of my Blogger 
blogs, which were shut down by Google immediately for being "SPAM" blogs, even though 
they weren't.  Google says that you can appeal their decision, and they'll look at the site in 
twenty-four to forty-eight hours, because this decision is actually made by Google robots.  So, 
I notified Google about the three Blogger sites that were shut down erroneously, and I have 

been waiting over a month for a response from them.  Just be warned, DO NOT USE this plug-in

 with Blogger

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CommentLuv Enabled Blogs

I'm sure you've heard the terms "backlink" and "content is king" if you are a blogger or if you are thinking about becoming a blogger.  Obviously, in order for a blog to be successful, people have to be aware of it's existence and that just doesn't happen all by itself.  Firstly and most importantly, what is written on your blog needs to be as unique as possible.  That means you either write content yourself, pay someone to write content for you, or a very attractive third option is to invite guest bloggers to write content in exchange for putting their own links in their content.  The more unique content you have on your blog, the better your chances of getting ranked higher in the major search engines. But, ranking high isn't the only way to get traffic to your blog.

I very handy way to drive traffic to your blog is to look for CommentLuv enabled blogs that are DoFollow blogs.  If you find blogs that are relevant to the content you already have on your site, you can make a comment on these blogs.  CommentLuv enabled blogs will allow you to link one of the posts from your blog to the comment, which can drive readers of that blog's comments section to your blog.  If you're going to write comment, don't be mundane about it.  Actually read the post that you are commenting on make some worthwhile comment.  Don't just say something like "great blog."  That isn't helping either the blog owner or you.

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There are other comment sections in other types of blogs that will allow you to enter your site URL, but that isn't as specific as being able to pick out one particular link.  The best driver of traffic to your site is to comment on sites that are ranked on the first page of Google, Bing, Yahoo! or Ask.com.  Commenting on first page blogs will help generate traffic faster to your site, because you have the chance to have more eyes upon you. 

If you have a WordPress blog, CommentLuv is a free plug-in, and I recommend that you had it to your site so commenters on your site can take advantage of the commenting features as well.  If someone who has a highly ranked blog comments on your site, this also helps your site to get better rankings.

PinSomo

PinSomo - Your Social-Mobile Wordpress Theme

Speculated to be the next wonder of the world, PinSomo has finally been released and awaits user reviews. Currently, PinSomo is the only Pinterest theme available in the market with social-mobile capabilities.

... a picture paints a thousand words, so image-pinning actually says a LOT.

(http://somothemes.com/pinsomo/affiliate-material/) Date 09 Month 2012

PinSomo was launched today, September 3rd at 10am EST, and has already generated <how many sales> within the past <how many hours>. It seems like PinSomo is doing well and will continue to do well in the long run and probably live up to be the “Wonder Wordpress Theme”. It was not too long ago that people wondered about its capabilities but through word-of-mouth, its incredibly low-pricing and many early-adopters out there, sales of PinSomo have been going non-stop since its release!

Not only is it easy to use, but is incredibly effective in delivering the traffic you deserve. Because of PinSomo, any user has the potential to increase site traffic by 1173% easily, with the simple change of a wordpress theme. It seems that many users that were drastically affected by the backlash of the Google Panda and Penguin updates, are going to be happy at reviving their once-deserted wordpress site.

At its conception, many users were struggling to rank high enough or even appear in the SERPs to remain competitive in their online marketing and sales efforts, especially since the Google Panda and Penguin updates. Daniel saw the opportunity there and created PinSomo, the world’s first social-mobile Pinterest theme for wordpress. This translates to even further business opportunities especially to sites such as Amazon and its affiliates that use heaps of visual content to generate sales. Research has shown how a visual-based website like Etsy.com enjoyed more sales traffic generated from people who viewed pin images from their site -- it only makes sense modelling after something that’s tried and proven!

“This Pinterest WordPress theme also incorporates Social and Mobile functionalities, meaning to say that not only will it generate traffic, it is also socially integrated with Facebook OpenGraph and Insights, which basically consolidates the data (their habitual patterns in navigating the site) and puts all that data into an easily interpretable graph. It also has a mobile responsiveness design which adjusts the layout and graphics of the website in accordance to the screen size of your viewing device. I believe that PinSomo appeals to both online businesses as well as users that just simply  want to gain some internet popularity.” Daniel explains.

The old adage is that a picture paints a thousand words, so image-pinning essentially says a LOT.  There’s always a lot of social interactions happening online with media-sharing such as a cat video or just an incredibly humorous picture-and-caption combo. With PinSomo, all the good stuff that’s going to be shared will spread like wildfire and if your website looks and works exactly like Pinterest, you’re pretty much getting all the traffic that you need but that is -- if you share the good stuff.

So we cannot say for sure what possible drawbacks of such a simple theme might have. Spam could be one of the main concerns but Google would most likely have preventive measures against that. But to see the full extent of this new “Wonder Wordpress Theme”, we can only wait and see.

About PinSomo: PinSomo is a WordPress Theme that’s created by Daniel Tan in order to help internet marketers improve sales by improving site traffic volumes. It was conceived after the realization that Pinterest, being the fastest growing social site, had a positive correlation with internet traffic. Daniel saw that as an opportunity to create a theme that would fulfil the needs of people who needed a way to generate more site traffic.

Make Google AdSense Part of Your Plan

If you are writing a Blog, one important feature that you need to consider is Google AdSense.  Almost all website formats will offer you some way of integrating Google AdSense into your campaigns.  This may not make you a fortune, but AdSense will place ads on your site that are relevant to the content of your site, which also lends credibility to your site.  Personally, I'm very partial to Google Blogger and WordPress for my sites, as they both are set up very well to accommodate Google AdSense ads.  But, also you need to be careful that you are offering unique content on your website, because if you try to get by without unique content, you run the risk of having your AdSense ads pulled by Google.

For WordPress Blogs, I'm partial to registering my domain on Siteground, because it is very easy to set up a WordPress site on their servers.  It's pretty much one click and done, and then all you have to do is write your content.