When To Update WordPress Immediately, and When Not To
If you’ve been using WordPress for any length of time then you’ve probably seen that little message on your dashboard telling you there’s an update available. Should you click it or not? Should you do it now or should you wait? Is it safe? Is it complicated? And what happens when you do? What does a WordPress update do? Behind that pretty WordPress theme is…
Improve Your Conversion With A/B Testing
In the blogging world the word “conversion” can have several meanings but what it boils down to is this: Are your visitors doing what you want them to do? If you tell them to subscribe are they handing over their email address? If you tell them to visit your blog are they showing up at your door? If you tell them to “Click Here” do they do it? If not, you can imporve your conversion rate with a little A/B testing. The Importance Of A/B Testing The Internet is littered with abandoned…
WordPress SEO: Get Insane Traffic From Google (7985 Words)
When I started my first online project, I was extremely passionate about it, and I had really high hopes for it to become an authority widely recognized among the webdesign world. But I realized really fast that you can’t just build a website in 5 minutes, throw it onto the interweb and wait for a huge crowd to come visit it. Of course, this website was my first “baby” online, so I was thinking: They will understand how great my website is! The thing is, a lot of people around the internet are thinking …
Be a Kid Again and Make Your Blog Stand Out
Starting a new blog is always exciting. Designing a cool theme and choosing the colors makes you feel like a kid again, opening up a new box of paints. But like any new toy, the novelty soon wears off. Instead of blogging with enthusiasm, creating that fun, exciting content you did in the beginning, your blog is beginning to sound like it’s being written by a robot. Oh, to…
Blogging Isn’t All There Is to Blogging
Most successful bloggers didn’t get that way because they just sit there and blog all day. Their business may have started with a blog but now its grown into so much more. Yours will, too, as soon as you understand that blogging isn’t all there is to blogging. Step outside that …
How To Rank Well Your Inner Pages In Search Engines
Your homepage is usually the highest ranking page on your blog, but take a look at it, what do you see? Generally, all you see is a list of blog posts accompanied by a few snippets of text. Most bloggers think that just raising the rank of the homepage pulls all the inner pages up, as well. However, that’s not really how it works. In fact, if all your ingound links point to your homepage, you’re wasting a lot of link juice. Building the rank of your homepage is important. But the …
The 9 Most Important Copywriting Articles on Shock Marketer
Copywriting is the act of writing words that sell. I’ve found just by changing a paragraph, it can result in 2 to 4 times the sales. Some have found the difference can be 19.5 times more sales. How can you write these “magical” sentences? See some of my favorite copywriting articles: Overview: 93 Year Old Ad Gives You the Exact Formula to Write Amazing Copy – Using teasers, benefits, credibility, and “the push.” Follow this 1 Rule to Guarantee the Profitability of Any Campaign – All of your advertisements should keep this “equation” in mind C =…
Best Ways Of Using SEO To Get Website Traffic
Search engine optimisation is the popular technique to enhance the website rank and visibility. Follow the on page and off page optimisation tactics to increase the traffic to the website. Some of the popular ways to improve traffic to the site are: Directories: In SEO directory submission plays an important role. It improves visibility and backlinks to the website. These directories will reflect your website in the popular search engines like Google, yahoo which boosts your ranking. Before submitting these manuals make sure that all the content is well optimised, check your email id, insertion of keyword in your …
Why Do You Write?
Why do you write? Sounds like an odd question, doesn’t it? A couple of months ago, I’ve written an article here telling my readers why do I blog. I’ve asked them to share their reasons too and got great response and different reasons from bloggers on that. Today I thought to make it more interesting by asking you why do you write? Identifying the reason on why do you write has a big impact on how do you write and It can help you improve your …
The Importance of Customer Service For Online Retailers
Great customer service leads to loyal customers which is a key element of customer retention. From my previous post on customer retention, you’ll know how extremely important this is to growing and building your business as profitably as you can. It’s easy to forget your online customers because you can’t physically ‘see’ them or interact …
$70,000 in one week arbitraging traffic with Redirect.com
Some of you have been following my fb group, facebook postings, and twitter posts regarding the screen shots of my arbitraging traffic with this platform called www.Redirect.com started by the guys over at Media Breakaway aka Cpa Empire aka Affiliate.com. Now I been working with Scott Richter and the team over at www.Redirect.com on arbing traffic with them
Trip Report: Leeds, Scotland, and Bangkok
It’s been a month since leaving the US, and it is crazy how fast the month has gone by. It has been fast, with lots of stories to tell and experiences to learn from. I could write all day about each one, but instead, I will give a summary of my last month.
So I’m Thinking About Attending ASW 2013…
I don’t attend conferences for a number of reasons, the top two being cost and the fact that I hate the actual "travelling" part (it’s a bit of a pain traveling from an island in Canada to the US). In fact, I’ve only ever been to one conference before, and that was BlogWorld way back in 2008, 4 years ago. It happened to be in Vegas, and I had an absolute awesome time – far better than I had expected. We ended up staying for 8 days, as it was our first time in Vegas …
Using Sponsored Stories to Generate Blog Traffic
Facebook Ads are dead. That’s something I’ve been hearing from a few months now and while it may be getting harder and harder to get your affiliate campaigns approved, I have been seeing awesome results from Facebook Ad campaigns I have been running lately. You just need to be a little more creative and use the new features within Facebook Ads to your advantage. One example …
Affiliate Summit East 2013 In Philadelphia – Save the Date.
The votes came in and after four years in NYC, the people chose Philadelphia for Affiliate Summit East 2013 on August 18-20, 2013. This will be the 24th Affiliate Summit and it is expected to be the largest Affiliate Summit East to date (again!). Affiliate Summit East 2013 in Philadelphia On a personal note, although NYC is my hometown and I love it there, …
Designers Love Using iPhones in Web Design, But They’re Wrong
As a designer, one thing I’ve noticed as a web-design trend lately is to feature Apple products in the design, primarily iPhones. While I understand that they are beautiful devices I don’t think they are as beneficial to a design as many may believe. While I do believe that showing shots of your application or site being used is fantastic because…
Week In Review: College Football & Haters
This week in review covers quick paydays, exclusive pre-game football parties with Shoemoney, affiliate marketing investment and much more! “Ultimate College Football & Internet Marketing Experience“ – If you’re a college football fan and an Internet marketer, you’ll want to check this out. Doesn’t dinner with Shoemoney…
Craigslist Becomes a Scammy Nightmare for NJ Flood Residents in Need
There are billions of dollars of money being flooded into New Jersey right with all of the insurance companies and FEMA making the rounds. Throw in auto insurances and every other way to make money with construction, contracting and scamming, you are sure to make a killing, be killed or play by the rules. Right now there is basically NO WHERE to find a place to live or rent 30-40 miles from the shore. Throw in pet ownership and you are really screwed. You can contact your local realtor, which we already have …
Destination and Display URL Not Matching?
Okay…geeky blog post coming…you’ve been warned… The BlackHatters were interested earlier this week when we were searching for the term ‘cocktails’ in Google (don’t ask!) If you Google ‘cocktails’ you get the following SERP delivered… We were particularly interested in the Smirnoff ad… The display URL is www.youtube.com/Recipes but when you click on the Headline of the
Try AdWords Express – Get Double Matching on Your First $125
This morning I was greeted by several emails from Google offering up to 2 free months of advertising on AdWords Express. So is that a good deal? What is AdWords Express exactly, how does it work with Adwords? Try AdWords Express today, we’ll show you why. What Is AdWords Express Google touts the product as “the easiest way to start marketing your small business to customers online.” Upon closer inspection we see that AdWords Express differs from the regular AdWords platform in these key ways: Locally targeted by default Automated campaign…