How to check where your site ranks with WebCEO

November 19, 2010

Where we rank in the search engines is definitely something we all want to know when we start a new site, right? You could go to Google, type in your keyword, and then start going through page by page to find out where you are, but that would be ridiculously time-consuming, especially if you’re on [...]

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Affiliate marketing case study: Pat, week 9

November 17, 2010

Pat’s report: Hi everyone! Wow, Laura did a fantastic job critiquing my site last week. I learned so much. The greatest gift that Laura gave me was to tell me what wasn’t quite right on the site, but leaving it up to me to go in and fix it. If she had made the corrections [...]

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An affiliate marketer’s home office

November 16, 2010

Recently, Nicole Dean of nicoleonthenet.com published a short video showing her home office setup, and the commenters have been posting theirs too, so I jumped on the bandwagon. It was kind of fun to make. I tried to look at it through objective eyes, but it’s hard. Interesting how people’s personalities come through in their [...]

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Student question: How can I make a “back to top” link?

November 15, 2010

————————————————————— Now playing: Stand Tall by Burton Cummings ————————————————————— Some of the posts on my site are really long.  Is there a way to put a link at the end of a post to go back to the top of the page? Yes, there is. In fact, there are some WordPress plugins for that. Two [...]

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Student question: Why should I use WordPress?

November 12, 2010

—————————————————————– Now playing: Back to December by Taylor Swift —————————————————————- Why do we use WordPress in the Affiliate Marketing Schoolbook as opposed to making a “regular” web site for affiliate marketing? Most hosts offer a free web site builder. Couldn’t we put ads and link in a regular site? You certainly can use a “regular” [...]

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Affiliate marketing case study: Week 8 critique

November 10, 2010

Pat contacted me earlier this week and asked what she should write about for her weekly report because she feels she’s at a standstill. She has completed most of the Affiliate Marketing Schoolbook so she may only have a report or two left anyway, but after discussing it, I decided to have her skip a [...]

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How to add a photo and text to a widget

November 8, 2010

————————————————————————————– Now playing: (Our Love) Don’t Throw It All Away by Andy Gibb ————————————————————————————– WordPress widgets are easy to use and can do some cool things for your sidebars. But one of the basic tasks you’ll use widgets for is just to put a photo with some text next to or under it. Let’s talk [...]

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Affiliate marketing case study: Pat, week 7

November 3, 2010

Pat’s report: Hi everyone, I hope you have had a great week. My week has been busy, as usual. I have been doing a lot of behind the scenes work on my web site. I added another couple of posts and pages. There is just so much work to do, and it takes a long [...]

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Affiliate marketing case study: Pat, week 6

October 27, 2010

Pat’s report: Hi everyone, I hope you have had a good week; mine has been busy, as usual. I have been working on my site, trying to get it up to where it needs to be. In the process of working on my site, I went back over the lessons starting with Lesson 27, On-Site [...]

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Affiliate marketing beginner tip: Safe CSS

October 22, 2010

——————————————————————- Now playing: Brand New Day by Forty Foot Echo ——————————————————————- What is safe CSS? Basically, it’s having a safety net when you start messing around in the CSS of your site. Let me explain. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. The code in your stylesheets controls the appearance of your site from one central [...]

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