Blog Carnival Basics - Why Not Using This Strategy is a Competitive Weakness

I recently posted an article about getting the most from your blog carnival submissions and I was surprised to find out through many of the comments that quite a few folks hadn't heard of blog carnivals. That being the case, here's a little primer on what blog carnivals are and how you can use them to get traffic and backlinks to your blog. Read more

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Blog Carnival Strategies - 5 Tips for Getting the Most From Your Blog Carnival Submissions

If you've been reading any of the blogs out there on internet marketing or online business, you probably know how valuable blog carnivals can be as a way to promote your site.  Here are a few quick tips to help you get the most out of your blog carnival submissions. Read more

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First-Class Blogging: 12 Perfect Upgrades to Power Your Wordpress Site

There were a few posts here and there about different Wordpress plugins last week. I thought I'd post a quick list of some of the more useful ones I use here on my site. Each of the links takes you right to the plugin's page if you're interested in any of them. Read more

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DoFollow, KeyWordLuv and Backlinks…Oh My

First of all, hat's off to Steven Lohrenz for finding this great little plugin. He posted about it earlier this week but I'm just getting around to adding it thanks to a little Wordpress upgrade SNAFU. So here's the deal…

Search engine optimization (SEO) 101: Links to your site from other sites (i.e., backlinks) are good, especially backlinks that have text that include your keywords. You DO know what keywords you're trying to rank for, right? Comments on Wordpress blogs are one way to get these sort of links and are particularly good since you can control the text that's used, unlike some sites.

Problem #1: By default, Wordpress automatically uses the commenter's name as the text for the link to their site. That's great if I want to rank for "Kenton Newby", but seriously, how many could there be?

Problem #2: By default, Wordpress adds "nofollow" tags to the links used in comments. Nofollow tags basically do you no good from an SEO standpoint, although people might still click the links and visit your site.

So up until now, if you left a comment on this site, you'd get a not-so-useful link to your site using your name instead of something targeted.

Solution:

I installed two plugins. One is the plugin Steven recommended which you can find at his Internet Business Systems site. That solves Problem #1.

The other is the "Do Follow" plugin, which gets rid of that pesky Problem #2 mentioned above.

So give it a shot. Leave a comment below, but instead of the usual "name only" in the name field, use something like this:

Kenton Newby@Online Business Blog

Fill in the rest of the comment form like normal and you're all set.

We'll see how well this works and if things go all SPAM crazy here. But for now, seems like a better way to run things.

P.S. - Another great comment plugin is this one: WP Ajax Edit Comments

It allows users to edit comments they leave for a specified period of time. Ya' know, to fix typos and stuff like that.

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Harness the Power of Wordpress Future Posts By Installing This Plugin

One of the most powerful features of Wordpress is that you can load up a bunch of posts and set the publish date to sometime in the future.

In fact, I just got finished adding a bunch of posts to this site for the next several weeks.

But as I was about to get started, I thought it would be great if there was a way to see which dates already had posts scheduled and which ones didn't.  You know, just in case you schedule one for the wrong day or want to see which dates down the road you already have covered.

So a quick search on Google led me to this resource, a future posts calendar plugin for Wordpress that allows you to see when future posts are scheduled.

Of course, you can see this on your dashboard or in your Manage –> Posts menu, but it's so much more useful to see it right there on the calendar, with several weeks worth of posts scheduled, all highlighted in green on the calendar.  Good positive feedback.

It's pretty simple to install and use.  Just follow the instructions on the site or check out the readme file that comes with the download.

 

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