Gravity Forms: Ultimate Form Plugin for WordPress

There are plenty of free form plugins that let you do all kinds of things on WordPress. Whether you are interested in creating a contact or squeeze page, there is a WordPress plugin out there for you. Gravity Forms is not your average plugin. First, it’s a premium plugin, so it’s designed for those who want to display complex forms on WordPress. It supports all kinds of elements (almost anything you can think of) on your forms and gives you an easy way to enhance your posts.

Gravity Forms enables you to add drop-downs, check-boxes, multiple-choice, and text elements to your fields. It also supports address, time, and even file upload elements. It really depends on what you want to do with your form. This plugin supports conditional forms. Dynamic field population is supported as well.

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Automated Blogging with WordPress AutoPost Plugin

A lot of new bloggers have asked me in the past about how they can automate some parts of blogging so they could get more done each and everyday. Some even automate the whole process. I am personally not a big fan of automating my blogging process, but there is a right way and a wrong way to automate your blogs. For instance, you can create a post out of your tweets (RSS) and publish it on your blog. You can always create a post by hand, but since we are talking your tweets, automating the process would save you time. Whatever the case, WordPress AutoPost Plugin is the only plugin you need to get it done. (more…)

SEO Booster Pro Review

As someone who has been around SEO and WordPress for a while, I can tell you that there are a whole lot of WordPress webmasters that have no idea what it takes to optimize their pages for the search engines. Some don’t even know how to start the optimization process. Now I am not suggesting that getting ranked for those general, highly competitive terms are easy, but if you don’t know what SEO is and have no idea how to track your search engine rankings, you have got work to do. That’s where SEO Booster Pro comes in. SEO Booster is a very easy to use SEO plugin for WordPress that is designed to help you figure out what you are doing right SEO-wise, and how you can increase your presence on the SERPs.

SEO Booster is designed to help webmasters from all walks of life to track their progress on search engines and find areas that they need to improve their sites upon to increase their presence on the SERPs. Here is what I love about SEO Booster. Once you install the plugin, it’s going to go to work for you, collecting all the incoming keywords and the landing page associated with them. It even tells you your ranking on the SERPs so you know how much you need to improve. You can always write posts day in and day out and hope for the best, or you can approach SEO scientifically, track your results, and improve areas that may give you a better chance of getting ranked higher on Google and other engines.

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6 Cool eBay WordPress Plugins You Should Try

Many bloggers use eBay to monetize their blog and pay for their hosting fees and even make a living online (if they are lucky). eBay affiliate program is one of the most innovative ones out there. It comes with a lot of widgets, banners, and link building tools to give you the opportunity to promote eBay products without having to do too much. You can always grab the code from eBay and slap it on your website. But you can’t do everything with what eBay offers you. There are certainly things that eBay could’ve done better. That’s where the following eBay plugins come in. Whether you want to integrate auctions into your blog or build an eBay store on your blog, you can easily do it with these 6 WordPress eBay plugins:

• eBay Auto Poster: if you are looking for a quick way to post eBay listings to your blog without doing a whole lot of work, eBay Auto Poster is the one to try. It automates the process. I wouldn’t recommend it to regular bloggers. It’s really made for affiliate marketers. It’s also compatible with WP Robot.
• eBay Store: a cool plugin that imports your products from your ebay store and allows you to sell products through your WordPress website/blog.
• Auction Affiliate: another plugin made for affiliate marketers that is designed to let you add eBay auctions to your blog. You can easily define what products you want to add to your blog. You can customize the look and feel as well.
• WordBay: WordBay is a simple but effective way to create a WordPress-powered site featuring eBay listings based on any keywords you choose. It’s really made for folks who want to focus solely on building eBay-based WordPress websites.
• eBay Sales Lister: a very simple plugin that makes it easy to add eBay listings to your sidebar or inside your blog. Now, this is nothing too complicated, but the fact that you don’t have to do much work to get this to work makes this attractive to WordPress bloggers.
• Free eBay Store:  an easy to use and free eBay WordPress plugin that makes it so easy to add an eBay store to your blog. If you are a fan of eBay affiliate program, you are going to love Free eBay Store. All you have to do is enter your account information, provide a keyword, and tell it how many rows and columns your store’s going to have.

There you have it. 6 cool WordPress plugins to integrate eBay into your blog easily without having to write a line of code. If you are looking for a new channel to monetize your blog, the above plugins can come in handy. Don’t forget to check eBay Affiliate Program for more information.

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Create a WordPress Popup with LightPop

Have you seen some of those WordPress sites that come with beautiful pop-ups when you open them up? While I am not a fan of pop-ups, I can understand why some folks use them to promote their newsletters or products. In reality, you don’t need a program to create popups for your WordPress blog. But you’ve got to know your HTML, CSS, and Javascript. If you have no idea how to write code, you should probably use a solution such as LightPop.

Let’s say you have a Aweber account, and you want to post your newsletter code to your blog as a popup. As you can see in the above picture, you can easily post your code to LightPop’s code area, and it’s automatically converted to a popup. What I like about LightPop is the fact that it allows you to make your popups less annoying. You can redefine the behavior of your popup so that it shows up only the first time someone visits your site. You can even define a certain hour each day to show your popup.

LightPop is a simple but very flexible plugin that allows you to create popups for your WordPress sites fast. If you don’t know any coding, you won’t have to sweat it with LightPop.

WP Review Site Plugin: Create Your Review Site Fast

If you have been online for a while, you probably know how popular review sites are. People are always shopping around and comparing things before they buy. That’s why they look for review sites to find out what other people are saying about the services that they are interested in. After all, it’s easier to trust someone who has tried a service before than listening what the service provider is trying to sell you with its sales pitch.

WordPress is a great platform for creating review sites on the fly. There are literally hundreds of ranking plug-ins and add-ons that you can use to create your review blog. WP Review Site is a cool premium plug-in that makes it very easy to create sophisticated review sites on the fly (see example below).

Here is what you get with WP Review Site:

• Enhanced Comments: with this plugin you can now add star ratings to your comments. That makes it perfect if you are selling products and want people to be able to rank your products. They can use the comment section to leave a more comprehensive review.
• Flexibility: WP Review Site’s display is completely customizable to fit your website’s design. Ratings can be displayed with table or list based markup which makes it easy to fit them into your blog.
• Sort Posts: you can now sort your posts based on the weighted average rating. That gives you the opportunity to show your highly rated products to your users first.
• Widget: WP Review site is a widgetified plugin that makes it easy to add your reviews to your sidebar.
• Convenience: you can add the ratings to any section of your site that prefer. If you don’t like to see the ratings on some categories, that is possible too.
• Integration: there is no code for you to deal with. The plugin integrates to your WP install, and you won’t have to touch the code.

WP Review Site makes creating review sites like a piece of cake. All you need is this plug-in and most of the work will be done for you. You will have to add content but the rating part is taken care of with this script. You get lifetime updates and an affiliate link management tool to help you create you own affiliate website fast. If you are looking to start your own review business and save time in the process, you should consider signing up for WP Review Site.

WordPress Magnet: How To Get More Comments On Your Blog

So you spend hours putting up your WordPress blog and writing content for it. You put your best effort forward and create super useful content. But you don’t get any comments. Sounds familiar? In reality, it’s not really that hard to get folks to comment on your blog. But you need to find a way to get folks engaged. Some of us are more lazy than others. We read articles but don’t like to take time to comment. In fact, a lot of folks find it pointless to leave a comment on other blogs. A lot of other folks don’t leave comments on a post that has no comments on it already.

So why are comments important? It’s simple. The more comments you get on your blog, the more confident you can be about your work. If people take time to leave comments and respond to others on your blog, it means you have done something right. The more comments you have on your blog, the more time people spend on your blog. And let’s not forget that you don’t have a community until someone has commented on your blog post.

WordPress Magnet is a simple plug-in that makes it very easy to get comments on your blog. Conceptually, it’s very similar to Digg Bribe or StumbleUpon Bribe scripts on the market. I know bribing is not looked upon as an ethical tactic in the real world, but in the world of Internet marketing it is a must do especially if your blog is young. WordPress Magnet allows you to give away all kinds of things. The more content you giveaway in return for comments, the more momentum your blog gains.

Here is how you can get more comments on your blog with WordPress Magnet:

• Give away your paid product
• Offer a free ebook
• Offer a free report
• Discount on your paid products/services
• Coupon codes
• Gift certificates
• Much more…

Once your readers leave a comment on your blog, they receive an e-mail containing the link to their prize. You can define multiple prizes if you prefer, and you get a chance to write your e-mail on the back-end.

Overall, WordPress Magnet is a very simple and easy-to-use plug-in that is designed to help you bribe your readers to comment on your blog. As long as you offer something of value to your readers, there is no limit to the number of comments you can get on your blog.