Building The Perfect WordPress Blog
Saturday 9 November 2013
WordPress is one of the most important tool that every internet marketer keeps using over and over again. Not just because its plain simple to install and use, but it has got all the SEO work ready so you don’t have to spend much time. In this article, I’m gonna teach you on How to build the Perfect WordPress Blog.
Please note that I won’t be covering on how to install the blog but instead, cover on what has to be done after the installation is done so you get all the basics completed and your blog looks professional both to the search engines as well as to please your visitors.
In case if you’re a complete newbie to WordPress and need a step by step installation instruction, I recommend you to read my guide at www.Blog4BigBucks.comCheck Every Setting Individually
Once your Installation is complete, the first thing you wanna do is get into the Admin Panel or Dashboard which is usually accessed via http://www.YourBlogDomain.com/wp-admin
Scroll down to the settings section in the left menu column. Go through each one of the setting there.
In the General setting section, make sure you fill in the Site Title and Taglines with keyword rich content as this has a high impact on SEO score. Everything else on that page shall be left out as it is.
Next on the Writing settings section, make sure you fill in a good list of Update/Ping services. This is ignored my almost 90% of bloggers. Find my list here and copy it. Then at the bottom, make sure you enable XML RPC publishing protocols if you plan to post using my auto blogging software.
On Discussion settings, set admin to approve comments and not to email for every comments else your mailbox will have full of junk comment notifications. Also don’t forget to disable pingbacks and trackbacks as well.
Then on the Privacy Setting page, make sure your site is visible to Search Engines. I found that many blog installations done via Fantastico have this setting as blocking search engines. If you ignore, all your efforts will be wasted.
Next on the Permalinks page, make sure you set a custom structure. I always use this: /%category%/%postname%/ and it makes the individual post links more SEO friendly and also organized.
Setup the Categories
Did you notice the permalink structure has the category name on it? Every post in WordPress can be assigned to a Category and having your primary keywords as Categories will boost your SEO score a lot.
First change the ‘Uncategorized’ or default category to something else. You may do a Google Wonder Wheel search and find all the related categories for your niche, then set them up.
You could also find other top keywords using Google Adwords tool and set the top ones as Categories.
Install Only the Absolutely Essential Plugins
There may be a hundred 1000 plugins free for download. Many of them will be fancy and make you wanna install. But before installing anything, make sure you answer 2 simple question. Does the plug-in do any good to my blog? If I don’t install the plug-in, does it impact on the growth of my blog?
The more plugins you install, more load you’re giving on your servers and it significantly slows down your blog for visitors. So install only the absolutely essential plugins. You can also checkout the list of top plugins I use.
Almost every plugin will have an individual setting page, make sure you check them out after installing.
Switch to a Good Theme
I have seen a lot of people still using the default theme. Never do it! People want to look at fresh blogs and not the same designs over and over again.
A simple Google search could get you a ton of free WordPress themes or if you’ve got my Auto Blogging Software, I’ve given you 100 good looking themes as a bonus. Use them!
Make sure you find a theme that fits your niche and the target market. I mean, don’t use a Pink theme for a Men’ site.
Remove Unnecessary Links
By default, a bunch of links are added to the Blogroll and other sections. You don’t need any of them.
Some themes may also include links at the footer and other places like Sidebar. Check for them and remove unless it doesn’t violate any terms of the theme author.
Get Regular Pages Ready
In addition to posts, WordPress has the ability to display individual static pages. Usually you get an About Us page, edit it with a few bit of information about you. Make sure to fill in some keyword rich content there.
In addition, you also want to have a Privacy Policy and Terms of Use page. You can find a ton of templates for this, or simply copy paste from random blogs. These pages will make your blog look professional and also in compliance with Google’ new Adsense Terms.
Setup Your Ads
What is a blog without any monetization done? Google Adsense is my priority as it helps you earn something even from a trickle of traffic you receive. Make sure you install the ad codes directly on the theme files so they get inserted on every post automatically. If that sounds a bit complicated, there are some free plugins to do this. Check them out.
Optimizing Adsense for High CTR takes a whole new chapter and I may cover it later in a different article. For now, the basics, make sure the ads are blending well with your content. Use the same background and link color as in your web page and place them in strategic positions where your visitor’ eye would first go.
In addition to adsense, you must also find some affiliate products and add their banners to the sidebar.
To be more aggressive, write some reviews recommending a buy on those products and add them as unique articles which will also double benefit as boosting SEO for your blog.
Actually there are a ton of other monetzation options like seting up an auto responder and so on. I will cover them all in separate articles the following week.
For now, that’s all comes to my mind on setting up the perfect WordPress blog. There are many things which I must have missed or don’t know about, if you care to share, please leave them as comments below and you will gain some good karma.
How To Optimize Landing Pages For Conversions
Saturday 9 November 2013
Landing pages are crucial for online business and it simply determines if you will make money or not. Poorly optimized landing page will get you nothing but a highly optimized landing page means more conversions and more money you make online.
Landing page is actually a page in your website where you target your visitors and persuade them to take a specific action such as subscribing to your email newsletter, download a trial version of your product and so on.
Keep it short, simple and to the point
It is hard to get a visitor to your website and if the visitor did not find what he is looking for in the first few seconds, he is most likely to abandon your website. So highlight only the important stuffs. For example, just tell them the benefits of completing the action on that page instead of narrating other stories.
Dark text on white background
Always try to use the universal dark text on a white background layout as it is more pleasing to read. Some websites use dark background and grey text which makes the visitor’s eye to strain a lot and obviously he will leave immediately.
Have action buttons all over
Forget about the beautiful button designs. The action button should always grab attention and a bold one does get a lot already. Make sure you have the action buttons at the top, bottom, middle and wherever your visitor could possibly standby for a while. Same time, don’t overload them and maintain a right balance too.
Avoid distractions and escape routes
Usually people navigate away from a webpage through links and if your landing page has one, they have more chances of leaving without taking action. Simply avoid any link and also other distractions to your visitor. Let the only way to leave the page is to complete the goal or take action.
Don’t require too much of information
If your landing page is designed to make people subscribe to your newsletter or request a trial of your product, avoid making them fill out lengthy forms. Just their email and probably their name should be more than enough. The more fields you ask them to fill out, more chances of them getting bored and leaving without action.
Don’t forget optimizing encore pages
Encore page are as important as your landing page. It is where your visitor lands after the goal of the landing page is completed. Just because the goal is completed, it doesn’t mean the visitor can leave for good. You can still try to monetize more with additional goals and so on. Once a person takes action on your landing page, he is more likely to act again with you and so make use of this Encore pages too.
Split test different landing pages
Lastly, test you landing pages to see which one works and keep tweaking more and more for better conversions. A small change could even result in a drastic change in conversions. Simply test by sending half your visitors to your second landing page and test to see which one converts well.
5 Ways To Get Free Traffic To A New Website
Saturday 9 November 2013
Built a new website with all hopes to make it a success? Before you get into any paid advertising methods, here are some ways which you can try to get free traffic to your new website.
Free traffic comes absolutely from search engines and as referrals from other websites. Firstly, optimize your site for the best SEO possibilities. Like having proper title tags, H1 tags for headings, H2 for sub-headings, better inter-linked pages, content with good keyword density, meta tags filled and so on.
Once you’ve done your best possible optimization for search engines, wait for the search engines to index and later send you visitors. Meanwhile, proceed to do the following which will not just help in search indexing and optimization, will also send you some genuine visitors or free traffic.
Article Marketing
This is by far the best way to market a site absolutely for free. Write as many unique articles as possible and submit to top article directories. You must write all unique articles and not just copy from other sites if you want better results. If you’re bad at writing articles, outsource them to professional writers. Once you get a handful of articles, submit it to the top article directories with link back to your website in the resource box.
Make Web 2.0 Properties
Web 2.0 sites are the new generation sites where the content on their site is powered by users. Typically sites like Squidoo, LiveJournal, Facebook, twitter are all web 2.0 sites. Create accounts there for free and add some content relevant to your niche. Leave link backs to your website. Apart from getting visitors, it will also boost your search engine rankings.
Participate in Forums
Forums are places where people ask questions and discuss about certain topics. Forums are a great tool of marketing for websites if you do them right. You make use of the signature area beneath every post you make and leave link backs to your website. If your post has a value, more chances for people to visit your website through the link available at your signatures.
Comment on other blogs
Do a Google search and find blogs related to your niche. Read through the blogs and comment wherever possible. You don’t want to overdo this as most bloggers won’t easily approve comments with link backs to website. So make sure you provide a comment that has some value in it. If the blog you comment on has a do-follow attribute for comment links, you are double benefited.
Setup Contests and Baits
Baits are posts intended to go viral. People love contests and freebies. Offer some freebies and tell them you will offer more when they refer 5 of their friends to your website. If you do this the right way, you can explode the traffic stats in no time but it does take some time doing research and careful evaluations. You can always try and keep trying until you get it right. Just be creative and you’re good to go.
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