| As you may or may not know, WordPress, the | | | | ask you one thing and actually look for another. |
| blogging software, gives people the ability to install | | | | Let's say you had a membership site about "how to |
| plugins or add-ons to extend the functionality of their | | | | soup up your car," and people might be asking things |
| WordPress blog and make it do some cool stuff. This | | | | like, "Well, how do I make my car go faster?" But |
| might include things like removing the dates on posts, | | | | searching for things like, "How do I get a better fuel |
| adding pop-up and more. But to use your blog as a | | | | pump?" If you saw a lot of searches for the term "fuel |
| membership site, as the most simple and basic | | | | pump" and you didn't have enough content about fuel |
| membership site possible, I want to give you my top 3 | | | | pumps, then you would know that you would need to |
| plugins. Those are Wishlist member to get people a | | | | add more membership content and that can be video, |
| simple way to register and log into your blog after | | | | audio, or written materials about fuel pumps. This way, |
| they've paid you for information, Psychic Search which | | | | you can get down to this specific exact thing people |
| would show you what people search on your blog | | | | are searching for. Likewise, if someone is searching for |
| including Google searches, it will take Google searches | | | | the phrase "fuel pump" in Google and it takes them to |
| plus actual searches on your blog's search box, and | | | | your blog, that script, that plugin will also record that |
| Subscribe to Comments plugin, which notifies your | | | | search, and you have one more source of knowing |
| commenters that other people have replied to their | | | | exactly what people are looking for. |
| comment. | | | | The third and final plugin I would recommend to you |
| Wishlist member is what I consider to be the best | | | | today is the Subscribe to Comments plugin. You might |
| membership script out there. You install one simple | | | | have seen this on many other blogs. You go and leave |
| plugin and now, you can control access to your site. | | | | a comment and below the comment form, there is a |
| Take a couple of extra steps and you can charge via | | | | small check box that says something like "notify me of |
| PayPal, ClickBank, 1ShoppingCart, QuickPayPro, or | | | | follow-up comments via email?" If you left a comment |
| even Infusionsoft to get access to your site. That can | | | | on a particular post, and others left more comments |
| be a single payment or a recurring set of payments. | | | | on that post, the WordPress blog would shoot you an |
| You install this plugin and now people pay you money, | | | | email after every single person left a comment. That |
| fill out a form to register themselves, and now they | | | | way, you would have a reason to go back and |
| are registered and able to log in to their membership | | | | respond to other comments. It's a great way of building |
| area anytime they want. | | | | a community and getting more participation and it |
| Now, if they've logged in, people tend to search for | | | | works just as well, if not better, inside paid membership |
| things in the search box to find what they want, and if | | | | sites as it does on free blogs. |
| they don't, then put a message in any of your blog | | | | Those are the three plugins I would apply right now in |
| posts to type in the search box. The great thing about | | | | your membership site - Wishlist member, Psychic |
| the search box is most people don't consider the fact | | | | Search, and Subscribe to Comments. |
| that you might be saving the searches. People tend to | | | | |