I have wrote about many WordPress plugins in the past. Here is one that could help increase your blog’s subscribers. What would Seth Godin do plugin displays a message for first time visitors asking them to subscribe to your blog’s feed (uses cookies).

By default the message shown is "If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!" and disappears after three visits.

I have been using this plugin for the past few days on my hardware review blog. Here’s a screenshot of it in action:

Installation is easy. All you have to do is upload the what_would_seth_godin_do.php file to your plugins folder and activate it. The plugin also allows you to customize the message, its lifespan, and its location.

Download the What would Seth Godin do plugin from here.

Twitter is a great service that most of us use to let our friends and family know what we are doing. But as a blogger you may have also wanted to let your readers  know what you are doing.  I have been displaying my Twitter status on this blog for some time now. It’s a great way to keep readers updated on what we are doing as well as to put up something short that you don’t want to write a post on (like to ask your readers to vote for your blog post on Digg or when you want to share an interesting post on another blog with your readers).

There are many Twitter tools for WordPress blogs, but the one I use is a modified version of twitterRSS that you can download from here (found via Paul’s blog).

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Got Banners is a WordPress Plugin that lets you randomize banners like you see on TechCrunch and John Chow’s blog. Unlike other banner rotators, Got Banners displays all the banners provided simultaneously. But, in a different random order each time.

Got Banners will be very useful for those who sell ads directly to advertisers as it will give all advertisers even exposure. Even if you don’t do direct sales you can still use this plugin to rotate affiliate banners from AdSense, Text Link Ads, Chitika eMiniMalls or any other affiliate program.

You can see this plugin in action on this blog by just refreshing the page (125×125 ads on sidebar). Download Got Banners WordPress Plugin from here

found via JohnChow.com

WP-Sticky is a WordPress Plugin that allows you to put up a post (or posts) before all other posts on your blog’s homepage. The plugin is a modified version of Adhesive which is currently not compatible with the latest version of WordPress.

WP-Sticky is useful when you want to make an announcement on your blog or when you want to make sure that your blog’s visitors see any particular post.

Installation of the plugin is easy, simply upload the folder ’sticky’ to the plugins folder and activate it. Once the installation is over, configure the WP-Sticky options in WP-Admin -> Options -> Sticky. You can find the post’s ‘Sticky‘ Option under ‘Post Sticky Status‘ Options in the ‘Write/Edit Post Screen‘.

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Feed Count is a WordPress Plugin that displays the number of subscribers to your feedburner feed in plain text. The plugin allows you to customize the feed count with CSS and I am sure those who don�t like the feedburner chicklet will like this plugin.

I first wanted to use this plugin but then decided not to when it showed yesterdays feed count when tested with EasyPHP.

Update: There is an ‘Update interval’ option that will update the feed count every 60 minutes.

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One year back I had listed out the best plugins to optimize a WordPress blog for Search Engines, but now I would like to replace three plugins in the list with one new plugin as it does all that they do and much more.

The plugin I would like to recommend is All in One SEO Pack. This plugin optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines by letting you

• define your home page title, description and keywords
• define your post, page, category, archive, tag and search title formats
• use categories for META keywords
• avoid indexing of duplicate content (prevents indexing of category, archive and tag archive pages)
• autogenerate descriptions

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Displaying AdSense or any other Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising programs in your latest posts are not of much use as they are visited mostly by only your regular readers who are mostly adblind, that is they know exactly where your ad is placed and so they will just skip it and read your content.

Hence you may want to display ads on just the older posts as that will make your regular readers happy as well as still make you money as it is the older posts that attract traffic from search engines that are more likely to click your ads.

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This is a guest post by Nirmal from Life Rocks! 2.0 who writes about Technology, Blogging, Internet, Reviews, Tutorials and Tips & Tricks. Don’t forget to Subscribe to his feeds to get all updates.

Improving reader’s experience on our blog is one of the primary things we have to concentrate on. We also do a lot of design modifications so that blog is easily readable, navigational and fast loading. Here are a few tools and plugins which are useful for readers:

1. WP-Email: This Plugin helps readers to share posts on blogs which they liked with their friends or even to their email. The plugin is easy to use and configure. The documentation can be found here.

Download WP-Email

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It’s been a while since I posted here…so I thought of starting by listing the WordPress Plugins I currently use, now that I am back. Below are the WordPress Plugins I currently have activated:

1. Adsense-Deluxe: Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts
2. Akismet: Prevents Spam
3. Chunk Urls for WordPress: shortens urls in comments so that they won’t break your site
4. Feedburner Feed Replacement: Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while letting through some important User-Agents
5. Full Text Feed: Prevents WordPress 2.1+ from adding a more link to your website’s feed

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Buy me a Beer is a WordPress plugin that allows your readers to donate money to you via PayPal. The plugin adds a “Buy Me a Beer” button to the sidebar and at the end of all posts. When your readers click on that button, they are taken to the secure PayPal page from where they can donate money to you.

Why add a “Buy Me a Beer” button instead of a simple “Donate Money” button?

Past experience shows me that asking people to donate money by giving them a specific reason increases donations by 200%!

For people who prefer non-alcoholic drinks, there is a setting to replace the beer mugs with coffee cups.

I currently have this plugin installed and will try it out for about a month to see if it turns out to be a good way to make money online. Ok I am tired and thirsty, how about you buy me that coffee now?