Marketing & Monetize Blog

I have recently installed three plugins to make my blog a better one and make my work easy. First of all I must say I was receiving over 1000 spam comments and Akismet blocked all of them but it was hard for me to check if there were any good comments marked as spam so I did some searches and find out a good way to stop all that spam comments:

Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin

This plugin asks the visitor a simple math question to verify if is a machine or a human. I am really satisfied because now I have about 2-3 spam comments marked by Akismet instead of +1000.

The second plugin it was the one that ads a digg button to every post, I am talking about Digg This. It was a good plugin but to many things had to be done in order to make that button to appear and it was annoying. I thought I should remove this plugin, but I found a similar plugin which is easy to install and use:

Digg IT

This plugin allows users to submit a story to digg or if the story was already submitted it allows visitors to vote for the respective story. You can see this plugin “at work” near the title of every post in my blog.

Comments are very important for every blog, so I thought it was time to enchant a little bit my comments form with some tags (many thanks to JohnTP). Along with this plugin there are others that can help increasing comments on blogs:

Comments Quicktags

This plugin makes commenting more easy for visitors. It ads a tag bar when they can use bold or italic and even add links more quicker than before. Check out my comment form !

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One of the problems with the new version of WordPress (2.1 Ella) is that if you use < !–more– > feature to cut posts on your blog it will also cut your your feeds even if you want to show full posts to your RSS Readers.

CaveMonkey50 has developed a plugin called “Full Text Feed” that prevents WordPress 2.1+ from adding a ‘more’ link to your RSS feed and I am sure that this will help a lot of bloggers if they want to publish their full feeds.

If you think “Full Text Feed” is good for your blog you can download the plugin here.

Many thnaks to JohnTP for promoting this plugin.

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Because many people asked me how to make that tabbed menu that I have at the end of each post (you should be here to see the menu) I thought it will be nice to write a tutorial about how do that in Wordpress. If you liked that tabbed menu and you want to enchant your blog here are a few steps to follow…

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Subscribe To Comments 2.1 has just been released. If you use this plugin you should upgrade because it has some nice new features. With the new version you can see how many subscribers there are and you can also see a list of the most “subscribed” posts. If you are not using this plugin yet I suggest to grab it because is a very good one.

Here you can find the latest version and instructions to install.

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Just updated my blog to Wordpress 2.1 and I am happy with the way it looks and acts. I have read on other blogs that not all plugins might work with the new version of Wordpress but this is not my case, all the plugins that I am using are working and I had now problem upgrading to the latest version. If you want to upgrade your Wordpress blog you can download Wordpress 2.1 here and read the upgrading instructions here.

This new version of WP has some great features…

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Here is a very good tutorial for newbie bloggers. They can learn from this video tutorial how to install and use Wordpress and more important they can learn how to optimize their blog for search engines.

Those are very good tips if you want to have a weighty blog. Enjoy !

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