Of the three main social media sites that marketers focus on: • Twitter • Facebook and • Pinterest, Twitter has been neglected, but now is capturing marketer attention again due to its impressive growth. Twitter, more than the others, is an excellent pre-sell platform. 140 character is enough to tease visitors, but not enough to actually do much hard selling. Besides that, its visitors are already in a action-oriented state of mind and use Twitter to find things to tweet about, share & to buy. Twitter has about 2.1 billion search engine queries every day. That equates to... [...]

Your WordPress site may be a “sitting duck”, that poachers are ready to steal. The default settings for WordPress don’t fully protect you from hackers or from their botnet tools that are roaming the net looking for unprotected sites. Based on the principle that if a hacker can’t find your sensitive system files, then they can’t hack them, Matt Garrett developed BlogDefender software to hide the important files used to run your site so hackers don’t have a clue about how to hack it. For examples, if hackers don’t know which version of WordPress you are using... [...]

New and improved (version 3) Easy Member Pro was just announced and it’s on sale today only for about $44 (on a dime sale). But the prie is set to rise even higher soon. You will see thew countdown timer on the site. (It seems to be a personalized timer; your deadline is different from someone else’s. For us, the deadline has already passed, but for you, maybe not. It was invented by Kim Standerline, who has now partnered with Richard Fairbairn and Simon Warner to take it public to the whole marketing community. Easy Member Pro is easy to use, solid, secure and functionally rich. This... [...]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “Very, Very Best Social Plugins for WordPress”. Allison Howen says, “If there is one thing that will make you happier than a camel on hump day, it should be a big list of social plugins for WordPress Wednesday. Whether you need social-sharing icons, want to create a social community on your own site or simply need a more efficient way to post content onto all of your social profiles, this list has got you covered. So, set aside some time for social media and take a look at the very, very best social plugins for WordPress“. Very,... [...]

Ken Sar has just released WP LeadCapture, which can be your answer to creating a suqeeze page that sells your visitor on opting in for your offer. Your page presents a video that attracts people’s attention. The page has no text to distract people from the video you want them to watch. There’s just a button below the video that says “Continue”. Once the visitor watches the video and clicks “Continue”, now they are shown your text that encourage them to opt in, and then the optin form. (There ‘s a live sdample available from the sales page.) This cleaner... [...]

If you are wanting to build high-converting Splash and Squeeze Pages, Heri Rosyadi has you covered with his new WP Squeeze Buddy WordPress theme. If you want to do WP sites that work in today’s environment that is dominated by mobile devices, your theme needs to be responsive to the screen size of the device the visitor is using. And WP Squeeze Buddy looks good on everything from the largest desktop PC down to smartphones. When you can let mobile users opt-in, your results will surely improve, since mobile is about 50% of today’s market. You can customize the look and feel to match... [...]

List Profit Generator Is live. It’s responsible for a huge increase in subscribers for Kevin Fahey. Fahey has been building his lists for over 6 years, and now has a list of over 250,000 subscribers. It’s probably true that he knows the subject as well as any marketer living Recently, he has been using his custom-produced List Profit Generator to add 36,000 subscribers to his list in just one week. And many more since then. This innovative software, now available to the rest of us, builds your list by letting you recruit affiliates who will build the list for you because you reward... [...]

Joshua Zamora and Radu Hahaianu have developed new software that they have found increases their traffic by 235% in just 24 hours. They have placed it in a product they call Seamless SEO. It will tweak your site, and they say that when it does, it could boost your site in the rankings And it it will take you less than five minutes to implement this change. In Seamless SEO, they seem to have solved one of the most neglected aspects of SEO. People concentrate on getting backlinks these days, but there’s another aspect that is equally important: your site content and how optimized it is. Seamless... [...]

Kevin Byrne has just released a new WordPress plugin, Interlink Express, that improves your on-site SEO by linking related pages to each other. It makes good sense to link related posts and pages together. That way, a visitor interested in a topic can easily explore all you have to say about it. That keeps them on your site longer(your “bounce rate” goes down.) And that improved length of stay is noticed (favorably) by the search engine that brought them there. When the search engines themselves see the interlinking of related article, they see the site as more authoritative, which... [...]

Igor Burban‘s new WordPress plugin, Animated CTAs, gives you unforgettable (and almost irresistible) buttons to get people to take action today. These buttons aren’t cheesy butterfly or flower animations. They are strictly business. You can invite people to opt in, to like you on Facebook, buy your product or anything else. These buttons have several action effects: • A message slides out from behind the button (sliding up, down or to the side) • The button itself moves (sideways, up or down) to reveal a message that was hidden behind it. There two ways your visitors cause... [...]