Entries Tagged ‘wordpress’

Any website receives human visits from three major traffic categories – direct visits, referral visits and search engine visits. While you, as a webmaster or blogger do not have much control over direct and referral categories, the search traffic can be improved drastically via simple Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tricks and some discipline.

Assuming that you (1) have submitted your blog to search engines (2) search engine spiders actually crawl your site frequently (3) your blog theme is SEO optimized and (4) you have the All-in-one SEO plugin (or similar) installed on your blog, the following ten-minute touch up for your blog posts will give you more search visitors (Blogger blogs may do only permalink, keyword stuffing and linking part)
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A few weeks ago, when I (neatly) blended my Google AdSense 336×280 block a couple of paragraphs down the post content I thought I did a smart job! As a matter of fact, this was really resulting in an increased CTR (Click-Through-Rate) as well and a few readers like Hussein were interested in knowing how I went about doing it? (comment)

However, a few other regular readers like Kim, Lax and Mitch had altogether different views on this topic. Out of their conversation in my last post it was obvious that the regulars who read your blogs on a daily basis (fresh posts that is) should not be presented with the ad block in between though it’s okay for the older posts (seen mostly by search & referral visitors). Now, the following code sample(s) explains how this was achieved.
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Okay! Enough is enough!! Here is my first WP plugin - the Contact Commenters Wordpress Plugin - which has been just approved by WordPress extend team and available for download now. I have been exploring the WordPress platform and its extensibility aspects lately and this little baby is the first visible outcome of my experiments.

How can Contact Commenters plugin help you?

Well, it is a very small plugin that provides you a simple interface from your WordPress Admin Panel Manage tab through which you can:

• Search and filter for your top commenters, new commenters, those who have been inactive for the past few days, commenters of a particular post, commenters during a date range etc
• Send personalized emails (no auto responders) to selected commenters either in BCC mode or as individual mails
• Send quick mails to your contacts not just commenters (e.g. send greetings, inform them about your new services, blog contests etc)
• Reminds you of your last 10 commenters’ blog URLs, which probably you should be visiting and commenting as well

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Free blogging services such as Blogger (blogspot.com blog), Wordpress.com and Typepad are always good for beginners to kickstart their blogging lives. Many wannabe bloggers do not want to complicate things initially and that is why they go for these free platforms, which in a way, makes sense.

Recently, in an attempt to revive, my cricket blog I did a small comparative study of two of the leading free blog platforms - blogger and wordpress.com - and this post is the summary of my findings. Hope this helps many beginners to make a decision on which of these free platforms to choose to get started. (Those who want to set up their own professional, self hosted blog may please read this article series)
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