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While there are a large number of Network Marketers that have figured out the importance of having your own MLM blog there are countless others that do not understand just how essential this tool is in building their MLM business.

A properly configured Wordpress blog will give you a very powerful tool for generating new leads for your MLM business, creating traffic for affiliate programs, building relationships with potential prospects and/or other potential business partners. Please take note that I specifically stated that all of the above can be accomplished via a “properly configured” Wordpress blog.

For starters, having your own domain name and having a professional installation of your Wordpress blog is a key to your long term success. There is no other blogging system that gives you the number of money making features that are available from WordPress.

One of the biggest mistakes that I see people make day after day is setting up their blog with one of the FREE blogging services that are available. First and foremost the main reason people select a free blogging service is that they don’t have the technical skills to do an installation (not to mention that many other tweaks and setup steps involved) to properly setup and configure WordPress.

The sad truth is that when using one of the FREE blogging services you are immediately putting yourself at a disadvantage over your competition that has a hosted version of Wordpress to build their MLM business. PLEASE – Avoid the free platform and go for a Wordpress blog hosted on your own account and your own domain name.

Once your Wordpress blog is installed and ready for you to start with the variety of modifications that are available to you that allow you make your Wordpress blog uniquely yours, there are still a host of decisions that need to be made.

At the top of your list should be deciding which plugins are essential for your MLM Wordpress blog. While many of the plugins are just nice utilities that you can do without, there are others that are VERY important in helping with things like generating sitemaps for the search engines or helping you to make your blog more SEO friendly.

Just a few of the plugins that I consider a must have are:

Askimet – Spam has become rampant in blog comments. One of the best protections that you can have against having to deal with hundreds of spam comments is to make sure that the Askimet plugin is installed and active or your MLM blog.

All in One SEO Pack – If you think that search engine optimization (SEO) is a real pain, then you will love this plugin. This plugin will help you to optimize each page and post on your MLM blog for the search engines. So there is no need to worry about SEO.

Google XML Sitemaps – Sitemaps are very helpful any helping the search engines to find and index all of the content on your mlm blog. This simple plugin automatically builds and updates your site map whenever you update your site, making it easy for Google to index your content.

Google Analyticator – Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging. Google Analyticator also includes several widgets for displaying Analytics data in the admin and on your blog.

Wordpress Thread Comment – One of the great things about having an MLM blog is the interactivity of such a site. Your visitors and prospects are allowed to comment on the information that you post. This particular plugin makes it easy for users to comment on existing comments as well. It displays these discussions in a nested style format.

Sociable – Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!

TweetMeme – The TweetMeme retweet button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter.

WP Super Cache – This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

WP-reCAPTCHA – reCAPTCHA is an anti-spam method originating from Carnegie Mellon University which uses CAPTCHAs in a genius way. reCAPTCHA has earned a very prestigious reputation among the various CAPTCHA systems available and is used by such sites as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and a few U.S. Government Websites.

Wordpress Database Backup – Everything that you post in Wordpress is saved to a database. If you have ever suffered a computer crash, then you know just how trying it can be to get everything situated again. Your Wordpress database is subject to crashes and corruption as well, so backing up your database regularly is a must. This plugin makes it child’s play with a few clicks.

While I have listed some of my favorite plugins here for your use there are thousands of plugins available for WordPress, and more coming online every day. If there is something you want your WordPress blog to do chances are there is a plugin available to do it.

While originally design as a blogging platform, WordPress has grown to be one of the most powerful content management systems available for the overall management of your website. The user friendly Administrative dashboard will have you up and running in no time at all.

Deciding to develop an MLM blog in conjunction with your network marketing business is a great idea. As we have pointed out one of the great things about using Wordpress for your MLM blog is that there are many great plugins that will help make it easier for your blog to be found in the search engines and improve the overall functionality and interactivity of your website.

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