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Ever since I started affiliate marketing I have been using php redirecting to mask my affiliate links and make them look “prettier”. Once you learn this little trick it is really easy to and up until a few months ago I was really satisfied using this method to add affiliate links to my websites and blogs.

Thing is that sometime you have already got a lot of information on your website when you find a good affiliate product that could work well on your site.

But do you really want to go back and edit all those posts and articles to make sure your affiliate link is added?

The solution to this problem is both simple and genious. It is called the Ninja Affiliate. The Ninja Affiliate is a wordpress plugin (yeah…. love those plugins!) … that is easy to install.

Once activated you can add your affiliate link in one central place (go to “manage” in your dashboard and then click on the Ninja Affiliate). Indicate which are the trigger words and each time that specific word (or small sentence) shows up on your blog, it is automatically turned into a live link to your affiliate product.

Another superb feature of the Ninja Affiliate plugin is that it will automatically cloak your affiliate link so that visitors don´t get to see it.

You also get to see all the click throughs on the links you have put in your blog so that you can keep count and track which product is doing well and which isn´t… Very important if you are looking to make money online.

The Ninja Affiliate will take out the guessing and hard work of making your blog more profitable so check it out!

Go to Ninja Affiliate for more details!

MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate

The last few weeks I have been thinking where to go with this blog. I knew I really wanted to bring more life to it, get into a more regular posting schedule, offer more interesting information for beginning bloggers especially but also wanted to form a more searchable base to find useful plugins, affiliate programs and other important money making tools everybody can profit from.

So apart from a little change in design, preparing this blog for the new year to come, I have also decided to load up some useful plugins.

Now one thing that I noticed and always tried solving was that whenever I would search through this blog and click on the category page, only one post would be shown and if there were more post in one category, I had to go and search for older posts, quite time consuming if you ask me.

I really wanted to offer category pages that would show more options, so my visitors could go over all the posts made in one category. Now, I searched how to do it in Wordpress, but could not find how to adapt my theme manually, besides, I really did not want to bother that much changing a theme manually and then lose that adaptation again, whenever I felt time had come for a new theme update.

I found the Solution in an easy to instal plugin!

The Different Posts Per Page Plugin offers exactly what I was looking for with an easy way to update the number of posts you want to show per page, whether that be the home page or category page, but you can also easily change the number of posts you want to have show up on your search page or tag page.

Now how great is that?

I thought it was really cool, another great free plugin to help you manage your wordpress blog and takes out the pain of having to manually change your theme. So now navigation on this page is made easier, just check it out for yourself and click on any of the “tags” or category pages and instead of just seeing one post, you will actually see all the posts available in once quick overview!

If you have been looking for a way to change the number of posts shown on your different page types, then the Different Posts Per Page plugin is the way to go! With only a few clicks you can define the number of posts on category pages, tag pages and the lot.

Download Different Posts Per Page plugin for free and offer your visitors the same ease of navigation!

Tired of building links? Fed up with that time consuming, but so important part of internet marketing? Are you still dreaming of wealth and an ever growing internet business, but just can´t find the “umpf” to keep working on it?

Then continue reading because help is on its way!

If you are anything like me, you love automatization too. Recently I discovered there was a way to cut down the time I was spending on social bookmarking sites. Instead of actually having to go to all different sites seperately and add the links I wanted to link, I found a neat little application that would automatically do different runs on both bigger social bookmarking sites and scuttle pages.

Thought that was pretty neat and at times I would just go crazy, doing too many runs at the same time and than after a few days I would focus on something else. Consistency never has been my biggest forte but I do understand just how important it is to keep building links in a consistent manner and above all, not piss off the search engines.

Then AutoSocialPoster came in, taking away all the guess work, consistency problems and even more important, run 100% automatically once set up.

Since it is a plugin for wordpress all you need to do is install it on your wordpress blog, set the settings (you will have to create accounts for all 34 bigger bookmarkingsites, and can even create more than 1 account so your posts will be randomly submitted by different users) but once that is done (should not take more than 30 minutes) you are set!

Every time you publish a post on your blog and have your tags set, AutoSocialPoster will take over the work, creating technorati links and pinging the 34 sites.

So what is so cool about this plugin?

• No more socialbookmarking needed, so you are wasting less time.
• Each post can give you an easy 34 backlinks times the number of tags!
• Randomly use different accounts.
• Steadily build links each time you post, automatically!

Initial investment

is $197 but that means you get the license to install the plugin to as many wordpress blogs you run. Sounds like a good deal to me, since time IS money and this plugin saves me hours a day of tedious work, and to be honest, it gives me peace of mind, being able to focus more on adding good content to all blogs I own and seeing my traffic grow fast and steadily!

Doing the math

Say you run 10 blogs, and write around 40 posts a week between them. That would mean that without this plugin, you would have to socialbookmark 40×34 times …. a whopping 1360 times per week, over 70.000 times a year!

Adding 5 tags to each post, that means you automatically create over 350.000 backlinks to your 10 blogs each year.

Even if you only have 1 blog, this plugin can

easily get you 35.000 links per year!

All of a sudden that $197 sounds like a great investment to me so I went ahead and got the AutoSocialPoster. I will be posting in the future about the results it is giving me, but if you want to check it out meanwhile, I´d say go for it and have a look, that is, if you are serious about growing your online business

The more I get to learn about Wordpress and the use of Plugins, the more I start loving and appreciate the ease of them. There are a few plugins that I use on a regular base because they make blogging life just so much easier, so I wanted to share them with you. Please keep in mind that most plugins mentioned below are WordPress plugins, sorry for that guys, I only talk about what I know!

If you are not familiar with plugins and how to get them to work, please read this short introduction: Putting Your Plugins to Work before you start dowloading them.

If you are already familiar with plugins, here goes my list of my top 15 plugins I use on different blogs and almost couldn´t live without in the blogsphere!

Plugins to Improve SEO of your blog

• All in One SEO Pack by Uberdose

This one automatically optimizes titles for search engines, generates Meta tags and avoids duplicate content found on wordpress blogs. If you are running wordpress 2.3 or up you don´t even have to look at the options, but you can of course override and title and set any meta description and keywords you want.

• Contextual Related Posts by Mark Ghosh

This plugin is really neat because it shows the last 5 contextually related posts after every single blog post, making it easier for visitors to find related material if they liked the one they just read, but it will also bring forward older posts, thus improving the deeplinking of your blog.

• Dagon Design Sitemap Generator by Dagon Design

This plugin generates a fully customizable sitemap for your WordPress powered site. This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator that is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel. Once installed and activated, all you need to do is go to the Settings page inside your WP control panel, click on the DD Sitemap and choose your preference. Once your preference are set, you create a new page and in the html you add the following code where you want the sitemap to show up:

<!– ddsitemapgen –>

Why is this plugin good for SEO? Apart from giving your visitor an easier way to navigate and find things on your site, you are again providing extra links to all your posts.
To see this plugin in action, visit my sitemap page.

• Google XML Sitemaps by Arne Brachhold

This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog that is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.

• Top Posts By Category by M&M

I am using this plugin to easily show the posts that were most commented all together on one page, but you can also set it to show the most visited posts in your blog. This will again bring extra link attention to your most popular post plus it gives your visitor a short list of most interesting posts on your blog.

• WWW Redirect by Justin Shattuck

Redirects variations of identical domain requests to a consistent uri to ensure http://www.easymoneyzine.com and http://easymoneyzine.com are not regarded as two different domains by the search engines.

Important Plugins you really need to install

• WordPress Database Backup by Austin Matzko

After having had a problem with another blog, losing all content because of my own stupidity, I have this plugin installed to make sure I get a database backup emailed to me weekly so I won´t have to worry about that anymore.

• MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

Save your wordpress blog from getting tagged as ping spammer by installing this plugin. Did you know that the new Wordpress version already is set to ping http://rpc.pingomatic.com/? (You can find which services you are pinging by going to Settings in your controlpanel and then choose Writing. You can modify the services you want to ping everytime a post comes out at the bottom of that page).

Did you also know that everytime you edit a published post, you are sending another ping to the pinging services and that this might get your blog banned because it is considered spamming if you ping too often for the same post? And another little known fact is that when dating your posts in order to have different posts going public in the future, you will loose the value of these pingservices, because as soon as you hit the publish button, they will start searching your post, and guess what, they won´t find it if you have set the date to the future!

The cool thing about this plugin is that you can actually date posts that you have written and only ping once they are published online. Plus, you can edit your post without the danger of continuously pinging every time you change something in an already existing post. After installing the plugin, just activate it and go to the Settings in your controlpanel to make sure you register the plugin in order for it to work and start avoiding spamming pingers and getting blocked from their services.

• Google Analytics Plugin

If you are looking for an easy way to be able to see how your website is doing, how much traffic you are receiving, where people are coming from, how long they stay and which keywords brought visitors to your blog you might want to open a Google Analytics account for free. Once you have your account you will have to implement some code in order for Google to track your traffic. Now, instead of starting to muddle in the code of your template (and then having to do that again whenever you change to another template) you can use this plugin to easily put in the code. Once installed, just activate it and go to the analytics plugin you can find in Settings, and add the code in order for the plugin to start doing it´s job.

Add some spice to your blog with the following Plugins

• Unique Article Wizard - Creating Unique content for your blog

I only recently found this plugin and have been using it with great pleasure so far. One of the most important things when running a blog (and probably one that will give you the biggest advantages when it comes to the success of your blog) is updating very regularly. But, since we are all human and sometime life get´s in the way, there are always moments that inspiration lacks or we just don´t have the time to add posts. This plugin will allow other people to post articles to your blog, much in the same way article directories receive their articles, without losing control over the content, since you can have them posted as draft versions and you just need to approve the article (or delete it if it does not represent what you agree with).

This Article Wizard is a monthly service to help with your article marketing strategies, sending your articles to all different article directories in a unique version, but separate from that, they offer a free plugin you can easily install in order to receive articles you can publish on your blog for (they support all different sorts of blog platforms, not just wordpress).

You can directly download the plugin here.

• Add Sig by Dagon Design

I am using this plugin at the moment to add some interesting products that I am using, to the bottom of all of my posts but there are of course other things you can do with this plugin without having to change things in the core code. It supports up to three different signature templates so you have an easier way of adding something to the end of all of your posts, whether it be a special message (like for example, “if you liked this post, please leave a comment or digg/stumble it”) or maybe some adsense code or affiliate link.

• Anti-Sociable by Andy Beard

Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites so make it easier to be bookmarked in case a post was really enjoyed. Whenever I use the Sociable plugin, I prefer using the hacked version called Antisocial, which prevents losing linkjuice to social bookmarking sites.

• Commentluv by Andy Bailey

This plugin shows a link to the last post from the commentator´s blog in their comment. Just activate and it´s ready. Currently parses with wordpress, blogspot, typepad and blogs that have a feed link in the head section of their page. I like this plugin a lot; it has already lead me to many interesting blogs I would not have found otherwise.

• Enhanced WP-ContactForm by Joost Valk

WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. In the message it sends to you it gives the page the user visited before the contact page, as well as the original outside referrer. It can be implemented on a page or a post. It currently works with WordPress 2.0+ and you can see it in action here. After activation of the plug, just go to Settings in your controlpanel and then to the enhanced wp contactform in order to configure your preference (like where you want the email to be sent to), once done, all you need to do is set up a new page and add the following code to the html wherever you want the contactform to appear:

<!–contact form–>

• Subscribe To Comments By Mark Jaquith

This plugin allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry, making it easier to keep track of certain comments and dialogues.

This post is going to be a short plugin dummie version for those of you who are not familiar with the use of plugins on a WordPress blog. It is only a short version, because most plugins will come with install directions and special specifications you need to know in order to have the plugin work properly.

Before you go ahead reading this post, make sure the template you are using on your wordpress blog is “widget-ready”, which is normally mentioned on the page you downloaded your template from. Some templates are not “widget-ready” which means you have to adapt it first, instructions for that can be found here.

A plug-in (plugin, addin, add-in, addon, add-on or snap-in) is a computer program that interacts with a host application (a web browser or an email client, for example) to provide a certain, usually very specific, function “on demand”. Applications support plugins for many reasons. Some of the main reasons include: enabling third-party developers to create capabilities to extend an application, to support features yet unforeseen, to reduce the size of an application, and to separate source code from an application because of incompatible software licenses. -Wikipedia- Read More

Best word of advice before starting of is: Read the Manual; there is almost always a readme.txt file added to the plugin once you have it unzipped onto your desktop, and it is there for a reason, not just decoration!

Having said that, let´s assume you have located a plugin you want to install (in a few days I will publish a list of 15 plugins you should definately consider using, so keep an eye on this blog) and you have gone ahead and downloaded it to your computer.

First thing you will need to do is unzip the file. You will then see a folder containing different files (including the above mentioned readme.txt in most cases). You will have to upload this complete folder to your server, either through ftp or using your controlpanel file manager. Don´t make the mistake of uploading all different files seperately, you will have to upload the complete folder. Some plugins consist of just one php file, in that case, you will only need to upload that specific php file.

So where does that plugin folder go?

Your plugin folder should go into the following path:

public_html/wp-content/plugins/ so if you are using a filemanager on a cpanel of your hosting company, open the public_html, then open wp-content and finally open plugins to upload the complete plugin folder.

One step down, only two more to go!

Next you will need to go to the control panel of your wordpress blog and find the “Plugins” tab on the upper right hand corner, in case you are using WP 2.5 and up. If you aren´t using the new version, don´t you think it is about time to upgrade?

You will now see a list of plugins that are uploaded to your wordpress platform and you will have to click “Activate” in order to be able to start using the plugin. WP 2.5 has this really neat option built in to upgrade plugins whenever new versions are available and it is in this section where you will see if your plugins has a newer version. Just click “upgrade automatically” and wordpress will do all the hard work for you!

Step two down, one more to go!

What you need to do now is go to the “Settings” tab on the upper right hand corner (this used to be called Options before version 2.5 came out) and when you have your settings open, you will see a number of tabs that automatically are installed with your wordpress (general, writing, reading, discussion, privacy, permalinks, miscellaneous) plus you will see the tabs you need to configure your plugins.

Choose the tab for whatever plugin you want to configure and press update in order to update those options.

Since all plugins are configured differently it is very hard to give a detailed guide, but most of the configurations are self explanatory anyways, so you should not have any problems there, just follow the instructions given on the page you downloaded the plugin from or again, read the readme-txt in the plugin folder if you are doubting about anything.

Step 3 three completed, Congratulations!

Pet yourself on the back, have a cup of coffee, sit back and enjoy while your plugin is doing it´s (your) work!