WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

Every once in a while I run into a cool tool that attracts my attention and draws me into further investigation. Quite distracting but stats and performance analysis is one of  my minus and always have been  as long as I’ve been building websites. My justification always been simple - If I know what effort contributes more to success, I can spend more time on it and disregard tasks that give me less return.

A little while ago I have posted an article “Webmaster Tools Every Blogger Need To Know About” , where I listed some of the most useful tools in my opinion to perform tracking and get general overview. We are not talking detailed analytics here but an Great Overview of results. And Website Grader is another tool that should have made the list but I simply didn’t know about it until quite recently.

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BUM Marketing method spread like a virus in the beginning of this year and popularized Article marketing, bringing it to the masses. Many people have gotten their first taste of success using the methods described in the system not only because it was simple but also because it was COMPREHENSIVE and ACHIEVABLE.

Two major ingredients that make up successful product and when you add to it excellent price (FREE) – it made for an irresistible value. But what does this strategy has to do with blogging? Actually quite a bit and I personally think that anyone is not familiar with the method should check it out. But here I want to outline WHY you should do it …

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Money is in the list – statement you hear pretty much as soon as you take a dive into Internet Marketing. It is considered to be the most valued asset of any marketer and success is more often then not evaluated by the size and quality of the list. And here by quality I mean response rate to emails. How well emails opened and advice acted on by clicking.

I’m not going to talk in this post about quality of information, moral issues involved with email marketing or the quality of emails that go to subscribers. There is plenty of info on the topic that I don’t feel I need to cover it. What I want to talk about is how people encouraged to subscribe. What has become known as Squeeze Page will be the theme of this article and how we miss the obvious …
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“Comments” provide interactivity levels to blogs, creating one of the major attractions to this particular style of web publishing. But comments are actually a lot more than that. Comments are not just a means of communicating, providing backlinks and a way of sharing opinions… but they’re also a way for you - as a blog owner - to receive the recognition you deserve and the traffic you need.

With a great wealth of plugins available for WordPress, it makes it really easy to show your “commenters” just how much you appreciate the time they took to express their opinions by commenting on your blog. And by showing this in the most meaningful way possible you get to benefit through increased numbers of comments, bigger community, larger reader base and as a result - more options for you to earn $$$ from your blog.

Yep, in the end, “earning” from your efforts is still very important for most of us!

In this post I will provide a list of plugins for WordPress that I found to be most useful and beneficial.

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Web design doesn’t have to be hard and when using right tools it becomes quite simple. While they will not replace the need to do you work - they help you to evaluate your results, confirm that your efforts pays off and provide you with analytical data that is both complete and easy to understand.

I want to share with you a set of tools I personally use and while many of them duplicate some of the results, each and everyone has its own uniqueness that makes it worth using. So here they are in no particular order …

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Introduction of native tags system in [tag-tec]WordPress 2.3[/tag-tec] generated a storm of questions from many bloggers. In fact this is one of the most useful features outside of faster java processing that made me upgrade to new version.

This new feature helps every blogger to properly structure the blog for success and make content more accessible and searchable. But that is assuming you have a clear understanding on HOW you need to build your blog from ground up and possibly redesign it armed with proper knowledge.

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I have taken a leap and performed an upgrade of my blog to WordPress 2.3. I wish I could say everything was rosy but unfortunately it wasn’t so. Even with proper preparation and investigation and research there were several things worth noting.

This post is to provide my personal account and perhaps help other people overcome lost functionality due to UTW being discontinued as well as few other things.

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