Boost Your Blog Traffic with WPSyndicator

There is a new plug-in on the market that has fast become the “must have” tool for bloggers everywhere.

It’s called WPSyndicator and was created by a clever chap named Andy Fletcher.  As you might realize from the name, this plug-in is made to help you syndicate your blog posts in a far easier way than doing it by hand.

What the plug-in does is syndicate an excerpt from your blog post onto up to 15 Web 2.0 properties all in one easy click.  The sites that it posts on are: WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, Vox, LiveJournal, Tumblr, Mulitply, Plurk, FriendFeed, Xanga, Identica, you are, Blellow and Bright Kite.  It will also send a tweet about your latest blog post at the same time.

Now, you do have to take a bit of time in the initial set up of your plug-in.  You need to create accounts at each of the sites, of course.  You can do this right through the WPSyndicator interface as the menu will take you through to all the places that you need to sign up for the various sites.  If you get stuck at all, there are some very handy videos that will guide you through the less obvious spots.  This will take you from 30 minutes to an hour, depending on how fast you type and how fast you can get through it all.

Once the initial set up is completed, it’s push button simple to syndicate your latest post. And one of the best features is that you can choose which sites to syndicate to with each post.

For example, Identical and Blellow only take certain kinds of content so you wouldn’t want to syndicate a post that will be seen as spam to those sites.  You can easily turn those two sites off before you have WPSyndicator do its thing.

What gets posted to the Web 2.0 sites is an excerpt from your post and you can set the length to whatever you want.  By default, it will grab the first 500 characters which will usually average about 100 words.  With that excerpt, will be a link back to your blog that will be “Read more…” or you can set it to the keyword anchor text you want.  With the micro-blogging sites, such as Twitter, instead of the anchor text, it will have a shortened bit.ly link.

So what does this mean?  More traffic from those who read your material on the Web 2.0 sites and wish to read the rest of your article.  They’ll gladly click through to your blog to see what else you have to say.  More subscribers, because once they’re there, you will make sure they see your opt-in form, right?  And of course, more backlinks that show the search engines how popular your blog is. Read the rest of this entry

In the continuing quest for more traffic and more website visitors, here’s another tool you might like. See that red button on the right? — the one that says “Get notified when this site updates”. (Update June 20101: I’m no longer using it. Seemed a bit clunky in practice, sorry.)

Click it and enter your email address. They will send you a password and you complete the process by logging in to their site at TheBestLinks.com.

It’s FREE — which is always something I find attractive.

And there’s a widgetized WordPress plugin, too. But I just pasted their code into a text box and as you can see, it’s working just fine.

Click it and sign up. It’s a great way to check out the plugin AND to be sure you don’t miss anything here.

When you add this button to your site or blog, you also get a listing in their directory. As the site says, “TheBestLinks.com button will help you to keep your returning visitors, while TheBestLinks.com Site Directory will bring new targeted visitors to your website.”

Cheers for now,
Gary.

Almost every WordPress blogger uses plugins to beef up the functionality of their blogs. And if you’re like me, you keep half an eye out for lists of the best WordPress plugins.

Well, Andy has just published his new list. Not the top ten WP plugins, but 12 of them.

I was impressed by #3 and #11.

http://affiliate-minder.com/wordpresstutorials/top-12-wordpress-plugins

Recently I did a bit of a purge and got rid of some of the plugins I was using in my standard set. Now I just might be tempted to add to the set again. Does it never end?

Written by Gary Harvey.

Improve blog traffic

Here’s a time saver if you’ve always resorted, as I have, to writing a short post at your WordPress blog to highlight a new PAGE (not post) that you have added to your WP blog.

Wouldnt you know it? – there is a plugin that does all the work for us. Thanks to Andrew Wilson for finding this and writing about it. To quote…

“as you probably already know, WordPress does not include pages within the feeds it produces. This meant that the first pages to be indexed were rarely the best quality content for which we wanted the sites to be known.

Today I came across a plugin that helps a lot. This plugin, when activated, adds pages to one’s rss feeds. Rss Includes Pages is by Marios Alexandrou and works on WordPress versions from 2.5 onward. Here is a link to Marios’ blog where there are user comments on the plugin.”

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What an excellent find. You agree?

Here’s the quickest way I know to get your WordPress blogs into compliance with the new Google privacy policy requirements.

(Starting April 8, 2009, Google is requiring AdSense publishers to update their privacy policy with information about Google use of cookies for serving advertisements and how visitors can opt out of those cookies if they want to.)

It’s a free WordPress plugin available at http://www.synclastic.com/plugins/privacy-policy.

Cheers,
Gary Harvey

PS:
Seen my Internet marketing rolodex yet? — http://garyharvey.net/rolodex. It gets updated often as I identify internet marketing tools I am using that are not yet on the list, plus when I add other useful finds.