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If you want your blog to be at the top of the game for SEO then these are the “must have” WordPress plugins.

Position Yourself: Gets matches from Google results for your keywords. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-google-seo-positioner/

Hackadelic SEO Table Of Contents: Easy to use, freely positionable, fancy AJAX-style table of contents for WordPress posts and pages. http://hackadelic.com/solutions/wordpress/seo-table-of-contents

Nofollow Reciprocity: Searches for links to large sites using ‘nofollow’ tags for external links, and puts the same tag on links to those sites. http://www.inverudio.com/programs/WordPressBlog/NofollowReciprocity.php

Similar Posts: Displays a highly configurable list of related posts. Similarity can be based on any combination of word usage in the content, title, or tags. http://rmarsh.com/plugins/similar-posts/

Google Integration Toolkit: Integrate Google services (Analytics, Webmaster Tools, etc.) with Your Blog. http://www.poradnik-webmastera.com/projekty/google_integration_toolkit/

Google XML Sitemaps: This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog. http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/

Greg’s High Performance SEO: Configure over 100 separate on-page SEO characteristics. Load just 600 lines of code per page view. No junk: just high performance SEO at its best. http://counsellingresource.com/features/2009/07/23/high-performance-seo/

Ultimate Google Analytics: Enable Google Analytics on your blog. Has options to also track external links, mailto links and links to downloads on your own site. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-google-analytics/

SEO Friendly Images: Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well. http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-friendly-images

WP Auto Tagger: Automatically finds tags based on your post content. http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-plugins/auto-tagger/

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Chris is a proven Sales Veteran that currently holds the positions of VP of Sales at DataTel Communications and President of Lottspace.com. Web Designer and established Sales Success Author. Dad

Can you have too much business?

I started a business with a forty thousand dollar loan from a friend of mine. The business meteorically grew to over one million in sales per month within a year. I had nothing to complain about, right? Except… I was rotating my inventory 4-6 times a month. Cash flow issues were the order of the day. I went through three “bookkeepers” and as many accounting programs. Within a year and half I had over 50 employees and 4 locations. We tried to slow things down to only find that there is no “slow” with business. You’re either climbing or you’re declining. Within 4 years this same business failed due to bad accounting advice and practices, poorly designed loans, theft, and lack of a solid core business direction. We grew too fast. I should have planned to fail… let me explain. Banking is a critical piece to the planning to fail approach. You should always have separate accounts for payroll, taxes collected, and any monies pre-collected for future services/product. Failure to do so can be construed as using monies inappropriately. Separate accounts that are clearly defined to what their purpose is (audit trail) leaves no discussion of fraud. A single account leaves you wide open to possible fraud and usage. It would have also made it easier for me to see where my monetary issues were. Business Loans Collateral: This can be confusing. I eventually attained a couple of different type of loans: A business line of credit and company expansion SBA loan. The business line of credit was to help with our account receivables. We would present P.O.s against the line. The SBA loan was for cash infusion to solve store inventory issues. Even though we used these loans for entirely different purposes both had dual collateralized my business. A major screw up to say the least. The SBA loan contract was at least 100+ pages. We were walked through by the processor. We missed the collateral part. This became a “powder keg” later. Personal guarantee consequences:I had personally guaranteed all these loans as we were a fledgling business. My company was incorporated which did not protect me from this liability. I had to personally file for bankruptcy to protect myself and my family. Business loans (SBA) and who you are “really” dealing with: We settled with the banks during our bankruptcy proceedings. My incompetent attorney did not settle with the SBA however. While I knew that there were two parties to the loan I didn’t realize I needed to settle with each individually. Nine years later the FBI shows up and serves papers for my demanded appearance in superior court. They were attempting to collect their part of the loan. Scary times. I would personally never get a SBA loan again. Factoring – Good or bad for business: This is actually one of the better moves I made. I was told to never use this type of financing. As it turns out if I had early on I would probably still be in business today. They would take my P.O.’s, pay me fifty percent up front, collect from customer, and then payout the rest upon delivery minus their fees. For a start-up that was being asked to stretch their cash flow past reason this would have been heaven sent. Taxes Pay your taxes: At the end of our demise we were behind on everything including our taxes. Understand that there is no tax redemption/protection for your business even if you’re incorporated, even in bankruptcy. I personally had to take on this serious burden. Mentors Your business posse: A strong business relationship with a CPA, Business Attorney, Banker, Landlord, and optionally a business mentor is crucial to success. I know a business, especially a start-up business, is focused on designing, marketing, and selling their product/services. This group is just as important to your success. You should have a business posse day one. If I had been on top of this I would have known my accounting practices were flawed, my dual collateralized loans would not have been made, and I would have managed things differently. I did eventually bring in a mentor and a third party accountant later. Unfortunately it was already too late to save a very popular, growing business. What a waste. Life-Business Lesson This life-business lesson was learned years ago. I have had many successes since. I am now being asked to be part of the posse (mentor) ironically. Interestingly this “advice” still applies in today’s market maybe more so. I see advertisements to go get incorporated now, get a quick loan, “don’t think about it, do it now” strategies – “advice”. There are so many repercussions to these actions that need to be carefully thought through. In picking an attorney it can be helpful that they have a strong CPA background as well. Not all CPA’s are a match to your type business. On-staff accountant-bookkeeper doesn’t have to be a CPA but should be hired carefully, preferably graduated from a good business-accounting college, and be able to work well with off staff CPA. Accounting software, initial books setup are so critical as well. And the list goes on. Take my advice, plan like you’re going to fail.

chris telemarketing

Posted September 12, 2009 at 6:14 PM

Great post and I love the tools THANKS!

Best Chris Telemarketing

Chris Lott

Posted September 12, 2009 at 6:34 PM

chris telemarketing: I’m glad you liked it. Thanks

Genej0rd

Posted September 16, 2009 at 12:33 AM

Hi Chris, I’m using the same arras theme from WordPress. My problem is there are URLs showing in my thumbnails. I’m not sure if it comes from the Twitter Tool I’ve installed through this series of articles but I hope you can help me solve it. Here’s the site: http://christophercarlton.com/

Thanks,
Gene

Posted September 16, 2009 at 5:54 AM

GenejOrd: It looks like you are using twitter tools (tweets) for your articles. I use twitter tools to tweet from my posts and as a sidebar showing latest discussions (tweets). My posts have excerpts which is what shows in my thumbnails. Twitter tools will let you shorten the URLs if that helps. You might try putting a short excerpt in the twittered post to see if that appears instead. If you’re not wanting tweets in your main page’s thumbnails (posts) then make sure you have set the theme for the right category to show. For instance I use “feature” category to show only the six posts tagged as such on my main page. Hope this helps. Thanks for visiting…

pondicherry

Posted June 17, 2010 at 8:27 PM

thank you so much for sharing wonderful plugin.

Posted June 27, 2010 at 5:52 AM

pondicherry… I update this article regularly as I experience new and different plugins. Stay tunned. Thanks for the kind words.

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