This guest post is by Eric Siu of Evergreen Search. WordPressers are always looking for helpful plugins for their blogs, and if you’ve been following today’s posts on ProBlogger, especially Install Your First WordPress Plugin , you’re probably in the same boat. So I thought I’d compile a list of the most popular to get you started. To make things simple, the plugins in this post have been broken into different categories. SEO plugins. WordPress SEO : If there’s one plugin from this list that you should get, this is the one. Forget no more! Social plugins. MORE >>

I am so excited to tell you about something new! Fishing season starts today in New Hampshire on the Lakes and ponds. Living on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee for the past three years has been a lot of fun, except maybe for the Tavern Manager stuff last year. missed out on all the fun, outdoorsy sports and activities last year, but not this year. This year I am going to go fishing, hiking, camping and all of that. It is going to be like the Summer of George , except I’m not unemployed and I will change out of my pajamas. Yup, I am going to be blogging about fishing. Lures. Rods n Reels. MORE >>

Goodreads Book Giveaway. Humanize. by Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant. Giveaway ends May 01, 2012. See the giveaway details. at Goodreads. Enter to win. Humanize Mark Your Calendars MORE >>

Gary Vaynerchuk often warns against the “ 19 year old dude move ” – when over zealous businesses try to close the deal on the first social media transaction. Flickr image from Jurischk. There’s no question that companies are applying rigid direct marketing principles to social media, not recognizing that social is the long con , not a smash and grab. That That same trend toward premature monetization is rampant in content marketing too, especially on blogs. Content Marketing Step by Step. Blog posts are feathers. Outwardly showy and used to attract attention. Ephemeral. MORE >>

About 1/3rd of Soshable’s traffic comes from various referrers with Google being the biggest one (that’s not counting Google search traffic). When I checked my monthly totals there was a new player in my top 10: Pinterest. had completely forgotten about a conversation with a friend at Pinterest who told me that the site will send traffic whether I try to use it or not because of the handful of visualization posts we do here. was skeptical. In fact, I didn’t think it would break 1%. The fact that it popped up so high on the charts without much effort is encouraging. MORE >>