Blogging Tips

Keyword Strategies for WordPress

September 7, 2008 By Sherry Tingley

Keyword strategies are becoming easier to create with new tools available to WordPress bloggers and to individual web site owners. Ranking on the first page of Google results is not as difficult as you might think. With a little research and some good strategies in place, you can do quite well.

A keyword tool that is popular among many website developers is the Word Tracker Free Keyword Tool. You will find that it does the brainstorming for you by giving you alternate suggestions for other keyword phrases.

A tool you can easily use to help you determine which keywords to focus on is listed below:

Search engine optimization using good keyword strategies will help your site gain top positions on Google, MSN and Yahoo search engines. Just this weekend I tested some keywords for my site. I logged in to my Google Webmaster Tools account and found out that I was getting traffic from a variety of key words that I wasn’t aware of.

The keyword results are listed below:

Key Word	Date	Position	Number of Page Results
loved by many	9/7/2008	7	135,000,000
word mortgage	9/7/2008	18	26,200,000
20 blog	9/7/2008	4	22,200,000
submit your blog	9/7/2008	15	21,000,000
top blog wordpress	9/7/2008	7	17,300,000
wordpress top blog	9/7/2008	1	13,000,000
personal finance stories	9/7/2008	10	6,750,000
wordpress blogging tips	9/7/2008	6	2,380,000
blogging tips	9/7/2008	20	1,680,000
blog submission directories	9/7/2008	8	532,000
blogging tips plugin	9/7/2008	1	518,000
blogging tips plugin for wordpress	9/7/2008	1	513,000
places to advertise a wordpress blog	9/7/2008	1	356,000
blog submission plugin	9/7/2008	1	194,000

WordPress is extremely search engine friendly and with a Google Webmaster Tools account you can look up your results quickly and easily.

A very good key word strategy to use is to add a little hittail code to your site. www.hittail.com has a service that will track every keyword people use to get to your site with and it will create a long tail key word list for you, listing up to 300 key words. All of this is done with one line of code.

Another very useful site for overall search engine optimization is at: http://www.webconfs.com/
They host 20 powerful key word tools free for anyone to use, so be sure to take advantage of them.

With all the good key word tools available for WordPress bloggers and web site owners, there are numerous opportunities for you to rank high in the search engines.

If you have a tool you like to use, please suggest one.

This diagram gives you an outline of how you should place your key words in your articles or posts. If you go to
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/my-personal-opinion-90-of-the-rankings-equation-lies-in-these-4-factors where you can read about some other good keyword strategies.

Wordtracker Presentation

Max Holloway sent me this video that will help you learn why people would be willing to link back to your site. Good information for all website owners to learn.

By Ken McGaffin, developer of Wordtracker’s Link Building Tool

Blogging Expert John Chow to Speak At BlogWorld Expo 2008

August 25, 2008 By Sherry Tingley

One person I’d like to meet at the next BlogWorld Exp (Sept. 19-21, 2008) in Las Vegas is John Chow. Well known for his crazy videos, explosive income growth and personality, he has one of the most successful blogs on the internet and he shares his secrets to success. He actually keeps a log of his monthly income growth and what programs he used to generate that income.

John is best known for showing the power of blogging when he used his blog as an income case study. He took thejohnchow.com from $350 per month to a over $27,000 per month in just one year.

This is what is posted on his blog:

Total Blog Income for May 2008: 227,705.80 RMB

Despite the difficulties of doing business in China, the blog posted a record high income of 227,705.80 RMB, or 228 times greater than the average monthly income of a Chinese factory worker. The income converts to $32,529.40 USD. Here is the breakdown.

Private Ad Sales: $16,380.00
Affiliate Commissions: $9,757.04
ReviewMe: $3,000.00
Text Link Ads: $2,036.22
Kontera: $1,000.00
TTZ Media: $329.50
Subscription: $20.00
FeedBurner: $6.64
Grand Total: $32,529.40

Don’t forget to take your video camera and take videos.

20 Top Blog Submission Directories in a WordPress Plugin

August 25, 2008 By Sherry Tingley

A new WordPress plugin has been created that will have direct links to 20 different places to submit your blog. These twenty blog submission directories are popular places to advertise your new WordPress blog. They appear as links inside the back office of your WordPress blog.

These links are great places to submit your blog to get traffic back to your URL. Some of the links go to blog tracking web sites like www.technorati.com where you can see tracking statistics and find out the popularity of your blog.

Some of the links, like the blog analyzer go to places that analyze your blog posts so you can see which of your posts are pulling the most traffic.

Other links are popular blog submission directories that have been recommended.

wordpress plugin blog submission directories

This is just a sample of how it will look in the back office of WordPress. You can see it in on the right side of the page when you use the write screen to write a post.

Hopefully it will give you some ideas of where to submit your new blog.

Download the WordPress Plugin here.

If you want to suggest a blog submission diretory to be added to this list, please suggest one!

What does it cost?

I am releasing this 20 Top Blog Summission Directories WordPress plugin into the blogging community as donation-ware.

However, these plugins do take time to write, update, and provide support – so if you find it useful then please consider making a donation. You just click the button below and it will direct you to PayPal. You can donate any amount you wish.

Blogging Tips Plugin for WordPress

August 7, 2008 By Sherry Tingley

Blogging has become a popular way of building a website and many times that website can become a lucrative business. Getting ideas to write about becomes difficult for some people and after they have written their first ten posts, they don’t know what to write about. They need blogging tips.

One of the first plugins to be written for Word Press was a plugin called, “Hello, Dolly.” Similar to the Hello Dolly format, which puts a line of lyrics in the upper right hand space in the Word Press Administration screen, the blogging tips plugin displays random blogging tips and suggestions. The tips are just some ideas of what you can do to improve the popularity of your blog and improve the content. All of the tips are designed to inspire you to be a better blogger.

It is easy to install plugins to your blog. You just download the zipped file and then open the folder on your computer. You read the installation instructions and then just upload one file to your blog. You will put it in the folder called plugins which is under the folder called wp-content. Then you look for the file in your plugins directory within your Word Press back office and find the plugin called “Blogging Tips.” You click on activate. Be sure you deactivate the Hello Dolly plugin if you are currently using that. Enjoy the plugin.

Add a little fun to your Word Press blog and download this plugin for blogging tips.

What does it cost?

I am releasing this WordPress Plugin with Blogging Tips into the blogging community as donation-ware.

However, these plugins do take time to write, update, and provide support â€¦ so if you find it useful then please consider making a donation. You just click the button below and it will direct you to PayPal. You can donate any amount you wish.