From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Upgrade ALL of Your Wordpress Plugins with One Click

Keeping your Wordpress Plugins up-to-date is a good idea for many reasons, not the least of which is keeping your blog secure. Good plugin developers will track and fix known security probelms with their plugins, but if you aren’t upgrading then it isn’t going to do you much good, is it?!?!

The last few releases of Wordpress have made it very easy to upgrade your plugins with one click per plugin. But when you are installing a new blog, sometimes you have to upgrade twenty different plugins. And this can take a few minutes to do.

So for those of us who are too lazy to upgrade each plugin, there is a savior:

One Click Plugin Upgrader

This free wordpress plugin will give you something like this:

Upgrade all of your plugins with one click instead of twenty.

Click on the image above to see a larger version.

Anyways, I really suggest adding this plugin to your arsenal of Wordpress plugins.  If it helps you to keep all of your plugins up-to-date, then you are going to be very happy to have it.

Best,

Brad

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Read This: Alex Becker’s Chicago SEO Blog

This post is going to get those of your from Chicago really excited.  You are practically neighbors with Alex Becker, the Chicago SEO Expert.

If you’d like to get a feel for Alex’s work, I suggest browsing some of his blog posts.  Some of my favorites are:

  1. The Affiliate Marketing MasterPlan (talks about framed redirects… pretty cool stuff)
  2. Must Have Wordpress Plugins (one of the better lists I’ve seen!)
  3. About Alex (dude, he makes some money doing affiliate marketing!)

So yeah, check this guy out!

Until Later, Brad

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LinkLaunder.com and SEO Booster Lite Review

Well before today I wasn’t sure that Twitter was worth my time.  But, alas, it is.  Why?  Because I was fortunate enough to meet the bloke behind LinkLaunder.com and SEO Booster Lite.

Both of these Wordpress plugins are FREE and Excellent.  Let me walk you through them a bit, starting with my favorite:

Second Page SEO Booster

From the plugin’s page:

This plugin was created based by the idea in the article, Second Page Poaching – Advanced White Hat SEO Techniques.

Read more about the plugin here: http://mywordpress.com/free/wordpress-plugin-seo-booster-lite.html

The plugin detects and collects visits by users from search engines, especially from those pages listed on page two of the search engine.

By adding the provided widget in your WordPress blog, it will present site-wide links to these pages with the search terms it has detected, and by adding site-wide links to the posts with the search term from the search engine, it will attempt to boost those pages from page 2 to page 1.

The plugin is hard-coded to only list the posts from page 2 in the search engines, so once the post has reached page 1 or falls further down (page 3 and downwards) the links will no longer be displayed in the widget.

This is a really great plugin that helps you get those SERP results on the second page to move up to the first page.  It’s totally White-Hat & easy to install.  My limited experience with the plugin has led me to install it on every blog I run and suggest it to my SEO clients.

Link Launder

Now linklaunder.com is taking a stab at automatic link building.  I’ve almost never seen this done right, but I do have high hopes in this case.  LinkLaunder is a wordpress plugin.  And it is also completely free.

I did install this plugin on one of my websites, but the plugin takes a little while to get the links coming in.  I’ll have to report back on how well this plugin performs.  But, like I said, I put a lot of faith in the bloke who developed these plugins.

On Twitter?

If you are on twitter, I’d suggest following the developer @myWordpress to see as these plugins grow and develop.

Until later, Brad

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