Each team I create a new site that uses Wordpress, I use plenty of different plugins depending on the needs of the individual site. However, there are six that I use every single time, and I think you should too. These are the must have plugins for running any Wordpress site:
1. Akismet [...]

For those of you who do not know what a robots.txt file does, it basically tells the robots which pages on your site they can and can not crawl.  This is important because there are certain things you do not want to show up in the index, like if a folder contains duplicate content, or [...]

The goal of everyone who starts a blog is to find a niche market that they are really interested in, provide quality content that people enjoy, create a huge following of these people, and then make money via advertising and sales conversions.  Of course, this takes quite a bit of time and you might not [...]

Finally it seems that even the big boys are starting to understand that when it comes to making money on the the Internet, content is king.  Just a few days ago I wrote an article about why people go online and it came as no surprise to me that “to learn” was the number one [...]

Are you thinking about starting your own blog or online business?  If so then the first question that you need to answer is what sort of category you are interested in writing about or what kind of products you are interested in selling and if there is going to be enough of a demand for [...]

One of the more popular questions I have been asked when helping someone start a blog is where to put ads in order to maximize revenues.  The important thing to remember here is that not every blog is the same, which means that you are going to have to test some different designs and ad [...]

I know there are all kinds of best of lists for WordPress plugins, but I figured I would put together my own. I can vouch for all of these and use them personally on every Wordpress blog that I create. So let’s get down to it:
Advertising
1. Ad Rotator – I like to use [...]

One of the things I love about having a blog over a traditional website is the feedback that you can receive via comments.  I get comments on my blogs from readers on how helpful they have found an article, if I’ve made a mistake, or about just anything else.  Yes, there are a few bad [...]

A question I am often asked by my friends is “how can I start a blog?”  Most of the time they either hate their jobs or want to earn a little extra money and they have seen from my experiences that making money online by blogging offers a great lifestyle with plenty of personal freedom.  [...]

If you have a website or a blog then you should know about web analytics.  You can learn a lot about your site, what works, and what doesn’t if you take a look at your stats on a frequent basis.  Most hosting companies provide some kind of stats software, but I recommend adding Google Analytics [...]