18 May

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Need Credit Cards or Paypal Logos For Your Website?

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If you are looking for Clean Paypal, Visa, Master Card, Discover, American Express (Amex), or ACH – eCheck logos, then I recommend visiting these two websites

http://www.credit-card-logos.com/

http://www.fastcharge.com/html/card_logos.html

They offer several different image sizes or layouts for whatever style you are looking for. They have images with just a single credit card to images with a Paypal wrapper around Credit card images.

**You can also find Free Shipping and Anti-Spam logos on the second link.

02 May

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Website Badge Layout & E-Commerce Traffic Sales Conversion

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I currently maintain two E-commerce website and I am in the process of building two more e-commerce website. This is a combination of my knowledge and experiences with the use of website badges for traffic conversion.

**In this article I am already assuming you have traffic via SEO techniques, Paid advertising, or whatever sources you prefer to use for traffic and you are trying to improve the traffic conversion rate.

One of the major problems people have with an E-Commerce website is getting visitors to buy their products or services.

Web gurus consider traffic conversion to be a science, but I like to think of it as an Art Form tied to a dynamic uphill battle. By dynamic uphill battle, I am referring to the fact that you will have to change your e-commerce website several times until you find the right combination of trust building and website style that works for your store. Once you reach the top of the hill and start getting customers on a consistent basis, then it gets progressively easier and from there all you need to do is make small changes that you can monitor with the intent of increasing conversion rates.

In my experience, the reason people are not buying your products is typically something small and easy to fix. The problem with being the owner of a website is that you can’t see the website as a new visitor would see with a fresh pair eyes. You most likely have looked at your websites hundreds of thousands of times, and a as result, you are near sighted and unable to see what is broken on your website that is hindering conversion. Sometimes this small issue can feel like finding a needle in a haystack.
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30 Aug

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WordPress Robot.txt – The Correct Way

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Whenever I take over a website to help with improving the organic rankings, I always take a look at what Google has indexed and is currently displaying in search results for the website. In almost all case, if it’s a WordPress site, the search will show the theme folder has been indexed along with all the files in wp-content, wp-admin, and cgi-bin folder. Needless to say, Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. has now indexed redundant files that have nothing to do with your website and in most cases this opens up possible security issues and can cause a hit to your organic search results by indexing these files.

The sad part is that all this can be prevented by the use of a good Robots.txt file that you can upload right to the root directory of your website. Takes a few minutes to do, and then you have to wait for the search engines to update your website indexing.

How to make a Great Robots.txt File.

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30 Aug

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2 Must Have WordPress Plugins

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WP Security Scan – This handy plugin will scan your wordpress installation to look for any possible security / vulnerability holes in WordPress. Most of the security items that it finds, it can fix automatically by itself, with no work on the users part. The only things that need to be performed by the user is to change the chmod permissions of files indicated as security risk. Easy to install, just extract to your plugin directory and activate the plugin.

Nofollow Reciprocity – Essentially what this plugin does, is look through a list of websites that use nofollow rules for links on their website. It then checks your blog for links going to these website, and adds nofollow to these links so you do not bleed off your pagerank which can cause a loss of serp because of non-recriporcal links. The plugin website goes into indepth detail of why you need to run this plugin and how it will help you with Organic Search Ranking. Easy install, just activate the plugin and it does the rest for you.

Note: My only complaint with Nofollow was the link it puts in the footer that says

This blog contributes to the web with Nofollow Reciprocity.

So I decided to remove it because it was messing up my theme, and looks bad to have a link hanging at the bottom of my website outside of my wp theme.

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29 Aug

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Common Mistake In Search Engine Ranking

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This article is intended to help people get immediate traffic to their website(s) from search engines.

It’s a common dream among website owners to be number one in organic search ranking for certain keywords, but the mistake that they make, is not realizing that this is only a dream. They believe they can have amazing keyword ranking right from the start with common keywords, not even realizing that this type of ranking feat can take several hundred hours of time, energy, work, and dedication. In the end, the website owner gets burned out, loses a lot valuable time and over looks very simple ways to get traffic and customers.

Instead it would have been wiser to start off with geographically localized keywords. As a result they would be trying to get ranking results over a handful of websites instead of competing against hundreds, possibly thousands of websites for a common keyword. » Read the rest of the entry..

17 Mar

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Using StumbleUpon For Traffic

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I have been using StumbleUpon since the very beginning of this website, which is a little over a month ago, and I have had good success with it, considering I had no friends on the service to vote I Like It. StumbleUpon brings over 100 visitors, and growing each day. I have noticed that unlike Digg, Stumble has a delay time before you start getting traffic, usually around 2 to 4 days, but unlike Digg traffic, Stumble traffic is stable and visitors continue to come day after day, long after the article / website was posted.

The process of submitting a website to StumbleUpon is an easy uncomplicated process and takes all of a minute to do. Then in an ideal world, people will come to your website or blog entry and click I like it on the stumble bar and this votes up your website, which results in more traffic.

I do not see a need to write a full article about this service, because so many people have written amazing articles on StumbleUpon and the several ways to use it effectively. I have read everyone of these pages and recommend them to anyone who is actively trying to get traffic or least quality backlinks to their websites. I have listed 3 links to websites explaining everything and anything someone would want to know about the service, and how you should build your StumbleUpon profile so that you can get people Stumbling your page or pages.

How to Use StumbleUpon for Your Business: The Definitive Guide

Build Super Links and Traffic With StumbleUpon

A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website

15 Mar

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Things To Check When Using WordPress

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I am writing this post as a result of my lack of due diligence. I am usually good at checking the important parts of a website to make sure everything is working and correct, but this little tiny thing that I forgot to check, went unnoticed until today.

So here I am, testing out some search engine ideas for my website, and I noticed in Google search that the description for howbits was way off, in fact it was nothing like what I had put into the all in one SEO plugin. So off I go, back to my website to investigate this weird issue and come to find out, when I changed website design I had forgotten to remove the default meta description and keyword code for the theme.

I learned that, all in one SEO loads it’s meta tags after the themes header information, so if a meta tag is used before all in one SEO meta tags, the first meta tags are shown and not the later ones. As a result all in one SEO description was not showing up, and my website description was the default blog description.

So for anyone who has a WordPress website, who uses themes, and the plugin All in one SEO, you may want to follow this list of what to remove out of your themes header file. » Read the rest of the entry..

10 Mar

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Quick Tips For WordPress Speed Up

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The subject of optimizing WordPress and making a website Stumble / digg proof, has been rehashed so many times, that I had to talk myself into even writing a post about it. This list is short and straight to the point about optimizing WordPress, with easy to use plugins and tips. Most of these have been mentioned several times before, but since I just re-did the design on my website and had to optimize it all over again so that it would load as fast as possible, I figured now would be a good time to post about how to do it, since it’s still fresh in my mind. This list is for people who don’t have access to the http.config file or the Php.ini file. It is over the top configuration, so no editing of the htaccess file.

Recommended website to check out the loading speed of your website, and how big the web site file that is sent to each visitor. Website Speed Test

WordPress Plugins – This article includes an advanced tweak for wp super cache, I have also included instructions on other things you should do instead of relying on the plugins to do all the work. I just wrote an article about must have and highly recommend WordPress plugins and all of these plugins are listed, with some other plugins that most bloggers should have and use.

Wp-Super-Cache – Whenever your website is viewed or indexed, your database dishes out the information for the page. This can cause the website to load slow if the database has to do this for every visitor on your website. Wp super cache, takes the database information and makes static content that can be resent thousands / millions of times, so that the database doesn’t have to recreate the webpages every time someone visits your website.
Advanced Wp Super Cache tip – Some people try to get the most out of this great plugin. The most common tweak is adding Gzip to the plugin, so that the page is zipped up and sent in a package to a visitor, which can result in a faster loading webpage. I say to use this at your own risk, I have had some issues with it where my webpage comes up as a blank index with nothing loading up, even though to me the page appears to be working fine. I ended up removing this tweak, even though the problem occurs only a couple times a week. For those brave souls out there that want to give it a try, heres how you add it. » Read the rest of the entry..

08 Mar

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Must Have & Highly Recommended WordPress Plugins

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List of highly recommended and must have WordPress Plugins for the casual blogger to the full time professional blogger.

Akismets – This plugin stops about 90% or more of comment spam on my website, for any blogger you need to make sure your website does not become over ran by spam.

Wp-super-cache – Anyone who has a WordPress based website needs this. It speeds up your website by Caching and creating Static pages of your content. This results, in faster loading web site, since the database which dishes out the pages and various types of information, doesn’t need to work as hard. You will find that your bandwidth usage for your website will go down, and your website will show a significant increase in speed.

All in one SEO Pack – This little goody helps to make your Blog SEO friendly, and to give you greater control over the basic SEO practices such as Page Titles, Meta Keywords, Meta Description, etc. Easy to setup, and is a must for anyone with WordPress who wants traffic from search engines.

Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin creates the Sitemaps that you should be using with your blog to dictate what to search on your website. This plugin notifies MSN, Ask, Google, and Yahoo about changes on your website so the new content can be indexed.

Optimize DB – I wrote a blog post on the plugin last week about Avoiding excessive CPU usage errors from your web host. This plugin optimizes the database of your website, so you do not have to log into you phpadmin every day to keep your database small and efficient, so it does not take up the processing power of the machine that is hosting it. It will speed up the loading of your website and it’s easy to use, so use it at the end of the day if you have been posting or modifying your website. » Read the rest of the entry..

03 Mar

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SEO Addon Domains / Subdomains

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This article is about the use of Folders vs Add-on Domains, also referred to as Subdomains, and the advantages and disadvantages of SEO and PageRank for both.

Naysayers – Web SEO Guru Idiots

Many web gurus will argue that search engines will see that the IP address is the same for each website and will put the website together in search results, and not split them out. If this were true, then hundreds of websites that are on shared hosting, that have the same IP address, would be searched and indexed as one website. Another fact against what these web gurus think, is that if this were true, then why do the major websites such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. Practice this for their websites?? If you type in Google in a search engine you will see a long list of results for Google, such as news.google.com, maps.google.com, help.google.com, and the list goes on and on.

Folder Domain – Pros and Cons

When I say folders I am referring to folders that are one level higher on the site root. An example is http://howbits.com/examplefolder/.

Pros

When using folders you get more content for your website. Each folder, and whatever is in the folder is consider content for the main site, so if I make howbits.com/news/, well anything that ends up in the News folder is more content for my website and everyone knows Content is king. Search Engines love websites with a lot of content, so this of course will increase my ranking in search results
PageRank is shared with the folders of the website, so whatever my PageRank is in Howbits.com, chances are if the links are built right, then any content in the news folder will get the rank share.
Folders are easier to maintain then Add-on Domains, because they are still part of the main website.
If the websites are linked correctly, you can get an indented listing using the main website with good SEO, and then connecting to another page with poor ranking, but the ranking can ride on the ranking of the main website and thus get better search results by proxy.

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