Best WordPress Blog Plugins – Plug It In, Plug It in
( The Best Web Hosting Service )- Today I wanted to talk about my favorite WordPress plugins. Lets face it plugins make our life easier, and there a number of them that I simply can not live without. For instance any kind of blog that you are running there is one plugin that is essential to your WordPress blog. It is a spam plugin.
People love to spam; it seems everyone out there is trying to promote something or gain exposure to their products. Do you know what I mean? Maybe you are tired of getting the fifty million “Buy Viagra” comments on your blog. Maybe you used to do it to in hopes of getting some good traffic from it. Chances are it didn’t work and you wasted a lot of you hard earned time. I will be honest with you, when I first started learning affiliate marketing I spammed a lot. Not really knowing what I was doing. I just went to various blogs and wrote I agree or something like that. Wow, did I learn that I wasted my time and A LOT of it. It’s all right though we all make mistakes. Here are the best WordPress blog plugins that I use.
SpamKarma 2
This plugin is awesome, it catches spam comments automatically. Really, I love it. I actually have it installed on this blog. It will show a little script in your footer and actually show how many comments have been caught in the spam filter. It actually states that your blog is protected to…neat! I do wish they would add a little shield or some kind of graphic, but thats just me.
SexyBookmarks
Again, another one that is used on this site. Funny because a lot of the ones I am going to talk about are on this site…lol. This is a pretty cool plugin that makes it easier for people to share your blog post on social bookmarker sites. However, you can list a million of them like I have seen some like sociable, but honestly I think that looks tacky as hell. I try to just stick with the main ones. Again, other people probably argue with me on that.
Digg Digg
This is another one that is similar to SexyBookmarks, however it looks a bit different and actually has the little buttons that view how many people have clicked. Kind of cool for you, because you can actually see what people are clicking on with your blog. I have always been interested in stats because it allows me to track what my viewers are doing….but that is just me.
FD Feedburner Plugin
Well, what can I say about feeds that hasn’t already been said before. Feedburner in my opinion is the cream of the crop. This will basically redirect your feeds to Feedburner where you can than track all kinds of crazy stuff. Also, what I really like about this is you can display how many subscribers you got. Then again, probably not too important to some but for me I love it.
Subscribe To “Double-Opt-In Comments”
Opt-in Button
Yeah I know that is long name for a plug-in. It is a fancy name for a little checkmark at the end of your comment box that allows people to subscribe to your comments by email. I don’t know how many times I have checked that box on other blogs just so I could see how the conversation went. In fact, I didn’t even really know the name of it until recently. I just called it little checky box.
There are millions upon millions of plugins and I am sure I left out or that people commonly use. Like All in one SEO, Better RSS, Google XML Sitemaps, Meta SEO Pack, Quick Adsense, TagALLY, TweetMeme Retweet Button, Twitme.
What other plugins do you find that you are constantly using on a daily basics?
CMS and WordPress – Why So Great?
( The Best Web Hosting Service )- There has been a lot of talk lately about WordPress and whether it makes a good CMS (Content Management System). The simple answer is are you kidding me it is great for a CMS. Before get in all SEO on you I just want to say it is so very good for content management and above all other things is really easy to install on using, your cPanel. For me, I use Hostgator which comes with “Fantastico De Luxe” or just Fantastico as most people call it. However, Hostgator is not the only hosting provider that uses this; there are a lot of others that do, as well.
Sorry, didn’t mean to drift to far away from the subject but WordPress is great for your content management system. First of all you easily create a network of pages and link them together on the sidebar, header, or footer. This helps because when you do have a lot of pages linked together that are on Google you will get extra love in the SERPS eyes. So for me and a lot of other people I always use WordPress for my sites.
Not to mention a successful site really does need a blog. In my opinion (and I am sure many others will agree) WordPress is simply the top dog. Above and beyond all things this blog “WordPress” does come with all kind of gadgets that you can install to make a good CMS. What do I mean? Well for starters there are so many widgets and plugins that you can install on WordPress it is not even funny. Two of my favorite plugins “All in one SEO” and “Meta SEO pack”. I could go on and on about all the plugins.
What is even better is WordPress is 100% free. Also, you should install it on your site and not use their WordPress.com site to host your blogs. The reason you should host with your domain is because when you host them with one hosted by the company you do NOT own it. You do want to own your blog right? They could shut it down for no reason at all.
Searches Love WordPress
I don’t know about you but I have found that it is so much easier to get pages ranked in Google with a blog. This is because they are always being updated with fresh content. Also WordPress provides a platform for structured content, which Google loves. As a side note you should alway adjust your Permalink Settings so that they show your post name rather than a generic blog entry 123. If all this goes over your head I would recommend that you read this blog post on Content Managements Systems. Also, one thing that is getting more popular in today’s world is cheap website templates that you can install on WordPress.
So I am sure I left some stuff out on WordPress and why it is great for CMS. What other elements do you feel help it with content management? Also, what plugins do you guys/girls recommend to improve your CMS?
Free Web Hosting Unlimited Bandwidth?
Free Web Hosting Unlimited Bandwidth – Too Good To Be True?
( The Best Web Hosting Service )- I got an important topic I would like to cover today. First and foremost, I get a million questions a day from people that are seeking a free web hosting provider with unlimited bandwidth. Well before I go crazy on you I just want to talk about about unlimited bandwidth and the fact that it doesn’t even really existence. Seriously, lets say you purchased a shared hosting plan and they offered “unlimited bandwidth.”
Well, this is skewed because you are in fact sharing a server with a lot of other websites. So how it the world could they possibly offer unlimited bandwidth? I mean think about the word “unlimited” that basically means it will never run out. Your site is on a server there is a point when it can’t handle anymore so the words unlimited are really true. See here for more information on unlimited bandwidth.
So back to the point free web hosting. Honestly, you just get what you pay for when you get free hosting because they really do not offer that much space. I have typically heard that they will provide you with about 20 GB, and if you get lucky maybe 100 GB. However, unless you just want a website and are not running a business or anything I would really shy away from it.
Here is why I am against free web hosting. Call me a hater if you want, but when you have an account with them your stuff can get shut down for no reason at all. Think of it this way, you bust your ass working on a website and everything is going good. Your business is booming and everything. Well, you decide I got a lot of extra money in my bank account now, and go out and buy something really expensive.
Bam, your site is shut down the next day. The reason is from your free web hosting with “unlimited bandwidth” has decided that you are hogging all your bandwidth with your videos and pictures. It is like getting run over by a train when that happens, so I just don’t set myself up for failure. Catch my drift. Please someone explain to me what is the point of free web hosting if all your hard work can be shut down in an instant?
Free Web Hosting – The Reality!
Free Hosing – Are You Serious?
There are some really good points in the video above. As a business owner I would have to ask you; how serious are you about your business if you are are hosting you account on a free hosting platform? Would you really feel safe doing business with a company that didn’t even invest any money into their site?
This takes the trust factor out of the equation and your customers will simply respond negatively. In order for an online company to succeed it needs three things, an online presence (the search engines ignore these sites typically), you need to provide value to customers (what reasons do they have to do business with you, and most importantly you have to have trust, which free hosting simply kills.
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