Do Your WordPress Plug-ins Help Your Marketing?
By vine | September 6th, 2010Just about all but the rankest newbies have heard the name, WordPress. WordPress, for millions of bloggers, is the most favored content management systems (CMS) around. However, WordPress is not only for those who blog, anyone can use this CMS including marketers. WordPress as an application and solution is suitable for practically any purpose.
It is often used by IM marketers for regular monetized sites, affiliate sites, sales pages, etc. There are other uses, as well, such as video sites, landing pages, squeeze pages, etc. There are millions of choices for a theme – and a kid can probably figure out how to customize it. Beyond that, with the right plug-ins, you can make WordPress perform however you want it to perform. What follows next are some plugins that can help any marketer in their business. Decide right now that you are going to make it online and see this Empire Formula web blog.
One particular plugin IM marketers will love is the FD Feedburner plugin. So just imagine that you can have the benefits of Feedburner because this plugin makes your blog feed into a feed for Feedburner. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it is how people follow your site without having to visit the actual pages every day. With RSS your readers will be alerted whenever you update your site. People appreciate the convenience of RSS because it removes the need to go everywhere looking for updated content. The deal about Feedburner is it’s a format that almost any reader is able to read.
The Similar Posts plug in does exactly what it sounds like it does. When you use this plugin, after you make a post the plugin will find other similar-content posts and insert a link at the end of each post. Ok, so it’s pretty obvious why this is a good idea; it will try to interest your visitors in other posts, etc. This technique has been shown to work with keep readers on a site. You’ll always want to avoid doing anything to encourage them to leave for your competitor’s site. Check out this awesome Empire Formula site.
The next plugin, SEO Smart Links, will take your links and make them presentable for the search engines – this will help your SEO efforts. You make your settings, in the plugin itself, so it knows what expressions and phrases you want your site to be known for. It will add links to your site by finding your important phrases, and then it finds other instances where they’re used on other pages and links to them. You can set it up to link to individual pages, posts, categories or even other tagged words.
In the end, WordPress works very well for internet marketers. There are no costs to use it, plus it is so simple to use. Customizing is a snap, and there are rarely any troubles with it. You can make it do almost anything you want. IN a lot of ways it is an internet marketer’s dream!
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