I have been willing to post about my favourite Wordpress Plugins for a long time but I wanted to be sure that I choose the most useful ones for SEO and monetization purposes.

All the plugins in the following list are free and can be easily found by typing their name in the search box for new plugins in your Wordpress admin panel. Some of them need an activation code (namely the Maxblogpress ones) and I have linked them to their download pages.

So here you have it, 12 of the most useful Wordpress Plugins:

• Headspace 2 (alternative: all-in-one seo): very useful to optimize your posts for Search engines
• cforms II: Creates a very fancy and easy to tweak contact page
• Feedwordpress: useful if you want to add content on your blog from targeted feeds
• Google analytics for WP: unables you to easily add Analytics to your blog
• Google XML Sitemap: creates a sitemap to be crawled by search engines, updates with any changes on your blog
• MaxBlogPress Favicon: To easily add a favicon to your blog
• MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer: (so that you are not flagged as a spammer, especially if you update your blog quite often)
• Max Banner Ads: to easily add and rotate banners in your wordpress blog
• Privacy Policy: it says it all, adds a nice privacy policy to your site
• Subscribe-remind: increases your rss subsribers by adding by adding some text at the end of each of your post inviting readers to subscribe to your feed
• Sitemap Generator: adds a sitemap page to your blog
• Yet another related post: gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site

Of course this list is not exhaustive so feel free to share your favourite Wordpress Plugins in the comments below.

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I have decided to use the plugin DoFollow to allow dofollow links in the comments part of my blog for the folowing reasons:

• I like to post comments on other’s blogs and like to get some link juice back to my own blog so it is only fair that I allow this on my site as well
• When a comment is constructive and somebody takes time to actually say something about what you have just written I think it is the least you can do to reward them with some backlinking love!

So now feel free to post your comments!!

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Most of the  people using google adwords for ther affiliate efforts know that using negative keywords such as “free”, “pictures”, “torrent” etc…  can dramatically improve your ctr. But there are other less obvious keywords that you should add as negative keywords at the ad group level.

Let me explain: say you are using 2 different ad groups with, in ad group 1, the broad keyword “sell my car” and in ad group 2 the keyword “selling my car”.

Sometimes google will trigger the ad in adgroup 1 for the keyword “selling my car”  resulting in: a lower ctr as your ad in ad group 1 won’t be as targeted for this keyword as the one in ad group 2 might be, and also can cause the following thing to happen for your keyword in ad group 2: “This particular search term is already associated with an ad from one of your other campaigns or ad groups. Only one ad per advertiser may appear on a given page per search term. When two or more of your ads are eligible for a single search term, we show the one with the highest ranking at the moment.”

There is a little trick to make sure that ads aren’t shown for keywords within another adgroup: you simply have to add keyword 2, in this case “selling my car” as a negative in ad group 1.

That way ads are only shown for the keyword within that adgroup, not for keywords in other adgroups! You then have a more targeted ad group and a better chance at improving your ctr.

To summarise you should list all of the keywords in each of your ad groups and add them as negative keywords in all of the other groups.

Let me know how this works for you and if you need more explanation, just ask your questions in the comment box below.

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I have just posted a quick review about a program I have been using for couple of weeks now that I found truly great for improving daily productivity.

You can check it here.

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I thought I should compile a list of some of the best affiliate networks to help some of you who were wondering where to start looking for affiliate programs.

The following list is not exhaustive as I have only listed Affiliate Marketing Networks that I think are of interest. Feel free to add some others if you think I have missed important ones.

• Amazon
• AZoogle Ads
• Clickbank
• Commission Junction
• CPA Empire
• Dark Blue
• Hydra Media
• LinkConnector
• LinkShare
• PayDotCom
• PepperJam
• ShareASale

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I have often used spreadsheets when dealing with my adwords accounts to better keep track off things and do stuff I couldn’t with the adwords editor.

I’m sure I’m not the only one to do that and it seems today Google is trying to help us by giving us spreadsheets directly inside our account.

You can now indeed find a Spreadsheet Edit Mode in The keywords tab of any ad group, under the “More Actions” Menu. So you will now be able to use formulas to edit your keywords and bids. For instance, if you want your ad to show on the first page but your bid is lower than the first page bid, you can set up a formula to address the issue.

I surely enjoy this welcome addition to the newly improved Google adwords interface and I’m certain you will too.

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For those of you who would like to buy a domain name on Godaddy.com I would strongly suggest using those two discount coupons:

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As Promised I had a look at the number and so far my Blasts brought in 200$ in Profit, not great but not bad either when you take into account that those profits can be recurrent, as long as those products sell and the competition is not too fierce.

It definitively makes me wanna go for more Amazon Blasts in the near future!!

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I promised you some updates so here it is: 75 Amazon Blasts done so I’m shy of 25 Blasts.

I’m now waiting for the results from Amazon commissions to see if those were profitable or not. Will let you know in a couple of days.

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Who said Direct Linking when doing Affiliate Marketing is dead?

I have been doing some direct Linking on Amazon France for a while now and regularly got around 100$ profit each month doing so. But I always had an average of 15 Produtcs in my portfolio that I was promoting to.

So I’m thinking to myself “If I can make a hundred bucks with 15 products, how much could I make with 100 Products?”. Sounds logical enough right?

So starting today I will launch as many Blasts as I can to reach this 100 products goal in less than 10 Days.

Wish Me Luck! I will keep you posted on the results.

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