Bill McRea

Any blogger who has used WordPress for any length of time has got to be impressed by the staggering selection of Free plugins that are available for their WordPress blog.

The WordPress CMS platform is Free and ever since its introduction in 2003 it has been developed and expanded “by and for the community” because it is an open source project.

Built on a backbone of PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL, WordPress has grown to become the largest self-hosted blogging platform in the world. It’s used by millions of blogs and tens of millions of people each day around the globe.

So, why are there so many plugins given away for free? Well, according to Jun Loayza, of the, ‘Young, Successful Entrepreneur‘ blog, who interviewed six of the top ten WordPress plugin developers, here’s why:

• Most  WP plugin authors are freelancers who create plugins as a hobby because they enjoy the work.

• The top plugin authors generate revenues through advertisements on their blogs and through donations.

• Most plugin authors don’t make more than a couple hundred dollars a week.

Loayza  further surmised that the only viable way to generate a living from developing WordPress plugins is to create an additional business model outside of selling your plugin or asking for donations.

A viable model for a blogger might be to use their WordPress plugin as an ethical bribe to get more subscribers to their opt-in email list. You would simply set up a squeeze page, which is really a mini sales page that lists the plugins benefits and has a subscription box to collect the name and email address of your plugin users.

You can use this list to send training tips for plugin users, announce when you launch new plugins that they might find useful, and promotional offers that would appeal to that particular market.

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1- WP ExitWindow

This plugin grabs the attention of your visitors just as they are ready to exit your blog. It presents them with a new window that can contain your squeeze page, or up to five different sites allowing you to increase your ability to convert traffic and build your opt-in list.

2. All In One SEO

It seems like whenever I see a list of top WordPress plugins, the ‘All In One SEO’ plugin usually makes the list. This must-have plugin gives you control over the title, meta tags and meta description for every blog post. It will also automatically generate descriptions of a post or a page.

3. AutoTagger

This WordPress plugin performs a semantic analysis of your blog post text and then automatically suggests appropriate tags for you.

It works by adding a new “Get Tags” button to your interface, which when you click it, goes and retrieves suggested tags for you. Next, an “Add These Tags” button adds those tags to the post.

4.Cystats

Cystats is a WordPress plugin that has a ton of features, and it’s conveniently integrated right into the WordPress dashboard admin area.

Some of the features include:

1. Bounce rate,
2. Hits, visits for day/week/month/year – human or robots
3. Top referring pages
4. Most read categories and tags
5. Most read, most commented posts
6. Most read feeds, number of feed visits today
7. Internal/external search words

(Plus 8 additional features.)

5. Only Wire Autosubmitter

This handy plugin automatically submits your new posts to 16 social bookmarking websites. It also includes a ‘Reward the Author’ button, and it will remember posts that you have already submitted so they don’t get submitted twice.

6. MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate

This must have plugin for affiliate bloggers automatically inserts affiliate links into your blog using keywords and adding no-follow attribute tags in order to preserve your page rank.

7. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

This plugin keeps your blog from being banned from the ping services for spamming.. It is free, but you must subscribe to the developer’s email list in order to access the download.

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Pro bloggers know that growing your opt-in email list is the fastest way to success online. It’s been estimated that each of your email list subscribers can potentially be worth about $1 per email address per month.

If you have not yet gotten started building your email list, you might be pleased to learn that blogging can be the best way to start, and here’s why. Blogs tend to be very specific by nature. If you have created a blog around a particular industry or niche, then visitors seek out that blog because they are searching for the precise information that they can find there.

Do you see how you have clearly created a community of people with this blog who are interested in the topic that you are writing about? Once you get them to sign up with their name and email address, you can start communicating with them, adding value to their lives and sharing promotional offers that meet the needs of your target market. But now you’ve now assembled a community of potential customers.

Blogging is a great way to start your email list because your subscribers have already had a taste for who you are and what value you bring to the table. An opt-in list built from your blog subscribers will potentially be a more responsive list that will be more likely to remain on your list and take advantage of your offers.

An effective tool for grabbing the attention of your visitors after they have clicked that ‘x’ and are preparing to navigate away from your site is a free, WordPress plugin called, ‘Wp-ExitWindow.’ This plugin allows you to have a higher chance of converting your traffic by presenting them with your squeeze page, affiliate website or another related website. It takes just minutes to install and it only appears once per browser session.

So, now you can grab the attention of your blog visitors as they leave and give them another chance to subscribe to your email list.

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Do you ever get frustrated when you look at Your blog traffic stats and see the bounce rate, which is how long visitors actually stay on your blog before they click away to the next site? You’re learning first hand that the one thing you can count in is that every visitor that comes to your blog will leave.

But what if there was a way that you could grab them on their way out and literally say, “Hang on a second, what about this?” What if you could find a way to profit from all of your ‘exit traffic’?

Well, now there is a way. The free, WordPress plugin called, ‘Wp-ExitWindow,’ allows you to automatically redirect your blog visitors to another web page, an affiliate offer or a specially designed squeeze page.

So, now when your blog visitors have finished looking at your blog and they are clicking out they will be presented with a new exit window.

All you have to do is go to http://wpexitwindow.com and enter your name and email address. You will receive an email with the download information for the plugin along with a link to an instructional video that walks you through the easy installation that only takes minutes.

With this plugin you can rotate between five different offers, which effectively gives you a second chance to grab your visitors attention.

• Send your visitors to a squeeze page offering them a free incentive to subscribe to your opt-in list

• Send traffic to affiliate offers

• Create a link to one of your other websites or blogs that are related to the site they are leaving from.

The free, easy to install, ‘Wp-ExitWindow’ plugin lets you increase your ability to convert the traffic that you worked so hard to get and it allows you to build your opt-in list.

Do you use an exit window pop-up? If so, is it increasing your conversion rate? Talk to me.

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Blogging requires work from researching and writing fresh content, to marketing, commenting on other blogs and managing your subscriber list. But there are lots of free plugins that you can use to help handle some of those essential blog management tasks for you.

There are hundreds of plugins, but these will help you to save time and effort, automatically re-purpose content and generally be more productive in less time.

1. DB Backup

Ever wonder what might happen if you lost your entire WordPress database? Let that sink in for just a second and then download this essential plugin.

2. Sociable

This handy plugin makes you more productive by saving the time you would be spending visiting each of the 99 different social bookmarking sites including StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit to add your URL.

3. WP Greet Box

This cool plugin detects the referring URL of your visitor and displays an appropriate greeting that you can totally customize.

4. Twitter Tools

Giving you more up to the minute, fresh content, Twitter tools pulls in a feed from your twitter posts to create new blog posts with individual posts or daily digests.

5. Smart YouTube

Easily adds youtube videos and playlists into a post, comments and RSS feed.

6. Lifestream

This plugin effortlessly integrates all of your social networking activities from across the web from sites like, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Myspace, Digg and more and feeds them to your blog adding a dynamic, engaging feed of timely content.

7. Subscribe-Remind

This plugin will place a snippet of copy at the end of each post reminding your readers to subscribe to your email newsletter or RSS feed.

Please take a minute to share the WordPress plugin that you wouldn’t be without and how it improves your productivity.

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