Google Analytics is a great stats tracker, and it’s free. But the problem with GA is that you’re sharing all your data with Google and when you’re doing SEO or Adwords (and who isn’t?) you might want to keep that information to yourself. Here’s a roundup of tools you can use instead of GA: Piwik - Open Source analytics from the makers of OpenX. It’s still in its infancy and isn’t as pretty as some other options, but it has a lot of potential - I love ... Read Full Story

Here are a few sources of easy, free links to your website. These will work for any site that you own and can edit freely. They won’t work for Web2 hosted pages in most cases, but you’re free to try! All of these will result in a link, but in most cases you can’t control the anchor text. Website Profiles There area surprising number of sites out there that profile websites. All you need to do is create a record for your site (just visit the site and search for your domain) a... Read Full Story

Integrating an Amazon aStore into your Wordpress blog can be a difficult process if you’ve never done it before. Follow these steps to easily get your aStore set up (these instructions are for Wordpress 2.7): 1. Create a file called astore.php. 2. Paste this code into the file: 3. Replace youraffiliateid-20 in the above code with your own affiliate id. 4. Upload your astore.php to your current theme’s directory: <your blog directory>/wp-content/themes/<theme directory&g... Read Full Story

Today I was reading a conversation on Michelle MacPhearson’s blog about long form sales letters, and how some customers are turned off by them. The majority of product owners who responded seemed to be saying something along the lines of “I understand how you feel, but I’ve tested it and long copy converts better.” But is the debate really about long vs short copy at all? Maybe the whole discussion is wrong because we’re asking the wrong question. Maybe the real ... Read Full Story

This is a relaunch of Product Launch Formula 2, but because of some updated content, it’s been renamed 2.1+. Anyone who already bought PLF2 gets the upgrades for free, so this relaunch is only aimed at the people who didn’t buy the first time around. Here are the bonuses: Ed Dale: The Online version of Dominiche - The full version sells for $2397. This doesn’t include the 2 months of Stompernet membership or the physical product. Stompernet would cost $1574 for 2 months ($... Read Full Story

I wanted my blog to match the style and color scheme of the main store, so I made this Wordpress theme to match. I thought it looked pretty good, so I made a generic version (without the store logo, plus a few other changes) which is now available for download here. Read Full Story

I wanted my blog to match the style and color scheme of the main store, so I made this Wordpress theme to match. I thought it looked pretty good, so I made a generic version (without the store logo, plus a few other changes) which is now available for download here. Read Full Story

About 2 weeks ago I put up two new Squidoo lenses, two new hubpages, and two new articles on Ezinearticles, promoting my ecommerce site, Baby Bedding Zone. In all three cases, they were targeting the same two keyphrases. I haven’t done any promotion of any of them yet, so I expected them all to have pretty much the same (low) traffic from a few long tail searches. The results I actually got were quite surprising: Squidoo: 7 visits to one lens, 2 to the other, for a total of 9 Hubpages: ... Read Full Story

Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Internet Marketing Launch News". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist'... Read Full Story

I have no idea if this will even get published before Mass Control is sold out, but I just want to get the site started. I know no one will read this post anyway. Anyway, here are the bonuses for Mass Control (my comments are in italics): Ed Dale: The Online version of Dominiche - The full version sells for $2397. This doesn’t include the 2 months of Stompernet membership or the physical product. Stompernet would cost $1574 for 2 months ($787 a month), so if you subtract that from the... Read Full Story