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Five WordPress Plugins I Can’t Live Without

Feb 8
Blogging

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We all know that WordPress is an awesome blogging platform. Honestly, I can’t see why anybody would want to blog with any other substandard tool. But besides its ease of use, the best thing about WordPress is its ability to be made better with the addition of plugins. I wanted to share a few of the plugins that I use on this blog, and give you a bit about why I can’t live without them.

CommentLuv – The CommentLuv plugin is awesome. Whenever a legitimate user (not you spammers) leaves a comment on my blog, CommentLuv will automagically connect to their blog and add a link to their latest post on their comment. It’s a great way to share the link love.

Subscribe to Comments – Subscribe to Comments does exactly what it sounds like. It gives folks who comment a chance to get an email whenever someone replies to their comment (or to the post). How does this help bloggers? It reminds them that there was a blog that they commented on, and that they should return to your page. Nice, huh?

Tweet This – This plugin adds a ‘Tweet This Post’ option to your blog posts. It also can shorten URLs using Bit.ly so that your tweets don’t get truncated.

Twitter Tools – Another Twitter related plugin, this one helps integrate your blog with Twitter, autoposting a tweet whenever you publish a new post. This in conjunction with Tweet This can add a potential viral factor to your blog. Just publish your post, let the readers come, and they retweet it. Nice, right?

Ninja Affiliate – This, to me, is the mother of all WordPress plugins. It’s not a free product, but it is by far the most useful plugin I have ever used. Basically, it’s a URL cloaker that also can replace keywords in your blog with affiliate links. Can you say money? I knew you could. Not only is it great for use inside the blog, but you can use it to make your affiliate link easier to remember, such as http://thesugarbuzzproject.net/my-affiliate-link. Sure beats trying to memorize all of those numbers, letters, and weird characters, right? Believe me, if you can fit it into your blog’s budget, I can’t emphasize enough the value of this plugin.

 


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Getting ready for the SuperBowl? Not me!

Feb 7
Rambling

I’m not watching the Super Bowl. Why? Because I’m just not that into sports. Instead, I’m looking to find myself in the middle of a good Magic: the Gathering duel. Yes, I am that big of a nerd.

For some people, it is a lot of fun to hang out, get wasted and watch a bunch of huge dudes kill each other on the field. But for me, why watch it on television when I can have the same effect (but a bit more interactive) with a good Magic game? Large creatures killing each other, now that’s my kind of game.

I’ve decided to do a bit of gear shifting, given some new life developments. I want this blog to have more content posted more frequently, and in order to do that, I really need to focus on making it a lot more personal. That, and doing so will give me another method of relieving the stress in my life.

How can I be so stressed out all of the time? Well, here’s a rundown of my week: Monday through Wednesday, I didn’t go to work because of the stress and negativity that was piled on top of my depression. Thursday I lost my job. Friday my divorce became final. I’m doing what I can now to keep from killing myself…more figuratively than literally, but I have dealt with depression that was that severe for years, and in the past eight months, it’s become that severe again. I think I’m doing pretty good considering that I’m not on any antidepressants or anything like that.

To tell the truth, some days I just don’t even want to get out of bed. Yesterday, I slept until about 5 PM. Yes, PM. This isn’t the “dot com lifestyle” I had in mind. In fact, I’ve been dealing with so much that I’ve all but stopped doing freelance writing or any kind of serious marketing endeavors.

Really, what I need now more than anything else is encouragement from my friends, family and readers. My life really has been sucking beyond any reason, and some days I just don’t want to go on living, let alone marketing. Then again, I like making a bit of extra money here and there, and that helps distract me a bit.

What about you? Are any of you other bloggers dealing with life situations that are just so stressful that you don’t want to continue? What do you do to force yourself to carry on?

 


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Special Discount – “MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate”

Feb 3
tools

Just heard that “MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate” is available at discount until Feb 05, 2010.

I think this is the best opportunity to grab your copy… and to give you 3 other good reasons, I want to emphasize the features I like the most:

1. You can convert keywords on your blog into money-making affiliate links – within seconds!
2. You can explode your affiliate marketing income almost overnight
3. You can create professional redirect links, quickly & easily

The “Easy Affiliate Link Management” option makes it a breeze, even for a non techie, to start using “MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate” for affiliate commission supercharge.

If you’re still on the fence, I have to confess something to you.

Since I started using this software myself my affiliate commissions almost doubled and I cut link editing time tremendously. Now I don’t have to spend hours changing links to new affiliate IDs, instead I let “MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate” do it for me automatically, while I spend time on other stuff which is important to me.

You can experience similar results yourself. Grab your copy of MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate and try it out for yourself. You’ll thank me later on!

 


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What is Affiliate Marketing?

Jan 27
affiliate marketing

Those of you who try to make money online have either heard about or have been involved in affiliate marketing. But there are a bunch of n00bs out there still scratching their heads trying to figure out how the big guns like John Chow make so much freaking money on the net who haven’t realized that there’s more to it than just making a very awesome blog. The real money is usually made on the back end, and most of the time it involves affiliate marketing.

Still wondering about affiliate marketing? Really? OK, here’s a little visual for you:

Affiliate Marketing Explained

So really, once you get past the big, scary words, affiliate marketing is simply advertising where you earn a cut for your referrals. Now, there are a couple of different ways to go about this. Let’s take a look at a couple of these methods.

Web Affiliate Marketing – This is probably the most prevalent type of affiliate marketing among my readers (and fans of the other guys). While this is a fairly broad term, it essentially means using the web as a tool to promote someone’s product. For example, selling ad space on your blog or website, email marketing (which, although it is done on the web, I don’t personally see it as the same thing as ‘web marketing’), or using social media as a method for promotion. Most of these ads will come from an advertising network, like Logical Media or Market Leverage.

Offline Affiliate Marketing – This is basically the same principle applied to the analog world. One example is if you were to find a person you knew who provided some kind of service, for instance tax preparation, to partner up with. You would promote their service (using word of mouth, fliers, some method of advertising) and in return earn a commission based on your referrals. While it may not be quite as easy as sitting at a computer pasting ad code onto a site, the rewards can be just as great (if not faster, since you wouldn’t have to wait to hit a certain payout threshold).

These two examples are just a basic look at two different realms that affiliate marketing works in. There’s still a lot of good information out there, and I would recommend doing a bit of research. Once you figure out what affiliate marketing is, then it’s only a simple matter of application.

 


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2010 Goes Viral

Jan 20
Videos

Well, it’s “official” (at least as official as you can get on the internet), the first viral meme of 2010 is “Pants on the Ground”.

I’m not a fan of American Idol. Heck, I don’t believe I’ve ever watched it. But I just had to see what this video was about. So, here’s the video that the whole internet is buzzing on:

Not bad. I would even agree with the General that people need to learn to pull their pants up! They look like a fool (which is mild…I usually call them idiots who look like those kids who really, really need a diaper change).

Somebody had better get this message over to those clowns at Improv Everywhere, who recently staged their “No Pants Subway Ride”. Funny? Sure. Sanitary? Questionable. But what would General Platt say about them? He’d have to write a totally different song. Something like “Pants in a Handbag” might work. Nah…

 


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