When you publish a new blog, it takes time before people start to notice you (unless you’re already well known online). Therefore, you should start with a handful of the best WordPress plugins and then activate additional plugins as you need them.
The best WordPress plugins to start with are the ones that secure your site, combat spammers, and optimize your posts for Google, Yahoo, and Bing. The following are the plugins that I would install if I where starting a new blog. You may need different plugins depending on the type of blog you have.
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Having comments on each post shows new visitors your blog is active and the information you’re sharing is worth taking the time to read. In fact, having a large number of comments automatically compels people to read your post and retweet it to their Twitter followers.
On the other hand, when you’re launching a new blog and you only have a few posts it’s harder to get people to leave comments, as nobody knows you that well. I spent some time over the weekend trying to find a solution to this problem and came across this video by Pat.
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You can easily make your blog posts rank higher in the search results if you sprinkle the right keywords throughout your article. This is no secret. However, most bloggers are using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool for their keyword research.
This is a big mistake and I’ll tell you why…
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You’ll need a blank coffee cup image for this tutorial. I used the mug from psdgraphics.com. You can download it here; right click and choose save image as to download the image.
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Customizing the submit button is one of the easiest ways to make your blog design unique, but you can also get more comments and test different fonts, shapes, colors and messages to see how your readers respond.
I’m using Microsoft Paint to create the image in this tutorial, but you can use Gimp or any other image manipulation program to create your image.
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