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Promoting affiliate programs can be a very effective way to earn a few extra bucks. If you tried it then you are very aware of the limitations and sheer amount of work required by the traditional approach, isn’t it?

Like you, I’ve wasted countless hours doing grunt manual work, and guessing what works and what doesn’t, all while cashing in next to nothing. Does it sound familiar?

However - if done right - promoting good affiliate programs is a sure way to earn much more than a few bucks. Top affiliates routinely get 10,000’s of dollars, per month. And they don’t sweat on it like you and I do. I’m sure you’ve heard about it, right?

Now is your chance to break out of the rat race and unlock your true potential, just like I did when I started using WordPress Affiliate Pro.

Keep on reading and discover just a few of the benefits this powerful system has for you:

1. Instantly add 1,000’s of affiliate links to your blogs without touching a single line of HTML code and without editing your posts. Just imagine how much time this feature alone will save you.
2. Easily promote new products with a single click of a mouse. It’s all about results, and less work for you. Work smarter, not harder!
3. Increase your income and click rate with hidden, customized affiliate links. At the end of the month it’s all about how much money you put into your pocket.

4. $0 stolen commissions with virtually untraceable affiliate links. Stop affiliate thieves dead in their tracks.
5. Stop guessing what works and what doesn’t. You can easily see at a glance with laser precision what to change and where, optimize your blogs with a few mouse clicks, and watch your profits explode.

You can immediately apply everything you see here and much more with this amazing system and the help of the step by step videos found in the members area.

And the best part is you don’t need to learn PHP, HTML, MySQL or other “techie” stuff to harness this incredible power WordPress Affiliate Pro has to offer you. If you can point your mouse and click on a button you can immediately put it at work for you.

This system is 100% compatible with AdSense, and you don’t need to make any changes to your blogs to get advantage of this breakthrough technology. Call this plug-and-play!

But will this system work for you? There’s only one way to tell, and that is by taking it for a risk free test drive. Do it now.

DoFollow (WP Plugin) - Kimmo Suominen
"This is a plugin for WordPress. It will disable the automatic rel="nofollow" attributes added to external links. You may want to do this if you have good spam filtering for your comments, or if your blog is moderated. Optionally you can also set a comment age limit for adding the attributes."

This seems perfect for awarding people who take time from their busy schedule and write a line or two on your blog. They'll get back a bit of Page Rank from your blog through the back link, which may be enough motivation for many to start typing.

Mind you, the NoFollow attribute was introduced by Google et al. as a means to fight spam comments. But it may have done more harm than good, as blog spammers have always found ways to elude it. And it ended up penalizing honest bloggers who happened to like one of your posts, took the time and efforts to contribute and now would like a little something back - a link to their blog perhaps?

The DoFollow plugin helps you take back control of your blog, by removing the NoFollow attribute that is automatically added to all outgoing links in comments. It's common sense to pair it with an automated comment spam filtering solution (Warning to wanna be spammers: I prefer the manual way though, brain is harder to fool than a Bayesian filter).

The comment age limit option in the DoFollow plugin helps you make sure that no spammer who happens to slip through the filters will be rewarded a back link by the time you notice and clean up.

It's a win-win situation for both. Viral. Content building.

Do you think the DoFollow plugin should be enabled by default on the entire blog? 

Ultimate Tag Warrior 3

Ultimate Tag Warrior is a multi-headed hydra of a plugin. It allows you to add tags either through the Write Post page in wordpress in a tag box, on posts using an AJAXy box, and in posts using special syntax from external editors […]

Once you’ve got your tags entered; you enter a realm of interesting ways of doing things with your tags. […] At the simpler end, you can automagically have tags included at the top and bottom of your posts without making changes to themes.

Think about coupling this with the Related Posts plugin to get a really powerful tool.

But… if you don't mess with links or change Permalinks on a daily basis you shouldn't be having 404's in the first place, should you?

And if you do need to change Permalinks or update the page/post slugs, see how you can actually benefit from it and increase your Google PageRank as you go.

Related posts for your 404

How would you like the ability to display related entries on a 404 page? It would be really handy.

This plugin displays related posts depending on which page tried to be accessed, and it does so by attempting to match the keywords in the requested URL - basically the post slug - with the keywords from other post slugs.

You might need to tweak your Permalink structure to make it work.

I have a really neat idea for a plugin that will actually take into account tags and even keywords from other posts when displaying related ones so it's not relying on a certain Permalink structure to work. Let me know if you're interested, and I might squeeze it in one of these days.

Subscribe2 2.2.2

Now that's a very neat plugin. Allow your users to be receive an email notification whenever someone adds a new comment to a post they're watching. It's pretty much like a "subscribe to thread" for forums.

And here is another plugin that does the same thing. 

Think of it!

This is an extremely powerful tool that makes your users coming back again and again to your blog. Viral. Free. Automated. What more can you ask for?

A must for serious traffic building!

The more I think about it, the more it seems the gap between blogs, forums and regular websites is getting thinner day by day. We want to publish more information, faster, in a more user friendly way and let everyone know about it and interact with us.

What would be an appropriate term for the mega-websites of the future? Information vortals? Hmm…

WordPress Plugins by Blogging Pro

WordPress Plugin: Subscribers-Only 1.01

A new WordPress plugins to make sure you have control over your posts. Feel like telling only your site members or other admins something, use the the Subscribers-Only plugin. No template modifications are required.

You define which roles are allowed to read subscriber-only posts. In order to read posts marked for subscribers-only a person much register at your site and login.

When a post is marked as “subscriber-only” and your home page displays excerpts then the excerpt will be shown along with an optional “Subscribers-only” banner that you define. When a reader clicks on the link to go to the individual post page they must be logged in to read the post.

If a person is not logged in then they will be presented a link to login or register. If your home page doesn’t display excerpts then no post body content will be displayed for a post marked as “subscribers-only”. Instead the reader will see a link to login or register.

Head on over to edwards.org to grab it today.