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Hi guys,

this is just a quick post to tell you about a new free plugin I’ve just had an e-mail about.  It’s called the Authority Squeeze Generator plugin and it is to promote a new product by Alex Goad and Bryan McConnahea.

I haven’t really had a look at the product that is being sold, however the plugin looks great.

A lot of these Guru guys are offering free  software as an appetizer for their package, and a lot of it is pretty good (if you wanted to show how good your product was, would you give away something crap as a loss leader?)

Anyway, here is the bumph off their page, and you will have to opt-in to get the free squeeze page generator.

• * Click and choose from our highest converting landing page templates all pre-tested and Read the rest of this entry »

Free Social Bookmarking Tool

We know how useful social bookmarking can be, for instance when you have just created a new post, there is very little that will get Google to sit up and take notice as quickly as firing off the URL to half a dozen social bookmarking sites.

However, we also know how time consuming and tedious social bookmarking can be. Even using a free social bookmarking tool like ‘Share This’, the time spent logging into all those bookmarking websites is time that could be better spent writing a new post, creating a new product or building a new website.

So when something new comes along, which claims to take away all the tedium of bookmarking, and do it automatically. Then that Read the rest of this entry »

Special Discount Coupon – phpBay Pro and phpZon Pro

If you haven’t already got this years Christmas sites up and running, don’t worry.  There is still time to build them and cash in on those Christmas 2010 niches.

I had an e-mail from Wade Wells, the creator of phpBay pro and phpZon pro, reminding me that because of Google’s quirky algorithm, for the first four to six weeks of a site it is likely to receive a significant boost in it’s rankings before settling into it’s natural position.

So it follows that if you create some new sites six weeks before say, the week before Christmas, then those sites will benefit from a Google assisted boost in sales.

To help you build these sites Wade has offered a special 20% discount coupon on both phpBay pro and phpZon pro.  To use this discount coupon enter this Read the rest of this entry »

WordPress 3.2 and your host

WordPress is due to be updated to WordPress 3.2 very shortly, which in itself isn’t major news, after all we seem to update at least once a month.  However this release is very different because it will drop all support for PHP 4.  If your host isn’t running at least PHP 5.2 then you can expect some massive issues with your sites.

You will need to check if your server is running version 5.2 of PHP at a minimum before updating your sites to WordPress 3.2.

Luckily, I have found a tool which enables you to quickly and easily check which version your hosting company has installed.

http://php5ready.ithemes.com/

To use the script just enter your full site address and hit the tick button. The script will tell you which version of PHP your host has installed and if they need to update it or not.

Before you update your sites to WordPress 3.2 make sure that you check all of your hosting accounts.

Note:  I have checked and Hostgator is running PHP version 5.2.14 on my server, which doesn’t need upgrading when WordPress 3.2 is released.

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It really upsets me when I download a WordPress theme and find that the footer is encoded in Base 64.  For one, I don’t know what that code is doing to my machine, and two, I like to edit my footers and insert an affiliate link to whichever host that particular site lives on.

I have no problem at all with leaving credit and a backlink to the developer, after all that is the reason they have developed the theme.  But I object massively to having the footer taken away from me.

Now, as I see it, there are three options when we find a theme with a footer encoded with Base 64;

1. Just put up with it.  Live with the inconvenience (and possible keyloggers/virus/phishing devices) and use the theme anyway.
2. Delete the theme.  If everyone boycots Base 64 encoded wordpress themes then the authors would looses interest in writing them pretty quickly.
3. Decode the footer and edit it.  Ok, I know that this sounds a bit scary if your not used to playing about with code.  But there are some great tools knocking about which can help you.

One of my favourites is Read the rest of this entry »

Hi Guys,

it’s gone a bit quiet on the test blog this week. There were a couple of minor changes with one of the programs adding one or two extra backlinks.

I have also added another tool to the mix.

I have been a subscriber to Traffic-Bug since the early days, stumbling across it during the 2009 Thirty Day Challenge.

But, because of the other tools I was using, such as Bookmarking Demon 5 etc, I sort of lost interest in it.

But the subscription was still there so I decided to see how it performs.   I know that as an indexing tool it is excellent, but I’ve never tested to quality or quantity of the backlinks it produces.

I have added two pages to the test blog, one to test the traffic-bug submitter and the other to test the RSS submitter side of the program and have set the program onto aggressive, which essentially means that it will drop lots of backlinks in a short space of time.

Anyway, let’s have a look at the figures from last week. Read the rest of this entry »