There are too many plugins for wordpress which help you to improve your search engine optimization, but you can eventually download and install a couple of them and test which one work best for you, because in the blogsphere there are many plugins which do exactly the same.

Now I’m going to share with you a couple of plugins excellent for SEO, but also you can check the wordpress plugins data base for other plugins.

SEO Title Tag

As you now the page titles are very powerful in the Search Engines, so this plugin really helps your WordPress blog’s optimization allowing you to give to each post its own unique title tag – one that is uncoupled from the title of the post. This enables you to write a title tag what is good for the Search Engines while keeping a post title that will appeal to humans. If you want to improve your SEO, you should start by downloading this plugin .

All in One SEO Pack

This plugin is streamlined for some best practices for WordPress SEO. While it gives you many options the defaults reflect the settings I recommend using. It have too many useful options as for example, add a description of the post for the meta tag, so when a potential reader find your post in a search engine it will see that description you wrote. Download this great plugin, I recommend it !.

Related Posts

Related Posts Plugin will generate a related posts list based on your tags, and also it add the related posts to your feed. You can set the mount of related posts you want to show plus another features like showing a comment counter.

Ultimate Tag Warrior

This plugin creates a tag cloud for your blog by enabling you to group posts together based on “tags” you include when you write your posts. Tag clouds help your SEO by creating internal links to relevant pages using good keywords. Ultimate Tag Warrior is not compatible with WordPress 2.0 by itself, so be sure you download the Compatibility Thing. This plugin may be a bit difficult for non-coders to get working right.

Lucia’s Linky Love

This is a variety of “dofollow” plugin. It’s main function is to strip “nofollow” tags from links in comments. The purpose is to encourage comments by rewarding commenters with “dofollow” links which boosts their rank in search engine. However, this particular plugin also has features that thwart human’s who are paid to visit blogs and leave insipid comments simply to boost their companies back links.

Social Bookmarking

I personally dislike this plugin, I don’t like to see all those many little icons at the bottom of my posts. Instead, I prefer to use the feedflares of feeburner, with them you can see a couple of links which I previous selected them.

If you use another plugin and you consider it’s very useful, please comment on this post to share it with all the community. In the following days I will be talking about search engine optimization on wordpress, stay closer !.

Yesterday I received an email from BlogCatalog notifying me about a new idea that they had. What would you happen if your newest post was Dugg and all your friends at BlogCatalog knew about it? And then what would happen if they Dugg it too, letting all of their friends know it. That would be pretty powerful, right?

Well in the next couple of days, BlogCatalog will launch Social Dashboard beta, a new feature that displays your latest activities across many social networks — Digg, Flickr, Last.fm, Twitter, YouTube, and many others . That means automatic cross-networking and promotion right from your personal profile page. It also means that the your post updates, Twitter comments, Digg submissions, and other activities will appear on the Social Dashboard of all your BlogCatalog friends, and maybe their friends too. This is the kind of networking that can make posts go viral. And that’s just for starters.

Their Dashboard will help you keep up on the activities of your friends. It’s almost like having the ultimate social network feed reader made up of your friends, it’s absolutely awesome don’t you think?? It will help you streamline networking and stay up to date with friends across the Web. When they upload a new Flickr photo or submit a new article to Digg, you will know and you can then share it with your friends.

Use it promote your activities. Use it to keep up on friends.

They also think Social Dashboard will strengthen the BlogCatalog community for you. It helps make profile pages much more dynamic, giving people a reason to visit them again and again. I was waiting something like this since too many time ago, now we can share all our network links across the web in a single place  :twisted: .

I have been seeing a new widget in some blogs, it’s called Spottt ( yes with triple t ). I feel curious and I decide to click it, linking me to the service website.

This is a new service of the Adbrite’s people, it’s a system very similar to entrecard, you can get advertise in a blog which use this widget, everything for free. But there is a lot of differences between Entrecard and Spottt, let’s check them out:

As you can see, Spottt is not an Entrecard clone, but rather it acts exactly like Blogrush for 125×125 ads because it gives you credits based on pageviews, and automatically spends your credits to distribute your ad automatically across the net on autopilot. It’s truth that Entrecard in first instance wanted to copy the blogrush model, but they broke this idea and going upper. Spottt wants to do the same, indeed sounds better than blogrush don’t you think? A 125×125 ad is most significant that a simple link, starting because you can use the image that represent your blog.

Advertising Control

Something that I dislike from spottt is that you cannot control who advertise on your site, this mean that you can sponsor any kind of blog. Also, in the other money face, you can’t control where to advertise your blog, so as you could imagine, your 125×125 will be randomly over the web no matter the niche of your blog.

The Network

In the Spottt’s network are too many kind of websites. Spottt lets anyone in the network, including myspace profiles, affiliate stores, and more. Entrecard instead, is only for high quality blogs. This insures that any Entrecard ad you click brings you to a high quality blogs.

Also I noticed that Spottt isn’t social, you can’t view who is the network, send messages, recommend someone, participate in forums, you don’t need to drop a card or something, you only need to place the widget in your site and it will start to “generate” traffic.

About Credits

Like in Entrecard, you have credits in Spottt. For what you can use those credits? for nothing!!! you have not control of them, this mean that you earn credits with pageviews and then, they spend automatically in advertising and there is no way to know where is your widget. Instead in Entrecard is much better, you can send credits to users, spend it in the shop for SEO tips, reviews and more…

Conclusion

I will try this service but if you take a look in the table you won’t like so much. However this service is new, so I think then they will start to add new features and I will be here to notice you about it.

Hey people, as all you know Yahoo! is the competence of Google, or at least it was for a time, actually I think that Yahoo! is over Google but I imagine someone will critique me for saying that. I usually use yahoo services like the web Searcher and Flickr, but I was taking a look on every service and I noticed that Yahoo! really kick asses! it has too many great services, but in this post I will talk to you only about the services for bloggers.

Ask Yahoo!: this is a great service, if you have any doubt you can ask to Yahoo! for any question you have. Of course, you are able to use this service only after asking me .

Blo.gs: blo.gs lets you keep an eye on your favorite weblogs via the web and email. This is a directory of recently updated weblogs and tools for tracking interesting weblogs, in the spirit of services like weblogs.com and blogrolling.com.

Small Business: this is a great service to start your business, providing you the resources to get online giving you a webhosting service and domains for $9.95/year. If you are already have your website, you can advertise online getting a sponsored search and advertise your site in search results, connecting you with potential customers.

Flickr: well well, flickr is almost the best online photo management and sharing application in the world, at least that’s what they say. Really is a great service, too many bloggers are using it to share their photos. But why don’t they host those images on their own server? they use flickr because it’s free and also it doesn’t overload your loading time of your blog.

Yahoo! 360°: this service is a good one, it’s a place that’s all about you to share with friends and family. Let’s see, that’s very similar to the blog definition isn’t it? certainly, with 360° you can manage blogs, photos, lists, recommendations, and a host of other features, Yahoo! 360° lets you share what’s interesting and important to you.

Avatars: do you want to be virtually animated? with yahoo! avatars you can get an animate image of yourself customizing everything, noise, eyes, hair… changing your look everyday. This avatar can be shared in your IM.

Finance: with yahoo! finance you can calculate how much are you spending with their calculators. Also you will find some answers to frequently asked questions. This service is very interesting, you should check it out closer.

Bookmarks: did I read bookmarks? yes! with yahoo! bookmarks you can manage your preferred websites online and not in your browser/computer. This is very similar to services like del.icio.us, getting a button on your browser to add quickly any website to your bookmarks.

I think we all need to explore with details all the Yahoo! Services. I only look for a couple of them but probably there are more excellent services that all we want to meet, so if you use a non-listed service feel free to comment it giving a little description about it.

Happy blogging!

This morning I received an email just like many I receive every day with the subject “Advertising on Mrjavo.com”. The first I though was someone bough me a link or an 125×125 banner but was not, instead this mail was much better, providing me the opportunity to test a new innovator advertising service, here is the mail content:

John Wasilewski wrote:

Hello,
I represent a company that specializes in a new form of internet advertising that guarantees that you will get a 100% conversion rate on 100% of your website traffic.
Starting In February a revolutionary style of advertising will be launching. As the webmaster, you will be paid for each visitor that comes to your site and your visitors will not have to click on anything! All they have to do is arrive as they do now and you will be paid.
If you would like to know more about how this new system will work, contact me and I can provide you with more details.
Regards,

John

Advertising without clicks? What’s the catch?

How I had nothing to lose trying I replied the email to meet the service and I got the information of this new advertising system. NetAudioAds is a new media source that is 66,000 advertisers strong and they publicize ad space on the websites without taking up any of your web page real estate.

They will do this by serving a “single” 5 second audio advertisement to website visitors on any and every page of your websites where it would be appropriate for a visitor to hear a 5 second audio ad. The code that calls the 5 second audio ad is a simple javascript code that you paste anywhere between the <body></body> tags of any web page where it is appropriate for visitors to hear an audio ad. I heard some 5 sec sample singles and I have to say that these ads are very professional, I really like them in addition because the ads will be related to the content of each web page of your website.

Their advertisers will buy ad plays on your website for each of your visitors. In essence you will be paid on a CPM basis and the effective CPM that you receive will be determined by our automated bid management system. This bidding system will always work to ensure that you are getting the highest effective CPM possible. Of course bids will vary from market to market. They estimate payment at around 2.8 cents per visitor but bidding by big advertisers on February 1st is expected to be fierce so this figure could be much higher.

PPP only serves ONE advertisement to the visitor for 5 seconds. No more ads are played to the visitor unless they refresh the page or visit another page in your website that has the PPP code inserted. Reading the FAQ you will find some interesting questions/answers, for example you are able to add this code on free websites or blogs including blogger.com blogs.

Payments

NetAudioAds Pay-Per-Play pays all affiliates on a weekly basis. The more websites that you refer to this opportunity the more you will make, and they will pay either by PayPal or paper check mailed to your address on file. All checks will be issued in US currency so you must have the ability to convert this currency in your country.

In addition you can get paid on 3 tiers!, NetAudioAds Pay-Per-Play (PPP) offers a generous (RESIDUAL) compensation plan that is designed to pay you in several ways:

TIER 1: Get paid 25% of what the advertiser spends “per play” on audio ads that you serve on your website(s). You get paid for every visitor that remains on any web page (where you place your PPP code) for more than 2 seconds.

20% of Internet users do not have their audio system turned on but you will be paid for 100% of your traffic where an audio ad is served whether it is heard or not. The price that our advertisers pay already takes into account that only 80% of their ads will actually be heard.

TIER 2: Get paid 5% of what the advertiser spends “per play” on audio ads that are served on the websites of those that you personally refer to the Pay-Per-Play opportunity.

TIER 3: Get paid 5% of what the advertiser spends “per play” on audio ads that are served on the websites of those that your direct referrals bring on board.

Seems great isn’t it? may be you think “this samples will make my readers go away”, I though it too. But they’re just 5 seconds, I think 5 sec are nothing, however you can terminate your account by deleting the add code, but you need to tell them before to do it. So I think this advertising has two ways to take:

1. It will kick asses and everybody will use it.
2. Nobody will like the 5 sec sound and everybody will reject these ads, leaving the network and this company will be broke.

What do you think? I incline to the idea it will be rejected but how can I know it? anyways I will try it don’t you? The referral program will be close on 1st February, hurry up and sign up to NetAudioAds!.

Sphinn, pronounce it “spin”, is a social media network focused in the topic of Internet Marketing News. It’s designed to search and meet marketers, to allow you to share and discover news stories, read and take part in discussions, discover events of interest and network with others. It works very similar to digg, if you see a new story or discussion you like, you can vote for it using the blue Sphinn icon. Just click on the words “Sphinn It,” and you’ve cast your vote — the words will change to “Sphunn” to indicate that your Sphinn was registered. Voting — called Sphinning here — is also an easy way to keep track of stories for future reference, since everything you Sphinn for is automatically recorded within your profile. Want to know more about a story? Click on the number in the icon, and you can see a full description about it plus any comments.

The topics are either news stories that have been submitted or discussions that have been started by Sphinn members. To view topics, select the “Topics” tab at the top of Sphinn pages. By default, you’ll see Hot Topics, but you can switch to What’s New view. More about these views:

• Hot Topics : These are the most popular topics as voted by Sphinn members over the past three days. If you want, just the “Sort items by” links on the right-hand side of a Hot Topics page to narrow Hot Topics to today, yesterday, the current week or for the entire month.
• What’s New: These are topics recently submitted by Sphinn members. Like one of them? Click on the Sphinn button to vote for it. Topics that get enough Sphinns can move to Hot Topics.
• Greatest Hits: These are all topics submitted to Sphinn over time, listed in order of how popular they are.

You can also find those and more topics by categories, you’ll see categories listed in the top of Sphinn’s pages, such as “Yahoo” or “Searching.” Select a category to narrow topics to just those areas. Each category also has subcategories, allowing you to focus even further.

And as every social media network, in Sphinn you will find a Network section. The Network page is where you can search for people in addition to finding them through news stories and discussions. When you find someone, you can establish a relationship with them, you can have one of three relationships with other members. These are:

• People You’re Stalking (Stalkees): See someone doing something interesting and want to keep track of them? Stalk them! Why bother? For one, it lets you send private messages to them, handy if they don’t publish their regular email. For another, they’ll see you’re stalking them — which is a first step to them possibly making you a friend.
• Stalkers: These are people who find you interesting. It’s a one-way relationship, at this point. But you have the option to make it two-way. Use the “add as friend” option listed for any stalker to transform them into a friend.
• Friends: These are people who you’ve either stalked and he/she decided to make you a friend, or who were stalking you and you decided to make a friend. In the future, we plan special ways for you to share things with your friends. For now, just feel good that you can have some. Go make some!

Tools & Toys

This is a community specially focused on bloggers, and thats why they have a series of tools for all us!. In the tools page you will find some tools very useful to you, no matter what platform you use. Those are the tools provided by Sphinn to your blog:

• Sphinn Live!
• Sphinn: Submit Via Bookmark.
• Sphinn Button For Your Site.
• Sphinn Custom Buttons For Any Blog.
• Sphinn Buttons Especially For WordPress.
• Sphinn Buttons Especially For FeedBurner.
• Sphinn For Facebook.
• Sphinn For Macs.

Sphinn is a good social media network, and its better if you blog about the Internet Marketing niche. In addition, this community is very young, that means you don’t need to have thousands of sphinns to get listed in the Hot Topics list, just with ~50 sphinns is enough to be the first in this list, something impossible in digg.

If you are not in Sphinn you can join here!