Category — wordpress

If you are using wordpress for your blog, the following tools can help you increase traffic to your site:

1) All in One SEO Pack

Features:

• Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
• Generates META tags automatically
• Avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs
• You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
• Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.
• Change the post title on each article
• Autogenerate descriptions
• Setup meta tags and descriptions for the home page

Download Here

2) XML Sitemap Generator

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.

Having a dynamic site generated from each blog post will allow the major search engines to crawl your site at a faster rate which can help you in terms of search engine traffic.

Features:

• Notifies all major search engines (google,msn,ask.com,aol,yahoo). These can also be turned on or off.
• Rebuilds sitemap if you change the content of your blog
• Adds sitemap URL to the virtual robots.txt file
• Generate sitemap in XML or gzipped format
• Limit the number of posts in the sitemap
• Builds the sitemap in a background process (You don’t have to wait when you save a post)
• Exclude categories or posts
• Ability to change frequency and priority of categories and posts within the sitemap file

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3) Twitter tools

This is a wordpress plugin by Alex King. It creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. It allows you to pull your tweets into your blog (as posts and digests) and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.

This is a must-have for anyone with a wordpress blog. It is very easy to setup (you just need to choose a couple of settings and add your twitter username and password information) and it allows you to quickly notify your friends on twitter when you have a new post on your blog.

Features:

• Automatically create tweets through your blog posts
• Create blog posts from your tweets
• Daily digest posts from your tweets (experimental)
• Weekly digest posts from your tweets (experimental)

Download it Here

4) Onlywire autosubmit plugin

http://www.onlywire.com is a free service* that allows you to submit a link to many different social bookmarking sites from one place. This plugin uses the onlywire API to automatically submit your articles to multiple social bookmarking sites.

*The service is free if you include a link-back to the onlwire site. If you want to remove the link, you need to pay for the premium version, which is $2.99/month.

Social bookmarking sites supported:

• ask.com
• bluedot
• delicious
• facebook
• jumptags
• multiply
• newsvine
• stumbleupon
• simpy
• bibsonomy
• bookmarksync
• digg (note: it’s not automatic)
• furl
• linkatopia
• myspace
• propeller
• slashdot
• technorati
• blinklist
• connotea
• diigo
• googlebookmarks
• mixx
• mywebyahoo
• reddit (note: it’s not automatic)
• spurl
• twitter (Note: the wordpress plugin gives you more control)

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5) digg digg

Digg digg encourages your readers to submit your articles to major social bookmarking sites. It easily integrates into your template (no code changes required).

Social bookmarking sites supported:

• Digg
• Reddit
• dzone
• Yahoo buzz

Features:

• Choose where you want it to show up on the page(left float, right float, before content, after content)
• Choose which pages will display the buttons (home page,static pages,post pages,category pages,archive pages)
• Optionally turn on/off each social bookmarking site
• Button display options (normal, compact, icon)

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A great, free plugin for wordpress is called e-commerce plugin.  It allows you to turn your wordpress blog into an  e-commerce shopping cart.

Installation

Installation is pretty easy.  You just need to download the zip file, extract it, and upload it to your wp-content/plugins directory.

Once the plugin is activated, you just need to add a product, and your new shopping cart is ready to go.

Features

All of the new features of this plugin are presented under the “e-commerce” tab.  They are split up into the categories: Sales, Products, Groups, Variations, Marketing, and Settings.

Sales:

Gives you a breakdown of the total number of sales for the day

Products:

• Adding, editing, deleting products
• Fields: price, description, and additional description
• product categories
• donation (allow donations)
• stock control
• downloads/digital goods (a download URL can be specified)
• shipping rates through a flat-rate table

Groups:

Groups help your visitors find your products. If you sell t-shirts, hats, and trousers you might want to setup a new group called clothing and then add the categories t-shirts, hats, and trousers to that group.

Variations:

A variation can be anything “optional” about a product. ie: Size, Color, etc
For example: if you are selling t-shirts you might setup a variation set called size with the values small, medium, large.

Marketing:

This is where you can setup coupon codes to use on the products in your store.

Settings:

Various global shopping cart settings such as:

• Taxes (percentage)
• Currency
• Shipping (UPS,USPS, flat rate)
• Payment Modules (paypal, google checkout, and chronopay)

1. Permalinks – changing your Wordpress permalinks to be search-engine friendly. To change the default link type, go to options->permalinks.

2. Create a Sitemap – A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently. The sitemap file is supported by many search engines, including google. A free plugin is available here

3. Improve the titles of your articles – Title tags are arguably the most important of the on-page factors for search engine optimization. A free plugin is available here that can help you optimize your titles.

4. Site Submissions – Submit your articles to directories and RSS feed sites. A good site is onlywire.com. Here you can submit your blog articles to multiple social bookmarking sites at a time.

5. Tagging & Meta Keywords – implementing tags on your blog and how to use them as meta keywords. This plugin. Adds you to easily generate Technorati tags at the bottom of your blog entries.