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Professional Email Addresses
It replicates your personality and interests and, to a great extent, your business. Several free email providers like Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL provide an easy approach to establishing a simple looking email address. But what counts is the professional look that it should generate. With these free email providers, your email address does not convey professionalism – which is a basic business enhancement ingredient.
Consider these two email addresses – john.home@aol.com and support@yourcompanyname.com. The former gives a general look which millions of people adopt, while the latter provides a professional business look with your company’s name affixed to it. Moreover, the latter allows the customers and the potential clients to get an idea about the professional services that you offer.
Structuring an email address:
a professional email address is easy. The chief advantage is that you can register a good domain name and begin using your professional looking email services, even without running your website. Furthermore, it involves extremely easy steps which are easy to track.
You can start using this unique email facility and launch a new domain for as little as
How to Create the Best Affiliate Website
You want to make money with affiliate programs. What is the main thing that you need? A list. And how do you get that list? You must have a website.
Many new affiliate marketers just promote the link that the affiliate program gives them. They may be making some money, but the truth is that customers rarely puchase the first time that they see a product. Now, ask yourself what happens if they decide to buy that product later. You lose your commission!
If you have your own website, you can capture those prospective customers’ name and email address and “remind” them about the product that they were interested in.
Many of the successful affiliate marketers only have what is called a “squeeze” page or a landing page. They give out a free report or ebook to get people to subscribe to their list.
My approach is a bit different. I feel that people are visiting my websites because they want information. So, I do my best to give them that information. Sure, I have a newsletter subscription box on my site, but I am having more success with providing the information that people are looking for.
You don’t absolutely HAVE to have a content site to have an affiliate website. There are different types of sites that can direct traffic to your affiliate merchant.
1. Price comparison sites. These sites are mostly dominated by the big corporations like Shopzilla so it is more difficult for an affiliate marketer to make any money with comparison sites. It is possible to have a product feed to take care of some of the technical aspects, but it’s still difficult.
2. Product review sites. Product review sites are becoming more and more popular. Pick products that match your content topic.
3. “Mini” sites. These sites (as I mentioned before) that normally just have an optin page to gather the names and emails of prospects. Then, you create an autoresponder series to introduce these people to your affiliate products. Your messages are NOT sales letters. They are based on the good, quality information that they are looking for.
4. And, of course, the plain old content site. Although, these days, content sites don’t have to be all that plain. Content can be defined as words, videos, audio and multimedia. The possibilities are endless.
Now that you know that you need a website, how do you go about getting one? Let’s take a look:
1. Hire someone to create a beautiful site for you. This can run into big money. You CAN get a reasonably priced web designer if you do your research. If you do decide to go this way, be sure that you ask for references (yes, just like in the offline world), and check them out.
2. Blogging. I love blog sites because the search engines love them AND because they are “easy peasy.” The two top choices for creating a blog are WordPress and Blogger.com (http://blogger.com). WordPress is free from http://wordpress.org. It can be installed with just a few clicks from your web hosting control panel (provided you have cpanel type hosting.) Blogger.com is an online service provided by Google. I prefer WordPress because Google has a habit of deleting blogs without notice for reasons that are known only to them. Have you heard the funny story about when Google deleted their own blog?
3. Design Dashboard, by Marlon Sanders: Point and click your way to a beautifully designed website. I have used this and so I know that this learn and you do system is terrific to those who have never created a website.
4. XSite Pro. I use this for the majority of my websites. XSite Pro is extremely easy for the newbie to use so that they don’t have to have a website designer create a site for them. Just point, click and type. It has a built in template system plus third-party templates are available everywhere these days.
5. Microsoft FrontPage or Dreamweaver. This software is a little more difficult to learn, but I did it – so you can do it if you want!
6. Nvu. (http://nvu.com). A free HTML editor that is pretty easy to learn. The best part? I’ll repeat: FREE.
7. SiteBuildIt is the only all-in-one site-building, site-hosting, AND site-marketing system of software tools for affiliate marketers.
7. Squidoo. You can create a squidoo lens with articles that will promote your affiliate product. I would still recommend that you have your own domain name and website.
Also remember that you don’t have to promote products that are in the internet marketing arena. Think about your hobbies, interests and talents. You might just come up with a niche that is very profitable.
Stick to affiliate products that fit your niche. People are not looking for gambling products on a fashion site! Yes, there are millions of people on the ‘Net but they are looking for something specific. Give it to them.
Your affiliate website is your most important asset because it is where people come up to sign up for your newsletter. You’ve heard it before: the money is in the list. So, give your website a clean, professional look as well as providing the information that visitors are looking for.
The Idiots Guide to Configuring Wordpress
Wordpress is simply the best blogging platform on the planet! Being open source software, developers around the world have produced hundreds of plugins to enhance its basic functionality, as a result blogging has never been easier, and the search engines love it!
Blogging with Wordpress offers two huge advantages:
1. It’s FREE to download and use
2. The Search Engines, in particular Google, love Wordpress blogs
Wordpress is open source software, which means it’s free to use. When you choose a hosting account, try and choose one that uses a control panel called “CPanel”, because installing Wordpress becomes as easy as clicking a handful of icons, it really is simple!
So you’ve bought a domain name, found a hosting company with CPanel and installed Wordpress on your new domain! In theory you’re ready to make your first post! But before you do, read on!
Before you post, you need to configure your blog and optimise it for the search engines, doing this before you post makes life a lot easier for the future.
As Wordpress is open source, developers around the world have written literally hundreds of plugins that enhance the functionality of your blog, and again the majority are free to install. Take a look at Wordpress.org where you’ll find hundreds of free plugins. Ones I recommend are:
- Installer (install this one first, simplifies plugin installations)
- All In One SEO Pack (optimises your posts)
- Adsense Manager (adds Adsense blocks to your posts)
- Google XML Site Maps (creates a site map for your blog)
- Ultimate Tag Warrior (essential plugin for managing tags)
- Sociable (assists with social bookmarking)
Next, within your dashboard, select Options in the menu and then Permalinks. You need to change the settings on this page in order to optimise your post’s url for the search engines, this change will ensure your keywords appear in the url. In the Custom Options box, insert the following text:
/%category%/%postname%/
Typing this will optimise your posts, but you must be careful only to ever select one category per post in the future, and not change a post’s category after you’ve published it!
When you post with Wordpress, it automatically notifies (known as pinging) blog directories of your new content, they index it based on the tags you assign. The search engine robots regularly visit these directories, and as a result your new post will be indexed by them very quickly. Rapid indexing is one of the huge advantages of blogging!
In your blogs configuration, you should add as many directory sites as possible to ping, in addition to the default url. Simply search on the web for “ping list”.
Finally, you need to optimise the appearance of your site. You don’t want to use the basic template that comes with Wordpress. If you do a search online for Wordpress themes, you’ll find hundreds to download for free.org again in their themes directory. Whilst there are hundreds of free themes around, I never seem to find one that perfectly meets my needs, so I often end up buying one!
Once you’ve installed the theme of your choice, activated all of your plugins, and made the configuration adjustments I’ve recommended, you’re ready to post, so what are you waiting for!
Blogging with Wordpress offers two huge advantages:
1. It’s FREE to download and use
2. The Search Engines, in particular Google, love Wordpress blogs
Wordpress is open source software, which means it’s free to use. When you choose a hosting account, try and choose one that uses a control panel called “CPanel”, because installing Wordpress becomes as easy as clicking a handful of icons, it really is simple!
So you’ve bought a domain name, found a hosting company with CPanel and installed Wordpress on your new domain! In theory you’re ready to make your first post! But before you do, read on!
Before you post, you need to configure your blog and optimise it for the search engines, doing this before you post makes life a lot easier for the future.
As Wordpress is open source, developers around the world have written literally hundreds of plugins that enhance the functionality of your blog, and again the majority are free to install. Take a look at Wordpress.org where you’ll find hundreds of free plugins. Ones I recommend are:
- Installer (install this one first, simplifies plugin installations)
- All In One SEO Pack (optimises your posts)
- Adsense Manager (adds Adsense blocks to your posts)
- Google XML Site Maps (creates a site map for your blog)
- Ultimate Tag Warrior (essential plugin for managing tags)
- Sociable (assists with social bookmarking)
Next, within your dashboard, select Options in the menu and then Permalinks. You need to change the settings on this page in order to optimise your post’s url for the search engines, this change will ensure your keywords appear in the url. In the Custom Options box, insert the following text:
/%category%/%postname%/
Typing this will optimise your posts, but you must be careful only to ever select one category per post in the future, and not change a post’s category after you’ve published it!
When you post with Wordpress, it automatically notifies (known as pinging) blog directories of your new content, they index it based on the tags you assign. The search engine robots regularly visit these directories, and as a result your new post will be indexed by them very quickly. Rapid indexing is one of the huge advantages of blogging!
In your blogs configuration, you should add as many directory sites as possible to ping, in addition to the default url. Simply search on the web for “ping list”.
Finally, you need to optimise the appearance of your site. You don’t want to use the basic template that comes with Wordpress. If you do a search online for Wordpress themes, you’ll find hundreds to download for free.org again in their themes directory. Whilst there are hundreds of free themes around, I never seem to find one that perfectly meets my needs, so I often end up buying one!
Once you’ve installed the theme of your choice, activated all of your plugins, and made the configuration adjustments I’ve recommended, you’re ready to post, so what are you waiting for!