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The 14 Best WordPress Plugins for Social Media and SEO for 2012

From windmillnetworking.com - January 19, 2012 1:49 PM

The New Year is a great time to either start a brand new blog or revamp your exiting website. One of the ways to improve your blog in 2012 is by using plugins that make it more social media optimized and SEO friendly.

Having the right plugins can give you an edge over other blogs and can also assist you in gaining the extra functionality you need for your WordPress-powered site, especially if social media is an important part of your marketing strategy. Let’s have a look at the top plugins that I recommend you utilize in 2012. There’s a few new plugins in the mix together with several plugins that I recommended in my Best 2011 WordPress Plugins for Social Media and SEO that you’ll want to reference if you haven’t done so.

Social Media WordPress Plugins for 2012

There are many ways to utilize the power of social media to help spread the word about your blog posts. The 3 essential types of plugins you need to have here that I cover below are social sharing, social commenting, and integrating Twitter:

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Chuck Bartok's comment, January 16, 2012 2:35 PM

As always, great share. Thanks Martin

TuristicaCO's comment, January 17, 2012 10:03 AM

nice Thnaks

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11 Uncommon Blog Post Ideas for More Web Traffic

From thinktraffic.net - December 15, 2011 3:25 PM

A really great blog post can bring a flood of visitors to your website when people who read your post share it with the world.

The best way to create a potentially viral blog post is to experiment with lots of different types of blog posts and to observe what has worked for other blogs.

Below I’m going to share 11 blog post ideas you can use to get more traffic. These ideas each came by examining popular posts from some of my favorite blogs. These posts became some of the most popular posts on some incredibly popular blogs. There’s no guarantee they’ll work the same for you, but try several of them and you might just make a breakthrough...

Caution: there is a very strong word or two in here. Reader discretion is advised. -JL

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What I Wish I Knew The First Year of Blogging: Part II

From bestbloggingtipsonline.com - January 15, 2012 7:05 PM

I hope you enjoyed part one of what I learned the first year.

The original post was packed with so much information that I had to break it down into two parts or otherwise risk being labeled as verbose as Nitty.

The following are the remainder of the tips I learned the first year of blogging.

Take action. Do a little bit everyday.

It is easy to get caught up in reading, learning and planning on the internet. Plan away but if you don’t take action then you will get nowhere. If you don’t know where to start, then break your blog down into baby steps.

Take a week to map out your niche, then the next to map out what you want to include in your site? The following to come up with a logo and tagline and so on. You may need less than a week for each task.

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