Free Hosting

Looking for an instant FREE website? Sign up for an account with Web Geek 2.0 Free Hosting Services.

You'll get 5 free subdomains, fantastico installer, 3 mysql databases, and FREE tech support!

Sign up now at http://webgeek2point0.info

View Features


FREE TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Free Trade Magazine Subscriptions & Technical Document Downloads

Tradepub.com

Paid Hosting Plans

Get unlimited databases, subdomains, autoresponders, fantastico install and more for as little as $7.95 a month!

Introduction to CPA

“Cost Per Action” marketing is two of the simplest methods for beginner Internet marketers to begin making money online. For years, this type of affiliate marketing has an industry secret of the insider "big players.” It was never really a “secret,” but while most people in Internet marketing had their hands busy promoting Clickbank products, the big kahunas were playing on a whole different level.

Cost Per Action, sometimes referred to as "CPA," is a type of Internet marketing that requires consumers to complete specific actions – this usually entails filling out a form and requesting a free product sample, signing up for a free trial. In some cases, it involves asking the consumer to try a new product or service by making a small purchase.

What it means is that you, as offer promoter, get paid for the "actions" taken by the traffic you steer to advertisers. As a basic example, let's say a company wants to test the consumer feedback on a new product line that they are introducing. They create an offer where they agree to pay $1.50 for each person who submits their e-mail address and zip code – your job is simply to direct traffic to that site and then collect $1.50 for each person who opts in.

This is a fairly standard promotion type. Others might pay as much as $37 for an optin (though if the payout is higher, the offer might require much more information from the customer or ask for a small upfront payment.

In essence you, as a CPA marketer, are really a traffic broker: You buy traffic on one end, send it to an offer page and get paid based on how well it converts. Sounds so simple, doesn't it? It can be easy, but it generally isn't.

Because it is so profitable, CPA marketing is extremely competitive, and for a beginner, it can be intimidating to start trying to compete with super-affiliates making $100k a day and even more, or even with the more common affiliates who are making $500 to $1,000 a day running CPA campaigns. When you try to get started, you're going to be up against all of that competition, and it can be very challenging. The truth is, a lot of beginners simply get frustrated and give up when they figure out that CPA marketing can be difficult and expensive.

CPA marketing can be all that the sales letters say it can be – you really can make $100k a day if you know what you’re doing – but it can also be frustrating if you jump in without the right information. The Zero Friction course can get you off on the right footing so that you can start making money almost right away without the stress of worrying you’ll lose your shirt.

Feedburner; Keep visitors coming back with automatic RSS updates.

Feedburner has an awesome tool for creating a subscription list that sends RSS email updates from your site to users inboxs, and it's free!

Users only receive email when your rss feed is updated with new content.

Features;

  • choose which email address your newsletter will be sent from
  • add your logo to the email (must be no larger then 200x200 pixels
  • customize your welcome message
  • customize the way your newsletter is displayed including colors and font.
  • select which language you want to use for your subscriber box including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Japanese.

You can also choose the subject title of your email. You can use your blog title or company name. Alternatively you can insert your posts title in to the subject line using

${LatestItemTitle}

Feedburner allows you to choose a time zone for your email delivery and select what time you'd like your customers to receive it.

Monetize If you use adsense, you can also set your newsletter feed to include ads in the email.

Subscribe to WebGeek.Me for an example of how feedburner newsletters appear in your inbox and updates on the site!

Basic SEO changes you can make today!

Search Engine Optimization is primarily the art of getting your site found in search engines for keywords relevant to your sites content. You want free targeted traffic right?

Webgeek.me has gathered some easy tips on increasing your sites SEO.

Tagging Images.

Adding alternative text to images increases the number of keywords the spiders will find on your page. When users search for images on google, your picture is more likely to be found with relevant keywords.

You can easily add alternative text using the following code;

< imgsrc= "image.jpg" alt="keyword" height="150" width="150" >

Use the alternative text to describe your picture so that it is relevant to your articles or the content on your page. Do not use the alternative text to stuff your site with keywords. Search engines are smart and do not rank overstuffed keywords.

Naming your image. Think about it, if someone wishes to save your image to their computer, which will look better "image1.jpg" or "chyrpdemoscreenshot.jpg". Image titles are also crawled by search engines and act as keywords.

Sign up for Google Analytics a free tool for measuring traffic and how visitors find you.
Google lists direct traffic, referred sites and search engines. WebGeek.Me's second highest referral are images.google.com (Lucky enough to have direct traffic as our number one referral). If you're not using alternative text in your images you are missing out on free relevant traffic.

Submit your articles to Article Directories

Increase incoming links by submitting your articles to the most popular online article directories. The more websites your articles are seen on, the more traffic you can bring to your website. Most article directories allow you to post your website link and information either at the beginning or end of your article. The more links to your website, the higher your page will rank in search engine results!

SEO Elite Software

Testing Browser Compatibility.

The look of your site is important to you and your end user, but it's imperative to test the compatibility of your site in different browsers. You could have the best product, service or blog in the world, but if people can't view it, nobody's going to be interested. There's a rather large intolerance to slow or poorly loading pages.

Just recently a collegue was absolutely blown away by the site he had built with GL Fusion. They loved the ease of use and customization of the CMS. He thought his site was ready.

After two weeks of traffic building and telling all his friends about the new site, he discovered after a phone call that his site wasn't loading. "But it shows up on my computer?"

Today there are several choices of browsers, and more are being developed and upgraded. Some people love the familiarity of IE, other's love Firefox for the security and add-ons. Personally I'm a huge fan of Google Chrome. I love the "Recently closed tabs" feature, and the 9 screenshot favourites that make it easy for me to load my most common sites.

Whatever the reason for people's choice of browser, your website should load in it!

Shoutem.com Microblogging Platform

Shoutem.com is an online platform that allows you to set up your own Microblogging community.

You can use it to

  • Start a group
  • Create a support network for your site,
  • Use it to interact with customers online.

Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts

TweetLater.com

Built with tutorials on how to use their system, tweetlater.com has an abundance of great features to manage your twitter account. Managing so many social networks, microblogging and constantly updating your status over various websites is no doubt time consuming. These days it seems internet social peer pressure almost makes it necessary.

tweetlater.com allows you to manage multiple twitter accounts and schedule tweets!

That means whilst you're out by the pool, tweetlater will post your scheduled updates. Promote new blog posts, music, videos, or just let everyone know your out having fun in the sun.

You can add and manage multiple Twitter and Ping.fm accounts or add Blog and Status Feeds.

You can schedule a tweet and choose when it is posted, or you can save it as a draft for later.

pligg?

Pligg is a web application that allows you to submit an article that will be reviewed by other users of the site and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the main page.

Pligg has been compared to Digg, Drigg (the drupal version of digg). All of these applications allow your sites content to be published and promoted dependent on the popularity and votes on articles.

When a user submits a news article it will be placed in the "unpublished" area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the main page.

Facebook Pages - Word of Mouth 2.0

Facebook Pages - Word of Mouth 2.0

Facebook Pages can be used to promote your product, brand or website. You can use it as an interactive mini-web page that will create more traffic and interest in your chosen field.

A facebook page is separate from that of a profile. Nobody can see your individual page without adding you as a friend. Use a facebook page to upload photo's, add video's, flash content and more. Engage your readers/customers with interactive content hosted on a reputable website.

The benefit of a facebook page is that there's less programming involved then doing it yourself. Facebook is already an established platform and has many developers creating new applications everyday. If you were looking for a specific application you could hire somebody to develop one for you. However there are 1000's of relevant applications you can use already.

Digsby; Manage your Social Networks




Digsby is a desktop application that manages all of your IMs, Email and Social Networks in one neat little package. It combines all your IM contact lists including facebook!! That was a definite plus. One thing I have found so far, is that when you send someone a message it doesn't always alert them that you've typed something.

You can change the colours and make minor changes to the layout to aesthetically please you.

Notifications for myspace, facebook, twitter are all displayed in pop ups which aren't as intrusive as you'd think.

With Digsby you save a lot of unnecessary open windows in your web browser and can still stay up to date with your multitude of social networks.

If they ever make this cellular it's all over.

Download Now @ http://www.digsby.com


Chyrp Microblogging Platform

I've been looking at open source micro blogging software. Ultimately trying to help out my Uncle find a twitter clone that he can customize for his own site.

Laconica is ok, but requires alot of backend programming, something my Uncle and I are still novices at. It's been hard so far to find a user friendly, easily customizable micro-blogging platform.

Another alternative involved using Google Apps to build the platform on, and python. We're looking for something that requires uploading a zip or .gz file and attaching a database much the same as wordpress, drupal and other content management systems are installed. In fact that describes the problem exactly, where is an easy micro blogging CMS? This is still under investigation..

Syndicate

Syndicate content