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Popup Script

Do you think popups are dead? You’re wrong! There are still doing very well! Blockers don’t stop all popups and if you do things the right way you WILL get results! This popup script is actually a desktop application, and is for modal popups, so they show up on most screens. I once thought popups were dead but I still use them as I keep getting results and don’t receive any complaints. As a visitor they’re annoying when you start getting too many, and when the message is irrelevant, but if the message is useful most people will not get annoyed. If you use them the right way, they’re awesome!

You can use popups for plenty of reasons: to let your visitors know about a special offer you have, or to remind them about a time-limited offer or maybe even ask them to do one last thing before they leave the page. In any case, you need a popup script and that’s why I have decided to give this one away. Everyone can have it so feel free to share this blog post with your contacts. Please refer them to this blog post rather than sending them the installation file. That’s all I ask in return!

Actually, the only real secret is to do your homework. Like any other business venture in the traditional marketplace or online, you need to know what you are getting into, before investing the time and money necessary to get started.

Doing your homework is the biggest internet marketing secret, like for example, golf… If you want to be a good golf player, you need to do your homework on what is required to swing correctly. Once you know this, the next most important part comes in… practice, practice and more practice. You can’t be an expert overnight and understand everything overnight, you need to read up on it and figure it out as you go along. (That is also what this blog is here for, to share methods with you to make your marketing learning curve much smaller, and cheaper!)

First, you need to determine if there is a market for the product or service you want to sell. For example, if your town has 10 Mexican restaurants, chances are you will not want to start yet another. Instead, maybe your town could use some Japanese cuisine. Unless you can setup the best Mexican restaurant, then you can take the ‘traffic’ from your competition.

The same can be said for Internet businesses. If the Web is already saturated with a particular business, and the people offering a similar product or service are struggling, you might want to come up with a better idea.

But, how do you find out if consumers will be interested in your product or service? Based on my own personal experience, do a lot of reading and ask around. Google your business of interest and do some reading. Check out other sites. Also, join some business blogs and ask for advice from people who are already working online. Neither action will cost any money. In the long run, it might save you a few bucks and a little heartache in the process.

Second, see what you need to set up your site. Do you have a Web host? Find the best deal based upon price, support services, and ease of use. Many hosting sites will offer packages with discounts for signing up for longer. In addition, the good sites will provide tutorials and other services to help you build an optimal site for your new business venture. Also, if you can afford the expenditure, many hosts have website designers on staff to help you create the best site to attract consumers.

(I co-founded and run ViralHosts – it is a website provider with a simple point and click SimplePanel, so you can get a great site up in a few clicks!)

Third, you must research what you need to place on your site to make it more user-friendly, while highlighting your product or service. Then, learn what it takes to market your site and bring consumers to your virtual doorstep.

In truth, there are really no Internet marketing secrets, nor are there any real get-rich-quick schemes. Like any other traditional business, it takes a lot of dedication and hard work to get a new business off the ground. However, the rewards should be well worth the effort, if you do your homework.

I Currently earn six figures a year online, and am learning something new everyday, I hope you are learning something new all the time too!

This week I want to tell you about a great free product I discovered not so long ago. It’s called PresellPro and it’s a FREE, automated presell content tool. If you are in the internet marketing or home business industry, you know how important preselling is. It’s all about warming a reader up before sending them to the sales page. However, not everyone is good at preselling… It is not easy to write effective preselling content. Well, with PresellPro everything becomes much easier!

PresellPro uses a powerful, proprietary content engine to create presell content. The system is really well thought out because it generates truly unique content. Unique content is essential for your posts and pages to rank well in search engines. I’m not recommending PresellPro to you to make some affiliate commissions… I won’t make any! I recommend it to you because it’s a great product and it’s COMPLETELY FREE! No upsells, no one-time offers…

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It is also the 2nd Annual: ‘Nelson Mandela International Day’ – The guy has done so much for my country (South Africa) and so much to unite the world, that the United Nations General Assembly declared July 18 Nelson Mandela International Day in recognition of the former South African president’s contribution to the culture of peace and freedom world wide.

What can you do? Well 2 simple things, the first is, spend just 67 minutes doing something good for your local community tomorrow on Mandela Day. This is to signify the 67 YEARS Mandela spent fighting for Social Justice. It doesn’t matter where in the world you live, try and spend just 1 minute per year that Mandela spent, helping out tomorrow!

For more information, please visit his website: http://nelsonmandela.org.za/

Post a comment and I will Donate an Additional 100Rands

Then 2nd thing is to spread the word about Mandela Day, and you can do so in part by sharing this post. Please post a comment of your support below and I will donate an additional 100Rand to Nelson Mandela’s foundation ($13.70). Once you have posted your comment, please share this post. For every person that posts a comment on this thread by Monday I will donate an additional 100Rand. This means that even if you personally can’t afford to donate, I will do it for you, as a direct result of your action (Taking a minute to post a comment of support for the great man).

So please place your comment below and then share this link on Twitter, Facebook, with your lists and friends, tell them to come here, read the message and post a comment! (link: http://www.colinklinkert.com/nelson-mandela-day/)

This is one of those rare times where I will feel GREAT about getting hurt in the pocket, so please spread the word. Thank You!

Update: I just donated 1,800 Rands (approximately $250 USD). Check this out:

Thanks a lot of your participation and support!

The links contained in this Unique Article Wizard review are my affiliate links (so I will earn money if you sign up via one of these links), but you should know that I don’t promote products that I don’t personally use & love.

What is an article Submitter?

An article submitter is a software program that allows you to publish articles all over the web very easily. Article submitters often allow you to write and rewrite articles so they are unique and can be published to their network of websites (often including blogs and article directories) more effectively.

We all know how important article marketing is when it comes to link building. There are quite a few different alternatives if you want to get into this technique. You could do everything yourself: write and rewrite the articles and submit them to article directories yourself. While this might give you some good results, this is rather time-consuming and definitely not a long-term strategy. As an internet marketer or home business owner, you should be looking to streamlining everything you can. This is why article submitters have become so popular in our industry.

When I say article submitter in this ‘unique article wizard review’ it does not only relate to article directories. In this case it relates to a blog network, where your links are taken and posted on blogs that are part of the ‘unique article wizard’ network.

Unique Article Wizard Review

My team and I use quite a few article submitters but the one I really want to tell you about today is Unique Article Wizard. Unique Article Wizard, like most other article submitters, can generate hundreds if not thousands of one-way backlinks to your websites. The more backlinks your website has, the better it will rank in search engines. Period. These one way backlinks should also come from unique ‘c class’ ips, which is a story for another post, but what it basically means is that your backlinks need to come from different sites hosted on different IP addresses. Now here is the Unique Article Wizard review:

Unique Article Wizard is different from other article submitters for various reasons. Before going into details, you should know that it is one of the most used submitter sites online. What’s really important with article submitters is to know how they allow you to rewrite articles (is it easy or not? Does it work well enough to make your content unique), and where they submit them (what is their network of websites?).

With Unique Article Wizard, rewriting articles is fairly easily. If you don’t understand why this is important, then you should know that backlinks coming from unique articles have more value than backlinks coming from republished articles.The reason for this is that Google does not index duplicate content, so links coming from sites that are in Google’s index and get pinged or visited by the Google Bot often, are of higher value to you then ones on sites that Google does not even know or care to know about. (Even though there is proof that Google does find these links still, sometimes with a bit of help from you – Backlinking your backlinks, once again, a post for another day).

Unique Article Wizard created several article wizards to help you submit articles the way you prefer. If you have your article and the two rewritten versions prepared, it shouldn’t take you more than a few minutes to submit an article. To rewrite articles on the fly, with seriously 1 click of a button and can turn 1 article into 30 uniques for all your SEO steps, you simple must check out TheBestSpinner… It is a Vital part of my marketing, we use it on every site SEO campaign that we run and it seriously is, like it’s name suggests, TheBestSpinner! Back to…

Unique Article Wizard Review

The real advantage Unique Article Wizard has over its competitors is that the articles are reviewed by humans, and not robots, so if something’s wrong with your article (if one of the versions is too similar to the original version for example), they will let you know so you don’t get any bad surprise. Search engines don’t really like duplicate content. They will not penalize websites having duplicate content on them but they will simply not rank the pages well.

How To Submit an Article

Submitting an article to Unique Article Wizard consists of 5 quick and easy steps:

Step 1, Part 1: Create a Project Name
Step 1, Part 2: Enter the Author’s Name
Step 2, Part 1: Write Your Article
Step 2, Part 2: Create Three Titles
Step 2, Part 3 – Write Multiple Paragraphs
Step 3 – Building Resource Boxes
Step 4, Part 1 – Choose Categories and Keywords
Step 4, Part 2 – Choose Categories
Step 5 – Confirm Submission date
Step 5 – Number of Submissions

Writing Multiple Paragraphs

Reviewing Your Articles

Building Your Resource Boxes

Does this look a little complicated to you? Don’t worry, the Unique Article Wizard team got you covered with 4 different wizards. The first time you use Unique Article Wizard you should use the “Easy Wizard”. Once you get familiar with the process, I would recommend you use the “Easy One Step Wizard”. If you’re confused about anything feel free to leave a comment under this Unique Article Wizard review.

Unique Article Wizard Review

Still not convinced? Here is a shortlist of reasons why you should join Unique Article Wizard today:

1. Article marketing is a very effective link building technique.
2. Unique Article Wizard focuses on ease of use and efficiency.
3. They have a great network of websites to submit the articles to.
4. You can scale it to giant proportions of you use it enough.
5. If you discontinue your membership, the links will remain in the published articles.
6. If you sign up via my affiliate you get a GREAT BONUS!!! (valued at $170)

That’s right, if you sign up to Unique Article Wizard via my affiliate link, I will offer you a one year membership to the new social bookmarking website that I’m about to launch (in a couple of weeks or so). With this website, you will be able to easily create tons of one-way social bookmarking links to your websites.

I will charge $17 per month for a monthly membership on this website, and $170 for a yearly membership. This is an outrageous bonus so only the first 20 people to sign up via my link will get this bonus. To claim the bonus, simply submit a ticket to the Bonus section on my help desk. Please attach your proof of purchase to the ticket.

Click here to join Unique Article Wizard

Thanks for reading this Unique Article Wizard review until the end! If you join, be sure to claim my bonus above, it will be worth it! If you are looking for other sites like Unique Article Wizard, I would recommend that you check out:

* My Article Network
* SEO Link Vine
* Free Traffic System

With My Article Network and SEO Link Vine, you can fully rewrite articles, unlike with Unique Article Wizard. This is a real advantage that these two article networks have over Unique Article Wizard as it is very important for your content to be unique. Backlinks coming from duplicate content have far less value than backlinks coming from unique content. With Unique Article Wizard, only paragraphs are spun, not sentences (hence less combinations possible).

My team and I use these three article submitters as well as Unique Article Wizard and I wouldn’t recommend them to you if we weren’t getting great results from them. Want to see just one example of a page I promoted with them? Click on the screenshot below to make it larger:

Affiliate WordPress Theme Post on this Blog

If you think these article submitters are too expensive for you, remember that this is an investment and not an expense, because the articles you submit will generate backlinks to your websites and even if you discontinue your memberships, the links will remain in the published articles.

Any questions or feedback about this Unique Article Wizard Review? Please post them below and I will reply:

In this particular example, I mainly talk about the signature, in which the author should add a good call-to-action and possibly a bonus. As you will see, the article has already been visited quite a few times but the author doesn’t seem to be making the most of its good Google rankings. Every month hundreds of dollars in commissions are potentially being lost by not using the basics of effective article marketing. If you’re into article marketing and product reviews, make sure you watch this video:

This is just a quick tip for effective article marketing. The resource box is only a piece of the article marketing puzzle. There are of course many other aspects you should take into account for effective article marketing. If there is an article marketing topic you would like me to cover, feel free to leave a comment and I will do my best to reply. I would love to hear from you! If you want to share you own effective article marketing tips, feel free to do so below!

In order to avoid that, here are a few simple things to keep in mind for every website you design. These are the little things that may slip through the gap:

* The Favicon: The favicon is the little icon that shows up in a web browsers navigation bar when you visit a site. It also is recorded when people bookmark a website. Create a favicon and put it into the root directory of your website as a way to brand your website.

* Title Creation: If you are using a Content Management System (CMS) or are making each individual page yourself, make sure that your page titles and meta data accurately describe your content and are keyword–rich.

* Browsers: Don’t just check your website using one web browser. If you use Internet Explorer, then also check older versions of IE, as well as Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, and mobile devices.

* Validate Your Website: The W3C is an international organization devoted to creating standard coding procedures for internet content. Check out their website (http://validator.w3.org) for an online code validator. Simply enter your web address and it will check to make sure your code is up to standard. This blog (http://www.ColinKlinkert.com/) has over 100 issues, so that is quite high, but its a trade off, making the site have the functions you want, often means it won’t be perfect code.

* Offer RSS: Does your site have regular content updates? If so, offer an RSS news feed so people can check out your website in the RSS application of their choice. If you are using a CMS, most of these have built-in RSS capabilities. If your site doesn’t receive content updates regularly (like a static business page), then don’t bother… Rather use Aweber to capture subscribers that you can then mail offers to

* Tracking: Have a way to track your traffic. Google Analytics provides free tracking services, and there are numerous others like Clicky and Mint. These services give you valuable information like total traffic, page traffic, and time spent at your website.

Just a few pointers there to ensure you have everything on the next site you build – If you can think of any things that I have forgotten on this list that others are likely to overlook, please post them in the comments section below

The navigation menu was on the left side and the about box on the top. I really liked this navigation menu but wanted to add more links (to new pages of the blog, some are still under construction at the time this blog post is published). I also wanted the content to appear higher on the page and the opt in box to show up high in the sidebar. I didn’t make all those changes myself but got a designer / programmer to do it for me… and I’m very happy with his work! I had everything in mind before though.

If you scroll down, you will also notice that the layout has changed. In the past the home page was showing the ten latest blog posts (in their full version). Only one full blog post shows up at the top now, followed by two abstracts and a few archived posts. You don’t need to scroll down during hours anymore to find out what the previous blog posts are about. It is now much easier to find the blog posts that most interest you. I also added a testimonial… and there are more coming.

I’m pretty sure these changes will significantly improve the usability and I hope the new layout will help me grow the community I want to create on this blog. I’m sure these changes will make a difference! Anyhow, I hope you like the new design! Feel free to leave your feedback. A few weeks ago I also changed the design of my help desk, check out the following blog post for more info: Reply2Colin: New Design for Better Usability!

So you own or work for a small business, and it has been decided that now is the time to start your company’s web presence. Depending on your budget, you may hire somebody to design the site or you may do it yourself. Whatever you decide to do, keep these small business website tips in mind so that you don’t make a costly mistake:

• Keep It Simple: Flash animations and high resolution images may seem like a great idea for your site, but they have several downsides. First, they require specialized knowledge. You won’t be able to just go in there and update the information, you’ll need to rehire the web designer. Then, they don’t work well with search engines because search engines cannot see what’s in them (so make sure you add descriptive alt attributes to images). Finally, not everybody has the internet connection speed or web browser capability to view the site. Try to keep things simple.

• Update your site often: Your website is essentially your location in the digital realm. Would you let the front of your business’ building become dilapidated, run down, and out of date? No, you’d maintain it so that it looks like a professional business. Same thing with your website. Keep it clean and keep it fresh in order to retain your customers.

• Focus on the customer: While you should have information about your company’s history and employees on the website (if applicable) only use the ‘About Us’ page for this. Everywhere else the main focus should be on the customers and how their needs are met by the products and services your company offers.

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO): SEO is a necessity nowadays for all websites. If you’re building the website yourself, then do plenty of research (here are some important keyword research tips) either before or while you build it so that you can incorporate the lessons learned from day one. For SEO training and tools, visit SEOBook. For easy keyword and domain name research, you may use Easy Domain Research (available on CK Tools). Otherwise, hire a contractor or freelancer to take care of it for you.

I hope these small business website tips helped! If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment!