If you have had success with this report please feel free to send me a testimonial on what it has done for you. You can reach me at info at wptutorial.com.
Here are a few of the things I am working on for the January issue of the newsletter. The new newsletter and videos will be available by the 15th.
Review of Adsense plugins
Affiliate plugins – such as auto links and Amazon
More themes including an Adsense theme I have used for content blogs
A series of blog posting tips
A very important plugin if you like to pre-write your blog posts
The book price has capped out at $10 and I feel it is still a deal at that price. It will still pay you 100% commission. Some testimonials from buyers would be helpful in increasing the conversion rate thus my earlier request.
There are a series of posts on this blog that cover various questions about Word Press and blogging in general. Feel free to leave a comment with your question and I will add it to the list of questions to be addressed.
I have also created a Squidoo lens for Word Press Made Easy. You can see it at
Now for an update that all are interested in. Commissions for all sales through 12/31/06 will be paid on 1/15/07. Please make sure that you have the proper paypal email on file.
You can login here to check or update your profile information.
There will also be a new video by the end of next week to show Gold members how to update your current version of Word Press to the latest version. This is really easy but there are a couple important things to be aware of.
Finally I have added a new link in the members area called Custom Blog where you can order your own blog installed with a variety of plugins. It also offers hosting and domain services if you need them.
If you use Word Press for your blogging platform a plugin is a script you can add to increase the functionality of your blog. One of the things I really like about Word Press is the number of plugins that are available.
You can find plugins to create your site map, add Technorati tags, input audio or video, control comment spam and literally hundreds of other things.
Because Word Press is open source anyone can add things to supplement the base platform. The vast majority of plugins are open source and won’t cost you anything. I do recommend that if you find a plugin you really like please donate to the author. Most have a donate button on their site. The vast majority also support their work quite well.
You can spend lots of time searching out and finding plugins to do almost anything you want. The best place to start your search is at the Word Press Pugin Data Base. After that a quick search of Google will show you hundreds more.
Not exactly the most search engine friendly way to do that but easy for programmers. Just keep numbering the posts from 1 to infinity.
You can change and set the permalinks to other options within your dashboard for your blog. My personal preferrence is to use a custom permalink but this does require a bit of technical skill. You need to have a .htaccess file that is writable.
This allows me to make my posts more like a web page title. For example the last post I wrote about categories. The URL for that post looks like this.
This allows anyone seeing the URL in the search engines to have a definite idea of what the post is about. For more information on using permalinks and other optimization tips check out “7 Tips To Make Your Word Press Blog Search Engine Friendly“.
Categories allow you to create groups or topics for your posts. For example at this time I have 3 categories on this blog. One is all of the posts about blog questions called – questions.
Two are test posts – I use this category for trying out new things so people can see how a particular plugin works or looks on an actual blog.
This makes it easy for the reader to be able to sort all of the posts and see everything about a single topic easily. If you are interested in seeing all the questions that have been answered so far you can just choose the category link for questions.
Likewise if you are a member of Word Press Made Easy and are only interested in the updates that are listed here just click the update link.
You can create as many categories as you need. Right now I only have 3 but I can easily foresee adding new ones. Just on a guess one for theme reviews, one for plugin reviews probably aren’t far away. May even add an optimization category. See it is simple to add and makes your blog more user friendly and easily searchable by topic.
This is another in a series answering blogging questions. Feel free to leave comments with the question you would like to see addressed here.
I am going to start a series of posts on various blogging questions. Please feel free to add your questions to the comments here.
The first topics will start with some definitions. Today I will be easy on myself and start with what is a blog? I’ll start with a definition from Wikipedia the online encyclopedia.
A blog is a user generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.
Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.
The term “blog” is derived from “Web log.” “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Now that is a decent definition of what a blog is. Tomorrows question will depend on any comments I receive.
Well I finally found the time to start a lens on Word Press over at Squidoo.
This will be a learning thing to figure out exactly how to make this work for me. The interface seems nice and easy so far.
Of course I have started at the bottom so now it is time to see how quickly this can be rated up instead of at 63000 something.
I have joined a couple groups that have to do with blogging and if you are a Squidoo user would love to have you stop by and leave a blurb on the guest book. Guess time will tell.
It will still pay 100% to affiliates and will continue to be available for purchase. Those who have bought it should look forward to the January updates. Have found quite a few neat little toys for commenting on.
Leave a comment here if you have a particular topic you would like to see addressed in the future.
This will probably be the last post here until after the Christmas holiday.
As hard as I have tried to make it really simple for anyone to learn to install and customize Word Press through both my multi-media course and my membership site. I know that there are people out there that would like to have a good looking search engine friendly blog but don’t want to learn how to set them up.
I created a new service to do everything needed to get a blog going from installation to domain registration to hosting. You can check it out here.
What is more important to me is that the items in the report work.
See Paul Kinder just started his blog. Now he had bought my Word Press Made Easy multi-media course towards the end of November. Because Paul is about as non techie a person as I know I gave him a copy of the report as soon as I wrote it to review for me.
I figured if Paul could follow it then I had not left anything out inadvertently. He tweaked his blog using the report.
Well, imagine my surprise on Tuesday evening when I opened my Gmail to check it. See for a lot of things that I do on line I use Google Alerts to track things. One of the things I track is my name – Mike Paetzold. That is what first showed me that the 7 steps had really made a difference.
I started getting my posts shown in the alerts on the same day I posted instead of 4 – 8 days later. Now the shocking part on Tuesday was that Paul’s post on his 3 week old blog about my report was also in the alert with the post from my blog.
See I thought the fact that my blog had been around for a while and been used regularly might have helped speed the indexing up. After all search engines love sites with regularly updated content. Alas, even Paul’s new blog got the same treatment as my established blog once it was set up properly.
I just launched my new membership site for Word Press. So far the top 3 referrers are
Joe Brochin
Paul Kindler
Jon Olson
Thanks guys. If you haven’t seen it check out 7 Tips report on the front end. The real meat though is in the back end. Gold members get a monthly review of 3 themes and a variety of plugins that work well with them. Also, video tutorials to walk you through the upload and turning all the plugins properly.
I will also be adding a variety of short videos. Currently they cover using FTP, working with zip files and verification process for Google sitemaps. More will be added. Leave a comment with your ideas of what would be helpful.
. Knowledge without action is worthless.
