Super Affiliate Blogger

August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I recently bought a copy of Gobala Krishnan’s new Super Affiliate Blogger package. In this package, Gobala has designed a package to guide and assist both new and experienced affiliates in expanding their affiliate sales businesses.

First, he’s got a great ebook called — guess what — Super Affiliate Blogger! There’s the obligatory sections on selecting a niche, a focus for your affiliate sales. More to the helpful point, much of the book is details on using the free blog software WordPress as your web site. Not just usable as a blog, WordPress also lets you create static web pages that you can use for landing pages for pay-per-click ad systems. Combined with the plug-ins and themes he’s included, you can get the "blog look" of WordPress under control. Of course, you can use the blog functions to post articles and keep your site well-positioned in Google, too.

The package also includes special themes, programs and plug-ins for use with affiliate sales, including an affiliate link redirection system, an opt-in form manager, a google sitemap generator, a search-engine-optimization (SEO) plugin, a social bookmarking plug-in and a special widgit for affiliate marketing.

For more information, check out Super Affiliate Blogger

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Advertising, Affiliate Marketing, Blogs, Scripts, Search Engine Optimization, Software, Templates 

Good Web Design Practices

June 17, 2007 | 1 Comment

Your business resides on your web site — it’s like the headquarters of an off-line company. Therefore, it is important to practice good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible.

Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion.

Reduce the number of images on your website. They make your site load more slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize it using an image editing program so that it has a minimum file size.

Keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, you should split it into separate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not be too large. If a block of text that is too large, your visitors will skim over the content &mdasah; or worse, skip over your content.

Make sure your web site complies to HTML and CSS web standards at www.w3.org and make sure they are cross-browser compatible. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective visitors.

Don’t use browser-level scripting languages, like Javascript, to handle or manipulate data or to create visual effects on your website. Heavy scripts will slow down the loading time of your site and even crash some browsers. Also, scripts are not supported across all browsers, so some visitors might miss important information because of that.

Don’t create your web site with Adobe Flash, or at least not entirely with Adobe Flash, if you want the search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN to be able to index your pages. The search engines can not read Adobe Flash.

Use CSS to style your page content. You can save yourself a lot work by styling all elements on your website in one step.

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Design Decisions, Graphics, HTML, PHP Scripting, Scripts, Server Side Includes 

Add a Scrolling Ad to Your Site

June 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Do you have a site with a border?

Want to add an ad for 15, 30 or 60 seconds that will stay in the border — even if your visitor scrolls down the page.

This software package is free:
Get Scroll Ad Lock here

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Advertising, Blogs, CSS, Graphics, Internet Marketing, Sales, Scripts, Visitor Experience, Web design tools 

Powweb Coupon Special $10 Off

June 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Powweb, who is my choice for web hosting - the web host that I use for all my sites — has been running a great special for a couple months. Their “Chili-pepper ad” that asks if $5.77 / month for 300GB Space and 3000GB throughput is “Hot enought?” as been quite effective for them:


PowWeb Hosting - Only $5.77 per month!

Now, for a brief time, you can get the Powweb Coupon Special for
another $10 off your purchase of a year’s web hosting

Notice that this Coupon Special is only valid through that special page. You don’t get it just by going to Powweb’s site!

It makes me wish I needed to buy another account — but I don’t! — I can host unlimited number of domains in just one of these One Plan accounts. (One Plan = that’s all they offer).

I’ve been with Powweb for over three years and am happy with their services.

When you match that $5.77 / month pricing with an additional $10 off and get a 30-day money back guarantee, you’ve got a great deal.

Get the
Powweb Coupon Special for a great deal on web hosting.

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Apache Web Server, Blogs, Coupons, Domain Names, PHP Scripting, Sales, Scripts, Web Hosting, Web design tools 

Suggested Web Design Resources

February 22, 2007 | 4 Comments

I am often asked which resources (books, etc.) that I recommend for people who want to create web sites.

Many web hosts, such as Powweb, provide basic templates for easy creation of a web site. These can be your base for your very first web site, or can function as a quick way to set up your personal blog, a photo gallery or even a forum.

Once you have your first site created by some type of script or template, you will want to play around with it and change it. Whether you create a site using FrontPage, DreamWeaver, a web host’s templates, or code it by hand, you will probably find that you want to do things that can not be done by the standard package. That’s where coding and tweaking the site by hand come in.

HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition (Paperback)
– excellent structure, very readable and very understandable. Bite-size chunks of information and examples.

Open Source Web Development with LAMP Using Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl and PHP (the LAMP book will be hard to find).
My reviews of these two books.

If you’re using FrontPage, get FrontPage 2003 The Missing Manual.

Actually, all of the books at this link. I have but haven’t used the JavaScript one. The others are good. Start from the top, with Don’t Make Me Think.

Get one or the other versions (paperback / hardack) of the HTML for the World Wide Web, even if you have another HTML book. www.terryscomputertips.com/computers/web-design-books.php The CSS and PHP anthologies are not learning tools, but more reference / script libraries. The “Build your own database-driven website” book is a good example for getting going with PHP.

The Adsense Secrets” ebook by Joel Comm. Joel is “Dr. Adsense” — one of the first people to make over $10,000 per month from Google’s Adsense pay-per-click ads on his web sites. I found this book a BIG help in understanding how to create and display Adsense “pay per click” ads on my sites.
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Visibone.com’s “The Browser Book” is a 16-page quick-reference booklet that I use almost every day. It covers HTML, CSS, colors, fonts, special characters, JavaScript, DOM and Regular Expresions.
www.visibone.com

The Super Affiliates Handbook about selling other people’s products. Rosalind Gardner, formerly an air traffic controller, made over $478,000 in one year as an affiliate selling other people’s products on the web.

Notepad++ color-coded syntax programmers editor (free). Mostly, I use the EditPad Pro ($40, www.jgsoft.com). I reviewed Notepad++ in my November 28th issue of Terry’s Computer Tips.

Adsense Gold (Adsense Tracker script + 2 web-based PPC price lists + ebook). I waited and waited, convincing myself I didn’t need it. I finally bought it recently. It brings a whole new level of understanding web site stats and information on which pages get visited and which adsense ad formats — and ads — get clicked, without having to mess with Google’s limited “channels.”
Get Adsense Gold

SEO Elite Finally, one software package that I’m still considering — probably like my unwise delay in buying Adsense Gold. This package is all about fine-tuning your web site(s) to get high rankings in Google, MSN, Yahoo and similar search engines — and establishing incoming links from other web sites — because higher rankings mean more traffic! And more traffic means more earnings, whether you are selling stuff or have content with advertising. SEO Elite helps you get targeted traffic — traffic interested in your site’s subject.

Why get links? The more inbound links you have — links from other sites to yours — the higher you should rank in the search engines. Search engines also look at blogs for their rankings because blogs have become a major factor in Internet communications in the last year

You can sign up for Free Web Advertising via the ability to post entries to a blog designed specifically for advertising by members. Free members can post a 700 character ad once per week. Paid members can post much more often, with larger ads and HTML (fonts and images) that free members can not.

Pay attention, though — there is a special one-time offer for a paid upgrade that is not repeated. Although you can purchase a lesser upgrade later, you can not post nearly as often and you don’t get all the bonuses available if you go for the “Elite” upgrade. I wish I had…

One of the new services that I have found is LinkMetro. With LinkMetro, which is available in both a free membership and Advanced Membership modes, is a great way to identify potential web sites that you might want to link to you.

Why get links? The more inbound links you have — links from other sites to yours — the higher you should rank in the search engines.

LinkMetro’s free service helps you identify potential link partners. The Advanced Membership makes the tedious task of modifying and maintaining your web site’s link files into a virtually automatic activity. Just initiate a link request, or accept a link request from someone else, and pick where you want the link in your links directory — LinkMetro’s software will handle the rest.

LinkMetro will also allow you to easily view the pages on which your link partners have your links and make sure the links are still there.

Sign up for a free or Advanced Membership at LinkMetro. I recommend the free membership, not the advanced.

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Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Adsense, Affiliate Marketing, CSS, FrontPage, HTML, Internet Marketing, PHP Scripting, SEO, Scripts, Search Engine Optimization, Text Editors, Traffic & Linking, Usability, Visitor Experience, WYSIWYG Editors, Web design tools 

Web Design Tools I Just Bought

January 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Today I picked up a couple web design & marketing tools from Teri Champigny:

  • One-Time-Offer in a Box is designed to give us the coding we need to make one time offers to visitors, members and new subscribers to our sites and newsletters, and
  • Web Elements E-Z Tools for Webmasters. This package is designed to generate JavaScript interactive features for our websites.

At only $7 for both (Not $7 each!) and including master resale rights, this was a no-brainer.

The way I look at it, if even if I don’t resell them (and I probably won’t), I’ve bought a couple of nice packages for myself at a nice price.

A word of warning, though, if you want to get them - get them now. She’s set a limit on the number of copies she’ll sell — plus the site does a weekly special (this is this week’s special). One way or the other, this weekly special will soon be gone.

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Affiliate Marketing, JavaScript, Scripts, Usability, Web design tools