Tag Archives: Blogging

WordPress 101 The Video PLR Series

Even Santa is bloggin these days! And how do you think Santa figured how to install his WP blog, upload plugins and install his theme? No, his elves didn’t help him. He downloaded this WP how to video series! Hey, what’s good for Santa has to be good for you too.

Here is a set of 23 how to WP videos that thoroughly document step-by-step the ins and outs of WordPress from installation to fine tuning the settings that most people don’t even know exist!

These videos can be viewed right on your computer and are available for instant download.

Each video discusses it’s topics in an easy to follow manner. If you are doing anything with wordpress, or what to begin a blog these free videos will help!

How to Install a WordPress Blog With cPanel

Installing blogs via cPanel is the quickest simplest way to get your own blog up and going fast. It’s best to use a hosting site like Hostgator that comes with cPanel and Fantastico installed. With Hostgator, you can always instal the latest version of WordPress.

Simple 4 step install:
 

Log into your cPanel Click on Fantasticos 

 

 

Download Digital Product Demon

Are you selling digital products from your WordPress Website?

Now here is a cheap and easy solution for you!

I love WordPress. It’s too easy to use, too effective at what it does, and it’s just the right price. As I’ve said before, WordPress is “software for the rest of us” – FREE, easy to use, and it’s good.

But, there wasn’t really anything available to sell products online that worked with WordPress…  Until Now!

 
Digital Product Demon is a simple, easy to use plugin that does exactly what most WordPress site owners want when selling digital products from their WordPress website.

Digital Product Demon coupled with WordPress will let you:

Easily sell digital products with just a PayPal account – PayPal is easy to use, but it doesn’t provide a way to hide your ThankYou page or protect your download links. Digital Product Demon makes it easy to do both. It’ll hide your Thank You page so that only valid customers can access it and it will expire your download page and encrypt your download URLs so that your links can’t be shared or posted on “pirating” forums.

Download the PayPal Button Generator PLR

 

Just imagine being able to use your mouse to make a few clicks and setup a shopping cart or a simple buy now Paypal button inside your WordPress blog. It really is that simple.

WordPress is so easy to use and had become the most powerful sales platform in the industry, but it was not designed to do everything we are asking of it. That is where plugins like “Paypal Button Generator” comes to the rescue!

 

You can download it here today. It just doesn’t get any easier!

 

Using Amazon Autoposter Be Sure to Save!

UPDATE: Amazon Autoposter no longer works. Something to do with that techie API stuff. I may check this out later but not sure. Was cool when it did work. A real time saver. Hopefully the creator will update or fix this.

If you are an Amazon Affilitate you are going to love this new WP pluggin - the Amazon Autoposter. The Amazon Autoposter is a nifty little pluggin that lets you add niche related Amazon product reviews automatically to your blog.

But that’s not the best part. You can set up to 16 reviews to  automatically post fresh content every day, every other day or up to every nine days. Imagine! You could have auto posting posts posting to your blog every day.

Author: Thomas Hoefter

Amazon Autoposter is a free and easy to use plugin for WordPress weblogs that allows users to post products from Amazon.com on their blog automatically on any keyword they specify and earn money using Amazon’s affiliate program.

Features:

  • Create good-looking product posts on keywords you choose!
  • Schedule up to 15 product posts at the same time.
  • Add you Amazon affiliate ID to earn money from your posts.
  • Add excerpts of Amazon products reviews as comments to your product posts, meaning even more quality content!
  • Many customizable options i.e. time span between scheduled posts, length of product description and use of Amazon’s thumbnail image.

 

Create Blogs That Attract Visitors

You build it but no one comes. You have original material, great content, but still, no one comes. Your blog looks fantastic, the colors are just right but, no one comes.

So where is everyone? Is there NO one looking for your information?

Optimize Your Blog For Traffic

I started a Niche website last winter, almost to date of this post. I wanted it to be as content rich as possible so I used some PLR content I had, at first, then graduated it to original content. The idea was to get it up quickly and get it into the search engines before the local tourist season hit in Cody, Wyoming.

Around May, the blog was slow to attract visitors and traffic at first, which was ok, I was still in the ‘creation’ process. I have and probably always will be a strong supporter of the ’natural search’ process. But this time, when it was time to expose my area niche blog to the world I experimented with different ideas and came up with several things that worked well. 

 The whole month of May 09 I received a whopping 256 visitors TOTAL to my blog. I was still in the design and content stage so that was no big deal. I never expect overnight success when creating a new blog. Towards the end of May (May 30th) I begun to optimize my blog. You can see the results that took place almost immediately.

Here is the shot of the traffic growth my blog experienced once I took action.

  traffictestoverview

 

What is it about some websites that makes them popular destinations for a huge number of visitors? Why are some blogs checked out by tens of thousands of people every day while others struggle to find a single visitor?

The biggest challenge for blogger’s today is to be able to increase search engine and page ranking of their blogs. If you want to survive in this new blog age, you have to ensure that you come up with content that is of high-quality, one that will capture people and keep them coming back. And with millions of bits of information bombarding the Internet every second, it’s crucial that your blog tops the chart in search engine rankings.