Wordpress Blog Pinging Itself

I had a annoyance where my wordpress blog would ping itself whenever I made a new post that linked back to another post. Some bloggers like this feature, but I don’t since it clutters up my comments.

I simply downloaded a little plugin to prevent this from happening.

You can learn about it here:

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Sean Grimes

Crash Course On Using Google Adwords

It’s a known fact that the best leads you can receive for your MLM business are those that actually hunt for what information, service or product you provide. Since most people don’t know about SEO(search engine optimization), many people simply use Pay Per Click advertising with popular search engines such as Google. Using Pay Per Click advertising is very effective because your prospects actually search for what you provide besides simply clicking on a link within a spammy email. Pay Per Click is an awesome way to expose your business, but there are a few things you must know before diving into popular services such as Google Adwords.

You must first know who your target market is before setting up any Google Adwords campaigns. You also need to know who your competition is as well. Once you know these things, you also need to know how to create effective ads that people will click on. You also need to make sure that your landing page is relevant to your ad. Your landing page should be a squeeze page or lead capture page. This way, you can be sure to follow up with any of your leads.

One of the most important things you need to learn before diving into Adwords is how to put yourself in the mind of a potential prospect that may be searching for what you are providing. What will trigger their emotion to click your ad and what landing page will increase your chances of generating a new lead. You also need to know how to effectively organize your Adwords campaigns and adgroups. Another big mistake that MOST people make with Adwords is that they’ll set up a campaign with adgroups is to target every money making keyword in the book. These people will end up racking up a huge Adwords bill and unfortunately, may end up quitting Adwords as well. The difference between successful Adwords users and newbies is that successful marketers will take the time to fine tune their campaigns. Successful marketers constantly monitor their campaigns making sure they make significantly adjustments to keep their ROI as high as possible.

Only a small percentage of people can get started with Adwords and make real progress without any training. Unfortunately, if you’re like me, you’ll have to get proper training that shows you the ins and outs to Adwords.

If you’re playing around with Google now, please let me give you a bit of advice. You can make a lot of money with Adwords and you can loose a lot as well. You can make really small changes that will increase your profits and you can make small changes that will kill your campaign as well. You also can get really high Click Through Rates(which is what you want), but you can also annoy your prospect with a landing page that is not related to what your prospect is looking for, or you could have a relevant landing page that allows you to rake up huge profits. That’s basically all you need to know about Adwords.

There are many training courses available online. Many people choose Google Adwords expert Perry Marshall. Perry Marshall’s course is perfect for most marketers who want to use Adwords, but is not geared toward one industry such as business opportunities. He’ll show you the ins and outs of using Adwords and how to set up campaigns. If you’re involved with MLM or Affiliate marketing, there is another course that I highly recommend because it’s geared towards the business opportunities industry. You can get that course Here.

In order to make money like the big gurus, you have to know that they know. To know what they know, you must get the proper training. Many people try to do things on their own and end up failing.

Don’t be one of those people. The knowledge is out there. You just have to go and get it.

Take care.

Sean Grimes
2DP Marketing System Creator

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Taketheinternetback.com, An Honest Review!

Be sure to read this entire post to the end since many great changes are being made to Takethinternetback.com

Hopefully, this post will find MANY people who use Taketheinternetback.com as an advertising source. I’d really like to get as much feedback as possible on this. My intention of this post isn’t to make Taketheinternetback out as some type of a scam. They are far from that. What I’d like to do is state my results with them and then get some feedback from you.

I’ve been advertising with Taketheinternetback for some time now. Since about the middle of the year(2008), they were my secret weapon. Their advertising used to bring me HUGE results. When I say huge, I mean HUGE. I used to bring in anywhere from $3000-$4000 a month in real profits from their advertising alone. I could simply create a lead capture page, send out a paid advertisement and watch the sales come in. Really, it was that simple. In some instances, I didn’t even have to create a lead capture page.

What’s bothering me now is the quality leads that I’m receiving from Taktheinternetback’s advertising. I’ve been getting MANY leads from people who live in different countries and in most cases, these people can’t even read or speak English. This is very confusing to me. How can a person who can’t even read English fill out a form that is written in English? I’ve checked my leads list and come to find that probably 95% of the ones who’ve come in through Taketheinternetback are from countries like China and many other foreign countries. What’s even more disturbing is the fact that some of these people try to email me. When they do, I always get emails that are written in Chinese or some other language I can’t understand. Since most of these people seem to be Chinese, I can understand why my sales have went down. Think about it. If you’re Chinese, what will you do if a person is sending you emails that are written in English and you’re used to getting emails that are in Chinese? My guess is that you’re either going to not read the message or probably just delete them. How do I know? Because I now get emails that are written in Chinese all the time. I just delete them when I receive them. It kind of weird. Some of the leads have names like 刘 I know it looks weird, but I’ve checked it out and that actually represents some type of foreign character or name.

Because of this, I now use double opt in with my auto responder system. My results have went down some, but I now get more quality leads.

I contacted Taketheinternetback about this and they told me that this was due to the fact that I was not using their targeted advertising option. I though that was strange because I had always used their untargeted packages and always got REALLY good results. I noticed a huge change when they changed their system around earlier this year(2008). I decided to try Taketheinternetback’s targeted ad options on United States and Canada. I did get some quality leads, but I still seem to be getting a large amount of foreign leads coming in. I have nothing against leads from foreign countries. I just have a hard time dealing with leads who can’t even read what I’m sending to them.

If you want to use TIB, I recommend that you advertise a lead capture page that is linked to an auto-responder system using a double opt in method. You’ll also want to use TIB’s targeted advertising packages.

I’d like to get some feedback on this. I’m sure I’m not alone on this issue.

Are you happy with Taketheinternetback’s advertising?

Post your comments here.

UPDATE!! 6-12-2009

I just got some fantastic news. Come to find out, Taketheinternetback.com was under new management from the beginning of 2008 up til right about now. That time period is when I noticed a huge decrease in my ad response. I was contacted by one of the old TIB admins today, Jashmuna Sabine who was always very helpful back in 2007. She sent me a really kind note and let me know that they are going back to the old system that worked REALLY well. This is like great new to me since I used to love advertising with them.

Anyway,t he future looks very bright now for everyone affiliated with TIB.

Sean Grimes
2DP Marketing System Creator

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How To: Separate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks

At this time, I’m just beginning to understand the power of blogging, but I’m very new to customizing my wordpress blog templates. I searched and searched for a way to get my pingbacks and trackbacks separated from my comments section. To learn more about pingbacks and trackbacks, you may want to read This Post Here.

Anyway, I found an article that would be really useful for anyone wanting to separate pingbacks and trackbacks from their comments on their blog.

To learn more, please visit:
This Site Here

If you trying to build an online network and haven’t started blogging yet, what are you waiting for? It’s probably one of the easiest ways to get real visitors to your website who’re actually looking for the information you have on your blog.

Please send a comment if you want to learn more.

Sean Grimes
2DP System Creator

Using Trackback and Linkbacks: Blogging Tips

Using trackbacks and pingbacks are an excellent way to build links and traffic to your blog, as well as building relationships with other bloggers.

This feature has been around for quite some time, but many people still may not know too much about it. I’ll briefly discuss using pingbacks. If you find a blog with useful information and then go to your blog and make a post linking to the blog which helped you, your comment will automatically placed on the website with a link pointing back to your site. It’s a really neat concept, but has been abused by many.

To learn more, please visit the site below:
http://www.optiniche.com/blog/117/wordpress-trackback-tutorial/

http://www.turkhitbox.com/wordpress-seo/dofollow-trackbacks-plugin.html

Hope this has been helpful.

Sean Grimes