Got a Website ? Looking For Content ?

Most of us that own websites know the importance of content creation and of having new content created on our websites weekly if not daily.

But what about the people that own websites and blogs like Wordpress and Squidoo that are either too busy to write their own stuff or don’t know how to write? I know it sounds silly asking a person if they can write but really I think this is a valid question.

Sure, almost anyone can "write" but very few writers can actually write something quickly, make it sound good and make it sound interesting. Well that is where content writers come in! There are a lot of different writers that are from other countries but for the most part I would suggest content writers in the US. This isn’t saying anything against people in other countries of course, but in my experience the people that are from the US and write in perfect English are the better or higher ranked writers.

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10 Top Plugins for Wordpress Post

Wordpress is one the most widely used Blogging Platform which is an open source software written in PHP and Mysql. I would say that this is the best best blogging tool and its very user friendly. To enhance the features of this platform, you can use different plugins which are free to use and is available at the Wordpress Plugins Directory. Some plugins are commercial which most of them are free to use. In this post, I have done some research and listed down the plugins which should be useful for you.

cformsII - contact form- cforms is a highly customizable, flexible and powerful form builder plugin, covering a variety of use cases and features from attachments to multi form management, you can even have multiple forms on the same page!

Google XML Sitemaps - This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

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Advantages of adding translation pages for your blog

After I installed the translation plugin to my blog, I have seen increase in traffic. Now you would be thinking, how can a translation plugin increase traffic?

Yes after installation of the translation plugin, my number of pages has gone 20 times higher, every page has 20 pages of translation in 20 different languages and these pages are indexed by search engines. I get visitors from different search engines from different languages. I see adsense ads in different languages and my adsense revenue has also gone up

This is real must use feature. If you are using wordpress, then you can download the translation plugin for wordpress and install it to your blog.

Wordpress Plugin to manage affiliate links

I just installed MaxBlogPress which is an affiliate links managing Wordpress Plugin which should be of good use to you also. You will surely be working as an affiliate for different affiliate programs or if you have a click bank account, then this is a must have plugin.

How does this plugin helps you?

This plugin is very easy to use and the installation is like a usual wordpress plugin. Once you install this plugin, you need to go to the Manage link from your admin panel and start entering your affiliate links and connect it to relevant keywords. When ever a keyword matches with the link, the link is auto generated by this plugin. MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate plugin has the features that you will really need like hiding the affiliate link, cloaking, stats and almost everything that you will need.

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Deciding Your Blog Topic

If you are planning to start a Blog and the intention for blogging is to make money, then you should spend some time deciding the topic or the real category of your blog. When you look into the category of this blog, Earning through Blogging , I do posts which are related to posts that help individuals to make money online.

Topic that you know about

You should decide a topic that you can write about. Don’t select a topic that you really don’t know or you are not experienced. You need to write something new, something what you have experienced, so its always adviced to select a topic that you can write about, explain things clearly, write your experience and answer to the questions posted by your visitors.

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Some Wordpress Plugins You may like to use

Recently I was not doing any posts here as I was busy with the development of some Wordpress plugins. I have completed those plugins and are hosted at the Wordpress Plugins Directory. If you are having a Wordpress blog, you can try these and let me know your comments.

Kish Twitter

This plugin will be helpful for bloggers who use twitter actively. Once you install this plugin, you can view, update the latest timelines and your readers can see who you follow, who follow you, your latest updates, latest public updates. If you are logged in as the Admin, you can update messages from this widget. You can find it working at my Technology Blog. This plugin is using AJAX so no page reloads and its simply fast. The features includes the customisation of the widget. You can change the font, color, background, height, width of the widget in the settings to match your theme.

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Be informed about your back links

Back links are very important for improvement of pagerank and pagerank is important for better traffic from Google. When a different website links to your blog or website, and is indexed by the Google Search engine, you can get an alert using the Google Alert service. Google Alert is of great use to keep track of the Google search engine results. If you create an alert for specific search key phrase, you will be sent an email by Google alert giving the information of the Search result.

You can use link:http://yoursite.com as the search key phrase to get an alert for the back links to your blog. When ever any other site links to your blog and get indexed by Google, you will receive an email stating the information. This helps you in knowing the which sites links to you and set the How Often parameter to “as-it-happens”

Mashable – Social Networking News

Mashable is very popular site with latest news from the world of technology. I see this blog very informative and one of the first place to find latest information

Traffic from Google Image search

I was going through my traffic source on Google Analytics (Your Traffic Source) and found something interesting. I get a lot of traffic from image search. I really do something to get this and today I would just give you some tips to get your images listed for relevant keywords for Google Image Search. I do a lot of posts related to the resorts in Maldives on my other blog. I do use lots of images on this blog as I always travel with a camera ( canon Tx 1 ) and the texts in my posts are very less compared to the Images and Videos. If you search of Kanuhura Resort on Google  Image search, my blog images are listed first and I get a lot of traffic from this. This is just an example, but how does Google know that this image is of Kanuhura resort?

Optimizing your blog for Image search

Let me come back to the answer to the question that I came up. You need to tell Google or any search engine that the image is of so and so or give the information about the image and you do this using the Alt tag.

I use windows live writer to do my blog posts and it has an excellent feature to insert the alt tags. As you side on the image on the left side, I just need to enter the alternate text in the text box provided. By default, the image file name is inserted, but you need to edit it insert the right keywords or description of the image.

Using Alternate text for your images will be really worth the time you spend as your images get listed in Image search results and this is again opening up your traffic and chances of more back links.

Traffic Source Distribution on my blog

Recently I was just checking the Quality of social networking site traffic. I had a few of my pages in this blog submitted to StumbleUpon and got some traffic from it. I was just going through the Google Analytics report and found something interesting that I thought of sharing with you

I use Google Adwords for this blog and get a lot of clicks from the campaigns. Please note that I do not spend more than US$ 10 for the Ads on Adwords, and I feel its worth. I get most of my traffic from Adwords as this blog is new and there is no pagerank right now. I need to wait until I get good search engine ranking for this blog and it takes time. I am not worried about that, all I need is to have good quality content. I am not buying any links or I am not planning to for the sake of increasing link popularity of to increase the number of backlinks

My second traffic source is direct traffic, which are from visitors, who type in the URL of this blog and come to my blog. So its a good sign. This traffic source of high value and its a good sign

The third one is from StumbleUpon, but I am not happy with the quality of this traffic.

Reasons - The Bounce rate is the highest of all 92.73%, the time spend on this site is an average of just 1.08 minutes which is again the lowest. Time spent by a visitor who came from Google Adwords is 02.24 minutes, bounce rate is 63.28%, time spent by a visitor who came directly to my is 4.54 minutes and the bounce rate is less than 50%.

I feel the best traffic is the traffic which come directly and in my case, the best are from my feed subscribers which has a bounce rate of just 35% and the average time spent is about 19.16 minutes which is very good.

To conclude I would like to say is don’t worry much about the traffic, just concentrate on writing good content, respond to the comments, and provide the best and latest information to your readers. Don’t just rely of traffic from social networking sites. I see many bloggers depending on these traffic. You can use the stats for getting good advertisers for your blog, that is something which is useful from these kind of traffic.