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My good friend Hyder over at Weborithm sent me an email the other day about his nifty new plugin WP Auctions. Now for those of you with short memory spans - Hyder is the designer behind the new theme here at ChrisGuthrie.net, so when I received his email I was eager to see what this plugin had to offer. In a nutshell, this plugin allows you to cut out the middle man and list items up for auction on your blog without paying any fees!

Some of the features of the WP Auctions plugin include:

List as many items up for auction as you’d like
Generate free traffic to your blog from visitors viewing the live auctions
Sell products with or without a buy it now option
Show your eBay feedback to help establish your reputation
Upload up to 4 different images per auction item
Offer an RSS feed for your auction items
5 free color styles: Earth, Wind, Water, Heart and Fire! (Hilariously named after the powers on the TV show Captain Planet)
Several other backend customizing options

You can see the plugin I’m running in action on the bottom of my sidebar with the Wind style. In fact, I’m currently offering an auction for a 125 x 125 Blog Ad on my sidebar. The proceeds of the sale all go towards an organization called Team In Training who helps to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

I should also mention that you can also purchase a customized style for your plugin for the price of $48.99. Hyder has a little bit of a backlog although I’ll be getting the customized style soon and you’ll be able to see that as well.

In any case, I really love the feature set offered in this plugin as I only noticed a couple minor things that I’d do differently; however, I spoke with Hyder and he let me know there are plenty of updates in the works. In fact, another great aspect of this plugin is that for only $24.99 you receive free upgrades for life too!

Buy Now

I’m also pleased to say that this plugin made the distinction of being offered on the Chris Recommends list which contains quality products, services and or companies that I have personal experience using and recommend to my readers. I highly recommend you purchase this plugin if you’re looking for a way to offer highly targetted products or services for sale on your blog geared towards your readers.

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When I heard that Aaron Wall was going to discontinue the sale of his amazing SEO Book in favor of a monthly subscription based service for SEO I knew I had to find out more about the new service he was offering. I discovered that the subscription offers access to various SEO tools, 100+ training modules, access to download the SEO Book and semi-exclusive forum for $100 a month. It was offered for $50 a month, but I believe that price may have jumped up to $100 a month now. Either way, even at the $100 price you can cancel your subscription and he will refund your prorated subscription if the service isn’t for you.

The main reason why I decided to get the subscription is because something that I’ve decided to focus on improving is the amount of traffic I drive to my websites through search engines. As it stands right now, for most of my websites search usually only accounts for about 20% of my total traffic. This is obviously not a high number which leaves plenty of opportunities for growth. I’ve been using vBSEO on my forums for several months now which has done a great job to improve my search engine traffic and while I still recommend it, there is still room for improvement. This is precisely why I decided to take the plunge and spring for a subscription to this service and spend some time improving my SEO knowledge.

I’ve been a premium subscriber for about a week now and in my time on the site I’ve learned a ton from the training modules, seo tools, community forums, as well as the SEOBook. However of those items what I’ve found that has really helped me is the forum. Where else can you receive advice from an established authority on SEO for only $50 a month? I asked for ideas on how to improve a few of my websites and Aaron Wall was the first person to respond with a bulleted list of ways to improve. How cool is that? I’m not sure what he charges for an hourly rate as an SEO consultant or if he even does, but I gaurntee I have already received way more than $50 of advice.

I highly recommend paying for at least a one month subscription if you’re new to SEO or looking to expand your knowledge. Also, it’s important to remember that I will never promote a product or service I haven’t personally used before. If I haven’t convinced you it’s worth while go ahead and check out the SEO Book website for yourself there is plenty of free content that you can sample to get a feel for the service.

Is anyone here an SEO Book subscriber already?

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