WordPress Semiologic Pro Theme Tip #2
August 5, 2007 by Trish Jones
Filed under Website Promotion Strategies
Here is tip #2 on using the WYSIWYG editor of Semiologic Pro …
Give some variety to your blogs by making it more interactive.
Apart from the fact that Semiologic Pro is search engine friendly (the canvass of the theme has been optimized for you), if anything will sway people from using the classic or free version to using the pro version, it’s the WYSIWYG editor. Not merely because of it’s look and feel, but because of it functionality and ease of use.
In terms of making your blog interactive, you have several helpful task buttons on the tool bar including the ‘add media button’, ‘the insert video button’ and the ‘ad unit button.’
By clicking on the media button, you can enter the url of where your audio is hosted (which could actually be a different server than where your WordPress blog is hosted) and it will insert a lovely looking player bar like this …
And, within just a few seconds (once you’ve obtained the code from say YouTube), you could have your own, a third party’s or, an animated video on your blog like this one …
Ouch! I think it missed though. I could have sworn I heard the mouse laugh after the click!
I’m sure there’s a marketing lesson here somewhere, though I’m scraping the barrel to find one. Perhaps the moral of the story is simply,
"know when to move on and find more big cheese rather than trying
to make a last ditch effort for the crumbs… it’s this ‘last ditch’ activity
that could kill you - or your online business for that matter"
Anyway, finally, you can easily add Google AdSense blocks to your blog posts so you can earn some revenue from your visitors interactivity.
I hope you can see the advantages of how the Semiologic Pro WYSIWYG editor can easily make a potentially boring blog post into a spiced up multimedia article, complete with some money making activity to add to the fun - and your bank account of course.
That’s all for now,
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Hey Trish, love that cheese animation and you’re a great teacher, by the way.
Thanks Myrna,
That’s encouraging especially since I’ve decided to focus more on these teaching tips.
Best,
Trish
Hi Trish, I have been following your site for a while now, just love the tips you offer.
I don’t have the full pro version yet but will soon.
Keep the emails coming
Thanks
Filomena
http:www.physicsofgettingwealthy.com
Hi Trish, I have been following your site for a while now, just love the tips you offer.
I don’t have the full pro version yet but will soon.
Keep the emails coming, just a quick question does semi pro offer amazon add as well as adsense.
Thanks
Filomena
http://www.physicsofgettingwealthy.com
Hi Filomena,
Semiologic Pro has an even better plugin for using AdSense called Ad Spaces. This allows you to insert your adsense code and have your ads appear almost anywhere on your blog.
The last time I checked, the AdSense plugin seemed not to have been updated and there had even been comments that Google didn’t like it for some reason and some people’s AdSense accounts had been shut down because of using it.
With the Semiologic Pro Ad Spaces, you are doing nothing more than adding the AdSense code … no cause for concern to Google. It can also be used to advertise anything else, including your affiliate or your own products.
Sem Pro also comes with the “Now Reading” plugin which will allow you to display books sold on Amazon and it has an array of other plugins that are not standard with the Classic version of Semiologic.
If you’re not afraid of experimenting Filomena, you can make this software do almost anything, it’s that flexible and, Denis, the developer stays on the cutting edge of blog technology so there are regular updates (though not compulsory) to add even more flexibility to the software.
Stay tuned for some more tips!
Best,
Trish