SBI Special Valentines Day Offer
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Just to give you all a heads-up on the upcoming Site Build It promotion for Valentines Day. You may probably be aware that I highly endorse SBI particularly for small businesses run by work at home moms and dads. SBI provides a wealth of resources in addition to web hosting and is easy for people with no HTML or web editing skills to gt a web site up and running online.
Did you know that SBI GIVE YOU their very own custom made Keyword Research Tool for brainstorming targeted keywords for your web page?
So you have no need to pay for another keyword research tool and save on unecessary additional expenses in the long run! SBI provides all of the tools a webmaster needs to build a web site and to DRIVE TRAFFIC to their sites. After all if you have no traffic that you can convert to customers then your site will not make money.
Have a look at what a year old thinks about the service. Ken Evoy is the owner of SBI has a superb affiliate program with some impressive affiliate tools at hand. From attractive banners, videos, pre-sell copy and lots more. You can join the SBI 5 PILLAR CLUB for free!
A good way to find out exactly if SBI is a good fit for you is of course to ASK QUESTIONS. Don’t just take my word for it send them your questions and you’ll be sure to receive a quick response.
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Our Top WordPress Plugins
I’ve been meaning to write up about the WordPress plugins I use for my blogs for some time now. Well this is another task from ‘things to do’ that I can mark off for today. 
AdRotator
AdRotator wil rotate any size banners to display one at a time each time page is loaded. Currently used in our header file.
AdSense Deluxe
AdSense Deluxe allows you to insert code into your posts from a drop down menu button on the edit post page conveniently positioned below the default WordPress edit buttons. Use the ‘Options’ in your admin panel to cut and paste your own collection of AdSense Codes, giving them a name and description for easy reference. Once this is set up you can use the drop down menu to insert AdSense ads anywhere you desire in your posts.
Askimet
To use Askimet you just need an API key which you can get free from WordPress.com. This captures the time almost all incoming Spam message dead in its track. On a few occasions REAL comments may accidentally end up in the Spam list, however you can ‘Select’ and click on the ‘De-spam marked comments’ button to send misdirected valid comments to your moderated comments list. Life would be another thousand more clicks a week or more of manually deleting Spam WITHOUT Askimet!
Bumpzee
Adds the Bumpzee widget to your blog with your unique Bumpzee code. You can see mine located at the footer/end of this blog.
FeedBurner FeedSmith
Now managed by Google and originally created by Steve Smith. This plugin will automatically redirect your default RSS feeds to your FeedBurner feed URL. So you will not lose any of your valuable subscribers. This is another gem of a plugin I don’t think I could live without.
Get Recent Comments
With this plugin you can display the most recent comments or trackbacks on you blog.
Google XML Sitemaps
A simple and practical way to build a ’search engine friendly’ sitemap for your blog. Currently supports Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Updates automatically after new posts are published.
Got Banners
Got Banners is a simple plugin for rotating banners such as the popular 125 x 125 pixel banners on your site displaying a series of banners that make random changes in disdplay order with each page view. Helps to combat ad blindness as the ads appear in different places and grab your attention in the process.
Jerome’s Keywords
Easily add essential keywords to each blog post. You can also use this plugin to create tag clouds, meta tags, site tags or make create Technorati tags.
ShareThis
An easy way for your visitors to ‘share‘ your posts with others by posting to social bookmarking sites and sends your post to a friend via email.
Simple Yearly Archive
As the title suggests the Simple Yearly Archive plugin will lists your archives by year. Ideally I would prefer to use Compact Monthly Archive for its ergonomic user-friendly format which looks so INCREDIBLY well organized down at ProBlogger. Hat’s off to the programmer for creating such a cool streamlined plugin.
Sociable
Adds social bookmarking icons below each post for people to share with others.
Subscribe To Comments
Allows one click subscription to comments on any particular post by sending you an email announcement whenever additional comments are made. Once installed and activates you don’t have to do anything. Very good for people who do not want to subscribe to comments through a feed and can access exact posts that are of personal interest to them.
What Would Seth Godin Do
Built on the principles of Seth Godin’s ideas to use cookies to distinguish between new and returning visitors to your site. A customized welcome message is shown to new visitors based on their cookie inviting them to subscribe to your RSS feed an email updates. A great way to get a High Profile A-List Blogger to check you out!
WP Grins
Adds fun smilies to your post with just one click. After activating this plugin you’ll find a variety of smilies in a row just under your edit screen. Smilies also appear on the comments section for your use by your visitors who leave a comment.
OnlyWire AutoSubmitter
I’ve saved the best for last!
I regularly use OnlyWire to submit to Social Bookmarking sites and wondered if there was a better way. So I did a quick search and found this genius plugin which will automatically login and submit to my OnlyWire account for each post I publish. OnlyWire Auto Submitter should save me a lot of time posting to 22 social bookmarking sites. This is a new addition to my currently plugin inventory so I need to personally test it out to check if it really does submit to OnlyWire with little or no problems. If anyone else has used this plugin your feeback would be appreciated.
WordPress 2.0+ Benefits
WordPress has grown up and finally taken into account the changing face of the Web 2.0 and widget mania. With an abundance of widget themes being designed and the amazing value all for free from programmers and the help from people at the WordPress Community Forums who provide mostly lightening fast responses to any problems you may come across.
Many blogger’s have revamped their blogs with a huge preference for wider layout, wigetized sidebars making adding images, link etc a breeze. No more searching through code to edit your template anymore which is the surest ways to screw things up if you forget to save the original unedited PHP files.
Arggggh no more!
WordPress have developed the 2.0+ series to incorporate ‘tags’ into the default script which they have taken from Jerome’s Keywords .
Remember they do not get paid per download unless on the rare occasion the plugin requires pre-purchase. Whereas the majority of WordPress plugins are completely free to use. Donations and tips are present on the download sites but I wonder how many of us have given a contribution to express our appreciation for the benefits they have given us through their hard work!
I have noted that some plgins once installed display a ‘Reward the Author’ link when you go to view or edit from the admin panel.
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Yikes!
This would be just as difficult and cumbersome as going into admin and manually changing every post to a redirect in my HTACCESS file. The result of which would seriously slow down my sites page load times. Imagine making just one typo error, my whole domain would go down. For those who don’t know, just one mistake or missed typed url (htp:// instead of http://) URL or character in a HTACCESS file can bring your whole site OFFLINE.
Now with WordPress version 2.2+ redirection of changed Permalinks is BUILT-IN to the blogging software.
Phew!
This new feature came just in time as not too long ago I changed my Permalink structure (during November 2007) from the default setting to POSTID and POSTNAME.
Default settings => http://www.miriadz.com/blog/?p=39
Using the default Permalinks structure your potential web site visitors have absolutely no clue as to what the article content would entail so after considerable thought I elected the postname and post number.
I know many people have opted to use “Postname” only Permalinks for their WordPress blogs but after reading the literature from the codex:
Using only %postname%
“If you use postname as the only element in your permalinks to create a structure such as example.com/post-title, the rewrite rules may make it impossible to access pages such as your stylesheet (which has a similar format) or the /wp-admin/ folder [is this true in Wordpress 2.0+ versions?]. It’s best to include some numeric data (e.g. the post ID or date) in the permalink to prevent this from happening. Additionally, WordPress v1.2.x requires the use of a date structure in order for some features, such as the calendar, to function properly. /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ is always a good start.”
Source: WordPress Codex
I just didn’t want to tempt fate. Best to be safe than sorry in a few months time or so!
WordPress Database BackUp
I just log into my web hosting account to use CPanel and quickly back up all of my databases for WordPress and other scripts now so I am not going to install this plugin. I know that after Skippy moved away from WordPress to other venture there has is a new plugin, BackUpWordPress.
Conclusion
Overall I’m glad I chose WordPress as a blogging platform but this hasn’t always been the case. With past upgrade issues and having to remove so many plugins due to compatibility issues or the authors leaving ship as they have had enough from the barrage of upgrades, theme break issues to name a few. Well I’ve done my fair share of cursing the day I installed a blog let alone several blogs I and my family use. However I do appreciate the automatic updates that appear in admin to let you know about the latest version of any plugin.
I haven’t personally tried this yet but I will for the next upgrade. At least that way there shouldn’t be too much disruption to site visitors. But as you already know with upgrading you never know what may happen!!
Take good note of the few listed plugins that are compatible with each other, in other words, when they are both activated there will be problems. Deleted old files that are no longer compatible or I don’t any more. It has been known that old or obsolete version of WordPress could make your blog or site vulnerable open to hacker acttacks.
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Boost Your Commissions With Seasonal Affilate Promotions
First and formost “HAPPY THANKSGIVING”
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Are you well set with ALL of your affiliate promotions ready and converting for you?
If not here are a few reminders and bargains YOU can pick up during the upcoming Christmas holiday season.
CALENDARS
This is the time when people are getting ready for the dawn of 2008.
Calendars are hot sellers during the end of the year and early New Year.
Find a calendar to your liking and offer them to our visitors. This year I cheated.
What do I mean by that?
Well I snapped up a Disney calendar while on vacation, just couldn’t resist so my kitchen is sorted. Now for the main living area. But I have so many to choose from I just can’t decide. Snap up a cool calendar here!
POSTERS
Maybe you want to brighten up your room or give someone you know a thoughtful gift for Christmas. I personal have a lot of large posters in my home office, all film genres, Sci-Fi being my favourite!
Take a look at what’s on offer for your next set of posters here!
WORDTRACKER
Keyword research is one of those mind numbing activities that is essential for marketing success and targeting your intended audience.
Time sensitive WordTracker offers valid until November 30th. Copy and paste this code us-annual-15 to get your 15% discount towards your ‘annual subscription’ to the WordTracker service.
Remember that you have a rock solid 30 day satisfaction guarantee so you have more than ample time to test run the service for your benefit.
UK RESIDENTS 3 SKYPEPHONE OFFER
BRAND NEW PRODUCT; 3 Skypephone is a mobile phone that allows you to make free Skype-to-Skype calls. The ‘Pay As You Go’ handset retails for around £49.99. So if you are a regular Skype user, like me, this will make your life easier when speaking with your contacts. The phone gives you a much better sound and speech quality than microphones.
Take a closer look and read more about the new 3 Skypephones here!
Happy Shopping!
Nancy P Redford
P.S.
These are just a few example of the some seasonal promotions on offers. Many affiliate programs are giving up to double commissions for your efforts at this time of the year so take FULL advantage of the boost in commissions to earn more.
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and take the 30 day trial like I did. Highly recommended!
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SBI Making Waves For Home Based Business People
Plus the new Web 2.0 features which you’ll probably agree, helps to build SBI’s credibility as a company that delivers visibly different and advanced capabilities. It also builds SBI’’s credibility as a product that is constantly updated and kept on the cutting edge. And what could be stronger than getting your visitors to build content for you, happily and voluntarily, for free!
THAT is powerful. Others building content for YOU!
And ONLY at SBI! 
Or if you are experienced you can easily use your own HTML editor to set up your web site.
Just think, tens of millions of people could be starting simple, highly profitable, time-efficient-and-flexible home-based businesses…
- Stay-at-home spouses — add a second family income
- Existing “Small Office Home Offices” (”SOHOs”) — many have meagre incomes and should instead use SBI! to build a SOHO that generates serious, sustainable revenue
- University students — build a key skill for the future and beat the “summer job blues”
- The unemployed — become the self-employed — work for yourself and build better income
- The “wish-they-were-self-employed” — build your business part-time, then quit your “day job” (SBI! has “liberated” so many from their 9-to-5 jobs!).
Many of these people don’t even realize (yet!) that they want to, or could, start a serious, profitable home-based business! You probably know many who could/should start their own home-based business, one that really works.
Now you’re probably thinking that it’s all too easy to give praise to a service so here’s my only to SBI.Not suitable for running server side scripts. SBI is designed for information and small business ecommerce web sites. If you want to run PHP or MYSQL database scripts and want unlimited domains with robust hosting then I highly recommend and endorse Kiosk Hosting. I personally use this service after reading rave reviews from Mike Filesaime and recommendations from my online friends and colleagues. Their service is magnificent.
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The Best Rated Keyword Research Tools
Following on from some of the keyword research tools I have personally used or tested out for ads and to optimize web pages. I was reminded by Linda Buquet of the Top Rank Blog readers poll results by over at TopRankBlog - Winner Best Keyword Research Tool
Those being WordTracker, Keyword Discovery and NicheBOT. The main one I have used is WordTracker after using their free trial and upgrading to the paid version.
I have also used Aaron Wall’s free keyword tools, Good Keywords amongst others.
I was surprised that they were not included in the poll and that NicheBOT had a low vote. However the results were based on a reader survey for this particular poll.
What’s is you favorite keyword research tools?
Very interesting results don’t you think?
Two Free Keyword Research Tools
According to online speculation the very much used and adored Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool [know owned by Yahho.com] may no longer be available use to use online.
I’m very surprised at this because I and many others have been using this free research tool for many years.
In fact I sincerely hope that they will maybe add more functionality and revamp the service if it needed.
Either way the future is still bright as two other sources are at hand. 
The first free keyword research tool is from WordTracker.
The second free keyword research tool is from NicheBot Keyword Discovery.
I personally prefer NicheBot because it goes into much more detailed keyword research. You can take a look at the free online video to see how powerful the NicheBot service can be for your keyword researches.
Keep both services bookmarked to try them for yourself.
In fact use both of them!
Free Cool Tool For Tracking The Keyword Search Terms Of Your Visitors
Another handy free cool tool for finding out what keywords your visitors used to reach your web site.
123 Bees does help with natural search engine optimisation by providing webmasters with essential information about their site visitors.
All you need to do is sign up to use the service and then enter your web site URL and name for each site and then you will receive JavaScript code to copy and paste into your web pages and blogs.
That’s it!
You only need to log into your account to view results.
I hope that in time more advanced features will be included in the service such as the total number of times a search terms occurs in a given period.
I’ve just added the code to number of pages to test. I’m eager to find out how diverse the keyword terms are and will attempt to add content to match what people are searching for.
Register free at 103Bees to get started and make your own evaluation.
I look forward to analysing my own sites and will get back to you with my findings.
In the meantime you can read a review from at Problogger.
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Breaking News: How I Built A PR6 Site Within 3 Months Of Launch
In light of the current development of Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins launch of their Stomper course through their free video series I came across a case study by Anthony Fallon in which he chronicles each and every reference and resource tool he use over the course of 3 months to turn a newly created site into an astounding PR6 site.
Jack Humphrey has linked to Anthony’s blog and you’ll also find that Jack’s Content Desk and Power Linking products are amongst the marketing arsenal of tools used to make the site such a huge success.
Read Anthony Fallon’s account entitled:
"How I Built a PR6 Site within 3 months of launch".
Then take a look at the site in question. You may be pleasantly surprised to see a non-marketing theme!
Ground Breaking Software Helps You To Manage All Your Sales Page Scripts
I hope your weekend has been restful and good so far.
I’d like to share with you a handy software utility I came across only a few hours ago.
You have the ability to mange a multitude of popular software programs at your fingertips. Just take a look a just a sample of the programs you can mange within one software application:
- Tell A Friend
- Unblockable Pop-Ups
- Sales Page Generator
- Visitor Surveys
- Landing Page/Squeeze Page
- Email Scrambler
- Web Page Code Encryptor
There are many more applications which you can view on the Script Smart information page.
No more hours wasted searching for a programmer on Elance to create and install separate scripts on your site.
Script Smart is similar to the WebArmyKnife tool in respect that owners can submit a script for evaluation to be considered for inclusion to future versions of the software. I would first propose that the Script Smart tool be developed so that Mac users can also benefit from using it for their Internet Marketing tasks.
Script Smart is a highly valuable practical resource application to manage multiple scripts in one program.
This tool gets the thumbs up from me.
I always appreciate trial software options so that I can see exactly how the software will help me in my business without risk or financial commitments.
Begin your 100% risk free trial right now!
Have a good weekend,
Nancy P Redford
Introducing Theme Zoom - What Is Latent Semantic Indexing?
After watching the first two parts of a video series from Andy Jenkins and Brad Fallon I was intrigued to find out more about what was referred to as Latent Semantic Indexing.
This is the study of how search engines analyze the meaning of words. At Theme Zoom they have a keyword research tool which uses LSI to retrieve relevant keywords search terms and also goes further to show you keywords are valuable and which keywords are not.
I’m no SEO specialist but I can see the true value of using Theme Zoom’s keyword research tool over others currently in the market.
Try the free software to make a few tests and to understand more about how LSI works and you MUST view the free online video tutorials to understand the basics of keywords from a search engine’s perspective.
There’s a lot of background information to digest on this site but it does help to read through carefully and take notes.
I hope you find this information useful to help improve your overall search engine rankings.
If you’d like to comment on your findings please do so.
Thanks again,
Nancy P Redford
Credit goes to Michael Campbell for the link to Theme Zoom.
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