Hi there,
three easy steps. :)
1. Good, easy to read and understand, and most importantly, interesting content.
2. Very simple navigation and plenty of room or white space on the page. Do not confuse the reader. Interlinking of pages is essential.
3. Easy share and comment set up.
Hope this helps
Shawn>>

I guess as an addendum, Jesse, since I didn't suggest any particular plugins for you, my point was that the content should do the main thing, and the other tools should not matter as much and should work themselves out. I still want to give you my opinion of what you originally asked for:

Plugins

As far as ease of use when it comes to plugins, there are several plugins that make sharing your content to listloads of online social outlets automated and easier, but as discussed, it doesn't matter if the content is super lazy and uninteresting.

In addition to automated posting to social spots such as Twitter, FB, etc. Disqus is a good plugin for making commenting on your blog much easier.

I did a quick Google search for : "best automated social plugins for wordpress" and found this.

jeffalytics[dot]com/best-wordpress-plugin-social-media-auto-posting/

I honeslty don't know who the guy is, but he makes some interesting points, and Ironically, he is using Disqus for his comments, I honestly suggested Disqus before even finding this article. It seems once you have established some killer content in a niche you love, utilizing some of those suggested plugins would be the cherry on top to solving your issue.

Just to stress, as something I've come across repeatedly while doing thorough research about affiliate marketing success, (how I got here) which may be a downfall to some of the prolonged struggle for success a lot of affiliate marketers have is:

Never market within a niche you don't know or don't care about, especially if your goal is to make money from it...bottom line.

However, if you really choose to, outsource the content to someone who does care about it. You'll forever be overworking yourself to perfect content for a niche you don't even have a heart or concern for.

I have no clue what subject matter you are trying to promote online, but say you chose to start talking about making money online That would be great, but to be smart about it, that's how we all got here. We want to make money online. But how many people are talking about that? ..I'll leave you to answer that.

That being said, I love the idea of WA, but will not write about them until I feel like I've learned it through and through, and I am completely comfortable here and can testify to it working for me personally. I'm not here to be a cheerleader for someone else's success, I want my own and would like to share it with others to help them one day. When it's working for me, I'll have evidence,...results I can share with real people, so that I can better engage my audience.

I plan to write more about computer software that I have used and that I really love, or about the music programs I use daily, that I can actually teach to other people and can review myself. I do that stuff everyday, so I don't have to ever struggle or scratch my head for content about it. Not to be cocky, but I think making money with them will be easy because I have a connection with the software...lol.

Here at WA, it seems like the flow should be:

1. Study WA thoroughly by learning the basic concepts and avoiding to distract yourself with the make money tonight/get rich quick approach..

2. Apply the knowledge to write about products you use or love whether written in the form of reviews, courses, testimonials, list of things you don't like or would like to see improved, because sincerity will certainly be detected within your article's tone. We're all consumers, but smart consumers who really want to spend money can read through the bs.

At this point I feel like I've talked your head off, but hopefully I've steered you in the right direction as far as plugins are concerned! lol

Hope that helps! Talk later!

- Gilbertj

thanks for the answers every one keep them coming!

WOW this is some great sh*##&#^ good answer lol. I think you are right on point the reason we are here is because we all share the same passion to make money online.
this binds us together....
Have a great day
Kymee ;O)

Hey Jesse.

Nice to meet you, my first 30 minutes here...literally. I saw your question, and I had an immediate logical answer, so I decided to just hop on in. I'm not writing this to sound like a douche that thinks he knows about marketing, I'm just speaking from what seems to make sense to me.

I'm new here and have a lot to learn, but have played around with wordpress and some basic plugins just to like change the wordpress login logo.

But, as a citizen that's both a consumer and a human, i.e someone that has values, morals and can relate emotionally to some things here and there, I sometimes socially participate in the online social sector of subjects that I tend to find very interesting or dear to. I will give a logical answer to your question.

To be organically involved in online social convos I either have to :

1. Be truly passionate about the subject mater of the content.

and/or

2. Be introduced to some content that I can tell took the writer/creator some real human time and effort, and a well executed thought processes to create.

Passionate, quality content is what makes me want to truly engage, not just snicker at some headline about something you'll forget about by lunchtime.

Not to sound lame, but it boils down to a balanced combination of passion and truth.

I've heard someone say that Content = King.
Replacing Content with "Passion + Truth"...blah blah blah.

In addition, I'm more liable to comment about something online that matters to me more than something that just seems like "cookie cutter content". Otherwise known as just a small slice of the abundance of content simply created to increase the site's visitors and raise its bouncerate.

Lastly, you speak of maximization. Most of the content I have access to is highly shared among social sectors like facebook, twitter, etc. So I guess that speaks for basically making your content very easily accessible socially online. Which should be a no brainer.

So, summing up the answer...write some very interesting shit you care about and share the shit out of it.

Can I say that here?

Share to a degree that is not annoyingly offensive of course. :-)


- Gilbertj

This is the one thing I could never figure out, so I got someone on Fiverr to do it. You can waste weeks on this.

I looked at your site, and I see you have 'publisher' markup, not authorship. Did you use the ?rel=author markup from the tutorials? sometimes Wordpress will delete this code so make sure it's still there. Did you link to your personal g+ profile or your g+ page?

I could not find the link you used for authorship markup, so couldn't check. Perhaps you have not put it in a 'universal place' like a footer or sidebar so Google can see your authorship for ALL pages.

Did you test it here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets ?

If you see your image there then you did it right, but Google hasn't updated yet. Sometimes it doesn't like your picture, so you can try changing that too. Many people have had trouble getting their pictures up recently (http://blumenthals.com/blog/2013/04/12/authorship-brownouts-due-to-facerank/) so you might be one that's just having trouble.

But those things will depend on whether or not you set it up right, which can be tested in the first link. If you haven't done it correctly, get someone in Chat to take a look or PM one of us with your website.

Are you trying to do this for your website or here at Wealthy Affiliate Jesse? Let me know what domain you are trying to do it for and I can give you some clear instructions on how to set this up. ;)

It takes time for Google to update things - of course this depends when you have activated your authorship

Not sure how, but the original google search was 'how to create a website for free'. Was linked to a video of Kyle or Carson introducing and interviewing someone or each other. Still can't remember who my inviter was. You are quite clever to ask this question, Jesse. ^_~1649/5/26

WOW these are all great comments every one...

THANK YOU very much for taking the time to help a newbie out!

Learned of WA through looking for website coding resources

I found WA reviewing other affiliate marketing membership sites. I read Kyle's review of some other sites, that led to more reviews of WA from a few other unknowns. So, I came over to see what all the excitement was about here. Signed up the very next day under the trial membership. No looking back from here.

I was doing content writing at PostLoop. A guy there doing the same thing had his own blog and I went there searching for a way to make money online. While there somehow Steve's site I'veTriedThat came up and I eventually found WA from that point. I was definitely specifically looking for "how to make money online".

I found it when i was researching the market for a project i was working on. My point is their are tons of ways you can bring new people in, just think outside of the box!

Example: Their are articles in WA about QSR & Jaaxy and their are about 140 monthly searches for the keyword QSR software and only 227 QSR sites that you have to beat.

Now if you bring them in for WA & Jaaxy, now you increase your chances of earning from both. For that matter I'm sure their are tons of other KW's you could get top rankings for.

This example just came to me when I read your question. Anyway I hope this helps. This is no different than going after any other market. Just tackle it from all sides.

I agree with you, I would have the same problem as you, even worst, as i have only been here two weeks, still learning myself.

I have joined the bootcamp, intend to promote WA.
It will be easier, when I get to know affiliate marketing, as I am very new to it, but in saying that, if I did start it, I may get a surprise, could be many marketers looking for help, that's the great thing about WA, you do get plenty of help here, very friendly community..

All the best for your future promoting, sorry I can't help you.

i cant remember the exact way i found WA but i do know 100% what is was looking for. I was searching for a community because i was frustrated doing it on my own and looking for like minded people.

HTH