Pimp-Out Your Wordpress Blog In 7 Steps
With a new blog being created roughly every second, pretty much everyone now has at least one blog, with the most popular blogging platform being Wordpress. So how do you make sure your Wordpress blog gets off to a good start?
While these tools won’t make you a good blogger, they’re all quick and easy ways to pimp out your blog, get more readers and make blogging a lot easier…
Track your visitors with UserOnline - This plugin adds visitor tracking to your dashboard, so you can see in real-time just how popular your articles are, and where visitors are coming from. This is essential for anyone who obsesses over the popularity of their latest post.
Embed YouTube videos with EasyTube - Getting videos to embed properly in Wordpress can be a bitch and a half, especially if you use the visual editor, which insists on destroying your embed code. This plugin gives you [tags] to embed Youtube videos without the hassle.
Embed colourized code with WP-Codebox - If like me, you write a lot of code and want to share snippets on your blog, this plugin lets you embed colourized fold-away code boxes into your posts, and works for just about any scripting language ever.
Improve pagerank with All-In-One SEO Pack - This plugin optimizes your blog for search engines by automatically setting title tags, description and keywords to match the content of your blog posts. Google loves this, and will love your blog for using it. Just install and let it work its magic while you concentrate on writing killer articles.
Get more readers with Pijoo - Pijoo is a social network for bloggers, allowing you to promote your blog, and share each post with your network of friends. I’ve been involved in the development of Pijoo since the beginning, and it’s becoming an essential blog promotion tool and great place to hang out with other bloggers.
Share your posts with ShareThis - Make it easy for your readers to share your post using Digg, StumbleUpon, Email or pretty much any social bookmarking service ever, by clicking a single compact icon that doesn’t mess up your blog with a zillion icons.
Stop spam with reCAPTCHA - As your blog gets more popular, and starts getting crawled regularly by search engines, spam bots are usually not far behind, filling your moderation queue with the kind of crap you don’t want. reCAPTCHA embeds a powerful CAPTCHA into your comment box to stop all those nasty viagra links from landing on your blog by making commenters prove they are human.
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