Category — Wordpress Plugins

There is a Wordpress plugin called Lucia’s Love Link that I use to make my sight what they call a dofollow site. A dofollow blog is a site that allows a backlink (a link that a search engine uses to determine page relevancy) when users leave comments and feedback. The idea behind this is search engine juice means more targetted traffic to your blog.

Your site is a lot more relevant when it’s listed by 1000 sites than it is by just two or three. That said, it’s annoying to have people leave a “that’s a cool post!” post and not have anything at all to say about the subject matter. Herein enters the coolfactor [tm.] of this plugin.

The plugin has a lot of cool uses including the ability to only add dofollow to older posts, only add dofollow after a certain number of posts, and it allows you to not allow dofollow for spammylengthsupernamesadvertiserstrytouse, custom definable length by you of course. It allows you to add the option of informing people that you use this plugin at the bottom of a post to discourage human spammers who arrive on your site with the sole purpose of just gaining some link love.

The dofollow movement is awesome, and I’m proud papa, just a moderated one.

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Blogging doesn’t have a lot of overhead, but you have to pay for your hosting and for all that time you spend posting, marketing your blog, negotiating with the stars of hollywood, etc. Don’t be afraid to ask for donations.

If an article that you wrote provided value to someone, including a quick and easy way for them to say thanks in the amount of their choosing is a great way to help a newbie blogger monetize their blog. A new blogger might not have the advertising masses beating down their door, but when traffic does start to flow in, are you set up for people to say thank you?

I downloaded a wordpress plugin called Buy Me Beer which lets you choose custom beer or coffee icons. It lets you choose a sidebar widget and/or a link below each post for folks to show their love of your work.

Buy me a beer!

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I have just installed the Social Bookmarks plugin for Wordpress from Apostolos. It’s a great application that gives you a lot of control on what a reader sees at the bottom of your posts or at the bottom of your index page. (your choice) It has a happy

little dropdown menu that you can enable or disable and it gives you the option of choosing about 50 different social bookmarking sites that your readers can favorite you on. It allows you a custom text message to place above the bookmarking links and custom highlight mouseover text. Check out how the code works at the end of this post and if it’s helpful to you, click the bookmarklets!

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