Earning Money the New Way: Things You Should Know

Filed in: Blogging by Alvin on 01-11-10

Highlight any portion you want:

How to keep content on the front page of your WordPress blog

I got a great question over the weekend from Reonne of The Chocolate Fudge Cafe:

What’s the best way to make it so that my initial post, “Stir The Pot,” stays on the first page of my blog? How did you make it so that your findableblogs.com first page stays the same…like a website? I thought that posts automatically get archived as you continue to update and write new posts. I’d like what I said in the beginning to stay on there for at least awhile, but I want to add new material as well.

First, a confession: the only reason the front page of this blog hasn’t changed for a while (prior to this post and a change I’ll talk about in a moment) is that I haven’t written anything for a while! Between client work and an ebook I’m about to release, I’ve been a complete slacker where this blog is concerned.

If you’d rather not do the slacker thing (like Reonne, you have posts to write!), you have three options.

Use a Page as the home page

That probably sounds cryptic if you don’t understand the difference between Posts and Pages in WordPress, but a Page is designed to stick around without changing, while Posts tend to appear and disappear from the homepage, archives, and search results relative to how many other Posts you have.

You create a Page in the same way you do a Post, but instead of going to “Write” ? “Post” (or just “Write”, since “Post” is the default sub-tab), you go to “Write” ? “Page”. If you want the whole front page to stay essentially the same for a while, this is a good way to do it; just create the page here.

Once you’ve created your page, go to “Settings” ? “Reading” (”Options” ? “Reading” in pre-2.5 versions of WordPress) and switch the “Front page displays” setting to a “static page” of your choice. For instance, if I was going to change the front page of this blog to my “About” Page, I’d set it like so:

In fact, this is exactly what I’m going to do when I finish coding the new design for this site. In that case, I’ll create a special “Home” Page that will have the front page content, and that will be the first thing new visitors see.

The potential downside to this approach? Your front page is the Page you set up, not a list of entries. That might suit you just fine (like I said, that’s exactly what I’m planning on), but if you want your front page to automatically update with new posts, keep reading.

Use the WordPress time stamp magic

With WordPress, you can easily change the dates on your posts. The newest post shows up at the top of your front page (unless you’re using a very unusual theme), so all you have to do is make sure that the post you want at the top is always dated after the other posts.

This can be a bit of a pain, because you’ll need to change the date on the “top” post every time you create another post, or back-date your new posts to make them “older”, which is just confusing (if I was choosing between the two, I’d change the date on the “top” post each time).

Clearly, this isn’t as passive as the first method, but if you’re only talking about a few weeks or a few posts, it’s not that bad and accomplishes the goal nicely.

Use the sidebar

If the content you want to feature is really a kind of introduction, it might make sense to put it in the sidebar using a Widget. That way, it’s always readily available in a place where people look when they’re searching for context, but it’s not in the way of your content and doesn’t require any particular maintenance effort on your part.

All things being equal, this is probably the route I’d take in most cases, if it suits the content.

Advanced options

You can actually combine some of these ideas if you’re comfortable editing your theme. For instance, if you know your way around The Loop, you could show the content of a Page first thing, directly followed by the regular Posts. You could also just manually edit your theme’s home.php or index.php file to show a certain message before the regular content.

However, neither of these options are as easy or convenient as the previous three “out-of-the-box” options, so I tend to avoid them for short-term changes.

This entry was posted on Monday, April 14th, 2008 at 2:46 pm by Sarah Lewis and is filed under Beginner, Tips, WordPress. It’s also tagged blog, blogging, chocolate, confession, Design, Design & Themes, ebook, front page, goals, initial post, planning, widgets, WordPress, Writing. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Highlight any portion you want:

February 17th, 2010 · 10 Comments

Facebook traffic is so cheap I consider it to be free.

And it converts like crazy because it is highly targeted traffic.

If you think google sucks and you are looking for more traffic, then…

This brand new video is for you:
Facebook Crushes Google Video

Highlight any portion you want:

Traffic Stats the A List Will Never Tell You

I’m sure many of you are longing for the day when you have an RSS following in the thousands and an Alexa Ranking in the Top 10,000. Fess up…

You are impressed by stuff like that – High PR, Massive Twitter Following, all the little signs of “wow this site must be successful” and “I bet they are making money”. (Success and making money do not necessarily go hand in hand.)

To that end I just thought some of you would like to know some real numbers.

Allyn Hane had mentioned in his comments on Blogger Illustrated that he was kinda shocked that Chris Brogan got so few comments on his posts in spite of 45K RSS readers. The same applies to Darren Rowse 165K or Brian Clark at CopyBlogger 105K and so on with the A list.

The thing most people don’t realize is that most of those RSS numbers are grossly inflated with the numbers added by Aweber Sign Ups. Download a free report or buy one of their books and you end up in the RSS number. The numbers are in no way reflective of how many people actually sign up for just reading the post feeds.

Hence don’t assume you are going to get a flood of traffic by Guest posting or racing to get a fanboy comment first in queue on one of these sites. The fact is only a very small percentage of readers ever bother to read the daily feed update, even less click over to the site in question and most readers just delete the notification in the email alert. This is reflected in just how few comments these large blogs get in relation to their “perceived” reach and influence.

Between the 3 sites they have 300K readers… and yet they manage only a 1000 members for the Problogger.com forum. A couple thousand (or so I’ve seen mentioned) for the Third Tribe Marketing thing/forum. Not really a whole lot of clout when you think about it. Those they do influence tend to be the same small group of fans that fawn over them on their sites while the rest of their readers have largely ignored their call to open their wallets.

I used to wonder just how much traffic do you need to breathe the rarefied air among Alexa’s Top 10k sites.

Well I have broken into it from time to time – most recently the other day, and the first time I did months ago I remember thinking how far off I had been regarding just how much traffic was necessary.

Click to enlarge images.

In fact the real numbers will probably surprise a lot of you.

Here is another shot of my site compared to the “Big Guys” taken today and you’ll notice that I topped Brogan’s site for a day or two.

Wanna’ know how much traffic he has?

Keep in mind that I’m talking averages and not absolutes. How well Alexa tracks and quantifies search traffic (they are getting better btw.) as compared to toolbar/social traffic could skew things. ie. maybe you rank better with much less traffic if it is heavily toolbar/social or maybe the same applies to search and not so much to the toolbar. Never the less, for our purposes I just thought some of you might be interested in some raw numbers…

But not until I hear your guesses…

Leave a comment and tell me how much traffic you think a site needs to sit 7k on Alexa.

I’ll tell you the answer after the comments

Cheers,

Griz

Highlight any portion you want:

Have you ever wondered HOW these so-called gurus make money by building Adsense and affiliate programs websites?

This is what you are going to learn in this lens!

By working a few hours each day and with the powerful concepts I will teach you, you can get a piece of the Internet niche market revenues! In this lens, you will learn how to:

• Select the best web hosting and domain name at lower cost
• The tactics to drive traffic to your site at low or NO cost
• Monetize your website
• Make your visitors coming back over and over again
• I tell you how it all works in reality!

You can use these concepts in order to create a money making web site in 30 days. And the best part is that you will be able to apply it to as many niche markets that you want.

If you like this course, feel free to download the complete FREE report here:

How To Create A Website In 30 Days

Ready? Let’s start our course!

Highlight any portion you want:

Posted by Make Money Online on February 2nd, 2010

“Discover how a top guru KICKED out the search engines, invented a REVOLUTIONARY way to market ANY product . . . then gave it away in an amazing FREE book – ending with the most STUNNING viral twist ever seen”

( And he DOESN’T even ask for your email address ! )

“The greatest viral marketing idea of all time” … Lynn Terry, SelfStartersWeeklyTips.com “The greatest breakthrough in internet marketing for years” … Will Edwards, whitedovebooks.co.uk

Meet the Guru who broke the rules

There are many Internet marketing gurus who promise to reveal their special secrets – in exchange for a hefty fee.

Not so with Harvey Segal of SuperTips fame.

He gives away his tips and secrets for free.

Like his SuperTips site where you will see his series of free and highly acclaimed SuperTips books.

You can even rebrand them with your affiliate links – all for free.

Harvey is also owner of the definitive information sites full of unrivalled free content
- The Ad Tracking Guide
- The ClickBank Guide

and the number one forum for ClickBank users with over 10,000 members

- ClickBank Success Forum

You can seek out the testimonials at his sites and see how the other top gurus rave about his free products.

And if you want to know how he makes money from free books and free content sites he even tells you – exactly – in the classic free ebook 101 SuperTips.

So what is this leading to ?

It’s to assure you that when he now offers his ultimate secret tip it WILL be free and of stunning value. No strings attached.

Now let Harvey take over the story.

What’s in the book ?

	I don’t care what product you have.I will show you the VERY BEST strategy to promote itOne which will never fall prey to the latest passing fads or the whims of the search engines. - In fact you’ll see why I have said Goodbye to the search engines. - Even with this top ranking site. I’ll show you an actual product that I sell with this strategy and EXACTLY how I do it – every step of the way. Which means that you can simply copy my methods and repeat the same.
	I reveal the ingenious twist that takes this strategy into orbit.
	Ending with an astonishing viral idea – not to be missed.

Here’s what they are saying about this book

Unsolicited testimonials from real people with real web sites.

“The greatest viral marketing idea of all time”

I got an email last week from Harvey Segal about his new book, The Ultimate Supertip. I took a look at it, ended up reading it cover to cover – – and I was completely floored!Of course, it didn’t hit me until the very last chapter (you’ll see why when you read it), but when it did… I knew that Harvey’s book was quite simply the greatest viral marketing idea of all time… Lynn Terry, SelfStartersWeeklyTips.com

“Made me stare in amazement”

The neat, simple, yet brilliant ‘promotional tweaks’ made me stare in amazementAll the while, my brain was exploring new possibilities, storing away every little detail for future reference.And the biggest wallop is packed in the viral element – which allows YOU to profit massively from Harvey’s work In short, this is a MUST-READ. For everyone. Anyone. … Dr Mani, ezinemarketingcenter.com

“Pure genius”

Is it “pure genius”?That’s what some have called this internet strategy of saying goodbye to search engines, with a unique twist.Find out in detail how to promote any product or affiliate program without needing to keep up with secrets only search engine gurus claim to know (ever). Don’t miss the viral tip, I have to admit it’s brilliant. … Mark Idzik, revenuetools.com

“Bound to take the Internet by storm”

Harvey Segal has come up with a viral ebook that has so many new ideas and twists in it that it is just bound to take the Internet by storm.It is called ‘The Ultimate Supertip’ and it is not just an explanation of one of the most powerful principles of Internet marketing, but also a fully working practical demonstration!You can have this book for free – you don’t even have to give Harvey your email address – and then immediately give it away to your friends, subscribers, website visitors, maiden aunts, long-lost cousins and the really clever neat tricks that Harvey has built into it will start to make you money right away … Martin Avis, kickstartdaily.com

“I had to take a walk round my garden”

If you are thinking of expanding your internet activities this year, do read Harvey Segal’s book on viral marketing. There’s no charge for it but it packs a punch.When I read it I had to take a walk round my garden to think through the implications of his system and then write down some notes! I’m still not sure I’ve exploited all his tips effectively yet.? As I said, no charge.… William Charlwood, factsaboutadsense.com

“So compelling, so mesmerizing”

Your ebook was so compelling, so mesmerizing, so “suspending of my rational thinking”, that I rushed to hit the button at the end… Terry Rayburn, graceforlife.com

“Simply astonishingly intelligent”

I read a lot of stuff on the Internet, especially about marketing. Some is great, but most is pretty average. However, yesterday I downloaded Harvey Segal’s “The Ultimate SuperTip” in which he reveals a few things I already knew and a couple of ideas that are simply astonishingly intelligent. (Wish I’d thought of them!).One of the most useful concepts he deals with … for me as an ebook seller … is the ability to rebrand PDF ebooks from an HTML file “on the fly”. And he even shows where you can get an unheard of 100% commission. And that’s genuine.… Robin Henry, dwave.com.au

“Magnificent content and …”

I call this sheer genius, brilliance. Here’s why:It was not only the magnificent content that floored me … or even the virtuoso viral touch or the XXX.What really made my jaw hit the floor was …YYY … Case Stevens, anownsite.com

---

(You’ll see what XXX and YYY are at the end of the book).

“The greatest breakthrough in internet marketing for years”

The Ultimate Supertips e-Book contains Harvey’s complete and original system. But not only that, he also provides his very latest viral marketing idea completely free; hailed as the greatest breakthrough in internet marketing for years…. Will Edwards, whitedovebooks.co.uk

“Beyond amazement”

I always thought that perfection could not be improved on. Now you have proved me totally wrong, not once but twice. I’m beyond amazement. Thank you… Tim Spencer, create-an-income.com

Download here – no sign up

That’s right.

I won’t capture your email address and chase you.

The Ultimate SuperTip is a Free PDF book.No sign up.

But … there’s something else I need to tell you.

Go to the download page now

Harvey Segal

Highlight any portion you want:

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 06:00 AM PST

Interview With Adam Short That Exposes How He Generates $94,042 Online From Niche Markets!

Duration: 37 Minutes

Download audio file (InterviewWithAdamShorton2010-02-17.mp3)

Click Here For The Limited $1 Trial Offer For The 1st 50 Listeners Here

Special Extra Video Download Link

Click Here To Video A Video On How Adam Generate $94,042 Per Month From Niche Markets

Topic Covered In This Interview

- Give us an introduction about yourself and how you got started?
- What is niche marketing
- How do you define a hot niche?
- Is it easy to create a niche site?
- How do you promote a niche site?
- You have niche site called “http://bettafishcenter.com/” can you talk more about it?
- So if I am new to niche marketing how can I get started? <= this is where you introduce your product

My Own Thoughts

I enjoyed doing an interview with Adam and he shocked me as I have personally used some of Adam’s stuff and it did made money for me so I highly recommend you guys to try out his Niche Classroom for only $1! Do note it’s limited to the 1st 50 listeners only so do hurry while it’s still last!

=> Click Here For The $1 Trial Offer!

If you love this interview, do comment below what you loved about this interview

Highlight any portion you want:

If you are tried of doing the marketing stuff
yourself and looking for a real workable
AUTO PILOT system that can just set it once
and make money for you!

Well I have been searching around and stumbled
upon my buddy Adam Short who has been secretly
making more then $94,042 from Niche Markets.

Check out the video below to see how Adam
does it!

==> http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=BKbUw&m=1eXUmPkOxn2s81&b=OBlTmttUr96nkxdQLPXUdw

Alvin Phang

P.S: If you serious about making money online do
view the video to find out how Adam makes money from
silly niches that you never thought was possible

==> http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=BKbUw&m=1eXUmPkOxn2s81&b=OBlTmttUr96nkxdQLPXUdw

Highlight any portion you want:

Jeff Johnson’s Traffic-Getting Jumpstart Master Plan.

It’s actually an easy-to-follow road- map for you to follow that can quickly and easily ramp up traffic to any of your websites or blogs.

And I’ll be sharing it with you over the course of the next few weeks… I’ll actually give you the entire thing so you can print it up and keep it on your desk right next to your computer.

But before I give you the entire “Traffic-Getting Jumpstart Master Plan” document…

Let’s make sure you understand the fundamental steps… each one builds on the next.

Your first step is to find the right market and hopefully, create your own product.

If you’ve had problems creating your own product you really should watch this video:

http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/infoproduct-secrets/

Enjoy!

Jeff Johnson

P.S.

Keep an eye out for my other emails where I share with you things such as…

• How To Dominate the Engines With Web 2.0
• · Tapping into viral power of facebook
• Traffic-getting Jumpstart Master Plan
• Using Viral Videos to Grab the Top Spots in Google in less than 24 hours
• How to use social bookmarking to jumpstart the traffic to your new site
• And more… just keep checking your inbox for my emails…

But for now let’s work on creating your very own info product.

Here’s your “How to Quickly and Easily Create Your Very Own Info Product” video tutorial:

http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/infoproduct-secrets/

Highlight any portion you want: