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The Top Three Free WordPress Plugins to Increase Social Media Traffic

WordPressWordPress offers a mind-boggling array of social media and SEO plugins, but these are the top three that you simply must have in order to quickly and easily increase social media traffic to your blog site.

In addition, these three plugins all have specific SEO features and functionality with proven track records of substantially increasing social media traffic from social media platforms back to your WordPress blog.

HeadSpace2 – HeadSpace2 is a powerful multi-tool plugin that provides shortcuts you can use to manage and analyze your metadata simply and effectively.

HeadSpace2 allows you to create custom titles and descriptions that will increase your page ranking.

You can also use it to tag your posts, change themes and run disabled plugins on specific WordPress pages, and much, much more. In addition, it comes in over twenty different languages.

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SEO Smart Links – SEO Smart Links is an effective way to get your blog posts interlinked and to add affiliate links to other sites, as well.

With SEO Smart Links, you can create custom keyword lists, nofollow attributes and open links in a new window.Using it is simple and automatic – you can edit your options from your administration settings panel – and it will then link comments, keywords and phrases placed in your posts to corresponding posts, pages, tags and categories found on your blog.

The new and free premium version contains bug fixes, improvements in performance and updated features.

 

Digg Digg Social Sharing – A fully supported plugin, Digg Digg, allows you to add an attractive floating bar with share buttons to your WordPress blog.

It also has many customization options, like placement at either the top or the bottom of your blog page, and left or right scrolling effects.

You can showcase all of the popular social sharing buttons like Twitter, Buffer, Facebook Share, Facebook Like, Digg, LinkedIn, Google +1, Reddit, dZone, TweetMeme, Topsy, Yahoo Buzz, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Sphinn, Designbump, WebBlend, BlogEngage, Serpd and Pinterest.

A highly versatile plugin, Digg Digg even provides support for email and print services.

WordPressAlthough you may think your WordPress blog is one of the best there out there, in order to get the attention it deserves, you must link it to the many social media platforms on the Internet.

These three free WordPress plugins make it possible to increase social media traffic to your blog without getting a headache in the process.

Not everyone understands metadata and linking, and the developers of these three plugins took that fact into careful consideration when creating these helpful plugins for WordPress use.

 

Author – Eric Pratum manages Inbound and Agile – a marketing, leadership, and growth website that specializes in inbound marketing, and exponential acquisition.

 

 

 

 

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Top 25 SEO Blogs

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I want to share this article with you. It’s the 25 top SEO blogs.

Yes I know – there is one mistake in it. Www.SeoCustomer.com is not on the list. Well my blog is still very new lol.

Maybe I should call it the top24 so I can put my blog in it. No I better be good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Top 25 SEO Blogs list ranks the blogs according to their Google Pagerank, Alexa rank, number of Bloglines subscribers and Technorati authority. Okay no more talk – let me show you.

Google Alexa Bloglines Technorati Total
#1

Search Engine Land

 7 10 9 10 36
#2

SEOBook

 6 10 10 10 36
#3

SEO Moz

 5 10 10 10 35
#4

Matt Cutts

 7 10 8 10 35
#5

Search Engine Watch

 7 10 10 7 34
#6

Search Engine Roundtable

 7 10 8 8 33
#7

Search Engine Journal

 7 8 9 8 32
#8

Online Marketing Blog

 6 7 7 10 30
#9

Pronet Advertising

 7 7 5 10 29
#10

Marketing Pilgrim

 7 8 6 8 29
#11

SEO Chat

 6 10 4 6 26
#12

Search Engine Guide

 7 8 4 6 25
#13

SEO Blackhat

 6 8 6 5 25
#14

Stuntdubl

 6 6 6 6 24
#15

Graywolf’s SEO

 6 7 4 7 24
#16

SEO by the SEA

 6 4 5 5 20
#17

Link Building Blog

 5 5 5 4 19
#18

Jim Boykin

 5 6 4 4 19
#19

SEOpedia

 6 5 4 4 19
#20

DaveN

 6 5 4 4 19
#21

Bruce Clay

 5 7 3 3 18
#22

Blue Hat SEO

 4 6 3 4 17
#23

Tropical SEO

 5 5 3 4 17
#24

SEO Refugee

 5 6 1 3 15
#25

Small Business SEM

 5 4 3 3 15

 

I got the list from www.dailyblogtips.com. Super blog. Dailyblogtips.com has made the list this way.

The blogs they considered were blogs with a high percentage of SEO related content.

 

This is how they made the list

Google Pagerank from 0 to 10. This PageRank was used in the algorithm.

Alexa rank from 0 to 10. The ranges were determined based on the Alexa Rank. So 100k and up, 80k-100k, 60k-80k, 40k-60k. Then each rank was assigned a number from 1 to 10.

Bloglines Subscribers from 0 to 10: They took the number of subscribers of each site. And then the number of subscribers ranges were determined into 10 groups.

Technorati Authority from 0 to 10: Ranges were determined based on Technorati’s Authority rank putted into ranges and each range was assigned a number from 1 to 10.

The total was the 4 numbers with a total. So the maximum total is 40.

Enjoy the list.

Wishing you all a great day.

Best regards Henrik

 

 

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Getting backlinks to your website


buybacklinksGetting thoses damm backlinks…

Okay I admit it – getting theses backlinks kan be very very very anonning and frustative. Why dont we have a program to click on – and then we have 10.000 backlinks… hmmm

Maybe the most important single issue in SEO is backlinks. Links are making up around 50 precent of the ranking. So no excuses – are you ready for this? 1-2-3 here we go…
And by the way – there is no easy way folks. Sorry for that 🙂

I will tell you and show you different things you can do to get thoses damm backlinks.

Blogs

  1. Start a blog. You problerly know much more about your produkt then your viewers and customers. Post regularly and be sure its great content. Sorry folks I told you – no easy way righ
  2. From your blog you gotta link to other blogs. Thats the way to be noticed on the internet. Be active.
  3. You can get your blog listed in some of the best blog directories (http://blogs.botw.org/). In the end its about getting attention out there.
  4. Be active on other blogs. When other bloggers are reading your article and post some of them will link to your blog.
  5. If you link to other blogs remember to write a mail to them telling them – some of them will link back to your blog.
  6. Remember to tag your posts. It will help some of the seach engine to notice what its all about

Free linking

  1. Get onto Google Groups (http://groups.google.com/) seach for your service og produkt and answer some quastions – and yes remember to answer with links to your website.
  2. Do the same with Yahoo! Answers (http://answers.yahoo.com/). Again remember the links every time you post an answer.
  3. Do you know the Squidoo page (http://www.squidoo.com/). Set up a topical page and link to expert documents and useful tools. And yes remember to create a link back to your site.
  4. I love number 4 here – if you have a good advice or another free website to use pls send the link back to me and I will update this post. Thx
  5. Remember to go to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) and write about your company. You can also go to other artikles that is relatate to your industry and company and try to make links to your website from there too. If you are in the Energy business go to seach the organisations your companies are involved with and try to make links to your company from there.
  6. Put up an artikel on your website and submit your story to Digg (http://digg.com/) with links back to the story on your website.

Wow folks… I havent even got started yet. Grab some coffee. Ready? 1-2-3 ….. lol

Pay Per Click

  1. When you use PPC like Google Adwords you will get peoples attention. Some of the people would never had visit your site without the add. So grab the attention, maybe try to make them sign up for a newsletter. Maybe some of them will link back to your site or blog. YES YES YES I know… I really dont like PPC so much – but sometimes it can be usefull – right?

Freebies and giveaways – Contests

  1. In my younger days (yes I have been younger) I didnt like contests. But now I love them – and why? Because they works. A good 200 or 300 dollars prize can generate thousands of links. Make your contest so people will share your link – use a Facebook contest or …
  2. Make yourself an expert by providing a lot of tools for your customers. They will return to you when they need a link. Some will link to your page because they wanna show everybody where to find the good tools. (oh boy I need to do that too on this blog).
  3. Tell your viewers that if the give you some feedback they will get something. Maybe a whitepaper … or a 7 steps to ….. book.

Do you want me to stop now? No? Okay … the coffee is still hot?

Listlovers

  1. We are all listlovers. No no no not all – I know. But most people love lists. So build a top 7 list, or top 10 list or 100 ways to…. People love to list to thoses. (hmm should I have made this as a huge list? – damm when will I ever learn)
  2. Build a 99 or a 101 list
  3. Build a list with 10 myths for your category
  4. Get a guru or expert to show your authority

Local links and business links

  1. Get link from your local chamber of commerce
  2. Find relevant city and state govermental site where you can submit your link
  3. Sometimes the local library has a useful web site
  4. Check if your business parnters wanna put a link on their website to your site

Sorry folks now its time for the coffee… but there are plenty more posibilities regarding getting links back to your site. So the next article will continue this article.

 

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