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Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 5th July 2012, 06:21 AM
Replies: 69
Views: 11,146
Posted By erskinem
Re: Commission Shortcut

I've actually been doing something similar for the better part of a year.

Conceptually, it's really solid. Where Commission Shortcut method fails is in execution. I think in trying to make it...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd January 2012, 02:35 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 632
Posted By erskinem
Re: How NOT To Do A Press Release

Nah, it's genius.

Think about it, what they're saying is, "we're so good at SEO, we don't need a URL — you'll just find us."

Plus, we're all talking about it.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd January 2012, 11:58 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 857
Posted By erskinem
Re: Subdomains for Affilate Websites

Subdomains are no problem. The thing to remember is that subdomains are mostly treated like their own separate site, so in terms of ranking power, you can't count on one subdomain carrying any...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd January 2012, 11:45 PM
Replies: 67
Views: 1,477
Posted By erskinem
Re: Why I almost never look at any method which comes as videos.

Videos are tough. It's a different medium then text. Different things are important, like pacing, tonality, presentation.

With text, you hear everything in your own voice, which doesn't sound...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd January 2012, 11:24 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 553
Posted By erskinem
Re: What are the risks with Free or Sketchy WP Themes?

Hidden links mostly. There are two plugins that will scan theme files — theme authenticity checker and exploit scanner.

They aren't bulletproof but can pick out much of the most obvious nonsense....
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 2nd January 2012, 05:46 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 858
Posted By erskinem
Re: Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI)

KEI is = (volume of searches per day)^2/(total number of competitors)

So the volume of searches per day is the number of times a particular keyword is searched for and the total number of...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 2nd January 2012, 05:15 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 700
Posted By erskinem
Re: Miss spelled domain names.. Are they any good?

Not really. Since google started auto-correcting misspelled words, going for the misspelling isn't as lucrative as it used to be.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd January 2012, 03:41 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 648
Posted By erskinem
Re: Ideas for generating members

When I started a forum a few years ago I had to have conversations with myself to get the ball rolling (some of the best conversations in my life).

It sounds like you work in the webdev field. Why...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd January 2012, 02:53 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 880
Posted By erskinem
Re: Green screen training?

I've been doing green screen for a while and one of the best tips I have to share is to throw on a magenta gel and use that as a hair light on your subject (pointing at the back of the head where you...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 2nd January 2012, 02:45 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 871
Posted By erskinem
Re: What is the Best trustworthy source of checking the number of backlinks?

Hey Arav,

Majestic SEO has the largest database that I know of for finding backlinks. It's a paid database if you don't have Market Samurai, where it is included.

Are you saying your backlink...
Forum: Website Design 16th December 2011, 02:40 PM
Replies: 90
Views: 14,021
Posted By erskinem
Re: WP Themes: Thesis, Genesis, ClickBump, Profits Theme, FlexSqueeze etc.

I never understood the love of the Thesis theme. Structure wise it's a mess and for a theme that markets itself as the pinnacle of wordpress, it's coding could use some work and I really don't thing...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th December 2011, 01:49 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,400
Posted By erskinem
Re: If you had $ 500 saved and today was your first day of work as internet marketer, what would u d

If I didn't know a thing about IM and I had $500 to invest...

I would buy an already established site. $500 won't get you much, but it will get you a site that is getting some traffic and...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th December 2011, 01:24 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 449
Posted By erskinem
Re: What Wordpress Plugin to use?

You have to be careful with some of these adsense plugins out there. Many of them (even those in the wordpress directory) skim a little bit off your adsense.

It's really easy to add the codes...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th December 2011, 01:16 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 1,195
Posted By erskinem
Re: What Are The Best Website Design Software Out There?

Honestly,

The solution I go back to time and time again is a simple text editor. There is something about being able to quickly write code that a wysiwyg editor can't compete with.
Forum: Mind Warriors 16th December 2011, 01:11 PM
Replies: 122
Views: 4,991
Posted By erskinem
Re: The Best Way To Start Your Day

You know, I've been taking walks in the morning (nothing serious) and I agree, it really does help clear your head.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th December 2011, 12:55 PM
Replies: 56
Views: 1,682
Posted By erskinem
Re: Is Twitter worth my time?

I've seen a lot of support desks use twitter as a communication platform which is very cool.

Personally, I haven't done much with twitter but I would use it as an alternative commenting system...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th December 2011, 12:26 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,370
Posted By erskinem
Re: My Google PR is 0, give me some tips :(

Yeah...eventually.

The guy wants to raise his PR, not waste time.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th December 2011, 12:07 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,297
Posted By erskinem
Re: Redirection of Amazon Affiliate Links?

I don't think you need the image. I get referrals with straight, cloaked, redirected, and even affiliate links I write myself.
Forum: Programming 16th December 2011, 11:56 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,539
Posted By erskinem
Re: keyword research tool

There was a now defunct product called keyword tool dominator which used the google API. I would talk to him since it doesn't look like he's doing anything with that product.
Forum: Website Design 16th December 2011, 11:53 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 390
Posted By erskinem
Re: Website Portfolio

No....you just need photoshop
Forum: Website Design 16th December 2011, 11:52 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 355
Posted By erskinem
Re: Is there a Slider that does this?

The anything or coda slider should do the trick as well. Any slider that controls a div will work.
Forum: Website Design 16th December 2011, 11:48 AM
Replies: 73
Views: 2,282
Posted By erskinem
Re: Go Daddy, Is this a good web host

No. GoDaddy is not a good host.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th December 2011, 11:45 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 854
Posted By erskinem
Re: Blog Comment Link Building A Waste of Time?

You're leaving money on the table if you think blog comments are a waste of time.

1. You have an opportunity to connect with a blog owner that have an interest in your niche.
2. You have an...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th December 2011, 11:32 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 532
Posted By erskinem
Re: Site too slow . What do you recommend ?

IF you are running a wordpress site, biggest thing I found to slow a site down is plugins that load javascript in the header.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th December 2011, 11:27 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 838
Posted By erskinem
Re: #1 on Google out of 33,100,000 results and NOT a single sale.

How much traffic are you getting? If you are number 1 on the serps, could be your headline that is causing people to overlook the site.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th December 2011, 11:22 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,370
Posted By erskinem
Re: My Google PR is 0, give me some tips :(

swatz, if you want to build your PR, you need backlinks from sites with a PR that is higher than yours. The fastest way is to find dofollow blogs to comment on.

A little trick I've learned is if...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th December 2011, 11:09 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 1,384
Posted By erskinem
Re: I got my first sale!!!

That's great marcus, as the others have said, after the first, the second, third, and fourth get easier.

All the best!
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2011, 12:53 PM
Replies: 387
Views: 30,993
Posted By erskinem
Re: 56 Lessons Learned Over 11 Years Of Being In IM - The List I Wish I Had When I First Started....

Rod,

I just re-read your list. It needs to be read aloud by an Australian, set to music, and addressed to the Warrior Forum class of 2012.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Forum: Programming 9th December 2011, 11:47 AM
Replies: 70
Views: 2,331
Posted By erskinem
Re: What is your favorite editor or IDE?

Coda for me
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2011, 11:35 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 681
Posted By erskinem
Re: Automation bots what do you think

Not to get all computer-sciencey..but

A conditional statement is a statement with conditions attached. It's sort of like instructions for the program on what to do when it comes to a fork in the...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th December 2011, 11:14 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 2,136
Posted By erskinem
Re: Site was on page one until I put Amazon affiliate links on it

It was just a strange coincidence. The fact that you have affiliate links (or cloaked links for that matter) won't impact your rankings.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2011, 11:04 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 3,177
Posted By erskinem
Re: From $7,00 to $40,000 - My Top 30 Tips For Newbies

Congrats. Way to take action
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2011, 10:54 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 775
Posted By erskinem
Re: Is There A Wordpress Plugin That Works Like ASP?

Gravity Forms might be a good start.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2011, 10:52 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 681
Posted By erskinem
Re: Automation bots what do you think

You ever see those Roombas that keep repeatedly hitting the same corner over and over again?

The key to a good bot is timeouts and conditionals especially if you are daisy chaining one process off...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2011, 10:29 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 369
Posted By erskinem
Re: Word Press themes

If I remember, Solostream does a nice boxed layout and all of the Genesis themes can run a grid component so you can get that functionality.

Also, depending on your niche, it might be cool to...
Forum: Website Design 9th December 2011, 10:24 AM
Replies: 67
Views: 1,608
Posted By erskinem
Re: Which Logo is the best? Please help me to choose

Concept 2 is a bit more distinct. What if you put the speech bubbles inside the black button?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2011, 10:15 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 619
Posted By erskinem
Re: My first $0.56 in Amazon Associates

Congratulations! That's the great thing about Amazon, anything someone buys from your link gets counted as your commission.

So what's next lamposproject, are you going to continue building up the...
Forum: Website Design 9th December 2011, 10:06 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 675
Posted By erskinem
Re: Review my CSS collections/snippets site

Looks really nice rockerzz. But yeah, since it is a CSS showcase, I'd put in a few CSS effects.

I'd also add a little margin to the bottom of the body as it appears the social sharing buttons cut...
Forum: Website Design 9th December 2011, 09:58 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 488
Posted By erskinem
Re: Uploading a Large Video to my website

Alex has some good pointers on the benefits of YouTube for SEO purposes, but assuming you didn't care about that and wanted to get away from the YouTube branding, have you looked into Vimeo?

Super...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2011, 09:37 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 681
Posted By erskinem
Re: Automation bots what do you think

Bots are great. I think anything that needs to be done in a repetitive manner more than a few times should be automated.

Remember thought, while you don't need to pay bots, you do need to check...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2011, 09:29 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 532
Posted By erskinem
Re: Starting a company?

ahzhen,

As Marius said, you don't need a company to make your own products, but if you are hiring outside employees and making more than pocket change, it might be a smart strategy to limit tax...
Forum: Offline Marketing 9th December 2011, 09:16 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 1,075
Posted By erskinem
Re: So I was fired..........

Great stuff Yukinara. It was your attitude that kept it all going.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2011, 09:08 AM
Replies: 387
Views: 30,993
Posted By erskinem
Re: 56 Lessons Learned Over 11 Years Of Being In IM - The List I Wish I Had When I First Started....

Rod,

Really powerful...Thank you for sharing.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd December 2011, 01:18 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 1,205
Posted By erskinem
Re: OMG, Outsourcing will make you pull your hair out!!!

One thing that has really helped with my staff is to give a time limit on how long to spend on a task. I explicitly state in their instructions how long to spend on each thing. Otherwise, I end up...
Forum: Mind Warriors 2nd December 2011, 09:48 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 457
Posted By erskinem
Re: how to have motivation

Money in itself is a poor motivator. You're not going to make more money just because "it would be nice"

You need a cause or a group to fight for.

Are there more people you can help?
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st December 2011, 04:37 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,560
Posted By erskinem
Re: Amazon BestSeller List Scraper

Yeah, there is a a discontinued product called optimal product finder. The problem is (since it's discontinued) it doesn't have all the current amazon categories, but it still works surprisingly...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st December 2011, 04:17 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 866
Posted By erskinem
Re: My November Traffic Stats: What am I doing wrong?

595 visitors for a 25 day old site isn't too bad.

Remember, all those articles, videos, and PADs you submitted are still going to be there promoting your site.

Here's what I recommend: put...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st December 2011, 02:07 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,131
Posted By erskinem
Re: Can One Build A List Using 'Pen Name' ?

When I saw the title of this thread, Eben was the first one to come to mind.

But to the OP, nothing wrong with using a pen name, but have to admit, it was a little weird to learn that David D was...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st December 2011, 10:30 AM
Replies: 61
Views: 3,011
Posted By erskinem
Re: Form letter reply for Cease and Desist order?

This all seems like a lot of effort over $50.
Forum: Website Design 1st December 2011, 10:22 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,912
Posted By erskinem
Re: Word Press - All in One SEO or Yoast?

Vote for Yoast
Forum: Website Design 1st December 2011, 09:54 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 452
Posted By erskinem
Re: WORDPRESS PLUGIN QUESTION

I'm a fan of sharethis plugin. Lots of options and easy to customize
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st December 2011, 09:50 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 642
Posted By erskinem
Re: What is the ULTIMATE Way to Back Up Wordpress?

I'm a fan of backupbuddy
Forum: Programming 1st December 2011, 09:29 AM
Replies: 206
Views: 15,268
Posted By erskinem
Re: Godaddy Or Hostgator ?

Neither.

If you have a site that very frequently makes database requests shared hosting might not be the best route.

As for support in a shared environment, I've been using Site5 and have been...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 1st December 2011, 09:16 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 494
Posted By erskinem
Re: You Donating To Wikipedia?

Wikipedia has always run on donations. If I remember correctly, they do a donation drive every year around this time.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st December 2011, 09:11 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 671
Posted By erskinem
Re: WP sites been hacked?

Great outline Suzanne.

I've been using backupbuddy from iThemes. I can set it to schedule backups and send them to remote sources (FTP, s3, email) as well as download locally. I also use WP-DB...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st December 2011, 08:56 AM
Replies: 69
Views: 2,139
Posted By erskinem
Re: How to overcome procrastination and laziness?

I really disagree that the answer to beating procrastination is getting yourself all pumped up with visions of fancy cars and dream homes. In the end, you just get excited and still get nothing done....
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