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My Lucky Escape With BlogPressSEO WordPress Plugin

How to make money on the internet I have had a lucky escape with the BlogPressSEO WordPress Plugin. I have just found out it was malware! I had it installed on 3 blogs too.

I installed this plugin about a year ago. I can’t remember exactly how I came by it but I must have been convinced that it was going to help my blogs with SEO. There was a free version and a paid version but I had the free version.

Just recently I started having some problems with the text captcha plugin on this blog and I also noticed that I was getting this error text at the bottom of my blog posts.

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Checking Out My Squeeze Page Funnel For Success

This morning I thought I would check through my free report and squeeze page funnel just to make sure it is up to date and in working order before I buy a solo ad to really test it out.

I have lost count of the number of times I have been through a squeeze page funnel only to find that some of the ads I clicked on the download page did not go anywhere. Often the links in the free report do not work either. This creates a bad impression.

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I Am Getting Mobile

I have just spent the last 3 weeks on holiday in Spain, soaking up the fantastic hot sunny weather. It was a bit of a shock arriving back to this cold weather here I can tell you. While I was there I noticed an article in one of the free English newspapers about how to make a website mobile friendly.

It seems that nearly everyone except me has a smart phone these days so I had not thought about this before. Although it’s possible to view a website on a mobile device space is short and not everything that you would normally see on your laptop or PC will fit on the mobile screen easily.

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Flirting With Danger With Single Opt-Ins!

I’ve always used double opt-in for my lists before but have decided to give single opt-in a try. When I first started in internet marketing with my health niche several years ago everyone was saying it was best to use double-opt-in. I signed up with Aweber’s auto-responder service for my list management and they seemed to be insisting on it.

If you don’t know what I am talking about I’ll explain.

When you are building an email marketing list it’s usual to give something away ( lead magnet) on a squeeze page in exchange for people’s email addresses. When a visitor enters his name and email address in the form he “opts-in” to receive your gift and further email messages from you.

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Creating My Free Training Page

One tip I learned from Marc about another way of getting subscribers to opt-in to my list was to create a “Free Training” page on my blog. The idea is to use it as another way to get people to my squeeze page for my free report lead magnet.

To do this I had to create a new page by going into Pages in my WordPress dashboard and creating a page with the title Free Training. This should have added another tab to the navigation bar at the top of my blog but it didn’t!

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Creating My Lead Magnet

Module 4 of Marc Milburn’s coaching course is all about building a list of subscribers. The first modules were about setting up our blogs which serve as half of our business hubs. Our subscriber lists will form the other half.

A lead magnet is something free that you offer as an incentive for people to subscribe to your email list. You have probably already downloaded a ton of free reports that you got this way and are now sitting on your hard drive. I know I have.

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Am I Writing for Readers or Search Engines?

The question I asked on Marc’s Q & A Webinar last week was “Should I have keywords in my blog post titles? ”

After going through Module 2 videos of the coaching course about setting up a blog I realized that he had not said anything about keyword research or using keywords in blog posts or post titles.

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All the things I have ever read about blogging say that you should spend some time researching keywords in your niche before setting up a blog and then work them into your blog titles and posts.

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