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Search engine optimization is an important step to getting more traffic for your blog especially from search engines. There are plugins for Wordpress that I am using for this blog to make it SEO-friendlier and generate more traffic and ranking.

1. All in One SEO Pack. All in One SEO Pack is named because it can basically do every aspect to optimize your posts and pages. This is one of the best SEO plugin for WordPress so far ranking it as the second most downloaded plugin from the WordPress database. It has several great features:

• Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
• Generates META tags automatically
• Avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs
• You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
• You can fine-tune everything
• Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.

2. Title Tags plugins. The title tag is considered as one of the most important factors in getting high search engine rankings because the words in your title tag are what appear in the clickable link on the search engine results page (SERP). All in One SEO Package also offer a feature to change the title tags in your posts. Other plugins include:

• SEO Title Tag – SEO Title Tag makes it easy to optimize the title tags – for your posts, home page, and every title tag on your site.

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The way your write and the way your post looks like adds attraction to your readers to stick to your blog. There are many ways that you can enhance your blog posts.

1. Pictures. Adding pictures relevant to or descriptive of your blog post is one of the proven ways to attract readers, make them stay and read your posts further.

There are several options you have to add images to your posts. You can either manually search for photos then post the image to your blog (what you call hot linking) or upload it directly to your website; add your hosted images from image-hosting websites like Photobucket, ImagesHack, and the like; and use an amazing plugin for WordPress users called Photodropper.

2. Relevant links. Adding relevant links will serve as reference or source of your posts. This adds credibility to you as a writer. Furthermore, you build camaraderie among your fellow bloggers for giving them link love.
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For months now, this blog has been freed from comment spam I used to experience before because I found out the most effective ways to avoid WordPress spam.

1. Deactivating Akismet. Previously, I was getting at least 200 spam comments per day. I had to scan them one-by-one because some comments were filtered as spam by Akismet. Out of frustration, I deactivated the plugin with thoughts of completely avoiding these spam messages. True enough, I have not received spam comments since then.

Note: Do not delete Akismet from the plugins directory because you’re blog may experience another spam flood.

2. Install a spam blocking plugin. Currently I am using Matriphe Keycode, one of the best anti spam plugins I’ve ever used.
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Here is a list of plugins that have caused that server overload or resource abuse yesterday

1. Views Counter. This plugin helps you to easily track how many times your post page was viewed and by what quantity of visitors. I installed this plugin because it served as a “mini-stat counter” for my posts. It also served as a potential gauge for future related posts.

2. No Old Spam Links. This plugin add “nofollow” to all links on any domain on a blacklist, applied in posts and comments. I installed this plugin in thinking that it will help me regain my page rank. My alternative to it is add the “rel=nofollow” attribute to the paid links, manually. Also, I uninstalled the TLA plugin.

3. MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad. It’s a non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top of your blog. I used it to promote my contest.

Uninstalling these plugins also helped in minimizing server load:

1. Quoter. This plugin lets you quote a particular comment or portion of the blog. Uninstalling it minimized the load of most-commented posts in this blog. This is recommended only to high-trafficked sites receiving a good number of visitor comments.

2. Commentluv. This plugin shows a link to the last post from the commenter’s blog in their comment. It’s one way of attracting comments. It reduced significant number of queries.

3. Dagon Design Sitemap Generator. This plugin generates a fully customizable sitemap. When this was installed, my post archives performs 75 queries, when uninstalled, it reduced significantly by 60%.

This post does not mean to discourage you from installing these plugins, instead it serves as a warning to avoid site suspension from your host, especially if you are using a shared hosting.

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Yesterday, I was asked by a visitor at Student E-Resources on how to put a contact form in the new Blogger after she saw my contact form embedded in one of the pages.

For this particular one, I am using Wufoo HTML forms. The advantage of Wufoo is you can create any kinds of online forms like mailing list and subscriptions, job applications, etc.

However, with Wufoo, you have to login to your admin dashboard to read the messages generated from your contact form. I have a particular dilemma on this. I usually forget to check my dashboard so I sometimes reply late to my visitors messages.
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The Google punishment in the form of Google PR drops, due to paid links created a buzz in the blogosphere. Many had been affected, and that includes me. And I want to get my PR back. Probloggers advised to add a rel=nofollow on all paid links but it maybe too cumbersome, especially if you have posted quite a number of paid reviews.

I found a WordPress plugin that will help me to easily put nofollow in all the paid links in this blog without manually adding rel=nofollow to the links. No Old Spam Links plugin will automatically do it for me.

What does the plugin do?

• It add “nofollow” to all links on any domain on a blacklist. The “nofollow” is applied in posts and comments.
• Specify one white list “all links dofollow” category which overrides the blacklist.
• Specify an “all no follow” category that adds no follow to all links after a specified number of days. It will be easier for you to add no=follow to all paid links especially if it’s under one category.

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