WordPress Plugins – Are You Sure Plugin
Today, I am going to share a very interesting plugin with you, Are you sure is a wordpress plugin which is developed to avoid the accidental publishing. I found this plugin very useful because I have clicked accidentally the publish button instead of clicking the save button.
It has a very small size and you don’t need to do any thing accept uploading and activating this plugin since it don’t need any configuration. So, after activation this plugin whenever you will hit the publish button a small window will pop-up and says are you sure?
Download: Are you sure wordpress plugin
Blogging for Business – Writing For Your Business
If you are running a business and you have not started the blogging yet then you are really missing the new opportunities that blogging can provide you. Blogging is essential these days, almost every big or small company has their blog in order to reach and communicate with their customers. Blogging can help you to get more clients and increase your sales. There are many other benefits that you can get if you start blogging.
But, in order to get all the benefits that you expect from blogging, you need to know what to write into your blog posts. Since, your blog posts will directly going to communicate your consumers or potential clients. So check out the following things that you should write in your blog posts:
Note: Also, read the how to start a blog guide if you don’t know how you can setup a blog for your business.
Benefits
This is the most important thing right? You need to aware your consumers or your potential buyers about the benefits of getting your service or products. You also need to persuade them by telling all the benefits they would get if the buy your service or products. But, don’t over do it since it will create a bad impression among your consumers.
Note: Also, remember that you don’t need to brag about the benefits of your products or services in every blog post. You need to be smart and always point out benefits when it makes sense.
Make Announcements
You can also use your blog for making announcements. So, whenever you add a new feature starts any new service or may be offering any discounts to your clients then do write a blog post and explain everything clearly in that.
User Guides and Tips
You should also write blog posts that will help your customers in understanding the products or service and how they can use them properly. You can also write about tips and tricks that will help them in utilizing your services or products in more efficient manner. Tutorials are really going to help your customers and make them very happy with your service.
News
You should also provide the news about variety of industry topics. It will make your blog a good place to find the latest updates about the industry. It will also help you to connect with more and more people.
Testimonials
You should also place the testimonials of your happy clients in the sidebar of your blog. It will help you to gain the more trust from your customers and also help you to build a good relationship with them.
Learn How To Blog for Money
How to blog for money? It is one of the most popular questions in the blogsphere and every blogger who is struggling to make money from blogging want to know the answer of this question. Learning how to blog for money is not difficult but the most difficult thing is actually start taking action. If you are completely new about blogging and don’t even have a blog then I would recommend you to first read the how to start a blog guide before reading further.
How To blog for money?
Post regularly
If you really want to make money from blogging then you need to make a commitment to yourself that you will blog everyday. It could be bit difficult in the starting but if you maintain the frequency of posting and post at least one article everyday then it will help you to build the solid readership base and it will also increase the chances of getting traffic from search engines.
The best thing about posting regularly is that you will soon increase the content of your blog and that makes you an authority in your niche since you will have the most and the timely information about your niche. It gives your blog readers a solid reason to visit your blog often to get the updates. That’s why you need to choose your blog topic carefully so that you will able to post regularly without losing your interest.
Market Your Blog
Marketing is very important, writing the quality content is not enough to make money from blogging. You also need to promote your blog and learn the marketing tactics in order to generate traffic on your blog. You can use two methods to generate traffic for your blog
1. SEO (search engine optimization)
2. SMO (social media optimization).
Social media sites like digg, twitter, stumbleupon can generate traffic in short time and it is a good way to increase the popularity of your blog on the other side SEO is about getting rankings on major search engines for particular keywords. Following are some other methods that you can use in order to increase the traffic of your blog.
• Blog commenting
• Forum posting
• Guest Posting
• Article Marketing
• Press Release
• Video Marketing etc
Provide quality and original content
In order to build the readership of your blog you need to provide the original and the quality content to your blog readers. You need to write the quality articles which should provide some information, solution or help your blog readers.
Quality content will build the credibility of your blog and if you constantly provide the useful information then people will also start sharing your content on the social media channels naturally. It will help you generate more traffic from social media sites and establish you as an authority in your niche.
Make Money
If you follow all the above methods then you will soon start getting traffic and then you can start making money by showing ads on your blog. The best and easy way is to sign up with Google adsense account and start displaying there ads. You can also start promoting affiliate programs which will also generate a good income for you.
There are tons of other methods that you can use to monetize your blog and make money for example you can sell your own product, your own services, sell ads directly to advertisers etc.
Why People Blog?
Blogging is becoming popular day by day. The reason why Blogs are growing in popularity is because blogging allows you to interact with your visitors. But, this is not the only reason that makes thousands of people blog every day. Following are the top three reasons why we blog.
Medium of Self Expression
Blogs are the good medium of self expression and it is the one of the important reason that makes people to blog. Blogging allows people to share their stories and they can also express their views on any topic.
Blogging For Business
Internet is growing rapidly and everybody wants to take the advantage of internet in order to connect with their customers and to advertise their services or products. Blogging is a great way that allows companies and individuals to build long lasting relationship with their customers. Blogging also opens the many business opportunity for them as well.
Blogging For Money
It is probably the biggest reason that makes people to start their blog. The best and easiest way to make money from blog is to place the adsense ads on your blog. It is not easy to make full time living from blogging though it is a good way to earn some extra money while having fun.
There could be many other reasons for blogging but above are the top 3 reasons for blogging. Also, don’t forget to share your opinion about this post in the comments section and do read the how to start a blog if you are not blogging yet :-)
WordPress PDA Plugin For Iphone and PDA Browsers
I have already written a post bout wordpress ultimate gamer’s pack plugins which optimize wordpress for gaming system like Nintendo Wii, DS-Lite and Sony PSP.
In this post I am going to share with you a plugin which will optimize your wordpress Blog for PDA and iphone browsers. This plugin is a very easy to use. It will automatically detect the browser and load the theme according to it. This plugin will come with a extra theme folder which will work like a normal theme.
This plugin is also very easy to install you just need to extract the plugin folder and upload it to wp-content > plugins folder using FTP.
After activating this plugin you would not be able to detects if its is working or not, until you will browse your Blog using the PDA or Iphone browsers.
Download: WordPress PDA Plugin
FeedBurner FeedSmith WordPress Plugin
Feedsmith is a wordpress plugin that is developed by steve smith. This is a very useful plugin if you are using feedburner with your self hosted wordpress blog. feedsmith will detect all the ways to access your feeds automatically so that you can track each possible subscriber of your feeds. It will redirect all your old feeds to new feedburner feeds along with your comments feeds.
Installation
Just download feedsmit plugin and follow the instruction below in order to install this plugin.
- Just unzip the folder and upload the FeedBurner_FeedSmith_Plugin.php file to wp-content > plugins.
- Open your wordpress admin panel and activate this plugin by going into plugins sections.
- Configure this plugin from its admin panel and you’re done.
Download: FeedBurner FeedSmith WordPress Plugin
WP-Polls Plugin To Adds Ajax Poll System to Blog
Polls are good way to increase the interactivity with your blog readers. Polls are also help you to know your readers more. WP-Polls is a good plugin that allows you to add a poll in your blog. This is a very easy to use plugin which has many options so that you can easily customize it according to your requirements.
WP-Polls also supports a multiple selection of answers and you can also control the look and feel of this plugin. WP-Polls plugin allows you to modify its HTML and CSS files to match up with your blog design.
Download:WP-Polls WordPress Plugin
What Others Are Saying WordPress Plugin
What others are saying is a wordpress plugin that will allows you to show the recent posts of the blogs you like.You can display the posts of your favorite blog anywhere in your site. It uses the RSS feeds functionality of the blogs in order to display their posts.
This is a good way to keep yourself updated about the latest post of your favorites blogs without opening them. You can display the X numbers of posts, depending on your settings. In order to use this plugin you need to add the following code where you want to show the recent posts of your favorite blogs.
- <?php if (function_exists(‘what_others_are_saying’)) {
- what_others_are_saying();
- } ?>
The best and easy way for you to use this plugin is to add this code in the sidebar and you can easily do that by adding a widget into your sidebar.If you still face any problem in using this plugin then do let me know in the comments and I will help you out.
Download: What Others Are Saying WordPress Plugin
Free WordPress Theme Tipz To Design Your Blog
Tipz wordpress theme is a very beautiful wordpress free theme designed to keep in mind the web 2.0 trend. Its code is very well laid out and it could be used for variety of topics. This is a premium looking free theme and you can easily cover the variety of topics in it.
Tipz theme also gives you the option to show a feature post, which will show on home page. This is a very good option to display your important posts to give them more exposure. This theme also allows you to display the post excerpt and a photo of feature post.
You can easily display the feature image by adding a custom field “feature-image” and you can easily display the feature post by assigning a post to “Feature” category.