This short video shows how to set up and configure the WPSyndicatorsocial bookmarking syndication plugin, as well as the different ways in which it can be used.
The Plugin can be set up to automatically syndicate your new blog posts to the 15 web2.0 sites as soon as you publish a new post.
or you can go back and syndicate previous posts to any of the 15 sites at any time, giving you a great deal of control over how the system works.
The most time consuming part of setting up the plugin is setting up new accounts with all 15 of the bookmarking sites it uses, as this can take 30-60 mins.
But it only has to be done once, and from there on it’s the a breeze to use this simple plugin.
The plugin basically automates the syndication of your blog posts to 15 social bookmarking sites, including: -
A couple of the more important Wordpress Plugins (specifically WP Stats & Akismet) require a Wordpress API Key to work, but where do you find your Wordpress API Key?
I’ve made a quick video to show exactly where you can find your WP API number and how to pop it in to WP Stats and Akismet to make sure they are activated.
You will need to get a WordPress.com account set up, which is free, and you can check the WordPress API instructions page here: -
I’ve just finished updating the BlogTactics Plugins Page, there’s now 24 plugins listed in total.
These are the plugins that I use most often on all my different blogs, but here’s the one’s (in no particular order) that I think are most useful/important: -
1. The “BlogTactics NoFollow” plugin.
I had this made for me to allow me to easily add the “nofollow” tag to blogroll links as Google gave a couple of myblogs a PR0 and the only reason I could see for them having done so was the blogroll links.
A week or so after I added the plugin to those blog the PR came back, so I guess it did the trick!
My apologies, it’s been a little while since I’ve added a new video or new post, and next week is likely to be quite as well simply because I’m moving and and things are a bit “up in the air” right now.
However, my wonderful coder has managed to finish off another plugin for me, it’s a simple to use plugin that allows you to activate or de-activate multiple plugins at one time, so when you are setting up a new blog you no longer need to activate the plugins one by one!
I don’t often reveal my niche/test blogs, but if you pay attention in this video you’ll see a 2 or 3, including one that is not only totally automated, but also gets 100+ unique visitors a day without me doing anything to it since I set it up..
I even show you the stats, and if you pause the video and ignore the blip in March caused by the host, you can see that the traffic is actually growing month on month, and I’ve not even used any of my backlink strategies on this blog, as it was set up as a test for this plugin.
I guess you can say I’m pleased with the results!!!
So what’s this video about?
well, there’s a free WordPress plugin that you can use to have uniques content articles posted to your blog every day totally automatically, making the blog “hands free”.
I would still recommend posting your own content if it’s one of your “main” blogs, but this free plugin is a real time saver for sutomating “niche” blogs in different markets, and can easily be used to supplement your own blog posts if you find it difficult to post something every day..
I’ve not been posting much over the last week or so, but it’s not because I’ve been lazy, just a little busy..
One of the things that I’ve been working on is a new free Plugin for you, althogh I won’t claim to have coded it myself, I outsourced the work as usual.
I made a post a couple of weeks ago about dealing with a Google PR0 penalty to your blog for “allegedly” selling text links, which is something I’ve never done on this site, but Google seem to believe I have, as they’ve recently made PR for this blog a big fat Zero.
I believe the penalty is based on having a long list of “recommended resource” links in my blogroll, none of which include the Rel=”nofollow” tag, as it’s not a default option offered by WordPress, so Pagerank is being passed to those sites listed, which some bright spark at Google has obviously assumed that I’m getting paid for.
