WordPress Tip of the Day #0022

Title: WP Toolbar

I found an interesting tool from IAmNotAGoodArtist.com and thought I would share this with you.

It’s a WordPress Admin Toolbar Bookmarklet, basically what it does is add buttons on the top right of your browser that gives you quick access to your admin sidebar links.

This is useful so that you can be browsing the site in question and need to change things, you can get direct links to the options in your administration panel without having to go in it. The buttons work only for the site you are currently browsing, obviously if you aren’t logged in you will need to once you click an option.

This works on all WordPress websites but will still show on other websites, however if you click the buttons you will more than likely get error pages. And like I said before since you need to be logged in to get access, this won’t let you do anything to websites which you aren’t an administrator for.

It can get annoying showing up on all websites, but if you use different browsers for editing websites and general browsing it should make a difference.

WordPress Tip of the Day #0021

Title: Guest Blogging

There are two ways to look at this, you can be a guest on another blog and make a guest post for their site of course the post usually starts with announcing to the reader that you are a guest poster and a little bit about you and obviously a link back to your website. The advantage to this first one is that it will get you some solid link backs, get some exposure for your website. Also depending on which sites you are blogging on it can give you some credibility as well.

The second way is to let people be guest bloggers on your website. This is actually something I’m planning no setting up here very soon. This serves several purposes including:

• Free and Easy content for your website.
• Credibility. (Depending on who the person is)
• The guest will usually promote his post as well, so free traffic and exposure.
• Also great for networking with new people in your niche/field.

WordPress Tip of the Day #0020

Title: Comment in Forums

Last week we told you about commenting on other blogs (Click here to see the post) and how that could drive traffic to your website, well the same can be said for Forums.

I would even go as far to say that Forums can be even more influential and can give you more credibility because you can get involved. There are forums out there for every subject you can think of, us Google to search for them and I’m sure you will be able to find at least a dozen for your site.

The thing with Forums, is usually the majority of the people will be in one of the top three forums for a particular subject, so there’s no need to join all of them just pick the 2 or 3 that are the most active and run with that.

Here are a couple Forum tips:

1) Don’t spam the discussion with your links.

2) Make sure you set up your link and slogan in your signature so that it will apply in all your posts and replies.

3) Start with an introduction post about you, saying you’re new, most forums have a place for this, if you aren’t sure it’s the right place make sure you write that in the post.

4) Try and find questions from members and answer them, or ask your own questions.

5) Avoid just posting empty replies like “nice post” or anything else short, try to add stuff, this will make people more interested in you and may lead them to check out what else you got, meaning your link (s).

In closing, just try to stick to one forum or two, and try to be active and friendly and that will definetly increases your credibility and visitors to your website.