Making money online

Writing Adwords ad copy for a certain type of buyer

InternetStarter — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:11:05 +0000

I’ve been searching for info on creating/writing an Adwords ad copy for buyers of a particular mindset. On Wickefire, I found a great post giving out valuable tips.

ImagesAndWords post on How To: Create Ultra-Targeted Ads and get Highly Converting Campaigns. The post goes on to describe the three different mind frames of searchers online.

1) The Surfing Mode – They are still not sure what they want or need. The user might only be interested in researching. Worst case ROBO (Research Online Buy Offline).

2) Comparison/ Review mode – They know what they want or need, but not which one is the best. They are still researching but are closer in making a purchase.

3) Buying Mode – They know which one they want or need, but where should they buy it.

The post by ImagesAndWords goes on to attach keywords and land page suggestions for each of the three mindsets. The post also gives example ad copy for each mind set.

I would recommend reading the complete forum post. Read the rest of it here.

SpeedPPC – Pay Per Click advertising machine

InternetStarter — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:51:23 +0000

A good friend of mine recommended SpeedPPC to me over the weekend. I was lucky enough to buy SpeedPPC at the introductory price for 3.0, before the price increase yesterday. I had bought it over the weekend but I didn’t have a chance to test it out until today.

After watching the how to video, I started to set up my SpeedPPC Builder. Let’s just say in a matter of an hour I was able to set up 70 inkjets PPC campaigns. I’m shooting for longtail targeting all the different model numbers of ink cartridges.

The campaigns have been launched and well see over the month how SpeedPPC performs. Does the ROI justify the large one time price.

Click here to watch the SpeedPPC video and see what I’m talking about – PPC 72,500% Faster – Watch the Video Evidence

Great ideas for website templates

InternetStarter — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:06:31 +0000

I’ve been searching around for a few ideas on creating my next website. These sites had some great templates for ideas.

Free Website Monitoring Service

InternetStarter — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:25:08 +0000

Today when I tried to go to one of my websites, I realized that it was down. After looking through my statcounter i realized that the site was down since early March. I need to find a web site monitoring service to help me monitor all my websites. At first I was thinking about paying for a service when a friend of mine recommended that I try out BasicSite.com

FREE WEB SITE UPTIME MONITOR SERVICE

* checks your website every 15 minutes
* get instant trouble alerts by email or sms
* anywhere, anytime
* unlimited sites

I’ve set up my account and I’m quite impressed so far. I was able to set up alerts to my email and cell phone to alert me when a site is down. Plus you are allowed to monitor unlimited amount of sites.

I’ll post a review later as to how accurate the service is.

Newspaper and Magazine WordPress themes

InternetStarter — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:37:26 +0000

Justin Tadlock over at justintadlock.com has created two beautiful wordpress themes. The first theme is called “Visionary” which has a great look for news or magazine websites. What I really like about this theme is how he has used ajax for tabs as well as blended in a youtube video spot. To see a live demo and for download click here

Another of Justin’s wordpress theme is called “Newspaperize”. This theme is widget ready and perfect for news blogs. Click here

Overall Justin Tadlock’s website has much more than just great worpress themes. His site is filled with useful web design tips and information.

More Free WordPress Themes

InternetStarter — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:59:00 +0000

1) myJournal ethereal
myJournal ethereal comes with lots of key features directly built into the theme like quick social bookmarking,language translation,SEO optimised,light-weight to give you a boost in speed and various styles to dress your posts’ items for better readability.

2) ColourFull Wall
It’s dark but it conserves this look of daring theme! Built on Chris Pearson’s fabulous Pressrow’s code, you’re offered the double benefit of a good looking theme plus the original benefits of Pressrow, one of the most acclaimed WordPress theme.

3) TechBlog
More and more people are looking for a cutting edge web 2.0 look and TechBlog fulfills this promise like a chef. The look is candy-like, has different easily noticeable sections to showcase your fabulous posts while providing clear region for ads placement.

4) Dark theme
iLemon new release features a clean dark blue plastic look while providing a well structured layout for your categories,famous posts,Flickr photos and other goodies.

5) Blogging Pro and Insense
Both from Blogging Pro, designed by Design Disease. My opinion is that since it’s a working theme for a reputable blogging news site and so if yours is delivering the same content, that should also work for you.

6) Lorem Ipsum
A newspaper style theme built on a 3Columns layout.

7) Webby blue/Green
Another web 2.0 style theme, this time with less details on the graphics aspect while giving more importance to your content.

8 ) Salmon
Another marvel from Design Disease.

9) Fresco
Fresco gives your blog a tropical look and feel.

10) iTheme
Give your blog the mac look.

Free CSS Templates

InternetStarter — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:43:08 +0000

I stumbled upon a great Free CSS website. I’ll have to try these out on a couple of my sites.

http://www.free-css-templates.com/free-templates.html

Ways to find hot keywords by finding hot trends

InternetStarter — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:24:04 +0000

There are days when I’m in need of tools to find popular keywords. These tools listed are some of the sites I visit to find out hot trends to focus a niche site on.

pulse.ebay.com – for what products people might be searching for.
AOL Hot Searches http://hotsearches.aol.com/
Ask IQ: See top searches at Ask. http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtml
Dogpile SearchSpy: Choose to see either a filtered or non-filtered sample of top, real-time search terms from this popular meta search service. http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy/
Google Trends: http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?sa=X
Google Zeitgeist: http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

How To Use WordPress As A Directory

InternetStarter — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:42:36 +0000

Have you ever wondered if you could use WordPress as a directory website. Joomla, Drupal and phpLd all have templates, modules to do it.

Well, I found Alec Tang’s post on how to use WordPress as a Link Directory.

Check it out here

Great WordPress Resource Directory

InternetStarter — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:38:05 +0000

The Protagonist Web Resource Directory is described as a site for aspiring or veteran web designers , developers ,
digital photographers and gamers in search of FREE or Linkware/shareware resources , tutorials, reviews or downloads.

What they do have is a great list of WordPress plugins, themes, and hacks.

Visit them here.