I updated to WP 2.7 and had nothing but problems. The most important of which was the NoFollow Free plug-in stopped working and all my comments went No-Follow. I went to the forums and saw that many were having worse problems than me. I have since gone back to 2.6 until the bugs are worked out.

The good news is that developer is working on the 2.7 upgrade of that plug-in now.

Anyway, I suggest you guys think before your upgrade, I am not saying that it’s bad, I just wish I had waited for everyone to catch up and for them to work out the bugs, instead of jumping on it and wasting 3 days trying to deal with the issues, not to mention the stress!

A BIG thanks to Hostgator for helping me to restore the blog to where it was, as I said they are the best website host!

Here is my list of must have Wordpress plug-ins for SEO, visitors, subscribers and for admin user friendliness.

Search Engine Optimization Plug-Ins

1. All-In-One SEO Pack - A must have for optimizing your post pages for relevant keywords. This will give you the Meta Tags module for customizing meta tags for every post, as discussed in Website Traffic that Converts.

Make sure to check the box - Overwrite Titles - in the settings of the plug-in. This will ensure that your site wide Title and description does not automatically get inserted into all your posts. Then use the All-In-One SEO module that will appear below each post so you can customize the Title Tags, Description and keywords of the Meta Tag.

It also provides some other great features. One, is if you have your keywords in your blog title you can set the plug-in to automatically have all your posts and blog pages have the format: Post Title | Blog Title in the Title/Meta Tag. This really helps for on-site SEO.

If you don’t have your keywords in the blog title, you can just enter you blog keywords instead: Post Title | Keywords

2. SEO Smart Links - Internal link building plug-in. It is very important to have a comprehensive deep internal link building strategy on all your blog pages, as discussed in Internal Link Building for On-Site SEO. Automatically inserts your desired url’s with related keywords of your choosing within your blog posts.

3. Google XML Sitemaps - Google says: “Submit a Sitemap to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover.”

Google needs that sitemap in an XMl format and this plug-in creates it for you, and has lots of customization settings.

4. Home Page Excerpts - For those that want to avoid the duplicate content penalty and still have their entire posts on the home page.

It is much more search engine friendly to have excerpts of your posts on the home page rather than your recent post in its entirety as some bloggers have. But, if you must this plug-in makes blogs that use full posts on the homepage more search engine friendly. It also gives flexibility to people that want to use both full posts and excerpts on the homepage.

The Google duplicate content penalty applies here and that is why the content of your posts should be displayed fully in one location only, and that is the single post page. The Homepage Excerpts plug-in can be used to reduce this duplicate content while keeping full posts on the homepage.

5. Excerpt Editor - This one allows for a lot more customization of excerpts all over the blog and provides a convenient place for creating and editing excerpts. It can also add custom excerpts for blog pages, which is only possible with a plug-in.

• Append excerpts from the most recent posts or from the sub-pages to all Posts and/or Pages.
• Set pages and posts that you want to eliminate from showing excerpts
• Replace the content with excerpts on the Home page, all archive pages and/or all tags pages.
• Set number of words in excerpts & customize the actual excerpt manually, lots more…

6. Google Positioner - Track your blog for your keywords in Google.

• Track relevant keywords that you want to rank for with a rising curve
• Track your rank for those keywords
• Add regional settings
• Add competitors to compare, lots more…

Visitor Retention and Bounce Rate Plug-Ins

7. Dagon Sitemap Generator - Sitemap for your visitors and NOT for Google. It is always good to have a sitemap on your websites for visitors to have another option for navigating through your content. This is especially crucial for blogs since navigation can be difficult.

This is a great sitemap generator and allows for lots of customization, you can see mine at here. Just create your sitemap and then link to it on your blog, I have mine as a page in the top nav bar.

• Support for multi-level categories and pages
• Category/page exclusion
• Multiple-page generation with navigation
• Customize listing order
• Show comment counts and/or post dates, much more…

8. Similar Posts - Another navigation and SEO must have. Automatically pulls your related posts based on current post content and lists them at the bottom of each post. Engages visitors to stay longer and provides a deep linked blog, which Google loves. Also, allows you to fully customize how posts are generated, like based on tags, categories, keywords etc…

9. Collapsing Categories - This one is great and really improves the navigation and accessibility to your posts. Forms a collapsable set of post links in the sidebar under their respective categories, allows you to select the icon and order of post listings, allows you add RSS link for categories and much more.

When a visitor clicks on the icon the category will collapse and show all blog posts within that category, as opposed to the Wordpress default that takes the visitor to a page of excerpts when they click on a category and often does not list ever post.

Increase Subscriber Count Plug-Ins

10. FeedBurner FeedSmith - This plug-in redirects ALL possible ways that readers can subscribe to your blog and sends them to your Feedburner count, can cause a significant count increase for that Feedburner subscriber widget and allows you to track every possible subscriber.

11. What Would Seth Godin Do - Nifty plug-in that inserts a fully customizable message based on a cookie only to first time visitors to your blog asking them to subscribe or do whatever you want.

12. Comment Relish - This plug-in can help increase your readership and RSS subscription rate by simply sending a short ‘thank you’ message to users when they first comment on your blog. Fully customizable message, where you can solicit, beg and bribe a subscription from that commenter

Admin Plug-Ins

13. Better Comments Manager - Do you hate having to go to each of your posts to reply to your readers comments? I do!!

This one allows you to reply to your comments from within admin panel without having to visit the site. Plus many other admin user-friendly features, for your admin comments section. Check it out at the link and see screenshots and all the great features.

14. Broken Link Checker - Checks your blog for broken links and notifies you in the dashboard. Very user-friendly and has many settings for personalized options.

15. Wordpress Data Backup - Truly a must have, DON’T wait till you get hacked or lose your content some way, believe me you don’t want to live with the regret!

This plug-in has many options for delivery of your backup file and how often you want back up done. I have mine set to daily, because you never know when you will lose your data!

What are your favorite plug-ins?

If you love the content buy me a coffee.

By JR,

Hello everyone, hope all is well, sorry for no posts in a few days, have not been feeling well, I think it’s the sudden cold up here in the California mountains where I live. Will have our first snow on Monday, should be snowed in for about three days :-)…gotta love it.

Here are 7 more Do-Follow social sites for you link building efforts, and a couple of no-follows worth checking out. I have added these to the master list of 65+ Social Bookmark Sites.

Qassia - Do-Follow. PR5. This one is really great, 100% do-follow. At Qassia you have to add articles or snippets of content, they call “Intel” on any topic and at the end of each of those you get a do-follow backlink to the site of your choice. You can add your pre-published articles or original stuff and earn Qassia dollars. The content can even be a couple of paragraphs, nothing fancy is required.

Also,  you can “Screen Intel” on member’s articles with a simple rating system and earn Qassia dollars that are used to make your content rank higher and get more link juice.

In the end you can distribute your Qassia dollars between all your sites depending on those websites or blogs you may want more link juice.

Megite - Do-Follow and easy submission.

Spotback - Do-Follow. PR5 - Spotback has cool widgets to add to your blogs and websites for rating your content, simple little star boxes (see mine at the end of the post). Readers do not have to leave your blog, once they rate it, it automatically goes to Spotback, COOL!! Also mouse over it and checkout how you can add tags without leaving the blog. Spotback has several options for widgets, as well as a Wordpress plug-in.

Launch Feed - Do-Follow. PR4, no anchor text, just URL. This one only allows you to submit your site once, so you can pick home page or a subpage.

Go Zoof -  Do-Follow - PR4 - This is one is good and is 100% do-follow.

Really Awesome People - Do Follow. PR2 @ $5 per link with your own custom personal page. This is Jim Kukral’s creation, not sure if it’s worth $5 but check it out and decide for yourselves.

No Follow Social Sites Worth Considering

Blogengage - No-Follow - PR3 - Blogengage is new but has some good traffic. Brian, the webmaster has also just added Adsense revenue sharing program, I think it’s 50/50. This one is easy submit with the browser bookmark button.

Wobblog - No Follow, but lots of traffic there, can give good exposure for your websites and blogs.

Kaboodle - No Follow. PR6.  Shopping site links, lots of members, especially female, good traffic!

Earners Club - No Follow - IM/AM content only, still PR0 it’s fairly new but has some good traffic, brought me a few visitors to this blog.

2 Considerations for No-Follow Social Sites

1. Traffic - Some of them can bring lots of traffic like Stumble and Reddit and others are just a waste of time. This is something you have to determine on your own by testing, because some niches do really well on social sites and some just don’t!

2. Yahoo and MSN ignore the no-follow tag and so they are still worthwhile for backlinks with those search engines.

As a rule, I always submit to do-follow social sites for the links, but the no-follow sites I usually submit to on a case-by-case basis after some testing.

Happy Link Building!

If you love the content buy me a coffee.

By, JR

Participating in forums relevant to your niche is one of the best ways to get relevant and targeted traffic to your sites and blogs.

Internet forums are so widely used and have thousands of members that ask questions and engage in discussions and that large audience can turn into targeted traffic that can lead to lots of sales and subscribers. If you have not utilized the power of forums in your Internet Marketing endeavors that you are really missing out.

Also, posting in do-follow forums can give you a nice backlink for link building and search engine optimization. The do-follow forum link comes from a link you set in the signature option of your profile, referred to as a sig link. This sig link appears at the bottom of your forum posts. So, every time you post that’s a backlink! Remember to use a good anchor text for SEO but also make sure it is eye catching for the forum audience to get the click!

Make sure to read the TOS and Posting Rules to make sure that you will not get banned. Also check out all the topics available in the forum many of them have a section for website promotion, guides, articles and how-to’s where you can refer to your sites within the post itself.

Make sure to sound like an expert (no typos ) this can bring lots of traffic!

Getting targeted traffic from forum sites is one way to make money online right away, while waiting for SEO to take affect and SERP ranks for the organic traffic. Since most of the forum traffic is highly targeted they are much more likely to buy.

Do-Follow Forums with PR by Niche

Webmaster/SEO/Internet Marketing Do-Follow Forums

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/ - PR7
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ - PR7 - Post requirement prior to sig link
http://forums.seochat.com/ - PR6
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/ - PR6
http://www.zymic.com/forum/ - PR6
http://www.googlecommunity.com/forum/ - PR5
http://www.smallbusinessforums.org/ - PR5
http://forums.site-reference.com/ - PR4
http://www.websitebabble.com/ - PR4
http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/ - PR4
http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/ - PR4
http://www.dreamteammoney.com/ - PR4
http://www.wickedfire.com/ - PR4
http://www.v7n.com/forums/ - PR4
http://www.webdigity.com/ - PR4
http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/ - PR4
http://www.ewealth.com/ - PR4
http://forums.seo.com/ - PR4
http://www.webmasterforums.com/ - PR3
http://siteownersforums.com/ - PR3
http://www.internetmarketingforums.net/ - PR3
http://www.webmasterdesk.org/ - PR3
http://www.internetmarketingforums.net/ - PR3
http://bbs.adultwebmasterinfo.com/ - PR3
http://www.im4newbies.com/forum/ - PR3
http://www.webmasterize.com/ - PR3
http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/index.php - PR3
http://w3seo.org/ - PR3
http://forums.seochat.com/ - PR3 - Member for 30 days before sig link
http://www.affiliateseeking.com/forums/ - PR3
http://www.webmaster-forum.net/ - PR3
http://www.webmasterforumsonline.com/ - PR3
http://allcoolforum.com/ - PR2
http://www.seorefugee.com/forums/ - PR2
http://9mb.com/ - PR2
http://www.searchbliss.com/forum/ - PR2
http://www.decentdiscussions.com/ - PR1
http://www.inboundlinksforum.com/ - PR1
http://www.directoryjunction.com/forums/ - PR0
http://www.webmastershelp.com/ - PR0
http://www.frogengine.com/forum/ - PR0
http://www.capitaltheory.com/ - PR0
http://www.gptboycott.com/forum/ - PR0
http://www.thegreennation.com/forums/ - PR0

International Webmaster/SEO Do-Follow Forums

Australia - http://www.australianwebmaster.com/ - PR3
IRISH - http://www.irishwebmasterforum.com/ - PR3
UK - http://www.davidcastle.org/BB/ - PR2
Phillipines - http://forums.seo.ph/ - PR0

Blogging Do-Follow Forums

http://forums.feedburner.com/ - PR7 - All Feeds Topics
http://forum.newsgator.com/ - PR6
http://www.feedforall.com/forum/ - PR5 - “Favorite RSS Feeds” thread to promote your blogs
http://www.bloggerforum.com/ - PR5
http://www.bloggertalk.com/ - PR5
http://www.bloggeries.com/forum/ - PR4 - Has a Show of Your Blog Thread!
http://www.blogtrafficschool.com/forums/ - PR4
http://www.wtricks.com/ - PR0
http://www.blogodirectory.com/forum/index.php
http://www.rss-forum.de/ - PR7 - German Based Forum

Web Design/Development/Code/Photoshop Do-Follow Forums

http://forums.mysql.com/ - PR7
http://www.zymic.com/forum/ - PR6
http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/ - PR6
http://www.htmlforums.com/ - PR5
http://www.geekpoint.net/ - PR5
http://www.talkfreelance.com/ - PR4
http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/ - PR4
http://www.talk-mania.com/ - PR3
http://www.webmastershelp.com/ - PR0
http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/?ogn=EN_US-gntray_comm_forums - PR9 - Adobe and Flash topics

Electronics/Gadgets/Computers/Digital Hardware/Software/iPhone/Tech/IT Do-Follow Forums

http://forums.cnet.com/ - PR7
http://forums.amd.com/ - PR7
http://forums.microsoft.com/ - PR6 - choose Country and Forum Topic
http://forums.afterdawn.com/ - PR5 - Digital Media/DVD, Digital Cameras etc…No-Follow but allow sig link and very high traffic
http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/ - PR5
http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/Community/en-us/Forums/ - PR5
http://forums.windowsforum.org/ - PR4
http://forums.xandros.com/ - PR4
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/categoryHome.jspa?categoryID=84 - Various PR
http://www.cultofiphone.org/forums/ - PR0
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/ - Various PR

Laptop/Notebooks Do-Follow Forums

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ - PR5
http://www.techsupportforum.com/ - PR5 - I think it’s no-follow but has mass traffic
http://www.notebookforums.com/ - PR4 - Not sure if do-follow but allows sig link and has mass traffic and bonuses for posting

Video Gaming/Gaming Do-Follow Forums

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/index.html - PR8
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/default.aspx - PR8
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/index.html?sid=1 - PR5
http://mygamebuilder.com/forum/ - PR3 - Has a special section for link dropping
http://forums.gentoo.org/ - PR0

Books Do-Follow Forums

http://www.bookforum.com/ - PR7
http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/ - PR3

VOIP Do-Follow Forums

http://forum.skype.com/ - PR6

Wedding/Bridal Do-Follow Forums

http://forums.onewed.com/ - PR4 - Sig link allowed after probation period and it’s no-follow, but big traffic.
http://www.bunchobrides.com/ - PR2 - Not sure if do-follow, but lots of traffic

Tatoo/Body Art/Piercing

http://forum.tattootattoo.info/ - PR2

Work at Home Moms/WHAM Do-Follow Forums

http://www.wahm.com/forum/ - PR4

Science Do-Follow Forums

http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html - PR7

Forum Software Do-Follow Forums

http://bbpress.org/forums/ - PR7

Owners and Admin of Online Communities Do-Follow Forums

http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/ - PR5

Math Do-Follow Forum

http://mathforum.org/ - PR8

Comics Do-Follow Forum

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/ - PR5

Photo Related Do-Follow Forums

http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/ - PR8
http://forums.photobucket.com/ - PR7
http://opensourcephoto.net/forum/ - PR3
http://forum.hot4s.com.au/ - PR3 (Australia)

Home and Garden Do-Follow Forums

http://www.gardenstew.com/ - PR5 - Blog link below each post and parses latest posts
http://www.blossomswap.com/garden-forums/ - PR4 - Parses latest posts near your username in forum posts
http://www.gardenweb.com/ - PR4 - Lots of Traffic!
http://www.homegardenguides.com/garden-forum/ - PR2

Education/Schools Do-Follow Forums

http://chronicle.com/forums/ - PR8

MIDI/Music Mixing/Musicians/Entertainment Do-Follow Forums

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/ - PR5
http://www.votefortheworst.com/forum/ - PR4 - American Idol Vote
http://www.ableton.com/forum/ - PR3
http://forum.hot4s.com.au/ - PR3 - Australia based

My Space Forum

http://forums.myspace.com/s/4.aspx?fuseaction=forums.viewsubforum = PR6

Credit Cards/Banking/Money/Investment/Finance Do-Follow Forums

http://forums.wsj.com/ - PR6
http://paymentprocessing.cc/ - PR6
http://thehyipforum.com/ - PR4
http://www.diggsamachar.com/adrforum/ - PR2

Cellular/Mobile/SMS Do-Follow Forums

http://forums.cnet.com/ - PR7
http://cellphoneforums.net/ - PR5 - No-follow but lots of traffic
http://www.cellphonehacks.com/ - PR3

Dogs/Pets Do-Follow Forums

http://www.i-love-dogs.com/forums/ - PR4
http://www.globalpaw.com/forum/ - PR4 - No follow but great traffic
http://www.chazhound.com/forums/ - PR4

Health/Vitamins/Weight Loss Do-Follow Forums

http://www.publichealthforums.com/ - PR3

Travel Do-Follow Forums

http://www.travelforum.org/ - PR4
http://forums.travel.com/ - PR4
http://forums.touristclick.com/ - PR3

Movies/Video Do-Follow Forums

http://forums.metacafe.com/ - PR6
http://www.movie-list.com/forum/ - PR5

Sports Do-Follow Forums

http://addictsports.com/baseball/ - PR4
http://www.baseballtalkpro.com/forum/ - PR2

Pagan/Witchcraft/Herbology Do-Follow Forums

http://www.paganforum.com/ - PR3

Cooking/Chefs/Food Do-Follow Forums

http://www.cheftalk.com/forums/ - PR4
http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/ - PR3
http://www.cookingjunkies.com/- PR3
http://www.cookingforums.net/ - PR2

Hosting/Web Sales/Domains/Design Do-Follow Forums

http://www.freehostforum.com/ - PR3

Real Estate Do-Follow Forums

http://www.realestateforum.com/ - PR3
http://loanofficerforum.com/forum/ - PR1

Satellite TV/Dish Do-Follow Forums

http://dishnews.medianetwork.co.in/yabb2/YaBB.pl - PR2

Joomla Do-Follow Forum

http://forum.joomla.org/ - PR8

Horses Do-Follow Forums

For my friend Glenda
http://forums.delphiforums.com/dreamhorse

Various Topics

http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=index&webtag=delphicomz

If you guys know of any do-follow forums I missed please leave links in comments or contact me and I will add it to the list.

If you love the content buy me a coffee.

By, JR

Want more blog traffic? Often times blog traffic, like website traffic, can be elusive. Being proactive in getting blog traffic is an important part of blogging.

You can use the usual methods of getting traffic to your blogs, like article marketing, social bookmarks and other link building methods that bring traffic. But, you can also take advantage of the RSS feed technology that comes with blogs and promote them with special RSS/Blog submission sites.

Because blog’s have feeds and are updated regularly with fresh content, RSS sites exist to promote such content to their own members, and that means BLOG TRAFFIC for you.

Blog Traffic
Many of these RSS/Blog directories have lots of members and so they can bring you tons of blog hosting traffic and especially targeted blog traffic since most of these sites categorize the blog submissions by niche, topic and/or subject. Also, many of these sites automatically update on their sites as you post content, so your actual posts get exposure.

Backlinks
Many of these sites are high PR, some 4, 5, 6 plus. And while most are probably no-follow, Yahoo ignores the no-follow tag.

Over 500,000 people searched for blogs this month alone and submitting to these sites is just another way to gain access to those searchers and get blog traffic!

So here is a list of 100 of these RSS/Blog Directory sites that will bring lots of blog traffic. Make sure when you submit to them that you use the appropriate category for your blogs when available and always add your main keywords as tags (if applicable), tags is how many people search for blogs on these sites.

Don’t worry, this list is long but it will not take that long to submit, since quite a few of these sites fetch your info from your meta tags.

100 RSS Submit Sites for Blog Traffic

My Blog Log
Top of Blogs
Feed Bees
Read a Blog
Feed Fury
Suggest Soft
LaunchFeed
2 RSS
5starblogs
88 Feeds
Blawg - Legal Blogs Only
Blloggs
Blogarama
Blogbib
Blogbunch
BlogCatalog
Blogcode
Blog-collector
Blogdigger
Blogdir
Blog-directory
Bloggernow
Blogexplosion
Blogflux
Bloggapedia
Bloggernity
Bloghop
Bloghub
Blogintro
Bloglines
BlogPulse
Blogs.com
Blog-search
Blogs-collection
Blogooculars
Blogscholar
Blogville
Blogz
BoingBoing
Chordata
Day Pop
Feedage
Feed Cat
Feednuts
Feedest
Feeds 2 Read
Feedza
Feed Hoster
Feed Fury
Find RSS
Feed 24
Feed Base
Feed Cycle
FyberSearch
Globe of Blogs
Golden Feed
Gnoos
Icerocket
LSBlogs
Jordomedia
Million RSS
Plazoo
Pressradar
ReadAblog
RSS Mountain
RSS Motron
RSS Feeds
RSS Mad
RSS Feedz
Redtram
RSS Around
RSS Micro
Regator
RSS Network
Syndic 8
Tailrank
Technorati
Today
Topix
Octora

Wilsdomain
We Blog Alot
Yahoo Blogs
Blogs Feeder
Feed Stumbler
Feed Plex
RSS Buffet
Blogoriffic
Blog Toplist
Flookie
Blogion
Blog Burst
Blog Hints

Aspin - ASP applications type content only

Blog Street - Only blogs that about India or written by Indian authors.

Blog Traffic - Auto RSS Submitter Software

Here is an auto submission RSS software, RSS Submit 2.40, but the free version only submits to a handful of sites and I was not that impressed with it.

Blog traffic is important so I suggest submitting manually with the list, it takes time but it is better to control what you put in and make sure your submissions took since many of the sites require email and confirmations to avoid spammers.

Now Go Get Some Blog Traffic!!

If you love the content buy me a coffee.

By JR,

One of the most important parts of a good affiliate marketing website is original and valuable written content. I do not want to rehash the same old argument about the importance of content, I will stick with my stand that good content is:

1. Good for your visitors
2. Good for ranking in serps (search engine rank pages)
3. Good as a keyword density tool
4. Good for Internal linking and on-site SEO
5. Good to distinguish your sites from:
   a) The same links and content that the merchants you are affiliating for have on their sites.
   b) Other similar affiliate websites, like BANS, where many other webmasters are using them.

It is very true that thin affiliate marketing websites do not do well in search engines. Here is a quote from Google Webmaster Help Center

“Our Webmaster Guidelines advise you to create websites with original content that adds value for users. This is particularly important for sites that participate in affiliate programs. Typically, affiliate websites feature product descriptions that appear on sites across that affiliate network. As a result, sites featuring mainly content from affiliate networks can suffer in Google’s search rankings, because they do not have unique content that differentiates them from other sites on the web. Unique, relevant content provides value to users and distinguishes your site from other affiliates, making it more likely to rank well in Google search result pages.”

Content along with a good link building strategy is the formula to get your sites to rank high in the SERPS.

But, content can be one of the most daunting tasks for affiliate marketers, especially if you have a store type site, it is hard to find ideas for written content, sometimes you really have to think outside the box. So here are some ideas for website content:

Website Content Ideas:

1. Lists - People love lists and they are easy to create. IE: Best, Worst, Most Bought, Most Popular, Most Read, Least Liked, 10 ways to…, 5 Methods for…, 8 Types of, etc… the possibilities here are endless.

2. Guides and Tutorials - Every type of product can be fitted to some kind of guide or tutorial and more than one. Even if you are selling clothes you can have a page on size charts, types of clothing for different shapes, hottest fashion trends, buying guide, etc…

3. How-To - How-to’s are great. Just use your imagination, a how-to can be created for just about anything.

4. Side Subjects - You can write about sub-subjects within your main one. For instance if you are selling CD’s you can have pages about music artists, music industry. If selling furniture you can talk about home decorating, if selling cooking ware you can provide recipes etc.. the possibilities are endless.

5. Product Reviews - If you don’t know the product do some research and compile something good.

6. Current Trends/Events related to the niche.

7. Trivia - Trivia is a popular subject and easy to create.

8. Interesting Facts and/or Myths - related to the niche/subject.

9. Histories - on the products or subject of your site.

10. What Returning Visitor’s Have To Say - make it up if you have to.

11. About Pages - add a page detailing what your site is about.

12. Biographies - good one if relevant to your niche.

13. Advantages of Buying Online - This one is universal and applies to any niche and or product. Customize it to your subject, write about the savings of online shopping vs. retail, good opportunity for keywords.

14. PLR - PLR stands for Private Label Rights. These are articles you buy and use as you wish, including publish it verbatim as your own. Do not just copy and paste PLR stuff into your website, much better to tweak and rewrite them a little to make them more unique and original because you never know how many other people have bought the same article. This sure is easier than writing from scratch :-).

There are article spinner softwares out there that claim to auto spin articles and create unique rewrites with synonyms and the like. I actually spent 4 hours yesterday and tried about 20 of them, every single one was a piece of crap, that generated garbage in the spin. If anyone knows of a good one feel free to share with us. I will continue my research and post when I find a good one.

Good PLR Sites:

1. All Private Label Content - Good one. Very Cheap and lots of subjects.
2. PLR Mini Mart - Very Cheap article packs on tons of topics.
3. thePLRarticles.com - Not too much of a selection but cheap.
4. Constant Content - Varies from cheap to REALLY expensive.
5. PLR Article Shop - Pretty Cheap!

15. Feeds - A great way to add regularly updated content to your website. These services provide free news widgets and content feeds that will create the most current news on your sites related to your subject/niche.

Free feed services:

1. Feedzilla - Endless topics and subjects
2. RSS Feed Reader
3. Spring Widgets - Creates cool widgets for news feeds and allows you to create a news widget from any feed or blog URL you enter, even this one
4. Sphere

16. Content Generating Software - Frank at OP Tempo has created Blog Content Wizard, a software that creates content automatically based on keywords you enter and not just for blogs. I have not tried it but it looks promising.

Ways to Find Ideas for Website Content

1. Research keywords to find content ideas. When you enter the main product/niche keyword of your sites, phrases like how-to whatever, best whatever… will come up for what people are searching for within that niche.

Also, remember to research the best keywords for those content pages as you want them to rank for popular keywords and this way you will be all over the SERPS and get lots more targeted traffic. Learn more at 6 Step Checklist for On-Site SEO.

2. Visit your competitors sites to get inspirations for content and especially the top gun sites (do not copy).

3. Look at what popular bloggers in your niche are talking about.

4. Visit article sites to get ideas from existing articles. Ezine Articles, Article Dashboard, Article Factory, Article City and Buzzle are some good ones. (Do not copy articles, this is a big nono)

What content tips and ideas can you guys offer? Where do you find inspirations for content? How do you fill pages on your affiliate sites?

If you love the content buy me a coffee.

By, JR

While most of my focus here is Internet marketing and affiliate marketing, I have picked up a trick or two about blogging and blog promotion. Unlike website promotion, it is actually easier to promote blogs.

If you are running a blog then you probably know that every time you post content the blog pings feed services out there and that helps spread your content and gets the blog exposure.

The Wordpress default list for pinging is pretty pathetic, I think when I started this blog there was only one on the list. On the advice of more experienced bloggers I have added many more over the months, which provides much more exposure and I wanted to give all my blogger readers a list of the services I ping.

Directions to Update Ping Services

From your dashboard go to Settings then Writing, and at the bottom there is a box to add ping services.

Copy and paste this list:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2/
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://www.bloglines.com/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoles.net/notificacio.php
http://bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping/
http://blo.gs/ping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogoole.com/ping/
http://blogoon.net/ping/
http://blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://blogsnow.com/ping
http://bulkfeeds.net
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://catapings.com/ping.php
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi
http://feedsky.com/api/RPC2
http://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://imblogs.net/ping/
http://lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://mod-pubsub.org/ping.php
http://newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://packetmonster.net/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com

https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
http://blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://blogupdate.org/ping/
http://blogupdate.org/sverige/ping/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.blogg.de/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogoon.net/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/RPC2/
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://pingoat.com/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://popdex.com/addsite.php
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2 euro.weblogs.com
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.britblog.com
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
http://snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://weblogalot.com/Ping/
http://weblogues.com/ping/
http://weblogues.com/RPC
http://weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://zing.zingfast.com

HAPPY BLOGGING!!

Anyone have any more to add to the list? Feel free to leave it in the comments.

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