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I’ve Changed My Autoresponder From Getresponse.com To Aweber.com

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

getresponse

I’ve recently changed my getresponse.com autoresponder to a similar service offered by Aweber.com. Why did I do it? Well Aweber.com is being used by some of the biggest Internet marketers around and the added credibility of that can’t be all false right?

Also, Aweber.com’s pricing is pretty low, at only $19 a month for 0 – 500 subscribers, with an increasing pricing structure as the amount of subscribers increases.

aweber

Once I opened up Aweber and gave it a go I did not regret getting it at all. It is SO easy to navigate and use. In fact, it has a step by step ‘list building wizard’ that opens up at the bottom of your web browser each time you start a new list. It shows you the % completed to get your list up and running, from your welcome message all the way to putting the subscriber box on your website.

I’ll go in more depth when I’ve fully explored the system and its capabilities.

For now, those of you who subscribed to my old list, you’ve received an email from me (via @aweber.com) asking you to resubscribe to my newsleter. Just click on the link in your email and it will continue sending you my newsletters as before.

Thanks!

-William Lee

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12 Best Wordpress Plugins For Your Blog

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

These are the wordpress plugins I use for almost all the blogs I run and although the list is very small, it does covers pretty much all the bases when it comes to running a blog.

Please feel free to suggest more plugins in the comments section.

Akismet – Akismet checks incoming comments to your site to see if they look like SPAM or not and puts them in a SPAM bin. This tool is absolutely priceless as the amount of SPAM you receive in your comments section is completely insane.

All in One SEO Pack – This tool handles all your SEO needs, from adding your meta tags (title, description and keywords) as well as formatting things such as your Blog title (top left corner of your web browser) and rewriting post titles.

Feedburner Feedsmith – This plugin is required to forward your regular feed to feedburner.com (now feedburner.google.com). Using Feedburner to manage all your feeds simplifies things especially if you run multiple websites.

Get Recent Comments – Displays the most recent comments on your blog. More customizable than the default one that comes with Wordpress.

Google Analyticator – Allows you to add Google Analytics tracking to your blog by just inserting your tracking ID (rather than pasting the code into each and every page on your site).

MyBlogLog Widget – Adds the MyBlogLog ‘recent viewers’ widget to your sidebar.

Sociable – Allows your users to quickly and easily submit your posts to a number of popular social bookmarking sites.

Twitme – Updates your Twitter status automatically every time you publish a post.

Whydowork Adsense – Automatically places Adsense code into various positions on your pages/posts depending on how you set it up.

WordPress Database Backup – IMPORTANT! This plugin helps you regularly backup the mySQL files that are used to run your blog. They can be used to save your blog in the eventuality that everything is deleted.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – Automatically checks the keywords used in your post and displays posts that are related to the one your visitor is reading (to try and keep them on your blog longer).

WP Super Cache – Caches regularly visited pages on your site so that there is less load on your webserver. This could potentially prevent your site from crashing if a large number of visitors come to your site at the same time.

Know any more?

-William Lee

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What Is Wordpress?

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

“From Wikipedia.com: WordPress is an open source blog publishing application. WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog which was developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg. The latest release of WordPress is version 2.7, released on 11 December 2008.”

Above that, Wordpress is the next evolution for people who currently have their blogs on free blogging services such as (@Blogspot.com) www.blogger.com or Wordpress’s own free blogging platform, (@Wordpress.com) www.wordpress.com.

The main functions of the Wordpress blog CMS (Content Management System) is that it allows you to edit, create and modify your blog posts directly from your web server rather than log on to a 3rd party site such as Blogger.

Wordpress is also highly customizable, with the ability to modify the entire look and feel of the site as well as usability functions via themes and plugins that are readily available for Wordpress.

Just type in ‘Free Wordpress templates’ or ‘Wordpress Plugins’ in Google.com and you’ll see what I mean.

Templates

The use of many of the free templates out there can give your blog that look that you’ve always wanted it to have but could never quite achieve in your free blog host.

Better still, you can modify an existing template to give yourself a more unique look, or create a theme from scratch for a one of a kind blog.

Plugins

Wordpress plugins or widgets give your blog more functionality for both your readers, and for yourself.

You can add plugins to show the most recent comments, the most popular posts, add polls and more for the benefit of your user and their interaction with your site.

For yourself, in the backend, plugins can automatically make your site compatible with Google Analytics, automatically place Google Adsense for you and even catch spam comments from flooding your site.

All in all, Wordpress is a must for those who want to start blogging seriously and want and added bit of functionality to their blog. For Internet marketers, it is a must, period.

In my next post I’ll make a quick tutorial on how to install Wordpress on your server via cpanel and fantastico.

Gong Xi Fa Chai,

-William Lee

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An SEO Upper Hand With The SeoQuake Toolbar

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

The SeoQuake toolbar plugin for Firefox is a great tool for Internet marketers and bloggers alike. With it, you’ll at one glance be able to see the Alexa ranking, Google Page Rank as well as other useful information for any website.

You’ll be able to check how your website/ blog is doing or even be able to spy on competition.

My ranking isn’t that great.

On top of that, the program is free and packed with tools to boot, giving those starting out an advantage to learn SEO and page ranking first hand.

Get yourself a copy from the SeoQuake website here: http://www.seoquake.com/. Once installed, I suggest to set it to show you links which are ‘nofollow’.

I switch on this setting because a) you can see if you can get some free Google love by leaving comments on other people’s blogs and b) if you’ve arranged a link exchange, to see if the links to your blog are ‘nofollow’, that wouldn’t really be fair now would it?

Below I’ve made a short and simple video on how to activate the plugin once it’s installed (Mozilla Firefox).

I’ve also made a more detailed presentation of the process for those of you who need a bit more details. (Sorry, the font is a bit small)

Adding SEOQuake Toolbar To Mozilla Firefox

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Happy SEOing,

-William Lee

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