SEO / Blog Apps & Links Mentioned during Affiliate Summit West 2010 Panel
I moderated a panel today on Monetizing Blogs for Affiliate Marketing and SEO with a stellar panel of expert bloggers and SEO professionals, and affiliate marketers, including:
- Drew Bennett, Professional Blogger, BenSpark.com (Twitter @BenSpark)
- John Carcutt, SEO Manager, MediaWhiz (Twitter @JohnCarcutt)
- Tim Jones, Owner, TheRealTimJones.com (Twitter @TheRealTimJones)
- Murray Ross Newlands, Founder, Affiliate Heat (Twitter @murraynewlands)
As promised (if you were one of the 250 or so people who attended to panel), here the WordPress / SEO / various APPS and links we mentioned during the panel:
→ All in One SEO Pack – Automatically optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines, everyone uses it, if you have not got it get it now.
→ Google XML Sitemaps – Create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. This helps google index your website.
→ Broken link Checker Search engines do not like broken links. This plugin ensures you have none
→ Best Posts Summary Provides a daily , weekly or monthly summary post of your posts, this is great for readers to catch up on your blog and also for linking internally.
→ Blog Traffic Exchange related websites plugin is something I am trying it passes you traffic from other related sites and you do the same. It helps you share conversation between blogs.
→ WordPress.com Stats This plugin very simply gives you everything you need to track your visitor stats which is critical to find out where your are getting your traffic from to help you with seo.
→ WP Super Cache – This is a very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files, this speeds up your blog for your visitors.
→ WP-DB-Backup – On-demand backup of your WordPress database
→ Akismet removes spam comments, I get hundreds per day.
→ WP Contact Form III lets your visitors contact you eaisly with a contact form
→ E-Mail Responder – simple and can be added to most WP blogs
→ Disqus – good for building conversation
→ TanTan Noodles - plugin for Flickr
→ Comment Luv – Automatically checks the blog feed of the commenter and adds a link to their latest post.
→ All-In-One Seo Pack - A helpful plug in to add SEO to each of your posts.
→ Tweet This – Good integration with Social Media Sites for automatic postsing as well as offering readers a way to quickly send your posts to social media sites.
→ Tweetmeme - Probably the quickest and easiest way to help people to tweet your posts.
→ Add Post Footer - Allows you to customize how the footer of your posts work and it also sets up a related posts option.
→ Odiogo Listen Button Not everyone coming to your blog can read it some want to listen to it give them the option.
→ (SEOmoz) – Could Twitter Cannibalize the Web’s Link Graph
→ Grow Map Blog – Grow Your Online Business Website and Blog
→ Aweber – Email Marketing Software, Newsletters, & Autoresponders
→ Ninja Affiliate - WordPress Affiliate Link Tracking
→ Feedburner – Better manage RSS feeds
→ OIO Publisher - Ad Manager – Control Your Ad Space
→ Max Banner Ads - Easily add and rotate banners in your WP blog
→ GoDaddy – Domains/Hosting
January 19th, 2010 at 4:25 am
Excellent post! For those who didn’t attend such as myself, this is an excellent resource of information. Thanks!
January 19th, 2010 at 6:16 am
That`s a great post! I tried some of them but I didn`t know that are more!
Thanks!