SEO is very important when you are building and maintaining a website, and Google offers FREE tools to help make your job easier!

Google provides very nice free SEO tools here is list.

Google Analytics: According to the website, Google Analytics gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. User friendly features allow you to see and analyze your traffic data in a whole new way, as well as produce better targeted ads, create higher converting websites and strengthen your marketing initiatives.

Google Trends: With Google Trends, you can compare the whole world’s interest in the topic of your choice. You can enter up to 5 topics to see how often they have been searched, how often they show up in Google News stories and what geographic locations have searched these topics the most.

Google Keyword Tool: Undoubtedly one of the most popular in the Google toolbox, the Keyword Tool can be a gigantic help in choosing the right and most effective keywords!

Google Website Optimizer: A very easy to use free tool for testing your website content to see if it is delivering actionable results. You can find out what leads to the highest conversion rates, listen to your visitors and increase conversions dramatically. A great free tool!

Google Webmaster Tools: This one gives you detailed reports about your web pages’ visibility in Google search. You can see at a glance how Google crawls and indexes your site, as well as find out about problems Google is having with your site and how to fix them. You can also use the free link reporting tools and query traffic to see which search queries are driving traffic to your site.

Google Traffic Estimator: This one will come in quite handy as it tells you such important things as average estimated CPC, estimated ad position, estimated daily cost and estimated daily clicks.

Using above tools you can boost your website.

You websites first impression is very important. That is all depend on your website’s landing means home page.

For many of those visitors, it will be the first time they have been on your website, so the last thing you want to do is create a bad first impression that will have those visitors hitting the back button to get our of there as fast as they can.

Here are some tips in writing a great landing page:

* Write your landing pages so that a visitor has to do very little thinking about what to do next. Your job is to gently steer visitors in the direction of where you want them to go, and what you want them to do. So, your landing page message should make these things crystal clear. This is no time to be ambiguous! Have strong, concise calls to action that tell visitors what to do!

* Bring out the big guns right away! Your promotional offers or freebies should always be above the fold on your landing page, which means on the top half of the page, prominently displayed where visitors can see them. However, you must get them to jump through a hoop or two before handing over the promotion or freebie. In other words, get something you want from them—such as signing up for your email subscription list—prior to delivering the goodies.

* Explain the benefits of your products to visitors. People do not buy something because it’s a great widget, they buy based on how a widget benefits them. Remember that, and make it clear how they will benefit from what you are selling.

* Lack of trust and credibility in your online business is a big reason why many visitors don’t become buyers. Remove those stumbling blocks to sales by displaying trust and security symbols on your landing pages, along with a brief, reassuring blurb about your business.

Use above guidelines and improve your landing page.

Would you like to increase traffic to your ecommerce business blog overnight?

Believe it or not, this may just be do-able!

How, you ask?

With the WordPress OnlyWire Auto Poster plug-in, that’s how!

As you may or may not know, WordPress is probably the most popular and often used blog platform on the World Wide Web according to Technorati. It’s a state of the art publishing platform that focuses on aesthetics, web standards and usability.

Best of all, it’s FREE.

The WordPress Only Wire Auto Poster plug-in can significantly increase traffic to your blog—possibly or even probably—overnight because by using it, you are able to syndicate your blog posts to over 30 of the top social sites simultaneously, with just one click of a button.

No more slogging along doing it the hard way, one at a time. With the OnlyWire plug-in, you are assured of getting your blog post out there where the most people will see it, and hopefully read it.

Just think of how this could help you build valuable backlinks, not to mention improve your website traffic and search engine index speed!

There are two ways to use the WordPress OnlyWire Auto Poster plug-in:

1. As a Firefox plug-in which will stay in the upper right hand corner of your browser, right next to the Google search bar, or
2. Install the OnlyWire plug-in from your WordPress blog simply by selecting it from the available WordPress plug-ins, and then clicking install.

It’s just that easy!

OnlyWire is a blogger’s dream come true as a time saver. There are four ways to use it, including the simultaneous submission to social sites feature:

1. Submission browser button: Syndicates your blog article to 31 social sites at once
2. Bookmark and share button: This button can be placed on websites and blogs, and allows visitors to share the page on their social networking sites.
3. Developer API: Automatically submits blog or web content to an existing CMS system at the will of the user.
4. Account management: A very handy tool within the program that you can use to keep track of everything. It will set up the social sites to be used, show submission history, as well as finalize your submissions to manage a member account.

If you want to save yourself a lot of time on social media marketing, and increase traffic to your blog overnight, then you should take a look at WordPress OnlyWire for your online dropshipping business or other ecommerce enterprise.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-onlywire-auto-poster/

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Category Specific RSS feed Subscription

This WordPress Plugin allows you to present a menu with multiple RSS feed subscription option to your site’s visitors in addition to your normal RSS subscription option.

If your site covers multiple topics then your subscribed readers may get annoyed when you update your site with content that they are not interested in and they get a notification in their RSS reader.

I found that most of the time I never subscribe to a site’s RSS feed when it doesn’t have the topic/category specific subscription option, specially when the site covers multiple topics cause I don’t like to be hammered with all the unwanted content updates.

This plugin allows you to configure up to 8 different topic specific RSS feeds.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-specific-rss-feed-menu/

WWSGD Plugin

This plugin which uses name of one of the top web celebrity Seth Godin, allows you to display a subscription reminder message above or below blog post.

You can control position & content of message. Also you can customize if message is to be displayed always for only or few initial page views.

What Would Seth Godin Do

Vertically scroll rss feed

his plug-in will scroll the RSS feed title vertically in site sidebar, admin can add/update the RSS link & style via widget management. Internet connection is required to load third party RSS.

1. Easy installation.
2. Widgets, so you can add pretty much anything.
3. Easy style-override system.

Click on the configure button (small down triangle) for the ‘Scroll RSS Feed’ widget and here you can customize all the Scroll RSS Feed front end styles.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vertically-scroll-rss-feed/

Show RSS Feeds

Displays RSS feed in templates

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/show-rss/

Feed Widget Plugin

This plugin will add a WordPress widget, which will display links to various relevant feeds for your WordPress blog. It will always at least display links to the two standard feeds: All Entries and All Comments. It will also display links to category feeds, post feeds or search feeds, depending on the current page being viewed.

I used this long time back. But now this blog have three top level feeds, so I guess using this plugin here will result in too many options. I will definitely add this plugin to my orkutfeeds blog.

Feed Widget Plugin

JP’s Get RSS Feed

This plugin uses WordPress’ ability to return feeds, to get the last X number of items from a given RSS feed. Display the last few items from any RSS feed of your choice. For example, your Twitter feed, or another blog or forum that outputs a RSS feed. Any RSS feed can be grabbed. Call it in your footer to list your last few tweets, and your sidebar to showcase content from another one of your blogs.

Uses fetch_feed, which was introduced in WordPress 2.8. Works and tested in WordPress 2.9.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jps-get-rss-feed/

URL Absolutifier WordPress Plugin

URL Absolutifier changes all relative URLs in posts to absolute URL, to make the entries work in feed readers that don’t work with relative URLs.

I used a relative URL trick for higher earnings from AdSense product referrals long time back. If you are not sure about your usage of relative URLs then I will strongly recommend you should activate this plugin and then just forget it. I really feel this should be default behavior of wordpress.

URL Absolutifier WordPress Plugin

Full Text Feeds

There was a bug in wordpress which used to cut your feeds in the middle of the post. This behavior used to annoy blogger who like to publish full text feeds.

I am not sure if this bug is fixed in latest version of wordpress as I have modified wordpress core feed files completely when applying firefox full feed hack.

Anyway, if you see partial feeds even after choosing option to display full feeds, you can use this plugin to overcome wordpress bug.

Full Text Feed Plugin

RSS FEED anywhere

You only have to place the swf-file on a server (free-hosting..) and edit the embed-Tag. Finished! With the proxy-feature, you are allowed, to feed your RSS-Stream from anywhere. (Myspace etc.)

You also can get your RSS-Feed from free hosts wordpress.com blogs. (without upload or edit the template files or stuff like that.) You dont have to place a crossdomain.xml (thats useful, because in some cases thats not possible: if you dont have enough permissions.. etc) on your Server! (you can, if you want to disable the proxy-function. But you dont have to! )

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-feed-anywhere/

FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin

If you use FeedBurner and love its subscriber count chicklet, then this plugin is must for you.

WordPress have lots of feed formats and most probably you had burnt only one of them with FeedBurner. Now if a user access your wordpress feeds via other URLs then their subscription will not be counted towards FeedBurner count.

This plugin will take care of this. You just give it your FeedBurner URLs and it will redirect all wordpress custom feed requests to your FeedBurner feed.

Originally developed by Steve Smith, this plugin is now officially maintained by FeedBurner.

FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin

Feed Footer Plugin

This plugin allow you to customize footer text of each post in feed completely. I use this to show referral ads in my feeds. Please do not try AdSense or any JavaScript code in Feed Footer. It will not work as feed readers ignores JavaScript.

This plugin is really basic, but I don’t mind taking some efforts for some extra bucks.

Feed Footer Plugin

RSS Footer

This is very simple plugin. It allows you to insert any message including HTML code into the feeds. You can also choose if added message is to be displayed at top or bottom of the post.

You can use this plugin for advertising instead of above Feed footer plugin. Main difference is, RSS Footer adds same footer at the end of every post, while above Feed footer allows you to add different footer for each post.

One plus point with RSS footer is, it allows addition of link back to your original post, which is good SEO as explained by Daniel Scocco.

RSS Footer Plugin

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Many time, by giving full text feeds, blogger feel they are loosing page-views as a reader may never check their blog.

I use backlinking to my old posts whenever possible to bring readers back to the blog. But often such links go unnoticed or you may not find old post to link back if you are writing on a new topic.

Then its always good idea to display few related posts at the bottom which often attracts clicks. Of course too many links may annoy your reader. So do not show something like 20 related post!

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In article I will tell you very nice resources for contact form in wordpress plugin.

1. Contact Form 7

WordPress plugin for contact form is Contact Form 7.
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
You can download this plugin from following url.
http://ideasilo.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/contact-form-7/

This plugin is good to use but there no advanced options like customize css and look of contact form.

2. Spam-Free Contact Form

Spam Free Contact Form. On errors, displays elegant error messages and confirmation messages on successful mail delivery.
You can download this plugin from following url.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spam-free-contact-form/

3. WP Clean-Contact

Clean-contact hides itself from spam-bots by, and optionally will filter messages using Akismet — Capctha and skill testing questions not required.
You can download this plugin from following url.
http://www.checkfront.com/dev/extras/wp-clean-contact

4. Secure Form Mailer Plugin For WordPress

You can download this plugin from following url.
http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/secure-form-mailer-plugin-for-wordpress/

5. cformsII

Cforms is a great plugin but it hardcode some datas in PHP and JS files. It also save on WP options the URL of the blog, it’s cause some problem when you want moving your blog.
This plugin allow edit this parameter from WordPress without open your FTP client or use phpMyAdmin.
You can download this plugin from following url.
http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin/

6. Fast and Secure Contact Form

Fast and Secure Contact Form for WordPress. This contact form lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message. Blocks all common spammer tactics. Spam is no longer a problem. Includes a CAPTCHA and Akismet support. Additionally, the plugin has a multi-form feature, optional extra fields, and an option to redirect visitors to any URL after the message is sent. Does not require JavaScript.
You can download this plugin from following url.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-contact-form/

When we want to choose any CMS, First two biggest cms we get in mind. That is Joomla and druapl. Both are very best CMS. I personally love both. That is all depending on you what expertise you have and what is your client is demanding.

Here in this article I will help you If you are not choosen any CMS and you are confused about Joomla and Drupal. They both offers similar kind of features in there CMS in different order. If user or client side if we talk then joomla’ admin panel gives you very nice and user friendly user interface in admin side. Drupal has admin panel with good admin panel but that is complex as compare to joomla.

Here I will first talk about Drupal. Following is list of drupal features which I like

1. So much flexible for configuration

2. Great Seo features

3. Drupal need some time of R&D for his features and modules

4. great theme  system. Any XHTML or CSS template can be easily converted to Drupal.

5. User groups & user permissions, OpenId compliant in Version 6

6. Drupal is having lots of free addons and modules

7. Community with great support and API

8. Performance and scalability wise good.

9. No Default WYSIWYG editor for editing content- Need to free module

10. For e-commerce use Ubercart

Now I will talk about Joomla. Here is list of features which is in Joomla

1. Very easy to install & setup

2. very user-friendly and easy for using

3. No good seo as like drupal

4. free themes and moduls

5. No User groups & permissions

6. So many modules cost you money

7. Not scalable for bigger sites

8. Default WYSIWYG editor for editing content

9. For ecommerce use Virtuemart

Conclusion: I recommend choose Drupal as CMS. Drupal is litter hard then joomla for work on and user interface side. But performance and if you see future side drupal is good.

SEO is major factor in these days for your any website for ecommerce and marketing or anything. In that scenario choose Drupal. Because Drupal is providing best options and features with SEO.

What You are thinking about Joomla and Drupal, please share with me.

Which CMS is most popular and most user friendly in the world. This is most common question among the developers and clients.

So many times this question is questioned the answered But still I am going answer this question with my opinions.

Biggest growth of jobs is WordPress. I am wordpress developer and  I can feel this trend today.
We can this graph that displays the growth of wordpress. Seeing this graph We can say that in 2009 and 2010 wordpress is really rocking.

I worked on all the  cms like wordpress, drupal, joomla and many more. But in this year I worked on wordpress for quite some extra time.

When we choose CMS we consider following points.

1. Which CMS will provide you Best Seo options

Ans: When we see and check the all CMS then I can easily say that wordpress has ability to provide you best seo option. After that I will must say Drupal is best option to go with. This will also provide you best seo option.

2. Which CMS is easy to make custom theme from custom design PSD

Ans: I can say with wordpress and drupal both creating a theme is very easy. any web developer who have very basic knowledge of PHP they can develp custom theme very easily.

3. Which CMS is easy  for developer to make custom plugins, modules and components easily

Ans: If you started learning API’s of both the CMS. All are good and easy and all provided good amount of help on internet. But I can rate myself as follows:

a. WordPress

b. Drupal

c. Joomla

Anyways that is depending on your knowledge and understanding. All you need to spend some time to understand the API’s of all CMS.

4. Which CMS admin is most user  friendly and easy to use for non-technical people

Ans: For this point I must say wordpress is the best tool. Drupal has admin panel but little complex to understand and same with joomla.

5. Which CMS is most good for  E-commerce site, Blog, Small site, News sites and company website.

Ans:  I recommend again wordpress here. you can setup wordpress very easily and quickly with minium effort. For big websites like magazine and news sites wordpress is the great tool.

Next point is,  for ecommerce and blogging wordpress is the great tool. If you are aware with wordpress then go with drupal.

Conclusion:  If you want to develop very complex website with multiple features like ad management, forums, client support, video gallery, media gallery then go with Drupal.

So many very big websites are built in Drupal and WordPress. Choosing the CMS is all depending on your client requirement.

Few minutes back we launched the Seo Meta Tags wordpress plugin. We really happy to announce this news. This is our fourth wordpress plugin which we launched today.

Seo Meta Tags

Using this plugin you will get following features:

You can enter your meta keywords and description for your homepage.<br>
This plugin will add different Meta description for each individual post as your excerpt of your post.
This will help your blog to rank better in google. You can easily increase your blog traffic using this plugin.

This plugin is really helpful to SEO. Search engine will read meta description for each page.
Using this plugin your blog will have different meta description and relative meta description as per your single post.
That is really helpful to your blog.

Here you can see the screen shot of Seo Meta Tags Admin panel:

You can download Seo Meta Tags from following URL:

Alexa Rank Widget : Download

Official URL of Seo Meta Tags wordpress plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-meta-tags/

Many people want to add social icons or buttons to there wordpress websites. There are many free wordpress are offering the same functionality. I recommend not to use these plugins because this plugins will add extra javascript and CSS to your website and that will take some bandwidth of your website.

In this tutorial I will show how to add the social icons your wordpress theme without using any plugin. This we can achieve very easily.

Just follow my steps:

1. Open single.php file from your wordpress theme.

just do one think, please assign class=”social_icons” to div.

<div >
<ul>
 <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://wordpressapi.com/feed" title="RSS"><img src="http://wordpressapi.com/files/rss_32.png" title="RSS" alt="RSS"  /></a></li>
 <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>" title="del.icio.us"><img src="http://wordpressapi.com/files/delicious_32.png" title="del.icio.us" alt="del.icio.us"  /></a></li>
 <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>" title="StumbleUpon"><img src="http://wordpressapi.com/files/stumbleupon_32.png" title="StumbleUpon" alt="StumbleUpon"  /></a></li>
 <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>" title="Digg"><img src="http://wordpressapi.com/files/digg_32.png" title="Digg" alt="Digg"  /></a></li>
 <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://twitthis.com/twit?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="TwitThis"><img src="http://wordpressapi.com/files/twitter_32.png" title="TwitThis" alt="TwitThis"  /></a></li>

 <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mixx.com/submit?page_url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>" title="Mixx"><img src="http://wordpressapi.com/files/mixx_32.png" title="Mixx" alt="Mixx"  /></a></li>
 <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://technorati.com/faves?add=<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Technorati"><img src="http://wordpressapi.com/files/technorati_32.png" title="Technorati" alt="Technorati"  /></a></li>
 <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?php the_permalink() ?>&t=<?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>" title="Facebook"><img src="http://wordpressapi.com/files/facebook_32.png" title="Facebook" alt="Facebook"  /></a></li>
 <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u=<?php the_permalink() ?>&h=<?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>" title="NewsVine"><img src="http://wordpressapi.com/files/newsvine_32.png" title="NewsVine" alt="NewsVine"  /></a></li>
 <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>" title="Reddit"><img src="http://wordpressapi.com/files/reddit_32.png" title="Reddit" alt="Reddit"  /></a></li>
 <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>" title="Google"><img src="http://wordpressapi.com/files/google_32.png" title="Google" alt="Google"  /></a></li>
 <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>&source=<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>&ary=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>" title="LinkedIn"><img src="http://wordpressapi.com/files/linkedin_32.png" title="LinkedIn" alt="LinkedIn"  /></a></li>
 <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://co.mments.com/track?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>" title="co.mments"><img src="http://wordpressapi.com/files/co.mments.gif" title="co.mments" alt="co.mments"  /></a></li>
 <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u=<?php the_permalink() ?>&=<?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>" title="YahooMyWeb"><img src="http://wordpressapi.com/files/yahoobuzz_32.png" title="YahooMyWeb" alt="YahooMyWeb"  /></a></li>

 <li><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:?subject=<?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>&body=<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="E-mail this story to a friend!"><img src="http://wordpressapi.com/files/email_32.png" title="E-mail this story to a friend!" alt="E-mail this story to a friend!"  /></a></li>
</ul>
</div>

2. open your theme style.css file and put following code

.social_icons{ clear:both; }
.social_icons ul li {float:left; padding-right:8px;}

Many people searching for solution for real estate. I specially think wordpress is the great tool to create the real estate website. Because wordpress will provide you great SEO features in your real estate website. If we talk about features, there is so many free and open source options are available in wordpress so go with wordpress.

If you are planning to create real estate website. Then choose wordpress CMS. If you want reach to your customer with minimum efforts then go for wordpress.

In this tutorial I will give information about ten best real estate wordpress solutions or plugins.

1. Great Real Estate | Download

2. Real Estate | Download

3. Simple Real Estate Pack | Download

4. FireStorm Real Estate Plugin | Download

5. Real Estate Q&A | Download

6. Real Estate Chart of the Day | Download

7. RealPress Real Estate Plugin | Download

8. Local Market Explorer | Download

9. WordPress Zillow API | Download

10. WordPress Featured Listings | Download