By Carolyn Elizabeth Blake

Your beautiful WordPress blog is ready to welcome the world, but readers are not arriving. Want to discover four simple secrets to catch the notice of Googlebot? No matter how brilliant your content is, unless Google “sees” it, it will languish. Your blog has to be set up to get Google to it.

The Googlebot crawls the net frequently to detect new content.. To attract Google’s attention, you must do something. The first 3 of our 4 tricks are to set up specific plugins into your blog which mechanically attract Google’s attention. Note: Plugins are not accessible for WordPress.com blogs.

Three Powerful Plugins for WordPress

Install and Activate Log in to your WordPress dashboard and click on Plugins on the left side menu. On your Plugins page, click on Manage Plugins, then Add New. This takes you to your Search Plugins page. Inside the Search Plugins bar, put in the following plugin names you plan to install.

1) Google XML Sitemaps

From the FAQ, They state that a Google site map is a file for Google to read so that it can put your content in their index.

Write Google XML Sitemaps into the search window. Select it from the list of selections that results. Install and activate it. Settings – Go back to your blog’s plugin page. Find your new plugin and click on Settings under the description. This lands you on the settings page and, the default settings are okay. Select Update Options. You won’t see this plugin as it works silently.

2) OnlyWire

Their FAQ states, “Auto-Syndicate your content to millions of readers with One Button.” No cost for Onlywire if you install the OnlyWire plugin in a blog. You could also be asked to install the “Submitter” into your browser. They give instructions.

Sign up for an account at onlywire.com. Log in and click on My Services. (Find it by clicking on your name after you log in). At this time they offer 39 services; sign up for each by clicking on its icon and going to the site. Put in your log in information for each site. This is a bit time consuming.

When you are finished, scroll down this page to save your info. Return to your dashboard plugins page. Type Onlywire for WordPress in your search plugins bar. Select it from the resultant list install and activate it.

Back on your plugins page; click on Settings under the plugin’s name; enter in your Onlywire username and password, check “Autopost All Articles,” uncheck “Autopost All Article Revisions.” Choose the sites where you got accounts and save changes. Each time you write a new post, be sure that the “Post this to Onlywire” box underneath the text box is checked. It is not a good idea you post revisions by Onlywire. Now when you click on Publish, Onlywire automatically posts to all the services you chose on their website.

3) Tweetmeme

This nifty little plugin installs a “Tweet” button in the top right corner of every post on your blog, so that you and your visitors can Tweet and retweet to Twitter. Type Tweetmeme Retweet Button in your Search Plugins bar. Install the plugin and activate it. You will be asked for your Twitter username and password. Hooray! You can now Tweet!

Secret 4

Post frequently! Google sends its Googlebot out looking for new content. Updating regularly trains the Googlebot to start coming back to look for new content. Your new content doesn’t always have to be epic…more brief postings like a journal entry are worthwhile for when you aren’t able to add major additions.

You also get “backlinks” using Onlywire and Tweetmeme – links elsewhere referring back to your original content. Google LOVES this! Using these four secrets will support you in time in getting your blog content higher ranking on Google.

About the author: Carolyn Elizabeth Blake. I am a grandmother coming out of retirement to work in the internet so I can care for my spiritually adopted Romanian family. I have a degree in anthropology and I love to write! I will not return to the US until I can bring my boys with me.

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By John T Adams

The number of ways of making more money with your blog is astounding. Creating income from your blog depends on the amount of traffic your blog gets. If you have an extremely popular blog then your blog is ideal for affiliate marketing. Traffic for the affiliate is directed to their site using a link of some sort from your website.

An affiliate link from your website may be as simple as a text block or may be a significant block or area set aside for the advertising before the fold. In advertising before the fold is the area at the top of the page or mailer. Visualize a piece of paper folded in a tri-fold fashion whereas the way it is folded you have the top (above the fold), the middle (between the folds) and the bottom (below the folds).

Moving forward, with affiliate marketing almost anyone can promote an affiliates product no matter how popular the website doing the promoting is. The affiliate product owners thought is the more websites the merrier in getting their product promoted. Making money and the success of your promoting an affiliate product does depend on the popularity of your website or blog if that is where you are promoting the product.

The big question lurking in the back of your mind is how do you make money? That answer is, you need to enter into an affiliate contract with the product owner agreeing to their terms of selling and what the compensation is for doing so. I know for a fact that it is possible to get 80 percent or better commissions on products being possible by the popularity of your website, blog or whatever the web medium you are promoting from.

When you are first beginning out in the affiliate marketing world it requires a lot of work in establishing your web presence. I would recommend that you seriously concentrate on promoting your own blog and building your presence by developing your page ranking and how your website shows from search engine results such as Google, Yahoo, Bing and the other popular search sites.

One resource in learning how to do this is the free eBook available from Google titled “Google SEO.” Once you have studied this eBook and implemented what you have learned you will also become familiar with many of the other methods to promote your website or blog.

How do you go about select or find the opportunity for promoting an affiliate product? By far, one of the most popular sites amongst the internet marketing world is ClickBank. It is easy to join and setting up your affiliate account. There are 100′s of thousands of affiliate marketers who use ClickBank and its facilities for promoting their product and this is how you will be paid your commission and enter into your affiliate contract. Another site that comes to mind and is very similar to ClickBank is Commission Junction. These two sites are by no means the only sites which do affiliate marketing. A search with Google will reveal many more Affiliate resources and leads with each and everyone being a great money making opportunity.

About the author: John T Adams has found a niche in internet marketing and he would like to share just as much information as he can for over the years he has “Bought” a lot of information, deciphered it, mussed it over and now understands it and he is ready to pass on this great information and life experience stories.

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There are so many won­der­ful tools and ser­vices to­day that we could have on­ly dreamed of 10 years ago. It’s so easy to start a new busi­ness to­day, much cheap­er and more ef­fi­cient­ly than ev­er be­fore. Here’s part two of the list of top tools for start­ing a new blog or web­site to­day.

Part 1: Top 10 Tools Every Blogger Needs (Part 1 Of 2)

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Are you a blogger? Run your blog on WordPress? Then, here’s part two of the list of WordPress plugins that you should have on your blog if you don’t already.

Part 1: Top 10 WordPress Plugins Your Blog Should Have (Part 1 Of 2)

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There are so many wonderful tools and services today that we could have only dreamed of 10 years ago. It’s so easy to start a new business today, much cheaper and more efficiently than ever before. Here are some top tools for starting a new blog or website today.

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Are you a blogger? Run your blog on WordPress? Then, here are the plugins that you should have if you don’t already.

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Blogging requires lot of time and effort in order to make it successful. However, many bloggers make some mistakes in pursuit of rapid success. These mistakes have potential to destroy the credibility of a blog and make it unsuccessful. In order to avoid it, bloggers need to identify and correct some common mistakes in time.

Non-frequent and Erratic Postings

The enthusiasm and passion in many bloggers does not remain the same after a few weeks, compared to their initial days of blogging. Blogs need to be updated frequently to maintain their readership.

Not Reviewing or Proofreading Content Before Posting

Low-quality content diminishes the quality of a blog. Proofread the content before posting. It helps bloggers to avoid grammatical and spelling errors in their blog. Blogs with poor grammar or vocabulary are likely to be considered not credible by its readers.

Ignoring Comments

Blogs are an effective means of interaction. They enable bloggers to interact with their readers in form of comments. This helps bloggers to create a potential relationship with their readers and create a loyal readership for their blog. However, the content in the blog must be interactive and provoke its readers to discuss about it.

Desperately Trying to Monetize the Blog

Many bloggers start their blog in order to make a considerable monetization from it. However, focusing entirely on monetization may affect the readership and credibility of the blog. Remember, when a blog creates no value, no money you can make out of it.

Poor Maintenance

The appearance of your blog is as important as effective content. The blog need not be very flashy or decorative. What matters for the reader of a blog is the easy to navigate, easy to read template and structure. Blogger’s maintenance replicates the effectiveness of the blog in building its credibility.

Irrelevant Titles

Many bloggers try to get visitors to their blog by posting with irrelevant and tricky titles. This may work for a short period, but in the long run, it impacts the credibility of the blogger and the blog.

A blogger cannot become successful by not committing mistakes, but learning from them and not repeating them in the future.

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Chris Abraham walks you through how to join the fastest-growing and most elegant free blogging services, WordPress.com.

Become a blogger in less than an hour. Most folks only need the first 15 minutes to get  started blogging with WordPress.

Covers everything from registering at WordPress.com all the way through set up and administration.

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It seems like everybody and their dog has a blog of some sort. So, you think, what can a real estate blog do for me and my business? The answer is: a lot, if you are willing to put in the time and effort to make it so.

A good blog is, as far as the search engines go, an ever-changing webpage that constantly offers content. This is a great place to be, from a search-engine-optimization (SEO) point of view.

A website that is constantly offering new content is a good thing as far as Google is concerned. If you’re offering up-to-date, relevant info about your areas of operation, that’s gold as far as both Google and your readership are concerned. People are always looking for relevant information about their chosen home neighborhood and what’s happening.

A blog that is merely a series of home listings isn’t going to attract much attention. Talk about the listing’s neighborhood, the history of ranch homes or interesting things people do with bedrooms that are no longer required for guests and family members.

Use your blog to capture the interest of people in general, rather than repeat something that is already amply represented elsewhere on your site.

A blog that is merely a series of home listings isn’t going to attract much attention. While you can certainly showcase homes you have to sell, try to make them interesting to more people than those who want a 4 bedroom rancher with 2 bathrooms and a charming expanse of front lawn. Perhaps you can talk about the listing’s neighborhood, the history of ranch homes or interesting things people do with bedrooms that are no longer required for guests and family members.

Other topics you can focus on are local housing prices, the economy and how it is affecting home buying and selling in your area, events in your area, tax information/issues, tips for general home buying/selling… the list goes on and there’s plenty of ideas you can get off of the internet. Make it relevant to the times, make it apply to people interested in your area, make it apply to real estate and you will have a good base for a blog. Occasional forays into seasonal-appropriate topics or local news provides some interesting diversions.

This is a project for the real estate businessperson who likes to write or has someone who can write for them. It is not worth starting a blog if you’re just going to parrot someone else’s words, even if they lie in the public domain. It’s already been done before; enough that Google does not reward it with rankings.

It also is boring for any human visitor who comes to your site looking for information your competitors haven’t already given them. If you’re just copy/pasting information they’ve seen before, you’re not likely to appear to advantage. Be original.

Spelling and grammar still say a lot about you. Use spell check and grammar checks. Read through your blog posts to ensure that they make sense to other people. Get someone to read them over for you if you lack the skills to do so yourself. The purpose of spelling and grammar is to clearly convey your thoughts on the subject at hand; it is the mark of a careful and conscientious person.

A blog can be a great way of getting yourself and your real estate business out into the local eye. If people are coming to see what you have to say from day to day, they may start viewing you less as just another Realtor and more as someone they can rely on for good information and advice in your area of expertise. That in itself may earn you clients; for the rest, it may open doors to potential clients that have hitherto been closed to you.

About the author: John Sloan – www.palmspringsrealestatebuzz.com

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