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Locals Are Making The Online Move

By Sheila Atwood · Comments (11)
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

More and more local business owners are making the move to take their business online. It is a smart move that is keeping me busy.

80% of people search the web to find local business. Having a website is the first step in establishing your online presence.

I have found that creating an online presence can sound very overwhelming. Business owners do not need one more thing to do. Just dealing with the day to day business affairs is enough.

Would your offline line business fail because you do not go online? Read More→

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What is RSS Feed? What Does It Do? Why Should You Care?

By Sheila Atwood · Comments (20)
Monday, August 8th, 2011

What is RSS FEED?What is RSS feed? and What does it do? are very valid questions. My post RSS Feed to Email for Your Readers on WordPress brought in more emails with questions than any other post I written. So let’s clear up those questions.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it is a method of syndicating your blog content, video and audio. You create the content, video or audio publish it and the feed sends that information or a summary of that information out to the web.

Most of you have heard about subscribing to a blog via RSS feed so lets start out with this simple video showing how and RSS feed has made it easy for your to keep track of your favorite websites.

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Speedlinking to Making Your Video More Powerful

By Sheila Atwood · Comments (8)
Friday, August 5th, 2011

Couldn’t resist publishing “The Weekend Web” this week. Because in this edition we will be speedlinking to making your video more powerful.

Last week I attended a traffic and marketing webinar. Although I am in no position to purchase the offer, I have been putting everything I learned into action. First of all it made sense. But most of all the tips save time. And in this particular webinar, I learned just how important video is to getting traffic and marketing anything.

What does this have to do with this post? I’ve got proof. I’ve got Stats! Video Stats. Read More→

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RSS Feed To Email For Your Readers On WordPress?

By Sheila Atwood · Comments (17)
Monday, August 1st, 2011

“RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” or “Rich Site Summary”. It is an XML code that “feeds” out information from a site in an organized manner. The feed must be subscribed to and is read using an aggregator, or feed reader, tool. (Some feeds can also be subscribed to and set to send you a new email whenever the site is updated, but this is an option that the site has to make available to its users.” The Online Instructor

Why give your readers a subscribe to RSS feed by email option?

  • Your audience may not be into using an RSS reader
  • Email is a familiar tool
  • Your readers get an email every time you add a new post

RSS feed subscription on WordPress

Making it easy to subscribe to RSS feed via email on a WordPress site can be a little difficult. I know I went the rounds to figure it out.

First of all I wanted an RSS feed to email alternative to using FeedBurner. But I have come back to using FeedBurner for now. And because it is the Feed most people use I will be teaching you how to set up your email with FeedBurner.

I have noticed that most WordPress sites do not give this email option. And there are those that have the icon on their site but it is not set up right. So here is a tutorial to help you fix that.

What your need for set up

  • A social media plugin with an RSS email option
  • A Google Feedburner Feed
  • The correct URL to put into your plugin

Social Media Plugin

I use “Social Media Widget”: Adds links to all of your social media and sharing site profiles. Icons come in 3 sizes, 4 icon styles, and 4 animations.

This plugin gives you a widget you can drag into your sidebar. You can see the widget in action at the top of my sidebar.

Upload “Social Media Widget” right from your WordPress dashboard.

Google FeedBurner feed

Feedburner is one of the many tools Google has to offer. Using your FeedBurner as a way for your readers to subscribe to your blog is only one of the ways to syndicate your blog using RSS feed.

Google gives loads of great information about using their RSS feed to email and some basic directions. But they do not give you the exact code you will need to use in your WordPress social media plugin.

Now lets cut to the chase with step by step directions and pictures.

First you will need to go to your Google account. Make sure you are logged into you Gmail account. Now you can set up your FeedBurner account or access your current account at http://feedburner.google.com. When you are logged into you Google Account this link should open up to enable to create your account or get your account info.

If your are new create your feed.

OR

Select the feed to your site.

RSS Feed To Email For WordPress

On the next page click the top “Publicize” Tab.

Email RSS Feed

On the next page you will choose “Email Subscriptions” in the sidebar.

Publicize Your Feed

Now scroll to the bottom of the next page…this is where you will get your URL. Do not get confused it is inside a piece of code. You are going to grab code, and I am going to show you how to edit it for your plugin.

Copy and past the code onto a notepad or a sticky note on your desktop.

Decide if you want to receive emails when someone unsubscribes.

Save…which now makes your service active.

Next we are going to pull the URL you need for your PluginRSS to email

Choose the piece of code in between the parenthesis copy, paste and save it. 

Now go back to your sites side bar widgets. Make sure Social Media Widget has been drug into your sidebar.

RSS Mail

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Open the widget and find the E-mail URL space. 

RSS Reader Email

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The top URL is for your RSS Feed and will populate your RSS Icon. It is usually http://feeds2feedburner.com/YOURSITENAME

Copy and paste the E-mail URL you created and saved on your notepad. It will populate your email icon.

Hit the save button at the bottom of the widget.

That is it! Now go give your readers another way to subscribe to your site.

Sheila

P.S. Subscribe to Newbie Lifeline by RSS feed to email.

P.P.S. Update.. Two of my subscribers are having a problem getting their Feedburner account. Here is a link that will give you step by step directions

http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/step-by-step-guide-to-setup-feedburner-for-wordpress/

 

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Need 3 Free Web Testing Tools You Will Stop and Use Today?

By Sheila Atwood · Comments (9)
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Don’t you just love finding the best free web testing tools and free tools that help you improve your site?

While I am searching the web I grab and test out the free tools I find. In fact I have compiled my list and put them in a free report for you.

Here are 3 free web testing tools from my list that now has over 275 free tools and resources.

Have you ever wondered who is copying and using your blog posts? Or wondered if the content you are buying is original?

Copyscape offers free web testing tools for checking originality and to find those who have copied your hard work. They also offer a very nice upgrade for their professional services.

Plus you can get a Copyscape warning button for your Website:

Protected by Copyscape Online Plagiarism Test

Now how would you a free web testing tool that will grade your site?

HubSpot has a free website grader that is just fabulous, and aptly named, Website Grader.

You will be asked to opt in for your free report. You will be glad you did optin. Hubspot has loads of valuable information and webinars.

Two of my favorite online entrepreneurs, Lewis Howes and Marcus Sheridan share a little more about Hubspot.

In this video Lewis Howes interviews Hubspot head of marketing, Mike Vople. Not only do you get a quick over view of Website Grader, Mike gives you a quick lesson in how they use this free tool in their marketing.

Next up is the The Sales Lion, Marcus Sheridan’s famous blog post gives a total over view of Hubspot.

When it comes to getting conversions from your site, how would you like to start out knowing where your readers attention goes?

A heat map will help you do this. You can tell where you viewer will be looking when they come to your site.

If you are using IE or the Firefox browers you can get a visual heat map of clicks on an HTML page with ClickHeat.

There are several free heat map resources, but I found that AttentionWizzard works the best and it is next to free. For 1 penny each you can get 10 heat maps of your site. At that price it is next to free.

Attention Wizzard is easy to use and cheap.  Even the upgrade is a nice price for Web Developers.

Have fun testing your website!

Sheila

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Famous Taglines and The Best Taglines for a Website

By Sheila Atwood
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

Do you remember these famous taglines?

 
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.
It takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
M’m! M’m! Good!
Just Do It
I’m lovin’ it
Things Go Better With_____
Have it your way.
What happens in ____stays in ______.
Even a caveman can do it.
Good to the last drop.
Is it live, or is it _______?
Thirty Minute Meals
 
 

Two things stand out with these famous taglines – money and relevance.

The huge amounts of money spent on an advertising campaign can make any tagline stick in the minds of your audience. I’m “lovin’ it” is a good example of this. This tagline could be used for just about any product from hotel service to underwear.

Just imagine the big money spent by McDonalds to make their tagline stick in the minds of their customers.

Brand Taglines

Putting your brand into your tagline makes it relevant:  “Things go better with Coke.” “Is it live, or is it Memorex?” There is no guessing with brand taglines. But still, it has taken some pretty big bucks to make these stick.

Famous TaglinesDon’t have big bucks? Don’t need big bucks.

Relevance

“What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas has relevance since Las Vegas has a reputation for being Sin City.

When it comes to the Internet, blogs and marketing niches, you better have a tagline that is relevant. New visitors to your site will only take a few seconds to decide if the site is relevant to their search. The best taglines say “this site is exactly what you are looking for”.

You will need to come up with a website tagline that is easy to read and relevant to what to you and your site. You want a blog tagline that quickly reveals exactly what your site is about.

Examples of the best taglines for a website:

Copyblogger.com  – “online marketing that works.”

AshleyAcresFarm.com - An Idaho CSA Farm – Providing Local Harvest

WaterGarden.com – ” Pond Supplies for any size pond or Water Garden”

OR

Your blog title could say it all. For example:

SEOSmarty.com

BasicBlogTips.com

How to write a great tagline.

  • Have an exact purpose for your site. Know what your site is about and what you are offering your readers.
  • Be specific. Tell exactly what your visitor will find on your site.
  • Keyword search your tagline. Make it easy for people to find you with an organic search.
  • Make your tagline easy to find and read. Place your website tagline on top of the page in bold colors and lettering.
  • Be sure your site is about what your tagline has said it would be.
  • Make it easy to remember. Especially when you are branding your name.
  • Make it easy to share.

Hope this helps you make the big bucks,

Sheila

P.S. You don’t need a famous tagline. You need a website tagline that tells the visitor he has arrived. Then go an make it famous!

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Fallen Into The PLR Trap and Can’t Get Out?

By Sheila Atwood
Thursday, July 14th, 2011

Have you been taking advantage of PLR (private label rights)? Or have you fallen in to a great big PLR trap?

Now that I have been writing articles for clients, I have found my self using more and more PLR. It saves me tons of research time and makes it easy to come up with tons of new ideas.

You can expand and grow a niche pretty darn quick with PLR. You can  build up a brand and grab more exposure. Whether you sell your own products or affiliate products PLR makes it super easy to get more information online quickly.

But there are some great big PLR traps you can fall into just as quick.

Pitfall #3 – Failing to have a purpose for your PLR purchase

What do you want that PLR to do for you? Exactly what will you be using it for? Know before you purchase any PLR.

Will you use it for blog posts? Good, get the PLR and rewrite it for your blog. Need it for an email e-course? Good, rewrite the articles and get them on your auto-responder and your optin box on your site. Want to use your PLR package to promote a product? Excellent, rewrite it for your blog and email series and promote away.

Pitfall #2- Buying PLR you do not use

What is that PLR doing sitting in a folder on your hard drive? You bought for what reason? Yea, yea. It is easy to purchase products on the Internet. It is much harder to get them polished up and put into action.

Quality PLR are diamonds in the rough. They need some quality cutting and polishing. They need to be put on display in order to go to work for you. And they are not doing their job if you are not using them.

Pitfall #1-  Using PLR “as is”

Don’t you think it would be a little embarrassing to have the same article or email as someone else? Especially when you are putting your name on it. Taking the lazy way out is foolish, especially when you can make a diamond out of a quality PLR article.

You may find that it is quite a trick to rewrite PLR articles. You may find it difficult to improve a PLR article and make it unique. Or you may find it very time consuming to rewrite PLR. Which really does defeat the purpose of using PLR in the first place.

It is not too late to grab all that old PLR you have not used and rewrite it.

Learn PLR rewriting, quickly and painlessly. Peggy Baron, a PLR writer since 2008, has put together “How To Rewrite PLR”. Her 80 page ebook is a workbook for rewriting headlines, content and closings. My favorite part is all the examples of rewrites that add value to your writing and make your article unique.

Peggy shares her expertise in a Warrior Forum Special Offer: “How To Rewrite PLR”.

Once you read this book you will grab the PLR you have and make it your own. And you will be excited to purchase new PLR and get them working for you too.

Go to the Warrior Forum to get a big discount on “How To ReWrite PLR’ artcles.

Sheila

P.S. I love being an affiliate for Peggy. She always produces a quality product I am proud to promote. She also provides plenty of help for her affiliates. In fact this article is one Peggy provided…and I rewrote, using the rewriting PLR techniques in Peggy’s book. Niffty huh?

 

 

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A Business Model For Newbies and The Skilled To Make Money Online

By Sheila Atwood
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Want some online income in the next 7 days?

Recently I received an email from Adeel Chowdhry, reminding me of  a great system for making money online. No matter your skill level, this system works…and in just 7 days. Plus he takes this simple idea and gives you a complete business model.

You get…

  • Secure payments: Money is deposited to your PayPal account through safe escrow accounts.
  • Independence: You work independently and grow your business from your own work and abilities.
  • Low skill level: This method will allow any newbie to start offering services to people for cash. You will need to know general computer skills and have good writing skills.
  • High skill level: This method also works for those with a higher technical skills like Adobe Photoshop, software development or phone apps.

Download the video

 

If you are not familiar with Adeel Chowdhry, he is an Internet Marketing genius. He put this video guide together a few years ago and won a contest on the Warrior Forum. It is so solid that this method still works today. I have updated his list of resources for you.

Download and watch the video. It is only 30 minutes long. Then use this blog post for all of the resources you will need to put this into action.

Video download link: Make Money Online In 7 Days – Newbie Video

The video is in WMV format so if you are on a MAC you will need to download this free tool. http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/32512/keka

My list of resources:

  • PayPal - An easy way to get paid for your services.
  • Elance – Post your services and Elance guarantees your clients will pay on time, every time. They will also send your clients a 1099 at the end of the year.
  • Guru – Get work with Guru.com. It is as simple as posting your profile, bidding on jobs, doing the work and getting paid through their safe pay escrow account.
  • ODesk – This is another top site for posting your profile, bidding and getting paid through their secure payment system.
  • vWorker (RentaCoder) – Guaranteed payments and a big variety of jobs.
  • FreeLancer – Bid on thousands of projects. This site also has secure pay.
  • GoFreelance – This is a membership site. They teach you the ins and outs of freelancing and list hundreds jobs.
  • GumTree – Advertise your skills and expertise on this easy to use free site.
  • CraigsList – Post your work on this free classified ads site.
  • DigitalPoint- Advertise your services on this forum.
  • Warrior Forum- Use the classified ads and services section of this forum to get work. This forum has tons of traffic and it is easy to build a good reputation.
  • Open Office – Manage your accounts with this easy to use spreadsheet.

Once you have gotten your business going you can use the referrals, your online reputation and the skills you have developed to:

  • Start your own freelance business. You have learned the ropes now you can be the one organizing all of the outsourcing.
  • Put together your own PLR packages for your own PLR business. Use your expertise and your resources for quality PLR.
  • Build your reputation right on the sites listed above for a steady income and higher pay. You will actually be in demand.

Download the video and get started. You can make money in the next 7 days.

Sheila

P.S. Don’t you just love the “no-hype” business models?

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