Work At Home Affiliate Marketing

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 | Work At Home with Comments Off

The humdrum existence of going to the office day after day doing the usual 9-5 shift is a trying task for those who have lived all their lives doing so. This is why the convenience of doing work at home under amazingly flexible working hours is a dazzling prospect to them. Doing work at home that is as fulfilling as having a career working for a computer on the 19th floor of a skyscraper is already a possibility in these modern times. This is because the jungle-like network that is the internet has given birth to a business that has given some people practically new lives doing nothing but so.

This particular business allows people to work at home under flexible working hours. There is no boss to scream around putting pressure on everyone about the deadline at hand. There is no clutter of messy paperwork that needs to be completed the soonest possible time. Conveniences such as these are experienced by those who are into affiliate marketing, the newest way to earn money without having to go through all sorts of routine found in regular employment.

Those who have been in the business long enough can attest to the fact that it is a lucrative business indeed, one that can actually give people things that they could not possibly possess or experience under ordinary circumstances.

The business called affiliate marketing involves an affiliate’s promotion of a merchant’s website. Here the website owned by the affiliate is made to advertise and market the website of the merchant through the affiliate program that they run. Whenever someone clicks on the merchant’s website promoted by the one owned by the affiliate, the affiliate is given a commission. This is in recognition of his effort in helping the merchant make a sale.

The system involved in affiliate marketing seems easy, but it also takes a lot of diligence and perseverance for one to be able to penetrate it thoroughly. Those who want to get into this type of business should possess the necessary skills to be able tread through the industry with confidence and self-assurance. Still, other factors are needed by one to be able to really break in. Knowledge about the business at hand is very important as it dictates the actions that are to be done by people who are into it.

The leading figure in affiliate marketing is the super affiliate. He is basically an e-mail marketer who collects large databases of e-mail addresses through newsletters. Super affiliates are also those who know the business even better than affiliate managers as a result of their knowledge about the affiliate marketing industry inside out. Those who want to be super affiliates should know that becoming a super affiliate is not easy, because it takes a lot to be able to master the marketing craft.

Becoming a super affiliate means having one’s own website and autoresponder. These tools will help a lot in one’s facilitation of the business. Building one’s own list is another. Creating a loyal customer base and taking care of it is one secret that successful super affiliates have. Making good customer relations is also important if one wants to be a super affiliate to reckon with.

Continuing to market to the people on one’s list is another must if one wants to succeed as a super affiliate. Sending out quality content in lieu of ads is an advantage as products are marketed better whenever enough information is given about them.

Building traffic to one’s own site is also one of the most essential points in the affiliate marketing business. Making one’s affiliate links his own business will allow him to build a strong relationship with his customers, enabling him to market to them over and over again.

The most important thing one should remember if he wants to become a super affiliate is to treat affiliate marketing as a business first and foremost. If he is capable of doing this, then he will never have to go back to the humdrum existence of working the 9-5 shift. A career as a super affiliate in the business which will change his life forever could possibly take that unexciting job’s place.

Need Help Starting Your Online Business

Monday, September 3rd, 2007 | Online Business with 2 Comments

Most new to online business find it very confusing trying to figure out how or where to start. Most affiliate marketing forums have the same question asked every day: “How do I make money online“. And the answers more often than not add to the confusion or can even be rather harsh like: “If you need to ask go get a real job.” Well how about some real help and a few answers for you?

Starting an can really be very easy once you understand the basics of how it all works and utilizing the correct tools to generate and capitalize on free website traffic. After you boil it all down the main, most sought after goal of all Internet marketers is website traffic.

The main things you need to get started and succeed online are:

  • A domain name and website of your own
  • A decent product to promote that has a demand
  • Basic HTML knowledge
  • An autoresponder
  • Basic search engine optimization knowledge
  • A good blog to generate quick, free search engine traffic

Sound easy enough? Well it can take weeks or months to master most of these items depending on how much time you have to devote to learn these basics. Especially if you are on your own trying to gather all this information on your own.

I was lucky enough to join a program under a person who took the time by phone and email to explain everything to me. A mentor who not only wants to help because he is just that way but has an interest in my success because my success also determines his.

Am I going to give you all the “secrets” in this short blog post? No because there really are no secrets, just think about this: How did you come to read this post? You found it somehow and that is what I can show you. This post is on a blog that is getting traffic to it and your reading this is proof that it works.

Along with all the other things mentioned above the program that has the best training and tools available is here: Best Work At Home Job.

 

Join it from that link and you will get my personal mentoring, I will setup a free blog like this one for you and teach you how to optimize your website and blog to get free search engine traffic.

If you want to talk to me and learn more Click Here Now to send me an email and setup a time we can talk. And soon you too will be teaching others how to .

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Free To Join Work At Home Program

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 | Earn Extra Income with 3 Comments

If you have been looking for an easy way to earn extra income why not make money on the things you are already buying? It can’t be any easier than that, earn a commission on the products you are already buying online.

 

My Power Mall (MPM), is a breath of fresh air for those who have been trying to work at home and have been put off by all the complicated MLM and Network Marketing programs found online.

MPM, has been 5 years in the making and is totally unique.

  • It’s not MLM.
  • It’s not .
  • It’s not Affiliate Marketing.
  • It simply doesn’t fit any standard business model that most people use to achieve financial freedom.

Our Founder & CEO, Ginny Dye, spent years working in the MLM industry as a leader and trainer. She walked away from it in 2002, discouraged by what she knew to be true – that 97% of the people who join an MLM will fail. She simply could no longer introduce a company to someone, knowing that most of them would fail. It bothered her too much to see people who were excited and committed to changing their lives fail because they were working within a system that was not created for them to truly succeed.

 

With the creation of MY POWER MALL, she knew she had a way to create success for anyone by simply harnessing the power of online spending. She had already spent almost five years creating a powerful computer system that she was using in other endeavors. MPM is simply an additional way of using her $500,000 system to help individuals create financial freedom.

 

MPM is a 9-Tier Shopping Rebate System.

  • It is completely FREE – with no cost to whoever wants to join MPM.
  • There is nothing to sell. Each member simply shops on the 1000+ stores on their own Power Mall, with shopping rebates paid through 9 Shopping Tiers on every purchase made from our millions of products.
  • There are none of the “Qualification Games” that make success so difficult to obtain in other business models.
  • There are no meetings or presentations to learn.
  • Every member can achieve significant financial income within the first 3-4 Shopping Tiers, with real wealth coming as it continues to grow.
  • The MPM Business Model is built on one main concept – KEEP IT SIMPLE!

People are invited to have their own FREE online Power Mall. All they do is shop and then invite others to have their own FREE Mall. As people shop for things they are going to buy anyway, everyone receives a % of the shopping rebates.

 

MPM has a primary principle that guides every decision Ginny makes. Everything has to be Win/Win. It’s only a good decision if it is good for everyone it impacts. MPM went through several different versions before Ginny was convinced she had created the model that would ensure success for everyone.

This an easy and free to join work at home program, that really isn’t work! Find out more here at the Power Mall

 

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WordPress Max WordPress Guides For The Geek Impaired

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 | WordPress Blog with 1 Comment

I recently started a new website or really a WordPress blog about WordPress. Called WordPress Max “WordPress Guides For The Geek Impaired”. As some of you may have recognized I haven’t been posting here on a regular basis as I have been busy with the new blog.

While I will keep learning and blogging about WordPress this blog has veered of the work at home subject it was first started for.


So I encourage you to drop by WordPress Max and have a look around. There isn’t much there yet but that will change soon enough. If you want to keep up to date on stop by, grab the feed or look for the email update option on the sidebar.

- Jeff

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Yes You Can Start An Online Home Based Business And Work At Home

Sunday, June 24th, 2007 | Work At Home with 2 Comments

One of the most searched phrases on the internet is Work At Home and Online Home Based Business . If you are searching for a Work At Home business, then pay attention. We are going to talk about a way you can do just that.

It is no wonder that more and more people want to work at home. Jobs no longer provide much in the way of security or even career satisfaction. The reason for this, many times comes down to one simple factor, loyalty. This is especially true in larger companies. The way businesses are bought and sold have left many people feeling unappreciated and insecure.

Pension plans have dried up. Thousands of people do not have the money in them they are supposed to have. Your boss today may just be gone tomorrow. And on and on we can go. This has left many people looking for a way to work for themselves at home.
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Find Legitimate Businesses To Make Money At Home

Friday, June 8th, 2007 | Make Money Online, Start A Home Business, Work At Home with Comments Off

You have probably spent a lot of time thinking of ways you can make money online while the baby is growing up, or the spouse is recovering or you recently lost your job. The decision to stay at home can be a tough one and it will take time to determine the best and consistent means to work at home before you completely commit to the idea.

It many areas of the country it is a tight job market and with specific, in-demand skills a lot of workers are finding themselves with few prospects. This often sparks the decision to try to and, unfortunately, also can lead to making desperate decisions that may not allow you to make the most of your situation. Many companies prey on desperate job hunters and take their money when they do not have the cash to give up.

Searching for the right opportunity takes time and effort and a willingness not to let that voice of reason get lost in the chatter of lofty promises. Deciding to start a home business is a decision that not only affects you, it affects your family as well as your bill collectors. If you do not make money, they will not care that you had to pay extra for additional training and may not be long before you do not have electric to keep the computer up and running.

Look objectively at your skills and before you send money to join a million dollars a month opportunity that requires no education or specialized training, ask yourself what you will be doing to earn that kind of cash and who is willing to pay it. The two answers are usually nothing and no one and that should tell you where your cash is going. One of the most lucrative means of making money online is scamming others into sending you cash and when the voice of reason is silenced, the scammer’s voice is often heard loud and clear.

Assembling products at home can be a good way to make money as long as you are associated with a legitimate company. Those making the offer requiring you buy specialized tools and parts in order to assemble the product are only selling the tools and the parts. There is a 100 percent chance that no matter how well your products are assembled the company will reject them for quality reasons, typically not being up to their standards.

There are, however many companies who will pay a third party to perform assembly work for them off site, and depending on the product they may even want to inspect your facilities to insure they are not wasting their time with someone who can produce a few a week when they may need thousands.

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The Best Free Work At Home Program

Monday, June 4th, 2007 | Affiliate Marketing, Residual Income, Start A Home Business, Work At Home with Comments Off

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One of the best is SFI Marketing Group – SFI is one of the most successful affiliate programs on the Internet. SFI provides excellent income opportunities because they give you a large Internet storefront of products (for free) that you can resell on your website for a profit — everything from business tools and info products to personal care products such as shampoo and nutritional supplements. SFI (also known as Carson Services Inc.) has been in business since 1985 and is also a proud member of the Better Business Bureau.

Making residual income with SFI is another reason I like it so well, not only can you make money online selling products and services but you also make money by sponsoring other affiliates and helping them do the same.

If you are a seasoned marketer and looking for a new program, or are new to affiliate marketing SFI may have what you are looking for.

To join SFI for free click the banner below.

 

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The Best Work At Home Program

Friday, June 1st, 2007 | Work At Home with Comments Off

The best work at home program is called Plug-In Profit Site™ (PIPS). Put together by Stone Evans over four years ago, it has grown to be the one of the most successful programs online today. The knowledge you will attain within PIPS can then be used to promote this same system or any product or service that can be marketed on the Internet.

When you sign up for PIPS you will join five different and also register your own domain name and purchase web hosting through Host4Profit web hosting company. You will then get a money-making website setup for free (similar to mine) to promote the same program as well as other complementary programs you may add to your site as you progress.

The website is yours to do with as you wish and Host4Profit is a complete hosting service. You can also promote the core programs individually if you wish however, its best to promote PIPS as a package since you will get others to join the five programs at once and is a complete program for those with no experience or a website.

After joining you then have your own online business and as long as you keep paying your monthly hosting bill of $24.99 and re-registering your yearly domain (usually $15.00 per year), web users will always have access to your website through that domain name of your choosing.

Remember to have any kind of web presence you need a domain name and somewhere to host it. The beauty of Host4Profit is that you make $10.00 a month for every one that you get to sign up for it. Unlike most all the other programs online you are getting your own domain name and website I cannot stress how important this is. With your own domain and website you control what you want to do with it. You will get the original PIPS website setup for free and you can keep it that way or change it, add to it or completely redesign it if you want.

Each of the programs you will join through PIPS are stand alone businesses and there are people making a good living promoting these programs separately. The great thing about PIPS is that you can build residual income for the highest paying online today and you only need to market one website that is built for you for free.

The Five Core Programs Within PIPS

· Traffic Swarm Traffic Swarm provides a built-in traffic and advertising source for your new website. When you sign up and activate your account, you get 100 free advertising credits. You can immediately login to your Traffic Swarm account, set up an ad for free and promote your site to millions of online visitors at no cost whatsoever.

· SFI Marketing GroupSFI is one of the most successful affiliate programs on the Internet. SFI provides an excellent income opportunity because they give you a large Internet storefront of products (for free) that you can resell on your website for a profit — everything from business tools and info products to personal care products such as shampoo and nutritional supplements. SFI (also known as Carson Services Inc.) has been in business since 1985 and is also a proud member of the Better Business Bureau.

· ClickBankClickBank is the premier affiliate program for the Internet marketing industry. As a ClickBank affiliate, you’ll earn huge commissions directing your web traffic to popular info products. There is no fee to join ClickBank.

· EmpowerismEmpowerism gives you all the tools and training you need to be a successful Internet marketer. Upon joining Empowerism, you also qualify to resell Empowerism memberships from your own site and earn $20 up-front and $7 monthly residual income for each referral. Empowerism is widely regarded as one of the easiest and most profitable programs on the Internet.

· Warriors/Host4ProfitImportant! Host4profit is your website hosting account and domain name registrar therefore I highly recommend not joining Host4Profit individually if you plan to join PIPS, you should get that setup when you actually join PIPS here.

Only Empowerism requires a first month fee of $24.99 and then a monthly fee of 19.99 thereafter, because it provides the best Internet marketing training available online it is well worth the investment, and you also make a commission when others sign up for it either through PIPS or as a stand alone subscription.

*Note – All the above programs need to be joined to get your free PIPS website but only one paid program is necessary to keep your PIPS website and that is Host4Profit, because it is the web hosting account.

One of the most profitable features that are included with your new Plug-In Profit Site™ is an email subscription form, turbocharged by a powerful autoresponder.

Your website automatically captures your visitor’s name and email address for you and follows-up effortlessly with a pre-written, 400 day email marketing campaign. This process is put on autopilot, every time someone signs up for your newsletter through your GetResponse autoresponder your prospects and you really can start to see the power in this system. Believe me it works!

Please note you will need to upgrade your free auto-responder to the Pro version ($17.95 monthly) of Getresponse to realize the full power of your e-mail marketing campaign. But you need not do so until you want to if ever.

After you sign up you will get access to a step-by-step guide that walks you through promoting your website, access to an online forum where you can ask questions of others in the same program and learn some of their methods to success. You will also get my email address and phone number when you sign up for my newsletter. You can call me anytime (well not at 2 am) before or after you sign up.

OK now you may be asking yourself “if I do the same thing then I will be in competition with you and how many more work at home websites can the Internet support?” Well yes you would be in competition with me and others but the beauty of PIPS and the programs integrated into it are they are multi-tired; meaning I get a small commission on some of the programs you promote as you will with the others you sign on. So not only will I be available to help you along but there is incentive to do so.

As far as saturation of work at home offers on the Internet goes: as of June 2006 Internet Word Stats reports the number of users online was over 1 billion and that’s only 16% of the world population! The term “work from home” is being searched for on Google over 4000 times a day and “work at home’ searched for 3500 times a day! That’s not to mention all the other variations for online business typed into the Google search engine and all the other search engines. Lets face it, more and more people are looking to get out of the daily grind of a 9 to 5, you are right?

The Internet is sill in its infancy and more and more people are looking to it, trusting it and using it as career. This is not a get rich quick system, and you will need to work to promote your site and get traffic to it and that takes time and effort.

Like any other business it takes effort and money to be successful. So for a little more than a dollar a day you will have your very own website, the training and tools to promote it and your future will be in your hands to make of it what you wish.

This program is an excellent learning tool for Internet marketing. You gain the knowledge by actually doing and making money while you learn. The information contained within the step by step guide can be used to market anything online.

This link here explains everything in more detail, along with testimonials of others successfully using the system. It is a long page but I suggest you read it.

If your ready to start then just go here and get started by signing up for the core programs within PIPS and you will be on your way in no time with the .

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Online Business Website Niche And Domain Name

Saturday, May 26th, 2007 | Domain Name, Google, Online Business, Work At Home with Comments Off

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So you want to know where to start with an online business? To get the full potential out of any you will definitely need a website. When I say website I don’t mean a page that some programs give you with your affiliate ID attached to the end of it, but your own and a good provider to host it on. But before we get into domain names and hosting accounts let’s start at the beginning with the idea itself.

 

You first need to decide what your new website will be focused on, or your niche market. While there are thousands of work at home websites on the Internet, and the competition is well established, you can still find your own little niche within this bigger category that has been overlooked and is less competitive.

Keyword research is crucial to determining your sites theme and the success of your . Keywords or keyword phrases are something that you will hear a lot about as you progress and start to develop your website.

Even if your website is a pre-designed Plug-In Profits site It should eventually be optimized toward a more narrow, less competitive niche.

, or SEO is the process of finding these keyword phrases and designing or changing your website around your keywords. This should be done on every page that you add to, or have on your site.  Every page on your site should have a specific topic and be optimized according to the content on that page.

Before you choose your domain name you should determine your sites theme or niche and keywords and then choose a domain name that closely matches. That is why you should do this research before you register a domain name. The two most popular tools for keyword research are subscription based Wordtracker, and the free Overture tool. Another site I recommend for SEO related research with a whole suite of tools is SEOBook.com.  I recommend trying out the free ones first then get a one-day or one-week subscription to Wordtracker as it is considered the most accurate.

Choosing A Domain Name

After you have decided on your main sites themes or niche its time to determine your domain name. You could chose any and try to build a brand around it like Google has done, or you may want to choose a keyword domain name that relates to your sites niche.

Whether you choose a brandable domain or a keyword domain is a choice you must make, and a choice you should make in accordance with your business plan. If you have a large offline advertising budget and the budget necessary to brand your organization, I’d recommend a brandable domain. If, on the other hand, you’re working on a tight budget, choose a keyword domain and let the search engines bring the customers to you.

Try to keep your domain name as short and to the point as possible. If you think you may eventually market your site offline then try to get a .com extension. If you are sticking strictly with online marketing then the other extensions such as .net, .us and the newer .ws will have more names and options available. 

There are numerous tools available to search domain name availability such as Godaddy.com or Nameboy.com; both have tools for suggesting different names based on your first choice if its not available. Godaddy or 123cheapdomains.com are probably the cheapest place to register your domain once you decide on a name. If you are joining a program that sets up your website you should check if domain name registration is part of the package or something you can benefit from or get a discount if purchased from it.    

 

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Work At Home Income Opportunities Delivered Daily

Thursday, May 17th, 2007 | Income Opportunities, Internet Business, Work At Home with Comments Off

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Some call it Spam, junk mail or trash, but I look at it in a different way; work at home income opportunities. Please let me explain.

When I started to I signed up for every newsletter and that I surfed into on the Internet. Then the emails started coming, and never ended. After a short period of time I started looking at them differently. I found myself looking beyond the hype and tried to look through it back to where it came from and determine what the sender, or more importantly the writer of the message was trying to make me do.

I struggled like most everyone else starting out, but got some good advice through one of the work at home programs I joined. The advice was to build a content rich site, write articles and build a list. Well I thought easy for the guru’s to say that but just how am I going to do that? Where do I get the content for my site, the ideas for articles and how do I market to my list?

So by now you might have guessed it the light went on, all that “income opportunities” junk mail I have been getting is filled full of ideas and keywords for articles. And the marketing material and sales pitches were all coming in too! Not to mention the next big ClickBank item to pitch to my list.

It started getting too easy; the guru’s were sending me almost everything I needed. I didn’t need to search for the next big thing to promote it was getting promoted to me, just repackage, and zip it off. My Proven Income Opportunity Blog has been neglected for a few days; no problem here is an idea in my inbox, read, do a little more research, write a quick post, ping.

I was fortunate enough to build a list relatively quickly full of others wanting to work at home. The program I joined had filled my autoresponder with a years worth of follow ups but I had no idea how to put more punch into the messages or to write broadcast messages for other income opportunities. Well guess what I learned from our spamming friends? You guessed it! Marketing 101 follow the messages, the good ones all have a pattern to pull you in and then gently nudge you where they want you to go. Others scream for “urgent” action. Learn from them just don’t delete it!

Some say the work at home Internet business is the hardest and most competitive Internet marketing niche, it may be but it also has the most material available to use to your advantage. It used to hate checking my email because my curiosity would have me reading all the hype and clicking links to find the easy money. But now my curiosity takes me there because I want to learn how to make real money.

Learning how to promote work at home income opportunities is pretty easy if you know where to look, check your trash.

Getting started is easy with the right program check it out here: Top Work At Home Program.

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Residual Income Opportunity

Monday, May 14th, 2007 | Affiliate Marketing, Income Opportunities, Online Business, Residual Income, Work At Home with 1 Comment


Earning Residual Income, Leveraging Your Online Business Efforts.

If you were to open a business today, any business, would it be one that sold a one-time item, or something that people kept coming back for? If I were to put the effort into getting a customer once, I would want to keep them as customer for as long as possible.

Earning has become one of the most popular business models for affiliate marketing. Why go through all the effort to get someone to buy just one widget when you can get him or her to pay for your widget and the widget sharpening service every month?

Prospective customers usually need to see your ad, product or service several times before they feel comfortable enough to buy. That means getting your ad in front as many people as possible. It’s a numbers game that must be played but why not at least put it to work for you?

For your first work at home business you may want to keep costs down and work on just producing any amount of income, while still learning the ropes. With residual , since someone else is earning a r from your efforts, you should have plenty of support and training from the program you choose.

Do not go into a residual income opportunity assuming that all you need to do is sign on and pay a small monthly fee and others will do the work for you. If you go in with this mentality you will most likely fail to produce the results your looking for.

What to look for in .

Look for as much of a turn- key business system as you can find. The Internet has produced many programs, some are legitimate money making opportunities, and many are scams or schemes. So do your research before spending any money on programs that promise earning residual income.

Legitimacy is the first thing to look for with any program you are considering. Do a Google search for the program and if it shows up in online Internet marketing forums see what is being said about it. If it has a good reputation on the Internet marketing forums and is well established then you should be in good shape.

Training is another thing to look for within the program, especially if you’re new to Internet marketing. It should have a good training website and resources to promote the products and the opportunity itself. Don’t necessarily think that your sponsor will have the time to walk you through everything, as they have a business to run themselves. They should however be able to answers a few questions and point you in he right direction to get the information you need.

Earning a residual income is one of the best methods to start an online business and learn the basics of Internet marketing. One thing to remember if you are new to Internet marketing or any network marketing in general is that earning residual income online will take time and effort. Don’t expect instant results, and don’t think you can buy your way in.

One thing is certain, if you don’t start building the foundations to earning a residual income, you never will earn one.

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Writing And Tagging A WordPress Blog Post

Friday, May 11th, 2007 | Search Engine Ranking, Social Bookmarking, Tag WordPress Post, WordPress Blog, WordPress Plugin with 1 Comment


Writing a WordPress Blog post is pretty straight forward. is the extra step to get more traffic, higher search engine listings and page rank.

To get started click Write on the main panel and the Write Post screen opens. Then follow these steps to write your post and tag it using the Ultimate Tag Warrior and Tagalize It WordPress plugins.

  • Fill in the title box of the new post.
  • Choose or create a category for your post on the right side under Categories.
  • You should have check marks in both boxes in the Discussion options panel.
  • Do not put a password in the Post Password panel! That will keep your post from displaying on your blog. Only those with the password will be able to read it!
  • Under Post Slug (optional) you can create a smaller URL address for your post in here. If you don’t create a Post Slug your post title will be the URL address. Without a Post Slug your post’s URL will look something like this: www.yourdomain.com/category-name/your-post-title/ Using a Post Slug will shorten the last part of the URL to what you create in the Post Slug box. Try to make it shorter but still relevent to the title of your post
  • Choose the Visual or Code tab to write your post. Clicking the Visual tab (default) will allow you to type in a “what you see is what you get” editor. The Code tab is for writing in code, you can use this to write or paste HTML or other code into your post.

The WordPress plugins Ultimate Tag Warrior and Tagalize It will play a big role in optimizing your posts and blog.

A tag is simply the term used for keywords in blogging and the above plugins help create and manage your tags as you write your posts.

If you are writing a post about work at home you would want to create a category for the tag work at home and tag it throughout your post. Shown below:

[code]work at home [/code]

The plugins used in this instance do several things.

  • An optional feature will create a tag for all new categories added, if I set up your blog this will be activated.
  • The tag will become a hyperlink to the category tagged, optimizing your internal linking structure helping search engine ranking.
  • They will display your tags on the bottom of your post and can be easily carried into some social bookmarking sites.
  • They will embed keywords in the code of the post’s page helping SEO.

More tagging options can be used by the Tagalize It WordPress plugin to tag words that pings two popular blog directories Technorati and Ice Rocket. This will alert those sites that you have content about the tagged words. A pretty easy way to get the word out about your blog. Be sure to add your blog to the those two directories also.

To tag Technorati and Ice Rocket use the followin:

[code]

[Tag-Ice]Word or phrase for Ice Rocket[Tag-Ice] [/code]

Once you are done writing and tagging your post click Save and Continue Editing, scroll down to look over your post in the Post Preview box, make sure all your tags are properly formatted and closed and scroll back up to make any changes.

Update for version 2.2 – The preview box is not shown on the bottom of the write post screen but a view link is available on the top right side of the write post box, clicking it will preview your post in a new window.

You can add more tags as a comma seperated list directly below the post editor if you wish. Or look up more tag suggestions with the tags (keyword) suggestions tool.

Once you are happy with your post click Publish, if you have the WordPress Plugin Smart Update Pinger installed and activated it may take a few extra seconds for your post to publish while it pings your blog.

After your post is published click (View site) at the very top of the Dashboard. This next step is very important so be sure to click the title of your post to bring it up in its own page.

Using the WordPress plugins Gregarious and or Share This you should now start social bookmarking your post. Scroll down to the bottom of your post and click the green Share This icon. Click on as many of the sites this shows and start joining them.

If you have just the Gregarious plugin you will see a group of icons below your post. The same goes here, join as many as you can.

Now everytime you make a post be sure to click the post’s title to show it on its own page and click on the Gregarious and or Share This icons and start bookmarking your post.

This post was inspired by the Authority Black Book written by Jack Humphrey. If you are serious about your blog then you need to check out the Friday Traffic Report for free blog marketing and Web 2.0 promotion tactics.

About the Author:
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