When it comes to social media, the easier to use for a client the better. I don’t like to micro-manage my clients websites. I like to give them great ideas, a great theme the right plugins and get them on their way. Here are a few wordpress plugins to help you with social media.

1. ShareThis

Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. We use this easy to implement plugin on just about all of our websites. Why have a great site with great content if your browsers cannot share it with their friends ?

2. Simple Facebook Connect by Otto

This bundle of easy to use social media plugins for twitter and facebook is another great plugin from Otto. What can I say this guy writes great plugins, takes feedback from end users and keeps them updated. I love his plugins and use his solutions above and beyond anyone else’ for my clients. use the SFC – Publish portion of the plugin to automatically publish to facebook.

This plugin has about 26 plugins to activate in total. Everything you need for facebook and twitter integration Using the “Facebook Connect Foundation” and “Twitter Connect Foundation” You have everything you need to integrate your website with facebook.

3. (( WP Twitter ))

Easily show your tweets in your widgetized sidebar. Twitter in recent months has updated its API call system. This has made it harder to integrate tweets into wordpress for your everyday user as well as theme developers. This plugin makes the integration as simple as possible.Install, activate, go to your widgets drag it to your sidebar, fill out the info and your done! Also publish new posts on twitter from within wordpress. After you write your content on the right hand side will be the option to publish to twitter. Too easy right ?

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Today we are going to review a few plugins that will help you with traffic analysis. If you have some good ones you would like us to review please register and comment. Thanks!

Avoid traffic tools that require you to register. I don’t want anyone knowing about my traffic besides me and Google. Google already knows about your traffic even if you don’t have an account with them, they monitor everything on the internet is how I see it.

1. post-views By Suny Tse
Record how many times the post have been views and show it. The perfect plugin to track without leaving wordpress dashboard to show you what pages/posts are the most popular. Easy to install and use. We have been looking for a wordpress dashboard tool that isn’t out of date or require registration and after playing with about 20 of them to no avail this is what we got to finally do what we want to do. See posts/pages hits without too much complication. Thanks Suny Tse

2. Google Analytics
Still the best resource for drill down reports. This will show you all of your properties (once configured). The Google Analytics report will show you more information then you will ever need about your website. What country your visitors are from, language, computer and browser information, ad well as traffic source, campaign information for Google Adwords. The great thing about Google Analytics is that you can link multiple website properties into one easy to use interface. In fact, they have just updated their dashboard!

3. Crazyegg.com
I personally love crazyegg the most. It provides an overlay of hotspots. This will allow you to see what users are actually clicking on in a visual format allowing you to optimize your website. Crazyegg has a new report called “Scrollmap” This tells you the percentage of visitors that scroll down your website to see additional content. this will tell you how well your website is designed. More information about scrolling in our next article.

4. AWStats
If you have CPanel the most information you will find for your website will be with awstats. An oldie but still goodie. You need cpanel hosting at this time. Go to your cpanel control panel to verify awstats is active and save the link to your stats. There are a few WordPress plugins that attempt to provide the same information within the wordpress dashboard but we have not found one that is as easy to use as the original. The Awstats is a little hard to get to if you have a ton of sites to check. This is why you should bookmark the link to the report. This will require a cpanel username and password to access on a regular basis.

Handy video tutorial shows you how to use free worpdress plugins to ad Adsense to your WordPress blog in just minutes. Monetize your blog.

Free WordPress Plugins: Top 3 Plugins For Internet Marketers

The free open source blogging platform WordPress continues to be a popular tool for internet marketers who want to create websites fast. Though feature rich, an out-of-the-box WordPress install lacks some features that many internet marketers rely on. Fortunately, there are many free Worpdress plugins that provide these features. Here are three of the most popular.

Keep in mind, before you install any of these plugins, you’ll want to make certain you have the current version of WordPress installed to avoid any errors or possible vulnerabilities. The latest upgrade of the platform can always be updated at WordPress.org’s main site.

All In One SEO Pack – Although blog traffic can come from many sources besides the search engines, there’s no doubt that free natural search engine traffic is still very important to the success of any website or blog. With the All In One Seo pack plugin, your WordPress blog will be automatically optimized for onsite SEO. This plugin saves hours of time over tweaking themes, options and individual plugins to acheive the same results.

Please note that because the search engines often change the way they rank pages, you’ll want to have the most current version of this plugin. Check back frequently on their main site to make sure your plugin is up to date.

Adsense Plugin – This plugin has been around for a while, but it is upgraded to work with the current version of WordPress. Seems the popularity of adsense never goes away, even if the earnings per click have gone down over the past few years. If you want a quick and easy way to get adsense or even Yahoo Publisher Network ads showing up on your WordPress blogs, and you want an easy way to control where they show up and how they look, this is a must have plug-in. The learning curve is very fast with this plugin, and users will enjoy tweaking the settings to increase ad clickthroughs and profits.

Remember though, Adsense isn’t your only option for monetizing your blog. You can also run paid ads yourself by dealing directly with other sites that want to advertise. Though more profitable, it is also more time consuming.

FeedWordPress – Feedwordpress is a plugin that takes rss feeds and creates full pages out of them on your blog automatically. It should not be used alone, as your site will start to look like a scraper site. When added to a blog with original content though, it can greatly increase traffic to your site.

A couple of warnings though, the learning curve with this plugin is high and you need to make sure you have permission to use the rss feeds you program this plugin with. Most sites that have rss feeds available also provide a copy of their terms of service for using the feeds, so be sure to check those out. Not complying with another site’s TOS can lead to nasty emails or even a cease and desist letter, so consider yourself warned.

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When it comes to wordpress plugins you need to have the right ones to do the right job. Plugins to manage contact forms, allow you to write your

Contact Form 7 – This plugin is the standard in contact forms, create amazing email campaigns, prevent fake contact information, require fields, use captcha and more.

Executable PHP widget I use this plugin to embed code into my sidebars, no more hard coding themes. This also allows you to easily upgrade your themes since the code is within the plugin and hte sidebar loop.

Google XML Sitemaps Generates the xml sitemap that google needs to accurate crawl yoru site, updates every time you add content to wordpress.

Page Links To Create a page and link it, anywhere.

Register Plus with Really Simple CAPTCHA No more fake registrations for your site, lock down your comments to registration only and use this plugin. Additionally you can gather marketing data from your new subscribers by adding custom required fields to the registration process. Email verification is an added bonus.

Scheduled Draft PublishWrite all your posts on one day and have them publish on a regular basis.

Twitter ToolsPublish your new posts to twitter, even works with scheduled draft publish.

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