Content Ready Website released

October 19, 2009

This is a quick post to let you know that I have released my first product:
Your Content Ready Website. It has everything included you need to get your profitable web presence underway. This includes but is not limited to:

Website Research Guide and website research worksheet
This to clearly identify your commercial opportunity and is the basis [...]

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Excluding Certain Pages from your Page Widget

October 16, 2009

There are two ares from which you might want to exclude certain pages from being listed. Page Widget and Tabs on you site.
Excluding pages from Widgets
The pages widget (wp-admin > Appearance > widgets) allows you to list all pages of your wordpress website and it also makes provision on excluding certain pages by inserting their [...]

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WordPress Contact and custom forms

October 15, 2009

One important issue of any website is that people can get in touch with you. By the way have you realised that the larger the company the more difficult it is to get in contact with them?
Anyhow for us as internet maketers it is very important that people interact with us! Hence why we allow [...]

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How to setup “Buy Now” using PayPal for single item in WordPress

October 14, 2009

If you are only selling individual electronic products and you are using only PayPal as your payment processor then here is a very quick an easy way to get going.

Create a Premier or Business account with PayPal
this will open in a new window, so complete that and come back here.
Link your PayPal account to your [...]

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What FTP program?

October 12, 2009

My favorite FTP program is FireFTP.
Out of these reasons:

It integrates into FireFox, the best browser you can use for internet marketing,
it’s really easy to use and
it’s opensource (free)

See my resources page here to find a link to it
To install:
FireFox > Tools >Add-ons > Get Add-ons > type fire FTP in the search box, look for [...]

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Are you spending time wating while your video is downloading

October 8, 2009

I’m on sattelite and my connection is sometimes sluggish. When watching educational videos I often spend as much time watching as waiting for the next part to download. Silly me! Today while I was at our little computer shop in town James said “I always hit the pause button and wait for it to down [...]

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I’m now a Rotarian!

October 5, 2009

I’m proud to annouche that on the 21st September 2009 I was officially inducted as a member of The Rotary Club of Dungog, NSW, Australia. As an rotarian we are guided by these principles, that we call the 4 way test of the things we think, say or do:

Is it the truth?
Is it fair to [...]

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How to move your WordPress blog to a new domain in 5 steps

October 4, 2009

This post is an update to an earlier one on the same subject. After having moved a few wordpress blogs I think this one is easier to follow.
Please note that all instructions here are assuming that you have cpanel access to your server and that its a fresh installation (read all files on your server [...]

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Warning: Is your WordPress Blog being indexed by Google?

October 2, 2009

I can not believe what I discovered today. This reminds my of James Schramko’s saying: “It’s all BS until you test!”.
I did a broken link test on my site today and for all pages I get a result that the link could not be checked because of an exclusion in robots.txt. This is a major [...]

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How to redirect to an easier URL

October 1, 2009

This week I’ve done a big mailout of about 2000 letters to a ceratain customer group. As part of this mailing I’m offering a free sample and I have included simple link in my letter: http://my-domain.com/sample however the real link to get the free sample is: http://my-domain.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=261&products_id=949.
Ok here’s ho to do it (as an example [...]

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