I’ve been article marketing for several months now, and I’d like to share some data with you.  I have several hundred articles live on many of the more popular article directories.  I’ve been tracking referrals to my landing pages from all of them.   Each one of my articles is written around one keyword phrase. I looked at the keyword phrases of the top 50 articles, ranked by the number of referrals to my landing pages.  I wondered if there were common characteristic... Read Full Story

I’m using this program now to create secure, easy to set up membership areas.  This is great little program that will work for any type of web site.  This little program does it all - PayPal, Clickbank, recurring charges, One-Time Offers, free users.  It lets you add members to your autoresponder automatically.  If you want an Easy Solution to Create a Password Protected Membership Site  and don’t like to mess with scripts - this is your solution. Forget ... Read Full Story

I’ve done pretty well with my Moodle shopping cart e-course.  I get a ton of traffic on this subject and I really ought to be selling even more e-courses.  So to test the interest in my solution, I’m going to release the course for free.  The only catch is you get put on my mailing list - so you’ll get notified when I post.  No spam, you can opt-out anytime. In this series of videos, I show you step-by-step how to add the cutting edge EJunkie Shopping Car... Read Full Story

If you haven’t heard of it before, Twitter is a micro blogging tool that allows you to write short messages (up to 140 characters at a time) that can be exchanged between friends, and posted for all to see. You can access Twitter via Web, Desktop Applications and even SMS.  Here are 5 ways to use Twitter to generate more traffic. 1.Network with people in your niche – add them as friends and ask them to do the same, so they’ll get your updates when you tweet them. Don’t frien... Read Full Story

In the matter of ranking in Google, links are king.  And building lots a relevant back links is very hard - until now.  There is a new network designed to work with WordPress blogs, that builds back links and takes all of the work away from the individual webmaster.  It’s called 1WayLinks.net and I have been using the beta for several months - and folks, this product really works. Here’s how it works: 1) You create an account.      &nbs... Read Full Story

I love iSubscribe from iDevSpot. I am using it on this site to provide a quality Wordpress pay site. Although you can use iSubscribe to protect an entire blog, I like to use a pay per post approach. You can see a preview of my e-courses, and after  you pay via PayPal, you get a password emailed to you to access the full content. I have done quite a bit of tweaking to iSubscribe to allow protected downloads, and have modified the script to use PayDotCom as my affiliate program. I even aut... Read Full Story

Along with article marketing and 3WayLinks, submitting to blog carnivals is a key strategy to get lots of relevant backlinks.  In a previous post, I outlined the  benefits of using the Blog Carnival method.  The problem with the technique is the time involved in submitting your blog post url to the 30-40 carnivals that would be relevant to your niche.  The Blog Carnival site has a nice interface and is easy to use, but it takes quite a while to submit to all of the matchin... Read Full Story

In a previous post, I explained how importance of creating a XML data feed for your e-commerce application.  In this 40 minute video E-Course, I show you how to do it, step by step.  When you finish this video, you’ll be able to manipulate data from MySql, pull it into Access and create any type of feed you desire.  You’ll need a copy of MS Access to follow along, as well as access to a MySql database. Get your online catalog’s products deep linked on the sear... Read Full Story

E-commerce sites need to get their content deep linked on search engines and indexes- one of the quickest and cheapest ways to do that is to create a data feed of your product catalog and post it to shopping sites. Creating files for shopping feeds like those for Shopzilla or Google Product Search is easy, once you master some basic techniques. The steps are as follows: - Export Shopping Cart Data- (Normally, you are exporting MySQL data using phpMyAdmin)- Import Data into MS Access- Create Q... Read Full Story

Hundreds of visitors have viewed my blog to get information about adding e-commerce functionality to Moodle®. Well, here it is. In this series of videos, I show you step-by-step how to add the cutting edge EJunkie Shopping Cart to Moodle® - complete with: A professional-looking cart and checkout system The ability to use any payment processor - not just PayPal A pro-grade affiliate management system Ability to track payments A system that integrates with popular 3rd party systems s... Read Full Story