I use the Google Bot Bling plugin for WordPress which tells you when Google has visited your site and emails you a log of what was indexed. I noticed this email and saw that my latest post had been indexed so I tried a search in google for ‘Coroline corrugated bitumen’ and this site came 5th in the search engine results page (SERPS)

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I of course would promote my plugins at this point, however they are targeted at a specific niche on the WordPress users and as such do not fit into the must have for all WordPress installs category.

I also could go on about SPAM filter this, and SPAM filter that, but in all honesty that has been done so many times before and in my opinion most of the big SPAM plugins for WordPress out there work well so pick one and go with it.

My List is one that give practice benefit to you the blogger. They are all available for free on the WordPress Plugin Directory.

Search Meter

WordPress has a great inbuilt search facility, most if not all themes integrate with this to allow users of your WordPress site to search your content. This information is very valuable, especially if you are using WordPress as a CMS or as an ecommerce site, but also if you are a blogger.

To be able to have an insight into what your users are searching fo on your WordPress site gives you an insight into what they are interested in and as such you can tailor your future content to suit that, providing more content based on the search trends on your site.

Combine this with information coming from Google Analytics which will show you what keywords people used to find your site on search engines and you start to have a very powerful body of data at your disposal.

The Search Meter WordPress plugin records the searches made on your WordPress site and provides you with that information along with how many results those searches had on your site.

This allows you to start writing the content that your users want on your WordPress site.

All in one SEO

You can not have a list of WordPress plugins without the ‘All in one SEO plugin. By rights it should always be the number one plugin that you install every time you setup WordPress. In all honesty what should happen is that this plugin is taken on into the main code of WordPress and maintained by the WordPress developers.

The plugin improves the Search engine optimization of WordPress and allows you to control the meta tags created. Meta tags are things like the title of the page, hidden keywords and descriptions that can be picked up by the search engine spiders.

It is a must for all WordPress installs.

Keyword Density

Ok, so I said that I would not promote my WordPress plugins, what i really meant was I would only promote one of them! Seriously though, I do believe that this little tool is essential for everyone.

If you have done any research into getting search engine ranking, you will know that content is king. It does not matter what your site is, the most essential aspect is the content, its quality and its uniqueness.

The keyword density plugin aids you in writing this content to ensure that you get the balance of your chosen keywords in your text. It is a very simple plugin, you tell it to monitor keywords of your choice. If for example you have a blog about Cooking you may want to make sure that your content is rich with keywords such as ‘Cooking, cook, chef, recipe, kitchen, food, meal, baking’

This plugin tells you how you are doing with the balance of those keywords as you type your content. It also makes sure that you do not include your keywords too often as that would bee seen by Google as spamming the search engine.

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Why would I not want to publish when I write them? Well for various reasons, generally I will write a whole bunch of posts in one go and then schedule them to be published over the coming days to ensure that there is a constant feed of content to the live site, rather than a big chunk and then nothing for weeks followed by a big chunk again.

Having a constant stream of regularly posted content is better for Search Engines (SEO) especially for Google. There is a chance that Google would see a mass of published content as being SPAM rather than being genuine content if it did not fit within the pattern of posting for that site.

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The coe in question is fairly simple, and what it does is search all your posted content for the string ‘wordpress’ and ensures that it is in the ‘correct’ format with a capital W and capital P.

This code was applied by change set 14996 which includes the new function as seen below:

 /** 
* Forever eliminate “WordPress” from the planet (or at least the little bit we can influence). 
* 
* Violating our coding standards for a good function name. 
* 
* @since 3.0.0 
*/ 
function capital_P_dangit( $text ) { 
return str_replace( ‘WordPress’, ‘WordPress’, $text ); 
}
The comments added to that function speaks volumes. It is rather ironic that from someone who preaches open source and allowing users to freely do what ever they wish with software and although it it a very minor point I do not see why they should insist that wordpress is written in the ‘correct’ format.

Matt Mullenweg claims that this small piece of code will not have any impact on users what-so-ever, however, it is clear that he is wrong. I have had the situation today where an apparent bug with a link cloaking script in my WordPress Datafeed Import Plugin was indeed this silly little function messing up the URLS. I have a test area on my server where I install many versions of WordPress so that I can test my scripts and plugins. These are all within a folder called WordPress all in lowercase. When the masked urls are created wordpress finds the wordpress string and changes the case. This in turn breaks the link as Linux platforms are case sensative.

Since I found this and doing a little more digging, I have found that there are reports of people having problems with images named WordPress and indeed others who have their wordpress install in a wordpress folder, find that any internal links in their site will no-longer work.

I really do not understand this position, yes if this is the way that Matt Mullenweg origionally intended WordPress to be written it must be frustrating to see it written otherwise.  However, it does not make any different for SEO, Google is not case sennsative. I agree that they should control the image and the wordpress logo, however, when it is text in a blog post like this, and you subscribe to the full ethos of open source software then this sort of tinkering and forcing the hand of the blogger is simply out of order.

Install the Remove WordPress to WordPress filter which will disable this silly little function…

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Go to the plugin websites:

Amazon Import Plugin for WordPress Website

or

Datafeed Import Plugin for WordPress Website

and enter the discount code ‘july10′ to get this great offer.

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The Amazon import plugin started off life as a very simple copy of the datafeed import plugin for WordPress, it allowed you to create a search on amazon and import amazon products that match that search and create WordPress blog posts from them. The plugin had limitations that meant you could only import 500 products from each search and only have one template.

With Version 2.0 of the Amazon Import Plugin for WordPress you can now have many search imports and templates for each search term and the plugin will import all the matching products for your search term no matter how many there are.

The plugin now gives you a progress indicator in the WordPress admin area showing you how the import is going, it will make one request per second for the data required to complete your import, it will also print a time stamp against all prices obtained from the Amazon API, this is to comply with the Amazon API TOS.

This release is a significant step forward for the Amazon import plugin and brings it in line with the datafeed import plugin for WordPress in terms of its functionality.

Take a look at the website for the Amazon Import Plugin for WordPress

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This is a major release, with significant work gone into methods of posting the datafeeds on slower servers which suffered from timeouts under certain circumstances. The plugin now employs a slow posting system with user feedback on its progress through the datafeed file.

I have also re-written the XML support for the plugin, and it now can import XML and RSS into WordPress using the same methods as it did for the CSV files.

This is a significant step forward for the WordPress plugin and increases what the plugin can be used for, as it can now be used as an RSS aggregator plugin for WordPress as well as a datafeed import.

I have also fixed some bugs introduced with the URL masking system which caused problems for special characters in the URLs and in some cases a character encoding issue with some datafeeds and the WordPress post body.

I also have the next version of the plugin nearly ready, this includes support for the ‘All in one SEO’ plugin for WordPress. I have some testing to do on that version and also I have a request that the URL masking be made optional which I am looking into doing.

All versions of the plugin since version 2.0 have been WordPress 3.0 compatible.

I hope to have the next version ready within the next week.

You can view more details about the plugin at the WordPress Datafeed Import Plugins Website

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Using this approach I have probably done around 30-40% of my WordPress sites. Not a great percentage, but if you knew the numbers I am talking about then you would realize why I am pleased with this progress.

Some of the WordPress sites that have not been upgraded probably will not be for some time, but this doe not worry me too much as long as no security flaws are found and exploited, at which point this becomes a whole different ball game and I will have to dedicate time to the upgrade process.

I have considered using the WordPress multi-site functionality, however, using it across domains is not as clear and easy as it could be, you have to do some trickery with the htaccess and virtual hosts with the rewrite mod. Not something that is out of the question but something that will take time to setup and work out, on my test WordPress server.

I have read somewhere (sorry to the author I can’t now remember where) that they are so pleased that for once they can do a WordPress upgrade at their leisure rather than being forced into it due to WordPress security problems. I agree with this, especially with the 100′s of WordPress sites that I run, upgrades take a great deal of time.

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At first glance all seems normal and working. I have been using the Candidate releases for some time now so the features and new look of WordPress are not a surprise to me, but it will be good to see how I get one with it in real life.

Time to go to work…!

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Upgrading this blog now so here goes, fingers crossed!

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I have added script to handle this error which checks for characters that are not URL friendly and excludes them from the link masking system.

Please download a new copy of the plugin from the Datafeed Plugin for WordPress Website.

If you have any feature requests for the plugin or any other WordPress plugin that you would like to see please do not hesitate to contact me.

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I have learnt one lesson from this release, that is never do a release when it is late in the day and you are tired. I accidentally uploaded the wrong file to the server and invited thousands of users to come and download it! Soon realised and rectified the mistake but still lesson learned!

You may also be interested to know that I am about to launch a new version of the Amazon Import Plugin for WordPress, this has been a major re-write of the plugin which is now packed with features and functionality.

I am also putting out another call for beta testers for my WordPress Advertiser plugin, if you feel that you can help please do contact me either by email or post a comment on this blog.

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I thought that I would give my first view of WordPress 3.0.

What is different in this version?

1. Custom Post Types
2. New Default Theme
3. Custom Background Support
4. Specific Templates for Authors
5. New Users Tutorial
6. Custom Woo Navigation added to the core
7. Merge of WordPress and the now defunct WordPress MU
8. Security Improvements with automatic creation of Security Keys

There are many other improvements, but these are mainly within the code and in the technical development of the software rather than up-front features.

The Install

WordPress can now be installed as a multi-site system very much like WordPress MU used to. I have yet to try this but will be investigating those features very soon as I use WordPress for many sites and it would be perfect if I can simply have one install to run them all rather than having to go through the process time and time again.

The normal WordPress install is very similar to the WordPress 2.x installs where it creates the configuration file, asking you for the username and password for the database and the database name. The main difference that I found was that it no-longer gives you a randomly generated admin password, but asks you to enter your password.

I think this is much better as it cuts out one step in the WordPress setup process, you no-longer have to go into the admin area and change the password to something sensible that you can remember. It does of course have the password strength indicator to ensure that you are not using a password of 1234!

The install still asks you for a name for your blog, but frustratingly does not ask you to change the Tag line. If this were added to the install process it would streamline the install even more. In my view if it added permalink settings as well this would be perfect and would mean that it is ready to go after the install rather than having to modify settings. I suppose the problem with this is that it would make the install process more cluttered but I would rather have that and know that once the install was finished WordPress was configured how I wanted it rather than having to go through the settings.

The WordPress install now checks the version of MySQL and PHP on the server. I always thought that this was something that it would do and it never occurred to me that it would not so this is very good news and long overdue. It is something that I have had in my plugins for some time now, checking to make sure that the server supports their requirements. This seems a basic thing that should have been introduced from the beginning of WordPress.

The WordPress Admin Interface

At first glance the WordPress admin interface looks very much the same. The theme has been updated a little, indeed the admin area is supposed to be easier to theme.

Updates: A large number of the changes included are the ability to do bulk updates, both WordPress plugins and themes now have the ability to have bulk updates, and the updates for WordPress its self have now moved onto the Dashboard.

Interestingly during the time it has taken since I installed WordPress 3.0 (2 hours ago) there has been an update, so I have gone through the update process to update WordPress to the latest nightly build and the process is exactly the same as the 2.9x automatically upgrade feature.

Custom Posts and Taxonomies: The introduction and improvement of custom posts and custom taxonomies will add much more functionality to WordPress and a huge amount of scope for building more advanced applications based on the WordPress Framework. I have not fully got my head round what is possible with these, but I intend to in the near future and I will try and post mu findings here.

Search Engines blocked Message: A very small but useful thing that I have noticed, as the install of WordPress 3.0 I have done is just a test install I noticed the box on the install which says allow search engines to see my blog, I now have a message in the top bar of the admin interface “Search Engines Blocked” a useful reminder, especially for me as I use many test installs of WordPress and am paranoid about domains or IP addresses being blocked for spamming when I am testing new scripts on those WordPress installs.

Revision interface: The interface that allows you to compare the revisions of a post within WordPress has been updated, the fact of the matter is that I did not know that this interface even existed, and when I compare the 2.9.2 and the WordPress 3.0 interfaces I can not see any difference, but this is defiantly a feature I will be using in the future.

Menu Management: WordPress 3.0 now has the Woo Navigation features integrated as core. This allows you to manage the menus on your WordPress via a drag and drop interface. It also means that you can make up custom menus that include both pages and categories, a very useful feature especially if you are using WordPress as a framework for a CMS or e-commerce site.

There are many other features and the list of new features for developers is apparently endless. I must get time to read the whole list and see what it means for WordPress developers and how I can use them to improve my WordPress Plugins.

Will I be upgrading?

Simple answer is yes, of course I will upgrade, the more detailed answer would be that I will upgrade my WordPress installs that have a blog on them such as this one, Earning From Affiliates and On the Allotment first. I will then start to move onto the other sites that use WordPress as a framework for e-commerce or affiliate sites. However, I want to investigate the multi site facilities before I do that to see if it is an easy task to move over to a single install of WordPress to manage all my sites.

Whats next?

You will have noted several times in this post that I have seen areas that I need to gen up on. Custom Posts and Custom Taxonomies specifically look like an area that will be of use to me in my WordPress Datafeed Import and WordPress Amazon Import Plugins. I have a load of work to do playing with these new features to discover what I can do, look out in the near future for exciting new features for my plugins.

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I am looking for WordPress blog owners who are interested in the new plugin  to contact me. I need some people to try the beta copy of the plugin on their blogs and give it a test in a real life environment, to see how well it works and give me some feedback.

I have done a great deal of testing on the plugin in both wordpress 2.9.2 and wordpress 3.0.

I am in the process of writing the help files for it, when those help files are written I will send anyone who contacts me a copy, and then when I release the finished version of the plugin I will send you an updated copy.

Please post here if you are willing to help, along with the blog that you will be able to test it on.

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I am hoping that it will allow non-technical bloggers to be able to manage and sell advertising space on their blogs without the need to employ web developers to create themes or add in advertising.

I also intend to write it in such a way that the owner of the blog can in addition to selling advertising space, use it to show affiliate adverts and control what is shown and when.

There are some plugins available that do some of what I am planning, but I have been looking for one that is all singing and all dancing, that will manage the process from start to finish without needing the blogger to continually monitor or provide administration for their advertising slots.

As I am already in the WordPress plugin market, I decided that I would make an attempt to design a plugin that meets all of my needs, as with all these projects as soon as I had the specification written I have had many more ideas and features that I would like to see, however I will get the base software written on which I can build over time.

I strongly believe that WordPress is a platform that can be used for many applications, not least blogging for which it is intended. Regular readers will know that I use wordpress as a basis for many of my sites, especially affiliates  sites using my other two wordpress plugins, Datafeed Import plugn for WordPress and Amazon Import Pluign for wordpress. 

The improvements that are set to be released with version 3.0 of WordPress will improve the already sophisticated platform making it more and more versatile for many more applications, making it more of a content management system (CMS) as well as a blogging platform.

This new plugin will extend my range of plugins to people who are not affiliate marketers but still want to be able to sell advertising space on their sites as well as affiliate bloggers who wish to add affiliate adverts.

I have bought two domain names and will be creating a website for the plugin at wordpressadvertiser.com (and .co.uk). I will add more information there when I get closer to having a product that I can release, and will post more blog posts here where there are more updates.

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As you will be aware I do affiliate marketing in my ‘spare’ time, one of the main issues with affiliate marketing and really the holy grail of affiliate marketing is the ability to rapidly create sites for your to be able to market other peoples products.

Until recently, I have been hand coding sites, and making custom designs for each, this took a great deal of time, time which I did not have, and time which I tended to get bogged down with making my affiliate projects stall before they were really launched.

I decided that there must be a solution so I employed my programming skills into developing a solution for wordpress whcih I could then use as a framework for all my affiliate sites.

The first plugin that I created was the Datafeed import plugin. Initially it was very basic, the ability to have oneaffiliate  datafeed and one template, the plugin then created a post in wordpress for each row in the affiliate datafeed.  Perfect, it allowed me to rapidly create sites in a matter of minutes rather than days.

I could also use other WordPress plugins such as the All in one SEO plugin and use the WordPress themes to make the sites suitable for the products which they contained. They were also fully search-able, menus and categories automatically created, functionality given by WordPress.

I then gave the plugin to another affiliate marketer friend who also found that it was a very useful tool so I decided to put the plugin out on to the open market or people to buy.

Since then I have made the plugin far more advanced, it can handle many datafeeds, each with their own templates, custom fields, advanced filters and automatic updates.

I have created a website for the datafeed import plugin where you can find more details

I then wanted to be able to easily import Amazon products as they are always very high converting affiliate products, so I have created a similar plugin that allows you to import and create posts from Amazon products based on a search term. This works very well and again as with the datafeed plugin I am working on more and more advanced versions of the plugin, the next of which is due to be released in the coming weeks.

Again I have created a website for the Amazon Import Plugin so if you are interested have a look.

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