Become a WordPress Expert

Thaya Kareeson

I have been blogging seriously for almost one year. I’ve learned a lot on the topic of WordPress and blogging from intense online research and trial-and-error. It wasn’t until Alex Sysoef (author of a blog I regularly read) gave me the opportunity to preview his Platinum Membership of the Expert WordPress product that I realized how inefficient I have been at promoting and monetizing my blog.

What is this product?

The product includes a pre-packaged blog optimized for serious bloggers who do not want to worry about the technical details and access to priceless video tutorials (personally I believe this is the meat of the product) to help you succeed in blogging. If you are a new-found serious blogger, you would find that the pre-packaged blog contains all the necessary tools you will need to help you blog, promote, and monetize effectively right out of the box. Here is what Alex has to say about the platinum membership.

What I love about it?

The videos. Want to learn about seach engine optimization (SEO), effective monetizing, driving quality traffic, or blog tweaks/maintenance? Alex walks you through all these time-tested techniques and more in a series of easy to understand tutorial videos that is included with the product. These tutorials will help you get started the right way so you do not waste any time making mistakes and fixing them as I did. I honestly regret not having seen these videos in my earlier blogging days because I would’ve built a better blog in less amount of time.

What I don’t like about it

Of course no product is perfect. Personally, I would like to see a cleaner Web 2.0 theme get pre-packaged into the blog installation. One important aspect of converting a new visitor is to have a clean theme that is less cluttered to make a good first impression. That being said, I do believe that the most valuable part of the product is the tutorials itself. I would have purchased the product just for the videos that cover strategies on seo, blogging, promoting, and monetizing. This is also why I believe that the gold membership is redundant. I think most people should ditch the gold membership and go for the platinum. This is because once you’ve setup your blog, you will need to learn how to effectively use it anyway.

The bottom line

I highly recommend the platinum membership for serious bloggers who are looking to quickly and efficiently deploy a blog to promote their business. This product is a prime example of the motto, “Work smarter, not harder.” Thank you for putting this product together Alex. I will implement these techniques to empower my blog in the coming months and I am confident that my blog will gain the much deserved authority.

Check out the product here!

What’s up the affiliate links?
At times, I get offers to review a new product in my niche. I do my best to give it an honest review and report it to my readers. I also make an effort to add affiliate links any time I honestly recommend a product or service. They do not harm you in any way, but they do help offset the costs of running this website. Just assume that I get paid for everything I say.


Weekend Links #2

Thaya Kareeson
Updated: Jul 29, 2008

Weekend Links for the week ending on 07-18-08


My Cacheable WP-PostViews Mods Became Official!

Thaya Kareeson
Updated: Jun 18, 2008


Lester Chan (GaMerZ) has released the his “Wave 2” of plugin updates. One of the plugins updated was WP-PostViews. I’m happy for this release since he was able to incorporate the mods I did to WP-PostViews and made it elegant and public for everybody to use. Although I probably won’t be getting as much traffic for my WP-PostViews mod anymore, I learned a lot from making this and a couple other plugins cacheable. Hopefully I will continue to make contributions of this magnitude to the WordPress community in the future. Kudos Lester!


Automatically Turn on WP-Cache During Traffic Storms

Thaya Kareeson
Updated: Jul 10, 2008


I am a semi-fan of WP-Cache. On the good side, it reduces strain on apache by staticising WordPress pages. On the bad side, it messes with my site statistics and makes development hard (I always forget that the page I’m working on is being cached). I like my statistics, but what if I suddenly get a traffic storm? If my site gets dugg, there is no time to worry about statistics. I would need all the help I can get to serve pages efficiently. This is why WP-Cache should be off by default and automatically turned on during traffic storms. Read on…