WordPress is an easy to use CMS especially for the non techies. You can almost find a plugin for all your work.

The steps involved in making your blog comment links into “do follow” links using a WordPress plugin are as follows.

1. Install a do follow plugin such as Semilogic dofollow plugin. I have already written a post on how to install a wordpress plugin which will be useful if you want to know how to install the dofollow plugin.

2. Activate the dofollow plugin and you are done.

3. Now all your blog comment links will turn “do follow” i.e the search engines will follow those links and give them some link juice.

Alternatively you can also edit the comment template php code. By removing the “no follow” attribute you can get the same effect such as using a dofollow plugin. But then you will have to do it everytime you update the wordpress version.  Dofollow plugin makes life easy from that perspective.

Lazy Domaining is a now a “do follow” blog. Anyone who makes or/and have already made quality comments will be rewarded with some link juice. Hope it helps.

WP Auctions is a plugin which allows you to run auctions at your wordpress blogs. You can simply drag drop this WP Auctions widget in the sidebar and you are ready to run auctions. You can also embed this plugin in your post but i haven’t tried it yet.

I have added the WP Auctions plugin on the top of the middle side bar.

I am using the free version of this plugin and there is a gold version(which you will have to buy for a few bucks) where you will get more options to configure the plugin and more themes to alter the look & feel of it.

You have bought a website or a template which is monetized using Google Adsense Ads. The first step for you is to change the Google Adsense Publisher Id and upload the site making sure the earnings go to your Google Adsense Account. But changing adsense publisher id alone won’t work and your ads won’t get displayed. This is because in addition to the Google Adsense Publisher Id, Google also requires something called google_ad_slot.

Before going further lets take a look at the Google’s new adsense code.

You will notice Google has introduced the google_ad_slot which says what colors, fonts, ads type will be chosen while displaying the Google Adsense Ads. In the Google’s old adsense code these attributes will be there in the code itself as shown below.

So now you can see the way Google Adsense Ads are working. In addition to changing the Google Adsense Publisher Id you will also need to know the google_ad_slot which is a unique number which will be generated by Google when you create the ads inside your Google Adsense account.

The advantage of google_ad_slot is that you don’t have to go and change the adsense codes in each of your website pages for chaning the color, type etc of the ads. You can simply change these things in your Adsense account and the changes will be reflected in all the website pages which are using these adsense codes.

WP Contact Form Plugin is a very useful plugin to set up a contact page so that visitors can easily send an email through this page.

1. Download the zipped copy of WP Contact Form Plugin and unzip it.

2. Upload the unzipped copy into your /public_html/wp-content/plugins folder using the ftp client. I use FileZilla as my ftp client.

3. Login to the Admin area of your wordpress blog and go to “Plugins” option. There you can see the newly updated “Contact Form 7” plugin. Activate the plugin.

4. Go to “Contact” -> “Edit” which you can find just below the “Settings”. There you can set the target email id through which your visitors should contact you.

5. Now you can make a Contact Form Post, Page or Text Widget. I will explain for the Contact Form Page. Add a new page and copy the code as shown in the below picture

into the page’s content area. Make sure you turn off the comments option for this page. Add a link to this “Contact Page” and you are done.

WP-PageNavi plugin helps to get a better page navigation compared with the default “Older Entries” & “Newer Entries” page navigation. Once this plugin is installed you can jump to any page directly instead of going one by one as shown below.

1. Download the zip copy of the WP-PageNavi 2.5 plugin and unzip it.

2. Upload the unzipped copy into your /public_html/wp-content/plugins folder using the ftp client. I use FileZilla as my ftp client.

3. Now login to the Admin area of your wordpress blog and go to “Plugins” option. There you can see the newly updated “WP-PageNavi” plugin. Activate the plugin.

4. The last and most critical step is connecting your blog to the WP-PageNavi plugin. In the default wordpress theme check for the file index.php. Remove the two lines

and replace it by the following line

and you are done with the plugin installation.

5. Go to your site and you will see the new page navigation buttons right at the bottom of your blog’s main page similar to the one you see in LazyDomaining.com.

The following steps will guide you through the process

1. Create a Google Analytics account
Create an account with google for using Google Analytics which is pretty straight forward.

2. Add the website
Inside your google analytics account, add a new profile for one of your website which you are interested in. Now you will end up with a stage where google gives a chunk of code which it asks you to embed in each of your webpage’s code. Don’t worry about it as we have a wordpress plugin which takes care of this. Just note down the google analytics id which will be something like UA-XXXXXXX-X from the code.

3. Install the Google Analytics plugin
Now download the WordPress Pluggin and upload to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.

4. Activate the Google Analytics plugin
Login to the admin area(wordpress) of your website and check the list of plugins where you can see the new google analytics plugin which you just uploaded. Activate the plugin and you can see the “Settings” option under this plugin name. Go to settings option and the first setting is “Analytics Account ID” where you will have to enter the google analytics id which you have noted down at the end of step 2. Click “Update Settings” and you are done adding google analytics to your wordpress blog or website.

5. Make sure everything is fine
Just to cross check, go to your google analytics account and check for the “Status” column of this website where you should see the “Status” as “Tracking Installed”.

The above steps are for wordpress 2.8. It should be pretty much the same for other versions as well.