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CMS Commander Vs Manage WP

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CMS Commander

Manage Multiple WordPress Sites and Generate Great Content with CMS Commander

I checked out CMS Commander that I heard mentioned onthe WordPress Plugins A To Z podcast and went over to check it out. I recently talked about Manage WP on the podcast and this is somewhat similar, but it does have a unique slant. The biggest difference being this is form the people who create WP Robot. While both Manage WP and CMS Commander have great tools to let you update your plugins and themes from one login. Both have tools to help you facilitate backups of your website, and both have stats that show your traffic from all of your sites in one location. CMS commander has an emphasis on helping you create content through legal channels. CMS Commander is slightly more expensive per website so it will depend on if you need help generating content for your website (after all the best SEO trick is great content).

CMS Commander also works with drupal, joomla, and other CMS tools. Check it out at cmscommander.com

Pushbutton SEO WordPress Plugin

Push Button SEOPushbutton SEO is a wordpress plugin not only helps you find great keywords, it monitors what keywords people are laready using to find you (so you can utilize the Google Juice yo already have) and Unlike other plugins that simply check your post content, PushButton SEO analyzes the raw source code of your site just like the search spiders, giving you a TRUE measure of how well your SEO is working for you. It will find related videos, links, images, blog posts and more so you can create great content to keep people coming back to your site. When a page on your site is optimized, its ranking meter is green. When the meter is red, you need to give it optimization attention ASAP. It doesn’t get simpler than that, and you can see where to focus at a glance. For more information go to pushbuttonseo.com

Check For Plugin Redundancy

I found this on the Manage WP Plugin blog. When it comes to reducing the size of yoru worpdress install it pays to remove plugins that you may not be using, it can be replaced. Their website states:

“Let’s start with the basics. There are two things that you should know about deactivated themes and plugins on your WordPress dashboard:

They take up unnecessary space
They represent a security risk (your site can still be breached via deactivated themes and plugins)

That’s two good reasons to get rid of deactivated themes and plugins. I would also recommend that you take a close look at your activated plugins and ask yourself whether you really need all of them. It could well be that the functionality present in two plugins is actually covered by one (for instance, WordPress SEO by Yoast includes XML sitemap functionality, therefore negating the need for a separate XML sitemap plugin), or that you have a bloated plugin whose resource intensiveness is not worth the added functionality. Use the Plugin Performance Profiler Plugin to single out the main offenders.

Beyond mitigating the two issues above, removing plugins should also result in an increase in site speed, which is never a bad thing.

Hit Tail Remarks

After hear about some  of the things Pushbutton SEO does, I may be saying goodbye to Hit Tail. This is a great service that lets me know what keywords i could rank well for, but after using a few months, it seems its providing me with the same keywords each month. I can use their service to have an article generated, but I could probably use CMS Comander to do something similar.

 

 


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Sneaky Affiliate Plugin Free For For 3 Days

Sneaky Affiliate PluginFor the next 3 days (midnight, October 10th), we’re giving away our wicked-cool, “Sneaky Affiliate” plugin – the Unlimited-site license – a $37 value – for FREE!

What is so “sneaky about this plugin and what does it do?

Sneaky Affiliate plugin allows you to create an exit popup. You know one of those, “Are you sure you want to leave? We have a free gift for you!” type of message. That is not the sneaky part.

The cool thing is as it is asking your visitor if they are sure they want to leave, it is putting your affiliate cookie on their machine. This way even if they don’t go there today, if they go there in the future you will receive credit for that sale.

The plugin lets you setup links for each posts (it’s not a “one pop up for everyone” kind of plugin). This way you can have some post/pages be “sneaky” and others post/pages not.

This is from the people who create and support Digital Access Pass (so you know its quality, and even better support).

You can see a video of how easy it is to set this up. You can specify how frequently this appears on your page/post.

To pick up your copy, get there before the 10th. It’s looks like a pretty cool plugin. I’ll be talking more about this in the future as I picked up my copy.


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Commun.it a New Angle At Twitter – Free Live Chat Client Zopim

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Commun.it Reviewed

I just got back from the New Media Expo (previously Blogworld). There is a new free tool for handling Twitter. It’s called commun.it and it looks at the movers and shakers in your niche and advises you on who to follow, who you should unfollow, and more. It does a great job of storing all the communication you had with previous users, and sends you reports on activities. The best thing that it does it helps you tune out the “noise” that you get when you login to tweetdeck and watch a million tweets zip by. You can create groups and lists, and only watch those people that you want to. You can also enter some keywords and it will go out and evaluate those keywords and recommend the top movers in that area. The best part is its free. If you want to go to the premium version (which allows you to handle multiple twitter accounts) it’s only $4.99 a month. For more information check out www.commun.it

Free Chat For Your Website

Boost customer Service For FreeThere have been some cool chat clients in the past, but this one is pretty cool. It has everything. It integrates with WordPress (or any other type of site) with a quick java script snippet. Copy and paste the code and you are up and running in minutes. The dashboard has a great layout, and is easy to read and you get the big picutre super fast. The thing I love about it is you can put that snippet on multiple websites and offer chat to all of your websites. You can use their free service, or upgrade for the $9 a month package and get customization (so you can match the chat window with your theme). If you sign up for a year you get a 20% discount. It integrates with Google analytics and has built in stats where you can see how many visitors you’ve had, watch where they go LIVE while they surf the website and you can set it to automatically engage if someone gets to the “hot zone” of your website to make sure you never miss a lead. I got to tell you after I found it, I installed it on my website and I love it. Check it out at zopim.com


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Measure My SEO WordPress Plugin an Alternative to SEOPressor?

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One of the things I love about helping people with their WordPress sites is I get to see what plugins they are using. Today I came across a new premium wordpress plugin that automatically rates your “on page” seo. Great for anyone who does seo and especially for local consultants to use for local businesses. It’s call Measure My SEO.  It’s from Jason Fladlien and Wison Mattos (don’t worry I had never heard of them before either).

What this plugin does is it scores you on things that boost SEO. Such as:

Measure My SEO

Is your keyword in your Meta Tag?

Is your keyword in your Meta Description tag?

Is your keyword phrase in your meta keyword tag?

Is your keyword density matching a level that you get to set.

Is your keyword in an H1 tag along with H2 and H3?

Is your keyword phrase in Strong, bold, italic, or em tags?

Is your keyword image in the alt text of an image?

This tools automatically checks your post as you type it (at an interval you set) and then scores your post. You can also have it checked any time you want by clicking on the SEO check button. There is a  video that shows everything and it’s only a few minutes long. You can check it out at measuremyseo.com and the plugin is $49.

It’s SEOPressor but Less Expensive

I talked about SEOPressor in the past. It’s a very cool SEO Plugin that does many of the same things that Measure My SEO does automatically. However, SEOPressor costs $47 for a single license and $97 for an unlimited version. Measure My SEO is $49 and you can use it on any domain that you personally own. Sure it won’t bold my keywords for me, or mark them with italics, but I can do that for myself to save 50 bucks.

Another Premium WordPress SEO Plugin is Inbound Writer

There is a free version of Inbound writer that you can use, but it will tag your article with a link to their website at the end. This is if you use their plugin. If you don’t want that you can create a free account on their website and have their system optimize eight documents per month. If you want unlimted critiques, it’s 19.95 and I assume that takes the tag off your article. This does provide more posts that Scribe (which only gives 15 for $18, but has keyword tools as well). If you want check out the free version they are at inboundwriter.com

Combined with Keyword Winner for a One TWO SEO Knock Out

I previously reported on Keyword winner premium plugin that analyzes Keywords for traffic and competition in minutes. You could use this tool to find good keywords, and then use measure my SEO to make sure you are getting the most out of these keywords. I see where Keyword Winner is $47, but here is a spoiler alert. If you go to leave the page they knock the price down by 10 bucks and throw in a free ebook on Keywords. Check it out at keywordwinner.com

 Yoast de Valk Webinar on SEO

There is an interesting webinar with Yoast de Valk (who rules the WordPress SEO world) here.


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Buddy Press Now Available For All WordPress

Lead Developer Andy Peatling has announced that BuddyPress 1.2, the latest version of the WordPress social networking add-on, is now available.

The release is notable because it works with standard WordPress installs. Previously, it would only work with WordPress MU.

This means that bloggers and podcasters using WordPress can now have a self-hosted solution for creating social neworks, instead of relying on third-party sites like Ning.

New in BuddyPress 1.2:

  • Standard WordPress Support
  • Simplified installation
  • Improved activity streams.

Features of BuddyPress include:

  • Global, personal and group activity streams
  • Fully editable profile fields allow you to define the fields users can fill in to describe themselves
  • Powerful public, private or hidden groups
  • “Friending”
  • Private messaging will allow your users to talk to each other directly, and in private.
  • Full powered discussion forums
  • Each of your users can start their own full powered WordPress blog.
  • Easily extendable with plugins

BuddyPress promises to let you get up and running with your own social network in 6 minutes.

That’s a stretch – but, even if it takes you several days to configure it to meet your needs, BuddyPress an unprecedented level of power to WordPress bloggers and podcasters.


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