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I want to get into what I feel are ten essential starter plugins to have on your blog.  Everyone has different needs and wants from their plugins and that is why there are so many, but these are the ten I consider to be the essentials.  So in no particular order here they go.

Akismet: this particular plugin blocks spam that you may be getting when you start to get traffic.

All in one SEO pack: this gives you complete control over the seo of you blog and makes it very easy to understand.

Digg Digg:  this plugin makes it easy for your visitors to digg your content onto Digg.

Tweetmeme: this social media retweet button is going to help your visitors to share your content on twitter.

Onlywire for wordpress: one touch bookmarking plugin to a number of high profile sites.

Disqus comment system: I use this system to handle all my commenting on my blog.

Fast and secure contact form: its a contact form its the form I use in the contact me section.

Google Xml Sitemaps: you need this, it will alert the search engines to come and crawl your site (must have)

My Page Order:  ever have that problem that you cant get your tabs on your site in the order you want them?  This is the answer.  Lets you pick the order in which the pages show up.

WP Greetbox:  greets your quests to your blog from wherever they arrived from and always a little more. Example if you come in from google it will let you subscribe to the RSS feed.

Hope this helps you out in your quest for the ten essential plugins for your blog. Please comment and let me know what plugin or plugins you feel are the gem among jewels in your wordpress back office, and what does it do…?

The MLM Success Secrets shared are basic to new ideas.  You see how I used the keyword in the beginning of the article matching with the title?  You have to sprinkle the keyword or phrase that you are targeting throughout the article.  That will be the first success secret I will share.

Alright, now the first thing you want to do is choose a topic to write about.  If your anything like me when I first got started I just didn’t know what to write about and it seemed that everyone else had great content.  That’s because your looking at everything through the eyes of amazement.  Once those blinders come off and they will.  You will see so much stuff in front of you, you wont know which idea you want to write about.  So you may be asking yourself how do I change my perspective on what I see.  Well here is a major mlm success secret I will share with you.  When it comes to your blog think of yourself as a news reporter for the mlm industry.  If you were on a morning wake up call.  Report what you heard share the information.  If  your using MLSP which everyone should be using (hint, hint) go to the back office and go into the training archive call area watch a webinar and report what you heard!!  If your there you should share for those of us that missed out.  We want to know!!

“Original content is always the best way to go.”

Nothing’s better than original valuable content people will enjoy reading.  Then there is always the remix.  You can get your remix going as long as you make the article yours.  Meaning, interject your personality, writing style, and touch.  Think of it like this.  When there is a  presidential election every T.V station reports on what happened.  CNN doesn’t decide against  saying who won the election because FOX already reported it…  Understand people are coming to YOUR blog because they want to connect with you and get to know who you are through reading your articles.  Be yourself as much as possible so you can show off you uniqueness.  People connect with people not business’s your blog is a great way to build your brand and have people interact with you on your piece of internet real estate!!

Ok so here is where I will put the golden nugget of information the true mlm success secret.  A business partner and great friend of mine were talking about our alexa scores, and what we needed to do to start bringing the score down farther.  The blog my friend was speaking about wasn’t a internet network marketing blog but a blog still the same, (his alexa ranking was dropping faster then your jaw if you would have read the analogy I wanted to put here) and what we figured out is the best thing to do and you will start to see me incorporate this from here on out.  You will want to start engaging your guests to not only leave a comment on the blog, but at the end of the article ask a discussion type question to try to get your visitors to comment chat with one another.  This will up your return traffic as guests begin to interact with each other in conversation!!  Just a thought I wanted to share.  I hope you all got some value out of this post.  Does anyone have any other type of blog traffic generation ideas?  I would love to hear some!