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Alex Jeffreys says don’t do this do that, blah, blah, blah…so here goes.

In this post I am going to explain how to activate the Wordress Akismet plugin and add a plugin named Tweetmeme. These are simple plugins that you need to activate early in the configuration of your blog or website for functionality and content syndication.

First, a little about Akismet. Akismet comes already installed with the Wordpress platform and all you have to do is sign up for a Wordpress API Key and activate the plugin. Just follow the instructions in the plugins section to get your API Key. Save this in a notepad file for future reference. You will only have one API Key that you use for any new websites you may happen to launch in the future. What’s it do?

“Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.”

Instructions can be found under the Plugins section of your dashboard, right under the “Appearance” setting: Dashboard > Plugins

Copy and paste your API Key in the box, check the below that and click the “update options” and you are done.



Then you will next want to install the Tweememe plugin. I learned about this plugin from fellow Alex Jeffreys student Joe Fier at JoeFier.com. This is a “retweet button” for Twitter, and we will be discussing Twitter marketing in later posts (see it in this post at the top right-hand side. There is a video on the Tweetmeme plugin below. This plugin will help send you traffic from Twitter.

We are off to an excellent start of optimizing our website with online SEO (Search Engine Optimization). One thing I need to mention is that I use the terms website and blog interchangeably. For our purposes they are the same thing. We are just using the popular and powerful Wordpress platform for content management of our websites.

Please leave any comments or questions you may have. I do read comments and will help you with any problems. As we move along, others will chime in with tips as well.  If you have a Twitter account, please retweet this post.

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