Wordpress is a totally free and fully customizable content management system. Many internet marketers don’t think about using Wordpress because it has been billed as a content management system for bloggers. Well… Wordpress has now been shown, more than enough, that it’s a great marketing platform certainly good enough for anyone to use. You can take the basic Wordpress blog and add whatever amount of customization you desire. Through widgets and plug-ins you can fully customize your site to be whatever you want it to be. You can do a whole lot more with Wordpress than just blogging about your summer vacation, or whatever. Next up – some plugins that internet marketers have discovered to be helpful in their business.
Social bookmarking is important and huge right now, so you can easily do that with ShareThis. A link box is installed at the end/bottom of your posts/pages. Readers can submit your site to networking/bookmarking sites of their choice using ShareThis. They can submit to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Digg, or even IM such as AOL. This encourages site visitors to tell others about what they have found on your site! Here’s a great plugin for affiliate marketers – the GoCodes Wordpress. Everyone hates how affiliate referral URLs look, so GoCodes shortens them, cleans them up, and you can have control over how their used. Look at how Backlink Index Express does it. This is great for hiding affiliate codes in your links, which can lead to far more commissions. The people who shop online anymore are pretty savvy about things. They can tell what coded urls for affiliates are like, and for whatever reason they sometimes delete or bypass them. Well, GoCodes puts an end to that nonsense.
SMS Text Message is really cool plugin that can keep your website subscribers informed of any updates with a text message. It’ll install a form for people to optin to receive your messages. If a user wants to receive text message updates from you they simply put their ten digit phone number into the opt-in form and then, whenever you update your site they will receive a text message from your site! This is a fantastic approach to keeping in touch with subscribers, and they’ll always know when there’s an update. But we feel we have to warn you that this could take time to do because people may not be comfortable with opting-in with their phone numbers.