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  1. A very nice list PotPieGirl! I didn’t know the URL Cloaking and Privacy policy plugin Exist! Thanks to you, I’m using those plugin now, hee hee…

    Anyway, I see that you make lots of Niche site..How about your squidoo? What is more profitable: setting up lots of self hosted wordpress or create lots of quality Squidoo page?

  2. This looks really good and I’m teetering on the brink of doing all of this. I REALLY want an online business – it’d be great for me as a semi-retired person. Getting serious is the scary part.

    By the way, is there a list somewhere of your 35 niche sites?

  3. Hi Jennifer,

    Hope you’re feeling better!

    Thanks for the heads-up on the Privacy Policy and Alinks plug-ins. I’ll be checking them out tomorrow.

    Act on your dream!

    JD

  4. Hey PotPieGirl,
    WOW I am really impressed. I thought I knew all the “must have” wordpress plugins. You surprised me!! You listed a couple I had never heard of. I always wondered how you did the redirected links. Good to know.
    I’m going to run out right now and grab those plugins for my new niche sites!

  5. Hi PotPieGirl,

    Just a few things on this great article I wanted to add.

    You do not need the XML sitemap if you are only using WordPress and do not have any unlinked pages that you want indexed. Why do you not need an XML sitemap?

    Because you already have one, your RSS feed. Just add the feed as your sitemap in Google Webmaster tools. Don’t worry that you create pages with WordPress, if you embed links to them on you pages, Google indexes them.

    Next, do not create a bunch of links in your sidebar that hurt your PageRank juice. Most of the links there do not need to be there. Like the admin links, the default Blogroll,
    the XHTML validator links, ect. These all create outgoing links that take away from the Google link juice that you want to reserve for links in you target market. If you want to leave them at least insert rel=”nofollow” in the link.

    In the same train of thought do not use a social site plugins that do not use nofollow. There is no reason to link to Digg, Delicious ect. again and again from every post. You are just wasting the link juice you have to give to your own internal site links and the sites you do want to link to.

    Use Andy Beards hacked version of http://andybeard.eu/wordpress-plugin-hacks/ of the Social plugin, it uses nofollow in the links.

    This also goes for MyBlogLog, the FeedJit widget, Digg badges, Sphinn badges, your outgoing link to FeedBurner in the form, the golf simualtor link and other junk that gives away your outgoing link juice for no reason. Wouldn’t you rather save all this outgoing link juice and pass it on to you own internal pages and your own other sites, squidoo lenses ect?

    Also embedding you email link in pages is just going to get you crapload of spam. I use this JavaScript obfuscater, it;s free and can’t be broken.

    http://www.iconico.com/emailProtector/

    Just remembered I had not signed up to your newsletter, so I added myself.

    Talk to you soon, Chris Lang

  6. Just installed the privacy Policy plugin.

    I am trying to find a link the the aLinks plugin but can’t find a working one.

    The link in the returns 404.

    Please write a working download link

  7. Thanks, always looking for more good plug ins, I have SEO but adman..that is a new one for me

    It is after midnight, I have been on your site for about 2 1/2 hrs now..need sleep

    MMMommas last blog post..a new post

  8. hi..

    i try to use alinks plugin and link cloaking plugin for my review site.alinks work well but i have problem with link cloaking plugin.the cloacking works but when i click at the links, it didnt redirect to the real links.any idea?i use wordpress 2.7

    cyberflys last blog post..Shinjiru

  9. I am so happy to find this post! Thanks for the great list of WordPress plugins. Best of all, they’re all free 🙂

    As for WordPress Goldmine, I’m not sure if I should buy it. God knows I’ve got enough “make money online” Ebooks/courses in my hard drive already, LOL!

    Thanks again!

  10. You are headed in the right direction. Thanks for the information.

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