Plugins I use during the blog monetization experience
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Written by Robert on July 24, 2008 – 11:48 pm
Part 1.
Today I decided to reveal with you people all major steps that I’ll cross with two of my web design and search engine optimization related blogs. I will also reveal each and every penny I’ll make during time with these blogs. So, it’s like chemistry…
I’m talking about:
- maxwebdesign.eu
- stylishdesign.com
I don’t live in my house, I live on the Internet when it comes to money. So, I think it’s a good idea to share with you my tips. I read so much about blog monetization and I decided to do some experiments. Everything will be as transparent as can be.
I am using wordpress 2.5 (I will update it to 2.6 in a few days) and I use these plugins:
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it.
Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. This is the best from them all.
Just to have a different CSS file for my comments.
This is a great plugin, creates an XML sitemap and notify Google, Yahoo and MSN about every post (and comments) you write. In Google’s webmaster corner you should create an account, then submit your sitemap’s address.
Retrieves a list of the posts with the most comments. I applied the nofollow tag for this plugin.
The plugin provides an widget wich shows a tag cloud with the tags used by the new WordPress own tagging feature.
Inserts rel=’nofollow’ in links generated by wp_tag_cloud(), and optionally the_tags(). This is great. Why web spiders to follow duplicate content. The tag cloud is for users.
This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values.
Displays a highly configurable list of randomly selected posts. On avery page of my blogs, this plugin is active. I don’t know yet if it’s ok to have it. I think that this plugin do the matrix cross-linking job, search engines love so much. Links the the posts are rel=”follow”.
Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. I’ll try to apply the nofollow tag. This tag of this plugin to work properly needs to be replaced because in some themes. Let’s follow the steps I encountered while I was trying to upgrade (from wordpres 2.5 and up this function is available on the administration area, plugins section) this plugin:
Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/share-this.2.2.zip
Unpacking the update
Deactivating the plugin
Removing the old version of the plugin
Installing the latest version
Plugin upgraded successfully
Attempting reactivation of the plugin
Then if I wanted to see in Firefox or Internet Explored a specific blog post page, after the content there was an error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: akst_share_link() in /wp-content/themes/MagazineNews/single.php on line 22
AND the right sidebar was gone.
Now, I searched the single.php file, line 22:
And there is the tag of the 1.4 version of the plugin:
Replace this tag with:
?php if (function_exists('sharethis_button')) { sharethis_button(); } ?>
Save, upload, check.
Everything back to normal with the new ShareThis plugin working.
Encourage more feedback and discussion from readers, by rewarding them every time they post a comment! Readers with the most comments are displayed on your Wordpress blog, with their names (linked to their website if they provided one). I applied the nofollow tag for this plugin.
Darkens the current page and displays an image on top like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc
Generate a related posts list via tags of WorPdress 2.3. I should use more tags for this plugin to work better, but somehow i don’t like tags…
Adds advanced search engine optimization capabilities to WordPress. I deactivated the SEO feature but i activated the NOFOLLOW feature for:
- Nofollow External Links In Posts, Pages & Footer
- Nofollow Only Archive Links On Homepage
- Nofollow Only Category Links On Homepage
- Nofollow All Blogroll Links
- Nofollow All Footer Links
I wanted to restrict somehow the page rank juice to flow away to play around a bit with the page rank mith. 
This plugin shows recent commented posts in the sidebar, not the comment itself but the post title. Number of shown posts can be specified. Also nofollowed.
There are many wordpress plugins on the Internet but not all of them would be suitable for your blog. Your niche is very important. I don’t like websites stuffed with rubbish data, so I tried to keep it mines as clean as I can.
