A recent coaching session covered the SEO benefits of installing and using Headspace2. As members of that call will recognize, about 45 minutes was cut from this video. All the wasted time on technical difficulties is gone. Areas where the information was repeated (as in answering questions or covering the same concept on a different part of the call) were removed or spliced together to provide a single explanation.

If you are looking for a bit of help in improving your organic listings in the search engines, then check out this video. Additional concepts covered include the right way to post to your blog, what the search engines are evaluating first, and the one thing every post must have, in order to get found by both the search engines and your visitors.

Resources for items shown in video:

• Headspace2 plugin – home page
• Filezilla FTP Client – home page

(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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If you purchased the Revolution Streamline Theme and got it installed, only to discover your blog doesn’t look like the demo site, you are not alone, especially if you are installing it on an existing blog with lots of posts.

That happened to a friend of mine recently.

Bill reached out for help. Together, we got online with his blog and I stepped him through the entire process and all the little tweaks to make his blog look as good as the demo of Streamline.

Have one of the Revolution themes and need to know how to *get the thumbnails to work* or exactly how the content gallery thingy works, watch this short video.

If you want the Revolution Theme after seeing the video, you can find it here. Studiopress – Premium Wordpress Themes

(4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)

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If you are doing any type of marketing from your blog, I have a cool little trick that will help you *engage* your readers that isn’t quite as obvious as a 250 x 250 *ad* placed in front of them. They don’t see those unless they are specifically looking for a solution.

It’s called a Page Peel effect, and it allows you to place an ad *under* your page. If the reader clicks the little link in the upper right hand corner, it opens the whole ad in a unique and *fun* peel away effect.

This video will show you where to get the code, how to update your theme and install it on your domain. I was able to find, install, edit, upload AND record in the video in under 10 minutes. Don’t believe me? Grab a stop watch and let’s go. Press play on the video bar below.

Resources:

• Get the PageEar code here
  http://www.webpicasso.de/blog/pageear-free-peel-away-ad/

Edits To Your Theme:

• Header File
  
  Location
  header.php file, just above closing </html> tag
  Code:

  <script src="http://www.YourDomain.com/pageear/AC_OETags.js" type="text/javascript"> </script><br /> <script src="http://www.YourDomain.com/pageear/pageear.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>

  Don’t forget to change YourDomain to the name of YOUR domain.

   

• Footer File
  
  Location
  footer.php file, just above closing </body> tag
  Code:

  <script type="text/javascript"> writeObjects(); </script>

  Don’t forget to change yourDomain to YOUR domain name.
  

Want to see any other cool tricks or effects? Leave a comment!



PS: Really, I want to know… what’s the one thing you haven’t done yet, that you want to do to your blog?

(6 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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Converting An Existing Blog To Affiliate Theme

There are a lot of Wordpress Themes out there, but none that could make affiliate marketing easy. Until now.

I recently purchased Affiliate Theme by Unique BlogDesigns to give it a whirl. Before getting the Affiliate Theme, I had to find a Wordpress theme that somewhat matched my *market*, and then make extensive edits and upgrades to make it work. Getting the Affiliate Theme was like getting an *Easy Button* for affiliate marketing.

The real test came when it was time to convert an existing site over the Affiliate Theme. This video shows you exactly what I did and how I did it. It wasn’t painless (because the blog already had a numbers of *posts* or products I was reviewing), but it was easy. Let me show you how.

To see their video on features and what is offered, click the Learn More About Affiliate Theme link here. Oh, and tell them Cenay sent you. They already know my name, I spent some time in the support forums helping folks out that were asking questions about how to set it up.

(5 votes, average: 4.80 out of 5)

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Here’s a trick for tracking those shorty URL’s you create when you are sending Tweet’s out. It is one extra step for you, but well worth it since you can see exactly how many times that shortened URL has been visited.

Want to experiment with different types of Tweet’s pointing to the same URL to see how effective your Tweet’s and calls to action are? It’s all here.

Links Referenced in the video:

• Tr.im URL Shortener With Tracking and Stat’s
• Firefox Add-On for Tr.im

Coming soon: A video on reading and understanding all the stat’s available to you once you collect a little data. How many visitors were human, how many were bots. Where do they live and what browser are they running. It’s really cool stuff.

Not seeing a video you want? Ask me with Request Vid at the top of the page

(7 votes, average: 4.86 out of 5)

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Recent articles on my main blog have focused on the organic traffic you want from the search engines, and how to get it. I hope you have been following along.

Today, I want to show you a shortcut.

I say *show you*, because this little tip is best understood with a video where I can show you click by click and step by step exactly what to do. I reference a couple of sites in the video that will be linked under the video.

Just to recap the basics of SEO and inbound links though, you should understand that Google counts each inbound link to your post or page as a sort of *vote*. A pledge of support or an agreement from your peers (niche partners) that your content is relevant to the topic at hand.

However, a little known fact is that links from your blog also count as votes. Now, all this is just from an SEO standpoint, but there is another benefit to all this internal linking.

More eyeballs.

That’s right. Your visitor finds something he or she likes and clicks to go read the rest. At that point they have demonstrated their willingness to *consume* your content. Great!

Now give them more.

This video will show you two additional techniques to keep their interest, deliver exactly what they want, and get a little search engine love in the process.

It’s a win-win.

Links Referenced

• To sign up and get the Zemanta Wordpress Plugin or Firefox Browser addon, visit Zemanta here.
• To read more from Carol Hansen, check out her blog FromMyKitchenTable.com here.

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• Enhance your emails and blog posts with Zemanta (read2know.com)

(9 votes, average: 4.89 out of 5)

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