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Use Multiple Personalities to Crush Your Control

April 13, 2008 By

polkadots.jpgUse Multiple Personalities to Crush Your Control:  A Simple, Schizophrenic Tip for WordPress Bloggers

In this post we are going to cover a pretty easy way to supercharge your conversions on your WordPress blog.  This particular method works phenomenally well on niche blogs where you are driving traffic free from Craigslist, article directories, press releases, and even is a simple, but subtle way to convert a better percentage of your pay per click traffic.  (As well as potentially raising your quality score as well)  It’s free, it’s effective for fairly obvious reasons that should be sufficiently self evident, and best of all, it can be retrospectively applied to a large blog with lots of existing content to immediately make you more money.  [Read more...]

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A LaunchPad For Your Great Ideas

March 29, 2008 By

themeshaper.jpgFor those of us who are ADDDICTED to registering domain names for all of those 4am lightbulb moments, only to find yourself accumulating unused registered domains in your registrar account portfoliio…this is an idea I absolutely love.  Ian – from themeshaper ( gotta love a guy with a great name..;-) has released a beautiful "landing page" for your next great bright idea that ain’t quite ready to see the bright light of the main marquee.  And of course, it stops your web host/registrar from running those pesky contexual ads all over your undeveloped virutal real estate while you get your ideas, and ass, in gear.  It’s totally free, looks great, can be configured for a feedburner notification within the template which is great for product launches – you can very simply send people over to the site, have them sign up for a pre-notification on a special service, offer or widget…allowing you to build a readership, without even building a blog.  Actually, for those of us busting our rear ends trying to accomplish the same…it almost doesn’t seem fair..

Short of actually taking the time and setting and configuring your WordPress blogs the right way ( with content) this is a brilliant and aesthetically pleasing way of letting folks know – stuff is coming soon, and building some anticipation quite easily for it before it does.  And not only does it look a whole hell of a lot better than most other landing pages you might construct for similar purposes…it’s free to boot and can be set up in less time than it took me to post this.  ( 4 minutes and 32 seconds – but I’ve been drinking since around noon which always slows me down) 

 

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Are Your Craigslist Ads Being Flagged? Try This Next

March 17, 2008 By

I promised a few people I would post a few simple and unique ways to tackle the ignominious “flagging” issue that seems to have leapfrogged to the front of the line in terms of obstacles people are having in keeping their ads live.

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Important NOTE:  This post was written 4 years ago…….and MUCH has changed in regard to the CL filters over that time.  They are smarter, quicker and far more aggressive in being able to automatically detect when someone is over posting……OR, posting in an area that is geographically incompatible with their IP address or location.  (a tech head I am NOT…….but as much as this was an issue many moons back when I wrote the post below, it’s even MORE of an issue today, and quite simply, all bullshit aside, if you are trying to make a living off of posting an avalanche of ads in a myriad of markets and a cacaphony of cities around the world……you probably ain’t having much luck, and if you are……..the going ain’t gonna be great for long..:-)

In my view – the REAL opportunities to earn an amazing income online are FAR beyond what is offered on Craigslist – it certainly serves a purpose and if you are a service provider or profesional, it can be a great way of generating leads.  However – I encourage you to read many of the other posts I’ve shared about other traffic techniques that are far superior…..and far LESS stressful as well.  (after all – life is short, and worrying about your ads being “ghosted” all day isn’t a very visionary, or smart strategy for building your brand, your blog, your business…..or your bank account to boot)

Continue reading on below……and remember, you can sign up using the link above this post for our free newsletter where we share an avalanche of ideas you CAN use to turn your PASSION into profit in 2012…and way beyond..:-)

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So rather than not going green, these are ads that are being flagged by either editorial staff, or – more commonly in my best guess, by other peers with too much free time and too little tolerance for good old fashioned competition.


I’ve had my fair share of ads flagged, and it’s almost ALWAYS in the same categories, which leads me to believe it’s more of a function of my peers, rather than problems with the CL review process.( As none of the ads are inflammatory or a TOS violation beyond the obvious..:-) Plus there are a few auto posters that have (flawed, but still) plugins or add ons that are explicitly designed to flag competing ads. [Read more...]

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