Work At Home Business Blog

Copyright © Jeff Houdyschell
http://www.eSmartJob.com

There seems to be a bit of confusion with one of my instructional posts: Get A WordPress API Key For The Akismet WordPress Plugin. Several people are telling me that they can’t find their WordPress blog API key using my directions in that post so lets try again.

In order to get a WordPress API key you first need an account at WordPress.com. If you have, or had a free WordPress blog hosted on WordPress.com, chances are you already have an API key.

First go to WordPress.com. and click ‘Sign Up’ in the top right side of the site as shown below. Please note that the login information for WordPress.com is completly different than that to login to your self-hosted WordPress blog!!!

After you sign up at WordPress.com you will need to go through the normal email confirmation routine and get your password sent to you. Once you have your username and password go back to WordPress.com and login.

After you login you will see a screen similar to this, without my picture in it I hope

Place your mouse over ‘My Account’ on the top left. A drop down menu should appear, from that click ‘Global Dashboard’.

Now you should be in the WordPress Global Dashboard. Once in here click ‘Profile’ as shown below.

Here, at last you should find the elusive WordPress API key!

Now you can use the API key for all your WordPress blogs and some of the plugins that need it to function.

Important! Your login information for the WordPress Global Dashboard is completely different than your self-hosted blog. If you click Blog Stats from within your blog you may be prompted to login to the Global Dashboard. This can be confusing because both login screens look identical. Remember that your blog is hosted on your website, not on WordPress.com.

Only your blog stats are accessed on WordPress.com and clicking Blog Stats from within your self-hosted blog actually takes you from your site to WordPress.com.

This has caused many new self-hosted WordPress bloggers to think they have forgotten their passwords, when they were actually using the wrong information to login.

Please pay close attention to where you are and use the correct login information for the specific dashboard you are accessing. If you can’t login, chances are you are using the wrong information for the site you are on. The only reason you really need to login to the Global dashboard is to check your blog stats. If you check the remember me box when first logging into the Global dashboard you will most-likely never be prompted for it again.

About the Author:
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Jeff Houdyschell provides proven income opportunities, ideas and information for the best work at home jobs, visit: http://www.eSmartJob.com

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By Carl Hendricks,

http://www.cehmagic.com

If writing is an art, then, blogging is one way of using words to come up with an art. This is because people who are into blogging are the ones who are artistic on their own sense, carefully choosing words that would best describe their feelings, sentiments, wishes, desires, and everything.

Basically, blogs were first introduced as weblogs that refer to a “server’s log file.” It was created when web logging hit the virtual market. Since its inception in the mid-1990s, web logging gradually saturated the virtual community making the Internet a viable source of greater information.

However, with web logging, you still need a web site and domain names, but with blogging, you do not need anything just an account with blog providers. In most cases, these kinds of blogs are free of charge.

With the onset of blogging in the industry, personal journaling had been a common ground for people who wish to be known all over the world. However, not literally famous as this is not a case on being popular or well-known personality.

Generally, blogs are created for personal use. Like a journal, people can write their daily adventures, sentiments, and whatever ideas they want to express online.

Nevertheless, with the advent of the online businesses, blogs had gradually taken the limelight in providing businesses a chance to boost their productivity online. This is where the business blogs have taken the limelight.

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Copyright © Jeff Houdyschell
http://www.eSmartJob.com

 

Getting traffic to any site is the goal of all webmasters, repeat website traffic is the key in gaining the trust and loyalty of your visitors.

With the use of several WordPress plugins, a WordPress blog can be optimized to gain that repeat traffic. Several tools can automatically notify your readers of a new post, of course you need to supply the content to keep your visitors wanting to come back.

There is a plugin that encourage first time visitors to subscribe to your blog feed with a subtle, unobtrusive pop-up box, and another that automatically subscribes someone who comments on a post. With the subscribe to comments plugin, anyone making a comment will be notified of other comments made on that post. Of course you need to encourage this interaction on your blog. When writing a post ask questions of the readers, say something controversial, do anything to encourage them to post a comment.

Another underutilized tool is setting up your blog feed in your autoresponder. This will notify your list of all new posts made on your blog. You can even set up a new autoresponder specifically for your blog and place an opt-in somewhere on your WordPress blog

There are several ways to get repeat website traffic and WordPress makes it so much easier. Above are a few of the methods I use. What are some of the methods you use to get repeat website traffic?

About the Author:
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Jeff Houdyschell provides proven income opportunities, ideas and information for the best work at home jobs, visit: http://www.eSmartJob.com

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Just yesterday I posted about comment spam on my Wordpress blog and about one specific program that automates the comment spam process.

The title of the post is Trackback Submitter Spammer Waste Of Money, if you Google just Trackback Submitter you will see that post is #6 or #5 on Google today, 6/19/07. So in one day a blog post is topping Google.

I pretty much blasted the program for “Spraying Internet graffiti on my website” but thats not the point here. The point is how quickly a blog post can rank in Google with a properly configured blog.

This blog is powered by WordPress and has several WordPress plugins working behind the scene generating traffic and optimizing the post’s pages for the search engines.

If you are reading this on the main blog site click the title of the post and open it in it’s own page, go ahead I’ll wait…
Now look at the very top left of your browser you will see the title of the post before the title of the blog. This helps the search engines find the keywords quicker.

Next look at the URL: http://www.esmartjob.com/blog/wordpress-blog/post-tops-google

the last two: /wordpress-blog/post-tops-google also include relevant keywords utilizing a custom Permalink structure. Read more about that here: Customize WordPress Permalink Structure

Another plugin automatically pings a list of services and sites of my choosing as soon as a post is published. While another WordPress plugin updates the blogs sitemap and notifies Google and Yahoo! that new content is ready to be crawled.

If I setup your WordPress blog for you all these WordPress plugins and options are already at work for you. Posting good relevant content consistently, will bring more traffic so keep at it.

If you want more information or have any questions about the plugins or options discussed in this post please submit them in the comments section below.

About the Author:
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Jeff Houdyschell provides proven income opportunities, ideas and information for the best work at home jobs.

Do you want your own WordPress Blog like this one? I can help, find out more here: Blog Builder

Copyright © Jeff Houdyschell
http://www.eSmartJob.com

I have seen a few comments in my WordPress blogs Akismet spam subpanel. They are coming from a site called Trackback submitter.

Trackback submitter is a spamming software tool used to automatically post comments on blogs to generate backlinks. The WordPress plugin Akismet filter caught all of these spam comments with no problem. So if you think this is a shortcut to getting links to your website forget it, it’s a waste of time and money.

From the looks of the comment:

This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title ss Blog Can Generate Website Traffic | Work At Home Business Blog. Thanks for informative article

The software tries to use the title of the post to make it look like a real comment. As you see in the above spam it didn’t get the title of my blog post correct with the ss in front of Blog.

The Trackback submitter spam is coming from a spammer named Eric, his email address is eric25@yahoo.com. The URL is submit-trackback.com, IP address 64.22.110.34.

If you don’t have a spam filter on your WordPress blog you can blacklist this or any other comment spammer by clicking on Options, Discussion and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Paste the URL of the spmmer in the Comment Blacklist, and click Update Options.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not against automation when it comes to making money, hell I even contemplated placing an affiliate link to the software in this post! I just don’t want some lazy, ignorant idiot spraying his Internet graffiti on my website!

About the Author:
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Jeff Houdyschell provides proven income opportunities, ideas and information for the best work at home jobs, visit: http://www.eSmartJob.com

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Copyright © Jeff Houdyschell
http://www.eSmartJob.com

Mostly those new to Internet marketing ask this question quite a bit on various forums. There are plenty of reasons to use a WordPress blog on your own site and most of them contribute to the biggest and most sought after, website traffic.

First to clear up some confusion: WordPress.com offers a free blog that is hosted on WordPress.com just like you can start a free blog on Blogger. A different site, WordPress.org is where you can download all the files, for free, to upload and run a WordPress blog on your own site.

The blogs hosted on blogger and WordPress.com are limited in options, and customization. To customize these blogs to any extent you need to know how to open and manipulate the templates php or HTML code.

A self-hosted WordPress blog is highly customizable, extremely flexible, and you need not worry about it being shut down like a blog can be on Blogger or any other site you don’t control. There are thousands of free WordPress themes available so finding the right look for your blog should not be a problem.

Adding items to the sidebar on a self-hosted WordPress blog can easily be done within the dashboard using widgets. Simply add a text widget, write your text, paste in your affiliate links, newsletter sign up form, Goggle ads, pictures or anything you want. Then simply drag and drop the widgets into your desired position. No need dig around in the themes code to add anything.

When you write a blog post you are actually adding another content page to your website. The search engines love to see and crawl a site with fresh content. And another page on your website raises your chances of more traffic.

The most valuable feature of a self-hosted WordPress blog are plugins: Almost all plugins are free to download and they add features or change the functions of your blogs behavior. Plugins cannot be added to the WordPress hosted free blog.

Here is what WordPress and some of the thousands of plugins can do.

Search engine optimization – As stated above, when you write a new post you are actually adding a new content page to your website. By default It will be seen by the search engines like this: My Blog | Keyword Rich Title Of Post. With a few plugins the post’s page can be automatically optimized, adding keywords and descriptions and swap the title around to a more search engine friendly Keyword Rich Title Of Post | My Blog.

Then by placing your post in a keyword targeted category and using a custom Permalink structure the posts URL will look like this: www.myblog.com/keywordCategory/titleofpost. Another tactic the search engines like. A blog post can very quickly find its way to the top of the search engines, sometimes in just one day.

Tagging plugins are used for better internal linking structure and additional search engine optimization. A keyword phrase, or in blog terms, a tag in your posts will link to other posts with the same tags. Top blog directories like Technorati can also be tagged within a post. This will automatically alert them that there is content related to the tagged phrase on your blog.

WordPress can be setup to ping a list of directories automatically when you publish a post. Getting back links and traffic very quickly. You can add as many of these sites as you want.

There are several plugins available to setup a Google sitemap for your blog that automatically notifies Google and Yahoo of any changes to your blog.

Social bookmarking and Web 2.0 are the big buzzwords online now, and WordPress plugins are available to take advantage of this too. By allowing your visitors to comment on your blog and using a plugin to subscribe them to the post, they will be notified of any new comments, repeat traffic.

There are plugins available that show the most popular social bookmarking sites on each post. So you and your visitors can bookmark your posts. Adding links to your blog on these sites, more links means more traffic.

I briefly touched on social bookmarking but that is probably one of the most powerful and viral methods of driving targeted traffic your blog. I highly suggest getting a free copy of the Authority Black Book to learn more.

Utilizing Trackbacks are another feature to increase traffic to your blog. Find another blog with content related to yours. If you like a specific post on another blog write a post about it on your blog. Place a link to it in the Trackback section, and a link to it in your post also. Then if the other blogger approves it, an excerpt from your post including a link to it will appear in the comment section of the other blog.

Installing WordPress on your own site can be confusing and time consuming for first timers. You need an FTP program, know how to setup a database, how to CHMOD files on your hosting account, and must also tweak some code in one of the files. You may also need to add a few lines of code to your sites .htaccess file.

As you can see all different things I touched on about a self-hosted WordPress blog all add up to one thing, increased traffic. Of course you need to provide your visitors with quality content, post on a regular basis, and utilize all of the tools and WordPress plugins to get the most out of it.

About the Author:
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Jeff Houdyschell provides proven income opportunities, ideas and information for the best work at home jobs, visit: http://www.eSmartJob.com

Do you want your own WordPress Blog like this one? I can help, find out more here: Blog Builder

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Adding content to your WordPress blog can be easily automated with the right WordPress plugin.

How would you like to setup a blog and have content posted to it on a regular basis without writing anything? Then WP-o-Matic. The Wordpress RSS Agreggator may be just what you are looking for.

WP-o-Matic is an easy to use WordPress plugin that pulls content from a feed, and posts it automatically on your blog. I couldn’t get it to install from the WordPress Dashboard using the Installer plugin so had to use the traditional FTP method to get it installed. Installing consists of uploading a folder with six files in it and changing permissions on one of the files.

Once installed it is very easy to use, click Options, WP-o-Matic, add the feed URL and choose what category to place the new post in. You can also configure how often to check the feed for updates.

WP-o-Matic is a nice tool for those with multiple WordPress blogs who want to post the same content on all of them.

You can get WP-o-Matic here: WP-o-Matic. The Wordpress RSS Agreggator

About the Author:
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Jeff Houdyschell provides proven income opportunities, ideas and information for the best work at home jobs, visit: http://www.eSmartJob.com

Do you want your own WordPress Blog like this one? I can help, find out more here: Blog Builder

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Why Wordpress is now my Blog of Choice
By Linda J Bruton

The more I use Wordpress, the more I love it. It has 2 very important features that Blogger doesn’t yet support.

Number 1, you can set up a WordPress blog to automatically ping all the RSS and blog feed directories every time you make a post. This is a very powerful feature if you want your blog to get a lot of traffic right away. On top of that, you’ll be quickly developing backlinks to your blog almost automatically.

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I recently setup a new WordPress blog for a fellow Internet marketer Carl Hendricks. I checked out his old Blogger blog and found this nice post about website promotion and topping the search engines

Check it out here: 10 Ways To Indirectly Get To The Top Of Search Engines

 

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Are you good at one facet of your Internet Business than others? One of the greatest things about the Internet is that you can find almost anything you want online.

Have you put off launching a new website because you don’t know how to build a website? That can be fixed by going to any of the more popular affiliate marketing forums and reading some of the posts about site building. Or you could find someone there and pay him or her to do it for you.

How about article marketing or website content? Do you draw a blank when it comes to writing articles, blog posts or website content? Again you could take the time to learn how to do it but for some the creative juices just don’t flow consistently. If you read much of my content you can see what I mean . Myself, I find it easier to write ‘How To” type content than I do most anything else. But I still find myself in need of articles to submit so I will outsource that job to an expert Article Writer like Team-Schuman.com.

What about a blog on your site? Are you intimidated with setting up a WordPress blog on your site? Or maybe you just don’t have the time to learn how to do it yourself. Have your read this post about how it can dramatically increase your website promotion? Read how a WordPress Blog Can Generate Website Traffic. Hire someone to do it for you (that would be me, I know a shameless plug). WordPress Blog Installation Service.

Outsourcing your affiliate marketing business tasks can free up your time to concentrate on what you do best to let you become a more productive Internet marketer, and find better income opportunities.

 

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I started this WordPress blog back in late January 2007. Not knowing very much about blogging or WordPress for that matter. I did know that a blog on my site, if used correctly could start generating traffic for my entire website.

Then around late March 2007 a friend of mine recommended that I read the Authority Black Book by Jack Humphrey at the Friday Traffic Report.

After studying the Authority Black Book it came to my attention that I had a lot to learn about properly setting up a WordPress blog to take advantage of the Web 2.0 tactics that Jack was writing about.

While the ‘Black Book’ gives you the overall picture, it is not a step-by-step guide to properly installing and using all the WordPress plugins needed to generate more website traffic.

I began to get things setup; finding the WordPress plugins, configuring them and signing up for all the right social bookmarking sites. And everything else that I was reading about in the Authority Black Book.

Then slowly I started seeing results. Below are the stats for my site in March 2007, this site was a few months old at the time and was not getting tons of traffic. Keep in mind I was blogging almost every day at this time but without using any of the recommendations from the Authority Black Book.

Average daily visits for March were 295 and the most in one day were 428.

After several months of Authority Site Building my average visits per day in June are up to 635 and have spiked to a max of almost 1000 visits for one day. As Shown below:

I know for some veteran bloggers traffic like this is a drop in the bucket, but for some just starting out it can be very encouraging.

Since March the average daily visitors has increased by 100 per day every month. There are several reasons for this. One are the back links that are getting spread around the Internet from consistent blogging and social bookmarking. Others are coming from search engine traffic for long-tail phrases used in the blog post titles. Using the proper WordPress plugins for SEO some of these posts can and have climbed to the top of the search engines very quickly, sometimes in one day.

Continue to post good quality content, use all the tools that a WordPress blog offers and you too can see your website traffic grow exponentially with each new post.

Questions? Comments? Submit them below and I will be glad to help!

About the Author:
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Jeff Houdyschell provides proven income opportunities, ideas and information for the best work at home jobs, visit: http://www.eSmartJob.com

Do you want your own WordPress Blog like this one? I can help, find out more here: Blog Builder

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The question is asked of me and I know countless other times in forums and else where on the Internet. How can I make money online?

I usually answer this by telling anyone starting out is to learn how to use a WordPress blog first to get traffic and then later how to make money from your blog.

Setting up a WordPress blog is probably the hardest part of the equation, after that it is a simple process of writing good quality content and generating traffic.

Steven Pavalina wrote an outstanding, although rather lengthy, post about this subject on his blog here: How to Make Money From Your Blog

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