Ron Davies

For a very long time I have researched the single biggest deterrent preventing Internet marketers from using WordPress as their main CMS and marketing platform.

Those that have tinkered with earlier versions of WordPress found the installation cumbersome and complex, not to mention the rather convoluted process of locating, installing and configuring the very limited, almost always unstable plugins that seemed to be unworkable depending on the WP version you were installing them on.

All this has changed with WordPress versions of late, even more so for 2.7. The rules for plugin development have been firmed up, and the stability is far far better, not to mention that the plugins developed for Internet marketers have come a long, long way.

Now the plugins range from SEO positioning and optimization to traffic analyses and RSS aggregation, automatic replacement of words with masked affiliate links, automatic emails sent to commenters, completely self contained affiliate programs and much more.

To cap this, of the 40 or so plugins that I use, all but 2 of them are free, including free updates.

The final show stopped for most is the hassle of locating the right plugins, and uploading them via FTP, setting permissions, etc., and although WordPress 2.7 has some facility to help this, it is still not going to do much of the work for you.

Enter my latest solution for revenue bloggers;

Killer WordPress Plugin Pack With Auto-Installer

A download-able, completely self-contained installer that runs in Windows that uploads, installs and sets up the top WordPress blog plugins that I use personally.

Even better, it is free :>)

You can download the installer by simply completing the form below :
(I have to send a license download).

There is a Help Page that you can open right after starting the installer. It even checks to ensure that your server is 100% compatible with the system, and keeps you informed of the status as you go.

I am working on a simple video that shows how to use it tomorrow.

Cheers!

Ron Davies

PS: Happy New Year!

Traffic is a battle that every blogger, or for that matter, every site owner has to struggle with.

The “old style” approaches like exchanging links with other site owners, becoming active in related forums and discussions may seem a little obvious, but the truth is the basics seem to be where so many of us get derailed.

Far too many bloggers chase software to generate traffic for them, in an endless pursuit of some sort of traffic “lottery” when in fact if they spent the same amount of time just covering the basics of quality content in even 4 or 5 articles each week, plus networking with sites of similar nature, their traffic would grow in a far more stable and renewable manner.

Visitors love quality content, and will refer others to your site to share that quality content.

I guess the long and the short of it is that SEO is important, but “VO”, or Visitor Optimization is more important, at least imho. If visitors like your site, they return to it frequently. The truth about seo in my experience has been that if visitors like your content, so does Google, and both of these translate directly into traffic gains.

To step back even further from the forest so to speak, it is important to put a little thought into what exactly it is that you want the traffic for. Web visitors for the sake of themselves is all but completely pointless. So what is it that you want these visitors to do? There needs to be a clear call to action or some sort of well defined process or step you want the visitor to take. Some examples might be are;

1. subscribe to your newsletter;
2. subscribe to your RSS feed;
3. purchase a product from you; end
4. some other action.

So to nutshell this, exploring the traditional methods and more creative approaches to traffic generation is important, but equally important is what you are going to do with the visitors once you get them to your site.

Conversion is really what this is about. Traffic means little without some sort of desirable outcome.

Regards,

Ron Davies

RonaldDavies.com It’s difficult to know when our blog seo efforts are paying off if there is no easy way to track the results. We certainly don’t want to purchase expensive seo software if it isn’t absolutely necessary. Fear not, the Google Position Yourself Plugin for WordPress is free, and easy to install and use. Ron Davies takes you step by step from locating to installing to using this plugin for maximum “Pedal to the Metal” type results!

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