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. (more…)

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. (more…)

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 (more…)

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.

The normal way round this is to make a short post that links to the page but this can be quite time consuming. (more…)

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 (more…)