Is Your Blog a Ghost Town?

In the video below Kary Rogney, shows exactly what it takes to take your blog from virtual ghost town to a thriving community with raving fans.

Not only does he share some incredible tips that you can use today, but you will see how he took his blog from no visitors to 14,000 page views from August to November of 2009. Currently he has 40,000 page views to his blog.

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Kary has over 40 wordpress plugins working their magic on his blog. What is a plugin? You can add free software called plugins that allow the reader to have a more rich experience as they visit your blog. Some plugins are essential to make your blog go viral.

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You can find wordpress plugins at WordPress.Org You want to click on the “extend” tab. Once you are in “extend” the first option is “plugins”. From there you can search for any plugins Kary mentions in this video, this blog, or any other wordpress plugins you find out their in the community as you are participating in a Blogging Alliance

New WordPress Plugins For An Effective Blogging Experience

A Quick Condensed List To Start With…
1. Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 allows you to add a contact form that you might want to use on your “Contact Me” page.  It has some advanced features, like adding CATPCHA to ward off computerized spammer comments.

2. Akismet

This is an essential wordpress plugin.  It filters through your comments to and separates comments that seem to be spam like ads from people selling viagra etc.  You can still allow those comments, it just separates them and makes you aware of potential spammy comments…

3. Viper’s Video Quicktags

This allows you to add videos to your blog without going to the html tab.  You simply copy and paste the url from Viddler, Youtube and othere video sites, and your blog has your personalized video in the body of your blog text.  You can do this from the html tab, but for those that do not want to mess with html this is a great plugin

4. What Would Seth Godin Do (WWSGD)

Seth Godin is the author of “Tribes”.  He is one of the top marketers on the planet.  He advises the big boys… Google being one example.  This wordpress plugin was not created by Seth, but it takes advantage of his philosophy.   This plugin shows customized messages based on how many times the visitor has come to your site.  You can say something like “Thanks for coming back to my blog.  Be sure to subscribe to my blog updates.”

5. LinkWithin

This add pictures from your recent posts which allows for people to click on the picture to go directly to that post.  Very Cool wordpress plugin.

6. Tweetmeme

Essential plugin to make your blog go viral.  A small button is placed on your blog posts, pages, or both that says “Retweet”.  This provides social proof to your blog and allows people twitter followers to see your blog too!  The more traffic the better.

7. Sexybookmarks

Bookmarking is another social media source that allows people to book mark a page that they like, to allow them to come back.  Bookmarking has other advantages.  People have friends at their bookmarking sites.  They like to see what other people are viewing.  In addition this creates back links to your blog.  Google likes that.

8. Ultimate Google Analytics

It’s important to stay on top of your statistics.  I don’t visit this everyday, but it is good to know what is working and what is not.  You can see which posts are the most popular.  You can learn a lot from your stats.

9. Exclude Pages

I use this in combination with “comment redirect”  When someone comments, I redirect them to an exclude page.  (meaning it’s not in the navigation)…It’s only for those people you want to thank for commenting, thank for tweeting, etc.  I also use this in combination with viral tweets.

10. Comment Re-direct

See Above.  I put a video on an “exclude page” to thank them for commenting.  People really appreciate the extra touch on your blog.

11. Top Commentators

This is a competitive wordpress plugin.  This displays the people who comment most on your blogs, on the sidebar.  Again more social proof.  In addition it is a way to thank your visitors.  People can click on the top commentators, and go directly to their blog.

12. Commentluv
Commentluv is a way to give back to the people that take the time to comment on your blog. It puts their picture in and allows for them to put any post they want into the form. Others who view that comment now, have the ability to click on that person’s link.

13. NextGen Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.

14. Tiny MCE Advanced
This wordpress plugin allows you to have certain abilities while writing a new blog post that equate to writing in microsoft word. It gives you the ability to customize the look and feel of your blog posts.

15. WP Database backup
It is recommended that you keep 2 or 3 backup files for your wordpress database.

More Advanced WordPress Plugins

Advanced List of Plug-Ins:

• Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com (not wordpress.org) API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

• All in One SEO Pack

Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. Collapsible Archive Widget.  Display Collapsible Archive in your sidebar to save space.

• CommentLuv

This is a wordpress plugin that allows you to give some “Blog love” back to the person who commented.  That person is allowed to brand themselves as a thank you to them for commenting.  It allows a clickable link to one of their blog posts.  This rewards your readers and encourages more comments.

• Comment Redirect

This allows you to redirect the person who commented to a page of your choice.  You can use this in combination with the wordpress plugin #9 above…”Exclude Pages”.  To see what I mean, make a comment on this post.

• Contact Form 7

Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.

• DISQUS Comment System

The DISQUS comment system replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by DISQUS. Head over to the Comments admin page to set up your DISQUS Comment System. (Does not work along with CommentLUV)

• Exclude Pages from Navigation

Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any “consumer” side page listings, which may not be limited to your page navigation listings.

• Featured Content Gallery

Used to create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. FeaturedContentGallery.com: plugin page, instructions, gallery and support.

• Get Recent Comments

Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar. Visit Options/Recent Comments after activation of the plugin.

• Google Translator

Translate your blog from sidebar instantly

• Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page

• Homepage Excerpts

• OnlyWire Button

OnlyWire WordPress plugin

• Pretty Link

Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website!

• Really Simple CAPTCHA

Really Simple CAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called from other plugins. It is originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin.

• Recent Posts

Displays a highly configurable list of the most recent posts. Instructions and help online. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed.
RSS Shortcode.  Makes it easy to display an RSS feed on a page

• Top Commentators Widget

Adds a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site. Adapted from Show Top Commentators plugin.
TweetMeme Retweet Button.  Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.

• WP-Cumulus

Flash based Tag Cloud for WordPress

• Wp-Feedburner

Wp-Feedburner is a plugin which deals with everything Feedburner.It works on Both old and new feedburner URL.

• WP likes

Allows visitors to “like” your posts on the fly if they find it interesting. Now with a sidebar widget and customizing options.

• WP Photo Album

Easily manage and display your photo albums within your WordPress site.

• WP Super Cache

Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.

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