Perhaps you have heard of “private blog networks”, a tool to improve your visibility in search engines. Some SEO experts say that no other method of increasing your ranking compares. Todd Spears and Clinton Dixson have a solution for people wanting their own private blog network: Blog Network Blueprint. In this new training, they have created 15 fun, easy-to-understand videos that will show you how to set up your network of blogs that will effectively promote your site in the search engines. They are so sure of the quality of their training that they are offering a 30-day, 100% refund... [...]

Millions and millions of tee shirts will be sold in the coming weeks. Some in brick and mortar stores, but many more online. You can participate in this e-commerce bonanza by setting up your own online tee shirt store. You may think it’s hard, but it doesn’t have to be. There is a software package that sets up a tee shirt store on your blog that you can have running in an hour or less. The IM Wealth Builders (Cindy Battye, Soren Jordansen, and John Merrick, have designed a WordPress theme, called Covert Shirt Store, that can have your online tee shirt store running in less than a day. The... [...]

Facebook and YouTube both have their strengths, but each has its weaknesses, too. In fact, they complement each other and the marketer who uses them in combination reaps the reward of higher sales. Displaying your YouTube videos inside Facebook doubles your chances of finding and persuading people intrested in your offer. FB Tube Pro is a WordPress plugin that shows YouTube videos on your blog, and also shows them on Facebook. You can build a whole gallery of videos on Facebook very simply with this plugin, using its easy integration with Facebook and with YouTube. Then place the gallery on your... [...]

The results are in: online videos are the best way to persuade people to follow your advice (like “you really should buy my product”). But the leap from watching the video to actually taking action loses a lot of people. The problem probably isn’t with your video. It’s the effort to click 2 or 3 times to get to the screen where they can buy. Peter Beattie calls this the ‘video death gap’. People have to stop watching your video and go elsewhere to take action. It may seem like just a few seconds of work, but history shows a big percentage aren’t willing... [...]

Videos you load into YouTube are good, but how much more could they help you if all your Facebook followers could also see your videos without leaving Facebook? FB TubePro is a WordPress plugin that lets you create a gallery of your videos, multiple videos arranged on the same page, with an optin form and, optionally, a “fan gate” so they have to become a fan to see your videos. With this new plugin by James Howard, you can set up as many timeline optin pages as you want, as many gallery pages as you want. FB TubePro is designed to make it easy to integrate your site with both Facebook... [...]

Ken Reno has developed a WordPress plugin any online marketer can put to good use,EZ Viral Contest WP Plugin. Contests attract attention and, more important, they attract viral sharing. As a result, they can bring a lot of traffic to your site, traffic that can see all your offers and opportunities. If you have a WordPress site, this plugin makes it easy to add a contest to your site so you can take advantage of the inherent viral effect. Reno is going a step farther. He is making this plugin available to you at no charge. It’s absolutely free. There’s not a lot more that needs to be... [...]

Karissa Bell says, “WordPress users: Now would be an excellent time to make sure your system is up to date. The content management system rolled out an update Thursday that addressed a security flaw that affected millions of websites. The vulnerability, first spotted by security researchers at Sucuri, leaves affected websites susceptible to an attack that could allow others to take control of the sites. The flaw stems from a bad file within Genericons, which is preloaded into many WordPress sites by default, including the default TwentyFifteen theme and the JetPack plugin, according to researchers.... [...]

There’s a thriving marketing for online consulting for local businesses. There are many services you can offer, one of the most fundamental, one that many local businesses still need, is a website to attract customers. In fact, many local businesses need help with their online marketing and don’t know where to turn. They will invest thousands of dollars for a website that looks attractive and professional and represents them well. Now, it is easy to give them what the need, an attractive site that really pulls in people to their business. You can build a demo site in minutes with a new WordPress... [...]

Matt McGee says, “Hot on the heels of the 4.1.2 security release, WordPress has announced version 4.2, which is available now. This version of WordPress sports an updated Press This tool, which allows quick posting to your blog by quoting the text, video or images from another website. Press This works on mobile devices and as a desktop browser bookmarklet. Other new features include a streamlined plugin update process that eliminates the multiple page experience and does the updating inline with a single click. Also new is the ability to embed Tumblr and Kickstarter content just by pasting... [...]

Greg Sterling says, “Whether you call it Mobilegeddon, Mopocalypse or something else, Google’s mobile-friendly update arrives tomorrow. The update will be significant and potentially impact a large number of websites that aren’t mobile-friendly. Remarkably, some estimates suggest that as much as 40 percent of the top sites aren’t mobile friendly today. The best and fastest way to tell if you’re site is ready is to use Google’s mobile friendly testing tool. Barry Schwartz has written a comprehensive Mobilegeddon FAQ post on Search Engine Land that answers almost every question... [...]