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I just read an article on Problogger about a fellows bad experience moving from Movable Type to Wordpress. The problem was not the data move but the names of the posts.

Last fall I moved nearly all of my blogs from Movable Type to Wordpress and it did go fairly smoothly although I did have a bit of a problem and have some ideas on making the process easier. Here are the steps.

Create a new folder for your new blog and create the wordpress blog

In this step you will just be going and creating the title of the blog and the permalink structure that you have on the old blog. Thei mportance of this is that when people go from the old location to the new location you do not want anything to break. Google is not very smart for finding your new post names when you break the permalink structure.

The other thing that may happen is that you may be moving a blog from one domain name to another, in this case you will be doing a 301 redirect so that people and search engines and incoming links can still find your content even with a new name of your domain. I did exactly this with three of my blogs. Read the rest of this entry �

There have been lots of articles I think written about what we as internet marketers should be doing every day to build a business.

First of all you have to look at what your goal for the day is. do you want to create new income streams or do you want to enhance the reach of your current sites and income streams.

I think that your most important daily priority or one of them at least is to do product reviews.

Product Reviews

A product review is not much different then a blog post, I actually create my product review as a kind of blog post. At the minumum you would be able to post and say

“This product is great, go buy it”

Well that is not good enough in almost any case there is in fact a few steps in the affiliate review process. Here are the steps.

Find a problem

Let the reader relate to your vies

Get the reader to see your solution

Explain your solution

promote and link over to your solution

I just received an email from the guys at Wealthy Affiliate that they are ofering a new feature and it is called Rapid Writer. Here is what they said in the email:

RapidWriter is one of our newest Systems to be released within the Wealthy Affiliate University. This program is an Internet marketers DREAM tool that allows you to pump out super highly optimized content for your Articles and Websites. Anyone that gets FREE traffic from Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other large search engines knows that creating highly optimized, targeted, and unique content is a MUST. RapidWriter is an elaborate (and easy to use) system that generates supercharged Search Engine optimized content!

Creating and managing your website and article content is very important, and RapidWriter handles this with ease. We store all of your content and articles for you within our system so that you can work on them from anywhere with an Internet connection. Whether you’re on your lunch break at work, or working from your home office, you have full access, all the time.

These guys are always coming out with new features and I really do beleive that Kyle, Carson and crew really want to help people. Read the rest of this entry �

I use Google Analytics and so today I am looking at some of my worst performing pages, you know some of your pages will get 100 or more visits a day but other pages get 0 or maybe 1 pageview a week.

I set up my Google Analytics view so that I could see the number of pageviews over the last week and then scrolled way down to the bottom and for all the posts that had one view (some of them anyway) I went into my Wordpress editor and looked at the post.

These are the questions that I asked.

What is the page about?

What are the keywords that this post should have?

Is there any post structure?

Is the topic interesting?

What can I add in content to fill out the idea that the post is about?

Can I add subheadings to the post itself

Page Analysis and Fixing

I would quickly analyze and then fix the page and save. Each page probably took about 5 minutes or so because the structure in the first place was already there. In some cases I did do a lot of rewriting of the content.

In one case I actually liked the new content enough that I changed the date of the post and made it my new post for the day…nice having content that goes back a couple or three years, most of my visitors had not seen this content ever.

Busy couple of weeks so far fixing my blogs and optimizing. I have also been posting up a storm over the last couple of days but still have not been adding many affiliate links like I should be.

This week, More Review Pages!

I posted this as a comment on another blog but realized that it was in depth enough to put on my own blog as infomration that we can all use.

I use clickbank for a few of my products and the way that I use it often is by cloaking the link to clickbank within my review and then when people go to the site they will be going though my referral link. This way I should lose fewer sales by people just getting rid of my Clickbank hop link code.

I have a few bonuses that I offer when people buy a clickbank product through my review page. I will have about 10-15% of the people that buy through my review and up asking for these bonuses but I have had three or so requests over the last three months that did not end up buying through my link. I have three things to think about this. Read the rest of this entry �

Wordpress has released an urgent upgrade with 70 bug fixes and one very important security fix.

Go to the Wordpress site to get the details.

Here is the long list of fixes from the fix page:

!important rule not applied correctly in wp-admin.css
Editing only the minute field of a published post then saving won’t change the published time
wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php very slow
Don’t show a check box for deleting the default link category
Dashboard widget options can get corrupted
get_posts() needs a default argument
Links widget has duplicate ID issue mdawaffe
Some attached files with non-ASCII names are unlinkable
faultString in xmlrpc responses is not properly escaped
Widget titles can be repetitive
wp_handle_upload does not appear to handle file move errors correctly
Deleting comment results in error
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Today I received this lovely mousepad in the mail, and I mean our mailbox here not email, from Ezine Articles. I write a lot of articles and post them on ezinearticles.com and a couple of weeks ago I got an email from them asking for my home mailing address. I sent it to them and they sent me this.

I haven’t used a mousepad in a long time but I guess I will start using this starting today. It is a great motivator to remind me what is important and that is to get my products and sites names out there on a regular basis.

Well yesterday I finished off a weekend long process of optimizing the SEO on my Wordpress blogs.

First of all, this weekend I only worried about on page optimizing as I have less control over off page optimizing although i am always looking for more links to my good pages.

So yesterday afternoon and last night I looked at every one of my review pages and optimized a few things

Page Title - Wordpress has two ways that it makes a page title, the post slug, which is the name of the URL, the .html of the page and the page title itself. If you change the URL then all of your links into your page will be broken - not good. I did however optimize the page titles to include only or almost only the keywords that I wanted to optimize for.

Header tags - I have all of my post use the page title as a <H1> tag. I also tried to break up text to use the <H2> and in some cases <H3> tags. This makes the page more readable and better for the visitor as well as telling search engines what is important about your pages.

Keyword density - I know that this is a tough one. I found that i was not using the keywords that I was optimizing for on each of my review pages, sometimes not at all. I added some keyword density to all of the pages.

Cleaning up reviews - Some of the reviews were a little messy and I tried to make them cleaner and flow better. Optimizing for the end user not the search engines in this case

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I have been recieving emails from Joel Comm for a year or two. The newsletter is daily and it is called Joel’s Tips, and a few days ago I found from hiw daily newsletter that he was selling his new Adsense Secrets book for only $9.97. The price is great because he has previously sold copies of the ebook for $97.

On Saturday I read that Joel had some kind of negative billing option where when you bought the book for 9.97 you would automatically be enrolled in a newsletter for $29.97per month. I haven’t seen this tactic hidden before although I have seen big name gurus try to stick it to guys by saying

“Buy my $2000 DVD training program and you will automatically be enrolled in my membership site” but they forget to tell you that it is an additional 29 or 99 bucks a month.

In this case Joel his the info in the giant salesletter and no one realized they were signing up for it.

This has been apparently changed now but i have seen nothing in his newsletter telling me that he had this problem or the change…

Now today in the newsletter Joel Comm says that you can download for free the latest Ewen Chia ebook on working from home. He just forgets to point out that the book is 9.97 and it is free if you ask for a refund within 60 days. This is not free at all.

I would love to see if Joel is going to be changing his tactics back to something that is a little more authentic and less devious but I will not get the opportunity to find out.

I have unsubscribed from the Joel’s Tips newsletter.

I spent a few hours last night making sure that all of my Wordpress blogs were optimized, SEO was good and that the blogs were in fact running correctly. I went through a lot of steps but I have a bunch of blogs, some running Wordpress 2.3 and some running Wordpress 2.5 and did all of the optimizing for SEO at the same time.

Here are the steps that I took on each of the blogs

1. Getting rid of extra Wordpress plugins - I got rid of all of the extra SEO plugins knowing that I was going to be using the All in one SEO Pack. I had a bunch of other meta tag stuff and URL rewriting stuff but I just wanted to standardize. Another plugin that I upgraded on all blogs was the Sociable plugin that puts little “Share this on social networking sites” buttons under each post. Read the rest of this entry �