You will remind that we were reviewing article spinners recently and my preference went for Power Article Rewriter. Lately there is one online article spinner that has come to my attention and I was pretty much surprised by its performance.
First of all I will like to point out that the tool is still in Beta and is thus available freely. The advantage of this tool lies in the fact that it makes use of a human-built thesaurus. And better still the system will grow as more and more people use it and input new synonyms into it.
The good thing about the tool is that it also spins phrases not only individual word allowing you to have a better spin quality. On the other hand it does not support nested spin that is you will only have level one spin.
There is still some glitches with the system when it comes to selecting the words and phrases but remember that this tool is still in beta and should become better as the development goes by. There is also a lively forum that is available in order to help you with any problems that you may be having.
I do not know how much the tool will cost when it is out of beta but it is the only tool that have come close to Power Article Rewriter when it comes to thesaurus and especially ease of use.
You can try it yourself at http://thebestspinner.com/ as long as the product remain in beta.
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So you have got your Wordpress based site up and running and know you face the question how to update Wordpress. There is nothing to worry about because the people at Wordpress have made a good job when it comes to upgrading their software with their Wordpress automatic upgrade.
Once a new version is available you will find a link in your dashboard asking you either to upgrade automatically or download the new version. You only have to choose the upgrade automatically link and you are done.
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade will download the updated version, install it and upgrade the database. You will not have anything else to do.
Wordpress might also suggest you to back up your database before upgrading. This is indeed good computing practice to create regular back-ups of your sensitive data. Although I have never had problem with the automatic update process there is nothing wrong for you in following the recommendations.
Supplementary note:
Sometimes when you update to a newer version of Wordpress it may happens that newer features cause problem in the Wordpress theme. In this case you should check with the author of the themes if there is a newer version that is compatible with the current version of Wordpress.
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If you are used to search engine optimization then you surely know the importance of social bookmarking. Submitting your sites to these bookmarking sites can greatly enhance the number of visitors to your site and increase the number of backlinks to your site.
However this can be a time consuming task especially when you have multiple sites with a lot of pages. You will never be able to do effective social bookmarking on your own. Either you will need to outsource some of the jobs or you will need to use some automated tools.
In this review we will be having a look at Bookmarking Demon 5 which is great software when it comes to social bookmarking.
Positive point
- The program supports a large list of bookmarking script such as Scuttle, ScuttlePlus, Pligg and PhpDug. This ensures that you will have access at large variety of bookmarking sites.
- Allows you to create account at bookmarking site automatically. There is a random username generator and password generator to simplify the process.
- Also there is an automatic email verification for your registration need.
- There is a scheduler in the program to help plan the submission of your site.
- The program provides an ability to store multiple accounts at the social bookmarking site.
- Features a title, tag and description randomization to ensure that there is no duplicate content penalty.
- Project management feature is also available to help improve productivity.
- Great report system to ensure that you have complete control on the social bookmarking process and provide you valuable information on last submissions.
- Multi-threading display available- choice between single-browser mode, tab mode and multiple window mode in order to monitor the bookmarking process.
Negative point
- Bookmarking demon 5 is by no means free and is even not cheap. The software sells at $147 (last time I checked) and can be beyond the mean of newbie. But in truth at this level you should consider all your expenses as being investment.
- There are still some script that is not supported by bookmarking demon.
Conclusion:
Bookmarking demon is great software for all those interested to automate their social bookmarking submissions. This is indeed a good way to get tons of traffic and also an enormous amount of backlinks to your site.
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In our previous article we took a look at article spinning software. But once you have spinned your articles you will have to submit it to article directories in order to get traffic or backlinks. Doing it manually can be time consuming and this is where an automated article submitter tool might come in handy.
In this article we will be reviewing Automatic Article Submitter which we have been using to submit our articles.
Positive features:
This is a great tool that will allow you to submit your spinned articles to hundreds of article directories automatically. The software comes with a list of highly-rated article directories and better still you can also add your own blogger.com and Wordpress.com account to the list.
- The tool will also create and verify account at article directories. No need to confirm email either. Can you imagine how much time saving this is? You can use this tool to spin your articles too.
- It also allows you to check keyword density of articles before submitting to meet the stringent requirement of some article directories.
- You can also schedule article submission to make sure that you do not trigger any spamming filter from the search engine. How cool is this? Your article submission can be run on autopilot even when you are on holidays in an exotic island.
Now to the drawbacks
- This tool is not free and you will have to pay for it. And again if you are serious about affiliate marketing you should be ready to invest something. Nothing is free in this life and I for one can tell you this.
- Automatic Article Submitter does not allow you to submit to social bookmarking site such as Digg. This is one of the major drawbacks of this program. With this feature, it would have been THE article marketing tool.
Automatic Article Submitter is a great tool for those looking to save time on article marketing and to have a tool to help them towards niche domination.
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If you are into internet marketing then you probably know that backlink is important for your website. One of the most interesting ways to have tons of links is by submitting articles to the various article directories and also from the Web 2.0 sites.
However it is important that all your articles are unique in order to not be slapped by the Google Duplicate Content penalty. Either you write unique articles for each of the site you submit to or spin them so that you have a degree of uniqueness in each one of them.
Given that writing unique articles may be quite tedious and costly it is better to spin the articles from a seed one. We are not here talking about automatic spinning where a software will be doing all the work but some kind of semi-automatic spinning where you will have some significant amount of work. Indeed you will have to prepare the seed article yourself to make sure that it is readable and in proper English.
In this post I will be reviewing some programs that I have used for spinning articles.
Notepad
Ok you might be telling me that this is not a spinning utility but it does have its advantages. Usually what I do is write my articles in Microsoft Word because of the spell checker ability and then paste it in notepad. In this way I can add the variants of the sentences and individual words without worrying about Microsoft Word inserting special characters.
The downside is that you do not have any help when it comes to thesaurus and synonyms in notepad. It’s only you and your head which will be doing the job. Also it can be quite overwhelming to find your way with all the different variants if you made a mistake and miss syntax here and there.
Notepad is good for those that are doing only sentence spinning and very little word spinning because it will be time consuming otherwise.
Simply free article spinner
This is a free online tool that allows you to spin your articles. Basically you will need to input your original article on the site and then insert brackets around sentences or words that you need spin. Afterwards you will be presented with a box where you will need to input the alternate text for the phrases or words you have been selected.
When compared to notepad this is easier because of the layout. It is simpler to use and great on the eye. Also it is easy to change variables if ever you need to because all your variants will be found in individual boxes.
The disadvantage is that it does not provide you any hints for synonyms. This can make things a bit slower if you need to heavily spin an article but overall it is quite interesting because of its price. It’s free.
Visit the site here: http://simply-free-article-spinner.com/
Easy article rewriter
This is another spinning utility that will help you spin your articles quite easily. However there is a difference. It will not create a seed article for you. It only facilitates the rewriting of articles. You have to paste your existing article and the software will automatically parse the content for you. You will be presented with boxes below each sentence where you will insert the alternative version.
As the creator of the software put it“This tool basically removes the headache of having to read, digest and understand an existing article before having to rewrite it. It just breaks the task down into baby steps and walks you through the process”
This tool will not mass produce article for you but just help you to rewrite.
Visit the site here : http://www.easy-article-rewriter.com/
Jet Spinner
This is another great online spinning tool to pump out some unique articles. Basically you write your articles in the space provided and insert all the variants of the articles by using the {|} syntax. In order to help you there is an Ajax thesaurus that is included on the site. Once you have finished you will have the option of selecting the amount of articles you want and also choose your favorite output format. The program will also attempt to create a summary based on your article and this can indeed be a great thing for those desperate to save time.
If you like you can also use the Jetsubmitter option in order to spin and submit your articles to directories. This can be a great time saver for article marketers that want to save time. However this option is not free and you will have to upgrade.
The negative part is that you will have to add the syntax manually and this can give rise to error and you must not forget to close the bracket. Very tedious task indeed.
Visit the site here : http://www.jetspinner.com/index.php
Article Apps
This is another online spinning tool that allows you to create some unique articles. The positive point about this tool is that it allows you to automatically spin articles with a library of not only words but also phrases. This can be a real time saver for those that have hundreds of article to spin. Articleapps.com will also allow you to spin resource box, author name and titles to help you spend your article creation process
Concerning the negative point is that there are still some weird sentences that are automatically generated and you will still need to proof read it to make sure that there is no English mistake in the text. But if used properly can help in accelerating the article spinning process.
Visit the site here: http://www.articleapps.com/index.php
Power article rewriter
This one is my favorite to spin articles. However as with all good things you have to pay for it. This tool is not free.
Basically you just have to open a text file containing your original article and click on each word or select whole sentences and it will appear in an upper window. On the right side of the screen you will be able to select synonyms for the words or phrases.
The good thing is that you can add your own phrases and synonyms to the one inbuilt in the software. Moreover you can apply the changes to the all article if you wish to in order to save time. You can also batch rewrite the articles once you have finished.
The negative point is that you do not have a spell checker. This could have make things easier when reviewing the article. At the moment I paste the article back to Microsoft Word in order to use the spell check features as it is very easy to leave grammar mistakes when creating the seed articles.
Visit the site here : http://powerarticlerewriter.com/
To sum up I will say that all these spinning article are devised to help you spin your articles faster and much easier. With power article rewriter I take around 1 hour to spin a 300 words article. However I write the article from scratch and should be less if you are just spinning an existing article.
Spinning utility is a must if you want to spin numerous articles in order to make submission to article directories. In this way you will be safe from the duplicate content filter.
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The advantage of Wordpress lies in its customization abilities. You can make almost everything you want from it. What about a photoblog? Are you a designer, artist or any other person that need to display a portfolio on the web? With the appropriate Wordpress theme can you can turn your blog into a photoblog.
Three of the most interesting Wordpress photoblog themes are listed below:
Fotolog
This Wordpress theme is excellent for photographers that need to display high quality photos in a wide format. The theme is also optimized for faster navigation with a simple navigation system.
- Built for WP 2.3+ onwards. WP 2.5+ compatible
- Built in Gravatar support for comments
- 1 column, showing 1 photo for each page
- Maximum 800px width photo on main page (can be modified)
- Previous photo and next photo link; on top and bottom of each page – for better/faster
Grace theme
This is a minimalistic photoblog theme designed to place your photo as a focal point. With some great contrast this Wordpress theme do possess all the properties to make a good photoblog.
Features:
- A lightweight jQuery powered rotating banner of featured photos (you select which photos you want to appear here just by adding them to the Featured category)
- A “widgetised” left hand column giving you the freedom to modify the text that appears on the home page.
- A mini-gallery of your 6 most recently added photos.
Fotofolio
This is another great Wordpress theme for photoblog. This theme is especially designed for all visual workers and all those that need to maintain an online portfolio.
Features :
- Automatically resize image for Thumbnail and preview
- Jquery Integrated for Featured Photos and Previews
- Theme Options for easy configure
There are also some Wordpress plugins that are available to help you add photo functionality to your existing site.
This Wordpress gallery plugin will allow you to connect your blog to your Flickr album. A great way to showcase your extensive Flickr albums on your blog. Alternatively there is also a widget that is included to allow you to include your photos in the sidebar. Recommended.
We all use Facebook don’t we? This Wordpress photo gallery plugin will allow you to use all photos that are available on your facebook account and use them on the site. Definitely recommended if you use facebook as your primary photo sharing site.
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Are you looking for the perfect skin for Wordpress? Also known as themes or templates, Wordpress skins come in different shades and colors. Some may even add a whole bunch of features to your site and help you to customize your site without any knowledge of php or css.
In truth your choice of Wordpress theme will depend a lot on the type of blogs you have. For instance, if you are running a review type blog you can choose a magazine theme for your website. These types of theme has unique features to lure your readers in reading more posts , discovering your site and overall stay longer on your site. Indeed if you run this type of blogs this is what you should be aiming for in order to increase revenue.
If you are not blogging for profit then you should probably go with the simple Wordpress themes out there. Simple not in the sense that they lack features but rather minimalistic. Even here you will have a hard time choosing with themes coming out of almost every day. Some themes make use of advanced functionality such as AJAX and JQuery in order to bring life to your blogs.
Free skins for Wordpress are available at different places on the internet. Wordpress themes directory is a great place to start your theme research. You can also search the theme directory from within your Wordpress blogs and use a number of filters in order to find the ideal skin for your blog. There are also a couple of independent theme directories that exist on the web with some really good gems. Another place to visit is the freebies section of some great websites such as Smashing Magazine. There are some premium themes that are released free by these sites.
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Most of us focus on getting traffic to our website but simply forget about the essential: our landing pages. We are glad to see four five figures for page views and do not pay any particular attention to whether we are converting the traffic or not. This is where analytical packages come in handy.
Most of us we are focused on the traffic we get on our website and our earnings. What about the bounce rate? What if our landing page is not to the standard? Interestingly some of the best tracking tools are free and we still fail to make the most of them.
Google analytics
This analytical tool from Google is jam-packed with features that will definitely help you to improve your website. Most of us make use of the basic features such as page views and traffic sources. But did you know about the segmentation features, the goals conversion metrics and the custom reports features of Analytics? Just like you I was only using a small part of Google analytics until I found out that this tool can be really useful.
For instance you can use the funnel view in order to find out how your customers move on your site and why they do not convert. This can be really interesting if you want to improve your site conversion and increase your return on investment.
Google Website Optimizer
This is another website marketing tool that is sometimes taken for granted. One great feature of this site is the ability to test changes to your site. Suppose you want to change the layout of your landing page and analyze the impact that will have on your conversion rate. This is where Google website Optimizer comes in handy.
With its ability to compare entire pages or only sections on a webpage you will have plenty of options in order to test pages. This can be quite handy when it comes to landing pages where you want to have the best possible conversion.
Many people are always on the look for great website marketing tools when the best is already available. You should go ahead and try those tools. This will definitely help to improve your business.
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If you are ever going to be successful online you will quickly learn that everything boils down to selecting the best keywords pertaining to your niche. In truth if you want to succeed you will need to get to the first page of the Search Engine ranking page and be able to stay there. Only this way you will be able to guarantee a constant amount of traffic to your site.
So how do you exactly do that?
This is where keyword marketing tools comes in handy. This little piece of software will allow you to discover the most important keyword in your niche, the most searched item and the most paid keyword terms. In fact it will all amount to the kind of software that you choose. For the sake of this article I will consider two tools to get you started: a free one and a paid one.
Free keyword tool
The Adwords keyword tool can be quite useful in helping you discover some hidden niches. You just have to input your keywords and the website will return you a complete list of related keywords, an estimate of the amount of search and the relative competition for the keyword.
This tool is great in order to get use to keyword tools without the need of splashing money. Great for novice marketer.
Paid keyword marketing tool
If you are paying for software you should rightly expect to get some really great features from the product. Keyword Elite does exactly that. It will allow you to uncover some untapped niches, analyze your competition's campaign, get estimated click figure for your ads and complete SEO analysis to get you ranked higher in the search engine.
You probably have heard of the saying "you get what you paid for" and this is exactly that with keyword elite. In my opinion this is one of the best keyword marketing tools that exist.
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It will surely come a time where you will be looking to ask your readers some question. This can indeed be a great way for you to investigate your target market’s anticipation and what they are looking for. But how do you do that on your blog?
Here comes the SurveyGizmo’s survey plugin for Wordpress which will allow you to do just that. In fact this is a sophisticated tool that will offer you all the features that you ever need in order to conduct research on your blog.
Although it is a paid product there is a free account that is available for all of you who only need a scale down version of the product.
Installing :
- Download the survey plugin and save it to your computer
- Add the plugins from within your admin panel just as you would do with any other plugin
- Activate the plugin
- You will need to get an API key by going to the site: http://www.surveygizmo.com/?ap=wp
- Once registered go into your account settings and go to the API tab as shown below
Api
- Copy the API to the field on your website
And that’s it.
The plugin will allow you the freedom to choose whether you want your users to click on a link in order to access the survey page or you can just embed the survey through the use of JavaScript.
The Free version will only allow you 250 responses but you can upgrade or downgrade whenever you feel like. In truth the bill is on a per month basis and you will be paying only for the time you are using the plugin.
The SurveyGizmo’s survey plugin for Wordpress is in my opinion one of the best plugin that you will get for the wordpress platform.
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The success of your blog will in most cases depend on the amount of traffic that your site has and also the amount of returning visitors. In order to achieve this it is important that you have a proper way to maintain a contact with your readers. This is where RSS feeds may come in handy.
A lot of users nowadays use RSS feeds in order to subscribe to the content of a particular site.
In this article I will be telling you how to install the Feedburner plugin for your Wordpress blog. The advantage of this using Feedburner is that it will provide you some monitoring statistics on your feed that can be helpful to understand your users.
The plugin that we are going to use is the FD Feedburner Plugin for Wordpress.
Installation :
- Download the plugin and copy the fdfeedburner.php into wp-content/plugins folder.
- From within your admin panel activate the plugin
- Go to feedburner.com and burn your feed url there
- Go to the plugin configuration panel where you will enter the feed url
That's all.
There is no modification on Wordpress themes or modification of htaccess file that need to be done. You do not need also to tell your existing users about the change of feed url. The feedburner plugin for Wordpress plugin will handle all these things for you. Moreover if you want to insert adsense ads in your feeds the plugin will also handle that for you.
There is no reason now that you should not start increase the subscription to your site.
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The Google sandbox is one of the most debatable subjects in the world of SEO. There are some people that believe in it while there are others that don't. If ever it exists how you deal with it.
First of all let us define what the sandbox is. Basically it is a period of time where google will check your new site before admitting it in the ranking page. Given that Google put a lot of emphasis on the relevancy of its ranking, it is normal that they will compare your new site against some "spam site filters" to determine whether there is something wrong with your site.
So far Google has not admitted the existence of the sandbox and will not even provide information whether your site is caught in it or not. But it makes sense that they need to have some form of protection mechanism against spam site.
So how do you deal with it?
1. Create a subdomain on an indexed domain
e.g http://development.yourdomain.com
2. Replicate your old site in the new subdomain
3. Link it from your home page or another frequently indexed site
4. Once indexed Place this code in a htaccess file in the subdomain folder
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
# Change the following line to the folder you are
# actually in and make sure you have the trailing slash
Rewritebase /development/
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
This code basically will tell google that the subdomain has its own domain now and the link should be removed from the index. Using this small trick will help google index your site without submitting to the sandbox process.
This article is originally from The Manic Marketer but the site seems to be flagged by Google. May be this site has been hacked or contain unsolicited content.
Link to article: http://www.themanicmarketer.com/google-sandbox-how-to-avoid-sandbox/
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It will happen someday when your internet business develops that you will be looking to implement a shopping cart on your Wordpress blog. How do you do that?
According to most Wordpress users, the best free plugin for shopping cart is the one from Instinct. This plugin contains a wide variety of features:
Product catalog
- Allow products to be groups according to different tags and categories.
- Integration with a wide variety of payments gateway. Google Checkout, Paypal, Authorize.net are all recognized by this plugin.
Social networking features
- Allow you to import your products into the facebook marketplace and Google base.
Customization
- Through the use of Wordpress template tags this Wordpress shopping cart will allow you to modify the skin the way you want in order to suit your own personal taste.
- Advanced CSS is also used in order to allow further customization of the cart.
- Furthermore the plugin comes with some templates to allow you to choose from.
Security
- The plugin is secure through the use of SSL.
Promotion
- The plugin allow you to use coupon codes, related products merchandising and implement a newsletter on your Wordpress based site.
- Also allows email marketing to be implemented on the site. All this should help you to drive sales of your products.
Shipping
- UPS and USPS integration are also available. Also provides a custom shipping table for your customers.
Export
- The plugin allows the export of customers order, customer information and product information to a Comma Separated Variable (CSV) file.
And all this is free. When you consider the list of features that this plugin has you can easily understand why it is considered by users as the best shopping cart plugin for Wordpress based site.
Download it here
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Twitter has gradually become an important marketing tools and it will not be a surprise if twitter (and other social marketing sites marketing) will overtake email marketing in the future. For the time being it might be important for you to understand how twitter can be useful for your business.
If you just arrived on planet earth twitter is a micro-blogging tool that allows you to post messages (limited to 140 characters) via a wide variety of devices through the internet. So how can it be useful for your business?
Given that all the posting are done in real-time marketers can use twitter in various ways:
1. As a market research tool. By analyzing what customers are saying about your brand you can effectively use twitter to gather interesting information from the market in real-time.
2. With its relationship models twitter all low to follow and un-follow people just as easily. Meaning the people that are following you will most likely be those that are most loyal to your brand (quite simplistic though).
3. Twitter will also allow you to communicate with your customers in a timely way. For instance once you discover a complaint on twitter it will be possible for you to provide solutions to your customers in a timely way.
4. It also allows the creation of marketing buzz. In the age of the internet where many marketers are working towards some form of viral marketing twitter is yet another opportunity for you to do just that.
5. Twitter is also a great way for you to announce great offer to the masses. As said before Twitter is a real-time tool and your followers will be announced almost instantaneously about your tweets via text messages. No waiting for them to check their email.
These are only 5 ways how twitter can be useful for your business. There are indeed many other ways that you can use twitter that we will cover later in future posts.
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It’s been some time since we last review some themes here. In this post you will find 3 magazine themes that I am sure will please even the most difficult of bloggers. These are magazine themes and should be interesting for professional bloggers.
Scarlett theme
This is one of the most beautiful free themes with a magazine layout for Wordpress. The theme come in a light colored tone and should be appropriate for almost all niches. Feature-rich this theme surely be appropriate for people that run a network of site and are too busy to look for different themes for each of their sites.
Scarlett Theme
Top Scarlett theme features:
- Drop-down menu navigation
- Adsense ready slots
- Flash Tag cloud
- Threaded comments
Small magazine theme
This is another cool magazine theme from the guys at Gabfire. Interestingly this theme is also available in French.
Small magazine theme
Top small magazine theme features :
Arthemia theme
This theme from Michael Hutagalung is another interesting one. It is lightweight magazine theme for wordpress which will fit almost any niche where a good theme is needed.
Arthermia theme
Arthemia theme top features :
- Automatic image resizer
- Drop down navigation menu
- Advertisement ready spots
In my opinion these themes ranked among the best magazine theme for wordpress at the moment.
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You have spent a lot of time doing some research, writing and proof-read your post and you finally click the publish button. Until the search engine pick it no visitor will be aware of your blog post and no one will come to your site. Exception of course for those that have subscribed to your RSS feeds. But there are different ways to promote your article once you have published them.
Tweeter
Tweeter has now become a major promotion tool with its ability to connect like-minded individual. Thanks to tweet and re-tweets post can turn viral in no time and can bring an important surge of traffic. That is why it is important that you tweet any major post from your account and also gives visitors also the ability to tweet from your website. Do not overdo it though or else you risk feeling the wrath of your followers. Instead try to provide genuine tweets and also helpful comments. They will love it.
Via its status updates Facebook also is trying to compete against tweeter. This is why it might be important for you to create a fans page on Facebook and also update your status when there is a major announcement to be made. These are your fans and they should indeed run to your website.
Friendfeed
It might also be a good idea for you to share your post on Friendfeed. And let your blog post go viral. FriendFeed is a community where people share information with other people with the same interest. Every time someone discovers a new topic he can share it with friends on FriendFeed. In truth this has great potential to turn something viral.
You will have noticed that I did not mention email notifications in this article. This is because I think that gradually it is losing its efficiency. I am not saying that you should not use email notifications but rather it is a basic functionality just as RSS feed. Emails and RSS feeds should be used on every blog.
What I am saying is that as social media marketing gain more and more prominence it might be important for you to make the best use of it. Tools like tweeter and facebook are the next-gen platform for marketing and it is important that you keep this is mind.
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This process is also known as link baiting. This is not a “scientific” method to gain links but doing this can in theory increase your chance of having links back to your site.
1. Unique tools or services
If you can provide a free tool or service for people then you are really in for some link. For example a backlink checker tool can work well for a Search Engine Optimization blog while a water quality tester can be a good link bait for an aquarium website. A free template or a plugin can be equally as good. If you lack the technical skills to do such thing you can always outsource the job to a specialist.
2. Controversy or Uniqueness
If you can spark some controversy or uniqueness in your post then you are in for some interesting traffic and link to your site. Bloggers love to analyze controversial post and this will increase the chance of you getting some links.
3. Research
If you are good at doing research or analyzing statistics this can be a great idea to get some links to your site. For instance some bloggers have been gaining attention recently by analyzing the impact of Bing on other search engines. This is indeed a hot topic and will encourage a lot of backlink.
4. Contest
If you have the means why not held a contest or an event in your niche. I am sure that webmasters will be happy linking back to the contest they are participating in.
5. Humor or unique style
If you have a unique writing style or can come up with some good jokes then this can be really useful. Bloggers love to give credits for something that they will publish on their sites and will automatically link back to your site. This also works if you can come up with some unique graphics or cartoons to illustrate your blog. People will love it
In summary we could say that linkbaiting only work when you have some unique and useful content to share with the Internet audience. Whenever you are creating content or tools for linkbaiting always keep in mind that people will link back to you only if they are satisfied with what you offer them.
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Most of the time all the SEO efforts are focused outside the main website in the form of creating backlinks. Although it is true that Google’s put a lot of weight on the quality and amount of links that you have to your site it is equally important to have a webpage that is easily crawl by the search engine.
Here are some tips on on-page SEO
- Make sure that your site is crawled easily by the spiders. Ensure that all the pages are inter-linked in the form of a good navigation structure. It is best to avoid navigation made of Javascript or Flash.
- Although Meta Tags have been devaluated by the search engine it is always a good idea to include the keywords and description on your page. It takes only one minute.
- Use header tags to label all your pages especially with keywords. Do not overdo it though.
- Make sure that all your pages are made up of unique content and that they are not duplicated elsewhere on the site. This will avoid you getting in the supplemental index.
- Use keywords on Alt-tags for images. Do not overdo it though
- Use the no-follow tag on pages that you do not want to receive Page rank flow. For instance on your blog you may have a privacy page but you do not want bots to index it. This process is known as PR sculpting and is a hot debate in the SEO world.
- Use valid code on your website. This will make it easier for search engine spiders to crawl your site
- Submit an XML sitemap to Google to help it discover your site structure
- If you are registering a new domain it is always a good idea to make sure that the keywords is included in it
I hope that these small tips will help you rank higher in the search engine. Remember no one knows the true secret of how to rank high on the search engine. What we know is that it is an equation that is made up of both of on-page SEO and also of some work outside your website.
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If you are an affiliate marketer then you will surely need to learn about link cloaking. Link cloaking also some time called link masking is to make your affiliate links for something it is not.
For instance for those that use Clickbank will understand that the classic Clickbank link is in the format http://AFFILIATE.VENDOR.hop.clickbank.net
Link cloaking will make it appear in the form: http://www.blogmarketingtools.com/xxxx
Most of the time people are afraid of affiliate products thinking that it is only being promoted because of money. Thanks to link cloaking it will be a bit more difficult for them to discern the deception.
How to do it?
htaccess file
- Open your htaccess file
- Edit it and add the following line of code
redirect 301 /xxxx http://YourAffiliateUrl
xxxx is the link that you will be inserting in your site. For instance on this site we will be using http://www.blogmarketingtools.com/xxxx
Visitors will be thinking of going to another directory of the blogmarketingtools.com instead of being led to an affiliate page.
Wordpress plugin
This is done through the use of a Wordpress plugin.
- Upload the plugin to your Wordpress site
- Activate it
- Update permalinks so that your htaccess file can be rewritten
Once installed you will have the choice of choosing which links to cloak and also the prefix of the URL. For instance you can choose to use http://www.blogmarketingtools.cpm/goto/xxxx
Redirection service
Service such as tinyurl will allow you to shorten and cloak your url from something like http://www.blogmarketingtools.com/how-to-implement-google-analytics-in-wordpress-blogs/ to http://tinyurl.com/na7fcf
People will be more confident to click on such a link instead.
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If you are serious about making money on the internet then you will need to familiarize yourself with affiliate programs. Affiliate programs basically allow you to promote a particular product on your website and then earn a commission for each sale that is made. There are many different programs with thousands of products that exist on the Internet. This can go from digital goods such as music download to real product such as flowers. It will all depend on the niche that you are in.
Clickbank
This is perhaps the biggest affiliate program on the Internet. It specializes in digital goods such as e-books and software. Given the amount of different products that are available on Clickbank this comes as no surprise that most affiliate marketers are promoting at least a product from Clickbank. Furthermore Clickbank is fairly easy to use and above all secure.
Commission Junction
This is another great affiliate program that boasts a wide variety of products although not as large as Clickbank. The real downside of this program is that you need to apply directly to the publisher which can be quite frustrating. Their list of software is quite interesting if you are looking for a potential product to promote.
PaydotCom
Paydotcom is frequently cited among the best affiliate programs. This site features one of the highest commission paid to affiliate and make it a close alternative to Clickbank. However it does not compete on the assortment of products that is available at Clickbank. A good alternative for those that do not have access to Clickbank.
As you may have noticed already the reference in terms of affiliate program remains Clickbank. Given the amount of products that are available this should come as no surprise. If you really want to succeed in the field of affiliate marketing you will have to get used to Clickbank.
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