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13 WordPress Plug-in & Hacks for powering your Blogging Experience

January 6th, 2010

In my blog post I’ve written on Enhance your blogging skills with WordPress Plug-ins. Today I’m going to explain about advance hacks & wordpress plug-in for powering your blogging.

We all know that WordPress is best CMS for blogging, if you have bit technical skills to tweaked with coding & R& D for trying new plug-ins, then blog post is must read for you. Let’s start with WordPress Plug-in & Hacks:

Wordbook – WordBook is provides you to facility of posting your blog posts in to your Face Book Wall. These blog posts will be showing on Boxes tab of your recent blog post.

Broken Link Checker – This plug-in let you know broking links of your blog. You can monitor links in your blog post, pages and other custom fields. It also notifies redirected links.

Link to This Page – Link to This Page allows you to handy way to obtain a link to your page or blog post from their web site.

WP Wall – This plug-in appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add quick comment about your blog and it will appear in side bar immediately, with out reloading the page.

PixoPoint Menu Plugin – Pix Point Menu Plug-in enhance your navigation control with regular or dropdown menu. It’s easy to modifying design & animated drop down menus and you can use it Up to two menus.

Highlight Search Terms – This plug-in Highlights search terms using jQuery within WordPress generated search results. This is compatible up to wordpress 2.7.1

Platinum SEO Pack – Platinum SEO Pack is pretty much similar as All in One SEO. It has also some additional functionality like you can add other Meta tags such as robots, index, follow or no follow. It also helps you to avoid duplicate content issues.

SEO Slugs – SEO Slugs Wordpress plug-in eliminates stop words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.

Extended Options – This plug-in can manage some certain Meta data like Relationship Meta links, Favicon Meta links, OpenID Meta links MicroID Meta links and Protocol discovery Meta links.

After the Deadline – This plug-in helps you to write better and spend less time on editing. You can use this plug-in for checking spelling, style, and grammar.

Automatically insert content after each post – This blog post helps you to minimize your efforts on content which you’re mentioning after each post. This hack will help you to insert automatically content after blog post.

Automatically insert author bio on each post – With the help of this WordPress hack you can add author bio of your blog on each blog post.

Compress WordPress output and speed your blog’s load speed – This blog post helps you to compress your WordPress blog and speed up your blog load post. Now a day faster loading website is having more chances to rank well as per Google’s latest algorithm update.

Hope this WordPress Plug-in & Hacks will helps you to take your wordpress blog at advance level as you want. If you have some other plug-in & Hacks of WordPress then you can share here.

Top 10 Twitters App to Monetize your Twitter Profile

December 28th, 2009

Twitter is most common used social networking website in 2009. Most of the business owners and celebrities are using twitter now a day. Twitter is giving you power of communication in just using 140 characters.

Today I’m going to share most useful 10 twitter applications for monetizing your twitter profiles. With the help of this application you can boost productivity of twitter profile like automization of tweet, sending a automated DM to your new followers etc. Following are the Twitter applications:

Twitter FeedTwitter Feed is specially designed for blogs whom are releasing their information via RSS or Atom Feed. You can also manage several Rss Feeds to automize your twitter account and it is also giving facility to post a new post at specified services at regular interval.

Tweet Deck - This desktop app helps you to update your twitter status and other social networking website like face book, My Space and Linked In. You can manage several twitter accounts easily.

Twilert Twilert provides you with the email updates of tweets containing the product, service and about any keyword you like.

Social OomphSocial Oomph is a twitter app which allows you to automization of your twitter account. It allows you to send a welcome DM to your new followers. You can also schedule a tweet and track your keywords with Social Oomph.

Twitter Holic This app tell about your static like followers, friends and Top among any other twitter user in particular region.

Tweet this - This application gives you easy to share link option with your friends and followers. You can also find new followers.

Twit Pic Twit Pic is easy to use application for sharing pictures to TwitPic from your phone, our API.

Twitter Grader This application show power of your twitter profile. It looks on variety of factors like number of followers, power of those followers and the level to which you are engaging the community.

Mr. Tweet - This app shows best news and conversations of yours for engaging with the people.

Friend or Follow This application allows you to find twitter name that is not following you back.

Hope these Twitter applications are help you for automization of your twitter account.

Enhance your blogging skills with WordPress Plug-ins

December 9th, 2009

There has been trend in search industry using WordPress as cms for either business blogging or personal blogging. WordPress is an open source blog publishing application and can be used for basic content management.

Wordpress Plug-ins is the extensions that add bonus function to the basic WordPress software. These are what turn the basic blog program into a full content management system. Using Wordpress plug-ins is the best way to customize wordpress blog as per needs.

I’m going to explain about most useful plug-in of wordpress through it you can do blogging easier.

All in One SEO Pack–  All in one seo pack is most common used plug in. It is automatically optimizes your titles for search engines and generates Meta tags automatically. All in One SEO Pack is helpful to avoid the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs.

Google Analytics for WordPressGoogle Analytics for WordPress plug-in is simple to use and easy to implement your Google analytics code into wordpress blog.

This plug-in also tracks outbound links, blogroll links, downloads and Ad sense    Clicks. It is also works with Urchin that mean you, can also integrate your urchin code with this plug-in in wordpress blog.

Google XML Sitemaps - This Plug-in will build Sitemap.xml for better indexing of your blog. You can also customize Sitemap.xml as pet your needs i.e. include or exclusion of categories or tags.

It will automatically generate Sitemap.xml and update into Google webmaster tool, yahoo webmaster tool and Bing webmaster tool every tine ones you updated your blog with new blog post.

Secure WordPress - This plug-in little helps for securing blog by removing error information on login page. It also helps to stop hacking attempts on your blog by eliminating wp-version tag.

KB Robots.txtThis plug-in allows you to manage robots.txt within wordpress blog. This is ideally useful for WP-MU installations. This plug-in also has some limitations that it will not helpful for blogs that are hosted on sub directory like example.com/blog.

Wordpress Thread CommentThis enables users to reply on a exist comment, and the discussion will be displayed threaded or nested.

Thank Me Later It is useful for saying thanks to your readers on their comment by sending email of Thanks.It will also helpful to you engage your visitor into your blog.

WP Greet Box – WP Greet Box shows different greeting messages to new visitors of your blog and it depends on referring url from which visitor came on your blog.

TweetMeme Retweet Button This plug-in allows option to your blog for retweeting through visitors. It also provides numeric count of retweet for your story shared through twitter.

WPtouch iPhone ThemeWPtouch iPhone Theme makes your blog into an Iphone application styled theme with single click. With this plug-in wordpress blog become mobile compatible and any one can visit mobile version of your blog through Android or BlackBerry touch mobile device and Iphone.

WP-PageNavi This plug-in adds more advanced top & bottom navigation to your WordPress blog.

WP CSS This plug-in helps you to enhance look of specific blog post and pages. You can add customized CSS to specific posts and pages.

WP Follow Me WP Follow Me is simple wordpress plug-in that allows to put your twitter follow me badge on your blog.

Permalink RedirectThis plug-in ensure all page and posts always accessed via the permalink.

Contact Form 7 – This plug-in can control numerous contact forms and you can also customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple html. This plug-in also supports Capatcha, Akimet spam filtering.

All in One Ad sense and YPNAll in One Ad sense and YPN is able to add Google Ad sense ads or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads on your blog.  With this plug-in you can customize display and appearance of your ad powerfully. Advanced users can add html and css code before and after the ad to have total control of the ad display.

These all plug-ins are widely used for powerful blogging experience. Hope this will help you to enhance your experience with powerful blogging. Share your favorite wordpress plug-in by commenting here.

Video Search Engine Optimization to broadcast your business

November 13th, 2009

Video, pod casts are the best way of viral marketing to broadcast yourself or your business. Before starting with video seo or video search engine optimization tips, take look on what is video seo about?

Video optimization or video seo or video search engine optimization is strategic process of increasing the search engine rankings your video. Video seo is becoming essential as conventional aspect of search engine optimization now days.

With mixture of Search engine optimization with videos can influence your niche, increase your website traffic and increase visibility of your brand by establishing as a successful search engine marketing company.

Video optimization is becoming more vital as aspect to search engine optimization. The best way to optimize your video substance is to think about the consumer and who you want to engage with your video. Don’t put your videos for the sake of posting a video. Consider your audience, their language, their needs and engagement level. So it is an important trend to utilize video search engine optimization (SEO) as well.

Tips to be follow for running successful video campaigns –

1.Optimize video – If you are planning to upload a video on your site or on any other video portal website then keep below thing on your mind while recording your video or publishing it.

Make sure your that video provides useful and informative content. Don’t try to promote your brand or services otherwise your viewers will confuse. Keep video length around 5 minutes or less.

Use your targeted and relevant keywords in the video’s file name, title, and in the tags, URL and Link Text while considering naming of video.

Create Video site map of your videos and submit it in Google webmaster tool for making it easier for search engines to find all the video content.

Don’t forget to use Brand Logo and Website name in video for increasing your brand visibility.

2. Market video – Market your video by syndicating it on various video portals like you tube, Live Video. Promote it on various social networking and book marking websites.

Choose the right category. Categorizing your videos correctly will make it easier for the “relevancy engine” and also for searchers.

Create video channel that should include Title (, Description, Tags or Keywords. Choose channel design and color same as like your brand look and feel. You also customize channel using brand logo, layout properties and using written by.

Use a video syndication service such as TubeMogul or Traffic Geyser to spread the video quickly across the web. these services can save you a lot of time. Here are some other video syndication sites -

Video Syndication Sites –

• Youtube.com
• Metacafe.com
• Revver.com
• MySpace Videos
• Vimeo.com
• Dailymotion.com
• Viddler.com
• Yahoo Videos
• Google Videos

3. Plan linking strategy for videos – Videos is the evaluated by the linking standards as all other forms of digital content. Internal and external links are the essential for video search engine optimization. Tips for a creating linking strategy for promoting video:

  • Cross-linking to other videos
  • Linking to videos from relevant websites.
  • Linking to videos from various blogs
  • Tweeting the video
  • Linking to videos from social media websites
  • Book marking the video.
  • Linking to videos using important keywords in anchor text.

4. Engage viewers to share your videos – Try to engage with your visitors through providing content wroth sharing, in such way so visitors encourage sharing your videos or get video favorited.

  • Allow and push users to comment on your videos.
  • Make it easy for users to share your video on You Tube, Twitter, Face book and MySpace.
  • Allow Users to Rate your Video & Tell a Friend option for more interaction.
  • Allow other users access to the coding that will allow them to embed video on their website or their blog. Think viral marketing.
  • Offer video in as possible as much formats so visitor can choose the best platform to watch or to download a video as per their needs.

5. Reuse your videos – When you have expertise with optimizing video then you also reuse video for spreading across the web using creativity.

  • Put embed videos in blog using various blog platforms like Blogger, WordPress etc.
  • Put different screenshots of videos and post it on various image sharing sites like Flicker.
  • Split your longer videos into multiple parts and spread it on web.
  • Use text of videos for creating blog posts or content for web pages.
  • Give value to your videos by using it as training videos or for conferences speech.

Well in this way we can broadcast business with the help of video search engine optimization. I would like to hear from you on video seo.

Video, pod casts are the best way of viral marketing to broadcast yourself or your business. Before starting with video seo or video search engine optimization tips, take look on what is video seo about?

Video optimization or video seo or video search engine optimization is strategic process of increasing the search engine rankings your video. Video seo is becoming essential as conventional aspect of search engine optimization now days.

With mixture of Search engine optimization with videos can influence your niche, increase your website traffic and increase visibility of your brand by establishing as a successful search engine marketing company.

Video optimization is becoming more vital as aspect to search engine optimization. The best way to optimize your video substance is to think about the consumer and who you want to engage with your video. Don’t put your videos for the sake of posting a video. Consider your audience, their language, their needs and engagement level. So it is an important trend to utilize video search engine optimization (SEO) as well.

Tips to be follow for running successful video campaigns –

Optimize video – If you are planning to upload a video on your site or on any other video portal website then keep below thing on your mind while recording your video or publishing it.

Make sure your that video provides useful and informative content. Don’t try to promote your brand or services otherwise your viewers will confuse. Keep video length around 5 minutes or less.

Use your targeted and relevant keywords in the video’s file name, title, and in the tags, URL and Link Text while considering naming of video.

Create Video site map of your videos and submit it in Google webmaster tool for making it easier for search engines to find all the video content.

Don’t forget to use Brand Logo and Website name in video for increasing your brand visibility.

2. Market video – Market your video by syndicating it on various video portals like you tube, Live Video. Promote it on various social networking and book marking websites.

Choose the right category. Categorizing your videos correctly will make it easier for the “relevancy engine” and also for searchers.

Create video channel that should include Title (, Description, Tags or Keywords. Choose channel design and color same as like your brand look and feel. You also customize channel using brand logo, layout properties and using written by.

Use a video syndication service such as TubeMogul or Traffic Geyser to spread the video quickly across the web. these services can save you a lot of time. Here are some other video syndication sites -

Video Syndication Sites –

• Youtube.com
• Metacafe.com
• Revver.com
• MySpace Videos
• Vimeo.com
• Dailymotion.com
• Viddler.com
• Yahoo Videos
• Google Videos

3. Plan linking strategy for videos – Videos is the evaluated by the linking standards as all other forms of digital content. Internal and external links are the essential for video search engine optimization. Tips for a creating linking strategy for promoting video:

  • Cross-linking to other videos
  • Linking to videos from relevant websites.
  • Linking to videos from various blogs
  • Tweeting the video
  • Linking to videos from social media websites
  • Book marking the video.
  • Linking to videos using important keywords in anchor text.

4. Engage viewers to share your videos – Try to engage with your visitors through providing content wroth sharing, in such way so visitors encourage sharing your videos or get video favorited.

  • Allow and push users to comment on your videos.
  • Make it easy for users to share your video on You Tube, Twitter, Face book and MySpace.
  • Allow Users to Rate your Video & Tell a Friend option for more interaction.
  • Allow other users access to the coding that will allow them to embed video on their website or their blog. Think viral marketing.
  • Offer video in as possible as much formats so visitor can choose the best platform to watch or to download a video as per their needs.

5. Reuse your videos – When you have expertise with optimizing video then you also reuse video for spreading across the web using creativity.

  • Put embed videos in blog using various blog platforms like Blogger, WordPress etc.
  • Put different screenshots of videos and post it on various image sharing sites like Flicker.
  • Split your longer videos into multiple parts and spread it on web.
  • Use text of videos for creating blog posts or content for web pages.
  • Give value to your videos by using it as training videos or for conferences speech.

Well in this way we can broadcast business with the help of video search engine optimization. I would like to hear from you on video seo.

Have u noticed that Face book is changing?

October 24th, 2009

Since some couple of days seems that face book is changing its internal structure of accounts. When today I logged into my face book account I’ve seen below changes such as Live News Feed and In Friend suggestions (Completion % of Profile)

Facebook

Face-book-friend-

In live News feed it shows latest updated status and latest shared link as illustrated in below image.

Live news feed

Have you noticed any changes expect from which I’ve been missed then shared it through by commenting here. I would love to hear from you. :)

How to increase traffic using social media website towards your website ?

October 23rd, 2009

Social media and networking websites are buzzing for promoting business or blog or for gaining more visitors etc. every one is talking about tips on to promote on Face book or Twitter or Stumble Upon and many more

Social media are the best medium for increasing traffic towards websites. For that you need to prepare unique and killing content for your blog or your website for diverting traffic. . In spite of sharing tips on single social media website, today I am going to illustrate how to use popular social media website for increasing traffic.

Let’s start Socializing with me!

Twitter -

  1. Create Your business profile with customization i.e. add your own logo, back ground image of your website and one important thing choose your business name as url like – http://www.twitter.com/xtend2india
  2. Follow peoples who are into your niche (i.e. web design, web development). Follow back who is following you and send all your followers to welcome message (you can use it through by scheduling Automated Messages like from Social oomph.
  3. Update your twitter status frequently with article of blog or what you like within just 140 characters. You can update your twitter status automatically by just using Twitter Feed, after signing up twitter feed you can take breath peacefully with out taking tension of status update. Your twitter status will automatically update while your blog will update. You can retweet posts or articles which is you like. While updating status don’t forget to Hash (#) for gaining your tweet on top in Twitter Search.
  4. Now start promoting your twitter by submitting twitter profiles into twitter directories like wefollow.com, tweetfind.com. Search for question on topics which you like and give answers of that for promoting your self as expert.
  5. You can track on topics which you like as Google Alters. You can also set up Twitter Alerts by using Twitter Beep.

Face book –

  1. Create Face book account and customize it as your business needs. i.e. add your business logo and set your business name as vanity URL, same as twitter. Add friends and groups of your niche.
  2. Create Face book page of your business and customize it by adding your business logo, website URL and about your business. And invite friends to become friends of your business fan page.
  3. Now you can start promotion of your face book account by updating your face book status. You can update Face book status automatically by using Twitter Application. You can share links, video of website into your Face book profile.
  4. You can promote your blog with using importing your blog through Notes Application, whenever you update blog, note will shared to profile. You can also promote your blog through Networked blog Application. In that you need to add your blog into network blog and
  5. By commenting and staying active in you can increase traffic and gaining brand visibility of your business.

Stumble upon –

  1. Set up a Stumble upon account and customize it as your business needs. i.e. add your business logo and set your user name as business name Add friends and groups of your niche.
  2. Write review of some blogs and web pages in your niche. Now start promoting your business in stumble upon. Share your links with friends and see magic. :)

Share your idea for increasing traffic of website through Social Media.

Search Meet up Schedules of SEOmoz in India

October 20th, 2009

Gillian Muessig, co-founder of SEOmoz is on world tour for speaking at various Search Meetups.

Below are schedules of Search Meet Ups in India:-

SearchMeetup New Delhi – October 20-22
SearchMeetup Bangalore – October 28-30
SearchMeetup Mumbai – October 30-Nov 1
World Brand Congress Mumbai – November 2-4

This is the next round of Gillian’s worldwide tour as she heads from London to New Delhi (already oversold – they’re looking for a larger venue as I edit) to begin her next round of speaking gigs at various SearchMeetups. She ends in Mumbai to pick up the 2009 World Brand Leadership Award and speak at the conference before heading over the pond to join us at PubCon.

For more details, you can refer SEOmoz.

why search engine optimization is essential for business

September 9th, 2009

With this context in mind, many people are continuously struggling for being notice in the world of the Internet. Websites are growing like mushrooms everywhere, every time. How can one’s website get past the millions of other websites and eventually noticed by its target audience?  Search engine optimization is the answer of this question.

Search engine optimization (SEO) generally considered as the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (”organic” or “algorithmic”)

Search engine optimization aims to achieve the goal of getting more visitors to a website by helping it get higher rankings in the search engines. This simply means that search engine optimization’s goal is to make a website appear on the first pages, if not the first page of a search done through the search engine.

There are two ways to be able to get notice by search engines. One is through pay-per-click-advertisements. A good example of a pay-per-click system that is the Google Adwords system. It has created a hype and has given Google around 5 billion dollars in terms of revenue per year. Webmasters can place their bids to be shown when a surfer searches a keyword. The highest bidders will get their sites to appear first when the search is being done.

The second way of GETTING high rankings from search engines is through organic searches. Search engines evaluate websites by using what they call “spiders.” These programs scan the websites and collects information about them. They then collate the information and pass it on to the search engine. This area is primarily the main arena of search engine optimization. It utilizes a set of methods to be able to get search engines to list the website on high ranks.
Traffic
The main purpose of search engine optimization is to increase the traffic generated by a website. Websites are building to see by Internet surfers and search engines can help it achieve this goal. The power of the search engine should not be underestimated. It is one of the building blocks of the foundation of the Internet. A survey showed that 90% of all Internet users employ search engines to aid them in their Internet-related activities. Google, the dominant player in the search engine industry, generates 70% of all search-related Internet activity.

People and Search Engines are alike

Search engines behave like people. They like websites that contain substantive information about a certain topic. The best sites usually appear first in search engines because people like them as well as the search engines.

Search engine optimization does not only generate traffic, it helps maintain the traffic. The behavior of the search engine is indicative to the behavior of the people who visit the website. Search engine optimization leads to the optimization of a webpage or a website. It will lead to a website that is more organized and a website that contains substantive information.

The use of the Search Engine to be able to target one’s target audience is one of the most effective Internet marketing strategies. It is not like other on-line marketing techniques (such as email marketing) which can lead to many leakages in terms of targeting the right audience.

Search engines segment the market and connect the right people together. People search for topics, which they are interested in and this is the main strength of search engines in connecting markets together.

Cost Effectiveness

One can do search engine optimization under the ASSUMPTION that he knows what he is doing. Search engine optimization is a full-time job and has a very long learning curve. This is why most people would resort to out-sourcing the job to experts who are good at what they do. One should be cautious, however, in hiring a search engine optimization company or consultant. Factors such as pricing and service should carefully be assessed before signing a deal. If done properly, search engine optimization is a very cost effective way of getting more people to know about one’s products or to know about a certain issue or event that a website is disseminating.

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Web Design Services from Xtend2India

September 4th, 2009

Xtend2india (X2i) is an Indian based web development and web design company with its support centre located in USA. Xtend2india (X2i) focuses on exceedingly qualitative, timely delivered and cost-effective offshore web development and web designing services. Xtend2india (X2i) has rich experience in offshore web development and web designing and project management capabilities with strict quality principles which ensures us to develop solutions which provides uniqueness over your competitors.

Xtend2india (X2i) offers Website design, PSD to html conversion, Web 2.0 design, Template design, Logo / Brochure design, Flyer design, Banner design, Icon design, Stationary design, Newsletter design and e-Portfolio.

Our team of experienced website designers, web developers and SEOs make sure that your website exceeds the highest standards in terms of web design, development, usability and traffic. Through out the career X2i developed more than 2500 projects in various technologies.

Xtend2india (X2i) has dedicated and skilled staff that work round the clock to deliver quality work. We follow the Standard Software Development Life Cycle process from project planning to installation.

We work on open source technologies like Joomla, Drupal, Magento, and wordpress. We provide exclusive shopping cart options with open source like Virtuemart, Xcart. Zen cart, Ubercart, and Oscommerce.

We offer web design, web hosting, graphic design, web development, content management, ecommerce, web maintenance packages, email marketing, search engine optimization and a whole lot more.

Xtend2India (X2I) is an experienced and well established web design company specializing in website design and e-commerce development. We have planned, created and launched hundreds of successful websites since our inception, for many different types of businesses around the globe.