WordPress is simple but becomes powerful by its plugins. Plugins are useful for Search Engine Optimization, displaying ads, securing the blog, spreading the content etc.

In this tutorial, we will learn about some great plugins. We will also learn how to use them for multiplying our success and to get more with our favorite WordPress.

So, let’s begin.

PushPress

Are you familiar with PubSubHubBub? It is an extension of Atom/RSS. It is great because with PubSubHubBub, you can ‘Push‘ your content into Search Engines and to your readers (in their RSS or Feed Readers).

Suppose, you write something very useful about a trendy topic. A topic which is very hot and thousands of peoples are searching for it. Use Google Trends for finding what is hot now.

So, you write something and it indexed by Google in 5 minutes. Your readers get it within a minute in their feed readers.

Yeah! You read correctly. Indexing in Google just in 5 minutes.

Seems Impossible? Well, and then have a proof.

Think about the possibilities. To be indexed in search engines is a success in term of SEO but with PushPress (WordPress Plugin for PubSubHubBub) your will multiply it several time because of faster indexation.

Thank me Later

Another wonderful Plugin!  Using Thank me later, you can send an email to the first time commenters. Don’t ask me what you will send in the mail? It may contain information about simple thanks, subscriptions, Free Reports, Reasons to subscribe, best posts or anything.

If you use the plugin effectively, you will convert a First time commenter (Success) into your reader or clients.

Comment Redirect

A very new reader comments on your content. It is also a success because you just converted a simple reader into a higher engagement level commenter.

So, How to multiply this success? Well, have an Example.

Glen of Viperchill does it by redirecting first time commenters into a special page.

This page contains information about ViperChill Subscription. Thus, Glen gets more new subscribers.

You can also apply the same technique using Comment Redirect plugin. It is a plugin from WordPress Rockstar Joost de Valk.

How to use Comment Redirect Plugin?

1) Download and activate the Plugin.

2) Build a Special page. This page may contains information about Subscription, special reports, Freebie or a special Product.

3) Redirect first time Commenters to that page and get more profit.

GoCodes

Affiliate Marketing is the most popular way to monetize your blog. You often recommend your readers something very valuable thing and earn some bucks by it.

GoCodes is boon for the Affiliate Marketing. It simply helps to you structure an Affiliate URL into something like yourblog.com/go/affiliate. Profits?

1. Trust in the links
2. Link tracking.
3. More Clicks i.e. More success.

Fast and Secure Contact Form

A contact form is a Good way to allow your visitors to contact you. There are plenty of plugins available for WordPress by which you can also create contact form.

Whatever the reason (Sorry to say, but no Spamming) but whenever a person contacts you is a success. It possesses more importance when you are offering a service (Hire me, Get Consultation etc.) and your contact page is the only option by which an interested person can contact you.

Fast and Secure Contact form plugins does the great job here. It is very secure and you can also redirect a person to a special page (Just as you did in Comment Redirect Plugin case) after they use the form to contact you.

So, build a special page again, which should contains very useful information like replying time, your other contact information (in case of urgent need), something valuable content or a relevant product.

Useful, isn’t it?

So, these were the three most important plugins for multiplying your success. But wait, there are some more.

We will have their short introduction now.

1) WP Greet Box: The plugin automatically detects the incoming visitors (from where they are coming) and display the relevant thing to them. You can also use this plugin to greet your visitor and motivate them to do something.

2) Link With In: This plugin displays the images of related posts or contents just after your post. So, you can increase the Pages/visit ratio using this wonderful plugin.

3) Subscribe to Comments: Another plugin about comment section. By using this plugin, you can turn your blog something like forum.

Well, these are the plugins which helps you to get more with WordPress. It is also a strong reason behind my WordPress love. Similar type of functionality isn’t available in the other CMSs and as simple as in WordPress.

So, it was all about the great plugins. What you think? Do you also use these or similar plugins for getting more with WordPress? Please share your thoughts by dropping some lines here.

Statistical plugins are very important for blog administrators and writers. The statistics help one to know about the visitors: how many are visiting the blog, which are the most popular post/pages and from where the traffic is coming and other such information.

Mentioned below are five major WordPress statistical plugins which every blog admin/writer should know and preferably use. There are many stats plugins in the WordPress inventory and these are some of the most widely used ones by WordPress bloggers.

Google Analyticator

Google Analyticator is a very good plugin to integrate Google Analytics with your WordPress blog.

This plugin adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics so that one doesn’t need to make changes in the template code to enable Google Analytics.

Just download the plugin and activate it in the Admin Plugin panel. From the Google Analyticator Settings page, enable the logging and provide the Google Analytics UUID (Note: The Google Analytics UUID can be found after logging in your Google Analytics Account for e.g. http://www.yourdomain.com UA-XXXXX-X).

Once enabled, the summary visit from the last 30 days is displayed on the Admin dashboard.

The plugin also comes with a widget which can be used to display the visits on the site. Just drop the widget on one of the sidebars and do the settings for its display and you are done.

Once this is saved you can see the number of visits on the sidebar.

Pros

• Easy to integrate in the WordPress blog as no code changes in the template are required.
• All setting can be done through the Admin Settings panel.
• A quick summary can be seen on the Admin Dashboard for the last 30 days. You don’t need to login to your Google Analytics account for a quick summary.
• A widget is presented to display the number of visitors.

Cons

• A Google Analytics account is needed to track the visitors.
• Only supports WordPress 2.7 or higher
• All the tracking data is not presented on your database but is stored in Google.
• The graphs shown by Google Analytics is not shown in the Admin Section. For that, one has to log in to the Google Analytics account.

Official StatCounter Plugin

The Official StatCounter Plugin is a very good plugin to integrate StatCounter with WordPress Blog. No template code changes are required to integrate StatCounter with WordPress through this plugin.

StatCounter.com is a free (limited storage which storage can be increased by paying a fee) and effective way to get statistics about a website. Personally I feel it’s much less complicated that Google Analytics where simple statistics about a site are required.

To integrate the plugin you need to have a StatCounter account. First of all, you need to download this plugin and activate it from the WordPress Admin Panel.

Then, in your StatCounter Account click configure and install plugin and follow the normal steps. When the option for Please Choose your Blog/Web Page Editor prompts, choose WordPress.org (I pay for the hosting).

Once you obtain the install code, from the code take the fields of Project ID, Partition ID and Security String. Enter those fields in the plugin setting page, enable the logging and click update option.

Once this is done you are ready and you can see your stats in your StatCounter account.

This plugin is really good and easy to use especially if you are already familiar and like StatCounter.com

Pros

• Easy to integrate in the WordPress blog as no code changes in the template required.
• All settings can be done through the Admin Settings panel.
• If the user already has a StatCounter account, then only a new project needs to be added for your blog.
• Easy and simple to use.

Cons

• A StatCounter account is needed to track the visitors.
• No widgets is presented to show user the visitor count.
• All the tracking data is not presented on your database but would be stored with StatCounter.
• No Statistics are present in the Admin dashboard section.

WordPress.com Stats

The WordPress.com Stats plug in is a very nice plugin with a lot of different statistics. All the Statistics are displayed in the admin dashboard area. Hence it becomes very convenient to see the entire statistics. Also the page visits can be seen in different views like daily visits view, weekly or monthly visits views.

WordPress.com Stats also gives a lot of other stats which are useful for SEO and marketing purposes of the blog like the top pages and posts, the top referrals to your blog, top search engine keywords used to your blog etc.

To add this plugin to your WordPress blog you need to download this plugin and put it in the plugins folder of your WordPress installation.

You need to have an account on WordPress.com for this plug in (you don’t need a blog on WordPress.com; just an account will do). When you have an account on WordPress.com you will get an API key which would be on your profile page of your WordPress.com account.

Once you activate the plugin from your admin plugin section you will have to add this API key. Once that is done you have to click Add to WordPress.com Account. Then it would take around 20 minutes for your stats to start appearing.

Once the above steps are done then from the dashboard you can view the statistics for you blog.

Pros

• Easy to integrate in the WordPress blog as no code changes in the template required.
• All settings can be done through the admin Settings panel.
• A lot of different types of statistics are shown like the top pages and posts, the top referrals to your blog, top search engine keywords to your blog etc.
• The statistic is displayed in the admin section. So no need to log into some other sites to see the stats.
• Some of the stats are shown in graphical format which is pleasing to the eye.

Cons

• One needs an account on WordPress.com
• No widget is presented to show user the visitor count
• All the tracking data is not stored in your database but would be stored with WordPress.com.
• Detailed statistics like information about browsers of visitors, operating systems of visitor are not present like the Google Analytics or the StatCounter discussed above.

WP-Stats

WP-Stats is a very simple and easy to use Stats plug in. This plugin does not give stats about users but instead gives stats about the content of the blog. This plugin helps one to know how many posts, pages, comment authors etc. are there on your blog.

This kind of statistic help to know how your blog is growing specially if there are multiple authors contributing to the blog.

Also all the statistics about the blog are stored in the blogs database only, so the data is not shared by any other site.

To add this plugin to your WordPress blog, just download the plugin and put it in your WordPress plugin directory. Then from the admin panel just activate the plugin.

You can configure from the settings page which stats are to be displayed like the 10 most commented pages or the author stats or other miscellaneous stats as shown below.

Once the settings are saved on your dashboard you are able to see the stats related to your blog content on the admin dashboard.

This plugin also has a widget with it. This widget would show the stats about the content of the blog to the users which helps the users to understand the popularity of the different articles on the blog and which authors are contributing more to the content of the blog.

Just drop the widget in the sidebar and choose to display the stats and save it.

Once that is done the stats would be displayed in the sidebar as shown below.

Pros

• Very Simple and easy to use.
• All settings can be done through the Admin Settings panel.
• Detailed stats about all the content of the blog are displayed.
• All the content is stored in the blog’s database. No content is shared by other sites.
• A widget is presented to display the statistics about blog content to the visitors.

Cons

• All the stats are text based, no graphs of the statistics are present.
• No statistics about visitors is logged, only statistics about content is logged.

FeedStats

This is a very simple and effective plugin to get statistics about feeds of your blog.

The plugin shows the feeds statistic on the dashboard. You can also configure how many days you need the statistics to last. Also you can configure an IP which is not supposed to be saved like your own IP 127.0.0.1

To add this plugin to your WordPress blog, just download the plug in and put it in your WordPress plug in directory. Then from the admin panel just activate the plugin.

Then from the settings page you can set the options for this plugin like for how many days the data should be logged, IPs to be blocked from logging etc.

Also the user level can be set for whom these statistics will be visible.

Once the Settings are saved, the stats can be seen on the dashboard and the feedstats page as shown in the illustration below.

Pros

• Very Simple and easy to use.
• Settings like how many days logging data should be present etc. can be configured.
• The minimum user level who can view the data can be configured.

Cons

• Detailed graph based stats are not presented.
• No statistics about visitors is logged; only statistics about feeds are logged.

Some other WordPress Statistics plugins that you could consider

• StatPress: a very popular Statistics plugin
• Wassup: track your visitors real time; see current visitors online, visitors’ details etc.
• CyStats: feature rich statistics plugin for WordPress
• PiWik Analytics: PiWik is the open source alternative to Google Analytics
• Generic Stats: put all Statistics tracking code in one place
• mySTAT: see more than fifty various types of reports
• WP-ShortStat: “a little statistics plugin”
• pixelstats: Count every viewer and every article view for each blog entry, no matter how and where it is read
• StatPress Reloaded: a highly improved fork of StatPress, this plugin shows you real time statistics about your blog
• See other Statistics plugins in the WordPress plugins directory

WordPress? No need to describe it. The easy and powerful CMS, specially designed for bloggers. And now, believe it or not, you can also make a living with WordPress. How?

Let’s see how……

There are many ways by which you can earn money (a lot!) using WordPress niche. We will discuss some most popular ways of them here in this article.

Love Blogging Baby. Just Love It!

Blogging is the popular way to make money on web. You are your own boss and work with freedom. WPWebHost has just published a wonderful article about How To Monetize Your Blog.

So, just make a blog for WordPress and publish your WordPress skills and knowledge there. Build authority there and you are ready to earn.

Trends for WordPress (by Google Trends)

I Do Article Writing. Why You Should Also?

Writing about WordPress for other blogs or publication can help you in many ways. It builds your authority around the WordPress community (If you are new at blogging and can’t wait till Google SandBox period) and will also help you to make some bucks.

Here is, the list of some sites which pay you for your WordPress related content:-

WPWebHost ($150 per article)

WPWebHost (A WordPress hosting provider) pays you $150 (It’s good amount. isn’t it?) for your WordPress related content.

Read more

Nettuts ($150 per article)

You can also write for Nettuts (Envato Network Blog for web developers) under their CMS’s section, which also contains WordPress along with Joomla, Expression Engine etc. They also pay $150 per article.

Read more

Tutorial 9 ($50 to $300)

Tutorial 9 offers best resources for free. It has blogging section also. So, you can also write for it. They offer $50 to $300 depending upon your work.

Read more

SitePoint ($100 to $350)

SitePoint is well known name around the web for its books and forum. You can also write here about WordPress and make 100$ (minimum) by each article.

The money increases with your article popularity. And it may be $350 if you get 100,000 views (Not much tough for being on SitePoint).

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Freelance Switch ($60 per article)

Freelance Switch is the most popular blog for Freelancers. You can also write for its “How-To Section” about WordPress and get $60 for each article.

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Pro Blog Design ($70 to $125 per article)

Pro Blog Design is also a popular blog and it also focuses on WordPress. So, you have one more place for paid writing, about WordPress. They offer $70 per article and it may be $125 based on some factors.

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Freelancing With WordPress

Freelancing is another popular way to make a living on web. Every freelancing site has WordPress related jobs too. You can also apply there with your WordPress experience and make handsome income each month.
Some of the popular freelancing sites which provide WordPress related jobs:

• oDesk
• Elance
• Scriptlance
• GetAFreelancer
• Guru

WordPress on oDesk

Be A Creator. Become Millionaire!

You can develop excellent products (services, themes, plugins etc) related to WordPress (Not for every Tom, Dick and Harry, It needs to be like Jack!) and sell them directly through your product website and with different marketing channels or with supporting networks.

You can find a huge list of WordPress related products on Google with a simple search. As, I have discussed above, the WordPress trend is hot nowadays and will continue in the future also.

So, having product related to WordPress may make you millionaire. I am not joking, see Thesis. It is a popular WordPress theme and framework which costs $87 for a single license. The number of thesis user is very large. So in short, it’s money within WordPress.

Web Is a Market. Join It For Profit !

There are too many people around the web who sell something. The number of WordPress related products is also great enough to motivate you.

If you are not like jack to create excellent product, then be as Sam. Sam is an Internet marketer who just promotes products related to WordPress and drives his own Ferrari.

The number of WordPress based products is countless and if you have deep knowledge of WordPress and marketing, then it can turn your knowledge into cash.

Concept of Affiliate Marketing Source Wikipedia

You can promote popular products or services using Affiliate Marketing. Internet marketers usually use a sentence, “The money is in list” and you can also use it. Build a list of targeted people who need specific product (I hope you have already) and refer them to affiliate product or service.

If you have not a list in start, then you can build it by authority. Build Authority, Refer Good and Earn More. Follow this rule for joining Internet with intention of profit creation.

The WordPress Stuffs for Promotion

WordPress Hosting: Web hosting is the basic need for every site owner. Thus, Web hosting business is very profitable. You can also join it by affiliate marketing.

WPWebHost and other WordPress hosting providers offer their affiliate program for you. Simply, Join them and refer others to make money by web hosting affiliate program.

WordPress Premium Themes: There are numbers of WordPress users who want Premium themes for making their web presence unique and beautiful. So, promote them.

Search Result for WordPress Premium Themes

A simple search for ‘WordPress Premium Theme‘ brings 15,900,000 results. Choose the best theme providers and their affiliate program and do promotion.

Recommendation: Themeforest and Woothemes

Books: WordPress based books are best way to learn WordPress basics and its advance uses. You can go to Amazon or Google to find books which teach WordPress ABC. Promote them, by joining their affiliate programs and make bucks.

Services and Plugins:  There are also some sites and people are here to offer WordPress based services and offer plugins for WordPress customization. Join them by affiliate marketing and earn.

Some plugins or services which offer affiliate program:

• Gravity Forms
• OIO Publisher
• WpCoupon
• WordPress Magnet
• WordPress ReviewSite
• Pretty Link Pro
• Squeeze Theme

So, these are the possible ways by which you can turn your WordPress love into a way for paying your Bills. All you have to do is to try everything discussed above and work hard. I know it is not for all but for those who love WordPress, they will have a go at it.

So what do you think? Please share your opinions by leaving your comments here.

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Installation a new wordpress blog is very easy but how to choose a good wordpress theme and great wordpress plugins for your new blog is relly trouble. May say that add wordpress plugins to the new blog is the most important part in building a new wordpress blog and it will decide to the life or death of that blog. If the blog that installed cool plugins , it will run very fest on the way of successful and else if the blog that don’t added well plugins, it will run very slowly to destination.

Today, in this guest post, I will show you Top 30 wordpress plugins that I’m using on Cho Toan dot Com. Of course these plugins were floor filter very carefully by me and according to the reports of many WordPress Bloggers.

1. Akismet
Akismet will check your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. This plugin is automatic add to the blog when we install. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. It has the ability prop and help our blogs prevent the most professional software spammers on the internet.

2. All in One SEO Pack
Its really the best SEO plugin for WordPress Blog with the features as: Add Titles, Descriptions, Keywords and Avoid Duplicate Content for your WordPress Blog. I’m sure it will help your blog to have rank well on Google and many other search engines.

3. Contact Form 7
You can very easy to create a contact form on your blog to the readers can contact your for aksing or advertising.

4. Executable PHP widget
If you want to add a PHP code but don’t know about PHP code and wordpress template, it will help you do this

5. CommentLuv
Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog by parsing the feed at their given URL when they leave a comment. Rewards your readers and encourage more comments.

6. Do Follow
Will remove nofollow tag in comments to help your blog get more comments. After add this plugin, you blog will be a Dofollow Blog.

7. FeedBurner FeedSmith
This plugin was recommended by Google because you will very easy to build a RSS Feed for your blog by the assistance of.

8. Google Analyticator
Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. After enabling this plugin visit the settings page and enter your Google Analytics’ UID and enable logging. Then you can check your blog analytic in Dashboard.

9. Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a Sitemap.XML for your blog to help your blog get faster index on Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN.

10. KB Robots.txt
Manage your robots.txt file from within WordPress and of course it will also help you have rank well on Google.

11. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
It will inform the ping services to help your blog quickly in the front page of search engine.

12. Nofollow Tag Cloud
Inserts rel=’nofollow’ in tag links to limit the number of links on a page if you add tag cloud on your blog.

13. Permalinks Moved Permanently
When permalink isn’t found, this checks if a post with the requested slug exists somewhere else on your blog.

14. Redirection
Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors. Help improve SEO.

15. RSS Feed Signature
Add a customised signature or tag-line to your RSS feed(s).

16. SEO Friendly Images
Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.

17. SEO Title Tag
This plugin is very powerful with Google that was recommended by Matt Cutts. Create a customized title tag for any post, static page, category page, UltimateTagWarrior tag page – indeed, any URL!

18. SexyBookmarks
Add social web 2.0 buttons to your single post pages to help readers very easy to submit your posts to social bookmarkings.

19. Simple Archive Generator
A plugin which simply lists all posts by category. For example : http://www.chotoan.com/archives/

20. Subscribe To Comments
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Its very well in increasing your RSS Subscribers.

21. Thank Me Later
Sends a customizable “Thank You” message after (a few hours, few days, weeks) a comment has been posted.

22. Top Commentators Widget
Adds a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site to help your blog receive more comments.

23. WordPress Database Backup
Help backup your database. You can use the feature Scheduled Backup to automate database backup to your email everyday for protection your data.

24. WordPress Related Posts
Generate a related posts list via tags of WordPress. You can add Related Posts for RSS Feed to help your subscriber very easy to find related posts on your blog.

25. WordPress Thread Comment
It allows user can reply comment and same comment on comment form.

26. WP-Ban
Ban users by IP, IP Range, host name, user agent and referer url from visiting your WordPress’s blog to prevent spammers.

27. WP-Optimize
This plugin helps you to keep your database clean by removing post revisions and spams in a blaze. allows you to rename your admin name also. Additionally it allows you to run optimize command on your wordpress core tables (use with caution).

28. WP-Polls
Help you add poll on your blog or posts. You can use to open a survey on your blog to get idea for writing content.

29. WP Super Cache
Very fast caching plugin for WordPress. It will make your blog loads faster and optimize files on your blog for search engines to help your blog have better google ranking.

30. MaxBlogPress Favicon
Vey easy to add favicon to your blog for building a personal brand.

WordPress’ potential as a blog platform goes way beyond blogging. With simple understanding of the template tag system and the help of some powerful plugins, you literally can do anything with WordPress.

Here are the 10 amazing things we found that you can accomplish with WordPress:

1. WordPress as a CMS: You really don’t need other ‘well-known’ CMS to have a CMS. WordPress beats them all, hands down.
2. How to Use WordPress as a Membership Directory: The title says it all.
3. WordPress Hacks: Build a Techmeme River of News Clone: Use WordPress to build a Techmeme clone. Great for syndicated news site.
4. Introducing Prologue: Use WordPress as a twitter clone.
5. Want to use WordPress as an E-commerce site?: A collection of plugins to turn your WordPress into fully functional E-commerce site.
6. Using the WordPress Link Manager to Display Your Portfolio: Are you a web designer? Use the built-in link manager feature to showcase your portfolio.
7. A CSS Gallery WordPress Theme: Want to have your own version of CSS Gallery? This theme can help you do just that.
8. WP Contact Manager: Turn WordPress into a free, powerful online contact manager for your business. Wicked.
9. The Right Mailing List Script For WordPress: Use WordPress as a mailing list.
10. The Best WordPress Magazine Themes:  Don’t you love online magazines? With these themes, you could transform your blog into one too.