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... 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 matching blog carnivals... 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 search engines - this video shows you... 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... 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 such as... Read Full Story
There are numerous tools and sevices on the internet that allow you to track your backlinks and keyword position in the search engines. The one I use and like the best is FREE and is from DigitalPoint.
Set up a free account - and you’ll have some options to configure. You’ll need a Google search API key - there is a link in the sign up form - you also have the option of installing an advanced usage script on your own server - this allows daily updates of your data.
The keyword tracker allows... Read Full Story
If you’re looking for a tool to promote your website(s), the buck stops with social bookmarking. With the advent of Web 2.0 and its focus on the social aspect of the Internet, listing your pages on bookmarking sites is a surefire way to get visitors to your pages – they either get there by directly clicking on your link, or if your page is ranked highly enough, it turns up on a Google search depending on how trusted your site is.
Since it’s tedious and time consuming to manually add bookmarks... Read Full Story
Building backlinks should be at the heart of your internet strategy. I like to use 3 strategies for link building:
1. Article marketing - time consuming, but rewarding. My advice: choose 3 or 4 major article directories. Ezine Articles is a must, ArticleDashboard is good, so is Associated Content. Don’t spend lots of time and trouble submitting to the hundreds of lesser directories by hand- instead look at services like Article United the distribute to smaller directories. I’ve used... Read Full Story
Every blogger wants good-looking blog posts. There are times when you just wish you had the same editing capability in WordPress that you have say, in MS Word. No problem - the folks at Microsoft have you covered with some free software. It’s called Windows Live Writer - and for the average user, I think it’s the best thing to come from Microsoft in a long time.
Basically, you use LiveWriter to create and manage your posts and the software uploads to your blog automatically. There are... Read Full Story
Another nice backlink method that does not cost a dime - and really takes just a few minutes to set up - is Jon Ledger’s ShareAPost.com site.
The site features posts from blogs covering all categories - and these authors have authorized others to use or syndicate their content. You can’t change the wording or content of the original posts, and must include all links as the original author intended. This is great news for those who contribute content - you can get your links, author bio... Read Full Story
