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Mar 29, 2011

Blog Commenting Strategy to Improve Search Engine Ranking

Categories: Blog Setup, SEO
Blog Commenting Strategy to Improve Search Engine Ranking
A blog commenting strategy focuses on getting constant backlinks from other blogs and websites. This post is concentrated on giving you specific instructions and detailed strategies that you can instantly apply to your daily method in any given niche. You have to know from which sources and also HOW MANY backlinks you require to achieve HIGH rankings with a particular keyword. This is the very first point that a person has to know before he or she can even move on to building these highly targeted backlinks from other people's websites.How can you start with your own blog commenting strategy and from where and which sources can you get links fast? It is all about the search parameter you use to find niche targeted, relevant and trusted blogs in Google. Here are some sites where you can leave a comment. Make sure to look at the search strategy that is effective for both sites and keywords.site:flickr.com “your keyword” site:blogspot.com “your keyword” site:hubpages.com “your keyword” “powered by wordpress” your keywordThese are just four sites from which you can get immediate links within a few seconds or minutes. The first thing you have to write into Google's search is the site, then your keyword or ...
Mar 20, 2011

WordPress System Integration 101

Categories: Shop Admin Tips, Site Optimization Tips
WordPress System Integration 101
I see many WordPress users mixing up the roles of a WordPress plugin with a theme (kind of like mixing business with pleasure) on a regular basis without knowing what they are doing.  If you don't know why WordPress invented the concept of plugins and themes, then this article is for you. --Every time you build a WordPress site, you perform an act of System Integration.  You begin with the WordPress core, and customize it; by adding a theme and plugins.  But not everybody is a Systems Engineer; and in the process of constructing their sites, they sometimes make integration decisions that have costly consequences later on.In WordPress, "a theme modifies the way a site is displayed, without modifying the underlying software."  You select a theme based on the look and feel you want to (market or) present to your users.  Later, if you decide the look and feel of an existing site does not meet your (marketing) presentation requirements; you can simply choose another theme, without affecting the way a site functions.Depending on your functional requirements, you might use one or more plugins "to extend the functionality of WordPress."  You choose each plugin because it performs one or more ...
Mar 3, 2011

A Bucket Full Of Objects — Amazon S3

Categories: Shop Admin Tips, Site Optimization Tips, Tech Tips, Web Hosting
A Bucket Full Of Objects — Amazon S3
Amazon is not just about books anymore.  Since 2001, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has found ways of deriving income from the excess capacity of the network infrastructure used to run their own e-commerce business.  One of these products, the Simple Storage Service (S3) allows users to store their files, known as "objects" online.  As of March 2010, it was estimated that S3 contained over 102 billion objects.Objects are referenced by their "keys," which consist of an optional "pseudo folder" (directory) path name, followed by the name of the object.  The keys "His-Stuff/test.txt" and "Her-Stuff/test.txt" refer to 2 separate instances of the  "test.txt" object.  Because the "folder" name part of the keys are unique, so are the object instances.  The term "pseudo folder" is used because S3 does not really store objects in folders; the same way that Windows, OS-X or Linux does.  The entire object key is considered (by S3) to be the equivalent of a file name.Object keys are stored in "buckets."  Bucket names are unique across the entire S3 system.  Each bucket is owned by an AWS account.  AWS accounts can claim ownership of many buckets, but buckets can only be owned by one AWS account at a ...
Feb 28, 2011

Free Premium Plugin and Theme Downloaders – Beware!

Categories: Blogging Tips, Featured, Shop Admin Tips
Free Premium Plugin and Theme Downloaders – Beware!
Reading this article may end up saving your site from getting hacked.This Tips and Tricks HQ blog gets so many queries on the term “Free eStore Download”, "Free WordPress eMember" and many similar terms from bloggers not wanting to pay for the WP eStore or the WP eMember plugin. I am pretty sure the same is true for most premium plugins and themes. I understand some of you not wanting to pay for a plugin or a theme but trying to get a free download (possibly from a warez or torrent or file sharing site) is not the solution.I always believed in the fact that there are no free lunches in this world. If you see someone giving someone else's premium plugin or theme for free you have to ask yourself the following question:“Why are they giving it away for free?”When people offer you something for free, like premium plugins or themes because they know thousands are looking for it, you need to think twice before downloading and USING it.Anyone can easily add code to the original plugin or theme and offer it to you for free. Now this premium plugin that you got for free can give them a ...
Feb 25, 2011

WP eMember and WordPress 3.1 Update

Categories: News
WP eMember and WordPress 3.1 Update
This is a quick update for the users of the WP eMember plugin.WordPress 3.1 has been released! A lot of new features were added in this release. It also tightened some security stuff so it is a good idea to look into upgrading to this version as soon as you can.WordPress 3.1 changed some internal AJAX functions which caused WP eMember (WordPress Membership Plugin) to not show the member's list in the "Members" menu. It also affects the "Manage Content Protection" Menu.We have updated the eMember plugin to address this issue.If your installation is affected, simply get an updated build of WP eMember plugin from here and that will fix the issue:http://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/update-requestYou can read up on all the WordPress 3.1 changes from the WordPress Codex site.
Feb 11, 2011

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, 2011

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, 2011

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, 2011

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 ...
Jan 13, 2011

10 Tips to Increase Your Sales Page Conversion

Categories: Online Marketing, Shop Admin Tips
10 Tips to Increase Your Sales Page Conversion
If you are selling something online then you need to pay attention to the conversion rate of your sales page. The conversion rate can vary wildly and is totally unpredictable but even an one percent increase in conversion rate can make the difference between losing money or making profit. What is Conversion Rate? In online marketing conversion rate is the percentage of visitors who take a desired action (for example: make a purchase or click an ad).You can think of conversion as pouring traffic into a funnel where they get filtered on different levels and at last the remaining portion gets converted. Usually a large portion of the traffic will leave the sales page right after they land. A majority of the remaining traffic will abandon the sales page when they see that it does not fit their need or they want to do research or compare the price with other sites. The small remaining portion of traffic consists of customers that have already researched the products or were referred from another site and are looking to make a purchase. Tips to Increase Sales Page Conversion It is a good idea that you optimize your sales page with keywords related to the product you ...
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