OnlyWire is a website whereby it performed automated submission of your message & web link to social networking sites.

It has 3 categories. Free, Pro & Enterprise.

We will only discuss on free features that are available to users.

You can read about the Pro & Enterprise features at the OnlyWire website. The Pro & Enterprise categories require payment.

If you do blogging or have websites, you will always want to find ways to increase the ranking in Search Engine results.

One of the ways is to have back links from social bookmarking & social network sites. Other methods to have back links are to post articles in ezine directories & to post comments in other blogs.

However to post messages & web links to the social bookmarking & social network sites manually are very tedious & time consuming.

How OnlyWire works

• First you need to create an account in to Only wire

• Sign in to OnlyWire

• Then you start to create accounts in about 40 social bookmarking & social network sites listed in the OnlyWire website. You can create ID in all the sites or selective sites.

• You need to install the OnlyWire software in your PC or Notebook. The OnlyWire Software allows you to manually create the message & web links (blog, website, squeeze page or affiliate links) and publish to all the sites that you have created the IDs

• You can also install the OnlyWire Wordpress plugin to allow your readers to bookmark your articles. This plugin can automate the submission of articles to the social bookmarking & social network sites each time you published your article.

Benefits

It helps to submit to the social bookmarking & social network sites automatically. Thus save you time.

You can go to this website:

http://www.onlywire.com

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I saw only partial of my blog in the preview. The alignment of my article is wrong. The images are missing or misalignment.

I print out my blog article. The result is the same as what I preview.

I always like Wordpress very much. You can almost find any plugin to resolve your blogging problem. So I do a search for Wordpress plugin for printing.

I found a plugin known as “ Print Friendly and PDF”.

Download

• You can download the plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/printfriendly/

• Download the printfriendly.zip file and unzip it.

• Move the printfriendly folder into wp-content/plugins folder .

• Activate the plugin in your WordPress Admin area.

• Select “Settings” to customize button style and placement.

Settings

At Settings, you can select what you like. See Settings below.

Result

This plugin allows the page to be converted to PDF or to print to printer.

At the bottom of each of my blog article you will see “Print PDF“. Click on it if you want to print or have a PDF version of my article.

The output is good. What you see in the blog article is exactly when you convert to PDF or print to printer. There is no missing images or misalignment, no missing text.

Features

• PrintFriendly & PDF optimizes your pages for print.

• Help your readers save paper and ink, plus enjoy your content in printed form.

• Website Name and URL are included to ensure repeat visitors and new visitors when printed versions are shared.

Well, give it a try and see whether it is suitable for you.

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Nowadays more & more blog readers are reading blogs via Iphone.

Therefore as a blog owner we must ensure our blog display properly when view from Iphone.

In order to get the blog properly optimize on Iphone, we need to install an Iphone plugin.

There are quite a number of plugins for Iphone. I decided to install wp-pda plugin.

The reason I choose this plugin is many people have download it.

I have installed this plugin in my blog and I have viewed it from my Iphone.

It looks good to me.

Even though you might not own an Iphone, bear in mind your readers do. Therefore it is recommended to install this plugin.

You can download the plugin from:-

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pda

== Installation ==

1. Copy files to wordpress wp-content/plugins folder.

2. Goto to Plugins page in wordpress and activate the Wordpress PDA plugin.

3. Once the plugin is activated you will not see any menu in the backend.  To see the plugin in action you have to browse your blog using a PDA,IPhone or iPod touch.

Remember to install an Iphone plugin on your blog.

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When a reader has reached your blog, very often they will just read the article that was displayed in front of him/her. Maybe they might browse and read a few more articles below current posting. That’s it. They will leave your blog.

Very rarely will they browse through the archives column to read your older articles.

There is a method whereby

•    Older articles are displayed randomly with the picture of the article displayed

•    No work require from you (This part is what I like!!)

•    It will be displayed at the bottom of every article.

Would you like that? If this interests you, then read on…

There is a wordpress plugin name outbrain.

You need to download the plugin and activate. Just like any other plugin installation

Basically what it does is that it will display some old articles in a few columns (depending on your setting) at the bottom of each posting.

Let’s say you set at 4 columns. It will display 3 columns of your old articles & 1 column of image belonging to advertiser who paid outbrain.

If you post your article with picture, it will display the picture at the column together with posting title. I notice that if you post an article with no picture and later update it with picture. The outbrain plugin will still display words only.

See below example.

People are more attracted to pictures than words. Therefore this method of attracting your reader to read more of your articles is effective. They just need to click on one of the column and it will bring them to that post.

Simple isn’t it?

Below is the plugin download link

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/outbrain/

Also you can go to outbrain web page for more information.

http://www.outbrain.com

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It will display the Like symbol at your blog. You can configure to place it at the top and/or at the bottom of your posting. As for me, I configure for both locations.

If you click on the Like symbol, it will try to detect your Facebook name.

Once it detected it, it will display your Facebook name at the blog.

If you go to your own facebook’s wall(eg http://www.facebook.com/alwinchuah), it will display the blog title and the blog site link.

However I notice it will post the article link to your facebook wall only once. Even though you click a few times on Like symbol or a few days later you try to click the Like symbol on the same article. However if you click Like symbol on a new article from the same blog site, it will publish it on your Facebook’s wall.

Basically what is posted on the Facebook’s wall can be seen by your friends. If they are interested on the topic, they will click on the title. It will then lead them to the blog page.

Increase Traffic

So the best way is once you have posted your article on your blog, click on the Like symbol yourself. It will then display your blog title and link at your Facebook’s wall. Your Facebook’s friends will then be able to click on the link and visit your blog. If they like it, they will click on the Like button, your blog article title will then be displayed in your friends’ Facebook’s wall. If your friend’s friends.click on the title, it will lead them your blog. This is how you get traffic from Facebook.

Download Plugin

You can download the plugin at
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fblikebutton/

Install Plugin

This plugin follows the standard WordPress installation method:

1. Unzip the fblikebutton.zip in your PC.

2. Upload the fblikebutton folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory using ftp.

3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Configure Plugin

At the dashboard, go to Settings->’FBLikeButton’

Modify the fields to your choice and save.

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I hope you like this article.

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As a blogger, beside busy finding articles to write, we also need to take care of our blog site.
There are 2 areas that we need to take care. They are
•    Security
•    Traffic / SEO

I have also provided a link for each plugin that will bring to a review page & also where to download the plugin. All the plugins mentioned are free. However you are most welcome to donate to the plugins creators.
Following are the plugins that I personally used and found to be effective:-

Security

Security Scan

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade

Lockin Lockdown

WP-Spam Free

Traffic / SEO

All in One SEO Pack

Google XML sitemap

SEO Friendly Images

Statpress

Zemanta

Maxblogpress Ping Optimizer

After applying all the above plugins, I found my blog is getting better in terms of traffic & more secure.

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This plugin allows keywords in your articles to be connected to Wikipedia, YouTube, Google Maps, Royalty Free Pictures, music and more from 50+ sources of content with one click.

Apture allows 2 methods to connect to the above resources. One of the methods is hyperlink. When you click on the hyperlink word, it will pop up a small resizable window to the resource that I link it to ( eg wikipedia, YouTube, etc). I like this method best as reader can still continue to read my blog.

You can see how hyperlink works
Click on the word blog. It will display a small window containing information from Wikipedia.

You click on this word Wordpress plugin, a small YouTube video screen appears.

Actually I have link the words to the selected resources.

Another method is known as embedding. It will display a resource fully( eg Wikipedia, YouTube, etc)
I like the hyperlink best as it just create a small window displaying the Wikipedia or Youtube content and the reader can still continue to read your blog. You can resize the window to your liking.

Benefits
• Increased Time On Site. Your readers are going to be engaging with all of the content Apture adds to your blog right on your site.
• Easily create external links increasing your SEO rank in search engines.
• Add Wikipedia, YouTube, Google Maps, Royalty Free Pictures, music and more from 50+ sources of content with one click.
• Its free and easy to install and setup only takes a minute.

Download

You can download the plugin here

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/apture

Steps to install & configure
• Download the Plugin into your PC.
•    Unzip it and upload to your blog’s plugin folder.
•    Go to your blog’s plugin and activate it.

You will see the following after you have activated your plugin

You need to fill up all the requirements as stated below and click on Sign Up.

You can review the settings and click on Continue.

Click on Install Apture Script and you can start to use by clicking Start Using Apture

To learn how to use the Apture better. You can see the Video below:-

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Therefore it is best to have both type of media posted on your blog. .

In a typical way, it will take time & effort in order to search for videos relevant to your blog. After searching, you need to create a post and embed the YouTube code in it.

Now you can do it the easy way. There is a plugin that allows you to display YouTube video thumbnails on your blog at the side column.
The Plugin is known as “YouTube Monetizer”

Features
•    Display YouTube video thumbnails on your blog
•    Monetize the full video display page with AdSense, banners or opt in.
•    Can specify keywords to display only relevant videos related to your blog.
•    Can choose display order
•    Can customize using CSS

Following is the sample YouTube video thumbnails at the side column of my blog. You need to scroll down to see

After you have click on one of the videos, you will see this screen.  
The beauty of this plugin is that it allows you put banners, adsense or opt-in at the top or at the bottom of the video. Hopefully, this way you will earn some money.

Area of Improvement
I hope they would include in the next version, whereby each time I click on the video, it will launch in new tab in Firefox and new window Internet Explorer.

You may download the plugin at
http://www.profitplugs.com/youtube-monetizer-wordpres

Steps to install & configure
• Download the Plugin into your PC.
•    Unzip it and upload to your blog’s plugin folder.
•    Go to your blog’s plugin and activate it.

Configuration

Click on Tools->YouTube Monetizer.

You can then paste your codes for banner, adsense or opt-in at Before Video Code and/or After Video Code
Click on Update settings

Then you need to go to Appearance->Widgets
At the widgets , browse and look for YouTube Monetizer.
Drag the Youtube monetizer widget to whichever column and position you want at the sidebar or side column.

That’s all you need to do. Try and implement it at your blog.

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Very soon you will find that there are some comments that are not related to your postings. Some of these comments are just fill with links, .political or religious statements or foul languages. These are known as comment spam.

As a blogger , we are responsible for what is posted on our blog. Whether it is by ourself or by our blog readers. Therefore for best practice, we must check through the comments before we allow it to be published. If the comment spams are a lot then it become a tedious chore to delete it one by one.

I have found a plugin known as WP-SpamFree that will help to monitor the comments and blocked those comments classify as spam. In this way, I will have minimal number of  comments to check and save my precious time.  I found this plugin is effective and is even better than Akismet ( This is also another plugin to detect comment spam)

Features of the WP-Spam plugin
1. It provides a counter on your dashboard.
2. No need to have CAPTCHA’s challenge installed. Note: Some of the CAPTCHA method which is complex has turn off some readers from posting comment.
3. Includes drop-in spam-free contact form. Easy to use — no configuration necessary.
4. A reliable and effective comment spam detection system.
5. Easy to install & configure.
6. Completely compatible with all cache plugins, including WP Cache and WP Super Cache. Not all anti-spam plugins can say that.
7. The best thing is that this plugin is free. However you are welcome to offer a donation.

Download
You can download the plugin at
http://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/plugins/wp-spamfree

Install & configure
Unzip the plugin and upload to your blog’s plugin folder.
Go to your blog’s plugin and activate it.
Click on Plugin and look for WP-Spamfree.
Click on Activate.
Also you will see Settings.
Click on Settings to configure it or alternatively you can take the default settings.

This is must-have plugin for serious & ambitious blogger.

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Your blog reader just need to click on the Twitter Follow Me badge and it will be taken to your Twitter’s page

Download Plugin
First you need to download Follow Me Plugin into your PC from http://wpburn.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-followme-plugin

Steps to install & configure
Unzip it and upload to your blog’s plugin folder.
Go to your blog’s plugin and activate it.
Click on Settings->Follow Me Settings

Feature of Follow Me plugin:
•    change the color of the badge
•    change the follow me label (Follow me /  Follow us)
•    change the position of the badge (left side or right side and the distance from top)

Following is the screenshot of the Follow Me configuration screen

The best thing is that as you scroll down your blog page, the Twitter Follow Me badge will be continued to be displayed.

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