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Forum: Website Design 1st April 2024, 06:29 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 67
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: How do I add content above a shortcode in the Classic Editor?

Thanks. Yes, I used a widget similar to your first how-to article, which I never thought about using in a header. When I get some time I might experiment with what is described in your 2nd article....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th August 2022, 08:12 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 333
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: I have good potential for a profitable blog. Can you help me brainstorm?

Search in Brave, Firefox, Edge or Google for "learn to draw affiliate program"

Some only pay 5-10% but others pay up to 50% commissions.

Don't just pick the one that pays the most. You have a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th August 2022, 06:24 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 128
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Blog Categories. Interesting Article

This is a brilliant idea!

I actually feel a little silly that I never thought about this before. A category was just an organizational tool for easier navigation and that's it. We think about a...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 6th March 2022, 02:36 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 747
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Officially Retiring

Happy retirement!

Always enjoyed your posts and hope you will still pop in from time to time.

What did you do with your classic rock radio station? The samples you posted made me think I would...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 20th December 2021, 05:08 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 399
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: The Free Upgrade To Windows 11 Notification Has Appeared!

I waited a while before installing W-11 in case there were any major glitches being discovered. I have been using it for about a week and I really like it. I qualified for the free version but I...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th September 2021, 04:55 PM
Replies: 3,042
Views: 54,562
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Coronavirus? Not worthy of a mention here???

A tip (or reminder) to no one in particular...

When I am researching for more scientifically based information I never go to google. I always go to scholar.google.com.

Then I hope I can...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 14th August 2021, 09:08 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 245
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: The Closest We May Ever Get To Time Travel

What struck me was...

...almost no overweight people.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th December 2020, 03:34 PM
Replies: 3,042
Views: 54,562
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Coronavirus? Not worthy of a mention here???

Help - Would someone walk me through how to put a member on ignore or whatever it might be called now? It used to be you could indicate if you no longer wanted to see a specific members posts or...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th December 2020, 05:34 PM
Replies: 3,042
Views: 54,562
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Coronavirus? Not worthy of a mention here???

One thing I think we can ALL agree on...

Princess Balestra has a great new avatar!
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th December 2020, 07:38 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 309
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: The Most Absurd Advice About SEO You See On The Forum

There are plenty of myths that have the initials "DA" in them.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 1st December 2020, 08:53 AM
Replies: 72
Views: 1,148
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: The Most Absurd Thing You Ever Heard

I have heard a lot of absurd things in my life. I have probably believed a few of them for awhile.

But the most absurd thing I have ever heard...

"COVID-19 is a hoax."
Forum: Off Topic Forum 14th October 2020, 09:11 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 132
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Does anyone have the post "76 mistakes ..."

I don't have the whole post but I remember...

76. Not regularly backing up your hard drive.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 10th October 2020, 10:25 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 430
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: The Definition Of Boredom

Wow... I guess I put all that out of my memory but it is starting to come back.... Now that you mention it I remember a lot of people trying to help but without much reciprocal efforts.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th October 2020, 06:22 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 187
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: How to set a date for a product launch in the IM niche?

Not to offend anyone....

In the last few years those 5 launches a day are all pure garbage anyway. Regurgitated stuff, software that doesn't work, pie in the sky promises, 8 upsells of more junk,...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th October 2020, 05:49 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 230
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: How Many Of You...

What a great idea! I can think of some instances on one of my sites that this method would work even better than just trying to juice up older content.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st October 2020, 02:00 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 257
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Approved in Google News but Not Showing

Getting traffic from Google News is very different from SEO for your website.

Even a few years ago the sites that came up in Google News were posting a minimum of 10+ amazing articles per day. ...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 5th September 2020, 04:41 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 230
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: How Many Of You...

I have been trying that exact thing with limited success. What I mean by limited success is that I have not done it long enough or scientifically enough to know when it is working well.

Not...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 13th August 2020, 03:59 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 338
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Free Antivirus?

The free MalwareBytes has always worked on my Windows 10. If I had an issue it was always one of my first programs to run. It was great at finding and quarantining malware and viruses. In the last...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 13th August 2020, 11:50 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 397
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: New Computer, Problems, And Eventually A Fix

I am happily on my 4th Dell desktop in 20 years. Long story but I blew out my hard drive (my mistake) with only a few days left on the warranty. I didn't pay extra but somehow had the in-home...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th July 2020, 02:45 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 231
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: if there's a main website and i want to rank its supages, seo advice

Where do you want your traffic to go to? Just the home page? All of the pages? Some of the pages?

You want to rank every page you can that you want organic search traffic to find. If they land...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th July 2020, 06:29 PM
Replies: 63
Views: 1,019
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Is It Sleazy TO Sell Products You Haven't Tried?

It is sleazy to sell sleazy products!
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th June 2020, 02:23 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 1,940
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Your best free traffic sources? (I share mine)

I agree with Jeffery that it "depends on what your selling and your target market." Some marketing avenues work better for different things.

For me it is SEO all the way! Targeted traffic! It...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th June 2020, 04:59 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 295
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: PayPal acquires Honey and the future of Amazon niche sites

The whole Amazon Associate landscape is changing. I don't think the future looks bright especially for someone just starting and trying to use SEO for traffic. It takes a lot of work and time to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th June 2020, 01:49 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 547
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: What do i do with my superstar domain?

Why is anyone still replying to this thread? Newbie creates his/her first thread and has never replied or thanked anyone since.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st June 2020, 11:37 PM
Replies: 76
Views: 2,142
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Huge Amazon Associates Pay Cut

May was just my biggest month for Amazon profits ever!

The commissions dropped drastically but people were buying a ton of stuff. My click-throughs were like normal but once people got there they...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 9th May 2020, 12:34 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 159
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Hugely Cleaned Up Film Footage Of New York In 1911

Fascinating time period. It seemed like about 50/50 horse drawn carriages to automobiles. Men's suits and ties are very close to what you still see today but the women's clothing styles are...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th April 2020, 04:40 PM
Replies: 3,042
Views: 54,562
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Coronavirus? Not worthy of a mention here???

Interesting article about Australia and New Zealand combating COVID-19 by listening to and implementing the suggestions of science.

Vanquish the Virus? Australia and New Zealand Aim to Show the...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 26th April 2020, 01:56 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 147
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: My expired blog got weird language and how to remove?

ICANN Lookup shows that a Japanese company bought your domain on 2020-02-12. They pointed it to servers and launched a live site on 2020-04-26 (although that ICANN data is not always accurate).
...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th April 2020, 11:20 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 546
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: How Do I Find The Keywords That People Use To Find My Site Using Google Analytics?

In Google Analytics you can go to Realtime > Traffic Sources > Top Keywords

I actually prefer going to Google Search Console > Performance > If they are not showing already click all 4:

Total...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th April 2020, 09:29 PM
Replies: 76
Views: 2,142
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Huge Amazon Associates Pay Cut

I agree. I am almost surprised that they haven't suspended or cancelled ALL commissions indefinitely. The one thing Amazon has always been good at is crunching numbers. They will only keep paying...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th April 2020, 04:25 PM
Replies: 76
Views: 2,142
Posted By Janice Sperry
Huge Amazon Associates Pay Cut

Amazon just posted an announcement that starting on April 21 commissions will be reduced...

Furniture, Home, Home Improvement, Lawn & Garden, Pets Products, Pantry From 8% to 3.00%
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd April 2020, 03:32 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 1,886
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Hot Content Niches Right Now

I am not in the MMO niche and have always recommended against it just because of the ridiculous stuff that gets promoted.

However.... Has there ever been a better time to write for "Make Money...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th February 2020, 02:07 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 948
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Been out of digital marketing since 2013: Need some help catching up with the latest

You have a lot of experience and probably most of what you did before will still work. Google is better at catching black hat methods and they mostly don't work anymore.

I would suggest starting...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 20th January 2020, 11:00 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 167
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: https disappeared from search results

Oops... I forgot you were talking about in the search results. I also think it looks a LOT better there. Someone searches... sees my site in the results with just my favicon and domain name. It...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 16th January 2020, 10:51 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 92
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Loved this story...

Very clever...

Also made me want to read that book!

This was funny but I can believe a real book lover doing this...

"I once checked out Dante’s Divine Comedy (translated into Ancient Greek)...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 16th January 2020, 10:38 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 215
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Windows 7 support ends on January 14

I think at some point I have used almost every Windows version. Windows 10 has been my favorite and most reliable by far. I installed it when it was first released and in my opinion is much, much...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th January 2020, 05:37 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 328
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Help to select domain name

Don't listen to anyone that tells you to go ahead and use the word Warrior in a domain name. It is not a good idea even if you were not going to get into legal trouble. Why would you want to use an...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 5th January 2020, 10:56 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 482
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: stay safe

There are a lot of good charities trying to help out...

Here are a few that caught my attention:

Foodbank (https://www.foodbank.org.au/support-us/make-a-donation/?state=nsw-act) = Donate food,...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 3rd January 2020, 08:23 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 482
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: stay safe

Thanks for posting Kay! I thought about it yesterday and just didn't know how to word it.

"Stay safe" says it all.

I live in the U.S. but it is heart-wrenching to see what is happening.
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th December 2019, 07:59 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 762
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: I'm about to start, but I feel stuck.

You say there is another "big guy" that is your competition. It is highly likely there is a lot more competition than that. There can still be room for other people like yourself to get in the...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th December 2019, 01:57 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 929
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: How to protect against a negative SEO attack?

If it has gone on since mid October and you are just noticing it does that mean that it has not effected your rankings yet?

The good news is that Google has gotten much better over the years at...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 3rd December 2019, 05:43 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 153
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Google Auto Suggest/Complete

There are a ton of free tools that do this and also many paid ones.

Free:
https://keywordsheeter.com/
https://www.infinitesuggest.com/
https://keywordtool.io/
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th November 2019, 09:19 PM
Replies: 118
Views: 3,126
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: How will SEO change in 2020?

If SEO is irrelevant why have you commented in at least 4 threads in this section? Why would someone that believes SEO is irrelevant even visit the SEO section?

SEO is just as relevant now as it...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 20th November 2019, 12:10 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 192
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Joint Venture - Partner Can't continue and Website nearly complete

You are not an insensitive low-life to be concerned about your business and the almost completed website. It sounds like you are very compassionate and have had good communication up to this point. ...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th November 2019, 05:37 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 412
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Want to Get More Clicks?

Some very interesting stats in that article.

A few favorites...

"In fact, we found that the top 3 Google search results get 75.1% of all clicks."

I know that statistic varies a lot depending...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th October 2019, 09:50 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 625
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: BERT Update

One of Google's official articles about BERT is here (https://www.blog.google/products/search/search-language-understanding-bert).

One quote I found particularly interesting is this:
...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 25th October 2019, 06:06 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 625
Posted By Janice Sperry
BERT Update

Lots of articles have popped up about Google's newest algorithm update called BERT. They are calling it the biggest improvement in 5 years.

Theoretically the algorithm will be able to provide...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 24th October 2019, 07:50 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 169
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Ranking Fluctuations

My keywords that rank 1-8 or so fluctuate very little. My keywords that rank 11- infinity will fluctuate all over the place. I rarely check or pay much attention to where keywords rank until I get...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 22nd September 2019, 08:24 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 821
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Will my site lost backlinks after switch to https?

The website I did this with is ranking for low, medium and high competition and high traffic keywords. All of the many hundreds of backlinks are natural organic links.

When you do the 301...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 22nd September 2019, 12:19 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 821
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Will my site lost backlinks after switch to https?

You are looking at it from a technical standpoint instead of from the point of view of visitors and clients. Most people do not have a clue what https is but they understand what "Not secure" means....
Forum: Off Topic Forum 19th August 2019, 10:23 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 1,087
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Why Aren't There As Many Women In IM ...

There are a LOT of them working behind the scenes doing very well. Many that I know are just not interested in branding/promoting themselves so they are simply not in the limelight.

I don't know...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th July 2019, 12:35 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 312
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: I find a good domain, the page is parked, but says in top page "name expired"?

If the domain points to a parked page somebody owns it. It doesn't matter what you are seeing on the page. A click button to "Renew" is just to bait a former owner to pay up.

Sav.com took over...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th July 2019, 11:23 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 251
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Best Marketing Strategy when Owning Similar High-Search Vol. Domains

Like Jeffery I am also confused now... If these are not websites that are already getting traffic I retract everything in my earlier post. Maybe you meant that the keywords are searched 10k times...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th July 2019, 04:52 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 251
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Best Marketing Strategy when Owning Similar High-Search Vol. Domains

There may be more factors involved but if it was me....

I would definitely do your strategy number 1 and redirect 2 of the sites to a main website that you will keep developing. Branding and SEO...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th July 2019, 01:55 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 900
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: Average CTR for Blog

And that amazing statistic is based on ONE paid ad!!!

Correction: I guess to have an average you must have at least TWO paid ads.

The whole world should know this... No matter what you are...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 12th July 2019, 10:42 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 276
Posted By Janice Sperry
Re: RIP Alfred E.

Another vote for Spy vs Spy!!!

The whole magazine was great when I could get one. My mother did not approve. My older brother could sneak one in now and then.
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