Blogs are a wonderful possibility for freelancers to succeed in the internet. Furthermore it is very simple to start a blog since WordPress is already preinstalled with many hosting providers. But the standard installation of WordPress needs some more fine tuning to optimal functional with Google, Yigg and Co. and bring in money.
Why you should extend WordPress with Plugins
WordPress is a simple and very good blog-software. The software is improved regularly and already offers useful functions from house. However there are meanwhile hundred plugins with new functions and it becomes clear that they cannot be integrated into the standard WordPress installation. Otherwise WordPress would be enormous and slow and you wouldn’t use 95% of the functions at all.
Therefore you can install new functions by plugin. There is a set of very useful plugins for bloggers who want to earn money with their blog, for example to win more visitors and to monetize the blog.
Here are the best plugins for freelancers:
Plugins – Easier and better use for WordPress
Following 5 plugins which highly simplify the work with Wordpress and are useful for freelancers.
Draft Control
Draft control provides a better overview of your contribution drafts. Many professional bloggers use this draft function of WordPress in order to collect ideas and prepare content. This plugin simplifies the work.
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Search Meter
The Wordpress plugin “search meter” collects the data of the internal search. Thus which the visitors of my blog look for over the internal search field. Here the blogger can spot which words were searched and how many results were found in your blog. You can see the trends and remove content gaps.
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WordPress Database Backup
Nothing is worse as if the work of months disappeared. And in addition naturally the own blog contributions count. Therefore the database plugin regularly stores the own database and let every blogger sleep better
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Wordpress Stats
Every blogger who means it seriously with earning money should examine how successful he is. Fortunately there’s the WordPress Stats plugin. This collects traffic information and thereby gives an excellent overview on the development of your own blogs. The advantage here: The data are stored at Wordpress.com. This protecs your own database.
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Plugins – more visitors from Googles, Yigg and Co.
A good blog is worth nothing if it is not found. Therefore, self-employed should attach the importance to the marketing of their own blogs in search engines and social sites. The followig plugins help.
Related Posts
With search engines like Google it is very good if your own blog has many linking within the own sites. Thus the search engine spiders will find each article on your site faster. In addition for visitors the reference to other topic-related contributions is very useful. This plugin links automatically.
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SEO Title Tag
This plugin allows you to create an individual review for each title tag. Google assess a lot of value on these meta tag so you should use this plugin.
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Sociable
More and more visitors reach blogs over social websites lie Yigg.com. To make it easy for your visitors to participate in this social marketing you can use the plugin “Sociable”. Dozens of social services can be selected. The selected services will be automatically shown on a button.
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wpSEO
A comprehensive solution for search engine optimization of your blog is the plugin “wpSEO”. This plugin can optimize various meta tags automatically, e.g. vertain area for Google to highlight.
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Plugins – Earn Money with WordPress
The most important thing at the end. Self employed want to earn money with a blog. There are some useful German plugins, though unfortunately not nearly as many as in the English section.
Adsense Deluxe
You can easily and fast integrate AdSense ads on your blog with this plugin. You should prefer the direct installation of the AdSense code in every case.
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AdSense Earnings of report
This allows you to leave your AdSense revenue directly in the admin area of your blog. This saves the constant calls to the AdSense website.
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WP-Amazon Plugin
This plugin provides a very convenient way to search Amazon products directly in the WordPress admin dashboard and integrate into your own articles.
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Pay me a beer coffee
This is the modern way of begging. Just ask the readers of your blog about a donation via PayPal. Whether you spend this money for a coffee or a beer is up to you.
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Anyone who knows even more useful WordPress plugins for self-employed can post this in the comments.
