Maybe a picture of the last website you visited with a post on attracting visitors, or perhaps you see a picture of your empty paypal account that you know might only get filled up once you receive a stream of web traffic.

The point of all this is you do not think of a word or phrase as “text” but actually you see an image of your interpretation of that word or phrase in your mind.

In many respects the human mind is like a video player than can play movies on demand.

Is Your Promotion Video Strategy In Place?

Doesn’t it then make sense to create content that will press your visitors buttons? Pictures and better still videos will do just that.

A picture, or a video is generally one of the 1st thing a human eye will gravitate towards when opening a webpage, and even more so if the image is of a human face. Try it for your self. Open a page on the internet containing text and a picture or a video and “watch” where your eyes go.

Entire sites have been setup,hundreds of them in fact dedicated to sharing video and images and they are some of the most heavily trafficked of any websites on the internet. Why? People absolutely like watching videos and looking at pictures.

Isn’t it time you started making a major investment on video for your websites?

Now any video you produce should offer relevant and useful information to your audience, and should be targeted to their needs. If you just “self promote”, then you are likely to be very disappointed with the outcome. Remember people love watching Channel WIIFM (What’s In It For Me) !

A video can be an incredibly powerful testimonial because it can give the visitor the “proof” that the product works, as well as demonstrating potentially useful information relating to the product.

Just take a look at TV advertising if you are ever stuck for ideas on video concepts. With the high cost of advertising on TV, you can bet that the formats of ads are tested and proven winners (guaranteed to “convert” as many of their targeted watchers as possible).

For example, many TV advertisements cover similar themes listed below.

1. Identify the problem in the mind of the viewer.

2. “Offer” a fix to the problem.

3. Introduce other people who “love” the product (testimonials).

4. Introduce special price.

5. Introduce scarcity (available for a limited time, etc).

6. Introduce a few bonus items (2 for the price of 1, order in next 30 mins to get this great bonus, etc).

It should be no surprise looking at the list above to realize that a lot of internet marketing launches follow the EXACT same model. I am hoping that if you now realize this, it may get you to spend a little more time researching the product before “buying the One Time Offer”. Because you know this information you can not get “sucked in” to the buying process.

I would suggest that if you are trying to “sell” in your video that you cover a similar format using the AIDA formula. AIDA stands for Attention, Interest, Desire, Action.

So the first part of the video should resonate with your prospect just by seeing it, so a grabby headline or something to get to the problem straight away is a good idea to start.

Once you have their first bit of Attention you have to convert this into genuine Interest. How is your product going to help out your prospect? Will it make their life better? Remember prospects buy on Benefits (what it’s going to do for them) and not Features, so target Benefits here.

Ok, Attention and Benefits are resolved, it’s time to get them to want the product.. Badly! This is Desire, Make the offer irresistible. Perhaps some cool extra bonuses, you really want to make it a “no brainer” for them to get. An iron clad guarantee is also wise at this point.

Finally, the last but by no means least step is Action. You can build up Attention, Interest, and Desire, but your paypal account is not going to move up until you get them to take Action.

Actually ask your prospect to buy, or leave their email, or visit the website, or anything you are trying to get them to do. Be specific and tell them exactly what you want them to do. This step can be a huge stumbling block, so make sure you not forget to add this.

Be sure that your video promotion items focuses on the benefits your prospect will receive. Just create the video from a prospects point of view and address the problems, interests, desires, and of course the solution and you will be almost guaranteed to get a great response from your video.

Before you rush out and register that brand new domain I am going to suggest that you consider an aged domain instead.

What is an aged domain??

An aged/expired domain is a domain that has been previously registered by another person, and that person or company has, for whatever reason decided not to renew it.

Sometimes the reason is simply that they forget.

There was a famous story a few years ago when a very valuable domain passport.com owned by Microsoft was not renewed when it came time to renew the registration, meaning it became available for anyone to re-register.

An individual did just that with this domain, but luckily for Microsoft this guy did the right thing and gave the domain back to them (I think Microsoft paid him back the registration fee).

Other reasons for not renewing a domain might be that the company that owned the domain went bankrupt, or they maybe transferred the business that used to operate on that domain to another domain.  In fact there are a heap of reasons why domain names do get forgotten about.

Domain Name Finder Video

So what are the advantages for you re-registering an aged domain?

1.    Links – Most domains, particularly those domains that have been actively used in the past and not just had no promotion have other sites pointing to them over time, and these backlinks form a vital part in determining how well the domain will rank in the search engines for particular keyword phrases.

2.    Page Rank – As a consequence of these links, many of these expired domains will have existing page rank.

3.    Age – As a general rule the search engines give more authority to domains that have been registered for a a longer period than other domains.

4.    Web site Visitors – Many domains will have existing traffic, with visitors rolling up to that domain on a regular basis, usually as a result of previous promotions done by the previous site owner.

5.    No Sandbox - New domains are once in a while placed in a “sandbox” where they will not get as much traffic as more established domains until they have proven themselves to the search engines.

These are probably the most attractive items to consider when re-registering an existing domain versus registering a brand new domain.

There is an vital distinction I recommend you become familiar with between an expired or aged domain and a deleted domain.

An aged or expired domain name has the existing age kept.

For example if I registered a domain three years ago and then did not renew the registration and you come along and re-register it, then for all intensive purposes the domain is still 3 years old and still has all the advantages of that age in the search engines.

If however, you re-register a deleted domain, then effectively you have registered a BRAND NEW domain.  You will still be be able to use any links, page rank, and traffic, but your domain may be subjected to the sandbox, and WILL be treated as a brand new domain by the search engines.

So the key is to grab the domain before it is deleted by the domain registrar.  There are a number of free websites available that you can use to find aged domains or expired domains.

Just do a search in Google for terms such as aged domain finder or something similar.

These websites will often allow you to search for domains and return information about the age of the domain, existing page rank, number of links, traffic, and even allow you to use the Wayback machine (a catalog of all web pages at various points in time) to see what content was on the domain in the past.

Some of the more complete services will allow you to search with keywords as well which is a very powerful feature.

You see domains rank better in Google, MSN, and Yahoo if they contain a keyword relating to the particular niche you are involved with.

For example if you are selling products for cats, then if you have the word cat or cats in the domain name this will help you get better rankings than domains that do not have this (if everything else is equal).

When you are searching for an expired domain please check out the free  purchasing domain names script.

Essential tips to purchasing aged domains

1. Try and get a domain at least five years old (the older the better, this is a minimum).

2. Aim for a decent number of links as possible (although this is not essential).

3. Existing Page rank is not necessary but a bonus if you can find it.

4. Existing web traffic again is not essential but is a huge bonus.

5. Make sure the domain has at least part of a keyword relating to the niche you are going to use the domain in.

6. Check the history of the domain to make sure you are happy with the previous content that has been used on the domain previously.  Bad content may have blacklisted the domain in the search engines.  Many services allow you to search for this automatically.

7. Optional: Use a service that allows you to search closeouts.  These are really cheap domains usually costing only $5 (plus standard registration fees).  Wht buy premium domains if you do not need them?  You do not need to spend much money to find domains that have most of the items discussed above.  In fact only recently I purchased a 11 year old domain, with 200+ web visitors per day and a heap of links for just $5 !

Buying expired domains can really give you a legup on your competition, and if your smart and use the right websites, and look for the right type of domains, it need not be an expensive exercise.

Isn’t your internet marketing worth spending an extra $5 to get an aged domain so you can take advantage of all these factors?

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Thanks for the follow. Would you like to get 16,000 Followers in 90 days & Make Money doing it?

Oh is that a question?  Well the answer is yes I would like to get 16,000 followers in 90 days, but I would much prefer that you take the time to get to know me before you start trying to sell stuff to me.

There is a number of different themes along similar lines.

Hi, how are you, please visit my website to… (let me fill in the blanks for you, they will use different words, but effectively, it’s click on my ads, buy my products, opt-in to my email where I can promote stuff to you without building any real relationship with you first).

Look I have no problems with Internet Marketers, in fact I am a full time one myself, and while I try hard to deliver good information on twitter, and blogs, etc I do have the occasional link to a product where I may receive a commission.  Yes I do have products I and my brother and business partner Anthony have developed to help other Internet Marketers get web traffic and good rankings on google, but we do not “ram” these products down peoples throats (at least not without trying to get to know them first).

I think it’s important to help people out, so you will find a lot of my tweets are to articles I have written, videos I have created, blog posts, other peoples interesting content and more.  All designed to give some insight into my take on life in the web 2.0 and seo, web traffic, geeky world.

My point is really simple, let’s actually get to know each other (a bit even) before doing the old hard sell.  Give me some information of interest, or something I can use, and then if you do ask me to buy something, and it’s relevant to my wants and needs, they I might just buy from you.  And I might just be happy to do it.  And I might buy something again.

Contrast this with the “cold sell” technique where I am already feeling negative thoughts about you.  If you are someone doing this on twitter, I’d suggest that you at least give some thought to this.  Are you happy doing this?  More to the point is it a successful tactic for you?  Are you getting loads of people thanking you for your “help” or are you getting the reverse (upset people).

I genuinely would be interested in hearing from you.

I’d be really interested in knowing just how many people are making a good living selling the 16,000 twitter product.   Looking at the product on clickbank I can  see there are over 570 unique sellers of the products.  In other words at least 570 people have sold that product in the past.  I wonder how many of them have sold it with a cold sell message like I refer to above.  Maybe I am too “old school” for all this?

Maybe I am in the minority, maybe people are quite happy receiving an offer with the first communication from someone on twitter and go off and buy the product,  happy.

Let me know what you think when you get a moment please, are you happy to receive these offers, do you hate them with a passion, do you buy a heap of products like these, is this the longest sentence you have read in a while (sorry).

Please forward this blog post to anyone you wish to stimulate discussion on what I think is an important point about selling stuff on Twitter.   I’ve love for this to end up as a huge stimulating debate on the pros and cons of “cold selling” tactics on twitter.

Oh and just to be clear, I have no problems with the people who created the 16,000 twitter followers in 90 day products, that is just an example of a product I am seeing more of recently in my twitter direct messages.

Thanks for reading!  By the way if your interested I previously wrote about the 7 biggest mistakes internet marketers are making with twitter.  Please read if this takes your fancy.

Cheers

Tim

Hi everyone,

Anthony back with a chat about Podcasting!

Podcasting is a great way of communicating with others and if you are not using it, you should be!

It’s another fantastic way to get your name “out-there” and get people visiting your website.

PodCasting!

Podcasting is Audio (and/or Video) that you create on your computer (or via other means, and then load into your computer) that you then share and allow other people to listen and/or view on their IPOD or other players.

There are large numbers of Podcasting sites that allow you to upload your audio or video presentation, and then attach a description and information about the presentation. Once this is done, people who visit these podcast sites can “find” your podcast and hopefully if it is interesting enough to them, they will subscribe to your “feed” (similar to a mailing list, but for audio/video) and then be automatically notified whenever you release a new audio or video.

Neat huh?

Now generally the “feed” is not controlled by you (unlike a regular mailing list) but rather is controlled by the podcast directory and a podcast “reader” which is software (often free) that you can use to automatically check whether new content is available for your selected “feeds” and to then get downloaded automatically.

You can then watch or listen to the downloaded presentation at your leisure, copy to your iPod, etc. It’s really pretty cool.

One of the biggest names in PodCasting is iTunes. You’ve probably heard of iTunes and wondered what it is. iTunes is software that is supplied by Apple (the Mac people) that you can download for free and it will manage all your podcast “feeds” as well as your music and video collection on your computer, and even allow you to buy music (and podcasts) via it’s iTunes store.

Apple have versions of iTunes for both Windows and Mac and it is completely free to download.

Now iTunes is big business, ten of thousands of people download stuff from it every day, so this is probably the first site you want to try and get your podcast listed on.

But I’m getting ahead of myself, first things first, lets discuss what you could be putting into the audio / video.

If you’re like my brother Tim or and have a great face for radio, don’t despair. You don’t necessarily need to produce video content, audio is perfectly acceptable for many subscribers, as it’s something you can do (listen to) anywhere (although with video iPods available these days this is also true for Video).

First and foremost you presentation should be adding value to your listeners/viewers.

A hard sell sales presentation won’t be worth much to listeners/viewers (at least probably not to those who’s first experience of you is via the audio/video), rather it should be quality relevant content that will appeal to listeners with an interest in your niche market.

Bear in mind that it’s highly likely that when you upload a presentation for inclusion in iTunes, it will be reviewed manually by a human, and if it’s just a hyped up call to action to buy something chances are they may not approve it for inclusion. And even if they did approve it, listeners are going to be turned off when they hear it especially if you have not previously built up a relationship with them.

I suggest an interview is a great idea for a podcast. Put together a set of questions and answers to common problems that you “solve” on your website, and have some one interview you. Save the audio and upload to iTunes!

Another idea (once you get a few podcasts completed) is an overview of your product or services, but again not a hard sell, but a detailed list of what you can do or case studies on how you have helped other customers previously.

Just remember it needs to be interesting to listen to, so make sure you target it to your customers needs and to be solving problems that your potential customers may be facing.

You may find iTunes will want a series of podcasts before adding you to their directory, so it would be wise to do 2-3 podcasts if possible and then submit them for inclusion as a group.

If you plan to host your podcasts yourself, be very careful and consider if you have another bandwidth to do so, particularly if your feeds get picked up by lots of people.

Because of the nature of podcasts (audio or video) the files can end up being huge, so It’s very important that you plan this out in advance as you may find once you get successful and have a reasonable number of people listening to your podcasts, that you will be putting your server in meltdown and be running out of quota. This could mean your ISP shuts down your website!

Don’t be victim to this, plan for growth on day 1, and assume you are going to be successful and put the right steps in place so you have sufficient bandwidth when things take off.

Either put all your efforts into getting listed in iTunes or other large Podcast sites, or if your going to do it yourself, invest in a reasonable PodCast hosting company who specializes in Podcasts.

A decent alternative to iTunes for hosting your iTunes (especially if your have trouble getting iTunes to actually accept your podcasts is a company called Liberated Syndication. I suggest you check out their website, they are one of the best out there, and give outstanding value for money and in some cases it’s free.

Remember all podcasters had to start somewhere, and some of the bigger ones actually have paid advertising now (where sponsors pay the podcaster for an advertisement to be placed in the podcast). This could end up to be a really nice little money earner for you as well as provide great value for your listeners.

Let’s leave if there for today.

Cheers,

Anthony & Tim

Tim & Anthony here. We thought we would have a chat today about blogging and look at some of the finer details.

Blogging can be a fantastic way to get more traffic charging full speed to your website plus it’s ideal for sharing information (like we are doing with you right now

The good news is that setting up a Blog for your website is surprisingly easy these days but there are a few caveats and things you need to change to ensure your blog is setup correctly to get maximum exposure in the search engines.

But don’t let the ease of set up fool you. There are some things you need to get right!

Before we start getting into the do’s and don’ts of Blogs, let’s actually define what a Blog is.

A Blog can be thought of as a simple, public online diary where you can write entries (posts) into the diary.

Being public, the posts can be viewed by anyone who happens to surf by your site, and hopefully you have lots and lots of people reading every post you make, and contributing to your Blog in the form of adding comments, looking at relevant links you add to your blog, watching audio and video, and hopefully linking to your blog from their websites.

What is particularly attractive about Blogs, is that the entire process of Blogging is very simple to do, mainly due to the great quality of Blog software available that you can install on your website.

Decent Blogging software provides all the functionality you need, the management of posts by yourself (and others), the categorization of posts (something that is essential) and even the process of telling other blogging websites every time you make a new post.

Automatically telling other sites about your posts is a huge plus since it’s getting your blog out there, and of course your comments and information, thus putting your content in front of many people, many who may not have been aware previously of your website.

Now one of the most important things to ensure is that you don’t just use the Blog as a sales page (we generally recommend you leave the selling of your products and services to your actual sales page on your website).

Obviously you will want to talk about your products and services, and the benefits visitors will get in using them, but we believe it’s important not to have an all out sales pitch, as that will tend to turn off visitors who may be seeing your message for the first time.

We also recommend you talk about non-business stuff, information about you, the person, some of your interests, things you have found of interest on the Internet, etc.

Getting to know the real you.

When people read these personal posts, they get to know the real you, and form a relationship with a “real person” and not a nameless website, and this can only assist you in future sales with these people.

A Blog also allows (and in fact encourages) participation by visitors, who can post responses to your entries, and this is often a great way to stimulate interesting conversations.

Good Blogging software will allow you to remove spam responses (where visitors or programs “write” messages directing people to their site) as well as to moderate conversations that are in appropriate or off-topic.

One of the best reasons to use Blogs is to help you rank highly in the search engines.

The search engines love Blogs, provided they are providing relevant and quality content.

To give you an idea of how important search engines see Blogs, Google bought one of the largest Blogging sites out there (blogger.com).  Having a focused relevant site with interesting and useful content can only help you in your journey to find true search engine love.

Provide decent content

We are always preaching about providing relevant content. It’s no different with Blogs, you need to ensure all content  is relevant, and ensure your separate your posts into logical categories.

For example if you have a website about software development, you may make posts discussing programming generally, other posts about training for software developers, and more posts about a specific computer language like Java.

It’s vitally important that you don’t just lump all posts together for a number of reasons.

Firstly, people coming to your Blog may have a specific interest in some of your posts (training for example) and may find it hard and frustrating to easily find all posts you have written on training if you have not clearly defined categories (and allowed posts to be searched/sorted by these categories).

Likewise the search engines may view your Blog as less relevant if you lump all your posts together than another Blog elsewhere that has posts clearly defined in categories.

Search engines very much prefer categorization of information and reward websites that categorize correctly with high search engine rankings.

Luckily being able to put your posts in specific categories is quite easy.  Literally at the press of a button you can assign posts to one (or more) categories making it simple for your readers and search engines to find posts of related category/subject quick and easily on your Blog.

The most popular open source blogging package is Wordpress.

http://wordpress.org/

This is a free blogging package (yep nothing to pay!), and is extremely flexible and easy to use without sacrificing anything in power and flexibility.

We use this package and recommend you do as well.

We have built some fully SEO optimized WordPress blogs that you  get  for free  as part of our FREE  12 days to Page One on Google e-course.

Because of  its  popularity,  many Web host’s have made installation of WordPress  very easy for you with “one-click” installs.

Hopefully your web host will have it available.  Many web hosts use a package called Fantastico.

This package is designed to automate installation of popular software onto your website, and many webhosts use this package.  Many web hosts  have it installed which makes installation of Wordpress as easy as one-two-three!

Once Wordpress is installed you have the option of changing themes, and personalising the blog.

It’s very important that you do the customizations as listed below.

In it’s default state WordPress is not very “search engine” friendly, so I suggest you investigate making Wordpress friendlier for the search engines.

It is getting better now and the latest version of Wordpress 2.7 is  more SEO friendly.

You can take Wordpress to the next step by using a website like

http://www.wordpressdirect.com (automates installations,  and auto generating content).

And ..

http://www.semiologic.com

Which is really Wordpress on steroids!

Both are not free, but are worth checking out.
We will discuss these in a later post.

Once you have made the base changes, you need to add categories for your posts to organize your posts (very important).

The other thing you will want to do is change the contents on the sidebar (right hand side of the blog).

Ask for the optin

One of the things we recommend you do is have an “opt-in”  (for eg on the right or left hand side of the screen) so people can subscribe to your mailing list there.

You will notice that we have implemented our  Blog example below in the subdirectory and not in the root.

http://yourwebsite.com/blog

At the top of our  blog  at http://www.takeoverpageone.com/blog, you will see a logo & header, to the top left an offer of a free course,  and below that  links to our major categories (enabling the visitor or the search engines) to see all posts on a related category and then archives of previous months posts.

There is another  optin on the front page.

We actually have some content “hidden” for subscribers.

You can see there is nothing particularly fancy here, and probably 90% of what you see came out of the box with Wordpress, but with the few customisations we have made, the Blog is very useable.

Great, at this point, you now need some content, after all no one is going to be interested in your Blog if it’s empty, right?

So what should you write about in your Blog?  Good question!

We will cover that in a future post in detail as this is very important.

Cheers for now.

We thought you might be interested in this!

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Fancy making a few dollars from them, rather than have the domain registrar use it for their own profits?

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You better read on then.

Well with “Google Adsense for Domains”, you can now generate revenue from your parked domains.

The video below discusses what parked domains are, and how this works.

We hope you get a lot out of it.

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Cheers

Tim & Anthony

This video is IMPORTANT. In fact anything to do with keywords is important!

This is Anthony from TakeOverPageOne com.

Keywords are our ‘bread and butter’ as online marketers. The more successful we all are in designing our keyword strategies, the more successful we will become.

In this video, we will look at some of the important factors you need to consider when putting together your keyword strategy.

This video will discuss the “long tail theory” as applied to keywords, how users search and think, keywords and a visitors intent, the normal buying pattern and how we can apply that to keywords, keyword tools, keyword competition and several other keyword topics.

The overall aim of this video tutorial is to help you start to “design” an effective  keyword strategy.

Let’s get to it then.

Here’s the video below.

Video options

1. Just click the play button to watch the embedded version.

OR

2. Right Click the link below to download the .mov file onto your computer to play back anytime, in the best resolution. (this option requires “Quicktime” – it’s free and most browsers have it installed already).

Right Click To Download the High Definition Keyword Intro Video Version (54 mb)

Secondly,

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We will only be offering limited trial copies as, like last time, we will only take on limited numbers at any one time.

Why are we only offering limited numbers again?

There’s 2 main reasons.

1. Management & Support – weekly content, teaching and follow up, software support etc.

For those of you who know Tim & I or have been part of any of our courses or teachings; you will know that we believe in providing a high quality of personal support and ongoing content.

We are NOT like most gurus out there who are hardly ever available for help, or who can’t be seen for dust the minute after you invest your hard earned money.

We are committed to seeing you become successful but basically there are only so many hours in the day right?

So if we don’t put a cap on numbers, we won’t be able to teach this stuff properly, you won’t get the results you want and that wouldn’t be good for either of us.

2. Footprints – Secondly and very importantly, if we don’t put a limit to those who get access to our system, the sheer numbers of people doing this that would suddenly start appearing on Page One on Google or high up in the search engines may possibly result in a change of Google’s algorithm and then the results may very well change for the rest of us.

In other words, we don’t what a sudden mass of new websites hitting page one overnight using our system because that is bound to make the search engines inquisitive.

This strategy has worked very well because most of our current customers that have now got Google page one results still have them today. We ourselves still have websites on page one of Google that have been there for over 12 months now using the system we are offering you.

We can guarantee you will be amazed at the product we have put together

For more details, visit this link.

regards,

Anthony & Tim

My brother Tim Buchalka & I would like to offer you the opportunity to take part in our FREE “12 Days to Page One on Google” e-course.
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Once you have signed up, your spot is assured and we will contact you with the relevant details about the exciting 12 day online course.

What’s the course about?

Simply this…

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Like to Know More?

We will be teaching you one of the many methods we have tested and refined over the last 12 months that uses the raw power of web 2.0 coupled with some clever SEO tactics.

Each day we will show you a certain step of the course. You are expected to go off and implement the daily steps that we show you.

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There are several cool looking blog themes to choose from.

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What are you waiting for? This is a great opportunity and we look forward to working with you.

cheers,

Anthony & Tim

I’ve found some great articles and websites surfing around lately in my free time (time I should be spending finishing of the rss aggregator software!) and thought I’d share some with you here.

10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress

WordPress, we’ll cover in this post some (hopefully) relatively unknown but useful RSS-related tricks and hacks that will help you use RSS in a more effective way — and without unnecessary and chunky WordPress plug-ins. …

And a comprehensive list of Top RSS Directories to submit your feeds.

Comprehensive List of the Top RSS Directories – Submit Your Feeds …

One way to put your blog content in front of a lot of eyes is to submit your blog’s RSS feed to RSS directories. Every time you submit your feed, you increase.

And we do discuss RSS Feeds for backlinks on this blog, but this article is a good summary of various backlink techniques.

How to Get Backlinks – My Way

RSS Subscriptions – Find dofollow or no ‘nofollow’ blogs and subscribe. If you cand find newspapers from across the country that is even better. Some will allow a link without having to sign in. When you are at a loss as to what you …

Interesting article about nofollow and whether links are valuable with nofollow attributes..

What’s All The Comotion About Wikipedia PR6 Back Links …

I have been asked about this a few times, so I am going to try and clear the air as best I can. For some time, a number of clever web 2 marketers …

Hope you have enjoyed these articles, will catch up with you guys soon.

Cheers

Tim

Note that the list is not in any particular order.

#1 All in One SEO Pack

As the name suggest a fantastic “all in one” plugin for SEO on your blog.  Saves you having to load a number of separate plugins to achieve the same end result.

Essentially this plugin allows you to easily edit and control the Title, Meta description, and  Meta tags for every post you make.  This overrides Wordpress annoying default of using your blog tagline asd your meta description and keywords.

It works well with other plugins in our experience.

#2 WP Auto Tagger

This is great for automatically finding relevant tags for your posts.  Whilst it’s generally a better idea to add your own tags that you have researched, this plugin looks at what is popular based on your content and adds these popular tags.  Can be a real time saver.   Using tags is incredibly important in blogs.  Check out our video on using tags for more information.

#3 Google XML Sitemaps

It’s essential for you to have an xml sitemap which can help you get indexed quickly as well as rank well in the search engines.  This plugin creates an xml sitemap for Google, Yahoo, Msn, and Ask.com

#4 Akismet

Got Spam? Want to stop getting it?  Use Akismet.  It’s not perfect but helps you to dramatically reduce the amount of spam you will receive on your blog.

#5 WP Stats Plugin

While there are a heap of plugins to product stats, many are far to complex.  This plugin focuses on just the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track and provide them in a clear and concise interface (pageviees, which posts/pages are most popular, where traffic is coming from, etc).  All on a single page.  Simple is Good.  Less is more.

#6 Max Blog Press Unblockable Popup

Whoops did I say that?  An unblockable popup?  Yes this can be useful when your not happy to just ask people to opt-in to your newsletter or whatever, and would prefer to not so subtly jam it down your visitors throat.  This plugin gives you a choice of doing that.

#7 RSS Include Pages

Got some pages of content not on your blog that you want to include in your blogs RSS feeds?  This plugin enables you to do just that.  It’s simple, effective and works a treat.

#8 SEO Friendly Images

Forget how important it is to label your images for SEO goodness? This plugin automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLES attributes.

You can get a lot of serious traffic from images.  Just read our post about how we received 17,500 visitors from an image search.

#9 Share/Save/Bookmark Button

Add buttons to enable your visitors to do just that to your posts.  A great way to build backlinks, and drive more traffic to your website.

#10 Wordpress Backup

You do backup don’t you?  This is one of the most overlooked functions and is so important.  Can you imagine having to re-create your blog from scratch?  With this plugin you don’t need to (imagine).  It backups your WordPress site.  Simple, automatic, use it.  Enough said!

Ok I know we said ten, but we have another plugin that we believe should be on the list.

#11 RSS Web Traffic & Backlinks Plugin

OK.. we may be a bit biased, but we believe our RSS Plugin – The “Web Traffic Genius Software”   that automatically gives you targeted web traffic & backlinks is a vital cog in the arsenal of Internet Marketers.

Just install and set it up it and then each time you post you automatically build targeted web traffic and backlinks. It doesn’t get much easier than that.  We include  detailed videos showing you how to install it and easily  set it up.  It’s true “set and forget” autopilot traffic software.

We hoped you have enjoyed reading up on our list of the 10/11 essential plugins for Wordpress to suit Internet Marketers.  Please feel free to comment on any and all of these plugins, we would love to hear from you.

Cheers

Tim & Anthony Buchalka