http://wptutorial.com/blog Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:42:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Copyright © miketestsite.info 2011 info@wptutorial.com (WordPress Made Easy) info@wptutorial.com (WordPress Made Easy) 1440 http://wptutorial.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://wptutorial.com/blog 144 144 WordPress Made Easy WordPress Made Easy info@wptutorial.com no no http://wptutorial.com/blog/questions/wordpress-3-0-and-plugins http://wptutorial.com/blog/questions/wordpress-3-0-and-plugins#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:53:53 +0000 Mike http://wptutorial.com/blog/?p=1557 http://wptutorial.com/blog/questions/wordpress-3-0-and-plugins/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/questions/interactive-plugins http://wptutorial.com/blog/questions/interactive-plugins#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:32:40 +0000 Mike http://wptutorial.com/blog/?p=1512 http://wptutorial.com/blog/questions/interactive-plugins/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/questions/plugins-and-blog-performance http://wptutorial.com/blog/questions/plugins-and-blog-performance#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:29:51 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=1473 http://wptutorial.com/blog/questions/plugins-and-blog-performance/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/profitable-blogging/google-trends-a-bloggers-friend http://wptutorial.com/blog/profitable-blogging/google-trends-a-bloggers-friend#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:50:21 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=1271 http://wptutorial.com/blog/profitable-blogging/google-trends-a-bloggers-friend/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/how-many-plugins-is-optimal http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/how-many-plugins-is-optimal#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:29:04 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=1208 http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/how-many-plugins-is-optimal/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/3-plugins-to-integrate-wordpress-and-twitter-together http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/3-plugins-to-integrate-wordpress-and-twitter-together#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:47:17 +0000 Mike http://wptutorial.com/blog/?p=1159 http://wptutorial.com/blog/traffic/3-plugins-to-integrate-wordpress-and-twitter-together/feed 0 0:02:50 Twitter can be a great source of traffic to your blog and with plugins it has become very easy to integrate the two. Integration makes it easier and saves you time because it automates things leaving you free to do what is most important on your blo[...] Twitter can be a great source of traffic to your blog and with plugins it has become very easy to integrate the two. Integration makes it easier and saves you time because it automates things leaving you free to do what is most important on your blog – Create Great Content. Here are 3 plugins that can make your blog more interactive and save you time. Tweet My Blog Tweet Meme Twitterlink Comments Now lets look at what each does. Tweet My Blog – This will automatically tweet each time you add a post and allow you to display your latest tweets on your blog. This lets your Twitter followers know about your latest post which can draw extra visitors depending on the size of your Twitter followers. Having your tweets displayed in your side bar helps you to always have fresh content for the spiders if you are active on Twitter. Tweet Meme – This will add a button to your posts (you can see it above right here on the blog) that allows your readers to retweet your post with a single click if they are signed into Twitter. When this happens your new post shows up on all of their followers timelines. Now at the time I am writing this I have over 18000 followers so if I click this on your blog it goes out to all of those people. Now it is very easy for me to click that button if I like your post (back to having great content) but the odds of me telling my followers about it if I need to do it manually are slim and none unless you really wowed me. Twitterlink Comments – This will allow you to reward your commenters. It adds a box where commenters can add their Twitter id and it will add a link to their Twitter page. This is another way of helping your commenters and as long as they are adding to the conversation. Anything I can do to reward those that take the time to add valuable content to my blog and get them to comment more is a plus. These 3 plugins will definitely help you integrate Twitter with your blog but it is only valuable if you are adding good content and active on Twitter. Two things you should be doing anyhow. Your questions and comments are always welcomed. About the author Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably. If you would like help in building your business check out my coaching offer. Social Bookmarking Technorati Tags: blogging, twitter, Twitter plugins, wordpress, wordpress plugins traffic info@wptutorial.com no no http://wptutorial.com/blog/profitable-blogging/protecting-against-comment-spam http://wptutorial.com/blog/profitable-blogging/protecting-against-comment-spam#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:42:30 +0000 Mike http://wptutorial.com/blog/?p=1133 http://wptutorial.com/blog/profitable-blogging/protecting-against-comment-spam/feed 0 0:02:08 Yesterday I talked about the advantages to blog commenting and one of the comments mentioned that the only comments they get are spam. With WordPress and some plugins you can eliminate most comment spam and here is how to do it. First use two plugin[...] Yesterday I talked about the advantages to blog commenting and one of the comments mentioned that the only comments they get are spam. With WordPress and some plugins you can eliminate most comment spam and here is how to do it. First use two plugins. Askimet which comes with the basic WordPress install WP Spam Free which I have found to be quite effective With Askimet you will need to get an API number to activate it. If you go to the configuration page in the top paragraph is a link to go register to get the API. Just add the key into the box and update and you are running. WP Spam Free just needs to be activated after you have installed the plugin and you are ready to go. Now these two will stop the automated systems quite well so the only other spam comments are those that are done manually. These are the cretins that use the “Great post” etc types of comments. For me if they come in once I just mark them as spam. Quite often that is enough and Askimet starts picking them up as spam. It is the ones that continue to come back that can become a pain. For those just ban the ip number and that will stop them. To ban an ip from commenting just go to settings – discussion and towards the bottom of the page is a section called comment blacklist. Here you can add the ip as a separate line and it will no longer be able to comment. You can also add in any name that will automatically keep a comment from posting as you can see in the image below. These 3 things should allow you to stop wasting time with spam comments so that you can use that time to interact with those that are adding quality comments to your blog. As always if you have an additional way to avoid comment spam or if you have a question on WordPress or blogging please leave you comments below. About the author Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably. If you would like help in building your business check out my coaching offer. Social Bookmarking Technorati Tags: Askimet, blacklist ip, comment spam, wordpress, wordpress plugins, wp-spam free info@wptutorial.com no no http://wptutorial.com/blog/questions/changing-your-blog-to-do-follow http://wptutorial.com/blog/questions/changing-your-blog-to-do-follow#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:07:33 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=1101 http://wptutorial.com/blog/questions/changing-your-blog-to-do-follow/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/5-wordpress-plugins-to-improve-your-seo http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/5-wordpress-plugins-to-improve-your-seo#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:31:16 +0000 Mike http://wptutorial.com/blog/?p=1093 http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/5-wordpress-plugins-to-improve-your-seo/feed 0 http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/wordpress-plugins-to-protect-your-blog http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/wordpress-plugins-to-protect-your-blog#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:40:28 +0000 Mike http://miketestsite.info/wpt/?p=1090 http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/wordpress-plugins-to-protect-your-blog/feed 0