Good and frequent commenter’s should be rewarded. I strongly believe in principal that “no good deed should go un-rewarded”. I know my site doesn’t have a Google Page rank at this point to make this offer seem very attractive but it will change soon.
I’ve been working hard and next Google dance should display at least 5,000 backlinks to my site. How will it benefit you? Simple – have a look on sidebar, “Top 5 Commentors” will be displayed with direct and SE counted links to their provided sites.
Not all plugins created equal and while all of them enhance WordPress core functionality in one way or another some go way beyond and take blog” rel=”tag”>blog platform beyond its intended use be it a new way to present content, earn via AdSense or other affiliate programs, etc.
What you are about to read is my view of what innovation is and my personal opinion based on my own experience with these plugins. I’m creating it as much for my own reference as for your enjoyment. Perhaps you will find some of them useful to your bloggin efforts and disagree with me on others. Either way I welcome your comments and contributions.
If you think I have missed a plugin that fits this list – please provide a link in your comments, as I’m sure everyone would love to know about it.
FeedSmith – formerly known as Feedburner Feed replacement this plugin is a must have to extend options available for your RSS feeds. Perhaps one of the most useful functionalities of this plugin is extended stats about your feed readers.
aLinks – an awesome plugin that allows you to monetize on your blog without annoying your readers. Simply specify keywords you would like to be linked in its admin panel and what affiliate product to link it to and all your keywords will be automatically replaced by affiliate links. My favorite part is ClickBank module that you can install with it but can also be used with Amazon associate program, which is essential for many niche blogs for income.
Sphere Plugin is an easy to install addition that increases contextual value to your visitors by scanning your content and on-click generates a list of related articles. Without the need to write anything extra you get opportunity to give your visitors what they are looking for – information.
Ultimate Tag Warrior and Tagalize It – these 2 in my opinion should be combined as once you install them – your blog turns into super tagged traffic machine loved by Technorati. Use of these plugins takes your WordPress blog into Web 2.0 generation and provides a way to easily identify all your posts.
Share This - This plugin will allow your visitors to share your content via social bookmarking sites and/or e-mailing the post to a friend. Provides support for multitude of social networks without taking much of your precious blog real estate.
Spam Karma 2 is one plugin I can’t imagine myself without. Once installed and activated with default options it has completely removed any comments SPAM from my blog while allowing everyone to comment without any issues. In over a month of usage I have only had one false positive, easily recovered.
An-Archos – Anarchy Media Player plugin for your WordPress blog. One of the most feature-rich media player’s available, with excellent support and frequent updates. If adding all forms of video is important to you, I highly recommend you check this one out.
PodPress – install this plugin to turn your blog into ultimate podcast platform. With complete support for iTunes, mp3 and other popular podcast formats it gives you freedom to create and capitalize on one of the most popular trends on Internet.
GaMerZ WP-Plugins. There are too many to list here and each one is of excellent quality with great documentation. While each of them extends only small functionality of your blog I have found myself using so many of them that their combined effect makes these plugins a true modification of my blog. They are independent from each other and can be installed as needed, so feel free to pick what you like.
AdSense Deluxe – most of the bloggers rely on AdSense for a source of income or as simply a way to at least partially pay for their efforts. AdSense-Deluxe is a WordPress plugin offering advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts.
All in One SEO Pack – search engine optimization is a must for your blog. This plugin takes care of some of the most daunting tasks associated with this effort and gives you freedom to do what you do best – write great content.
Page Link Manager – yes, I consider this one an innovation! WordPress is great but I have found that controlling pages is not an easy task and requires some manual intervention and code editing. This plugin will become your savior when it comes to solving this problem. Now you can decide which pages are displayed in Navigation and which you can add to credits.
Automatic Stats – extends core functionality of your blog and gathers stats on your blog that actually matter to you as blog writer. But the best part is – all stats are hosted by WordPress and don’t take up any of the resources on your server.
WP-Translate is a simple drop in way for users to view your blog in their language. Its easy for any most users to add this functionality to their site. I haven’t tested it with latest version of wordpress so any comments on this one would be appreciated.
WordPress Mobile Edition creates a version of your blog easily readable in PDA and new breed of cell phones that become so popular now days.
And last but not least a small trick that provides you access to extended functionality of WYSIWYG editor that I have found on Solo technology:
To enable additional formatting options in your WordPress editor simply hit alt-shift-v (Firefox) or alt-v (IE) to toggle extended editor.
Please remember that this post was created to provide list of WordPress Most Innovative plugins, if you are looking for a more extended list of plugins that make your blog rock visit my WordPress Web 2.0 Guide. Now I leave the floor for your comments. Let’s see how many I missed!
It was a regular day, just like any other and nothing was indicating any drastic changes. I was seating at work and peacefully reading my emails when one caught my attention. And I have to add that lately I’ve been getting pretty immune to various offers to “become a super affiliate”, “ earn the loads of cash”, “explode my online business”, “enjoy financial freedom” and such … you get the picture . Not that I see anything wrong with them, but simply because I get way too many of them and tend to delete, unless subject captures my attention.
This one was short and to the point and coming from “the god” – How Could I Simply Delete It? So I dove into reading and got a quick introduction to Michael Weston (“ The Affiliate God”). His offer was simple – earn from his proven techniques but I tend to be skeptical to these offers. So many people have covered Affiliate Marketing and in so many different forms that finding something new or ground breaking is nearly impossible. And so I went replying that unfortunately I don’t promote a product I haven’t personally experienced and I don’t believe I will learn anything new from his eBook after nearly 2 years of internet marketing – I have declined an offer from “ The God”! Blasphemy, huh?
Surprisingly Mike was quick to reply and included a complete eBook for review and now you have a chance to learn – does he really qualify to be called “The Affiliate God”? Will you benefit from his product?
Yeah, questions above are “loaded” and have no simple answer, as I’m not willing to hype-up the information just to get an affiliate sale (I do get paid for recommending it, so be aware).
What this eBook is:
Very well written guide to affiliate marketing. It covers every major affiliate strategy that I personally know off and at least one that I didn’t in details that well fit for a complete newbie to the field and a veteran alike. I loved the flow of the information and comprehensive descriptions that make this eBook a very nice addition to affiliate marketer library.
I personally think this eBook is especially great for people just starting out in affiliate marketing as it removes the complexities by using clear language, provides detailed information and yet keeps it very easy to follow.
But perhaps the best part of the eBook is wealth of reference to multiple tools, resources and essentials that are critical to the specific strategy discussed in that section. Granted that you can find most of them elsewhere but being presented in one location and in right spot I think makes this guide very desirable as a great reference resource for even seasoned affiliate marketer. I saved it on my desktop for easy access as I have found at least 3 superb resources on first reading that I had no clue about. Here is one example for you:
From another site, we offer webmasters a free article system for their site. They hand pick from over 100,000 articles and growing. You get to insert your keyword phrases from a master panel into the articles of your choice on all different sites and networks.. Your text links are all over the web in minutes. We are signing up over 100 webmasters a day. The system is 2 years in the making. Check it out we will refund your money if you don’t think it is AWESOME… CLICK HERE for Our Amazing Article links HOT!!!!
That offer is one of the best I have seen and yes I have already purchased it.
What this ebook isn’t:
This is not some new, ground braking affiliate strategy but instead a comprehensive guide to existing and proven to work strategies that have made me a very nice secondary income (yeah, I’m not full time marketer yet) and generated wealth for many many others. If you are in search for another Day Job Killer – this is not it! But I personally will use this guide as a great reference tool for me as it is filled with useful information in one convenient location.
To summarize my review:
Is Mike “The Affiliate God” he claims to be? I have no clue! But I have found his sales letter very entertaining and worth the read at the very least :).
Will You benefit from his product? I think so. I have been a webmaster for over 8 years and dubbing in affiliate marketing for close to 2 years and yet, I have found at least 2 resources from his guide I have already took advantage of and at least one strategy I haven’t used yet. You results maybe different but I will be keeping this guide close for the pure wealth of references within and relevant tools as they apply to each affiliate marketing strategy.
Either way – would you want to decline the offer from “The God”? Be sure to at least read his sales letter, I found it to be more entertaining then many blog posts I run across on daily bases.
This week’s meme will cover one f the most basic and yet so much needed areas of Web 2.0blog development. I want to talk about linking. How many links you have coming to your blog can have a huge impact on how many readers you will receive and as result – How Well Will Your Efforts Pay!
Each and every one of us uses different methods but we all have common goal – make our blog as popular and as much read as possible. So here is your chance to shine – answer the question below and include a link to YOUR post where you share your best strategy.
What Is Your Best Linking Strategy?
Remember to post these in your blog and don’t forget to post a comment letting us know where you posted them by posting a link here. Get some reciprocal link love and recognition you deserve.
In attempt to generate more interest in upcoming Olympics London organizing committee spent $796.000 to create a flashy logo targeting younger generation. Statement by Lord Coe, the chairman of committee that cost was covered by private sector and doesn’t affect tax payers did little to ward off the scandal around it.
According to Sun “…. Olympics bosses were left squirming with embarrassment after an epilepsy group reported 12 cases of people collapsing through looking at it. Epilepsy Action warned that 23,000 mainly young people in the UK were at risk from the TV and internet version. They suffer from the photosensitive form of epilepsy and flickering images can trigger fits.”
Common people! Are we getting too sensitive? I have to admit that personally I don’t like the logo or the video ad, accompanying it and can’t believe that someone paid nearly a $800K for it but not to the point to protest it! At the moment of this post 40617 people have signed petition to change the logo. Quite a few people assuming that it has been released only couple days ago.
Watch the video below and please comment to let me know what you think!
Internet Wealth 2.0 … sounds right in line with Web 2.0, isn’t it? Well it doesn’t only sound it actually is closely aligned. I thought this video was a great follow up to John Reese’s report on Internet Marketing rebirth.
John outlines a few very important, I would say critical steps to actually be successful as a guest speaker on StomperNet conference. I highly recommend you visit the page and spend a few minutes watching this video.
Here’s the first video for you. This is an excerpt from a keynote presentation I gave in February of this year at the StomperNet Live conference that was held in Orlando, Florida. There were about 600 people in attendance. You can’t see the full crowd in the video.
This will be a short post and mainly designed with one thing in mind – let you know about one very simple “plugin” that can be implemented on any blog – translation via Google Translate service. I have implemented it on my blog and it can be seen on sidebar.
What makes this plugin so nice – it is a simple HTML and JavaScript code, which can be implemented on any blog platform, including WordPress and will allow visitors that natively speak other language to read you content. See it in action on my sidebar and click (About) link to get your own copy. I do have to admit that Google translate is far from perfect but it will do, since it is better then nothing.
Links from quality sites determine your worth in terms of Search Engine popularity and relevancy. It is a well known fact that unless your site or blog gets some quality backlinks – any popularity you might be gaining with each new post is short lived.
I have experienced it time and time again and the only way to stay ahead of the game is to get some quality sites link back to you consistently. And I’m not talking about link farms, links exchange sites or anything of the similar type. I’m talking about a New Concept – Viralink.
Idea for this Thursday meme is simple – we all learn and we all get our information from somewhere. If you have found a particularly good source of information – share with the rest of us. Makes it a lot simpler to find what we need and right when we need it.
Web 2.0 Article Or Guide You Like The Most?
Remember to post these in your blog and don’t forget to post a comment letting us know where you posted them by posting a link here. Get some reciprocal link love and recognition you deserve.
Hello, my name is Alex Sysoef and on this blog I share my knowledge, discovery and experience with WordPress, Web 2.0 technologies and Internet Marketing as comprehensive guides...
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. Not that I see anything wrong with them, but simply because I get way too many of them and tend to delete, unless subject captures my attention.
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