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Back in October of 07 I started blogging on something I liked. I did not blog to make money I just wanted to share what was going on in my life. Once that Blog passed 500 hits a day I began to look at this a little bit different. I began to wonder how anyone could make money by posting about things they love. Was it really possible to generate a second source of income by doing something I enjoy.

I would say YES…you can…and I am…

Now I am still in my first year of doing this stuff and have a ton to learn, but the one thing i have learned is that there are a lot of used car salesman in online marketing. There are a lot of people who are out to make a buck and resell crap that has been sold for years on in click bank and other places.

But then there are those who are selling Lexus. It has taken me awhile to find legit people with real information who give you the real stuff to succeed on the internet. I have a mail box full of used car salesman…but i am just now finding those who are selling the Lexus.

As you get more experienced and learn some code you can begin to drive more traffic to your blog. But in order to learn you need to learn from those who are legit and not out there to milk your wallet with fake junk.

Brendan Picha is one of those guys who are legit and give you the real stuff to succeed, and recently he had a great post on the tools you need to get more people reading your blogs…

Now I am a word press guy so i am going to share his portion on word press…check it out and apply what his evangelizing…it will help you drive traffic to your sight…regardless if you are blogging for cash or thrills.

These are essential as Wordpress out of the box doesn’t come with all the bells & whistles you’ll need. The following is a list of those extensions and where they can be found. These are the extensions that I use on my blog so if I use them you know they have to be good

Feedburner Feedsmith
Your Wordpress blog comes with two feeds, one for your content and one for you comments. People very rarely subscribe to the comments so we can ignore this one. What the Feedburner Feedsmith plugin does is automatically converts your wordpress feed into the Feedburner feed to maximize control and syndication of your content through feedburner.

Google Analytics Plugin
There are tons of different types of analytic software out there but most use Google Anayltics. This plugin will allow you to integrate the Google javascript snippet throughout the pages of your site automatically.

Automatic Google Sitemap Generator
This handy tool automatically rewrites your sitemap as many times a day as you need it to. You can also specify priority of content and how often that content should be checked for updates. It will automatically write and add the sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz zipped file to your root directory.

Head META Description pluging
Head Meta Description provides an automatic meta description tag for your blog, inserting a dynamic description depending on the query-type (i.e. page you’re on). Very useful tool as Wordpress doesn’t do this automatically.

Optimal Title Plugin
This allows you to move your blogs name to the back of the title instead of having it written first.

Redirection Plugin
Instead of having to deal with .htaccess markup, you can simply install this plugin and you can manage all your redirects from within Wordpress

Robots META Plugin
This plugin will allow you the edit your robots.txt file from within Wordpress. Also has some additional functionality with allow/deny options.

ShareThis Plugin
This one isn’t necessary but it helps from an SEM standpoint. This pluging allows you or your readers to easily post your content to bookmarking or social news sites. You can add or subtract sites at will. Also allows your readers to email your posts.

• Add Us to Your Social Network
  
  • Subscribe
  • Blinklist
  • Bloglines
  • Blogmarks
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Furl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • NewsVine
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati

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