For most passionate bloggers, having a steady stream of regular readers can be a rewarding prospect. But unless your blog has a clear focus from the beginning, you’ll likely find who you are and what you want to say somewhere along the way. At that point, the only way to continue growing is to drop certain readers and focus in on those that fit your new ideal vision. As expanding startups and small businesses know too well, the more targeted you can be, the greater your chances of success. Find your niche, and you’ll have a much easier time writing and marketing your blog to the most relevant readers.

What is niche marketing and how is it different than segmented marketing?

If you’ve ever read an introductory article about marketing, you’re sure to have seen references to segmented markets. This is the concept of narrowing your customers down into distinct lists so that you can better market to them. You might, for example, start with women and then break that category down into women between the ages of 18 and 33 who have a flare for offbeat, vintage lifestyle products.

This is an essential part of all marketing, but it’s not niche marketing. A niche is all about what you can provide for your segmented market. The company ModCloth, for example, has a niche in supplying unique, carefully selected vintage clothing to that segmented market of young women we just discussed.

An independent craft seller on Etsy might also share that same targeted market, but occupy the niche of rustic wedding decorations. A travel company might sell the same market small, individualized tours of regions well off the beaten path.

Okay, got it. But what does finding your niche have to do with growing your blog’s readership?

New businesses and bloggers alike tend to fall into the trap of trying to be everything for everyone and instead being not quite enough for anyone. The goal of niche marketing is to become the go to source for something unique so that you can establish your expertise and build a loyal following. You want people to say, “Oh, you want to know how to do [this specific thing]? You’ve got to check out this blog.”
Of course, you may not know this upfront, and it’s fine to explore a bit at first and refine your focus. But if you ever want to expand, that focus does eventually have to develop. Again, think of this like a business.

Find your one core product, and then build up your offerings from there. You know how Coke became so successful? By selling Coke. Sure, they could have sold dozens of other soda products from the beginning, but then their marketing efforts probably wouldn’t have been concentrated enough to really make their first product work. Find your Coke, and hold off on the Powerade until you’ve already got the soda niche covered.

Tips for getting your blog in front of your desired target market.

1. Determine Who Your Readers Are: All of that said, don’t underestimate the value of determining that target market in the first place. You can’t market to people you don’t identify or understand. Start by making a wish list of ideal readers. What are their demographics? What are they interested in? What kind of information, experiences or knowledge are they missing? You may even want to make a fake Facebook profile for one of your ideal readers so you can really get to know them well.

2. Look at What You’ve Got Now: If you’ve had a blog up and running for a few months already, dig into your current stats using either Google Analytics or those provided on your WordPress dashboard. Specifically, examine what geographic regions your readers are coming from, on what devices they’re consuming your work, what sites and search terms are referring them, and what kind of content they’re engaging with the most. If they’re finding you through Pinterest, pump up your Pinterest boards. If they’re finding you on Facebook, up the wit and frequency of your statuses. If they’re looking for your “tips for crafting chairs by hand,” provide them with more tips.

3. SEO Your Blog Of course, some of what you find will relate to customers you’ve determined are no longer a part of your niche. Ignore their data, focusing instead on the information that does sync with your niche. Further draw your targeted niche readers in by plugging niche terms into the Google Keyword Tool for more search engine optimized terms. Include those terms both throughout the blogposts and in your post categories and tags, though keep it natural rather than keyword-stuffed.

Important factors your site needs to include in order to maintain a loyal readership.

1. Engage Readers With Relevant and Interesting Content: It may sound obvious, but by far the most important thing you can do to both draw and maintain a niche following is to provide a steady diet of relevant and interesting content that readers are organically drawn to comment on and share. We highly suggest developing an editorial calendar to help in planning out regular content and theme days, while also helping you think out ways to vary your content.

Readers will be much more engaged if blogposts are varied with comics, infographics, videos and pretty much anything fun and creative you can dream up. WordPress actually provides a really helpful editorial calendar plugin.

For getting started on videos, we also recommend this YouTube guide, which will help you take advantage of both widely and little known features of the platform.

2. Keep Your Technological House in Order: The only problem with producing rich media is that it may slow down your site, and readers tend to bounce like crazy if they have to wait more than a few seconds for content to load. We highly recommend running your site regularly through a site speed tester to ensure there haven’t been any slowdowns. Sometimes, slow sites can be fixed by upgrading from a free blog to a paid hosting service, while the most media rich sites should consider a content delivery network.

3. Use a Very Specific Style and Voice: If you think running a blog means sticking to a dry, professional voice, then I’m guessing you’ve worked for years in the risk-averse corporate world. As a blogger, you’re an author, and authors make their niches by having distinctive and highly personal voices. Roald Dahl is not J.K. Rowling, and J.K. Rowling is not Stephen King; each have their own targeted markets that they appeal to in their own way.

A great example of this from the blogworld is the blog Hyperbole and a Half. With colorful but pared down art and unique phrasing like, “I want things. I WANT ALL THE THINGS!”, this blog surely does not appeal to everyone. But it does appeal to author Allie’s avid fanbase, something that’s given her a strong online platform and, really, a viable career. Find your voice, find your style, and stick to it without making apologies.

4. Adjust With Your Audience: Yes, I know this sounds like it contradicts what I just said two seconds ago, but having your own voice and style doesn’t mean that you can’t adjust your approaches and content as your audience tells you what they like via comments and analytics. A good example of this is The Oatmeal. The author, Matthew Inman, has a distinct voice and style, but is well known for using SEO tactics to research what his target audience is looking for so he can provide them relevant content. Because, after all, having similar interests doesn’t mean knowing all that every member of a target is looking for without any aid.

The Takeaway

Finding your niche and target audience may take some work, but such is the life of any artist. The key difference here is that in the internet age, you get lots of analytical data to help guide your way. So start experimenting, look at your data and find the readers that are right for you!

Finding More Relevant Readers for Your Blog is a post from: Bit Doze

Spamming:

Spamming can be termed as the abuse of electronic mail system in arbitrarily sending bulk messages. Spams are found over the internet and other media in many forms such as a Usenet newsgroup spam, instant messaging spam, spam in blogs, mobile phone messaging spam, junk fax transmissions, Online classified ads spam, wiki spam, file sharing network spam etc.

The sender of the spam mail has no other cost rather than the management cost occur due to the operating cost of the mailing system. So it is economically feasible to the advertisers as the barrier to enter into the market is very low. Therefore the risk of spamming is increasing day by day. You cannot hold responsible the sender of the mail for this mass mailing system. Spamming simply is a way to advertise continuously a certain thing to somebody who actually do not want the same.

In some places the issue is very sensitive. Big companies such as Google, Yahoo and Myspace are very strict regarding the matter. If you are a continuous spammer that means spams are coming from your IP address on a regular basis then you will be fined for your act and may be banned to use the site for months of period.

If you are dealing with the social site like Myspace or Bebo then be careful while making this type of blunder as they are very sensitive to spam. Many newbies get banned from internet due to this reason.

The WordPress is a very mature, stable and secure software which need to be maintained. As it is widely used by the great mass of users. That is the reason why the efficiency and competence of the software is going down so it is quite essential to protect it from malware, malicious code, scripts virus infection etc.. There is a chance for the website of getting infected is through using an unsecured FTP clinging to the remote server. Insecure connection refers to a connection in public wifi in an airport or hotel, the Starbucks connection etc. where the router is not secured. Your web page will get infected even though your computer is free from virus.

The greatest problem of the current day world The Cyber Criminals are increasing day by day. If you take the example of social networks, you can find at least 67 percent of users of sites having spammed during 2010 in Facebook.

How to Protect WordPress:

After learning all the ways that how a website is getting infected, now we will focus on the ways, how to keep it clean and secured from infection or viruses.

• Timely Reset Your Password: It is quite important to regularly reset your password of WordPress admin, FTP, and web hosting control panel. However it is advisable to reset it once in an every couple of months. Never use a same password for multiple website.Makes sure to use a strong password with numbers and the alphabet along to be on a safer side.

• Update everything: Ensure that your WordPress is updated, along with all plugins and theme as well. Just check to be sure if your theme has an update available when you obtained it from a developer.

• Remove unused and outdated items: Timely removes all times as well as plugins those are not in use or inactive. In addition to that make sure to remove any plugins that haven’t had long update.

• Get rid of WordPress elements: Always use a secure plugin such as Better Word Press Security or Secure WordPress installation. You can also manage your WordPress information version by hiding, removing, or limiting access files.

• Limiting Access to the page: Give access to only those who deserve it. Limit the wasteful access by ignoring a wasteful to visit of the crowd to the web page.

• Setup alerting and monitoring: All the free services will be alerted and monitored especially when your website is down.

• Get Register with Google Webmaster Tools: Google Webmaster has special tool which helps in finding out whether your website is getting infected or not.

• Use security plugin: Install and configure an all-inclusive high level security plugin, such as like Secure WordPress or Better WP Security.

• Setup and test a backup solution: At the end, be ensured that in the event something does happen you must have a disaster recovery backup plan. However You can take the help of a free plugin, web based service to backup your website or premium solution.

Therefore if you closely monitor the things and give a watch to all the aspects of the security measure you will get a good website free from spam script and viruses.

How to Clean Spam Scripts in a WordPress Theme? is a post from: Bit Doze

Currently for WordPress the best plugins that can help you have drag & drop forms are  Formidable Pro and Gravity Forms, both very good plugins with a lot of features and support. They are premium plugins but also you can have a free form plugin  Contact Form 7 if you don’t need an drag and drop and  advanced features.

To be able to see which one is better and can help you decide which one is better I will compare the price, features and add-ons that each of the plugins has:

Price

Let’s start with the price and see which one is cheaper and has more to offer:

Gravity forms have an lower price of 39$ for the single site license and also it is having an business offer of 99$ that can be used on 3 sites and offers you access to the basic add-ons. The problem with Gravity Forms is the fact that in this prices you buy only one year of updates and if you want to have the last updates after one year you will have to extend your license.

With Formidable Pro you have access to a free version that has some basic features to see exactly how is working. The single site price of 47$ is a little higher then the ones of Gravity forms but it will also grant you access to all features and to the 10 add-ons that formidable pro has. In this prices Formidable Pro is offering life time updates and you will not be required to update every year the licence like in the case of Gravity.

Winner: Formidable Pro -From my point of view the clear winner when it comes to the price and what is included is Formidable, the developer licence for unlimited sites is more cheaper and also you will have life time updates.

Add-Ons

Gravity Forms has a lot of support in the WordPress development environment and has a lot of 3rd party add-ons developed by others except the ones you find on the official gravity site.

Gravity has also more add-ons developed on the official site: 14 then formidable pro has 10. The Gravity add-ons can help you build everything that you desire starting with polls, quiz’s or surveys,etc. Both of the plugins have integration with paypal or autoresponders  like mailchimp or aWeber.

The access to all the add-ons on Gravity form is done when you buy the 199$ developer license as for the formidable pro the access is granted starting with the single site license. This is a good advantage that Formidable Pro has to offer.

Winner: Gravity Forms - Because Gravity comes with more add-ones and it has more add-ons that are developed by 3rd parties (more then 10) Gravity is the clear winner here.

 Features

Again when it comes to features Gravity forms has an plus when it comes to multi form pages or ecommerce functions. Also Gravity has an higher number of fields that you can use to build your perfect form.

Formidable Pro has more capabilities when it comes  to custom post types creation and editing by users.

Winner: Depends on the needs to you have, if you need more custom fields and multi page forms then you will better stick with Gravity Form, if you need to build forms for custom post types that user can edit them easily then you would better choose the Formidable Pro.

Conclusions

They are the Best WordPress Forms plugins from the market and both have great futures and a lot of functionalityes. Depending of what exactly you need you can have one of them. Gravity Forms comes with a lot of add-ons, developers support, more custom fields types and multi page forms but it has an higher price when it comes to the developer licence and the 1 year update period.On the other hand Formidable Pro has a more cheaper price for the developer licence and the updates are for life. Also building custom post types forms and chart display is a plus that Gravity doesn’t has.

It’s hard to say if there is a clear winner here, only you can know depending on the needs you have.

Gravity Forms Vs Formidable Pro – Best WordPress Forms Plugins Compared is a post from: Bit Doze

As we all know, guest posting can really help us promote a blog, get much traffic and attract new visitors; so, many bloggers don’t miss such an opportunity. Moreover, the majority of blogs give such a change. Why not indeed? But it often happens that your guest post is appeared to be rejected by blog managers, though you follow all the requirements and try to make it really unique and interesting…

 Why does it happen so? Are all those blog managers so cruel and exacting? Why don’t they want to post your article if they accept guest posts anyway? Believe us, they receive hundreds of guest posts for reviewing every day, and it can really be frustrating to read all of them if they don’t meet their expectations at all. So, how to make them notice your post and accept it for publishing? Just try to avoid the following 5 mistakes, and your chances to get published will definitely be increased!

 As you know, guest blogging consists of 2 main stages: pitching and writing.

Pitch

Your first victory will take place when your pitch will be approved by a blog manager, so, there are 3 main mistakes you can make here:

1. You choose the wrong blog

Sure, your goal is to publish as many articles as possible, and use many different blogs for that. Anyway, no logic can be found if you take an article about cooking and try to post it at a technology blog. Well, you may try of course, but the big chances are that such a guest post will be declined at once. Do you need that?

The best (and probably the most obvious) advice here can be the following: focus on your niche. If your blog is about techs, just try to choose other tech blogs or blogs of a very close niche, and offer them your guest posts.

2. You don’t introduce yourself to blog managers

We bet you won’t like the situation when someone send you a post at once without saying hello and telling about himself. Why should a blog manager accept such an impolite request? Just tell a couple of words about yourself, offer some possible topics for your future guest post, mention why you want to see your article published there. Just stay polite.

3. You are not competent

When you write a request for your guest article, it can tell a lot to blog managers as well. Pay attention to your grammar, build your sentences right, be sincere… Your request will show a blog owner what and HOW you would write your guest post. So, there is no need to ignore this stage.

Write

Well, your request has been accepted and approved! Congratulations! It’s time to write a guest post itself. Two more fatal mistakes can wait for you here:

1. You don’t follow guidelines

All blogs managers, if they accept guest posts, have their own guidelines of what this post should look like (number of words, structure, images, links as so one). Sometimes it happens that you don’t read them or just don’t pay attention to them in a hope that everything will work out anyway. This is your fatal mistake!

Guidelines are given not just for blog managers’ pleasure, so don’t ignore them if you want to see your article published.

2. Your content is poor, and your links are inappropriate

Some bloggers allow you to add external links to the body of your articles. This is your good chance to promote your other posts and your blog, but make sure that these links lead to appropriate sources that meet the topic of your article itself. If you write a post about the latest concept gadgets, but your link leads to a website about cooking, forget all your dreams to see this article published!

The same can be said about your content. Even if your article is well-structured, you use images and subtitles to make it more readable, your content is still the king. So, try to make your guest post really informative for blog managers to find it useful and interesting for their audience.

Happy blogging!

Top 5 Fatal Mistakes Of Your Guest Blogging is a post from: Bit Doze

Shopping cart occupies the hot seat of any business as it is the place where customers buy their products. Your entire business campaign rests heavily on the shopping cart designing as it measures the sales rate of your business. While a perfectly designed shopping cart is able to fetch high sales rate, a poorly designed cart could easily drag down the performance of your business. As it is apparent that shopping cart decides the success or failure of your business, it is necessary to realize the underlying problems of shopping cart designing to afford a comfortable stress-free shopping experience to your visitors. Well, this article is all about different kinds of shopping cart issues and how to fix them effectively for better performance of your website.

Stats discover that 65 out of 100 people abandon carts due to various shopping cart issues. As an online entrepreneur you have to closely monitor the customer movements and purchase rate to identify why customers leave the cart before completing their checkout process. Here, I put forth the reasons of abandonment and Magento extensions available in the market to fix them.

Website too slow:

It is reported that nearly 7–8% of customers abandon cart due to slow performance of your website. Well, this may arise due to various reasons. However, most of the times, overloading of images and extensions are the prime reasons. A simple yet effective way to revert the abandon rate to success rate is by installing Ajax Cart Pro extension. This fantastic extension has the ability to speed up the page loads and offers speedy access to customers.

Ajax Cart Pro Features: 

• Easy to add products
• No page reloading while adding products
• Futuristic design
• Multi-language supported

More Info: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/easy-ajax-cart-8570.html

Clumsy checkout process:

Keeping the checkout process simple, plain and straightforward is the best way to earn customers. Most times cumbersome checkout process is found to the reason for shopping cart abandonment and it is proved that more than 11% customers abandon carts due to this. Best extension highly capable of transforming the clumsy checkout process to a simple and easy one is One Step Checkout. It is cost-effective and pretty easy to set up as well.

One Step Checkout Features:

• Simple checkout process
• Better customer experience
• Auto updates
• Multiple registration options

More Info: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/apptha-one-step-checkout.html

No clear product information:

Of course, more than 22% of customers have discarded shopping due to inappropriate product information. Also, most shopping carts don’t provide customers with product search facilities which act as a barrier for customers while searching a product. On providing relevant product information and making the product easily accessible and visible to clients, you could easily convert the rate of discard to successful purchase. A best extension that could be super handy at circumstances like this is CueBlocks Zoom. As the name suggests it allows users to zoom in the products and presents a clear visibility of products for picking the best product of their choice.

CueBlocks Zoom Features:

• Replaces default zoom option
• Displays magnified products images on mouse-over
• 5 minutes installation

More Info: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/cueblocks-zoom.html

No recommended or most viewed products:

Generally, people have the ability to listen and believe what other customers have to say. If your website doesn’t come up with these features, you will eventually lose more than 15–20% of customers every day. In order to convert those users that leave your cart because of the above-said issue, it is better to include most viewed and recommended products with the help of an extension. An extension that best fits your requirement is MostViewed. As it is coded with automatic generation of most viewed lists, it reduces your business burden to a great extent.

Most Viewed Features:

• Enterprise edition
• Code optimized
• Displays most viewed products

More Info: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/mostviewed-module.html

No social media login allowed:

Given the current trend and social media’s dominance, if your site doesn’t promise this facility, obviously your business will be buried in no time. Time is precious and customers love to spend less to very less time when purchasing. So, it is in your hands to minimize their time of purchase to make them revisit your site again. With the help of Social Login extension, the process of registering in your website is ruled out and it saves a great deal of time for customers, which delights them. Nearly 10% of customers leave carts without purchasing due to the unavailability of social login option.

Social Login Features:

• Simple user registration and login
• Use social accounts to login
• Personalize user experience

More Info:http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/social-login-4742.html

Long checkout process:

The long your checkout page the less your conversion rate! It is very true. Customers are so impatient that they won’t wait for a long time form filling process to complete their purchases. They will opt for website that offers simple checkout process to make it easier for them. So, in order to condense the 6 or 7 page checkout process to one page, implement the extension GoMage LightCheckout. By doing so, you guarantee your business a boost in sales by approximately 12%.

GoMage LightCheckout Features:

• Single page checkout
• Manage delivery date and time
• Allows to enable/disable fields
• Allows field sorting

More Info: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/gomage-lightcheckout-v-2-4.html

I have just named a few benefits of the Magento extensions for the shopping cart issues discussed here. In fact, these extensions come up with more impressive features than the ones discussed here. I hope the problems discussed in this article and solutions provided are quite useful to many.
Author Bio:
This article is contributed by Krish Kash, content expert providing technology solutions on Magento Hotel Resevation Script. His other areas of interest include SEO, SMO. Follow him via Twitter, Google+ for above-mentioned technology-related issues and solutions.

Magento Extensions for Stress-free Shopping Cart Experience is a post from: Bit Doze

Another month has past and again come the time to see the stats of the previous month and the plan for the future. This month I hadn’t the time to do a lot because currently I am building a couple of ecommerce sites with an partner of mine to increase my revenue and see how is going. I have only build a site until now and another 3 will follow.

I have just entered in a 3 weeks holiday to have more time to build the sites and promote them and to take care more of the sites that I currently own. Also this month I will have the weeding, so this month it will be a full one . Let’s start with the stats and see what happened this month with the stats and the earnings.

Traffic Stats

I still have to work more on bitdoze.com so I can touch the 10.000 mark monthly unique visitors but I hope that in the next two months I will be able to pas it, below are last month visitors:

• Posts: 9 (-6)
• Site Visitors: 8,472 (-247)
• Page Visits: 11,229 (-769)
• Search Engines Visitors: 6,599 (-14)

Because I didn’t had to work to much on this site the traffic has decreased a little instead to increase, the decrease is not that high and I hope that this month I will do better and pass the 9.000 mark.

Below is a picture with the traffic:

Top Articles on Bitdoze:

 Income Report

• SiteMile: 151 $
• Amazon Affiliate: 201,14$
• Amazon KDP: 4,14 $
• Templatic: 58,50 $
• Appthemes: 123,93$
• ThemeForest: 143,70$
• E-Junkie: 63,58$
• theleadingarticles: 3$
• BudgetVM: 7,5 $
• Adsense: 17$
• Clickbank: 21.24$
•  Formidablepro: 14,10$
• Total: 808,83 $ (+127$)

Although the traffic decreased the amount of money that I have made online last month is very good, this is my biggest earning month so far. I hope next month it will be around this sum also.

Bitdoze.com Stats & Income Report: April 2013 is a post from: Bit Doze

Having good tools that can easy your work and be more productive is very important if you want to have success online. In this articles I would like to present you some of the top tool that can help you with your SEO and keyword researches. A lot of tools have been developed lately and can be difficult to choose a good one.

Keyword Research Tools

Good keyword tools are mandatory tools to be used if you want to find the perfect keywords to rank with the keywords that doesn’t have a high competition but a high number of searches. Below are some of the tools that can help you do a good keyword research and help you choose the perfect keyword.

1.  Google Keyword Tool

This is the Google free tool that will help you to check the keyword number of searches per month, cost per click and keyword suggestions. This is an easy tool to be used that provides some basic information’s that can help you find a good keyword for your article.

2. Market Samurai

Market samurai is the most known keyword research tool over the internet, it provides advanced reports with a lot of keyword suggestions  with traffic potential, concurrence, cost per click for the keywords and an analyse of the concurrence and backlinks that they have. The results can be filtered as you like so you can have even better reports.  This is the most complete tool but lately it was updated quite often and it started to work quite hard. The price is around 100$ if you buy it in the starting days of the  free trial.

3. Long Tail Pro

A quite new tool to the keyword research market, the tool has been developed by an expert in the keyword research which is making an important amount of money from niche site. What is really great for this tool is the fact that you can make an report with the related keywords for more different keywords in the same time. It will help you with the concurrence analyse and so on. You can have a free 10 days trial to see out more.

4. Traffic Travis

Traffic Travis is another great tool that can help you with your keyword analyse, it comes with more features then all of the above. With the help of this tool you can generate a report with suggested keywords, monthly searches, PPC and concurrence. The tool has an accessible price giving the fact that you will have more features that can help you. Check the review for more details.

This are some of the keywords tools that I recommend and for sure some of them if you give them a try will help you a lot.

SEO Tools

Help is always good and when it comes to SEO all the help that you can get it will get you closer to success. Good SEO tools will help you analyze your competitor websites in terms of backlinks, it will help you make a detailed audit report of the site and with the problems found on every page, etc. Below I will put two SEO tools that can help you do better with your SEO.

1. SEO PowerSuite

SEO Powersuite is an complete tool that will help you a lot with your SEO, it comes with 4 different tools that will help with your SEO strategies, it can make an audit of your site and also brand it. In short the functionalists are: keyword rankings tracking, backlink analyse and competitor analyze, SEO audit report and it can help you find link partners. Here is a more detailed review with SEO PowerSuite.

2. Traffic Travis

Traffic Travis again, as told before this tool has a lot of great functionality and it can help you with the SEO by analyzing you pages and make reconciliations, it can help you with the backlink analyze and it can help you with finding link sources. Traffic Travis is not that pro as the SEO PowerSuite but it comes with a lower price and for starters it can have all what is needed. Check the review for more details.

Conclusions

This are the recommended SEO and keyword research tools that you can use to be more successful online and earn more money. From my point of view they are mandatory to have (not all of them, the ones you like) and use if you want to accomplish something. If you know and use other that are also good please leave an comment so other can know.

Top Online Tools for SEO and Keyword Research is a post from: Bit Doze

Having pools in different articles is very good to keep the engagement of your visitors and also have a feedback from them to better see some of the stuffs that you are interested on.

With WordPress adding an poll is very easy and it become more easy with the add-on the Gravity Forms has. Gravity Forms it is one of the best forms plugin over the internet and it comes with great features. With the developer licence of Gravity Forms you will be able to also add the polls in your WordPress posts.

Below is an short tutorial of exactly you can do it.

Creating the Poll

From your WordPress admin interface go to Forms > Add-ons and install the Polls Add-on and activate it. Once activated, you can go ahead and start building your form for the poll.

The second step will be to create a new form and set up all your basic settings (form title, etc.). Then you will need to go to Advanced Fields > Poll to add a new field. From there, you can form your question, using either radio buttons, checkboxes or a dropdown to allow users to select their response.

After including all the form questions you can go ahead to publish the form and displaying it on your WordPress site.

Displaying The Poll

The poll is displayed with the help of an short code where you have to insert the form id, name and the action=”polls” like in the below example:

[gravityform id="4" name="WordPress version poll" ajax="true" action="polls"]

The result it will be a nice looking poll like in the below picture:

Gravity Forms is great WordPress plugin that will help you to do a lot of interesting stuffs on your blog, to find out all the add-ons that it has and all the future visit  Gravity Forms site.

GET AN 25% DISCOUNT WITH CODE: WPBEGINNER TO DEVELOPER VERSION

How To Add A Poll to WordPress With Gravity Forms is a post from: Bit Doze

Affiliate marketing can bring a blogger a lot of money and it will be a shame not to take advantage of this. Affiliate WordPress plugins are very useful to hide the affiliate link to the product and your visitor to not see the link to have more trust in the product that you are promoting on your site or blog. An affiliate plugin is more then this and also it can help you to keep the track to the clinks that a link has or offer statistics that you can use to see exactly what is happening with your affiliate links.

In this article I would like to present you a great affiliate plugin that can help you with all of the above at a reasonable price and without to slow the speed of your WordPress site, in this article I will do an review to  Thirsty Affiliates the plugin that can help you achieve greatness in affiliate marketing.

Below is a short review of the Thirsty Affiliates plugin to see what it can do exactly for you and how it can help you achieve the most with your internet marketing strategies.

Thirsty Affiliates Interface and Features

The interface is simple and very easy to use, just see the below picture:

As you can see in the above picture Thirsty Affiliates has an link categorization to better group your links for an better use. Also you can see that it comes with an statistic add-on that can help you to understand how many clicks an affiliate link had.

Thirsty Affiliate Settings

In the settings area you have the options to make the links nofollow, open in a new window and choose the link prefix that you want to use for your affiliate links. The settings are pretty straight forward and has all the features that you need.

Add a New Link

Adding a new link is very easy and you have just to follow the below image:

Thirsty Affiliate Statistics

With the statistic feature you can see exactly an graph of how an link or an category is doing over time. The graph is very nice and is looking very good. With the help of the graph you can see over tine how your link are doing. Check the below picture to find out how exactly the statistics are looking:

Add Links In the Articles

Adding links to an article is very easy you just have to select the word that you want to be an affiliate and choose from the toolbar the Thirsty Affiliates icon and an popup will appear that will help you chose the link that you need. Check the below picture to see the pop-up:

Conclusions

Thirsty Affiliates has all the features that you need from an WordPress affiliate plugin. The most important thing that I find important to this plugin is the fact that is fast and it doesn’t have an unnecessary load to your WordPress installation to slow down your site.

What other plugins has as an extra feature is the fact of the auto linking features to the keyword that you choose, this extra feature usually comes with a cost and it loads your site a lot unnecessary. The best thing from my point of view is to add the links directly to the keywords that you want for a better performance.

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Author Bio:

This article is written by Krish Kash, and he is a Marketing Manager and technology blogger specializing in Airbnb Script and mobile app development.

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