Archive for April, 2008

WordPress WP e-Commerce plugin, reviewed by Sarah

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 WP e-Commerce, WordPress Plugin The lite version of this plugin allows you to sell products via PayPal only. Whilst it’s called ‘lite’ it’s not that simple as such. You can have your products in categories, there’s a shopping basket and it uses the PayPal IPN for instant notification. I’ve not gone through the whole process but I would assume that if you’re selling a digital product it will also then provide ... READ MORE

Advice from people making $500 or more online

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 This is worth bookmarking: The 500 Dollar Per Month Comment Thread Mark threw open a discussion where people making over $500/month profit on websites could advise people making less than that. If you’re making less, you’re welcome to discuss your strategy and get feedback, or just ask questions. There are a lot of ideas and inspirations in there. There’s one or two bullshit posts where someone says, “Oh, anyone with a sixth ... READ MORE

Meta Descriptions?

Monday, April 28th, 2008 When Meta Matters – How I Wrecked My Search Listing Courtney Tuttle rewrote his meta descriptions and found out very quickly that didn’t go over well with the SE’s. It’s interesting how this works, because if you leave meta descriptions entirely off a blog, the major SE’s will pull the first few lines of the article, which is usually an awesome description for searchers/potential visitors (especially if you write them with ... READ MORE

The myth of the influencer

Sunday, April 27th, 2008 Are Friends More Influential Than “Influencers”? Grokdotcom analyzes a recent study revealing that people trust the recommendations of friends and family over bloggers and social networkers they see online. The opening line of the article is just right: “This may not come as a shock…” Indeed. There’s value in networking online, but I think you find yourself doing it all wrong when you imagine you’re going to become some trusted voice in ... READ MORE

Measure your pixels onscreen

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Measure Your Pixels with JR Screen Ruler Enter the JR Screen Ruler. This little download can give you an expandable moveable ruler on your screen – just perfect for quick measuring of images, webpages or the size of Ivan the Terrible’s hat (200 pixels!). That is so seriously cool!

Use plurals in your copy

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 S is for………. If you have the term Pasta Maker in your page copy, you have a chance to rank for the term Pasta Maker, but if you have the Term Pasta Makers, you can rank for both the terms Pasta Maker, and Pasta Makers. Quick but valuable tip. Also check out Stu’s script that lets you check whether multiple sites are up or down.

Setting your price

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 You are Worth What you Say you are Worth Really? Then double your rates today. Now. And then you’ll hear the chorus of internal doubting voices, telling you why you think you can’t get away with charging that kind of money. What you make per hour, per ad, or per project is directly proportional to how much you value your own time, expertise, and contribution to your clients. This doesn’t work like magic. ... READ MORE

More common sense about common sense hailed as brilliance

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Blog Commenting Tips Are Utterly Ridiculous Surely everyone who knows that is intelligent enough to realize that if they leave more attention grabbing comments they will receive more traffic and that by leaving a stupid comment they could damage their reputation. No one needs help with that. I’e seen 2 posts recently on popular blogs that give out tips for “how you should (or should not) comment” and I must say the reading ... READ MORE

Mark’s getting Adwords Certification

Monday, April 14th, 2008 Google Adwords Certification A few websites I visit have the badge that they are an adwords certified pro but i hadn’t given it two thoughts until today. Then I thought, “hey, that’s a cool certification that i’d like to study for!” So i am. Why should you care? Because he’s testing the waters on something that might benefit you, and it involves spending $1000 USD on Adwords in 90 days, which is ... READ MORE

How to post javascript in wordpress

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Javascript in WordPress Posts I did some searching and finally found a plugin that lets you use Javascript directly in your posts. The plugin is called Scriptenabler – this link directly downloads the plugin’s zip file (there is no page on plugin page for this plugin on the author’s site). Thanks very much to Life After Coffee for posting about the plugin, and of course to Otto, the developer of the ... READ MORE

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