Aug 4, 201010

Tips On How To Become A Better Blogger

Categories: Blog Setup
Tips On How To Become A Better Blogger
This is a follow up article for the How do I Start a Blog and Make Money Online series that we have been publishing on this blog to help the newbie’s get started with a blog. This article covers some good practices that you should develop to become a better blogger. 1. Chose The Right Topic For Your Blog There is usually a big debate on which path to go down when choosing the topic of your blog. Some will advice you to find a niche that people spend money in and focus purely on the profitability. Others will say don’t go for the money at first, focus on your passion because things that you personally enjoy and know about will be easy to create good content on and in the process you will make money. I will leave it up to you to decide but I can only suggest that you consider both sides of the story before making up your mind. Some people can remain motivated because of the process, not the topic but that doesn’t work for me. I need to enjoy the topic. 2. Challenge Yourself You might be an expert on the topic that you cover but it ...
Jul 17, 201021

Affiliate Link Manager Plugin – Revolutionize Your Affiliate Marketing

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
Affiliate Link Manager Plugin – Revolutionize Your Affiliate Marketing
The Affiliate Link Manager plugin allows you to automatically convert specific keywords from your blog posts and pages into your affiliate links. It also cloaks the affiliate link and gives it a prettier and shorter alias. The affiliate link manager plugin will revolutionize how you approach your affiliate marketing business by allowing you to automate the repetitive tasks (learn more on why use a link manager). Affiliate Link Manager Features Some key features of the WordPress Affiliate Link Manager Plugin include: Automatically Convert Keywords into Affiliate Links Assign one or more keywords to a an affiliate link, and the plugin will automatically scan your blog post and pages for those keywords and convert them into your affiliate links. You can easily reverse the operation with one click (very useful when you stop being an affiliate). Cloak Your Affiliate Links It will make your external and affiliate links appear to be on your site. The links will look short and pretty too. Set Keyword Conversion Limit You can set the maximum number of automatically inserted links per post or page so the blog posts do not look spammy. Apply Common Customizations Customize the font color, size, style of all the anchor texts of the cloaked links. You can also ...
Jul 8, 20108

Can You Make Money from Affiliate Marketing? If so How?

Categories: Make Money, Online Marketing
Can You Make Money from Affiliate Marketing? If so How?
This is a follow up article for the “How do I Start a Blog and Make Money Online” series that we have been publishing on this blog to help the newbie’s get started with a blog. Before I start, I would like to make one thing clear: I do not believe in easy money and there is no magical tips in this article that will help you get rich overnight. So if you are after easy money then this article is not for you. This article mainly covers the following topics: What affiliate marketing is and the different types of affiliate marketing The advantages of being an affiliate marketer Some tips and good practices to become a successful affiliate marketer So, can you really make money from affiliate programs? Well yes and no; there is money in affiliate marketing but if YOU can make money from it or not depends on a lot of other factors such as your commitment, experience, site traffic etc. What is Affiliate Marketing? According to Wikipedia "Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts" Basically, you as a publisher will be rewarded when you ...
Feb 18, 20106

Shop Admin Tips – Simple Upsell and Cross sell Techniques that I Use

Categories: Shop Admin Tips
Shop Admin Tips – Simple Upsell and Cross sell Techniques that I Use
In this article I will share a few simple upselling tips that I personally use without irritating the customer and have had success with. Please note that my goal with upselling is not to trick a customer into buying something or sell them some junk. My aim is to show the customer additional products or services that might better meet their needs or will add value to the product that they are already buying. It's a way of demonstrating that I am aware of my customer's needs and care about their satisfaction. What is Upselling? "Upselling is a sales technique whereby a salesperson induces the customer to purchase more expensive items, upgrades, or other add-ons in an attempt to make a more profitable sale. Upselling usually involves marketing more profitable services or products, but upselling can also be simply exposing the customer to other options he or she may not have considered previously." - Wikipedia 1. Place Offers on the Checkout Page There are many places on your website where you can upsell. The most common would be the view cart/checkout page. Visitors who come to your checkout page are potential buyers and most likely have the credit card ready. So it is a lot ...
Oct 26, 200925

Pay Per Click (PPC) Ad – Which One Should You Choose?

Categories: Blog Setup, Make Money
Pay Per Click (PPC) Ad – Which One Should You Choose?
Pay-Per-Click or PPC in short, is an effective marketing scheme for the Internet. If you have a personal blog/site that attracts moderate to high traffic, and you want to generate some revenue from it then PPC is a very good option for you. There are many companies, including the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! etc. that offer PPC ad-serving applications for webmasters and publishers. After registering with the company, all you have to do is put some Javascript code or HTML in your pages and activate the advertisement. The company tracks how many times the ads have been viewed and clicked and makes your payment at the end of the month. In this article we will take a look at some PPC ad serving applications and try to help you decide which one could be the best option for you. Google Adsense Google AdSense is the current leader in content-sensitive web-based marketing. Webmasters can place Google AdSense JavaScript code on their web pages in order to allow Google's servers to show context sensitive advertisements (Google Adwords). Google uses their search engine ranking technology to decide what ads to show on your site, and on specific pages on your site. On a ...
Jul 13, 200952

How to Add Far Future Expires Headers to Your WordPress Site

Categories: Site Optimization Tips
How to Add Far Future Expires Headers to Your WordPress Site
Few weeks ago I wrote on how to optimize your WordPress site for better performance which has some tips and tricks on how to speed up a WordPress Site. I received a few requests to elaborate on some of the points as not all of them are obvious changes. In this article I have explained how you can add far future expiry header to your image, css and javascript files to speed up your site. Adding expires headers do not affect the site load time for a first time visitor but you will be surprised how much the page load time decreases (faster page load) for subsequent page views/return visits from that visitor. Expires header specifies a time far enough in the future so that browsers won't try to re-fetch images, CSS, javascript etc files that haven't changed (this reduces the number of HTTP requests) and hence the performance improvement on subsequent page views. If your server is Apache (most web servers), you can use the 'ExpiresDefault' directive to set an expiration date relative to the current date. ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 months" This sets the expiry date of the file 2 months into the future from the current time. The following values can ...
May 1, 200924

Which CPM ad Network to Use for a Relatively New Blog

Categories: Blog Setup, Make Money
Which CPM ad Network to Use for a Relatively New Blog
One of my readers asked me the following question regarding CPM ad network and I thought I would write an article on it: "What CPM ad network would you suggest for a relatively new Blog that doesn't have a lot of traffic?" Before I answer the question and reveal what I use myself, I would like to cover a few other related topics in this article that I think will add value to a lot of other readers. The following topics have been covered in this article: What is CPM ad? Why use CPM ad? List of the  popular CPM ad networks that I know of Which CPM ad network do I use and why? A simple trick when using ADSDAQ CPM ad network What is CPM ad? According to Wikipedia - "CPM is frequently used in advertising to represent cost per thousand (where M is the roman numeral of 1000). When used in online advertising it relates to the cost per thousand page impressions." An impression is a single instance of an ad appearing on a Web site. A blog generating 20,000 page views monthly displaying an advertising banner with a $2 CPM, will earn $40 monthly from that banner ad unit. Why use CPM ad? CPM ad gives you another means ...
Mar 30, 2009106

WordPress eStore and NextGen Gallery Integration to Create Digital Photo Store

Categories: Blog Setup, Wordpress Plugin
WordPress eStore and NextGen Gallery Integration to Create Digital Photo Store
WordPress eStore and WordPress Paypal Shopping Cart Plugins can now be integrated with the NextGen Gallery Plugin to create a Digital photo store similar to the demo given below: [nggallery id=10 template=wp-eStore] The Shopping cart will appear below this line when you add an item to the cart. The shopping cart can also be found on the sidebar. The images have been resized to 800x600 resolution using the NextGen Gallery resize utility. An watermark has also been applied to the image using the NextGen Gallery 'Effect' option to prevent stealing. Once the purchase is complete the encrypted download link for the original image (1920x1200 resolution and no watermark) is emailed to the buyer. Just to clarify... You don't necessarily have to sell digital photos to use the gallery. You could be selling anything and still use the Gallery as a means of displaying the products where each thumbnail is the icon of the product you are selling. How to Integrate NextGen Gallery and WordPress eStore Plugins There are two ways to integrate NextGen Gallery with the WP eStore plugin: Create/Configure every product separately Configure one product then use that as a template On this page I have explained the first integration method. Please see the following page for the ...
Mar 10, 200948

How to Add Widgets to WordPress Theme’s Footer

Categories: Wordpress
How to Add Widgets to WordPress Theme’s Footer
I wanted to use widgets in the footer of my WordPress theme but my wordpress theme didn't come with a footer-sidebar by default. I didn't really wanted to change the theme just because of that. So I hacked the wordpress theme to introduce footer-sidebars. If you are looking for a tutorial that explains how you can add sidebars/widgets to the footer of your WordPress theme then keep reading. There are really three main parts to introducing a footer-sidebar 1. Registering the Sidebars in the WordPress Theme 2. Inserting the Sidebars In the WordPress Theme 3. Putting some style into the sidebars 1. Register the Sidebars in the WordPress Theme Go to the WordPress theme editor and open the Theme Functions (functions.php) file. Now Search for the following line in your Theme Functions (functions.php) if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) Once you find the above line then take a look at the the next line which should look similar to one of the followings depending on how many sidebars you have: register_sidebar(array( or register_sidebars(2,array( Say for example you have one sidebar in your theme and you want to add three rows of sidebars in the footer area so you can put widgets then overwrite the code with the following: register_sidebars(4,array( The above will register 4 sidebars (one ...
Mar 10, 20092

Handy YouTube Tips and Tricks for Bloggers

Categories: Tech Tips
Handy YouTube Tips and Tricks for Bloggers
If you use YouTube videos in your blog then you might find some of the following tips and tricks pretty handy if you don't know them already. Link to a Chosen Start Time of a YouTube Video Say for example, you want to link to a nice video that you found on YouTube but it has some crap at the start which you don't really want your visitors to watch. In a situation like that you can just link to a specific time of that video so when the video starts it will start from that specific time and skip everytime before that. So if I wanted to link a YouTube video and wanted it to start playing from 1 minute and 17 seconds when someone follows the link then all I have to do is append #t=1m17s to the video URL. Original video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFoe6oS0Np0 Vidoe URL linked to a specific time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFoe6oS0Np0#t=1m17s Below is a link for a demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFoe6oS0Np0#t=1m17s Add a Video to Quick List for Future Viewing This is particularly useful when you are trying to find some videos on a specific topic but along the way you discover something interesting that you want to watch too but if you don't want to get distracted at that ...
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