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Controlling WordPress Comment Spam - 3 Must-Have Plug-Ins

Enabling comments to be posted on a WordPress blog allows readers to interact with yourself and others. A healthy following of visitors builds a sense of community and increases the popularity of your blog. Comments also create unique content, something the search engines love. A blog without comments appears dead and stagnant, however allowing comments can also open the door to comment spammers. Here’s how to get it under control. Comment spam typically comes from online marketers wanting a backlink to their own site. It mainly consists of low quality content with no added value or contains blatant advertising. Turning Commenting Off Can WordPress comment spam be stopped? Yes, if you turn commenting off in the WordPress Dashboard: Settings: Discussion: Default article settings: Allow people to post comments on new articles. Trackback Spam Another form of spamming comes in the form of trackbacks. Trackbacks can also be turned off in the Dashboard in Discussion: Allow link notifica...

WordPress Plugins You Can't Do Without

It’s no secret that WordPress is the most popular platform for self publishing today. Millions of people use it to write simple blogs, or to write huge web sites filled with astonishing content. Whether you are a world famous publisher, or simply writing posts about your daily life, you likely are using WordPress. One of the many things that makes WordPress so popular are the many plugins available. Plugins are small programs that you an add to your site to make it do different things, from playing music to asking for somebody’s email address. While there are literally thousands of plugins to choose from, there are some essentials that you can’t do without. That is the subject of this article. First and foremost is Akismet. This automatically detects and removes spam comments from your blog. Even if you have a relatively small blog, and don’t think you need to worry about spam, you still need to. You’d be surprised how much spam even the smallest blog will ...

Top WordPress Plugins to Install Right Now

Given the huge variety of plugins available for WordPress I thought it would make sense to discuss my top WordPress plugins which I believe you should install right away. A plug-in is, simply put, a small software add-on with a specific functionality which will make building your site much easier and, not unimportant, optimize your money-making opportunities as well (often free of charge). Here are some my key picks: * Easy Privacy Policy – In case you want to benefit from Google AdSense and make money, one of the requirements is having a Privacy Policy page. This plug-in will automatically create one for you! * Google XML Sitemap – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. A must have plugin in my view! * All in one seo Pack – Optim...

9 SEO Plugins Every WordPress Blog Should Have

The importance of search engine traffic cannot be over emphasized. The results in engines are taken to be more authentic than paid listings, and hence it is the key to build a brand, to have more traffic and more revenue. The following are the 9 most important seo WordPress pluggins that WordPress blogs might do with: 1. All in One seo Pack This WordPress plugin helps you to prepare the basics of seo for your blog. You can have metatags for your entire blog or different sets for each different page. 2. Redirection There may be changes to your permalink URL of a particular page of a blog. You may have updated it, may have shifted hosts, or have renamed the link URL. What happens is the user comes to the URL which was there before, but doesn’t find it, resulting in loss of traffic and goodwill. Redirection takes care of this and automatically redirects the user to the Updated page resulting in lower loss of traffic, it is a very useful WordPress plugin for seo . 3. Robots Meta Se...

How to Display AdSense on WordPress With AdSense Plugins

While WordPress itself is a robust and complete blogging system, to really maximize the software and make money from Google AdSense you’ll need to install and use a couple of AdSense “plugins”. Most of the plugins can be found by doing a search on Google, and installation is simple and straightforward. All you need to do is upload the plugin to your web host using an FTP, and activate the plugin inside your WordPress administration area. 1) AdSense Deluxe WordPress Plugin The first and most important is a plugin called “AdSense Deluxe”. While this plugin will help you to display AdSense ads on your blog, it also serves other purposes. You can use this plugin to insert Javascript, PHP and almost any other type of code into your blog posts. The AdSense Deluxe plugin will allow you to insert AdSense ads into your blog posts by including a simple code like this: You can create multiple ad formats in the plugin’s settings page, and you can always change t...

Earn Money Online - SEO With WordPress Plugins

seo , Search Engine Optimisation, is the process and activities through which we can make it easier for Search Engines to list and then send traffic to our web sites. These are split into on-site and off-site seo , and in this article we’ll be concentrating on what we can do on-site, within a WordPress blog, to maximise traffic. Why WordPress? It”s insanely popular, easy to customise, and the Search Engines love it because every post is latently Search Engine Optimised. This is why WordPress blogs consistently rank higher than similar sites under the same keywords. As good as WordPress is, there are ways to make it better, and easier to get listed. This is done mostly through plugins. They’re very easy to find and install from within WordPress admin – under the plugins tab. Installation instructions are beyond the scope of this article, but if you get stuck then help is easy to find. Just Google ‘how to install word press plugin’. ‘Google XML S...

Top 10 WordPress Plugins to Boost and Get More Traffic

There are so many ways online to increase your blog traffic indirectly or directly via some top 10 WordPress plugins for 2013. By Using the WordPress plugins listed below, you can also boost your SERP’s rankings and readers engagement for more traffic. These great plugins are easy to use, free, and can have a significant impact on the number of visitors to your blog. Now with the help and use of these top 10 WordPress plugins, one can get massive traffic building opportunities available through seo , social networking/bookmarking and readers etc. So let’s check the checklist of Top 10 WordPress Plugins to get more traffic in 2013. Top 10 WordPress Plugins to Boost Blog Traffic in 2013: 1. YARPP Well This plugin will help you to increase page views of your website. Once installed, it will show links to other popular posts related to a current post at the end that could be useful for your visitors by introducing them to other relevant content on your site. 2. nRelate Related C...