5 Essential Tweaks for All New WordPress Blogs

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WordPress is without a doubt one of the most powerful, yet easy to use blogging systems available. Here are a few tweaks I make to all of my new blogs to make WordPress even more powerful.

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The Top Questions on How to Monetize Your Blog or Website, Answered

"What is the number 1 thing I can do to monetize my blog or website?"

Without a doubt the answer to that question is to capture email addresses.

I know, I know. I saw you roll your eyes. You've heard it before and it's nothing new. Right?

But are you doing it? Or, are you still letting 100's of visitors a day walk through the revolving door that is your blog or website never to return?

The truth is that if you have interesting content and something of value to offer your readers then they will want to subscribe to your email list.

The best way to capture emails?

Offer your viewers something of value in exchange for their name and email.

And do it with a pop-up.

Here's a very handy WordPress plug-in that will allow you to easily add all kinds of pop-ups to your site in minutes.

Watch this video to see how it works

With this plugin you can:

• Easily create Wordpress pop-ups using HTML, PHP, Javascript or plain text.
• Control the, size,layout and color scheme of the pop up
• Control the behavior of the pop up by specifying when the pop up will appear.
• If you create niche blogs designed to promote a specific product, then you absolutely need the LightPOP to grab your visitor's attention.

Rick goes into great detail on the subject of email capture and list building in our free eBook and in the Psychology of Email Marketing.

"What is the best blogging software to use?"

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If I had to start over today what type of site would I build?

Hand built websites, page generation systems, blogs, article site deployments - I've built them all. The rules have changed in how search engines look at a web page (search engines don't rank "sites" they rank pages) so marketers have kept working at tools that let us build sites fast and add features that will increase conversions and get search engine traffic. If I had it to do all over again - I would have created an Authority Site:

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