WordPress for Adult Bloggers
I made my first big bucks from the porn industry with my small but faithful collection of adult blogs. I would say that half of this success comes from choosing WordPress as a blogging platform. When I set up multiple domains and I have the choice to choose among several blogging platforms such as Blogger, WordPress and Thumblogger, I always return to this loyal open-source software.
The Hosting Company Matters Too
It also helps that I host dozens of my adult blogs on Dreamhost, who offers one-click WordPress installations. It’s so simple to start a new domain in this way that I haven’t been able to switch to another company to host my adult blogs. Also, what other hosting company allows you to set up a virtually unlimited number of domains on a single account? I’d say that’s perfect for an adult blogger who will operate multiple blogs.
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The Prime Feature of WordPress
What makes WordPress so awesome is its ability to take plugins. You just stick them in and — voila — instant added functionality. For us adult bloggers, these plugins are especially crucial for SEO purposes. They pretty much take care of all the on-site search engine optimization for you. So I just create a folder called “Important WordPress Plugins” on my desktop and unzip the following plugin files into it. And then whenever I start a new blog, I just drag and drop them into the new domain and I can immediately enable them and get rocking with my blogging and traffic generation.
The following is a list of 8 WordPress plugins that I always use with my adult blogs. Download them and keep them organized in a folder as I mentioned above for future drag and drop use.
Duplicate Content Cure
Google nails many blogs for their duplicate content. It’s not your fault if a quarter of your pages end up in Google’s Supplemental Index. That’s just the way blogs were conceived in the beginning. Your content is dispersed across the home page, single posts, category pages, and archives. No wonder Googlebot’s eyes are boggling with all this duplicate content. This plugin solves this problem in a simple way by adding noindex and nofollow meta tags to category and archive pages.
Download the Duplicate Content Cure plugin
SEO Title Tag
Your basic WordPress installation and theme is not search engine optimized for title tags at all. The default title structure may look like this: Blog Name « Post Category « Post Title.
Meanwhile, the optimal way to rank your individual posts in the search engines is to use just the post title itself in the title tag. So this plugin does just that for you, plus you can manually modify title tags for each post or page. This plugin is a must-have for every adult blogger, unless you plan on hacking up the theme yourself.
Download the SEO Title Tag plugin
Adsense Deluxe
No, you cannot place Google Adsense ads on porn websites. So why bother with this plugin?
Contrary to its name, Adsense Deluxe gives you the functionality to easily insert any type of advertisement into your blog template or post. I generally use it to insert ad boxes for adult contextual ads like AVN Ads or Contexaclick into individual posts. This is useful because later when you decide to edit the ad, you can change them all at once using the Adsense Deluxe option menu instead of visiting each of the posts and editing them one-by-one.
Download the Adsense Deluxe plugin
Did You Pass Math?
WordPress is protected from comment spam by its legendary Akismet filter. But sometimes even that lets a few spam comments slip through on a high traffic blog. Just like you soak your condom in spermicide, why not use double protection on your blog? This plugin asks the visitor to do some simple math before they can submit the comment.
Download the Did You Pass Math plugin
Objection Redirection
Here’s another SEO-related plugin. All domains have two instances: a url with a preceding www and another url without. Both point to the same content but they’re still separate entities. Focus all your pagerank to a single instance of your url and avoid duplicate content by doing a 301 redirect.
There are two ways of going about this. You can write the mod-rewrite code for the htaccess file yourself… or you can just download the Objection Redirection plugin which is faster and easier.
Download the Objection Redirection plugin
Related Posts
This plugin serves two useful purposes. First, it spreads the link juice in each individual post to other relevant blog entries. Second, it redirects your visitors to other blog posts that they would want to read.
Download the Related Posts plugin
Feedburner Feedsmith
If you haven’t done so already, sign up with Feedburner. This Google service lets you have complete control over your RSS feed. Not only can you monitor how many people are subscribed to your RSS feed, but you can also offer email subscriptions to your website without the hassle of extra PHP scripts.
What this plugin does it seamlessly integrate the Feedburner version of your RSS feed into your WordPress installation.
Download the Feedburner Feedsmith plugin
WP Cache
This plugin is in preparation for when your server gets hit hard with traffic. WordPress is a PHP script, so your server does some server-side processing every time someone accesses your blog. Now imagine hundreds and thousands of queries coming in at the same time: your web server will get bogged down.
This plugin caches each page of your blog as html to feed to your visitors. And this cache gets refreshed every time you make a change to your blog, so don’t worry about serving up old content by accident.
Download the WP Cache plugin