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How To Really Improve Your Bounce Rates

Friday, December 2nd, 2011 at 9:13 pm

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First off I want to give credit where credit is due and in this case it goes to a post my mate Mitch wrote called Too Many Tags And Categories? That particular post, one that I recommend you read, refers to a blog Mitch had read where the blogger claims to have reduced his bounce rate to 2% :bigsurprise_ee: :flush_tb: The thing about that bloggers post that caught Mitch’s attention was when the blogger mentioned that smaller tags and tag clouds were beneficial because it allowed the reader to focus on what the blog is really about. I’m assuming that having a huge amount of tags would confuse the reader causing him to leave without searching any further.

Will Tags Decrease Your Bounce Rate?

The question is whether or not having a tag cloud decreases your bounce rate? Personally I feel that they are next to useless and the space would be better used for something else. I know that I have one on my Buy Lottery Tickets Online site but that’s only because I like the way it behaves more than anything else. :tongue1_tb:

The only way to get a true result to that question is to run this poll. As you well know the more people that take part in any given poll the more accurate the result and so I urge you to get the word out.

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Life Is Short So Don’t Mess It Up

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 at 10:39 pm

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Life is so short. We are born, we live for a time and then, when our time is done, we die. There are those who make a name for themselves in that short time, who people remember, perhaps because of some incredible feat they performed, their contribution to mankind or even because of some atrocity they had committed. The vast majority however are only remembered by those few who’s lives they may have touched.

I belong to the latter. I know that once I have gone I will only be truly remembered by family and close friends. I came to that realisation many years ago and I am fine with that. Even though I will leave no lasting memory once I have been reduced to dust I have vowed that at the very least while I am upon this earth I will be the best that I can be. That mentality has always helped me in my business and is currently helping me in my new job.

In Blogging As In Life Always Give Your Best

From my first day on the job I gave my new bosses 110%. I always start a few minutes early and never leave before my time is due. I never take extra or longer breaks and always make sure that I do the job to the best of my ability. My efforts have not gone unnoticed either. I have been rewarded with more hours and I am also being treated with respect by my co-workers. The reasons i’m this way is twofold. The first being its the way I was brought up and the second is because as a former employer I know what it is like to have staff that slack off and so I can’t possibly do the same to my employer.

This means a lot to me because even though I may not be remembered when my time here is done, at least while I am walking amongst the living there is no-one talking behind my back telling others what a slacker I am. If anything I am setting an example for others, even though they may not see it or make the effort to follow in my footsteps.

The same goes for my blog. I try to maintain a level of professionalism and honesty. I never abuse my readers or commentators and never belittle anyone in my posts. The same goes when commenting on another’s blog. I always try to conduct myself in the manner of a good guest. Where a guest would listen to the conversation I would read the post and as a good guest would contribute to the conversation I try to contribute by leaving a good comment. I would never misbehave by abusing my host or any of his other guests.

Who knows, when I finally bite the dust perhaps people won’t remember my name but they will remember something about me. You know, something like; “Do you remember that blogger, you know what’s his name? The one that had a way with words, had a great sense of humour and used some amazing photos in his post. I think he was an Aussie or something?” If that ever happens you just tell that person that my name is Sire :wink_ee:

Pruning Your List To Get The Most Out Of It

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 at 1:30 pm

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I started my list in December 2010 and it took about 10 months to reach 50 subscribers. I wrote about that milestone in my post A New Milestone As My Mail List Hits 50 and that post tells of the new tactic I had started using to increase my list numbers. One that has been working so well that my numbers have since doubled.

You would think that would make me a pretty happy blogger round about now wouldn’t you? Well, I’m not and that is what this post is all about. I’m just not happy about having a list that is not performing to my expectations. Let’s face it, the whole idea of having a list is to get something from your subscribers. For most list owners it’s usually money related but all I want is that my subscribers actually open my emails to see what I’ve been up to. After all, that is why they joined isn’t it?

Having A Dedicated List Is Important

When people subscribe to a list it’s usually because the person building the list is offering a freebie or something at a discounted rate. In my situation it’s because they want their link to appear on my List Page, as that is the incentive that I am offering.

The thing with lists is they’re of little use if the subscribers are not opening your emails. Lists being what they are, a lot of subscribers do not give their prime email address when joining. Instead they will use an address that is rarely used except when they use it to subscribe to a list or something. These people have no intention of opening your mail and so are pretty useless as subscribers.

I expected to get my fair share of these subscribers but the time has come to sift through my subscribers removing all the dead wood. After all, why should they receive the same reward, a link back to their site, as all my dedicated subscribesr who actually open and read my emails?

This post will serve as a warning to all my subscribers that one month from today I will be deleting all inactive members. That is all those subscribers who for whatever reason have not been opening my emails. Unfortunately for them they won’t know what the hell is going on because they won’t be opening the email linking to this post. I will also be linking to this post from my list’s signup form so that all future subscribers know their link will be removed unless they are active members.

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I’ve created a YouTube video to show you how easy it will be to sift through my subscribers separating the good loyal ones from those who probably only joined so they could get a free link to their website.

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Making A Header For Your Blog Is Easy

Monday, November 7th, 2011 at 8:51 pm

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It is so lucky for you guys that I’m a bloke and not a woman because if I was a woman I would be so pissed right about now. You know what its like when your special lady gets her hair done, buys a new dress or maybe some shoes and you fail to notice. First you may get the old silent treatment and then there may be the old banging of pots and pans and heaven forbid if in a moment of desperation you mention her monthly cycle :furious_tb: Imagine the mood she would be in if a week went by and you still didn’t notice :guns_tb:

Yep, its like I said, lucky for you guys that I’m a bloke because it’s been a week since I’ve changed the header and I’ve had heaps of comments, many of them from regulars too, and not one of you even noticed. Even if you did nobody bothered to mention it. Too bad really, because I had planned to give away $100 to the first person that noticed so at least I get to keep the cash :laugh_tb:

Designing A Header For Your Blog

Where possible I always try to design my own header because I know that doing so will make it unique and being unique helps tom make you stand out. I actually made two headers and I had to choose between the one you see now or this one.

The thing is that I’m not all that good at designing things from scratch so what Like to do is to take a photo of something and then editing it to suit my needs. The images that you see here are from the Bird Of Paradise plant that is growing in my garden. I took several shots of it and then used PhotoShop to crop it into what you see here.

I liked these images because although simple they are really very striking, it certainly is a lot different from the one I was using before. The beauty of doing it this way is that no artistic talent was necessary. The only thing you need is a camera, an interesting subject which can be absolutely anything and some software to crop it. Naturally if you know your way around PhotoShop you could really work wonders with it.

I think I may actually put a portfolio of headers together so that I could perhaps offer it for sale or even as a free gift somewhere along the line.

Some Photo Editing Tools You Can Use

There are a lot of editing tools that you can use, some of which I have included below. There are also websites like Flickr that offer online editing features that may do the trick. However you decide to do it you will get an immense sense of satisfaction every time you see your blog sporting your a header that you designed.

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Don’t Miss Out On The Next CommentLuv Premium Launch!

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 at 6:15 pm

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So, you missed the first release of CommentLuv Premium and you’re kicking yourself for it because it was such a sweet deal. To those of you who paid attention to my many posts promoting it and our now proud owners of what is a great plugin I congratulate you on your wise decision.

To the rest I am happy to report CommentLuv Premium is about to go into Launch mode very, very soon and you don’t want to miss out again! OK, it’s going to cost you that little bit more but there is still going to be massive savings for all those bloggers who have more than one blog because it’s only going to set you back $67 for the unlimited license! This will revert later to a single license meaning that you will have to pay $67 for each blog. Even if you only have one b log it’s best to get it now because you never know when you will want to start another one.

So, let’s have another look at all the reasons why you should be adding this plugin to your blogging arsenal.

What CommentLuv Premium Has To Offer

Advanced control of dofollow and 10 last posts
It is going to allow you to set rules so instead of requiring people to register to get the goodies, you can set it to give it to anyone that has made X number of comments.
Unlock advanced features on EVERY CommentLuv blog
Being premium means you don’t have to register anywhere, you get up to 15 last posts to choose from on EVERY blog that has CommentLuv. Now you all know how many people use CommentLuv so this is a really important feature.
Static Links
If you have links that you would like to use again and again or pages that you’d like to include in your returned list of posts then you can with this feature! This is basically where you get the additional 5 extra links from. You get to choose 5 post or pages of your choice and they can be the ones that promote a particular affiliate or even link to your Sales or Squeeze pages.
Integrated anti-spam
New and improved anti-spambot protection without the need for your readers to fill in a CAPTCHA or even check a checkbox! Also, trackback validation!
Stats for clicks on your links
See what links of yours are getting clicked and where
Enhanced information panel
Set your information on your own blog and your info panel updates on every single blog that has one of your links showing (including a list of other posts you have on your site)
Advanced instructions with video on the membership site
Every section of the plugin has it’s own video to show you exactly what you need to do to set it up for your site.

Now, that’s not me making it all up either. That’s right from one of Andy’s pages, except for the ones highlighted in red which I’ve added to highlight some basic points.

CommentLuv Premium’s Great SEO Benefit

I can just hear all those SEO Gurus shaking their heads in disbelief saying that there is no SEO benefit in leaving comments on blog but we all know better don’t we? I can tell you without any doubt that commenting was the main reason why my Buy Online Lottery Tickets is on page one of Google!

How many of you have been disappointed when the post you most wanted to link to via CommentLuv was no longer available because it had gone beyond the 10 posts you’re allowed to link to? Well, as a premium member that is a thing of the past and it was what initially sold me on the premium plugin.

Once a member thought I saw another really important feature one that went unnoticed until I was playing around with CommentLuv Premiums settings.

The images you see over there on the right shows you what happens when someone hovers over the heart that’s at the very end of the CommentLuv link. The top one is from a comment I left that linked to this blog and the bottom on is from one linking to my Lottery blog. Clicking on them will give you a bigger image.

What you see is that unlike the regular CommentLuv you can now have your very own sales copy promoting your blog complete with links, Notice also that those extra five links that you’ve configured, you know the ones that point to your sales pages or those posts promoting your favourite affiliates, appear at the very bottom. It would be great if those links would appear to the search engines but unfortunately that’s not the case. Still, search engines don’t buy from you, people do and this is a great way to get you or your products out there.

Whatever you do don’t wait to the last minute because there is every chance you will forget and miss out once again. Head on over to the Andy’s CommentLuv page and enter your email address so that Andy can notify you when the CommentLuv Premium is available. Andy being who he is will also be offering those who register their intent a great free report.

See exactly what CommentLuv can do for you by watching Andy’s video and don’t forget to subscribe so that you won’t miss out.