1. Add Meta Tags: http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/05/add-meta-tags-wordpress-plugin/

2. AdSense Delux: http://www.acmetech.com/blog/adsense-deluxe/

3. FeedCopywriter: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugins-provided-by-taraganacom/

4. Catigorical Links Page: http://www.alucinari.net/wordpress

5. Fuzzy Recent Comments http://www.semiologic.com/software/widgets/recent-comments/

6. Fuzzy Recent Posts: http://www.semiologic.com/software/widgets/recent-posts/

7. Identify External Links: http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/identify-external-links/

8. IMM- KeyWords: http://www.internetmarketingmonitor.org/word-press-plugins/imm-keywords/

9. Optimal Title: http://elasticdog.com/2004/09/optimal-title/

10. Google Site Maps: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final

11. Permalink Redirect: http://fucoder.com/code/permalink-redirect/

12. Search Everything: http://dancameron.org/wordpress/

13. Search Meter: http://www.thunderguy.com/semicolon/wordpress/search-meter-wordpress-plugin/

14. Socialable: http://push.cx/sociable

15. Subscribe to comments: http://push.cx/sociable

16. ultimate Tag Warrior: http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/

17. DataBase Back-Up: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup

18. Video Plug-on: http://www.daburna.de/blog/2006/12/13/wordpress-video-plugin/

19. Contact Form: http://ryanduff.net/projects/wp-contactform/

20. Make outside links open in new window: http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/identify-external-links/

So why should you consider Clickbank’s recurring billing?

Recurring Revenue Streams
Monetize your website/product to provide you with predictable and repeatable revenue.

No Monthly Fees
ClickBank does not charge any additional fees for using recurring billing. Nice!

No Integration Required
Recurring billing integrates seamlessly with the current ClickBank system and is easy to implement into your membership website or paid membership blog.

Reduced Authorization Declines
ClickBank has optimized their recurring billing process to reduce authorization declines and increase your revenue.

Guaranteed Payments
ClickBank has never missed a payment since they started in 1999.

Reporting and Analytics
Allows you to manage recurring customers with ease.

For more information on ClickBank’s new recurring billing for membership websites and paid membership blogs, go to: https://www.clickbank.com/recurring_billing.html

So why Membership websites and Membership Blogs?

Paid membership websites and blogs can be very profitable! 

This is something that more and more successful Internet Marketers and doing to make a ton of money.  You can really make it to the big time with your own paid membership website or membership blog.  Let’s think about what the potential is of having a membership site in your market.

Let’s say that you set up this great membership site where you offer some of your products for free to your members.  You can also sell your products at a discount to your members.  You set up an online forum where your members can discuss the topic.  You can also give your members a chance to make money by promoting and affiliating to get more members to join.

Okay, you have this great membership site set up and you want to get members.  Say that you charge your members $20 a month.  Let’s say that you get 100 members to sign up for your site the first month, through advertising and word of month, along with a press release where you over-deliver to the joining members to get a buzz and more word of mouth.  That is $2,000 your first month, right out of the shoot. 

Now, going forward you have over-delivered to the first 100 people.  That is going to get you a lot of word of mouth advertising from your members.   They also will have an incentive to promote the membership site, after you set up a commission system for them.  You will also up your advertising the second month and invest some of that $2,000 into it.

So the second month you get another 300 people to sign up for your membership site.  Couple that with your 100 people that gives you 400 people at $20 a person.  That’s a cool $8,000 before you pay out your commissions.  Now, I’m not saying that everyone will get these results, but it is certainly possible and some people do much better than this.

Some people earn six-figures… even seven figures a year with their own paid membership website or blog!

Let’s look at what the top Internet Marketers in the world do to make their fortune.  Even if these guys make a lot of money on adsense or affiliate marketing, they make their real fortune when they write products about it, get a mailing list and start a membership site. 

It’s like selling a product for cheap, in order to, get more people to buy so you can sell them your high priced back-end product.  These people are smart and they wouldn’t give up their secrets, by writing their own products about how they made money doing what they were doing, if they didn’t know that they would make more by doing it.

A groundbreaking product after they have found a great way to make money online and they are on their way to being set for life.  They found a way to tap into a niche or a market and then it’s just a matter of building relationships and building your list and [tag]membership website[/tag]membership website.

We’ll be going into many more details about membership blogs and how you can market them to build a monthly residual income soon.

Although this post is not directly related to [tag]marketing your blog[/tag] or how to drive [tag]traffic[/tag] to your blog, it actually does play a big roll.  I’ll get into that in at another time, but first, let me help you end your frustration and help you solve your htaccess Permalink issue.

I use CuteFTP and the .htaccess file does not appear within my files.  Reason is because of that pain in the @ss “.” before htaccess.  So the first thing that you need to do is log into your server directly.

1. Log into your server

Once logged into your server, navigate to the folder that you installed [tag]WordPress[/tag] into.  If you installed it directly, so you get to your blog by going to your www. x y z .com site directly, go there.  If you installed it in a folder called “blog” or any other folder, go there.

2. Open up notepad

Once you have notepad opened, paste the code into the notepad that Permalink kindly gave you on the bottom of the page when you learned that your .htaccess page was not rewriteable.  Just in case, here’s the code you need:

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress

Once you have pasted the above code into notepad, save the file as anything.  Really!  Save it as abc.txt or whatever.  Now close it.  Now locate the file, open it back up and go to “save as”.  Change the file name to “.htaccess” without the “”’s of course and select “all files”.  Now save.  You’ll notice that the file is now is different format than a text document.

3. Upload file to server

Now upload the file to your server in the root - where you installed WordPress. 

4. Change permissions

You will now need to change the permissions so that the file is rewritable and Permalink can access it.  Change the CHMOD to 666. 

6. Go back to your WordPress Account

Make sure you have the custom option selected and enter:  /%post_id%/%postname%/
(Or which ever format that you’d like.)

Now you can click on “Update Permalink Structure”.  It worked!  Now go back to your server and change the CHMOD back to 644.

Why anyone didn’t anyone write out all of these details in one location is beyond me.  But after a few hair-pulling moments, it finally all came together.

Now why is this important?  SEO, which is one of the many topics of this blog.  But we’ll be getting more into that soon…

I hope the above was helpful and has saved you some time.