Optimize Your Website For Search Engines With Seopressor

When I first started promoting my business online, I realized rather quickly that I had been terribly short sighted on the importance of seo for a blog.

Google contains more than 100 algorithms that make the world’s most popular search engine.

To better optimizing my web pages, all these years I tried several SEO plugins, someone who worked well, other does not. Three week ago, just because I  could get a 60 day free trial, I decided to try a new wordpress seo plugin called Seopressor. You can grab a copy here.

My friend Daniel Tan is an seo expert and developer of Seopressor, and created this powerful yet easy to use WordPress Plugin for SEO that suggest the easy steps you should take to score 100% for the search engine optimization of your content.

As I said above I’ve been using Seopressor for three weeks until now, so today I’ve enough knowledge and I’ll tell you what this plugin is all about and what I think of it.

What Does Seopressor Do?

The core of Seopressor is Seopressor scoreboard(look the image below), which you’ll see on the right of your Wp Dashboard when you start a new post or page.

Until you don’t tell to Seopressor which keyword you’re trying to optimize, it can’t compute any sort of score. Once you start writing the post and enter a keyword, then Seopressor do the rest of job.

If you want rank 1 for specific keyword term Seopressor can help you in these two ways:

Keywords – As you know, Keyword density is crucial on seo optimization and has  effect on serps. Both relevant keywords and key phrases have significant effect on serps when placed in the correct postion with the correct markup. Well, this plugin help you do that.

In this case Seopressor come into play because suggest you on the correct keyword placement and keyword density but does not advise you on which keywords to use.

Links – While Seopressor does not help you increase backlinks, it does help suggest you on your internal linking which is very important for your search engine results(SERPS).

Let’s Start Using The Plugin

Once upload all files, go on plugin from your WP dashboard, then activate it. On activation settings, you have to enter your name and email. You will receive an email asking you to verify your activation. Once clicked, the activation is complete!

NOTE: If you are using SEOPressor Unlimited, you do not need to activate your license

Here’s how it works:

1. First at all, in the left sidebar of your WordPress dashboard do click on “Add New”. Here you can enter your main keywords on the section above the content called “SeoPressor Keyword”(Image above).

2. Next, write your post and once done, click on “save draft”. Now on your wp dashboard you should see your seo scores.  Once you enter your main keyword and click on ‘update’ button, the Seopressor scores will be updated automatically. The “SeoPressor Score” that tell you how to optimize your content for search engine. Take a look at the pic below:

You will see your scores, your keywords, the keyword density and thing you should do to optimize your content. The red crosses are things you have to change, the green checks are things in order.

Next, on your left panel, you will see a menu like the image below. Settings is where you can setup most of the options of the plugin and POSTs Score and PAGEs Score is the place you will see your SEO scores. POSTs Score and PAGEs Score is where you can edit eny single post you’ve previously created.

The following video will go into detail, so you can see exactly what it looks like.

What Does It Cost To Use This Plugin?

Seopressor come through two version: Seopressor single site at $47 with a single site license, free life-time updates, and Seopressor UNLIMITED which is $7 for 7-day trial, then $97 one time after trial periods ends.

In my view it worth a try if you’re considering to optimizing your seo pages quickly, or if you are already doing so but with mediocre results. Remeber get a 60 day free trial, so try doesn’t cost you a cent.

To Your Success,

Author:

July 28, 2011

Image Credit: Stefan

Catalyst Vs. Thesis, Which Is Better For Your Business Blog?

If we look at the most successful blogger and Internet Entrepreneur out there, you’ll notice a common trait, they’re all using a professional WordPress theme.

When you are looking for a professional Premium Theme for your business blog, the first rule I suggest to follow is to do not go for any name.

Now wait, before you think I am suggesting something wrong, give me a moment.

The reasons why I mentioned both Thesis and Catalyst WordPress themes is that they are currently running on my sites, the3dtechnologies.com and cabinrentlasideas.com, so I throught to make a review where I explain the differences.

While the first one is considered to be an “old” player in the WordPress Framework Arena, the Catalyst is the new kid in the block but already taking the net by storm.

For those who missed out my latest change, just one month ago my blog was running on the Frugal framework by one year, while only recently I upgraded it to the new Catalyst framework. Also, as I mentioned on previous post I’m using Thesis as theme on my cabinrentalsideas website. Far and away two of best choices I made.

When I first installed and used Catalyst, the first question that popped in my mind was:

“Thesis or Catalyst, which is better fro my business online?”

Before to go into details about the difference between Catalyst and Thesis theme I want to precise that I do not receive a free copy of Catalyst and Thesis. I read about their features, liked them, and bought them. That it!

While I’m using Thesis theme on one site only, I’ve installed Catalyst on multiple websites. Currently I have it installed on my main site the3dtechnologies and another site natural-supplements-tips.

First at all, I choosed both themes because for those like me whom likes to mess around with our theme, and playing with our themes, then both Catalyst and thesis are the ideal frameworks to do that.

A cool features make Thesis different by other themes out there, Catalyst included, is that integrates a Multimedia Box, which allows me to embed video, rotate pictures, or even include custom code for all those readers that want to show advertising in that area.

Also, even though I’m not a complete novice when it comes to CSS, I’ve never been a fan of manipulating the layout of a pre-designed theme because is a waste of time for me due I have 8 sites to manage.

Both themes allows you to make all those change on design and layout without having to touch the code. You can customize almost every aspect of adjustment for your fonts.

However, I have to admit that Catalyst has something more to smile about. You have not limit on what you can customize, fonts, type, size, weight color link as link color alignment, line-height and letter-spacing, all without ever having to touch a drop of css code in the WordPress templates.

If on one hand with Catalyst you do not need to know any type of code, php or css, on the other hand before customize thesis theme is necessary to have  some css knowledges. To accomplish this task both themes provides a css widget box. Just type in or paste any CSS code into this box to add Custom CSS to your site. Any CSS code added to this box should override all other CSS coming from Catalyst or Thesis. For instance, take a look at my Catalyst tutorials here to see how it very simple using CSS box to add a custom background.

How Fast Does Your Site Load?

Thanks the new Catalyst Wp Theme all my web pages have increased their load time, and you know what it means and how it help Improving your site’s indexing and ranking on Google search engine.

Anyway, I’ve noticed a little difference in page load time between the two themes. I just tried to test both with a speed tool and as results my Catalyst home page got a page load time of 1.95 seconds with an average speed per KB of 0.03 seconds, while Cabinrentals load at 0.86 seconds with an average speed

Seo(Search Engine Optimization)

Both themes makes Search Engines smile, because provides its users with all the SEO refinement necessary for a serious, professional website. Both allows you to simplify the optimization process which includes the main SEO functions such as: SEO title tag, permanent link redirect, RSS footer, Robots meta, WordPress bread crumbs, custom query string, SEO slugs, and much more.

Analytics And Adsense

Through the widget, track your site never be so easy. Just time to create a new widget on Catalyst Advanced Options and insert your Google Analytics tracking code. In this case thesis is more fast because you ve not to create a widjet, just paste the script on Stat software and script section.

If money is tight, you might be tempted to make money through your blog. When it comes to monetize your blog through program like Adsense, Chitika and Infolink in my view Catalyst is more flexible than Thesis because you can ad your banner ad on every part of your blog quickly. Take a look on my tutorial to see how do that. While if you want to see how to add adsense pn thesis look my post here.

Final Considerations

The choice between one or the other is likely to depend by your use and purpose. If your business blog is full of content, then Thesis is the right choice because is wonderfully organized, but if you want an extremely clean and simple theme with more options for change your font colors and need space for advertisements, Catalyst is by far the best. Just take a look to my home page to see how many space you have with Catalyst.

Now, it’s time to make your choice!

Nicola

Blogger

Catalyst WordPress Theme, A Clean WordPress Themes

UPDATE 30 November 2011Like everything we use to improve our blog, the time has come for change my WordPress theme and switch with a new one. Hope you appreciate ours new look. The WordPress theme I used is called “Catalyst Theme“.

It’s a Frameworks theme, in a nutshell are the bones of a premium theme that allow non-techies to customize their theme as they desire and not be locked into one design or layout.

For those who missed out the news, there was a new upgrade for old Frugal theme users. The theme Frugal is switched to the new Catalyst Theme. My friend Eric has just ended to develop and release the new theme, and the best part is that old Frugal Theme members like me could switch from the old theme to the new without spend a cent.

The name Catalyst was chosen to replace the Frugal Theme.  It was the crowd favorite and that got the most votes. For those don’t know, the Frugal Development Team held a contest to give the latest version of the Frugal Theme a new identity.

I was really impressed by the number of features Catalyst Theme provides. They are are really a lot. It wouldn’t be appropriate for me to list them all, but to get a full sense of what this theme is all about I put a series of screenshot and feature below that let you better understand as strong this theme is.

The3dtechnologies Switched To Catalyst, Everything You Need To Know

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My friend Eric Hamm is the designer who developed the Catalyst Theme that powers this blog.

Catalyst is a Premium WordPress theme for those like me whom likes to mess around with our theme. What I really like about this theme is that it let you to optimize any aspect of layout and design in order to make ours web pages most attractive to the readers.

Eric says:

Early on we didn’t even know we were working on a totally brand new Premium WordPress Theme. For all we knew we were just making our original Premium Theme better. It wasn’t until we realized how far forward this project had leaped that we knew it was time to break free from our Frugal Theme and into a new, far more advanced WordPress Theme chapter.

Before to enter into details I want to give a sneak peek at the main Catalyst features. Everything from robust SEO to Site Layout controls, this is the nerve-center of your site:

  • Unlimited Custom Layouts, Widgets & Hook Boxes Provide Amazing Flexibility
  • The Dynamik Child Theme Provides Over 800 No-Coding Design Options
  • Create Your Own Custom Child Themes With A Single Mouse Click
  • A Custom CSS Building Tool That Writes Custom Code For You!
  • The Most Comprehensive Font Control Offered In A WordPress Theme!
  • Taking (SEO) Search Engine Optimization To The Next Level
  • Fast, Efficient, HTML5 & CSS3 Validating Code
  • Always Run The Latest Version Of Catalyst With Automatic Updates
  • The Catalyst Zero Limits Philosophy Extends To Its License
  • Image Uploader Built into the Dynamik Child Theme
  • Page Templates from Powerful to simply essential
  • Full Import/Export of ALL your Catalyst and Dynamik Options
  • Built-In Custom Widgets: Excerpt Widget, Author Bio Widget, Ad Widget and a PHP Text Widget
  • Easily Add Your Own Custom Favicon & Avatar To Your Site
  • Fully Compatible With WordPress MU (Multi-Site)
  • Comprehensive Documentation that’s built right into the Theme Options
  • A Pure Framework Filled With Hooks & Filters Galore
  • And A Gazillion Other Things That You’ll Have To Buy Catalyst To Find Out About!

This is a screenshot of my home page. Cool right!

Premium Themes Vs Free Theme? What Should I Choose?

Who do you think is right, Free theme or Premium theme? Well, Let me clear my throught. As many of you know, there a tons of free themes available out there, and most of them are bad theme. Also, two important things you need to know is that most of them doesn’t have integrated widget and no one provides you the necessary support which is a great lack into your work as blogger or affiliate marketer.

How Fast Does Your Site Load? Mine Is Very Fast Now

It clear that some visitors will sit and wait no matter how long the site takes to load, but on average if your pages take more than 4 second to load, then your visitors could be getting impatient and leave it.

Many of my readers have probably noticed a difference in increasing page load time than the previous theme. After I’ve installed the new Catalyst wp theme, all of my webpages have drastically increased in load time.

You can check up the test I did with a speed tool, and here’s the results. Now, my home page load time is 0.91 seconds with an average speed per KB of 0.03 seconds. Not bad right?

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Inside Catalyst Premium Theme: What I Got With The New Theme

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When I downloaded CatalystBunde.zip(793.4KB), the.zip file contains the following:

  • catalyst.zip – The latst version of Catalyst Theme(Currently 1.1.2)
  • dynamik.zip – The last version of Dynamik Child Theme
  • Dynamik-Skins – A folder containing 22 Skins for Dynamik

The images below will show in details the three files(one folder and two RAR file format).

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The C. Skins are very cool, and once downloaded Catalyst, you have a lot of choices between 22 skin they provides to you. Just look at the image below to see what you get. The current skin who is running on my theme is called “newsprint-skin”. Very kool :)

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Check Out The Incredible Level Of Control!

Catalyst theme is  the most in-depth and extensive premium WordPress currently on the market when it comes to dashboard options. It provides several panels with a wide range of options.  To give you an idea of how powerful this theme is, below I’ve also put some screenshots of the Catalyst Admin Panel.

Core Options > Info

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Core Options > SEO

Page/Post Title Tags – In this section you can set up the Title Tag attribute for Pages and Posts. It very easy, just adding text to the “Catalyst Page Title” or “Catalyst Post Title” inside “Catalyst Post Options” section when editing a page or post.

Robots Meta SEO OptionsWhen a Search Engine crawls your site it can be directed as to where it should and should not go, what pages it should and should not index as well as archive for search results (among other things). Use the below options to help guide Search Engines as they view your site.

Homepage SEO Options – Search Engine Optmization is an important part for any affiliate marketer and internet entrepreneur like me  and thanks to Catalyst and with a few basic concepts you can create websites that are attractive to Search Engines and easy for your potential visitors to locate.

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Core Options > Header

The Header Right area houses the catalyst_hook_header_right hook. This hook allows you to hook widgets into the right side of your header. When using the Dynamik Child Theme this hook also allows you to place Navbar 1 to the right of your Header.

When this Header Right Area/Hook is not set to be active then the entire Header Right area is removed, only leaving the Header Left area, set to span the full widht of your Header.

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Core Options > Navbars

Default vs Custom Navigation Menus – Here you can choose to either use the Default Catalyst Navbar or a Custom WordPress Menu for this Navbar, or None.

Control The Content In Your Navbars – When using the “Default” Navbar Type in Catalyst you are able to control what Pages and Categories display in your Navbars. With these Include and Exclude options you are able to choose what displays and what does not by adding Page and Category ID’s into their corresponding fields.

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Core Options > Content

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Core Options > Excerpts

Excerpt Widget Options - Catalyst comes bundled with a number of useful WordPress widgets, the most impressive of which is the Excerpt Widget. You can find it by going to (Appearance > Widget) in your WordPress Dashboard.

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Dinamik Options > Wrap

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Dinamik Options > Header

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an much much more…………….

Note: I’ve only scratched the surface. I could not add all pics, so if you want to see more screenshot, I reccomend to take a look at their resources.

So, What Make Catalyst So Special?

Many new bloggers struggle with their Themes every day trying to decipher what file to edit to change various sections of their blog.

Here’s where Catalyst come into play. The best things of Catalyst is that you can update any aspect of your blog design directly from your wp control panel. So if you want to replace your logo with another, change your headline color, and so on, you can do this in a snap.

Price

One of the better thing about Catalyst is that is free for old Frugal theme users. For other people the premium version goes up to $97 for a single user license, while the developer license goes up to $174. The developer version let you access to Catalyst Developer Edition Exclusive Resources and to Catalyst Beta Releases. That justify the $174 price.

Last Upgraded

The new Catalyst 1.3 added a lot of great new features to the framework.

First and foremost, the CSS Builder and Custom CSS Editor back in Advanced Options.  The Front-end CSS Builder got a major overhaul. With 1.3.1 you have much more polished product that I think will make the Front-end design experience much more appealing. Changes were made to make it a bit peppier, more accurate and feel more intuitive.

To see all the changes in action be sure to check out the Catalyst 1.3.1 video:

Catalyst Theme from SiteSmarty on Vimeo.

Final Consideration

I have to customize my theme yet, but  I can attest the new Catalyst features are much better than my previous theme and I really enthusiast about it. Also, your web page will load quickly, and you know what it means with the new Google Caffeine algorithm. Give it a try through their demo online and tell me what you think.

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It’s Time To Build A Membership Site, How To Build A Subscription Websites

This is a question that I asked myself as affiliate marketer and internet entrepreneur, so I think many blogger would like to know more…..so, I want to know your opinion on it.

First and foremost, have you ever heard about Membership Site? or better, I want to control who become a new member on my wordpress site.

Well, the concept behind a membership websites is very simple. In a nutshell, you create something called member-only websites or subscription websites or mentor websites. Usually who launch these type of sites offer database services, or even offer tutorial services and share it for a fee, by getting a good response by visitors that often tend to subscribe to it.

A Membership sites allow you to make money online and build a strong community around it. Your community includes exclusive users which interact with your service or content. You can provide them instant support, reply to each comments, and much more.

How to Create a Membership Site By Using WordPress

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WordPress Membership Plugin is a premium WordPress plugin with a lot of features that allows to turn your blog into a closed site that is only available for payed members. It provides you all the necessary options to start your own membership site and set up an easy to use premium content members-only website.

Setting It Up Magic Members

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Setting up Magic Members is as easy. Once you’ve activated the plugin. , on your wp-admin panel you should to see a new menu option called Magic Members. If you click it, you will see that Magic Members has it’s own version of configuration panel. You are able to adding member types, to controlling your payment options, your content, and more.

  • You can set up many membership levels.
  • Simple integration with any WordPress themes.
  • This WordPress membership plugin enables to create unlimited coupons.
  • Flexible Membership Options.
  • Magic Members allows your members to pay with PayPal, Authorize.net, ClickBank, WorldPay and Epoch
  • Controlled Content Acces – If you have different levels of membership you can simply control what the different levels of memberships can see.
  • Autoresponders
  • Prevent login sharing
  • Protected RSS feeds
  • Download management
  • It is integrated with Magic Affiliate plugin.

If you have any problem to configure it, this video below will show any step by step on how to configure that plugin. If you are still having problems with something, then there is FREE unlimited support. Also if want to find example of website magicmembers I reccomend to see their site. The video below will make some light…

If we go into detail MagicMember WordPress Membership Plugin present a lot of features:

1. Have you a blog? no problem – This plugin help you to integrate your existent blog with your new membership site in a simple and fat way. Don’t worry what theme you have, this plugin is compatible with any WordPress theme you use.

2. Other Membership Options – Membership Worpress plugun allows you to set different membership billing options (weekly, yearly, trimester etc).

3. Multiple Membership Areas – It are able to create different membership access based to the areas of your choice(for instance, downloads, tutorials etc). You can charge separate for each levels and increase your revenue stream.

4. Login Redirection – If you have multiple membership, and you  want to send different member updates, news, and/or welcome messages this features let you to redirect your members into different landing pages.

5. Payment Integration Modules – Any members can pay the service through different methods like Paypal, Authorize.net, ClickBank, and WorldPay. So one person that isn’t able to pay with Paypal can use another method listed above.

6. Unlimited Coupon Creation – You can create a coupon to offer a fixed price or a percentage discount on current or new subscription payments.

7. Pay Per Post Access – There are times when users don’t want to pay a monthly fee when they only want to see a few articles. This option allows you to charge per post access. User will pay for the access of a specific post.

8. Control Subscription Length – You can control how long memberships are valid with membership expiration. Set different expiration for different user type. This feature works great for trial memberships.

9. Sequential Course Delivery System – If you are a building a course system with your membership site, then this feature is extremely useful. You can control when the content becomes available for users to see. For example, you can have a new lesson / day for 30 days.

10. Partial Content Display – You can use the shortcode [ private ] [ /private ] to hide exclusive content within the post. For example a download link to the PSD source file or something else. This feature is particularly useful in providing “teaser” articles that give just enough information that will make non-members want to become members.

11. Controlled Content Access – You can control which content is visible to each membership level. For example, standard members can only see the basic tutorials whereas Gold members can download source files.

12. Secure RSS Tokens – This feature allows you to send content via RSS feeds without worrying about non-members accessing it.

13. Entire Blog Protection – You can completely prevent non-members from accessing any information. Anytime a user tries to access a page, they will be redirected to the login page.

14. Custom Error Pages – It will create custom error pages in order to get a cool look to your entire membership site.

15. Download Manager – This feature allows you to protect downloads from being accessed by unauthorized members and guests. Only users with a specific permission level can access the file.

16. Simple:Press Forum Integration – This allows you to turn your regular Simple:Press forum into a paid subscription forum.

17. Useful Member Management – You are able to see everything about your members, such as, their status, level and other useful info as you can easily upgrade, delete, deactivate a member as well.

18. AutoResponder – You no need to make any effort to integrate your membership site to the most known auto responder service like Aweber, GetResponse and MailChimp.

Final consideration

Compared other similar free WordPress plugins, this Membership Software bring the site to the next level. Of course you have to pay $97 for a Single Site License and $297 for unlimited sites license, but it is an investment for the future. Believe me, if you want to find something at a similar level, you will end up paying thousands of dollars.

To our success,

Nicola Deiana

blogger and internet entrepreneur

How To Turn Your Blog Into An E-Commerce Site With WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin

UPDATE – 4 September 2011 – Someone recently ask me how do I set up an e-commerce website through WordPress platform. The email message I received from my reader was:

“Hi Nicola, I need to receive money from my blog. I just wanted to know if it’s a good idea to go ahead with the store idea. Can I integrate a shopping cart into my wordpress website? If so, what is the fastest way to go?”

Well, the answer is simple, the answer is yes, and in this article I will show how do that.

While in my recent article I mentioned that one of the reasons websites fails with e-commerce is due they do not have a good Payment system, today I want to focus your attention to one of the better, if no the better WordPress shopping cart plugin out there, for those who would to turn their WordPress blog or website into a profitable store online.

It is a great plugin that provides you useful information such as product details, tax prices, remove/edit items, shipping options and much much more.

How To Put A Shopping Cart On A WordPress Blog And How I Do Turn My WordPress Into An Ecommerce Page.

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The WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin is a plugin for any wordpress blog or website that allows anyone blogger or webmaster to install an online shopping cart in a fast and simple way, and turn WordPress into a strong store online.

As you could see in detail below, the interface is very easy to use which allows you to set up your multiple products as add images to show, as list them into multiple categories as well.

One thing people has need to do when they choose a Shopping cart software to add to their blog, is to check up that there are many elements included within the shopping cart and checkout process.

Well, WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin have not any problems because includes several features for any needs, here’s I’ve put down some of these:

  • Product Categories
  • Digital Downloads (MP3s,PDFs)
  • PayPal Gateway
  • Credit Card (POS)
  • Multiple Products
  • Discount Coupon Codes

If you want to see all the features includes within the package, look here.

A WordPress E-commerce Moneybookers And Paypal

The best part of this plugin is that not only let you start an wordpress e-commerce moneybookers and Paypal from scratch, but it also provide to your customers multiple payment methods such as, 2CheckOut, First Data (Linkpoint & YourPay), Realex Payments (redirect), eMatters (HTTPS), Ogone PSP (Basic), Authorize.net (AIM), eWay (Shared), credit card (POS), bank wire and manual/custom payments.

So, you do not risk to have your potential customers lost due they can not pay your product through Paypal. Often, I saw on certain blog an ugly Paypal button placed below any products… Nothing more wrong. Why? The reason is simple, not all potential customers have an account with Paypal, so you need to give them the ability to choose the right payment system for them.

How Do To Installation It

  • First at all, download the WordPress Shopping Cart plugin from the downloads management section in a ZIP archive (you may need to login to your Tribulant Software account in order to access your download).
  • Once done, then extract the ZIP archive named wp-checkout.zip and you get a folder called “wp-checkout”.
  • Upload the wp-checkout folder to the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation. If you are upgrading, overwrite all existing plugin files from an older version.
  • Log into you WordPress dashboard, then access the “Plugins” panel and activate the “Checkout” plugin.
  • Access the “Checkout ” administration menu item and the submenus to manage the plugin. This can be found on the left hand side of Your WordPress Dashboard

How To Use This Plugin

When you use these type of software into your website, remember that there’s nothing more annoying to have complicated page full of produtcs, as having to fill out an unnecessary amount of input fields in a form as well.

Well, once the WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin is installed you are able to set up the features you need, creating product categories and add products you want as well, and better yet setting the checkout process in order that become as easy as possible.

Below, I’ve put only some of the main feature, you can find with this plugin

Categories

When you create a new category will be createda WordPress post/page that display the category title, keywords, description and all the products with pagination.

Configuration Settings

If you go on your WordPress dashboard, then “Settings” section you can customize and configure your WordPress shopping cart plugin. You can set in particular:

  • Checkout Appearance
  • Discount Coupons
  • Email Settings
  • Extra Product Images
  • General Configuration
  • Payment Methods
  • Product Settings
  • Products Loop/Paging
  • Shopping Cart
  • User Related Settings

Manage Coupon Codes

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The plugin also allows to activate the discount coupons feature. You can create unlimited discount coupons, each with a unique code/string and distribute these codes so that users/customers whom purchase products from your online shop can apply these codes in order to receive a discount on their order.

In my view, this is a cool features, people like discount and can be useful to increase your montly income stream.

Orders Sections

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Through the “Orders” section of the WordPress shopping cart plugin you can manage all your shop orders. You have the ability to view orders, create new orders, edit/change existing orders and remove orders as needed.

In a nutshell you can check:

  • Order Specific Details
  • User
  • Completion Status
  • Shipped Status
  • Sub Total
  • Discount Applied
  • Shipping Total
  • Total
  • Created Date
  • Modified Date

Add Images

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With the WordPress shopping cart plugin, you can also add additional/extra images to the current products in the plugin database in order to illustrate/demonstrate your products more efficiently to your users/customers.

Shopping Cart

In the “Settings” section, you can change the way the shopping cart works, and add: 1. Shop Logo; 2. Shop Name; 3. Product Details; 4. Product Options; 5. Product Price; 6. Quantity; 7. Product Total; 8. Selection Checkboxes; 9. Sub Total; 10. Shipping Charge; 11. Discount Coupons; 12. Order Total; 13. Update Cart Button; 14. Checkout Button; 15. Continue Shopping Link; 16. Discount Coupons

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System Recommendations

  • WordPress 2.9 or higher
  • PHP 4.2 or higher
  • short_open_tag On
  • safe_mode Off
  • MySQL 4 or higher

Price

If you want to turn your blog into an ecommerce site, Wordpress Shopping Cart Plugin has a lot more options and features to justify the non-free price. The plugin goes for $49.99 isn’t espensive if you want to turn your sit einto an e-commerce site. Consider it as an investment, that surely will bring an economic return.

Download  WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin

Ultimate Free Footer Pop Up, How I Did Money For Free With Instant Slide Up

One thing that recently caught my attention on several affiliate marketers is that they are using a pop up alert subscription box on their homepage.

From an operational standpoint, these script generally all work in the same way. When visitors open the home page they display a little windows that generally includes a subscription box where people leave their name and email in order to download free book, receive newsletter, and so on.

I recently noticed using these type of script by people like Yaro Starak or Johnchow in particularly which have a huge reputation in the internet marketing.

However, as I told on my recent article despite I’ve an eBook which I’m giving away for free, I’ll prefer to do not use often of this system because I do not want to irritate my readers too, but also because the windows popup covers the whole homepage once you display it.

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To get the same result, recently I’ve tried another script on my my latest blog natural-supplements-tips.com,  called instant slide up. How you could notice it works in a different way than the common pop up script.

In general, I’ve choosen this script for two main reasons. First because isn’t intrusive, and at the same time is super effective. The pop up will be displayed into the footer of your webpages, so it do not irritate visitors once they come to your home page. Second, being a slides up, it attract the readers attention too.

You can customize your logo and pick a nice optin box to capture leads. Also, you can set the time delayed at 2.5 seconds. According to Rob after 4-6 seconds a user may leave due to lack of interest.

How Can Be Used Instant Slide Up To Improve Your Business

If you’re considering to increasing the subscription-rate, then you’ve an answer to all your problem. Instant Slide up allows you to have the power of a pop up box without being intrusive to the eye of your readers.

Instead, if you’re considering to earn money by promoting affiliate products, your own products or services, or if you are already doing so, but with mediocre results, then it allows you to increase conversion rate too.

In genreal you can use Instant Slide up when:

  • You want to increase your subscriptin rate.
  • You want to grab reader attention
  • You want sell affiliate programs.
  • You want to give away your paid product.
  • You want to make download your free ebook.

Instant Slide Up is very simple to install. Once sign up your account you can start set up any thing you wish into your control panel, and check which features perform the best.

As you can see, I’ve installed a copy of Instant Slide up only in this page to make you see the plugin in action.

How I Used This Script To Make Money Online

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As many of my readers know, I do money from affiliate marketing. Well, do you want to know a little secret?

I have another blog about natural supplements www.natural-supplements-tips.com where I’ve added a free copy of the script.

This magic script allowed me to increase my affiliate sales too. Look at the image below, this the proof of one of my commission received.

That is the first sales I received by xtend-life, but I have received other commission as well. No matter if your site is about technology news, health, make money online, and so on, whatever is your niche you can adopt the same strategy I used on my site and make money too through affiliate programs.

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Personally, I find limited number of characters, while the overlay boxes can be adjusted to fit content. Also, freezing users is useful try to convince them to optin, especially when they leave your site.

Other benefit of this plugin includes:

  • Install in less of 5 minutes!
  • Preconfigured to work with Aweber &
  • You can change the look or color of the slide up!
  • No MySQL database needed!
  • You can add any message you want in the setup!

Pros And Cons Of Instant Slideup

Below I’ve put the pros and cons of Instant Slide Up:

Pros

  • Quickly to install, in only 4 quick steps you get your plugin ready to use.
  • No Database needed. This simplify the intere installation process.
  • Not intrusive to eye visitors.
  • Great support.
  • Unlimited Domain License: You can use the plugin on all of your sites
  • Cannot be blocked by browser(unless javascript is disabled)
  • Ability to show all the time or once per visitors.

Cons

  • You are no able to integrated with Feedburner email form. However, you can resolve the problem by setting a link to feedburner popup.

Also, I’ve tested his support, and I can attest that is incredible, and once you submit a form, Rob reply within 30 minutes.

The following video will go into detail.

Price

While other Footer Pop Up plugins aren’t FREE to use, that isn’t the case with Instant Slide Up plugin. You can grab a free copy of instant Slideup with some limitation. If you want the complete version with all options, then you need to pay $67.00

Conclusion

Instant Slide Up can be used as an advertisement platform or to promoting a product, but using it as an OptIn is very powerful, since it does capture a lot of attention.

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Super Effective Affiliate Marketing Tactics, How To Redirect Affiliate Links

I must to admit that if I had not made money from affiliate marketing most probably my montly income stream were not as it is now.

I always reccomended to my readers to don’t fail into the trap to monetize their blog through one method, only. There are different ways to make money online and affiliate marketing is one of most profitable.

The reason is quite simple. Affiliates can earn anywhere from $10(for example my WordPress theme on nickdeiana.com) to about $30(for example my WordPress theme on the3dtechnologies.com). However, there are also cases study of affiliate products that make earn commissions of $200 for every sales as well.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Works?

The concept behind affiliate marketing is pretty simple. You join to an affiliate program with a merchant (for example a web hosting company like Bluehost) which they will give you an affiliate link, like this:

“www.website.com/affiliate-link_refer.php?id=345372″

The reason why affiliate marketing is so popular is very simple, there is always somewhere for you to adapt in the affiliate marketing space and still make money. All you have to do is send traffic to the sales page via those links, and whenever someone makes a purchase you get a percentage of the price.

When it comes to promote something and send traffic to merchant, often people will use programs like Google AdWords, others build a strong mail list.

Even, if you have a blog or website, you could just as well use your published articles for the same purpose. However, if you have been blogging or working with affiliate marketing websites for some time, you probably could have  affiliate commission theft.

Effective Affiliate Marketing Strategy: How To Avoid Affiliate Commission Theft

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Imagine the situation…..You’ve just set up your site/blog, and you’re looking the better ways to make profits through it. So, you’re thinking to start making money through affiliate marketing.

So, you’ve joined to affiliate network such as Commission Junction, Pepperjam, and so on. Once choosen a profitable affiliate program you go to select your affiliate link, when you notice a long and ugly affiliate link.
So, what can happens now?

Well, once your readers see your affiliate link, they now have the knowledge that there’s a chance you’re only promoting a product for it’s excellent commissions, so they are in serious doubt whether to buy or not.

Link CLoak WordPress Plugin has served me well for every of my affiliate links, but I’ve had problem with WordPress 3.0 and I’d admit that once tried MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate plugin, I can not do without due its many features.

So, this  week I finally decided to purchase one. When I startd using the plugin I was really surprised by its potentiality and how he allows blogger to select some keywords and make the plugin turn into affiliate links.

How To Redirect A Website To An Affiliate Website, Best Plugin To Redirect Affiliate Link

The task today is to redirect your affiliates links. In this case MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate is the best solution out there. I can attest it because I use it on some of my affiliate link too.

Once Installed the plugin and activate it, go on “Tools” then click on “Mbp Ninja Affiliate”. Ok now you should to see a page like this below.

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In the first row, add the phrase or single word you want that will appear on your article, for this example I have choosed “MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate”.

In the second row, you need to add your affiliate link that you can get from any affiliate program(for instance Bluehost) or affiliate newtworks such as Clickbank, Commission junction, Shareasale, Pepperjam, and so on.

In the third row, you need to add the url(without “http://”) of the affiliate product home page, in this case “www.mbpninjaaffiliate.com”.

Once done click on ” save” and you’ve created your first affiliate link. You can create new affiliate link for any of your affiliate product.

Ok, once set up your affiliate plugin, you need to add your affiliate link on your article. In particular you must:

1. Select the link name

2. Select the phrase or particular words you want to turn into affiliate link. That it!

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For those like me whom likes to mess around with plugins. Here’s a quick rundown of the ninja WordPress features:

  • Affiliate links managemnt – You can put them in groups, sort and so on.
  • Link redirects – It integrates a redirection system to protect your plugin.
  • Customization – You can set up what affiliate text will appear on the status bar of your browser.
  • Keyword management – You can select what keyword you want to transform into affiliate links, and select the number of keywords per post to avoid making them seem spammy.

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MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate will cost you $97. However, if you want to a great tool on how to redirect traffic to an affiliate home page, I can attest that it worth to invest on it.

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To our success,

Nicola Deiana

Affiliate marketer



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