Archive for November, 2009

19 November

Nicheblueprint Modules One to Two – Is the Substance Of Value?

In this article we are going to look at sections one and two, which is week 1 of Tim Godfrey and Steven Clayton’s Niche Blueprint e commerce Training course. In this article we are going to take a close look at the sections 1-2. As is quite normal with these courses module one is mostly an introduction. Here you will find an introduction to all the sections of niche blueprint, expectations and what you should have done at the end of each section. This section includes three adobe PDF’s which have their own goal sheets, quick start flowchart and an overview. There is additionally a video where the programme is explained to you, how the programme will work, how you will receive the content and ultimately how you will actually go about making money with your niche blueprint stores are the main things covered in this video.

The focus of the second section is all about how you need to go about finding and selecting your niches. You will be shown how to come up with ideas for different stores and how you should conduct research. The goal of this module is to get you your first idea from which you can build that first store. This module includes 4 adobe pdf’s for brainstorming materials, its goal sheet and market research process chart. Steven Clayton guides you throughout these modules with great skill and very precise step-by-step instructions making them very easy to follow. I couldn’t help noticing the clarity in the videos, normally these courses can be somewhat vague at times but that does not seem to be the case with niche blueprint and so I believe it will make it a lot easier for newcomers.

When i did the Nicheblueprint Review of this section the thing I in particular thought a lot of was the fact that Steven not only explains things very clearly and simply but additionally includes the tools necessary to do the job, you see they also include a branded copy of the keyword research tool market samurai. Currently market Samurai happens to be the tool I use most for market research. In my business I literally use this tool day in day out, it really is that excellent. Steve Clayton in two of the videos in this section gives a very clear and precise methodology with specific search criteria to use in market Samurai for finding your target keyword niche blueprint E-commerce store ideas. He not only tells you the criteria to use in these videos, he actually shows you with an on-screen demonstration of finding those niche keywords, using his own search criteria within market Samurai. You see on screen as Steven finds very profitable niche keyword ideas on the fly. I would say that the instructions throughout these modules are so good and the tools provided of such quality that really anyone who puts some effort into this will be finding loads and loads of profitable niches in no time.

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14 November

Backing up WordPress Automatically

 

On November 11th McColo was turned off for hosting many spam, child porn, and malware sites (article at WashingtonPost.com). But although heavily infused with kiddie porn, malware, and spambot networks, ther were more than a few legitimate sites hosted there too. And now they’re scrambling to rebuild their blogs, sites, and all their content somewhere else. The discouraging thing is thinking about how many sites use WordPress and all of the legitimate ones now trying to rebuild didn’t have good backup. So they’re in tough times right now.

But you can automate backup to internet for your WordPress sites by taking action now. We prototyped, tested, and then put together a way that anyone with a WordPress site can use to automatically backup.

 

Automated WordPress Backup to Internet

A. First off, choose the email address you want to use to receive the initial backups. As long as it’s one that downloads to your local system (no web email for this, use Outlook, SeaMonkey, Evolution, you get the idea) you don’t want to use a email address hosted with your domain as that could also fail with the rest of your site.

B. You can do this by setting up a CRON job manually, or you can download a couple handy plugins (WP-DB-Backup and WP-Cron) to do the job for you. Activate both plugins in your WordPress plugin management page after you’ve downloaded, upzipped, and uploaded them to your site. A whole bunch of different plugins are included with WP-Cron. Just activate the ones called WP-Cron and WP-DB-Backup.

C. Now, with the plugins activated, click the “Manage” tab in WordPress. You’ll see a menu item called “Backup”. This is the desired one. There are various settings for doing a manual backup. Skip that and go to the section titled “Scheduled Backup” (at the bottom). If you don’t see it, you don’t have WP-Cron enabled, so make sure it is. In the settings for this section, set the schedule to “Daily” (or whatever timeframe is appropriate for your site). Enter the email address you selected where it says “Email backup to:”. Lastly, you have the option to include nonstandard QWordPress SQL tables. We think bakcing them all up is the safe way to do it. By default, the plugin will backup all native WP tables. After selecting any other tables, click Submit.

D. Now, the FailSafe part. Grab yourself a copy of OPENRSM CloudBackup. It’s reliable, secure, and most flexible backup to internet product we’ve tried. Setting it up is dead simple for Windows, MAC, and Linux systems. Just make sure to select the options for backing up your email folders (different on Windows, MAC, and Linux but it’s obvious and easy). Click “Daily” to set the schedule.

E. There you go, that’s it! Your WordPress SQL backups should be emailed to you and they’ll be using the backup to internet features of CloudBackup to make sure you don’t lose your site. Check the backup and see it churn out the backup. You can now quit worrying and let the plugins, your email account, and CloudBackup do all the work. Just make sure to delete older backups from your email occasionally and your work is done.

And if your server should crash? You’ve now enabled fast and easy recovery and your not having to sweat it out like those caught off guard when their host goes down.

 

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13 November

Article Marketing Plan: Steps To Success

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Article Marketing Key Steps:

If you are interested in getting free search engine website traffic than you need to take a look at article marketing. The key is having a solid article marketing plan. You need to set a goal of writing and submitting at least one article per week to have any impact on your website traffic. You must follow through and stick to your guns and make sure you publish the number articles you have set in your plan for each month.

For example I have A fishing site and I post a minimum of 1 article per week about fishing. You are probably thinking why only one article a week , why write and submit dozens of articles a week? Well you need to understand you are building a foundation for your business so quality of your articles is key to building a on-line respectability. Remember your goal to be recognized as a expert in your Selected niche market.

Also article marketing is not a quick hit marketing technique that will get you 1000’s of hits to your website. Your traffic will grow gradually over time. But I can guarantee this traffic will be quality targeted traffic. I have been using article marketing for about two years now and my sales have doubled.

I have identified below some key steps you can use to develop your own marketing plan.

#1 Identify your “niche” market. Do not waste your time starting to write articles until you have completed this step. The more specific you are when you identify what you want to write about the better success you will have.

#2 Based on what you have chosen as your “niche market” you will now need to create a list of keywords that are associated with your selection. This list should be no less than 50 keyword phrases. The more specific you can be with your phrases the more website traffic you will generate to your website. {I do not recommend you start out targeting single keywords, select keyword phrases about your niche that are two and three words in length. Concentrate on using keyword phrases that are two and three words in length.} To be honest with you I have never done very well with single keywords in my articles. It has been my experience that single keywords do not score high for me on the search engines. To develop your keyword phrase list go to Google Adwords and use their free keyword tool. It is an excellent marketing tool. Just enter a single keyword that is specific to your niche and the Adwords system will generate a keyword phrase list of two, three and more words. Concentrate on using the two and three word phrases for your article marketing efforts.

#3 Now you are ready to start writing articles! What I do in my writing is just start writing what comes to mind that is pertinent to the niche I have selected. If you have to do any research do it before you start writing. This is also an excellent way to help with your articles structure. Start out writing by inserting your two and three word phrases as you go. When you are writing your articles make sure that you do not repeat your keyword phrase but every 100 words. For example, if I were going to write an article that included “crappie fishing” in my first paragraph , then I could not repeat this phrase for 100 words. There are ways to mix your phrases up to get the same ranking without duplicating your phrases; example instead of using “article automation” you could use “automate articles” and not be penalized by the search engines for excessive keywords. Remember concentrate on the quality of your article when inserting keyword phrase. It’s important that you get the attention of the reader.

#4 Your next and final step is creating and developing a good article directory list to submit your articles too. All article directories are not created equal so I suggest you use the following simple steps list the sites you want to submit to in a priority by Google ranking sequence. First thing you need to do is go to Google and type in “article directory” in the search box. You will get a list of thousands of sites. There are two sites you must put on your list right now and they are ezinearticles.com and searchwarp.com. I use a free Google ranking tool that is simple to use to locate each sites ranking. Type in the following keyword phrase “website ranking tools for Google” at Google’s search box to find a free ranking tool suitable for you, or just e-mail me and I send the link I use. Concentrate your list on rankings of “6”,”5”,”4”,”3” . Article directories with these rankings will get you the most website traffic.

Now your ready to start article marketing! Good Luck In your efforts, Sincerely Mark Fleagle.

Mark Fleagle owner of the article-miracle.com is an expert author at Ezinearticles.com and a silver member at Searchwarp.com Learn how to increase your website traffic using article marketing the right way! Learn why the most successful website owners have migrated to Article Marketing Automation Details Here: http://www.oldfishinghole.com/article-marketing-strategy.html

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13 November

How to Use Your Writing Talent to Make Money Online and Keep Your Integrity Intact

If you’ve done any investigation at all of Web marketing, you’ll know plenty of scams abound. Unfortunately, marketers with no morals take advantage of the multitudes of people who come online every day looking for ways to quit their day jobs. It’s a shame, because millions of people probably spend money and lose a lot of time, only to pursue schemes that never yield any fruit. Fortunately, there are ways you can make money online with no money required. This will probably come as a revelation to those who have been ripped off by Internet schemes!

But sometimes one person’s scam is another person’s good opportunity. A good example of this is the recent controversy over an web business-in-a-box, called site Build It. Some people think that one or more people have written a Site Build It affiliate review that was misleading. The owner has publicly defended himself and he could be totally right. But it’s up to every individual to do their own research before paying money for Internet “opportunities”.

One of the most successful ways I’ve found to make money online is above-board and also fairly simple to implement. I make money writing. HubPages — a group blogging site –  makes it quite easy to create content and generate ad revenue. You can create as many or as few content “hubs” as you want. Each hub has the potential to make up to five forms of revenue: Google AdSense, Kontera in-text ads, Amazon products, eBay auction items and any affiliate program you want to implement. You get the revenue from 60% of the page views that generate income and HubPages gets the other 40 percent. Affiliate programs are an exception to that rule though; One hundred percent of income generated by click-throughs from an affiliate link on a hub would belong to you. Creating money-making hubs takes a bit of practice but in my opinion, the money you can earn over time makes it worth the effort.

There are many affiliate programs out there but I like to use RevResponse on my hubs, because people who sign up get credible free information. When people click on links to any of the RevResponse publications or White Papers and qualify, you make money. It’s just that easy. Qualifying is not a shoe-in though, so that aspect is important to understand. To get more details about the rules, read this affiliate review. The information in the review will help you know whether RevResponse is right for your particular audience.

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6 November

How To Make Money Online with Affiliate Programs

Affiliate marketing is one of the most lucrative Internet-based industries ever. If you want to start making money with affiliate programs you should have your own website, or at least your own blog, where you can place your affiliate links.~learn how to make money~learn how to make money}, even during a downward market.~This project could prove really challenging, if you are an amateur, that is why it is important to keep in mind these tips on affiliate marketing for beginners.} As with everything, the best tip in affiliate marketing for beginners so as to flourish in this potentially profitable endeavor is to know the fundamentals first and then build upon them with every step made.

start making money on the Internet.~Affiliate marketing is an online business opportunity that is the business of promoting the product and service of another company or person, in return for a pre agreed commission.~Chances are that you decided to start a career as an affiliate marketer due to the low costs and ease of start up. Some programs will be free to join and others may involve a small cost in order for you to earn extra money online.} You need to spend some time in setting up the your online network and in learning the basics of generating targeted traffic to those websites.

Affiliate marketing is not hard to do, if you do it right. If you are a beginner, you should first of all, make a list of all the things that interest you. Expect to pay some money to get up and running. This will be a small amount compared to a traditional business.

All successful affiliate marketers will recommend you to focus on different niches, diversifying your portfolio. But this is not sound advice for Beginners. It is better to start with just one program and hone your marketing skills before trying multiple offers.

Make sure that you verify the quality of the product you promote. Try to use it yourself if possible, before starting a business about it. Make sure that you have some knowledge on the niche though; you cannot expect yourself to be a good promoter, if you are not interested in the actual product. Many Beginners make the mistake of trying to promote something they know nothing about. Choose a product or service that you’ve used so that you can tell your Customers all about it.

Use both banners and texts to promote your business. Try to avoid invasive and aggressive banners that are not pleasing and ones that are distracting to their eye. The point is to create an eye catching result, so make sure that your blog looks good. If your landing page is not gripping, the visitors will not be interested in your niche either – especially since competition online is huge and they can find the same product elsewhere.

Furthermore, make sure that the rules and Merchant’s agreement are solid and comprehensible. Do not do business with a company before you read and understand their terms and conditions. Many Affiliate Marketers usually start an Online business using affiliate programs, only to find out later that there some stupid problem for them due to the Merchant’s strict rules or minimum requirements to acquire standard commissions.

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6 November

How to improve business productivity in less than 15 minutes?

Businesses are increasingly reliant on computer productivity, yet very few users are able to optimize their computers and it is up to the IT department to take the lead in this area, bearing in mind that it is often the optimization of the simplest of tasks which will make the most difference to most users. There are many ways to speed up computers and improve their performance, this article covers simple steps that anyone can follow. Implementing either of the first two steps in this article should take less than 15 minutes using a PC or Mac.

 

Step 1 -  Clean the computer registry

Slow computers often have errors in their registry. The registry is comparable to a nervous system. Its main function is to connect software hardware and computer files. Errors often lead to the corruption of the registry, and reduce the computer speed . A straightforward step is to locate any errors in the registry then repair them. Cleaning the registry manually is possible but not recommended, as this method requires specific knowledge of the registry structure and its functions. Registry cleaner software are a faster, more reliable alternative to remove errors, unused file, poor links and deal with ActiveX components. Click on compare registry fix software for more information.

 

Step 2 – Delete and block adware and spyware

Another common reason leading to computers slowing-down, is the large number of spyware and adware, which are downloaded from the Internet, often without the users knowledge. Often, this takes place when peer to peer (P2P) networks are used to download videos and music for example. A simple solution to make any computer faster is to run an anti spyware or adware program to scan, remove then block these unwanted malware. Most anti spyware or adware software have a free trial version and it is worth using this first to try out the program. The overall effectiveness of the software is obviously the main feature to consider, however other features are also important such as Ease of Download and Simplicity of Use, Automatic Backup, Quality of Customer Service. The best and most popular software are simple to use and software vendors rely on a powerful research capability to the software up to date. Click on best adware spyware removal for more information.

 

Step 3 – Eliminate viruses

Unsurprisingly many computer viruses can slow down computers and drive down response times. Computer viruses often damage files, can consume excessive amount of memory and take a large amount of space on the hard disk. Running the latest version of some of the leading anti-virus software should overcome these problems and users who do so will be in a stronger position to improve the performance of their computer.

 

Step 4 – Simple housekeeping tasks

There are many simple housekeeping tasks which can be done to improve the speed of any computer, for example uninstalling any software that is not needed.  Alternatively, stopping programs to launch automatically can also improve the performance of any computer. Small improvements can be expected from these simple tasks.

Step 5 – Optimise the Hard disk

For hard disks which are smaller than 2GB then at least 200MB of disk should be kept free and at least 500MB for larger hard disks. This free space is an important contributor of your computer speed as it is used by temporary files placed there by computer programs. This also enables the operating system to swap files using the hard disk as it runs out of RAM. In that event, unless sufficient  space is free on the hard disk, the system slows down significantly. Disk scanning programs such as Scandisk for Windows help scan for errors on the hard disk itself. For example, whilst the hard drive may be large enough, the problem may be that it is too fragmented or that some of its sectors have been damaged. Running a defragmentation program is another step that can be completed to improve  the speed of any computer.

 

Step 6 – Optimising the RAM

Some programs are poorly designed and do not release RAM resources after they are closed. This means that other programs have less memory to run. Running out of RAM too fast is not uncommon and users who have this problem should consider upgrading the memory on their computer. An alternative option, which is also free is simply not to use certain programs simultaneously.

 

Step 7 – Stop the computer from overheating

Faulty fans are a common cause leading to the computer overheating, slowing down then freezing as a result. Installing a new fan is the best solution to overcome this problem, as this increases the air flow through the computer thereby reducing the machine’s temperature and improving its performance.

For more information click on how to make my computer faster.

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