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Feb 11, 20117

Monetizing a Site Through AdSense

Categories: Blog Setup, Blogging Tips, Make Money
Monetizing a Site Through AdSense
There is a lot of misconception about Google AdSense; many marketers see it as one of the most rudimentary ways to monetize your site. As such many markets prefer to build affiliate sites, spend an age writing sales driven content, building email lists to try and sell on the back end, but the most important aspect of getting the sale is completely taking out of their hands, once you send traffic to the merchant they are the ones you have to rely on to push your traffic through their checkout page. If the merchant you are promoting has a poor sales funnel you will suffer.This is not the case with AdSense, once you get the click then your job is done and your money is in the bank of Google.When you build a site around AdSense in many ways it’s different to that of an affiliate site.  The perfect traffic for an AdSense site is click happy information hungry searchers. This is not the case for an affiliate site, most affiliates will target traffic that are close to making a purchase and hopefully they are just looking for some final reassurances that the product they plan to buy will meet ...
Feb 7, 20116

CreAction: A New Formula For Blog Success

Categories: Blog Setup, Blogging Tips
CreAction: A New Formula For Blog Success
Action Trumps Everything is a book about a new principle called CreAction, which is how entrepreneurs balance thought and action in the face of an uncertain future. This principle can be used by anyone, entrepreneur or not, to help guide yourself though the good, the bad, and the unexpected in life.Through extensive research, we have concluded that entrepreneurs function in a different way than people who do not define themselves as entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs tend to act rather than think their way through almost any situation—a formula we call “CreAction.” Of course, this does not imply that they are impulsive and/or irrational; it does, however, emphasize the importance of action versus thought about the next step or move, or how to handle a situation.This principle and way of acting can be applied to blog writing.1. Be timely: Thought and consideration for writing each blog post is necessary, but what is most important is the relevance and timeliness of a blog. Ideally, spend some time researching your next blog topic by looking at what is big in the news that day, what is being searched, and how it can apply to the theme of your blog. Now, write it the same day!2. ...
Feb 1, 201111

How to Handle Negative Comments

Categories: Blog Setup, Blogging Tips, Shop Admin Tips
How to Handle Negative Comments
If you run an online community service where others are encouraged to participate with their own thoughts, you're sure to come across negative comments throughout your blog or forum's life. While negative comments may be one of your greatest fears as a social media participant, they are a reality. Furthermore, the way that you deal with negative comments can either make or break your online reputation—and the reputation of your business.Check out the following tips on dealing with negative comments in the online arena: 1. Walk Away Whatever you do, do not respond to negative comments immediately. Chances are that you're fairly upset or offended by the comment or comments, and replying while in an emotional state of mind isn't the best way to deal with negativity on your blog or forum. Instead, give yourself a couple of hours (at the very least) to sit on the negative comment. Then allow yourself to respond. 2. Don't Ignore the Comments While it may be tempting to simply ignore the negative comments, this is not the wisest route. By ignoring and/or deleting negative comments, you may be tempting your unsatisfied readers to make a louder outcry on a more public forum. You want to take on ...
Jan 24, 201129

6 SEO Strategies That Can Generate Highly Targeted Traffic

Categories: SEO, Site Optimization Tips
6 SEO Strategies That Can Generate Highly Targeted Traffic
Developing SEO strategies that can drive an immense amount of traffic to your site within a month is not an easy task, especially if you want your site’s visitors to convert into profits. Generating highly targeted traffic or visitors that have the intent of availing the services or products that you are offering is the best way to really earn from your website.The good news is that there are many ways that you can do to hasten the process of having your site noticed by people who are in need of the information, services or products that you provide. Here are some of the ways that you can do to generate specifically targeted online visitors in under a month.1. Target easy to rank long-tail keywords through blog postsIf your site has no blog section yet, then you better start including one. Blogs can benefit your business in so many ways, and consistently driving traffic to your site is one of them. Using long-tail keywords in your blog posts’ titles (eg. How to learn SEO), can extremely help your site’s performance in terms of traffic generation, seeing as this strategy can very much take your blog posts on top of SERPs ...
Nov 17, 201020

Playing In PayPal’s Sandbox

Categories: Payment Processor, Shop Admin Tips, Tech Tips, Troubleshooting
Playing In PayPal’s Sandbox
Hello, is this thing on?  Many of us who have, or are in the process of launching, e-commerce sites have wondered about this at one time or another.  The most common way of finding out is to make a test purchase of $1 or less, to see if everything works.  At about 35 cents a try (in PayPal fees), most people simply consider it a start up cost.  But there is an alternative, that costs nothing to use; the PayPal Sandbox.With the sandbox you can simulate PayPal transactions, as many times as you want, without incurring any processing fees.  Not only can you simulate actual purchases, you can test drive your e-commerce site from the purchaser's point of view.  You can even simulate how your site will react to purchasers with varying levels of PayPal funding and verification. Getting Started You will first need a PayPal sandbox account.  This account is separate from any of your primary or alternate PayPal accounts.  To get an account, visit the PayPal Sandbox site and Sign Up for Access to the Sandbox Test Environment.  Usually, when selecting an e-mail address for your sandbox account, you would normally not use an e-mail address associated with your site's ...
Nov 8, 20109

JQuery: An introduction

Categories: JQuery
JQuery: An introduction
As a web developer we all are familiar with JavaScript. Sometimes we need complex functions to implement our business logic. It is very easy to write complex functions with a few lines of code using JavaScript libraries.The JQuery library, referred to from here on simply as JQuery, is an extremely popular and easy to use JavaScript library originally written by John Resig. The initial release came on 14 January 2006 and since this time it has continued to be modified and refined by its creator and a growing community of contributors. It is open-source and completely free of charge.JQuery is a small library based on few very simple intuitive principles. Working with RAW JavaScript or DOM Programming does bring-in its challenges while handling the browser-specific quirks. JQuery provides quite a few utilities to help working in browser agnostic environments. JQuery library strikes right balance between size, feature set and ease of use.JQuery would help bring-in considerable productivity gains and it’s easy to learn and work. This tool has the potential to bring-about quiet a change in client side development with complex UI with front end logic in JavaScript library.JQuery is primarily an element selection and DOM manipulation library. It supports ...
Oct 19, 201036

Blogspiration: Finding New Blog Topics

Categories: Blog Setup
Blogspiration: Finding New Blog Topics
It's easy to find blogs that are, for all intents and purposes, "dead." Plenty of people feel inspired to start using a blogging service or a social networking service (especially Twitter), then blow it in the follow-through; the blog gets a handful of posts, then the user loses interest in their blog, quits writing new content, loses or never establishes a reader base, and thus never gets a chance to make money. With no readers to buy potential products and no readers who might click on advertisements, the more likely way for bloggers to make money, the blog does nothing but occupy space, taking up domain names and usernames that other bloggers might have wanted for their own, more serious projects.As a consequence, it's obviously quite important for bloggers to do two things: they must both provide a substantial amount of fresh posts and a wide variety of posts to make money. If a blog isn't updated on a regular basis, unless the writer is someone extremely important (i.e. someone who probably isn't looking to make their money from the blog, but from something else they do, like perhaps making music or acting or writing things that aren't blog posts), ...
Oct 11, 201017

Stress Management Tips for Online Shop Admins

Categories: Blog Setup, Shop Admin Tips
Stress Management Tips for Online Shop Admins
I received the following question from one of my WP Membership Plugin customers the other night. I decided to write a post on this as I think this will equally help an online shop admin or a blogger in general."I only have a handful of customers and my stress level goes through the roof from time to time trying to deal with them. How do you manage stress with so many customers?"Having a lot of customers is a blessing but it also comes at the price of an increased stress level. I try to follow a simple list of stress management tips to manage my daily stress. This list of stress management tips is divided into two categories:Tips that I regularly follow Tips that I would like to follow more oftenStress Management Tips That I Regularly Follow 1. Don’t over commit: We often take on more than we can actually do. That leads to overwork, stress, and missed deadlines. Take on only as much as you can handle without too much stress.2. Learn to say no: This can be a little hard at times but in order to avoid over committing, you need to learn to turn down projects and requests from ...
Sep 14, 201019

Choosing Hosting for Multiple WordPress Sites

Categories: Web Hosting, Wordpress
Choosing Hosting for Multiple WordPress Sites
Creating a network of blogs or sites is one good strategy to earn dependable online income. However, managing multiple sites naturally demand far greater resources than when running just one site or blog. It’s also not as simple as launching several simple HTML info/hobby sites back then in the earlier days of the Internet.You’d also meet plenty of competition from established, well-funded blog networks (such as online spin-offs of print newspapers). As a matter of fact, you’ll be competing with all the millions of sites out there (a total of 234 million sites by December 2009 compared to 162 million sites in 2008, Pingdom reports).If you’re a website owner, or just planning to become one, you’d want to have the edge, or at the very least, ensure that your well-designed sites are running optimally (or running at all!).The good news is that there are plenty of easy-to-use sophisticated content management solutions (CMS) that will allow you to create and manage a lot of sites from one powerful administrator dashboard. Use WordPress Worth trying if you haven’t yet is WordPress 3.0 (multisite), which absorbed the abilities of the old WordPress MU (multiuser). It lets you install and manage many sites once from one ...
Sep 4, 201015

10 Plugins to Improve the Usability of WordPress Blogs

Categories: Blog Setup, Wordpress Plugin
10 Plugins to Improve the Usability of WordPress Blogs
WordPress is a quality platform that many of us use. It is very popular and has much to offer. In fact, there are almost too many options in terms of plugins and widgets to add to our blogs. These may make our sites look great and add value to what we are offering, but they can bloat the blogs making them slow to load and at times producing a cluttered look and other problems.The good news is that there are plugins that address this problem and improve the performance and user friendliness of our blogs. Since usability is an essential for maximum profitability these are well worth considering. Here are 10 plugins that will surely improve the usability of your WordPress blog.1. Lightbox 2: Images can make or break a blog as you well know from your experience with your own blog and from your perusal of other blogosphere stops. This nifty plugin uses Colorbox to overlay images in a lightbox. One advantage is that your users can view larger images without being taken to another page, streamlining their experience which they will most definitely appreciate. With this plugin you also have the option of auto-lightboxing all the images.2. WP-Print: ...
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