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Creating step-by-step guides is a quick and easy way to make money online. All you have to do is document how to use a particular service or product, add your affiliate links to the report and distribute it.

One aspect of step-by-step guides is if you target newcomers to internet marketing. For example you can explain how to go about starting a website and in your step-by-step guide show exactly how to go about creating a hosting account, set up a blog etc.

Chances are the newcomer will join the hosting you are promoting because they will be too scared to get hosting through another company in case the explanation in your guide won’t apply.

Distributing free step-by-step guides is a great way to build a list to which you can promote other related products.

Why Bother with Step-by-Step Guides?

Experienced internet marketers often say the way to make money online is by selling information in the form of ebooks and reports, but writing and publishing them is not as easy as it seems. Good writing skills are necessary to keep readers interested, and even good authors often struggle to get the point across to readers.

Step-by-step guides on the other hand are easier to write. Many believe all that is required is to list the exact steps necessary to accomplish a particular task.

But, and it’s a big but…

A series of listed instructions can quickly turn into a disjointed mess, making readers even more confused and frustrated. They quickly lose interest, give up and even worse, could ask for a refund. It’s a recipe for disaster, and credibility is lost.

Instead of listing the steps required to accomplish a particular task, a great way to spice up a step-by-step guide is to include images created by capturing relevant areas of the screen and adding instructions for each step to the images.

My new report titled Easy “Step-by-Step Guide” Creation which shows you how to quickly create and promote step-by-step guides (which look professionally produced). Guides which your customers will often refer back to. Some will even print the guides and give them pride of place with other treasured information.

Creating your own step-by-step guides is quick, easy and a great way to build your credibility and reputation

I’ll make this quick…

I am selling PLR to a package containing 5 of my marketing guides (plus a few bonuses) at a serious discount.

To read the full story (why and how much) click this link: 5-Marketing-Guides

This is not ongoing - as soon as I have reached my sales target it will be closed.

Press releases can significantly improve your search engine rankings, which in turn boosts your website traffic (you’ll also get traffic from the press releases themselves).

But just how do you go about writing and submitting press releases?

Press Bot is an automated press release solution which allows you to submit press releases to 25 or so online distribution services.

So you can write a press release for each of your sites and distribute them in a fraction of the time it would to you to do this manually.

Don’t panic about the prospect of writing press releases, they are a lot easier to write then articles, but there is a structure you should follow.

Press Bot comes with an excellent bonus report - Dana Willhoit’s hot new guide to writing killer Press Releases in minutes, even if you’ve never written one before!

She includes a number of templates so you can get started immediately. Press Bot also has 5 built in press release templates, now you’ve got no excuse to get started…

Quick Tip: You can use Press Bot to start your own press
release submission service for paid clients…

Protecting your Adsense account is important, especially from idiots who take your adsense code and stick it on their websites.

I know that… But never did anything about it. It’s one of those blatently obvious points I never gave a second thought, until I read about it and thought “idiot!”

I had my “idiot” moment while reading a post on Grizzly’s blog about making money with affiliate marketing. Down near the bottom of the comments, a reply by Grizzly jumped out and gave me a wake up slap. It’s an important piece of information (if you use Adsense).

In your Google Adsense account is a form for adding the domains on which you want your Adsense ads to be published. If your ads appear on any other domains, the ads will display but no clicks (or payments) will be registered. It’s a basic defense mechanism you should use.

Here’s how:

1. Login into your Adsense account and click on the “Adsense Setup” tab.
2. Next click on the “Allowed sites” link (under the tabs on the blue link bar at the right hand side).
3. Click the “Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account” button and then enter each of your domains (one per line) into the text box. Don’t forget to add your Blogger blogs.

Form for adding allowed domains to your Google Adsense account

How many articles (PLR or others) do you have hibernating on your computer?

(By hibernating I mean sitting there doing nothing)

If you’re like me, you have thousands, but never seem to find the time to use them.

Here’s a simple solution:

Using Blogomator you can search your computer for articles and post them to any blog you want, using a schedule you decide.

How does it work?

Blogomator uploads your articles either individually or in a zip file, and displays them on a console. You can check for uniqueness, edit the articles, and select those you wish to post to your blog (or blogs).

Once you have selected the articles you want posted, you will be presented with another console where you set the frequency articles are to be published on your blog. You don’t actually set dates (otherwise you’d be there for hours), rather you set how many articles you want published over so many days. For example, 1 to 2 articles every 2 to 3 days. Blogomator than randomizes the publishing sequence based on the parameters you chose.

The actual posting is accomplished by using the WordPress XML-RPC Remote Publishing facility - so you have to turn this on in each blog you add to the system.

Blogomator is fairly simple to use, and gives you a number of possibilities. You can:

• Easily add quality articles to any of your blogs.
• Use free hosting services which allow you to publish WordPress blogs and create link networks.
• Use these free hosting services and create blogs to promote affiliate products (or your list).

The sky’s the limit…

Another feature of Blogomator is that it can also notify social bookmarking services of each new post. I’d be cautious using this; It is a setting you have to turn on if you want to make use of it.

There are a few enhancements the owners of Blogomator could make to their system (like a console which allows you to add a resource box below each article) but on the whole Blogomator is a pretty good system and well worth using.

Using Blogomator to add articles to your blogs means you probably won’t have the time to add links to your main blogs or websites. Here’s a simple solution for quickly adding inline links (the best kind of link) which point to your main blogs or websites:

Use the SEO Smart Links plugin and you can automatically turn keywords into links on every post in your blogs. This means you don’t have to edit articles to add links.

WordPress 2.7 automatically adds new plugins. Click on the “Add New” link on the “Plugins” dropdown, then click on the word “links” in the tag cloud. Locate the SEO Smart Links plugin from the list displayed and click the “install” link.

Earlier this week I was reading a post on Grizzly’s “How to Make Money Online for Beginners” blog about how he doubled his Google Adsense income. You can read his post here: I just doubled my income

The post was all about Google’s smart pricing and how your blog/website performance can determine the amount you get paid by Adsense.

Somewhere along the line I read about the “Who Sees Ads?” WordPress plugin and how you can set it up to control who sees your Adsense ads.

So I’ve been playing with it and I’m impressed…

• You can set it up so your visitors only see Adsense ads x number of times - useful for stopping serial clickers in their tracks.
• You can set it up so only new visitors see your ads (including Adsense) - useful for maintaining high click through rates on your advertisements.
• You can set it up to display advertisement place holders when you are viewing the blog - useful for keeping Adsense displays down and protecting your Adsense account from accidental clicks when you are “tweaking”.
• you can use it to control any ad/text - useful for showing text promoting your RSS feed to new visitors and not “bugging” your normal readers (you can also use this for optin forms).

OK… I’m sure you want to know if helped in any way.

Bottom line is since I stopped displaying Adsense on my “suspect” blogs/websites and started using the plugin, my Adsense income has more than doubled.

Thank you Grizzly

lol - Magic?

Perhaps not, but there’s a lot you can do with WordPress RSS feeds.

First you need to know how to create the feeds, and the great thing is the WordPress RSS system can make just about any feed you want. All you have to do is use the correct url’s.

So here goes…

WordPress Category RSS Feeds

If you are using a custom permalink structure, to create a category specific RSS feed you use this type of url:

http://your-blog.com/category/the-category-slug/feed

Just replace ‘your-blog.com’ with your actual blog domain and ‘the-category-slug’ with the actual category slug from your blog.

The category slugs are easy to find - run your mouse over the category in your blog’s sidebar and look in the lower left hand corner of your browser window (in the status bar). You’ll see the category slug at the end of the url.

There is another way to create a category specific RSS feed, but first you need to go into the ‘Manage Categories’ section of your blog admin and get the category number. You can either right click over the category name, and copy the link, or run your mouse over the category and look in your browser window status bar for the url which will look similar to this:

http://your-blog.com/wp-admin/categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=56

The bit you want is at the end - the cat_ID number - 56 in this case.

Next you create the RSS feed like so:

http://your-blog.com?cat=56&feed=rss2

It doesn’t matter if you change the order:

http://your-blog.com/?feed=rss2&cat=56

Placing the ‘cat=’ number at the end makes it easier to create other RSS feed url’s.

WordPress Tag RSS Feeds

The latest WordPress version has tagging built in. You can create an RSS feed for each tag:

http://your-blog.com/tag/tag-slug/feed

or

http://your-blog.com?feed=rss&tag=tag-slug

The tag-slug can be found in the ‘Manage Tags” section of your blog - it is created by adding a hyphen between each word in the tag, so if you know which tags you’ve used you don’t really need to log into your blog to get them. Another way to find tag slugs is to run your mouse over a tag and view the url in the browser status bar.

WordPress Search Term RSS Feeds

You can also create RSS feeds by using a search term. The difference with search terms is you add a plus sign between each word:

http://your-blog.com/search/search+phrase/feed

or

http://your-blog.com/?feed=rss2&s=search+phrase

So how does all this help you?

Here’s the magic of WordPress RSS feeds…

You can mix and match the RSS feeds from your various blogs using Yahoo Pipes. You then submit your ‘mash ups’ as they are known using an RSS submitter like RSSBot.

Initially you won’t get much traffic from submitting your mash ups, but you will get back links as other webmasters use your RSS feeds.

The thing to remember is each of your mash ups is made from RSS feeds which have links to the articles on your blogs. Over a period of time these back links will help your blog rankings in the search engines, and that is when your traffic will increase.

The key is to get creative with your mash ups. Create niche related mash ups and submit them.

You could even create auto blogs out of your mash ups and use them for backlinks or even flip them for cash - there’s no limit to what you can do with your WordPress RSS feeds.

Good search engine rankings depend on the number of quality back links your websites have pointing to them. One very effective way of increasing the number of links pointing to your websites is to create an RSS feed for each website and submit the feeds to RSS Aggregators.

You can easily create RSS feeds for any website by using an online feed creator such as:

http://www.feed43.com
http://www.feedfire.com
http://feedity.com

Blogging platforms such as WordPress create their own RSS feeds. WordPress can create all sorts of RSS feeds such as feeds for each category, or tag, and even for search terms you specify.

(I’ll cover the WordPress RSS feeds in another post because there is a lot you can do with them…)

The idea is to take these RSS feeds and submit them to as many RSS Aggregators you can.

That’s all fine and dandy if you have the time. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have the time, and I also get bored doing anything repetitive (which means I stop doing it and lose out big time!)

Using an RSS submitter is the way to go because you can enter your feed url’s, click a button, and the submitter does all the boring work for you.

Saves a lot of time too…

This is the submitter I use. It’s not just an RSS submitter, it also pings a number of RSS aggregators, so when you add new content to your website all you have to do is click a button to automatically ping them, and your new content will be added (which gives you more incoming links and also gets your new pages quickly spidered by the search engines).

Most RSS submitters cost well over $100, but right now the price of RSSBot has a significant discount (and I do mean significant). Click here to get your copy of RSSBot.

BTW - If you use an autoresponder and it has an RSS feed, like an Aweber account does, don’t forget to submit it using RSSBot…

My blog got a Christmas present - a cool makeover

It certainly looks a lot better then the crappy blog theme I had before.

What do you think of it?

One of the quickest ways to build an optin list is to use the $7 script which gives 100% commissions to your affiliates.

But there is a problem with the system…

It has nothing to do with the script itself, but rather the PayPal payment page your customers land on when they decide to buy they product.

The problem is there is nothing to indicate to your prospective customer who the seller is. Normally all they see is your PayPal email address or that of your affiliate.

When your prospective customer sees your affiliate’s PayPal email address and not yours, they could get confused and decide not to buy. Some might even think it is a scam!

The $7 Secrets Conversion Booster explains an ingenious system which replaces the PayPal email address with a banner of your choosing. This means your prospective customer will always see your banner on the PayPal payment page even when the link is one of your affiliates.

It might seem a trivial issue, but if your prospective customer feels uncomfortable about the transaction, you lose out in two ways:

1. You lose the optin the sale would generate.
2. Your affiliate loses the sale and may not promote
   any future products you create.

If you are technically minded this is all you have to do:

1. Create a 750 x 90 pixel banner related to the sale of your product.
2. Upload it to E-junkie’s FREE SSL image hosting & click tracking service at http://www.sslpic.com (you need to use secure hosting with https instead of http to avoid the security warnings browsers will generate when they open the secure PayPal payment page).
3. Edit the $7 script to pass the secure image url along with the rest of the transaction details to PayPal so the payment page can be generated which displays your image instead of a PayPal email address at the top of the payment page.

Don’t worry if you’re not PHP savvy and the thought of editing scripts scares you, the $7 Secrets Conversion Booster explains the process step-by-step…