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 [...]

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.  [...]

There are a lot of things that go into optimizing your site for the search engines, but with a minimal amount of effort you can cover about 80% of the important stuff.  While the list below isn’t all inclusive and isn’t going to have you ranking number one for competitive terms, it will at least [...]