Plus, you can easily customize the style to match your blog and increase your click-through rates. Perfect for any type of blog, but especially useful for niche blogs which depend on AdSense or ad revenue.

We developed this tool almost a year ago and used it exclusively on our AdSense niche blogs, which worked very well in terms of increase visitor participation and improving click-through rates.

Example Blogs: Stem Cells Revealed, Home Schooling Secrets

Now we’re releasing it as a free WordPress plugin so you can have some fun with it too!

Since your videos will be highly related to the content of your blog, you’re actually doing your visitors a great service – it’s a win-win situation.

So how does it work?

The Full Video Page with Monetization

When someone clicks on the YouTube video thumbnail, they will see a full page display of the video, complete with video title and syndicated comments.

You can easily put your own Adsense codes right above or below the video (or both) to get incredible click-through rates and make more money. It’s a win-win situation – your readers see related videos (based on keywords you enter) and you make more money with very little effort.

Of course, you’re not just limited to AdSense. You can even display banner ads, Aweber optin forms, or FeedBurner subscription boxes.

However you cannot edit the comments as they are not actually posted to your site. They are automatically syndicated from YouTube in real time. You can however, choose to turn off comment syndication.

YouTube Monetizer Widget and Settings Page

The main thumbnails are displayed using WordPress widgets, on as many sidebars as you want. You can specify the following values:

• Widget Title – The title of the section as it will appear on your blog, for example “Related Videos”
• Keywords – Enter at least one keyword here. If you enter more than one keyword, separate each using a comma
• Max Results – How many thumbnails do you want to display?
• Max Characters – Some videos may have extremely long titles, so you can specify the maximum characters for the title to keep things looking pretty
• Order By – Choose to sort your videos by relevance, popularity, etc.

On the settings page which you’ll find under Tools > YouTube Monetizer, you can enter the BEFORE and AFTER codes, and also customize the full page display CSS.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Can I use more than one keyword? – Yes, you can enter multiple keywords separated by commas. However, for most relevant results keep the keywords closely related.
2. Why do the videos look different on my blog? – Each WordPress theme uses it’s own CSS file, which may or may not effect the way YouTube Monetizer looks. However, we include a “Custom CSS” option for both the sidebar display and also the full page display, so you can easily match the appearance to your blog.
3. Can I choose not to syndicate comments from YouTube? – Yes, you can easily do this from the settings page.
4. Can I choose not to open the full videos on my blog? – Yes, you can easily do this from the settings page.

For example, you’ll find a lot of people post legitimate and meaningful comments but stuff the “Name” column with keywords for their website (some smart SEO guru told them that’s how it’s done). Others may drop their signature link (s) in the comment itself. This makes it difficult for you to moderate, and previously you just had to live with it.

Here’s a solution: Clearly display a “comment policy” on your blog, help your readers self-moderate their comments, and save loads of time.

Using the Comment Policy Plugin for WordPress you’ll be able to do just that. Tell your readers what type of comments are acceptable, and which ones are not.

How It Looks Like on Your Blog

On your blog’s comment form, readers will see your comment policy. They can then read what you will – or will not – accept in comments. This alone will significantly reduce the amount of keyword stuffing, signature links etc as you let your readers know what happens if their comments don’t adhere to your policy.

Let them self-moderate their comments before submitting it, saving you tons of precious blogging hours.

You can edit the appearance of the policy display completely using the Custom CSS box. Making it match the overall look of your blog is easy. You can automatically place the policy display on your comments form, or manually insert his code to where you want your policy to appear:

<?php comments_policy(); ?>

Easy Policy Editor for Admin

As a blog admin you can easily edit your policy, taking the default bullet points and text as a base. You can add a opening and closing statement, and rearrange the order of the bullet points. You can add more bullet points, temporarily disable some, and of course permanently delete bullets.

Once you have installed the plugin and activated it, you will see a new “Comments Policy” link right beneath the Comments section. We’ve put it in the most obvious place

The most important thing is that if you own many blogs, you can create your comments policy in one blog and just export it, save it to your computer. On your other blogs, install Comments Policy and export the .json file to automatically re-create your policy.

Of course all this isn’t too hard to do if you’re good at HTML and know how to edit your WordPress theme – but hey this plugin does all the dirty work for you.

You can even download or create a sophisticated plugin that automatically searches comments based on your criteria and delete them.

You may find however, that prevention is way better than the cure.

Changelog / Versions

22 December 2009

• Version 1.2

  -Compatible with Wordpress 2.9

14 August 2009

• Version 1.1

  -Compatible with Wordpress 2.8.4

  -Fix minor bug

01 August 2009

• Version 1.0 – Comments Policy released

Testimonials Manager is a WordPress plugin that allows you to manage and display testimonials for your blog, product or service. It can be used to build your portfolio or to encourage readers to subscribe / buy your products.

This is without doubt the best testimonial plugin for WordPress – it’s simple but powerful and flexible. Version 2 is redesigned and improved to allow more options when adding, managing and displaying testimonials.

Add and Edit Testimonials Easily

To add a new testimonials, just enter the Name, Website and Website URL as well as the full testimonial. Version 2 comes with a built in text editor, using TinyMCE. You can use Gravatars or upload a custom user image. All uploaded images will be automatically re-sized based on your settings.

Add New Testimonial

You can then view all your testimonials in a screen that is pretty similar to how you manage WordPress comments, and choose to Edit or Delete testimonials:

Manage Testimonials

Display Full Testimonials Page

All your testimonials can be displayed according to order on a full page. All you need to do is paste the following code in any WordPress page where you want your testimonials to appear:

Your full testimonials page will look like this:

Testimonials Manager is an awesome plugin. Best of its kind that I have found.

Scott Bernadot
Bernadot.com

I have several niche blogs. Sometimes I leave comments unapproved for weeks, because I don’t have time to decide about the borderline ones. (The obvious spam I delete immediately.)

The Comment Policy plugin gives everyone clear warning and should make life much easier!

Kathleen Gresham
Web Fresh Leads

Thanks for the great plugin. It works perfectly! Love the fact that theres a widget AND being able to have a testimonials page. Ive tried at least two other plugins, and they dont match the functionality of Testimonials Manager.

Mark

Testimonials Manager is cool! It saves me alot of time designing a testimonial page.
Plus, it is so easy to manage.

Dr. L M Foong
SWOT Analysis Template

As of version 2, we added pagination and the ability to sort the order of testimonials that appear of the full page. Now you can have the latest testimonials displayed first, on page 1.

Edit Style and Settings

Testimonials Widget

Rotate Testimonials Using Sidebar Widgets

Most importantly, you can rotate a predefined number of testimonials in your sidebar using WordPress widgets. Just drag and drop the Testimonials Manager widget in the correct sidebar, then give it a title and set the amount of testimonials to rotate.

The widget will automatically detect pages with the shortcode and link to it automatically with a “Read More” link. If you’ve put the code in more than one page, you can choose which page to link to.

Of course, you can also edit the appearance of the widget using the Custom CSS box. Make your testimonials scream out loud if you want to, or subtly remind your readers why they are subscribed in the first place.

From Version 2 onwards, you can have as many widgets as you want on different sidebars, depending on the design of your blog. Plus, the widget now uses true randomization instead of “linear” randomization.

ShoutOuts

Special thanks to Chris Jean for helping us optimize the code for this plugin.

Change Log / Versions

29 January 2010

• Version 2.0.1
• Various bugfixes

28 January 2010

• Version 2.0
• Complete makeover of settings and appearance
• Added ability to paginate full testimonials page
• Added ability to sort testimonials
• Added multi-widget capability
• You can now specify image size
• Other fixes

22 December 2009

• Version 2.0.3
• optimize Code
• Fixed testimonial update bug
• Compatible with Wordpress 2.9.2

22 December 2009

• Version 1.2
• Fix Plugin Activation Hook
• Compatible with Wordpress 2.9

06 August 2009

• Version 1.1
• Fixed picture upload problem
• Fixed CSS styling to suit most of the themes

19 July 2009

• Version 1.0 – Testimonials Plugin released