You have probably already seen the Tweetmeme plugin on countless blogs.  It’s the one that creates the Tweet button to the right of your post title.  If you already use Sociable as your main bookmarking plugin, the TweetMeme plugin isn’t COMPLETELY necessary, but it makes it a lot easier for people to retweet your post because the image is at the top of the post, not the bottom.  Another advantage it has is that it keeps a count of the number of RT’s you get. Just go to Plugins, Add New, and do a search for TweetMeme and you can install it automatically in seconds.

Another cool idea for your blog is to Change the Categories sidebar widget title to “Topics”.  I don’t have a link for you, but on Tim Ferris’ blog he said that the word Topics actually encourages more people to keep reading further articles when they visit your site. One simple word change, can increase your visit time.  That’s pretty cool.

If you are moving your blog from a free host to your own domain, you might also want to check out some of the WP Permalinks Migrator plugins.  There are several good ones, to choose from, but basically these plugins do a search for posts and pages ending in the same slug (if you change your permalink structure, you don’t want the visitor to end up on the 404 page; this prevents that by redirecting the visitor to the correct location.

Stay tuned for Part 2, where I will mention a few other cool Wordpress plugins, and ideas for niche marketers and bloggers.  If you are interested in learning how to make a little extra cash online, I am starting a free newsletter full of SEO tips and social media trends to look out for.  The newsletter is completely free.  It will be about once a month. Click here to opt in and get your copy.

A Michigan university proposed a list of word that should not be used anymore. It’s quite humorous. In addition to the the examples in the title of this post, there were examples such as obamanomics, shovel-ready, transparency (in one sense of the word, not in general).

My take is, if people are going to use words like “unfriend” (to remove someone from your friends list), let them. It saves time. Time is money. Why waste words, why not abbreviate what we are trying to say? In keeping with the spirit of abbreviation, that’s the end of my post.

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