23 How to Install WordPress Plugins

Internet Marketing Strategies

The Survival Skills Blog Project

These next few posts are going to cover the use of  WordPress plugins and how we are going to use them in building our http://survivalskillsandgear.com authority site.  This is a project blog we are working on with the goal of having authority website (in this case a blog) that we can monetize and make some money from.

This is an introduction to WordPress Plugins and it is intended to remind you of the need to stay focused on first setting up and launching the most SEO optimized site possible.  We are concentrating on building out our site.  Everything we do has an incremental value in enhancing the SEO likability of our site.

We are now going to start adding and activating plugins.  The great majority of the plugins we are going to use are free.  I am on a budget too and I am somewhat on the frugal side.

A plugin is a small program written by a third party that can be integrated into an application for increased functionality. In a nutshell: plugins turn your blog from something ordinary into something sophisticated and optimized for maximum traffic.

For our first pass at the plugins we are going to cover the ones listed below.  We cover a second phase of plugins to use later on in our blog development (after we have it up and running for a while).

1. Who Sees Ads
2. Link Cloaking
3. KB Robot Text
4. Google sML Sitemap
5. All in One SEO
6. Contextual Related Posts
7. Subscribe to Comments
8. TinyMCE Advanced
9. WP Database Backup
10. Akismet (previously covered)

Also, keep in mind that we are going to build things incrementally, we just can’t do everything all at one time.  Later, we will add new tactics.

This same process can be used to install other WordPress plugins, and we’ll be listing a few other stand-outs at the end of this lesson.

Login to your admin area of your WordPress blog.  You will see the  Plugins option on the side menu, click on  ‘Add New’.

From here, you can choose to search and install straight from the plugin database or upload a plugin you downloaded yourself:

Finally, once you have a plugin installed, you must activate it to start using it (or deactivate it if you want to stop using it for a time)!

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