Hey people,

It has been a while since I last made a post, so I thought I better just let everyone know that I’m still alive.

I also need to give you an update about the report that I’m writing which I talked about at the end of my previous post – How I built my List from 50 to 2000 in around 15 weeks!…

Basically it is taking me longer than I thought to create, I’ve had a busy few weeks with things in real life and I had to put a few things on hold, mainly because we’ve been having work done in our house and had to keep turning the electricity off so the work could be carried out safely… Anyway I’m back on track now and I’ll try and get the report completed as soon as I can.

Okay, so moving on to the main topic of this post…

I’ve recently been using MyBlogLog to drive some targeted traffic.

And in this post I’m going to go over what I have been doing to get this extra traffic. And I will also go over some settings to keep your MyBlogLog profile information secure.

First I’ll go over what I have been doing to get this extra traffic I’ve been getting recently.

MyBlogLog Traffic Generation

Step 1

Add your site to MyBlogLog and add the recent visitors widget

Add your blog to your account, you can do this under the ‘My Sites and Services’ section. It is located on the left on your profile page.

Once you’ve done that, you will be able to add the MyBlogLog widget to your site. If you are adding to a WordPress blog just add a new Text widget to your sidebar, and then paste the MyBlogLog widget code in there.

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I’ve just verified this blog so that it shows a green tick on my MyBlogLog community page. It’s just to prove this blog is owned by me, and if you have a MyBlogLog account it’s something you might as well do.

See screen shot below:

If you are a MyBlogLog member and would like to verify your blog, check out this link for more info – http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/comm_verify.php

I’ll try and make another post tomorrow.

Paul.

Here is the video that I said I would produce in the last post. I finally go to grips with Camtasia Studio, and you know what? It’s really easy to use, after watching the great tutorial videos that camtasia provide for you that is.

So this video basically shows you how to easily search for, and install WordPress plugins from within your WordPress admin control panel. This saves you a lot of fuss and messing about with uploading it to your server with an FTP client (FTP software). I only recently discovered I could install them directly from within the control panel, I had been using FTP to upload each plugin. So as you can imagine that ws a huge waste of my time, so just in case any of you didn’t know about this, I thought I’d make this video to make you aware of this feature.

I hope you enjoyed the video, please let me know what you think as it was my first attempt at this sort of thing.

Which Plugins Do I Have Installed On My Blog?

This is a question I’ve often wondered when looking at other peoples blogs, so I thought why not make a page on my blog listing all the plugins I have installed on MY blog. That way anyone who would like to model their blog on mine can easily do so.

I also thought it’d be a good idea to include a short description of what each plugin does. So that is what I’ve done, you will now find the ‘Blog Plugins‘ tab at the top of the page, underneath the title.

But to save you needing to click away from this post, I might as well include the list here too, so here goes. But you still might want to visit the ‘Blog Plugins‘ tab, depending the date you are reading this. The blog plugins tab will be updated whenever I install a new plugin on my blog, but this post here will not be updated.