Today we’ll cover a very important plugin that you should get immediately if you already haven’t installed it on your WordPress blog.

Ping Optimizer
In fact, if you have been using WordPress for a long time then by now your blog probably has been banned from ping services and you don’t even know it.

Read below to learn how some major flaws in WordPress’s pinging system can get your blog banned and make it lose precious traffic.
Answer these questions:

• Why are blogs more powerful than ordinary websites?
• Why do search engine easily index blogs while other websites struggle to get indexed?
• Why do blogs attract more traffic than ordinary websites?

The answer is the blog’s ability to PING. Its not just a geeky term. Its a lot more powerful tool and process than you have imagined. “Whenever a blog pings, many background processes happen which get your blog quickly indexed by search engines as well as bringing traffic from many other sources.”
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This is just a post against all the hype around weight loss….

Five years ago I was watching a show on CNN.  It was an interview with someone who talked about some things that really got my attention.  He was talking about taking control of your own life and “if you can dream it you can achieve it”.  It was right up my alley.  I did a Google search on this guy and it turned out that he was quite a famous man in the US.  It was Antony Robbins.  After doing a lot of research I decided to attend a live seminar in London. Two months later I was attending his UPW (Unleash The Power Within).  It was a four day seminar lasting 10-12 hours every day but it felt like 3-4.  It was truly a life changing experience to me, and I know that you can achieve what ever you put your mind to.  However, the reason I write this article is that on the last day the seminar was about health.  I heard one of the most powerful statements I have ever heard about health or weight loss ever, and it was like this: “Nothing tastes as good as being healthy feels”.  I remember this statement as it was yesterday and even if it’s a cliché it’s as true as it can be.  Because think about this:  Why do we eat?  What do you feel when you eat something good?  You feel good of course, but for how long? At least not as long as being healthy feels.  The pleasure of food that isn’t good for you last only a fraction of time what the feeling of being healthy does.  It can last a lifetime, a long and healthy lifetime.

So if we take it a step further, what will you be able to do if you on a regularly basis feel great about yourself?  Will you be more creative, attractive, fun, lovable, sexy, outrageous?  Will you have more energy, sleep better, be more present in everyday life?  You bet you will, and you deserve this kind of abundant life and you can have it.  You have the power to live this kind of life within you.  That’s what this seminar was all about.  I have ever since lived more or less after this motto “nothing tastes as good as being healthy feels” and I would like you to do the same.  Weight loss is just a bi-product of being healthy and you deserve to be healthy, in fact it hasn’t any thing to do with weight loss, it’s all about being healthy and enjoy life.

To your continued good health and online success

André & Tom

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 The plugin below is another small but important “must have” plugin in your WordPress plugin arsenal;

Sociable
The Sociable plugin is free, and it enables your readers to share your posts with the rest of the world through sites like Twitter (for Twitter we use the TweetMeMe plugin), Facebook, Delicio, MySpace, Tecnorati, Digg, Reddit etc etc.

The plugin has been downloaded more than 500.000 times, and that should be proof enough that it should be a useful and popular addition to your plugins.  With the growing focus and use of social media throughout the world, make sure to help your readers spread your word via their social media sites.

Features

• The plugin is FREE
• Ability to order the icons with an intuitive drag and drop interface
• Disable/Enable the roll over functionality
• Select which types of pages icons should appear on, such as posts, pages, homepage, etc..
• Switch between icons and text links
• Option to use a pop up (thickbox) to display icons
• Open links in new window option
• Use your own custom icon images

Click HERE for our full list of recommended WordPress plugins and click HERE to download the Sociable plugin.
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To your success
Tom & André

A couple of weeks a go I saw an interview with, as it turned out with quit an interesting man.  He is known for he’s success in the business world, and became the man to made billions in just a few years.  But after just two years he was practically flat broke again.  He lost ALL his fortune being an aggressive stock trader, thinking he knew all the secrets in the financial world.  He is back on he’s feet again doing quit well with a new telecom company (LUDO).

During the interview he was asked: “When you look back in retro, what is your best memories from this period?”  Well it was very nice to have all that money and enjoying the freedom they brought, but the journey to the so-called “success” was far better. And the reason in this:  When I had all the money my life was without any challenges, the juice was gone.  I was bored and it was a completely new experience to me.  I thought the money would make me happy, like most people do, and man was I wrong.  It made me ultimately play hazard with my money, and the rest is history.  How ever the journey to my so-called “success”, is the most rewarding time of my life.  I was challenged all the time. I was constantly learning new things, bringing value to my life, to my family, my friends an co workers.  It is from this period I am able to give back to my kids and hopefully be a good example to other.  Successful people fail, and failure can make you successful.

So success isn’t always what we think it is.  Who haven’t thought that if I had that kind of money, my life would be great?  I know I have.  But the fact is that most success full people say the same thing: The journey to success is often more rewarding than the so-called “success” it selves.  And the reason is this:  We are all driven by the same needs, and two of our fundamental need is to grow and contribute.  And on our journey to success we are constantly learning, and when we learn there are more of us to give.  This gives us a feeling of fulfillment, that our life has purpose and it is one of the most powerful feelings we can generate.  I don’t say that money is a bad thing, on the contrarily money will make our life a lot better.  However we must not lose the sight of the real goal we have:  To live a life with purpose.

Successful people fail, and failure can make you successful.

To your success

André & Tom

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If you live by the philosophy that what ever you do today you will harvest tomorrow, you are a very intelligent person.  Then you also know that what ever you do this week, you will reap next week, and if we bring it up one step: What ever you do in 2010 you will reap for years to come.  This couldn’t be more true for your affiliate marketing business or what ever internet marketing you do, or in any other area in your live for that matter.

In our first year in this business we worked our tails of without to many results (as we could see then), and we used a lot of time and money on education that all said we would succeed quick like: ” make $ 30 000 in your first 30-60 days bla bla bla”.  And we all know this is BS for the majority of the people.  There are a lot of affiliate marketers that makes these amounts and more each month, but in their first two mounts ever in this business? Don’t think so.

How ever, a lot the education we attended back in our first year are paying off big time now, and the reason is one major factor: TIME AND CONSISTENT WORK!  As a matter of fact we are getting a lot of traffic
from things we did in our first year in business, and makes a lot of money from it.  But we didn’t see a dime in our account back then.  The reason is simple:  It takes a long time for your work to be indexed by the search engines, it takes time for your blog to get a decent page rank from Google even if you follow our guidelines in our free e-book : “The Blog Set Up Check List 2.0″.  It takes time before your “killer articles” get a lot of traffic form the different article directories you submit them to etc.  So if you like to be successful in your affiliate marketing/internet marketing business and you don’t have a lot of money to invest in your business but time.  Follow these steps for a least 12 months:

1.  Set up your blog.  This will in time be the “nerve center” in your business for years to come if you follow the steps in our free e-book.

2.  Post regularly on your blog, three times a week is a good start.  When you reach 100 posts you will see traffic you never thought possible.

3.  Submit one article a week to “top ten article directories”.  Submit your original content here, however one article can become 10-20 or more bye using jetspinner.

4.  Set up a blogger blog with two keywords linking back to your “nerve center”, this will simply give you more quality back-links to your main blog (e.g http://freetrafficfromgoogle.blogspot.com)

5. To get some fast traffic, sign up at relevant forums with more than 5000 members and post there 2-3 hours a week without SPAMMING, just leave your link in your signature field (just use forums that allows links in the signature fields) This is another great way to get quality back-links.

6.  When you start to get traffic, and see what works and don’t start escalate with PPC campaigns.

And remember always: What ever you do today, you will harvest tomorrow.  What ever you do this week, you will reap next week.  What ever you in 2010, you will reap for YEARS to come.

To your online success
André & Tom

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