Killer New BLAM4 Features!

It’s been absolutely astonishing to see the traffic pour in over the past several weeks – we cannot express it enough: everyone here at BLAM Ads is truly grateful for all the business that you guys have sent our way. We understand how many choices there are out there and you have the full commitment of our team that we will continue pushing harder than any competitor in the industry. Our goal was never to work with the most publishers, our goal was to work with the best – and I believe that we’ve aligned ourselves with some of the brightest webmasters and affiliates in the industry. Over the past couple weeks we’ve added, upgraded and fixed many features within BLAM4 and we’ll go into them all on here. One of our bigger focal points of development now is our BLM.BZ link shortening technology and we have been surveying publishers and building in your feature suggestions. BLAM4 is YOUR system, and we are the only company out there that truly takes every suggestion to heart. We need your help to continue growing it, so please – don’t ever hesitate to suggest new features to us! Today we are going to go over some sick features and how they effect the way you can make money with us. If you ever have any questions or bugs to report let us know so we can fix it immediately. Below are just a few of the larger features we’ve added this week:

  • BLAM4 Postback Upgraded: We re-programmed the postback in Java to handle the massive amount of usage it has been getting. We needed a stable, fool-proof system with no outages whatsoever and our development team programmed something that can take far larger systems. We have individual publishers moving upwards of $30,000/day using postback integrated with their technologies. If you need any help with this technology, read our support books!
  • BLAM4 RESTful API New Features: The BLAM ads API provides programmatic access to exactly how the content locking service operates on a site, giving developers control over the types of offers presented to end-users of their sites. Other functionality exposed by this API includes statistics and reporting, account and user management, and integration with virtual currencies – for example interacting with ads in exchange for a certain amount of virtual currency. This RESTful API can be configured to provide a wide range of response types, including JSON, JSONP, XML, PHP, CSV, and HTML. Access to this API is dependent on an account with service.
  • BLM.bz Fixes: As started above, growing our link shortening technology is the highest priority to us. This weekend we upgraded several bugs on the affiliate front end, displaying end, etc. We’ve also built in a FAQ on how to successfully create, edit, and share BLM.BZ links. We’ve been having more and more publishers use this technology because it allows 110% content locking without any circumventing. For anyone offering downloads of any type, this means more money to you.

As I said above, we’ve seen a massive influx of traffic fly through our BLM.BZ link shortening service because it allows you to 100% securely lock all content. Unlike traditional content locking that “smarter” people can always find a way to bypass, users are forced through our service which never displays the ending URL until the offers are completed. We also have pre-built-in technology for people with ad blocking and javascript disabled so they can run through our HTML version before gaining access. For anyone offering downloads on their site this will increase your conversions by 200% easily. We’re building a lot of killer features in this technology so stay tuned, BLAM Ads just eats our competition up.

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Blog Networks & BLAM Ads

It’s been exciting to see all the volume fly into BLAM Ads over the past week – I love running this company. Building our BLAM4 technology from the ground up has been one of the most exciting aspects of our business. Now that the core tracking platform is completed we are able to release new features ultra-fast. The biggest challenge for us to overcome and enhance is to improve our automatic gateway algorithm. A personal goal of mine is to make BLAM Ads as simple as humanly possible, and part of keeping it simple is to make sure that our automatic optimziation works to the best of it’s ability. In the coming week we will have a newly enhanced model that will make our publishers more money, and you can be sure that we will not stop there. Constantly improving features, making it easier to use, and adding new ways for publishers to make money will remain a paramount part of our business model. If you ever have any feature ideas, problems or really anything in general please feel free to contact me directly or post it inside the group and we will implement it quickly for you! Anyways, today we are going to discuss yet another topic: BLAM Ads and Blog Networks EPIC GUIDE!

Backlinks, backlinks, we just can’t have enough of them. They say too much of anything is good for nothing, unfortunately it does not apply to backlinks. get as many backlinks as you can, no matter what happens to google, backlinks are always important. Over the past few years, blog networks have grown rapidly. They went from having just a handful of blogs to having hundreds and thousands, who knows maybe hundred thousand? People have had all sorts of myths about blog networks, they say that big G spies on these networks and penalizes you if you get links from those sites. People also believe that the blogs in the blog network are not good enough to boost your rankings.

The truth is that those myths are true to a certain extent. For example, when bloggers signed up at PayPerPost to sell blog links, a few months in and the Page Rank of almost all the sites on that platform was reduced by almost 2-3. Once that happened, a lot of people quit that platform and started selling blog links directly. Although frequency of work was very less, they got paid directly. Because of that incident people thought that blog networks are dead. There are a few other blog networks, like linkvana. With linkvana, you know that you are going to rank because you get your link on over 900000 sites! Unlike a few networks, this does not accept copied content. You create an original article on your blog, you let them do the rest.

Why blog networks are good:

  • Usually high PR Sites
  • Loads of inbound links
  • Controlled link building
  • Permanent backlinks
  • Cool rankings!

Some networks have a limit on the number of links they build, others however have no limits. They just keep building links until you ask them to stop! This is particularly useful if you are trying to rank in a competitive niche.

On the whole:

  • Blog networks are good, just find one which has a sizable number of blogs under it!
  • They work really well for sites with high competition.
  • Sites with low competition work well too, as said earlier, get as many as links as possible!
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Trapstation Takeover – API Updated!

Long live the BLAM Ads revolution! We stand together against the competition and band against the traitors. We established ourselves as a leading brand in the content locking and incentivized advertising industry by raising the bar to a level that our competitors couldn’t compete with. BLAM Ads raised to the top spot in less than 2 years by working harder, longer, and smarter than any competitor out there. When we launched our company the competition we had was running their businesses unethically and we decided to change the standard publishers were used to. Like we did with EWA, we did it the ethical way and it’s proven far more profitable. We set a higher standard that none of our competitors will stand up to, and you have the commitment of our entire team that we will continue working harder than anyone out there to earn your business. With all the choices out there I am confident that you will continue running your business with BLAM Ads because you will always make more money with us.

It’s a little bit longer than 2 weeks into the new year and we’ve made huge progress by releasing a fully developed API for our development and virtual currency publishers. It is been requested over and over to increase the scale of our technology and we finally delivered. If you have any suggestions please contact me directly and we will build into our API to make your life easier. Unlike other networks out there, we actually listen to our publishers and develop in all their ideas almost immediately. We have a development team of twenty programmers within Eagle Web Assets and they are on hand 24/7, ready to develop anything that you want. If you have any questions regarding how to integrate plan that’s with various GPT or virtual currency systems, simply refer to or support guide as he developed it out completely. In the coming weeks we will be adding all the GPT systems to a separate integration guide using are more robust API. BLAM Ads has more offers than any leading network out there, in many of these offers do except harden sent so integrating them with your API can mean thousands upon thousands of dollars.
We’ve also added over 30 graphical fixes, user interface changes, and fixed minor bugs to make your experience better. We rely entirely on user feedback so if you ever locate a bug or can’t figure something out, click here and our tech support team will assist you immediately. Since launching the lamb for in November, we have added over 300 new features fixed bugs and enhanced the user interface. Compare our technology to anyone out there, and I am entirely confident that ours reign supreme over the rest. To bring in the new year strong, we announced the release of even easier video content locking technology. Now you can simply add one line of code to your page just like the website content lacking Gateway and will lock all flash elements within the page. We understood that our old model was a very hard to use, so this new one should be even easier. We have a whole interface on the backend for you to block out or include various elements on each page. If you need any help utilizing this technology, simply contact your account manager or create a support ticket we will help you immediately.

We also just hired a new members to the team that we will announce with and within the next week. He’s been working with us for quite a bit now on the side and we decided ring him on full-time so stay tuned for our formal introduction of the newest team member. We are also going to start restart affiliate approvals within the next 2 to 3 weeks so please refer a friend into our community so we can help grow. We keep our doors very tight and only allow limited members and at a time, relying entirely on referrals for new members. If you enjoy your experience, contact your account manager or utilize the referral link to get a commission off of your affiliates. We have members that are generating over $25,000 a month in commission just by referring members in tort plan for network.

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Introduction to Paid Traffic

Long Live the BLAM Revolution! It’s 2012 – the end of the world for our competition and we’re looking forward for the continued growth of our company. After reviewing the entire year, I’m truly grateful for all the business we have gotten and it’s been the most exciting project for me to oversee. BLAM Ads truly has the most dedicated team and affiliates – together we will destroy these lowly competitors one by one. To start off the year strong, we’re going over a quick guide for Using Paid Traffic with BLAM Ads!

Using BLAM with paid is pretty much like running paid traffic with EWA, the only difference is that you are actually running “INCENTIVISED” offers instead of no incents. You could actually tell the user that they would be getting something in return for completing and offer. Doing this is not going to be easy, basically you have really less space on your ads to shout out the benefits of a particular offer, let alone the incent stuff. But still, we could manage to squeeze it in if we focus on the incent and not the benefit. Again, split testing is important.

Facebook:
We love Facebook when it comes to offers at EWA, but for offers at BLAM, we still love it. Its not going to be too different. We pick a good offer, create an ad, let it run and see business rolling. Not so easy of course, you know the drill don’t you? Anyway, lets say that you’re running a gaming offer. If you run it to Warcraft, Starcraft or any craft fans, you could include a guide, or a simple 3 page strategy that will allow them to get better in their game. This way you have a higher chance of getting the lead.

Google Adwords:
It never is the same! Keep it simple, get a “GREAT” landing page, don’t use any links that may look remotely suspicious. Again, pretty much the same when it comes to running offers on adwords, you have character limit for your text and you don’t want to waste it. Use it to the best possible extent and you are sure to get more clicks. The Starcraft guide will also work here, but just make sure that you target well.

Media Buys:
If you manage to get a good banner, flashy one with a good CTR, you are in for a treat. I personally prefer to scream out my incentive. That lures them . the next flash would be what they have to do, and finally a click here would pop up, yes people have to be told to click, they don’t know that they have to click.

Running incent on other platforms is not as easy as these platforms. Facebook is wide and huge, you have an awesome inventory at your disposal. Google is obviously huge and media buys give you great control. PoF might work if you have dating incent offers, don’t run a Warcraft guide on that site! The other better option would be running incent on PPV, and yes they run great on PPV.

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Building Backlinks Through Guest Blogging

It’s been a busy weekend and there is nothing better than ending it with a strong newsletter from the most superior content locking company, BLAM Ads. Unlike everyone else, we work around the clock, 7 days a week, during the holidays, 365 days a year to ensure that our publishers get the best support possible. I was just taking a survey of EWA Network members and I got 3-4 responses of people that said they liked BLAM Ads more because the support was better, and that truly made me happy. I guess it’s a win / win situation there for us. Anyways, today’s newsletter is an EPIC GUIDE on Building Backlinks Through Guest Blogging! If you ever want me to write about a topic, drop me an email directly and I’ll make it happen for you.

This is pretty much an open secret. You can write posts on other’s blogs, most of them will let you get a backlink from that site, more than a handful of those sites would be good sites. Normally, the steps that any damn guide would tell you would be:

  • Google for blogs in your niche
  • Click the “Contact” page.
  • Email the owner asking for permission.
  • The owner “gladly” agrees to do so.
  • You post, you get a backlink.

Sorry if I’m gonna break hearts but it definitely isnt’ that easy. If it was that easy, peasants would not exist. Period! In theory, those steps would do fine, but in reality, they really suck. Finding blogs in your niche is not that hard, clicking the contact page isn’t either, pretty much the same with asking permission. But the owner does not necessarily agree.

Find Related Blogs
You are going to find a huge range of blogs. These blogs range from 99% dead blogs, blogs maintained by kids who don’t give a damn, spammers, and certainly fellow marketers. Oh did I miss the “real” bloggers part? There are just a few bloggers who really blog, just blog with little to no marketing ideas. The maximum gain they would be getting would probably be from – adsense. They are usually blogs that have a decent amount of traffic, but importantly they have a good pagerank and lots of backlinks. You will need to find such blogs. If you contact an affiliate, you might are most unlikely to get a reply, worse you could get your landing page stolen! Avoid trying to contact affiliates! Scan the site for affiliate links and then go to the next step!

Contact Page
Self-explanatory, but there are a few webmasters who don’t really check the emails they get on their site’s email. In such an event, it would be wise to find the webmaster’s personal email ID somewhere on the site. You could use a scraper for this, find a nice scraper like scrapebox and look for email IDs that match the name of the site owner. Manual search also helps.

EMailing The Owner
Link exchange is useless, unless you are building a pyramid or a triangle in this case, you will not go for link exchange. That destroys the who idea. You are giving the person a free blog post, you will not pay. If he insists on something, give him something like a free eBook or some advice, they will hate it, don’t worry. There are a few people who try to “MANIPULATE” you. Never let that happen. You ask for a guest post, you post and you disappear. You will not, for any reason whatsoever appear before him again just to say “HI”. Does not apply in case you really want to keep in touch, I really can’t help you here! Keep in mind these points:

  • You will NOT go for link exchange
  • You will NOT pay (paying is a different ball game)
  • You are NOT his slave.

After you are clear about all the above, email him, explain that you will write a “USEFUL” post about the subject. Explain that you will need a link back to your site. Keep it simple, don’t’ explain too much, you don’t want him stealing your business.

Owner Agrees
The owner may or may not agree, but if you found a blog that fits all the criteria I mentioned, there is every chance that you get a blog post. Get your head together and get a good blog post. Keep it neat and simple, not too many affiliate links or not too many links to your site. But make sure that you put your link in someplace clickable, you don’t want a hidden link do you?

The Post
Grammar, speeling (ha?) everything is important. People hate errors! Keep the post neat, no defamatory stuff, no nonsense. Proofread it more than once and send it to the owner of the site. Make necessary changes if the owner asks for them, but don’t bend too much, you want to essence of the post to remain. After your post goes live, you might want to give that post some scrapebox links. They will certainly help. Also, you could give it some bookmarks or any other simple backlinks you can think about. After all, that gives you traffic right?

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Ball Like a Ball Player

I’ve been out for the past couple days but it was exciting to come back and see BLAM Revolution running stronger than ever! Our team has been working around the clock hand-in-hand with our publishers to get every single feature they want implemented in the system as quickly as possible. In addition, we’ve been building up the entire support center over the past couple months to encompass every single question that our publishers have had. If you think there’s any questions that were missing, or have anything you would like explained further – simply drop me an e-mail right now and I will personally add it for you. Keep in mind, we are still the process of adding various integration documents, and answering additional questions for any publishers that have relative questions once they’ve been approved.

On Monday, we are adding several new hot fixes that will help make your life easier and most importantly help make you more money. If you compare the service you’re getting from BLAM Ads to any other competitor, I guarantee that you ours will stack higher. We operate the most active community, have the most dedicated account managers, we are the only network that actually listens to our affiliates and takes their advice. We understand that it’s you, the affiliate, that truly drives our company. Anyways, enjoy our guide below on how to monetize sporting events.

It’s been discussed in the group several times and I would like to discuss it right now finally inside of the newsletter. Similar to people that monetize movies, you can monetize the craze that’s been going on with sporting events. In America, the most popular growing trend right now are the UFC matches. Our publishers have been utilizing SEO on all the events in advance and then content locking them with BLAM4. You would be absolutely surprised with the amount of revenue sites like this can make. We have seen publishers drive stable days of $15-$20,000 each day with content locking UFC matches. There are so many sub-niches that you can go with this and the traffic is huge. The audience is also perfect for content locking as they are dumber than a rock in most cases. Try content locking the videos of the matches and preparing the content before the matches even out, keep in mind the competition is fierce especially when you’re playing with other BLAM4 affiliates.

If you want another audience that is even more monetizeable, you should try hitting the WWE wrestling keywords. Try offering video content, it’s an easy seller. There are also so many niches within this I’ve been able to generate with some of my own personal websites huge stable base with a profit from pure SEO organic traffic. These sporting events are tailored to a male audience, so when you work with your account manager be sure to select the right offers for that demographic. Try building websites around specific wrestlers, specific matches, or really anything related to the entire franchise. SEOing the pay per view matches is another great way to reap some massive profits. You can offer membership sections on your website that require BLAM4 content locking to get access to. It’s another way to offer free content but still monetize the most important content on them.

Whenever you use the BLAM Content Gateway, be sure to utilize the tease timer as will drastically increase your conversion rates. Without using the tease timer, the consumer has no clue what they’re actually opting into filling out. With this new feature added in BLAM4, the visitor will get a short preview of the content then there will be more inclined to actually fill out the offers. Since adding this to our Gateway, publishers have been able to make huge amounts of more higher conversions. Last week we also added the “Try Another Offer” button for deals that don’t fire once the campaign is completed. Sometimes the merchant has a delayed release so when the visitor fills out the offer, and it doesn’t release, they can press the new button and try again. In some cases, you can get double conversions off visitors.

Before letting you go we want to make our most important announcement, we have just decreased the PayPal threshold to only $50 so all of our publishers can get paid without having to earn massive amounts! This is been a request over and over by our publishers since the beginning, and we decided to change the rules after Andre and the sales team lobbied the accounting division. Since changing this on Friday, we have seem drastic increases in volume fly through our company and we are excited to continue growing business with you. Thank you for being part of the BLAM revolution, together will band against the traders and competitors to watch our profits fly.

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Membership Mania

I absolutely love waking up in the morning doing what I do! Running BLAM Ads is one of the most exciting projects for me within the Eagle Web Assets Empire. I have been able to oversee the project since the beginning with Andre on board right next to me. When we first launched BLAM Ads, we used a third-party tracking system as the core for our technology. We almost immediately realized that we needed to develop our own system from the ground up. After months and months of development, we release BLAM4. To say the least, it’s been a challenge for us to make sure everything is working and all the features are added. Most importantly – it’s a challenge that the entire team is up for, as you can see with the most recent releases:

  • We finally released the Country Code via API, a feature that was requested by several publishers.
  • Various UI bugs were fixed that were randomly occurring.
  • The custom report is now fixed and loading faster after the database restructuring.
  • We added impressions per gateway inside reports you can see specifically which content locker is getting traffic.
  • The hand tailored top list is now integrated on affiliate snapshot page.
  • Per user feedback, we added the Try Another Offer Button on all the website gateways. This will make sure that you get the maximum possible.
  • We extended the session timeout. So you don’t need to keep re-logging in over and over.
  • Add your feature here!

We are always looking for your feedback as it’s necessary to progress BLAM4! The more feedback you give us, the more features get added, and the more money you make. We are relying heavily on the small base of affiliates that we allowed into the network to hear feedback. All new applications have been closed, giving you guys a competitive advantage over any other webmaster. For this advantage, we need your support and critique on how to improve our system!

Today we are going to talk how to monetize websites that have membership sites. The topic was brought up in the BLAM Revolution Community, and it’s been a topic that’s been on my mind for quite a long time now. When I first launched BLAM Ads, I wanted to provide a solution not only for social application developers, but for webmasters to make money from their site applications. A lot of webmasters utilize membership sections to grant users access to more content to their sites. You can use the BLAM4 Gateway to protect the page that gives the memberships away. If you want to increase the value of your membership we suggest that you increase the number of offers required for the user to grant access to the page. This unique feature to BLAM4 can force your users to complete multiple offers on the same gateway!

In the coming months, we will we will be releasing an advanced protocol for webmasters that have membership sections on their page. We want to offer BLAM Ads as an alternative method for you to make money instead of actually having to charge to the consumer. We have been working with some merchants directly to provide similar services. Advertisers added BLAM technology on their offers to allow them to get money from visitors that don’t have credit cards. Instead of scaring away valuable customers, use BLAM Ads offers and gateway technology to monetize them without ever having to pull out the credit card to spend a dime.

Due to popular demand, we are in the process of developing a more advanced API system that will allow you to pass numbered variables. For advanced users that understand API, this will allow you to get even larger profit from your visitors. We have seen our merchants increase their profitability by 200% by having this competitive advantage over others that simply charge the credit card. I’m just touching on the generalized idea of it right now, but there’s a lot of room for your creativity especially if you’re a programmer. We are writing a detailed guide on how to use the content locker as a method to monetize your membership sites, and a guide how to use our API as a backend to get cold hard cash.

Before letting you go, I like to highlight the fact that we’ve completely expanded our support section to include content locking integration help. We understand that implementing the gateway code can sometimes be difficult, so we broke it out by HTML websites, WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, Joomla, and basic forum integration. If you have any topics that you would like me to explain, shoot me an e-mail directly and I will expound upon it completely in the support center for you. The Website Content Locking Integration area is still a rough draft, so please bare with us here as there is still some editing to do!

Thanks for living the BLAM revolution. We truly appreciate all the business you sent our way and would like to thank everybody that have sent over referrals. We are looking for webmasters that have movie sites, viral traffic, Facebook traffic, application developers, and anyone that you think would benefit from art technology. If you refer somebody in, we will make sure you get paid higher on all the deals and get their referral commission.

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Upgrade?

Another day, another dollar, another reason to read BLAM Ads newsletters. We’ve been working around the clock adding additional fixes and features to our BLAM4 technology. We would like to thank everyone that took the time to reach out with all their feedback so we can better our software. In the coming weeks we will be releasing over 80 hotfixes including some more notable ones including:

  • Flash Gateway will output single line of code to add on pages to protect all objects.
  • BLM.BZ will have full gateway offer selection functions.
  • Ability for users to view offers via international proxies (built in)
  • Fully developed API functionality and documentation.
  • More robust offer searching so you can easily navigate and locate campaigns.
  • Integrated top list with hand-selected offers.
  • Add your feature here!

We also finally completed the entire knowledge database explaining the exact functionality of all the gateway creation features. Throughout the next two weeks we will be adding exact explanations of how to utilize our flash gateway, flash embed, onclick features, integrating code into HTML sites, and how to integrate our code on a wide array of content management systems including WordPress and Drupal. We saw how little our competitors informed their affiliates and we decided it was time to step ahead of the competition in yet another aspect. If you ever have any additional questions, don’t be scared to create a support ticket or contact your account manager and our team will get back to you immediately! BLAM Ads wants to stand ahead of our competition not only in higher payments and superior technology, but most importantly in customer service.

With todays newsletters comes some of the strongest new USA incent campaigns in the industry. Affiliates have been requesting more mobile and survey offers, so we delivered. Some notable deals you should add to your content gateway are 7311 – Mobile: Win a PS3 (US), 7324 – Survey: Win new Apple Products! (US), 7335 – Survey: Win a 64gb Apple iPad! (US). If you have viral traffic, these deals will dominate for on your gateway. We are seeing EPC’s with our initial internal traffic as high as .32c. We highly suggest that you add these deals into your gateways rotation and you’ll start seeing higher EPC’s instantly. It’s our number one priority to continue adding more domestic incent deals so you can really start driving some massive profits to us. We have some

The classic deal, 7346 – Lead – Clipngo Coupons (US) was just re-added today. This offer was getting over $30,000/day worth of traffic through our gateway alone – that’s not even including the GPT traffic. For any publishers that own GPT sites, this deal is a must for you to add to rotation. It’s a short form lead generation that dominates with the audiences that usually follow through offers. Contact your account manager for a free payout bump on this offer and we will make it happen just to get your volume over to BLAM Ads. For any new publishers reading this newsletter, BLAM Ads will beat any payout that any network offers you to get your business. We love competition – it forces us to work harder and bring you better services. If you’ve enjoyed your experience with our company so far – the biggest compliment is a referral!

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How To Optimize WordPress

First off, everyone here at BLAM Ads would like to thank you for all the volume and traffic you’ve been sending our way. There are a lot of choices out there and you have the full commitment of our team that we will continue going above and beyond to provide you the best experience possible. We truly appreciate all the revenue you’ve sent our way and you guys are the people that keep us motivated to work harder, longer and smarter than anyone else in the industry. Before continuing onto your newsletter, we’re trying to add more features to BLAM4 and we need your feedback here. Unlike other ad networks, BLAM Ads actually listens and interacts with our publishers on a personal level. We are trying to make the most superior system out there and if we rely just on our own ideas and concepts we won’t be able to reach the goals we set. Today we are releasing yet another EPIC guide to our publishers on WH SEO: How to Optimize WordPress Sites!

How do you SEO WordPress?
Pretty decent and straightforward question! There are a few plugins that are absolutely essential when it comes to SEO for WordPress Unlike SEO for HTML pages, you need not enter the HTML tags every time, in reality; you cannot, as it doesn’t work so well. I have had pages showing up crazy stuff on Google when I tried experimenting. For a normal website, that was built in HTML, you would go about adding the tags in the HTML code and you would upload the site onto your server. With WordPress, you install WordPress, you install the plugins and you are good to go!

All in One SEO Pack for WordPress:
Yes, a simple all in one SEO pack. This covers the basics; unfortunately it’s not a 100% all in one. The plugin lets you to define title tags, Meta tags, keywords and other basic tags on each WordPress post. Although Google doesn’t count on that, you definitely need all that to tell users that your site has some content that interests them.

The plugin features a simple interface. To give it a test, click “Add New” under posts and you will see that you have additional options below the editor. The first blank is for the title. Choose the title wisely, make sure that it is catchy and also make sure that it includes the main keyword or keywords. The title tag is a very important part of on page optimization so you MUST choose a good title. The description tag comes next. When a user searches on Google, he sees the title and your description followed by the URL. The title grabs the users attention, the description tells him that there is something of value in the website and makes him click it.

The lesser important tag would be the last tag under AIO SEO pack for WordPress, the keywords tag. Google used to give a hell lot of importance to this tag, but then people started abusing this. keyword stuffing made searching on Google a pain, you would go to pages where you would get absolutely nothing! Although this isn’t a really important tag, it tells Google to some extent that you have content that is relevant to those keywords. Just because it isn’t that important, it doesn’t mean that you could leave it!

XML Site Maps:
This plugin creates a site map for your site. Search engines are stupid, they use these site maps to get to every nook and corner of your site. Imagine a situation in which you have a wonderful page , or rather your money page. What if Google misses that page? If it does miss that page, you are going to lose a hell lot of money. We don’t like people losing money for silly reasons! Install XML site maps and generate a site map for your site. Go to the plugin page, let the default options remain and click generate site map You could download the site map and submit it to directories.

Make sure that there are no broken links, if there are broken links, it is a big NO from Google In some cases, a couple of WordPress pages turn up as broken links, these are nothing but dynamically generated pages. You need not worry about this as Google bot knows the dynamic and static part of WordPress.

Robots Meta:
The robots meta plugin lets you to stop search engines from visiting certain pages. Although this is not a very important plugin, it will certainly help with avoiding your “admin page” being shown on the SERPs. Really nothing much about this plugin! Install he plugin, enter the admin area and generate your robots meta file. For the configuration, simply select the default options and generate it.

Other Additional Plugins:

  • Twitter Wings: Integrate twitter. Social media is another source of cash isn’t it?
  • Syndication Plugins: There are a few plugins out there that will syndicate your posts to other web 2.0 properties. This helps in getting instant backlinks to your site. The instant backlinks can be a big boost depending on the keyword, if your keyword is an easy one; you are likely to rank instantly!
  • Social media counters: Let’s your visitors bookmark or tweet or anything else related to social media directly from your site, also displays statistics! If you are keen about social involvement, then this is the deal!
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Setting up WordPress

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Today’s newsletter is focusing on WordPress, our preferred content management system for webmasters. We are going to be following up with a series of guides on WordPress and how to better optimize and manage your websites. WordPress is the simplest and most widely used CMS. It is simply awesome and Google loves WordPress What is it that makes WordPress so good? Enjoy our Setting up WordPress Guide!

It is Highly Customizable
You can do whatever you want with it and yes it is open source if you were wondering about it! Unlike most platforms, you have access to a huge set of developers who will help you in setting up stuff for WordPress This gives you room for a lot of development and certainly for some crazy stuff.

Absolutely Insane Amount of Plugins
Wordpress has been around for long enough, it’s popularity increases every day. So are the amount of plugins for WordPress, you have plugins for almost everything that WordPress doesn’t offer directly. Maybe one day you will have a plugin for washing your clothes? A lot more… Too many reasons, let’s get back to the topic now!

Setting up WordPress. can be done in two ways. One is the traditional way of downloading the files from WordPress., uploading them to your server and installing from your server. The other would be using a program like fantastico, which is usually provided by your hosting company.

Manual Method:
The manual method involves downloading the files from WordPress., uploading the files to your server and initializing installation. You have to make sure that your host has all the necessary requirements to be able to run WordPress. In most cases, hosts are good, but there are a few hosts that are outright ugly!

The basic requirements to run WordPress. are:

PHP 4.2 or above
MySQL 4.0 or above
Apache mod_rewrite module

The mod_rewrite module is an important component. This enables you to change certain technical aspects of the installation. Need a simpler idea, if you don’t have the mod_rewrite module, you cannot change your permalinks! If you cannot change your permalinks, you will not be able to create search engine friendly URLs, you will lose SEO rank and you will lose money!

Set up a MySQL database from your control panel. Simply go to the MySQL databases option and create a new table. You will need to following information, I’ve given you some examples:

Database Name – WPDB1
User Name – WPDBUSER
Password – ********
Host Name – localhost

Configure your wp-config file. Needless to say, this is the configuration file. The file is similar to :

define(‘DB_NAME’, WordPress.); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘username’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // it is unlikely that you change this value!

From the sample file, change the values to the ones which you have given to your tables.

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘WPDB1′); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘WPDBUSER’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘********’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // it is unlikely that you change this value!

After you edit your config file, it is time to upload all these files to your server. Either use an FTP client or you could directly upload through the cPanel. After you have uploaded the files, go to http://YourSite.TLD/wp-admin/install.php

Here comes the hard part, the very hard part…

Once you open the install.php file, you will get a page that will welcome you to WordPress. and you will be asked to proceed to step 1. Click proceed, another window will open. Here, enter

The name for your blog
An email address for communication
Check the box that says – allow search engines
Click “Continue to second step”

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