How To Make R1000 a Day In South Africa Online

WordPress, once again makes this task far easier than with conventional websites or free blogging platforms.

For example, once your blog has been optimized correctly, it will perform these web traffic optimization tasks for you;

• Automatically Produce Search Friendly URL’s 
  
  The first thing you need to do with your blog is going to Settings and then select Permalinks.

  Then select “Custom Structure” & insert something like “/%postname%/” or “/%category%/%postname%/” into the box & then save changes.

  This will ensure that each post will have a search engine friendly URL to do with your post title rather than having an SEO unfriendly auto-generated URL like “http://www.yoursite.com/indexpage51?

  WordPress also provides you with the option of inserting a topic or keyword phrase of your choice into your URL.

  So by setting up your permalinks as above, by default, your post title becomes your post slug.

  But you can alter that from the post slug tab on the right-hand side column which provides you with the opportunity to come up with possibly a better, keyword-rich title which helps in your SEO efforts.

• Automatically Ping a List of Blog Directories 
  
  Another useful feature that comes with WordPress.

  Your blog can be set up to automatically ping a large list of blog directories each time you publish a new post.

  This is an important part of attracting as much targeted traffic as possible & getting backlinks to your blog.

  To set up this useful WordPress function just go to “Settings” -> “Writing” & then under “Update Services” paste this list of blog directories for starters:

  • http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
  • http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2/
  • http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
  • http://ping.feedburner.com
  • http://www.bloglines.com/ping
  • http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

  & then click “Save Changes” – this list will be pinged automatically every time your blog is updated.

• Automatic Site Map Generator 
  
  Install either the Yoast SEO or RankMath PlugIn.

  With either of these Plugins, not only will your Site Map automatically be updated, but it’ll also be updated every time you create a new post or just make a change.

• AddThis Social Media Sharing & Bookmarking Feature 
  
  This AddThis WordPress Plug is once again very easy to install & configure and allows your users to promote your content by sharing to 295 of the most popular social networking and bookmarking sites (like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram).

   

• Feedburner PlugIn 
  
  This Feedburner Plugin is a must that will redirect the main feed, & optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com, seamlessly without the need to modify templates, set up new hidden feeds, modify .htaccess files, or asking users to migrate to a new feed.

   

• Make Your Blog Visible 
  
  If you neglect this step all your SEO efforts could come to naught.

  So “Settings” -> “Privacy” & then select the “I would like my site to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Bing, Technorati) and archivers” option so your blog will be spidered & indexed by all of the major search engines.

  If you do not perform this step your site will not be visible & will not rank in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).

There are many, many more WordPress Plugins that you may find useful in optimizing your blog & structuring it to not only look professional but function effectively & automatically.

By the way, all of the WordPress Plugins mentioned above are totally free – gratis.