Jun 24 2009

Wordpress Plugins & SEO Checklist

I made one post about the 10-step checklist. Here are some to-do lists in more detail.

This is the difference between posting with SEO plugins & proper tagging and without:

WordPressSEOplugins

SETTINGS

  • Writing – Copy and paste plugin list found here
  • Permalink – Month and name / day and name
  • Reading – ‘A static page’ if you are selling a product or service. This would be your landing page or sales page. Check ‘Your latest posts’ if you’re just bloggin’ and writin’.

SEO PLUGIN LIST:

(Simply use search function and type these in)

  • All in One SEO Pack
  • FD Feedburner Plugin
  • MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
  • Optimal Title
  • SEO Title Tag
  • Quick META Keywords
  • Simple Tags
  • Tag Suggest Thing

Easy Keyword Research Tools:

INSTRUCTIONS

When you post, include all relevant tags in the “All-in-one SEO Pack” box below the post. Also include tags in the Title Tag.

When you add tags that you find with research, the Simple Tags lets you add them to previous post tags. For example, your site is about pugs. You have 20 posts about pugs, but forgot to add the tag, “pug training” to all those posts. You can do it by typing “pug training” to the -add tag- field, then “pug” in the -current tag- field.

Bam. You just added “pug training” to every post that already has “pug” tagged to it.

More to come, stay tuned!

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Jun 21 2009

Social media News: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21

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Jun 10 2009

Wordpress 10-Step Checklist For SEO, Traffic, and Plugins

This is a down-and-dirty checklist to make sure you’re covering all of your bases traffickizing and monetizing your website, which should be WordPress, and should be a blog with regular content updates. If not, you’re missing out.

1. Keywords

  • Pick 50 keywords most related to your content or niche.
    • Short, medium- and long-tail (2, 3, and 4+ phrases)
    • Include variations on spelling, plural (add “s”), word order
    • Brainstorm everything.
    • Include current books, authors, programs, products, services YOU like.
    • If somebody searches for something you like, they’re more likely to find YOU.
  • Use Google Keyword Tool
  • Use Google Insights to track change over time for keyword searches

2. SEO Plugins

  • Google integration toolkit
  • All-in-one SEO Pack
  • Simple Tags
  • Quick Meta Keywords

3. Email Subscribe

  • Capture visitors’ emails. Aweber or GreatAutoresponder work well. As long as you have one.
  • Follow-up emails with content, post updates, offers, you should know the drill by now.

4. RSS Feed

  • Upload feed to Google Feedburner.
  • Have a subscribe button prominent on your site (the  button)

5. Ping list

  • Copy and paste the list found here to Settings -> Writing -> Update Services.
  • ‘Nuff said. Unless you’re an uber elite ping-master ninja pro, just copy and paste. Well done.
  • Thanks to Jack Humphrey for the awesome list!

6. Social Bookmarking

  • “Bookmarkify” or “Sociable” plugin to let visitors bookmark and email content.
  • Bookmark yourself on all the social bookmarking sites with Onlywire (You have to include a link to them on your widget bar to stay active for free. Well worth it.) Saves hours.
  • If you do have time (or $ to outsource), build your friends list on the bookmarking sites to point more targeted traffic to you.

7. Trackbacks

  • Gets a little complicated, but a major source of free targeted traffic. Unless you have a decent marketing budget for other advertising, you want to do this.
  • Click here. Absorb. Apply.

8. Monetize

  • Get an account with Clickbank or other affiliate program (CommissionJunction, e-junkie, etc.)
  • Products you use everyday probably have an affiliate program. Examples: e-Books, credit cards, Aweber autoresponder, Tweetlater.com, knives, art, anything else you can imagine.
  • Create hoplinks (affiliate links) when you review products, services, or place google-like ads as text widgets. When people click, you don’t get 8 cents. You get 20-80% commission depending on what’s sold. The links in my example below (see sidebar) pay 50-60%. And they’re great products.

*NOTE Buy from yourself to save money on products you want. You get that % commission as a kick-back!

9. Feed the content machine

  • Subscribe to RSS feeds. You can even plug them into your blog posting (auto-blogging).
  • Stay on top of your topic. Provide the newest, latest, hottest. 4-10 trackback links per post.
  • Add new keywords constantly. New blog? Author? Book? Oprah guest? Whatever. Use it.
  • Guest post on other blogs. Have them guest post on yours. Guesting uses the same post, just uploaded on a different bog – yours and theirs.

10. Automate

  • The fun part. Once you have a regular traffic flow and are earning commissions from your review, recommendations, ads, or product(s), you can afford to outsource tasks.
  • You can get a Virtual Assistant (VA) – expensive.
  • Outsource individual tasks (Amazon Mechanical Turk) – not fully automated, lots of micromanaging.
  • Hire an outsource company. Way too much detail to go into this post. Read The 4-Hour Workweek to blow your mind with the possibilities of outsourcing.
  • No, I don’t outsource yet. I’m still poor. Change that. Share this.
Thanks to the Authority Black Book for the great walkthroughs. Without it, I would be a lost little Wordpress newblet.
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