If you are running a home based business that is in any way related to working online, you put in a lot of hard yards to bring people to your website. What happens after that? Do your visitors come back to your site? Do you ever see them again? How many of your website visitors come and go without you ever having the chance to really tell them what you have to offer?
Building an opt-in mailing list is like putting a net under all of the traffic passing through your website. Your visitors may leave your site, but you will still be in touch with them, and you will get the chance to really communicate with them and turn your leads into sales.
When it comes to managing your opt-in mailing lists, the industry leader by far is Aweber Communications. For the last 10 years they have been at the top of the heap in providing email marketing solutions, and help over 49,000 businesses like yours raise profits and build customer relationships.
January 5th, 2009 — Posted by Admin in Daily Blog Tips
OnlineProfits.com Preview: Launching Next Week
Many of you have contacted me via instant messaging and email asking more details about Online Profits. Since it will be launching next Monday, I think I can give more details out now.
What is it all about?
The site will be home to an Internet Marketing and Online Business training program.
There are many eBooks and courses on similar topics out there, so how is Online Profits different from them? Well, for one thing most of those eBooks and courses are produced by one person. The question I always asked myself was: how can a single person master all the different aspects of Internet Marketing and Online Business? Those range from social media to SEO, from blogging to affiliate marketing and PPC. It is a tough call, right?
The material you will find on Online Profits has been produced by top experts from different areas and market segments, including:
Michael Gray: One of the most respected Search Engine Optimization experts around the world. Michael is a speaker on several industry conferences, and he also blogs on Wolf-Howl.com and ViralConversations.com.
Neil Patel: Founder of ACS SEO, Neil has worked with companies like AOL, HP and General Motors, helping them make more money from the web. He also blogs about personal branding on Quicksprout.
Yaro Starak: His blog, Entrepreneurs-Journey, is considered an authority on the Internet Marketing niche, with almost 50,000 subscribers. Yaro has been building online businesses since 1998, and recently he launched a very successful mentoring program called Blog Mastermind.
Tamar Weinberg: One of the most active and influential social media users on the web, Tamar has provided consulting services on social media marketing for several online publications, including Lifehacker and Mashable. She is also the author of the popular Techipedia blog.
Hamlet Batista. Hamlet started working with SEO and affiliate marketing in the early 2000s, and he made millions of dollars targeting highly competitive niches (like the Viagra one). Today he has one of the most advanced SEO software tools on the market, called RankSense.
Zac Johnson: Zac started working with affiliate marketing when he was just a teen. He become famous on the web after releasing the details of a website that he created and that generated $860,000.00 in profits in just four months. He blogs on ZacJohnson.com.
Courtney Tuttle: Courtney spent two years working with an Internet marketing consulting company, and he had the opportunity to advise over 100 clients in different niches and segments. He is an expert with keyword research, and you can find his articles on this topic on CourtneyTuttle.com.
Nathan Rice: Nathan is a professional web designer, specialized in WordPress development. He co-founded a design company called iThemes, which is the leading provider of premium WordPress themes on the web.
Skellie Wag: Skellie is the editor and social media strategst of the Envato network, which owns some very popular online properties, including FreelanceSwitch. Over at SkellieWag.org you can find her articles on web content, copywriting and social media promotion.
I will be writing many lessons too, and editing the whole thing together. You can check the about page on this blog for my short bio.
The second difference of the program will be the breadth of its training modules. I will talk about this next Monday though.
When does it launch, and at what price?
The training program will be launching next Monday, January 12. I won’t get into pricing details yet, but I can say that the initial launch will go live at 50% of the retail price, and will be available for one week only.
On January 16 we will close the doors of the program. Why? Because we want to have all the members synchronized on their learning experience, and we also want to have a limited number of people to make sure that we will be able to provide an excellent service and to exceed everyone’s expectations.
Can we get a preview?
All the lessons will be available in text and audio format. If you want to get an idea about what they look like, check the audio player below. That is a demo of the introductory lesson on the program (you can also download it if you can’t see the audio player).
Download this demo lesson in MP3 format
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January 5th, 2009 — Posted by Admin in Work at Home Mom Revolution
Work at Home as a Cloud 10 Home Agent
Cloud 10 hires work-at-home professionals to provide customer support. This includes providing information about products and services, taking orders, and troubleshooting by email, chat, and phone.
You must have strong organizational skills and an articulate and clear phone voice. You also must have a quite home environment, a reliable computer and headset, a dependable high-speed Internet service provider, and basic computer skills.
Finally, you must be able to work 20 or more hours per week. A criminal background and basic credit check will be performed (I have been told by those hired by Cloud 10 in the past, that even with less than perfect credit, you may still be hired).
For more info and to apply, visit the Cloud 10 Home Agent page. Good luck!
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January 5th, 2009 — Posted by Admin in Daily Blog Tips
Q&A: What WordPress Plugins Do You Use?
Rajasekharan asked:
What are those minimal set of WordPress plugins that you would recommend any blogger to use and which are those plugins that you actually use?
This is a question I get asked quite often, so lets take it out of the way.
First of all I don’t think there is a minimal set of WordPress plugins that I would recommend to bloggers. It depends on the blog in question, and on what features the blogger requires for it. A simple photo blogger could get away with 4 or 5 plugins, while someone building a more complex website could need 15 plugins to make it run smoothly.
Now let’s cover the plugins I am using on Daily Blog Tips (notice that this list might be different for my other blogs):
1. Akismet: Probably the first plugin I activate on any blog. It already comes with WordPress after all, and I found it to be the most reliable anti-spam plugin around.
2. All in On SEO Pack: I resisted using this plugin for a couple of years, but late in 2008 I was having a problem with duplicate meta description tags on my main content pages (homepage, page 2, 3 and so on), therefore I decided to give it a shot. I am very pleased with it, and definitely recommend to other bloggers.
3. Chunck URLs: Ever had someone leaving a comment with a really long URL that broke your site design? To prevent this problem you can use this plugin. It will break down long URLs automatically.
4. Custom Query String: This plugin is a life saver for me. It allows me to specify how many posts I want displayed on every page type of my blog. For example, it allows me to display 8 posts on the homepage, 15 posts per page on search results, and all the posts ever published on category pages.
5. SGR Clean Archives: Personally I think that all websites and blogs should have one page where all the articles and posts ever published would be available. That is what this plugin does, it creates an Archives page for you with all your posts. As the name says, the style of that page is pretty clean too.
6. Feedburner FeedSmith: I am not sure how necessary this plugin is if you point all your RSS feeds manually to the Feedburner one. I guess I use it just to be 100% that all the subscribers will be redirected to it.
7. Related Posts: This is an old “Related Posts” plugin, but it gets the job done. To be frank, lately I am finding that it lacks in some aspects, so when I get some free time I will make the switch to the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
8. Robots Meta: A cool plugin by friend Joost de Valk that allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and nofollow unnecessary links.
9. RSS Footer: This plugin allows you to add a text message or some links to your RSS footer. Additionally, it also comes with a feature to automatically add a link to the original post on the feed, which is particularly useful to combat content scrapers.
10. WP-ContactForm: A very old and rustic contact form plugin, but I love its simplicity. Somehow I also don’t get spam even without a CAPTCHA on that form, and I have been using it for years.
11. WP-SuperCache: The best cache plugin available. It has a lot of advanced features, and it gets the job done when you have sudden burst of traffic from social media.
12. GoCodes: Very light yet useful plugin. It lets you create redirects on the fly, which is useful if you want to link to affiliate programs and advertisers while keep the links pointing to your own blog. It also allows you to track the clicks on those links.
13. Subscribe to Comments: The classic plugin that allows commentators to subscribe to the comment section and receive new comments via email. Lately I also started questioning how many people actually use this feature, but for now I will leave it live on my blogs.
As you can see I just use the plugins that are essential to the running of my website. Sometimes I install new ones to test them out, but if they are not essential, I remove them right after.
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January 5th, 2009 — Posted by Admin in Income Opportunities
Receive £10.00.
Receive £10.00 once you are approved. You are paid whether your website is large, small with high or low traffic.
Don’t be skeptic! It is true and the Ad Network pays. As a publisher, you will publish advertisements of companies who seek your blog to display their ads based on your blog’s niche, popularity and traffic rank.
Getting paid to advertise is one of the easiest ways to earn from your blogs. I have been seeing a surge in this industry. I think there must be more than two dozen link advertising companies in the Internet presently.
Join The Ad Network now.
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January 4th, 2009 — Posted by Admin in Work at Home Mom Revolution
Work at Home for Eureka Workforce Solutions
Eureka Workforce Solutions, a Northern California recruiting and staffing company, is seeking an experienced telemarketing sales team leader. This is a part-time, home-based position.
As a telemarketing sales team leader, you will be responsible for designing and implementing a business-to-business calling plan for the staffing/recruiting company, setting up and managing an automated system (www.five9.com), and finding, training, and managing a team of home-based telemarketers.
For more info, and to apply, visit the Eureka career opportunities page. Good luck!
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January 4th, 2009 — Posted by Admin in Charles Lau dot Com
2009 seems more exciting to me than any other years
First of all, I am getting married in about 2 weeks’ time. That’s going to have a major change in my life. How I am going to live, how I am going to accomodate my life with another lady, how I am going to work for the rest of my life. It’s a turning point for me. And it’s time for me to make even more money than ever because I have to get myself prepared for the expenditure of the two of us. I am going to provide comfort to her. I want her to live in the best life as much as I can provide her.
That’s to say that I have to make my blogs better than ever. I have to do a better job at work. I have to keep myself abreast in the Internet arena since this is my career.
I must say that all my ex-partners from 2004 onwards have given me the best presents ever. That’s “experience”. I have learned something important about being positive in life. I have learned something about focusing on getting better and better. I have learned something about my wants and needs.
I am seeing more and more people focusing professionally in their online business. People such as Dan Schawbel whom I have met in midst of 2007. He is getting his blog up to speed right now as well. Carl Ocab is also another good friend who has been working really hard online. Been hearing him juggling between business and study. That’s really very taxing for a 15 year old boy. Yaro Starak is planning to focus on his blog in 2009 more than ever since he has been on travelling from places to places in 2008, making his time unsuitable to blog as frequent as he should.
Ok, it’s getting late. I am going to take my rest now. Take care my friends! 
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January 4th, 2009 — Posted by Admin in Work at Home Mom Revolution
Attention Target Shoppers: Money Saving Tips
Just wanted to share this post I found at Wise Bread. If you’re a Target shopper, you’ll be very interested to read Tips for Perimeter Perusing at Target by Linsey Knerl.
Although the article was written back in February of 2008, I’m pretty sure all the tips are still relevant. Check it out! I will definitely be checking out my local Target this Tuesday morning.
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January 4th, 2009 — Posted by Admin in Daily Blog Tips
Q&A: Should I Buy Text Links For SEO?
Matej asked:
When someone purchases text link for a month on one site in order to increase their SE rankings - is it enough, or it needs to stay in there at least couple of months? Will Google notice when someone removes the link? For how long people buy text links, is there some rule?
First of all I don’t recommend purchasing text links for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes. While this practice was widespread and reasonably secure until some years ago, in 2008 Google made a special effort to combat it.
Their objective is to keep their search algorithm working as efficiently as possible, to make sure that when you use their search engine you will find just what you were looking for. That is what keep them in business, after all.
Paid links might disrupt those search results (according to Google), so they tried to extinguish the practice from the Internet. Many websites that were selling (and some that were buying) got penalized last year, and most webmasters started playing on the safe side.
Now I am not saying that buying text links for SEO is right or wrong. There are good arguments on both sides. However, we need to accept that Google has its own search engine, and the rights to dictate the rules inside it. If you want to get listed on their search index, you need to play by their rules. Period.
Some people disrespect those rules deliberately and try to fly under the radar. That is a strategy too, but a risky one in my opinion. It is liking trying to cheat in a poker game. If they don’t catch you, you might end up with good money. If they do, you will be in trouble.
How you want to play the game is up to you though, and I am not here to preach anyone.
Back to the original question: if you are buying text links for SEO, for how long should you keep them?
The answer depends on your objectives.
Sometimes people just want to get a website indexed fast. For that case purchasing a link on a trusted website for one month should be enough (for the matter of fact purchasing the link for a couple of days should already get you indexed).
If your objective is to increase your rankings for searched keywords and increase your overall organic traffic level, though, you will need keep the paid links live constantly.
Why? Because Google is constantly monitoring the links that point to your website, always recalculating your rankings and overall trust level. Suppose you have an article about “superman comic book” that is ranked in page 2 of Google for that search query. You then purchase a text link on a popular comic books website, and that link propels your page to the second result in Google. If after one month the website owner removes your link, as soon as Google spiders it and finds that the link is gone it will immediately recalculate your search rankings, and if all other variables stayed the same, your page will go back to the second page of the search results.
Sometimes it might take longer for the effect of a removed link to appear, because some websites get crawled only once in a while. Sooner or later Google will crawl it, though, and if the link you purchased is not there anymore it will stop yielding results for your search rankings.
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January 3rd, 2009 — Posted by Admin in Work at Home Mom Revolution
