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Time Is Running Out On CommentLuv Premium

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 at 2:03 pm

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Yes, there’s only hours left if you’re looking at taking advantage of Andy’s phenomenal deal on ComentLuv Premium. Hang On A Sec, WHAT’S That?

News Flash!

As a valued CommentLuv affiliate I have just been informed that Andy is going to extend the sale for another 36 hours! So you still have time to take advantage of those great sales. Personally I feel that $40 for this plugin is way too low, and believe me once the sale is finished you will never see that price again, but Andy being the generous bloke that he is has thrown in some excellent freebies to sweeten the deal.

Free Bonus Downloads With Commentluv Premium

Free eBook: You get an awesome ebook with 5 amazing comment getting articles written by well respected bloggers. The eBook deals with important topics such as how to strengthen your article marketing and 5 powerful tactics to getting more comments.
Microsoft Word Templates: You get a pack of Microsoft Word templates to allow you to create your own awesome looking ebooks that you can use as ethical bribes to encourage people to opt in to your lists.
Bonus Plugin #1: The Dashboard Luvvers Widget (premium) will show recent comments made on your site along with how many comments they have made, a link to that comment authors recent post, their avatar, their comment and you get links to see all their comments and if it’s had a reply or not! You can find all comments made by that user which is a great tool for determining whether or not the user is a spammer or not.
Bonus Plugin #2: The WP Mail Ads plugin was previously sold for $27 and did fantastically well. You can use it to add your own message on the end of every email that your WordPress blog sends out. This is truly a great marketing tool and even has a graphical stats page.

You see, there are even more reasons for not missing out on Andy’s great offer. You all know how great the old plugin was and how that had more benefit for the commentator than it did for the blogger. Well CommentLuv Premium also looks after the blogger and does it very well. If like me you own more than one blog then you can’t5 afford to not buy this plugin now as doing so gives you an unlimited license allowing you to install it on all your blogs. Miss out and you will have to purchase a separate plugin for each blog which would cost you hundreds of dollars. Not to mention you will be missing out on all the freebies.

Joining now makes you an instant affiliate allowing you to offer it to your list and readers. You could easily make your money back as long as you don’t leave it too long.

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CommentLuv Premium Adding To Revenue Stream

Friday, September 16th, 2011 at 3:36 pm

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In my last post I told everyone how you have to be prepared to Be Prepared To Spend Money To Make Money. Most of you would agree that the best way to make money pushing any particular affiliate is if you actually own or have tried the product. This is because people are more likely to believe what you have to say if they see you suing the product. There is no point me trying to sell a MacBook Air to someone if they see me using a PC! If on the other hand they see me using a MacBook Air and I can demonstrate to them all the features it has they are more likely to buy one from me.

The products that I actively promote on this blog are products that I use, such as my theme, Market Samurai as well as other products. The fact that people actually see me using the products that I recommend is their greatest selling point. That is one of the reasons that I have decided to purchase CommentLuv Premium. I don’t think that anyone would argue with me when I say that commentluv is one of the best WordPress plugins out there. Yet as good as it is Andy has added many features that make this a plugin people would be willing to purchase, and as owners the ability to promote it to other bloggers.

What Makes CommentLuv Premium So Great

That’s right, CommentLuv Premium is great and I believe adding it to your plugin arsenal will lead to sales because people will want the features it has to offer. Things like;

It has 5 plugins in one: These include KeyWord Name, Andy’s version of KeyWord Luv, Twitter Link, Gasp, DoFollow and of course, commentluv Read the rest of this entry

A New Milestone As My Mail List Hits 50

Saturday, September 3rd, 2011 at 1:21 pm

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I’m not all that big on doing milestones, although I have done one or two in the past, but I thought this particular one deserves a post. I started my list way back in December last year when I wrote a post called Why The List Hater Has His Very Own List. Since that time my list has grown to a whopping 50 members! Yeah, yeah, I know that is a piddling amount and you know I don’t really care because I know that at least my subscribers are a dedicated bunch who have joined because they are interested in what I have to say.

I’ve done a few posts about my list since then including Why I Chose MailChimp Over Aweber which is really a review about MailChimp, one that has brought quite a bit of traffic to this blog. I can safely say that to date I am more than satisfied with their services and I have no intention to change.

Why I Am Happy With List Numbers

If you’re a regular reader of this blog you know that I’ve never really supported having a list, the reasons being that most people abuse their list by continually trying to sell them something. I vowed when starting my list to never do that to my subscribers. I think when looking at my low list numbers you really need to compare the way I promote my list to the way others do it.

List Building Techniques

Their Methods

The use of annoying popups!
Give away freebies to get them to join. A lot of the time they turn out to be less than useless

My Methods

I don’t use these on any of my blogs
Nope, don’t do that either although I do reward those you do by giving them some linkluv.

Those are the two main ways that others get people to subscribe to their list and apparently they work quite well but I personally dislike them and so I will not be using them on my readers.

Until recently my numbers were even lower and in fact I was even getting one or two who were unsubscribing which resulted in the post Why People Unsubscribe From Your List! Since them my numbers have been increasing slightly faster but it wasn’t because of that post.

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Making Money With Amazon Is It Possible?

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 at 3:37 pm

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Over time I have proven to myself that there are many ways to make money online. I started my online money making career by doing surveys online and created my first website to offer for free those survey sites which were proven to work. I designed The Elusive Pot Of Gold without any experience in web design so you can all stop laughing :lol_ee: After a while I expanded it offering other services and even tried other ways of monetizing it.

It was in an attempt to improve the SEO of that site that I got into blogging and now blogging has overtaken my online life as I hardly ever update my Elusive Pot Of Gold site. It’s also through blogging that I have shared many of the ways that I make money online, but out of all my online money making efforts the one site that I haven’t been able to crack is Amazon.com. Sure, I’ve made some small sales, mainly on my Top Sexual Aids site, but nowhere near enough to reach my payout level. That being the case I thought I would try using a WordPress plugin to see if I could increase my Amazon revenue. As usual I went for the free version because I know most of my readers would prefer to go that route. The plugin I settled for is WordPress Amazon Associate because it fulfilled the three things I expected from it.

Three Important Criteria For An Amazon Plugin

It was free
It was easy to use
It had Geo localisation capabilities. By that I mean that it doesn’t matter if the buyer was from America, England or Even Germany, as long as they bought the product from my site I would get the commission

WordPress Amazon Associate fulfilled all those requirements

WordPress Amazon Associate

Just so you know you can download this plugin from within your dashboard. Once you’ve activated there are a few things you need to do so as to utilise all of the plugins features.

First you need to start an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Account. You sign in by selecting the I am a returning user and my password is option.
Once in you click on the Security Credentials link on the left and when that page opens you click on the Access Credentials link which scrolls down some so that you can access your access key and secret access key. You will need that information for the plugin so that you can validate the credentials. Once validated the warning message disappears from the top of the page.
Once you have that out of the way you need to join the relevant Amazon country sites so that you will be paid when visitors from that country buy any of the products you are offering. Once you’ve joined you enter the associate tag into their relevant spot.

Getting Amazon Products Is Easy

Once you have the plugin up and running all that remains is using it to implement Amazon products into your posts or pages and I’m happy to say this is extremely easy to do. I’m sure that the main reason a lot of people fail to post Amazon products into their posts is because it is all too hard, logging into Amazon, searching for a product and then copying the code, and so they don’t bother. I know there are a lot of times when I didn’t bother because it was such a pain. Now it’s a piece of cake. If I want to paste a link to a mobile phone I simply do a search for mobile phones and then select whether I wanted the product to appear as;

Amazon Affiliate Link

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Amazon Affiliate Image

Amazon Enhanced Link

Then again I may want to include one of the many available widgets like my personal favourite, the carousel.

All in all this plugin makes it extremely easy to place Amazon products into your posts and pages and also lets you select from several widgets to place into your sidebars. Perhaps now making money with Amazon will be more than just a pipe dream, especially now that I’ve increased my customer base form one country to several.

Five Best WordPress Plugins For Affiliate Marketers

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 at 6:32 pm

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As a blogger I’m a bit of a plugin hog and I firmly believe that it’s the huge suppository of available plugins that make WordPress the huge success that it is. Don’t get me wrong, even without the plugins WordPress is the best blogging platform out there but adding plugins to the equation just makes it do so much more. There are plugins that deal with spam and there are plugins that make WordPress blogs more efficient. There are plugins that reward your readers, like commentluv and do follow, and there are plugins that help you with your quest to make an online income.

Which brings me to this post where I plan on showing you what I believe to the 5 best free wordPress plugins for the affiliate marketer, or indeed any blogger that wants to boost their online income.

5 Essential Affiliate WordPress Plugins

Affiliate Link Cloaker: Developed by Joe Brewer I believe the Affiliate Link Cloaker to be an essential part of your affiliate plugin arsenal. This plugin does more than just cloak your links, it also makes them appear more professional as well as being ‘geo’ aware. This means it will send American who clicked on your Amazon link to the American Amazon site and any English person who clicked on a link to the English Amazon site. There are also several other unique qualities like making the links nofollow as well as setting up keywords so the links are placed automatically in posts when those keywords are found.
Fast Secure Contact Form: If you want to become successful you have to make yourself available to anyone who’s looking for added information, information that could well lead to a sale. Mike Challis’ Fast Secure Contact form is a perfect tool for making you available to your prospects.
Max Banner Ads: I wrote a post about Max Banner Ads where I talked about it’s ability to rotate ads so as to help prevent ad blindness. A great utility for incorporating your affiliate banners.
SEO Smart Links: Developed by Vladmir Prelovac SEO Smart Links allows you to turn words selected by you into affiliate links. You control whether you want them to appear just in your post or in your comments as well. Turns those words into links in all your posts including past ones.
MediaPass Subscription Plugin: Perhaps not one for affiliate marketers per se but definitely one that can used to add to your online income. When I originally told you about MediaPass it involved installing a code on your blog but now they have developed their own WordPress plugin. For the plugin to work you need to be a member but that’s not a problem because its free to join.

Well, there you go, now you have another 5 plugins to check out to see whether or not they will suit your blogging needs. But don’t go away just yet because there is more for you to do before you continue on your blog hopping way.

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