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How to Migrate from SEO Ultimate to WordPress SEO by Yoast
I've tried a few WordPress SEO plugins over the years, from All In One SEO Pack to Robots Meta and then to SEO Ultimate; but that was before Joost de Valk (a.k.a. Yoast) released WordPress SEO by Yoast which is now my SEO plugin of choice for WordPress. If you want the definitive answer at who is the best SEO guy for WordPress, just do a Google search for WordPress SEO and see who ranks in position #1. That's one reason why I'm switching from to Yoast's plugin, and it has some other great features too like an awesome search results preview that helps you to optimise not just your search ranking, but also click-through rates.
Switching SEO plugins is no mean feat since you've probably already got meta descriptions and other information that you don't want to lose. There are also a few other tricks to migrating, so … Continue reading…
Comparison of ClickBank Vendor eBook Sales Plugins for WordPress
If you want to make your fortune selling ebooks to the masses, ClickBank is the platform for doing it. Most successful ebook and other digital download sales sites use it for their payment processing and affiliate support. ClickBank handles credit card payments for you and the affiliate system makes it dead easy for other people, including competitors in your own niche, to promote your product for you in return for a proportion of your profits.
To sell an ebook on ClickBank you need:
- A ClickBank Vendor account
- Your ebook product listed in the ClickBank marketplace
- A Pitch page on your blog describing your product with your Buy Now button linked to ClickBank
- A Thank You page where the customer lands after they pay to download your product
Thank You page handling is the trickiest part of this process, because you want to secure your site so that people can't steal … Continue reading…
Posted in Plugins Tagged clickbank, Digital Product Demon, ebook sales, make money, Marketing LaunchPad, WP PDF Stamper 3 Comments
How to Enable Comment Processing in SEO Smart Links Pro
Back when I did my review of Automatic Keyword Affiliate Link Plugins, my preferred choice SEO Smart Links Pro supported keyword matching in comments. So if one of my blog commenters mentioned HostGator say, that keyword would automatically turn into an affiliate link.
I liked this feature.
Unfortunately it led to so many support requests that the plugin author removed it. Apparently on blogs with large numbers of comments, the extra processing time is too much for many servers. So if you have a blog with thousands of comments, just live and let live. But if you only have a few, and really want this feature, and promise not to hassle the plugin author about it... Here's how to re-enable comment processing in SEO Smart Links Pro version 1.6.3:
Edit the file seo-smart-links-pro.php in a text editor like TextPad.
Uncomment this code in function SEOLinksPro:
/*if ($options['comment'])
add_filter('comment_text', array(
… Continue reading…CommentLuv Plugin Helps Build Links and Traffic
One of the best WordPress plugins I've come across in a while is CommentLuv Premium. It helps build reader engagement by encouraging web-savvy visitors to leave comments with the offer of links to the most recent posts on their blogs. The net results is that you end up with better reader engagement, more links to your site, better search ranking, and higher traffic.
I highly recommend this plugin; it's one of the most powerful on-page additions you can make to your site to improve your search engine ranking, visitor engagement, article sharing, and traffic. It so good, I'll even show you a banner ad for it:
How to Add a Google +1 Button To Your Posts
Google recently introduced +1 buttons on its search results to indicate that you think something is cool. You can also add these to your blog, so that visitors can recommend your content easily when they read it.
I tried several WordPress plugins with my slightly modified TwentyTen theme before I could get a Google +1 button that worked the way I wanted. I ran these tests with Firefox version 5.
Requirements
I wanted to keep it fairly simple, since I already use Sexy Bookmarks for my main social bookmarking.
Here is what I wanted:
It needs to work with TwentyTen; I.e. The buttons appear & do their job
Put a Google +1 button at the top and bottom of each post
Put the count beside the button, not above it
Include a Facebook Like button beside the Google+1 button
Put the bottom button above the Sexy Bookmarks icons
Comparison
Initially … Continue reading…
Comparison of Keyword Affiliate Link Plugins for WordPress
When I built The Confident Man Project website, I wanted to create affiliate links from keywords in the articles on the site so that I got paid when a visitor purchased a product that I recommended. Rather than inserting these links manually, I wanted them generated automatically so that all I had to do was specify the anchor keywords and my affiliate link.
For instance, when I mentioned Double Your Dating, I wanted that text to convert automatically into a link; just like it did in this article. I also wanted to streamline my link cloaking mechanism. Up until then, I'd been cloaking my links by creating a 301 redirect manually on the control panel of my hosting provider and then manually adding links to articles which pointed to that redirect. This was a hassle, and I wanted to have it handled for me within WordPress instead.
Requirements
Here … Continue reading…
Posted in Plugins Tagged affiliate links, affiliate marketing, keyword links, smart links 22 Comments
The Best WordPress Plugins
One of the reasons WordPress is such a great blogging platform is the thousands of plugins available to add to its core functionality. There are so many available that it can be hard to choose which ones to use, and it took me weeks to evaluate the best plugins for providing the functionality I wanted on my blog. To save you having to do the same, here are my essential favourite WordPress plugins that I actually use on my site:
Site Structure And Appearance
Advanced Excerpt generates an excerpt of each post on my home page so visitors can browse recent posts to find what their interested in, and click the Continue Reading link if they want the whole thing.
WP No Category Base gives me a more logical structure with my category archives at: http://grahamstoney.com/categoryname, instead of the usual http://grahamstoney.com/categories/categoryname.
Redirection allows me to rename articles … Continue reading…
No more dofollow for this blog, I'm afraid
I'm getting way too many spammy comments from visitors who are clearly only interested in a dofollow backlink. Many of them look like they've been human generated but they're not adding value, so I've decided to disable the Do Follow plugin on this blog. I no longer recommend this plugin as it attracts too many link seekers who aren't really interested in engaging with you as a blogger.
From now on if you want a dofollow backlink, you'll have to play by CommentLuv Premium's rules and share the article before leaving your comment.… Continue reading…