Feed your WordPress Demons!
If you are running a Wordpress blog, you are probably familiar with the pain of blog spams. Some folks make a living by acting like leeches and writing automated robots that post comments to Wordpress blogs. These comments are often garbage and are designed to send a link back to the site owner’s site. Wordpress spamming is a big issue, and unfortunately too many folks are in the business of spamming.
For long I have used Akismet to manage spam comments on my blog, but Wordpress does not come with captcha which means if you leave your comments open, there is a chance that folks will use that to their advantage. But the good thing about Wordpress is the fact that there are a lot of folks who dedicate their time to making the platform better for everyone. That’s how Cryptographp has come about. This plug-in adds a captcha piece to your comment template, which means folks can’t just spam your blog with automated software. Don’t get me wrong. Cryptographp does not end the issue of Wordpress spamming. However, it can reduce your blog’s spams significantly.
Cryptographp is a free Wordpress plug-in and is very easy to install. Combined with Askimet, you can expect folks to have a hell of a time trying to spam your Wordpress blog. You can download Cryptographp here.
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:
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.
One of the best ways to get more out of your traffic is by promoting other contents that you have on your website. It’s easy to assume that people will find your content all by themselves. But in reality you should do your best to promote your top content to your visitors to help them better navigate through your website. If you have been using Amazon in the past, you have probably seen this concept in action. Every time you want to buy something on Amazon, you get a set of links that encourage you to visit other products that have been visited by customers just like you.
You can now implement the same concept on your Wordpress blog with Where Did They Go From Here? plugin. This plugin is very easy to work with. All you have to do is install it on your blog, and it automatically tracks what pages have been visited by your audience and what the referring pages are. Those referring pages will then include links to pages that people have visited after visiting them (just like Amazon).
The first time you install this plugin, you will see nothing under your web pages. You will need to wait for your visitor to browse through your pages for the plugin to add referral links under your pages. Using this plugin in conjunction with a similar post plugin will help you promote your content more effectively. The more useful content you offer to your audience, the longer you retain it.
Have you ever wanted to bring more traffic to your Wordpress blog? There are plenty of ways to do that. You can advertise, write articles, and do all kinds of things to start bringing more traffic to your website. One of the best ways to drive traffic to your blog is adding the power of social media to your each and every post. Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and Digg are all capable of driving you thousands of visitors for free on a daily basis. It does come down to the quality of content, but if you don’t take advantage of your reader base, you are not helping your blog read its full potential.
Take a look at the above buttons. They are not only colorful enough but also dynamic. It doesn’t matter how your buttons look. In reality, you should look for buttons that give your users the call to action to spread your content online. You can always add the above buttons to your blog posts by downloading a plugin such as Digg Digg. But if you don’t want to do anything other than copy/paste, Boostpost comes in handy. It’s a cool service that lets you add the buttons you would like to see on your blog and add them to your posts fast (copy/past the code into your blog).
There are three ways that you can add social media buttons to your blog using Boostpost. The first way is to choose the services that you want to use on your blog, download the appropriate code, and paste it into your single.php file. That’s pretty straightforward and probably the best way to get maximum exposure for your blog posts.
I don’t know about you but our URLs are often long and are not exactly designed to be shared on social media sites by themselves. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a service that we could all use to shorten our Wordpress URLs on the go without having to do anything special. That’s exactly what you can do with URL Shortener. It’s a simple Wordpress plugin that brings URL shortening services to your blog. And you won’t have to do too much to take advantage of it.
In order to take advantage of this plugin, all you have to do is enable it and choose the URL service that you want to use with your blog posts. The plugin essentially brings WP.me to your self-hosted Wordpress blog. So why would you want to use such a plugin on your blog? It’s simple. People don’t trust obscure URL services these days. After all, how can you be sure that you are not clicking on a URL that is not going to install ad-ware or harmful files on your blog (some URL redirection services do). With URL Shortener, you won’t have to worry about that. (more…)
