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All you need to do is download and install Link transformer and put in your keywords and links and your blog can start earning for you. Start today…

I was the one who set up a blog ready to make money in under an hour. It’s a Halloween themed blog which I could have added Adsense to, but instead I put up some ebooks in the Halloween Niche for sale to monetise the blog for me. So here’s my step by step account of how I setup a new blog in under an hour.

A ping from your blog tells other places around the internet you have put up a new post. Some sites collect these pings and are always being followed by the search engines robots which are looking for new content. These ping services such as Pingoat.com often also link into other sites which will add your blogs link to their pages.

There really doesn’t seem to be much you can’t do with Wordpress when you add the right plugins, at least in the online world. So if you’re considering setting up some kind of online presence a blog powered by wordpress is a good place to start, then see if there’s a plugin to make it do what you want

Discover the most popular plugins in all the different blog platforms – WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and Blogger. Learn more about Homepage Excerpts, Twitter Tools, Popularity Contest, Link Harvest, Ad Rotator and Custom Sidebars.
Learn more about adding and rearranging different widgets on blog sidebar, including Pages, Recently Written, Categories, Monthly Archives, Blog Roll and Admin.

I am a hoarder, if I can find something to collect I will. That goes for online marketing goodies too, like domain names, ebooks and anything else I can get my hands on. It was this hoarding which has lead to me having far too many domain names to keep track of, therefore some get left behind. One of those blogs was ArticlesAnd.info, recently found languishing with an out of date wordpress version and a dead front page due to an expired plugin.

I decided I quite liked the look as it had been made to be an article repository and for articles to be added by authors and used by others on their sites. It looked like an article directory due to the plugins and a great theme which was intended to do so. But it also looked dead, 9,000 + articles had been scraped up until the scraper plugin or the site it linked to went AWOL.  So the look was staying, but what else can you do with a site called Articles And Info?

Now I had to decide what I was going to do to try to monetize the blog, and keep it adding content. The first parts was discussed when I wrote about the uContext plugin I had discovered which monetises the blog with links to keywords going to Clickbank Products. The second part was key to keeping the search engines and hopefully people coming back for another look, how to add content regularly while remaining lazy.

The answer came in another handy plugin, the Smart Autoblogger currently available for just $7 as I write this post. This plug in will add posts it creates from a zip file you point it to which contains txt files. As I personally collect all sorts of stuff, I had tons of PLR articles (Private Label Rights) which means I have tons of content for lots of different subjects.

With that in mind I added the Smart Autoblogger plugin  to ArticlesAnd.info and looked at some of the empty categories. I searched for some articles on my hard drive and then found a little more work had to be done. The Smart Autoblogger plugin uses the txt file name to create a title, so I had to ensure they would look ok, a quick Google found a small program which will rename batches of files by removing numbers and hyphens from the filenames, and replace the hyphens with spaces. Perfect for renaming the articles to make good looking titles.

I rezipped the files and added them to the blog using the Smart Autoblogger plugin which then found the txt files, and automatically scheduled them according to some rules I set. I added several sets of txt files to be scheduled over a few weeks in various categories (did I mention autoblogger lets you choose categories for each set of articles?).

So with automated dripfed content, and automatic Clickbank product linking with a touch of Google Adsense added for good measure my scattergun blog will hopefully make a little money from its various categories. Even if that one doesn’t I can leave it alone and start another WordPress blog on another of my hoarded domains and automate it in a similar way. It doesn’t take long to setup and if they fail well it’s all a learning experience.

P.S. the links to Smart Autoblogger go directly to the sales page, I make nothing from any of the sales it might get, this link is to help you and only you dear readers.

WordPress Plugins Which Are Better Free Or Premium?
It sounds like a bit of a stupid question really, we are bound to expect more from something we buy because it then holds a value we can measure. But there is a good reason for asking this question at this time, because blogging in general and WordPress in particular are huge money makers for some people.

If you want proof of the amount being made from WordPress Plugins, sign up for some internet marketers emails and you will quickly understand what I’m getting at. In my experience over half the emails I get are promoting Warrior Special Offers (WSO) offering WordPress plugins for marketers to automate someof their blogging chores. The demand must be high, or there wouldn’t be marketers spending time to promote them, but for us the people buying them are they worth it?

I’m going to sit on the fence a little here and say maybe. The reason for my non comittal stance on this is because some of the WSO WordPress Plugins are worth their asking price  and some(see our reviews of  WP Simplicity and WPSalesAutomator ) because they do something that is difficult to do with a free alternative as in the case of WPSalesAutomator  for which I hunted high and low for free plugins to do the same job and most were either extremely complicated or plain didn’t work. In the case of   WP Simplicity it does so much and saves so much time when creating and running blogs it’s worth the cost as opposed to the time you’d spend otherwise.

On the flip side of the Plugins coin though, some of the offers I’m getting are really not worth buying as there are free plugins available from right within the WordPress add Plugins search which will do the job more than adequately. I’m not knocking the products being offered at a price, because I haven’t tried them all but those I haven’t bought are not missed in my blogging campaigns because of the freely available alternatives.

A little research for what you need the plugin to do could save you some cash which could be used elsewhere in your blogging empire. In most cases a simple plugin will do what you need quickly without lots of bells and whistles which you’d pay extra for in a premium plugin. At the end of the day though you pays your money (or not) and takes your choice, but a little time spent doing the research could find just the right plugin for free and it pays to remember that because something costs money it is no guarantee it will be right for the job either.

I am an Internet marketer who loves WordPress. I have come to discover that there are lots of ways to make money online using the power of WordPress..

Often I get asked how to get started making money online. In the past, I had different answers I would give depending on the person.Today though, I tell nearly everyone the same thing.The first thing you should do is to learn how to use the power of WordPress.

This simple content management system is your gateway to online profits.

You don’t have to learn the programming or developing stuff. Just learn the basics of how to use it.

Once you know WordPress, the opportunities are everywhere. Whether you decide to help businesses get a website or you decide to build affiliate or AdSense based websites, WordPress is your solution.

When I take on consulting clients who are trying to get started online, the first thing we will do is brainstorm various ways to start an online business depending on their skill set and focus.

Over the past few years of doing this, I have built an extensive list of ideas for how to make money with WordPress. Now, for the first time ever, I am publicly releasing my WordPress profit blueprints in one resource.

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in easy pocket money blogging part one we discussed web hosting the blog, and setting it up. We also looked at the first few plugins used to make it an article directory and avoid spam from comment spammers. In part 2 we will look at how we get traffic to the new blog, and how we monetise it.

Firstly I will run through the basic plug ins I add to all my blogs for traffic generation from search engines. I set these up first as they will be helping every time a new article is added to the directory. My first suggestion is All in One SEO Pack as this helps to make your blog posts get ranked in search engines with the appropriate tags, and titles etc. This helps no end in getting traffic for free from search engines, and making sure your listing is right in the searches. Using the defaults in most of the settings works well enough for the lazy people like me too.

In addition to All in One SEO I always ensure my blogs use permalinks, and use the structure
” /%category%/%postname%/ ” in the “Custom Structure” field in permalink settings. These together help give the search engine rankings a boost and bring the traffic in. Once you have traffic you can start monetising your articles, oh yeah we haven’t got to the articles yet have we? Don’t worry it’s coming but lets get it all ready for making your pocket money on the blog first.

To monetise a blog, I use a widget with Adsense in on the right of the page, and also a plugin called Adsense Injection available at http://www.biggnuts.com which will place Adsense blocks in the article text automatically wrapping it in the text. You can also add Link-A-Dink plug in to turn some key words and phrases within articles to text links to affiliate products or your other sites. Of course how you monetise your blog is up to you, and you may do it even better than I do, this works for me and I’m too lazy to experiment.

On this blog I also addeed Role Manager, WP-PageNavi and  MaxBlogPress Favicon plugins. The last of these helps to get your blog noticed by adding one of those little icons to the title bar of the browser and also to the title when bookmarked, which helps it stand out a little and makes people come back again. You can add your choice of plugins too, if you have other things you like to see on your sites.

We now have a WordPress blog, which looks like an article directory and works like one. It also attracts traffic from search engines to the articles which we don’t have yet. This is where the best bit comes in, free content added automatically. The plug in for this is on the Unique Article Wizard Plugins  page UAW Plugins for Various Article Directories where you can download the unique articles plugins for various scripts including WordPress. Activate the plugin, and fill in the details in the settings, and you will start receiving articles to your new site almost immediately.
In my case I have had over 3000 articles in a few weeks, and the search engines have started sending enough traffic to earn me some extra Google Adsense cash this month.

You can setup an article directory or any niche themed website with WordPress, and start getting article submissions in minutes. As it grows, hopefully so will your pocket money. And if you’re one of those people who likes to test and tune, fiddle around with the settings, and you could probably be making a bit more than pocket money from a blog like the one outlined here. The choice is yours. But whatever you do, get started on your pocket money blog soon.

Easy Link Exchanging With your WordPress Blogs

If you didn’t already know it, one thing which can help your blog get more traffic is backlinks. Backlinks are any link which points to your site. The more links you have pointing to your site the better, not just in the hope someone will click on the link from someone elses site, but also for Search Engine rankings.

Search engines (some of the major ones anyway) use the amount of links going to a site as part of the algorithm for deciding its position. That oversimplifies it somewhat as they also take into account many other factors but for the benefit of brevity and staying on topic we’ll just say that more backlinks will help your ranking in the search engines.

There are lots of ways to get links back to your site, such as writing and submitting articles, which is highly recommended as it gives you one way inbound links which count more towards your score. Another way which can help is by exchanging links with other site owners.

As the phrase “link exchange” implies, you will be exchanging a link for a link. So in other words you find someone with a similar site to yours, link to them and they in turn put a link on their site back to yours. With a blog this can seem a difficult and time consuming occupation, as you’d need to post a new page for your link exchange partners, and edit it each time you add a new link.

WordPress comes with a built in link system called a Blogroll, which shows the links you add to it on your site. Obviously this could become unsightly and take up a lot of space in the sidebar as you start getting more and more link exchanges made. Because WordPress blogs are easily upgraded to perform new tasks with “plugins” it isn’t as hard as it may seem to deal with link exchanges using the Blogroll.

You can download the Blogroll Page Plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogroll-links which turns your blogroll sidebar widget into a full blown links page. Each time you add a link to your blogroll it will be added to the page. It even allows categories to be used to segregate the links however you wish.

Increase your sites visibility start your link exchange process today, it’s easy now you know how to make WordPress Blogroll work for you.

Article by Douglas Titchmarsh (c)