The Confirmed Opt-In Myth

Confirmed opt-in as defined by SpamHaus, who is one of the most respected anti spam organizations in the world:

Known as “COI” in the legitimate bulk email industry, also known as “Confirmed Opt-in”, “Verified Opt-in” or sometimes “Double Opt-in”.

Before I go on, just let me say as an Xsitepro user you surely are practicing good internet marketing habits….aren’t you? It really doesn’t matter what you’re trying to accomplish online, I can’t think of very many circumstances that you shouldn’t be building a list in an effort to keep in touch with and possibly sell something in the future. Since many Xsitepro users are trying to build websites for the own brick and mortar businesses, they aren’t too savy when it comes the the techniques involved in internet marketing. Anyway…..regardless of what you are trying to do, you should have an email capture form on your website…preferably on the front page to start collecting names and email addresses. Email marketing is here to stay and gives you many options to build your business…..using a professional company is of paramount importance and Aweber is the King of Email Marketing!

The next issue for email marketing is delivering all your email and one function of that is the double optin form. This means the website visitor first leaves their name and email address and hit submit. Next they get a message in the email inbox asking them to confirm their desire to receive email from you…..its a bit of a hassle but it makes you safe and someone can’t sue you for spam. There have been many myths about the double opt-in and this article should clear that up for you

With Closed-Loop Opt-in the Recipient has verifiably confirmed permission for the address to be included on the specific mailing list, by confirming (responding to) the list subscription request verification. This is the standard practice for all responsible Internet mailing lists, it ensures users are properly subscribed, from a working address, and with the address owner’s consent.

In the event of “spam” accusation:

The Bulk Email Sender is fully and legally protected because the reply to the Subscription Confirmation Request received back from the recipient proves that the recipient did in fact opt-in and grant verifiable consent for the mailings.

Source:Spamhaus Website

Numerous myths have circulated regarding confirmed opt-in and its effects. There are many misconceptions out there, and we’d like to help clear those up.

Myth 1: My List Size Will Decrease Because Of Confirmed Opt-In.

Some addresses entered into your form will not confirm — that much is true. The percentage of addresses that don’t confirm depends on many factors, including the quality of your traffic and how effective your thank-you page, confirmation message and incentive for confirming are.

Percentages aside, there are compelling reasons that having fewer addresses on your list is a good thing.

Sometimes Less is Better

I know. You may be asking, “How can a decreased list size be a good thing?” Well, let’s consider:

This means that of your total list size you can cut that by 5-20% because these email addresses are simply dead. Remember these are not temporary undeliverable but permanent dead addresses.

Now, add on the bogus and malicious sign ups that undoubtedly will happen. For example, someone comes to your website and decides to put in bob@aol.com. Well, bob@aol.com was once a real email address and because you were not using confirmed opt-in you are now classified as an unintentional spammer.

ISPs do not differentiate between unintentional spammers or actual spammers. The potential for you to be blocked or even worse, blacklisted, remains the same.

Myth 2: My Mailing List Is Different! I Don’t Need Confirmed Opt-In.

Let’s be clear, confirmed opt-in is for all businesses, plain and simple. Anyone collecting subscribers and in turn sending email needs to confirm that those people intended to sign up to your mailing list and want to receive your email.

In this age of email regulations and massive volumes of spam email, deliverability can be an issue. Why increase your chances of not getting delivered by putting yourself at risk.

Myth 3: No One Else Uses Confirmed Opt-In. Why Should I?

This is simply not accurate. Our own campaigns here at AWeber use confirmed opt-in for all email marketing activities. When someone signs up for a Test Drive of AWeber, they must confirm.

After setting up an account, if they want to receive our customer training email course, they must confirm. The same goes for our affiliates and their email training. Even when someone subscribes to our blog, they must confirm.

Ok, but AWeber must practice what they preach, who else?

Myth 4: Subscribers In My Market Don’t Know How To Confirm.

The simple solution is to tell them. The first page after someone fills in an opt-in form, commonly called a “thank you page” should tell the visitor exactly what to do next. Often this is done most effectively with a picture showing visitors what the confirmation email will look like.

An excellent example is our test drive sign up video on the thank you page showing visitors what to do.

Honestly, if they can’t click a link then you probably should be marketing your business offline. If someone can find your website online I guarantee they can click a link.

Myth 5: My Sales Will Decrease Because Of Confirmed Opt-In.

Have you tested this assumption? The answer is always, “No, but I just assume” or “No, my colleague told me it would hurt sales”.

It’s best not to assume anything, but rather to seek out your own answers by testing and observing your own campaigns. We have found from our own testing that while the raw number of email addresses on our list declined when we switched to confirmed opt-in, sales did not.

This means that the people who did confirm were the ones that truly wanted the information that they had to offer and the ones that didn’t were not left to bloat the mailing list.

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Will your results be exactly the same as AWeber or even anyone else? This can only be determined by proper testing and measuring.

Use confirmed opt-in as an opportunity to make sure that your lists are 100% clean and that you know without a doubt that 100% of the people receiving your mail have specifically requested it themselves.

Spend your time and energy building your business with subscribers who want to hear from you rather than dealing with issues created by people who don’t want to hear from you.

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Creating Link Building Campaigns

Xsitepro sites can be just a effective as wordpress blogs….. some new xsitepro users might not know this! One of the secrets to a successful website, whether it be blog or static site, is the development of backlinks to your site. As Xsitepro users we should watch our fellow bloggers and start using some of their techniques. The article below talks more about how to build backlinks. In fact, click on the first image and you can directly download a FREE pdf that will show you a way to get a ton of backlinks to your site….I highly recommend it!

How to Prepare for Your Link Building Campaign

So you’ve learned about the power of incoming links to boost your website visibility and now you want to start a link building campaign.

First, let’s just point out two different keys in link building. Link popularity is the measure of inbound links to your web site. Link analysis examins which sites are linking to you and the text of the link itself.

While building links may be cumbersome and time-consuming, the good news is that there are really many ways to go about doing it. The most important factor to tackle before you even start is the quality of your site. Make sure that your site looks professional and offers valuable information. It should also be user-friendly and easy to navigate. Make sure that you validate your HTML code and check to make sure that all of your site’s links are working. To do this, you can use one of the many tools that are available online. Why do you need to do this? First of all because any owner of a quality site that wants to link to yours will check to make sure your links are working. They will not want to link to a site that has broken links. Secondly, directories will not accept sites that have broken links or errors. If you’re going to be submitting your site to the directories, which you should be doing, you will need to have your links all up and running.

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Here’s a crucial concept that many people leave out in their link building campaign. Budgeting your time. If you haven’t already budgeted out how much time you will spend on your link building activities, then do that now. If you don’t allot time to do this, it will not get done. The process of link building takes time. You start out very slowly and start increasing gradually. Over time, you can build up more links than you ever thought possible. Along these same lines, it helps to set some short-term, long-term and mid-term goals. When you first start out, a realistic goal would just be to get one link. This takes time. Once you’ve done that, set a goal for how many you want to get in a week or month. Next, you can have a good idea of how many you would like to have a year from your link building effort start date. And always remember to be patient–this takes time. You also want to make sure that you track your progress and stay organized so you know who is linking to you and who isn’t. . .and who you’ve already asked to link to you and who you haven’t. Don’t be discouraged by a lot of “no”s in the beginning when you ask a company to link to you. This is just par for the course.

Finally, work on internal link building. The structure of your internal links plays into how well your link building campaign will do overall.

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Creating A Link Building Blog

As an Xsitepro user I’m always interested in looking at different methods of getting links pointed to my website. I’m sure you’re interested in building links also, so it makes sense to look at all methods possible. One method of getting links to your site fast is by setting up a link building blog. All xsitepro users should be setting up a network of blogs and static websites in an effort to develop links from good quality sites. Below is an article that talks about link building….I hope you’ll consider some of the ideas regarding the various methods of using and creating a link building blog!

How to Obtain a Link building Blog?

Do you have a link building blog? If not, this is a good time to start putting together a strategy that will get you consistent incoming links to your blog. Incoming links and internal links are extremely important when it comes to getting your site ranked highly in the search engines so it’s something that you’re going to have to dedicate some time (and possibly money) towards.

Just as the links of a chain connect one point to another, webpage links connect your website or blog to the world. The more links you have ….the more important your blog appears to search engines such as Google. Consequently, many seo experts spend a good amount of time increasing the links to a website in an effort to make it look attractive to Big G ….hoping to bring in a flood of traffic.

There are many ways to get incoming links to your blog. I will mention some of the most important in this article.

Trading blogrolls (lists of links on your blog that lead to other blogs) is one method that people use to get others to link to their site. It’s sort of a “you-scratch-my-back-I’ll-scratch-yours” concept. There are mixed fellings on using this for a couple of reasons. some people use the blogroll to link to other sites that they feel are valuable for their visitors. Others mainly use them just to include the link and then to have their link on the other person’s blog. This has the potential to become a political nightmare. You need to keep track of who you are allowing in your blogroll and if their blogs maintain a professional and informative status. If you drop anyone from your blogroll, you can rile some people up. On the other hand, you can gain many links fairly quickly with this strategy. It might be something worth trying out in your earlier blog days and then you can decide later on if it’s working for you.

Participating in forums is a great way to get people to link to you. Just include your url in your signature when you make a comment or ask a question. Similarly, using your url in your email strategy can increase exposure to your site and increased exposure means increased potential for a link building blog.

Submitting articles is a sure-fire tried and true method for getting lots of links to your blog. But this one does take time. If you are an average (or better than average) writer and you have the time to dedicate to writing articles consistently and submitting them consistently, this is a great way to gain status and links. Here you just have to make sure that you don’t submit duplicate content. Many article directories can help you change various phrases within your content so that you can submit many different articles with different keywords instead of just the one original article that you’ve created.

A similar sort of concept involves you writing as a guest on other blogs. Just sign-up as a guest blogger for a professional, authoritative blog and you will see more and more people linking back to your blog.

Publishing videos on YouTube and then linking them back to your blog in your video description is a great way to get more traffic and more incoming links to your blog. Plus, it puts a little fun as go down the road towards obtaining a link building blog! There’s a tremendous opportunity in this field for creating a full time income by submitting videos to video sites. The best part of this business is that it is automated….. Traffic Geyser sets has a Business in a Box type of training that will teach you how to develop a six figure income online by simply submitting videos for backlinks by turning you into your own online business!

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Creating A Link Network… Added Stages of Menopause Blog

Like most internet marketers I use a variety of tools, Wordpress and Xsitepro are just a small part of an online marketers tookit. I wrote the blog post below to outline how anyone can use some of the premade blogs and websites that are available. I was just going to link to the blog post, but I decided to post it in it’s entirety here….after all I wrote it

The main reason I decided to share the information here is because you can take the same concept to Xsitepro. When using Xsitepro you can create small mini-sites with a handfull of articles that will do basically the same as a wordpress blog…..in fact, you can do this with any of the free blog platforms….except you’ll have to build the sites yourself.

That is with the exception of Xsitepro. You’ll find some authors creating weekly minisites on a variety of subjects using Xsitepro. You can even search through the warrior special offers and find premade Xsitepro sites. Follow the guidelines below and don’t forget to submit the sites to rss directories and you’ll be amazed at the traffic, in some ways these sites are more easily managed than wordpress sites. Keep an eye peeled at Niche-Minisites , that’s one of my sites. After the first of the year I plan on creating a memebership where you can pick up a couple of premade Xsitepro Sites for peanuts I should get my act together and get a presign up page!

Come to think of it, a good strategy would be to create your link networks using both wordpress, wordpress.com, blogger and xsitepro sites. The more variety …..the more natural it will look to the search engines.

Enough babbling by me, let me know if you have any questions and make sure you get a chance to read the post below. It’s a sure way to build a slow but steady income online.

I just set up a blog in my health niche blog sites called Stages of Menopause. I’m working on setting up a network of my own blogs concerned with various subniches of the health niche. The idea is to create a network of blogs that has interconnections similar to that of a spiders web….the more blogs the better.

One of the easiest ways to develop a series of blogs is by purchasing a premade or preexisting blog.

You can find blogs for sale on ebay, look for auctions on blogs that fit your niche.

You can find blogs for sale on sites like digitalpoint.com or other marketing related websites and forums. Flipping blogs or flopping blogs has also become popular, just google “website flipping” or “blog flipping” and you’ll find sites and reports on how to start building and flipping your own blogs.

The first thing I do is to look at some of the forums to see what’s available (see below paragraph). After finding the appropriate niche, I look for some long tailed keywords using a tool like Micro Niche Finder or Keyword Research Pro. I develop a list of keywords and then I see which of those are available as a domain. Purchase the domain and then set it up as one of my domains on my reseller hosting, either Ultimate Marketing Center or Site5 Reseller Hosting ……both have been excellent with support second to none.

One of the places I constantly keep my eyes on is the Warrior Forum, in the WSO section you can find special offers for premade websites and blogs. Often times you can pick up a blog that is prepopulated with 10 to 20 PLR articles in a custom wordpress theme for less than $20. Remember, chances are the creator of the blog sold at least 10 of these sites and could be as many as 50 of these same sites on the internet. It really doesn’t matter how many are sold because 90% or more of those purchased won’t do anything with it, secondly those that do upload the site won’t make any changes to the site or articles at all. Here’s a list of things to do before and after purchasing one of these premade blogs.

1. make sure the site comes with plr articles you can edit
2. transferring wordpress blogs can be difficult, make sure the creator has a clear cut set up pdf or video, and make sure you’ll be able to contact them after you purchase in case you run into trouble during the installation…..ask these questions in the open, as in the forum environment….if the seller is short with you….don’t expect much help
3. if you are planning to flipping the site make sure you have the proper rights or license
4. change any and all affiliate links
5. edit any optin forms to your own autoresponder
6. find long tail keywords that correspond with the content of each article or blog post
7. Rewrite the title of each blog post, be sure to include the long tail keyword…this is important!
8. Rewrite each blog post so that it is unique, be sure to include the long tail keyword that was used in the title, in the blog post at least 3 times
9. add an image to each blog post, make sure you use the long tail keyword in the name of the image and in the alt tag
10. publish the post
11. after publishing, go back and submit the blog post to social bookmarking and networking sites
12. pick out 10 more long tail keywords and write or edit 10 more articles for blog posts and submit
13. chances are you will have a very healthy piece of virtual real estate otherwise known as VRE

There’s much more you can do with these sites, but if that were all you did and you did this 5 or 10 times a month you would create a nice little network of blogs that would be valuable for all kinds of different purposes besides a monthly number of clicks from Goggle

You could drip feed articles if you have them.

You could build the blog further by any number of autoposting or autoblogging methods.

Bottom line, at least for me, is that finding a prebuilt blog saves me some time….If you find one in the niche you’re interested in, or want to develop it’s a quick way to get some content up quick. You can always develop it latter.

Of course it will take some time to get traffic to the site, I use Auto Social Poster plugin a well kept secret used by so called gurus for quick spidering, fast indexing and constant traffic, its well worth the price because your blog will get indexed and spidered quickly. I also use Slick Auto Poster and Article Stalker for autoposting full lenght keyword rich articles. Once established, I’ll add Google Adsense, Ebay, Amazon and add an optin form…..I might do only one of these or all of them some of these plugins allow you to use your keywords in the plugin to pull in relevant products or articles when autoblogging.

My goal is simple, get the site to produce $10 a month. I keep it simple. I know if I can get 10 sites to produce $10 a month, I’m making $100 a month. That’s not much money but it’s a very real number. Now all you need to do is expand your efforts, shoot for 100 sites a month making $10. Maybe it takes me a year to do that, but I’ll be making $1000 a month on autopilot. I know from experience some of those sites won’t make $10 a month…..some will make less, some will make a lot more!

Here’s an example of one of the sites I purchased on the warrior special offers forum, a blog on “menopause“. All I did was create a new header and install according to the authors instruction. Take a look at Stages of Menopause

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“5BucksADay” Teaches How to Build a Real Business with Xsitepro

If you purchased and use Xsitepro then you have, at least to some degree, a desire to learn how to make money online. At times I think the phrase “make money online” is almost a curse word, however, once you’ve been online for a while you can’t help but see the blatant opportunities to make money online right in front of your. I won’t go over all the methods of making money online, but let me get you to change your nomenclature….that is, how you call the opportunity in front of you.

Your goal is to make money online. However, the reality of the situation is that you have the opportunity to build your own business online that will make money online. Something that’s never been available before in history. There are so many directions you might decide to go….there are so many different guru types telling you to do this or that, buy my product, join my membership or purchase my $2000 dollar course….there are even hands waving you toward the next greatest seminar when you only have to spend $5000 to get in and then spend another $10,000 to join their master group because you’re just the person they’re looking for…… ya right

I can’t help but be cynical at some of this stuff….grant it, many of these opportunities are legit! But how are you going to know?

I have an idea for you.

I just put up this page called “5 Bucks a Day”. Before you think that’s a joke, listen to me. Dennis Becker of Earn1KaDay internet marketing membership searched, bought products, went to seminars and still was behind the eight ball….that means in red ink to you whipper snappers Dennis worked on a strategy and concept that focused on making $X amount a day. In other words, how can I make $X Dollars a day. He started off low, thus the book, “5bucksADay”. He talks about the mindset and strategies needed to start making $5 dollars a day on a consistant basis. Next, increase your desired dollar amount….let’s say $20 dollars a day, then, how about $100 dollars a day and finally his new membership teaches you how to make $10000 dollars a day and the membership is called Earn1KaDay.

Anyway, Xsitepro fits in perfectly with this concept and you can start with this book, “5BucksADay”, it’s a free download and just might be what you need to get your butt in gear and start focusing on a goal you can accomplish. Success is very possible and trust me, dumber people than you have achieved these goals.

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How Search Engine Optimization Affects Article Marketing

Search engine optimization and article marketing have to go hand in hand if you are going to have a successful article marketing campaign. Your attention to detail and finding just the right keywords are essential, but so is learning how to use them properly.

Search engine optimization, or SEO writing is using keywords or keyword phrases to help you gain better results and better placement for your web pages in the search engines. Knowing how to write well and come up with good content is incredibly important but just as important is knowing how to use keywords effectively throughout your article to get best results.

To know how to use keywords effectively in your sales efforts and article marketing campaign you must first have a firm grasp on what they are and how they are used.

Keywords and keyword phrases are what the consumer will or is likely to type into a search engine as they try to find a solution to whatever problem they are facing. Whether trying to find the best television, best car, best way to stop smoking, lose weight, earn more money, find a job…most people are going to try and do some research to find out what others are saying. It is either a word or a phrase that they, the consumer, are likely to type in to find information concerning the product or service you are trying to promote.

Learning how to incorporate your keywords into your writing and article marketing efforts can be tricky. Search engine spiders scour the Internet looking for the phrases and keywords that are most likely going to match what the searcher is looking for. The concept suggests that the more it sees that keyword or phrase in your article, the better the chances are that it will show your article as a result.

There is a temptation, though, to overuse that keyword throughout your article which was done by many, this is called keyword stuffing their articles and makes them almost impossible to read. They tried manipulating the search engines by stuffing keywords in articles but the search engines caught on and now penalize those who try and do this.

What they now do is look for natural usage of not only the keywords but the language surrounding it. This concept is called Latent Semantic Indexing or LSI. The search engine spiders will look at words that are commonly used in topics similar to the ones you are writing about and will judge an article based on that. If there are too many times that a word or phrase is used it will send up a red flag indicating intentional overuse of keywords and that you don’t want because your article marketing efforts will be hurt.

The best thing to do is to write naturally about a subject. Try to cover all the bases and help the reader make as well an informed opinion as possible.

If you are wondering how much to use your keyword or keyword phrase in your writing and article marketing efforts, try to have that certain keyword or phrase used once every 100 words. This will be plenty of times for the search engines to know that you are covering the topic and will help both your readers and article marketing efforts that you have in the future.

You can get your Internet Marketing business started most easily if you start writing articles and to get yourself that independence you not only crave but deserve. Article Marketing Automation is almost like cheating the system because it increases the exposure of your articles exponentially.
Using articles to promote your products or services is the best way to drive traffic to your website. If you learn how to use articles properly or hire someone to write your articles and you are going to find buyers who won’t only buy your materials but will trust you and just might return and purchase more of your material. Done correctly, article advertising can help you achieve terrific successes.

After writing your articles you need to distribute them across the internet. The easiest method to distribute your articles is to set up several article directories and submit your articles to each article directory. Doing it this way can take forever! Instead of submitting manually you could automate by using Unique Article Wizard which submits UNIQUE versions of your article to over 3000 different article directories, there is another Brad Callen’s article submitter which is second best, you only pay for it once and it submits your single article to 300 directories.

Here’s a FREE Ebook for you to download called Attrack Highly Targeted Free Traffic with Unique Content to Your Niche Blogs Automatically using free unique articles!

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Article Marketing Automation Saves Article Marketers Lots of Time

Article Marketing is a tried, true and effective method of marketing your xsitepro websites. You can brand yourself as an expert. You can pick up external one way links back to your xsitepro webpages. You can set up landing pages with xsitepro and promote just about any affiliate program available. Xsitepro is the perfect platform to take advantage of article marketing and I though you might be interested in some of the more advanced strategies and methods that article marketers use.

Article Marketing Automation is the answer to all those who do not have the time and energy into making a article marketing campaign work. Article marketing can be incredibly successful as many Internet marketers have witnessed first hand but it can become a long drawn out process that will drive many struggling to find the time needed to get your business off the ground. It could be because you have another job that you are still working but trying to get enough income to allow you to leave. It could be because you want to spend your time with your family or out fishing, reading a book, taking a hike or anything else you would rather do than work. For those who are trying to get a lot of work done in a small window of time, there is Article Marketing Automation.

One of the most frustrating and time consuming parts of undertaking article marketing is placing your article in enough places to get the maximum amount of exposure. Article marketing is easy and cheap to do but is incredibly time consuming trying to get published in all the places you want to be.

This is where Article Marketing Automation comes in and helps you. Article Marketing Automation is a network of independent sites and blogs that have agreed to distribute articles for other Article Marketing Automation network members.

The great thing about this is with the large size of the growing network (at over 2,000 members) you will be getting an increasingly larger number of sites and blogs will be giving you a much larger number of links to your sites.

Article Marketing Automation is not only the most time effective and cost effective way of article marketing around, it is growing naturally. It is capable of getting you ranked on the first page within just about 3 weeks (and they provide training to accomplish this). It will not only distribute your articles widely, it will give you relevant content for your own websites and blogs.

How Article Marketing Automation works is after you have either written an article or had one written for you, you submit it to the Article Marketing Automation network…and that’s it. It’s nothing complicated, just that simple. What happens next is your article will be distributed to relevant sites giving you exposure, links, and building your authority and traffic.

Article Marketing Automation comes with training on how best to utilize the network and get the most out of your efforts. They will show you how you can see dramatic increases in your ranking over the next two and three months. They want you to be successful. They need you to be successful for this network to work The more success you encounter, the more others will encounter as well.

Article marketing is a great and easy way to break into Internet marketing and to get yourself that independence you not only crave but deserve. Article Marketing Automation will give you more chances at success in a quicker time-frame and will give you a large network of people to help you make it to the top.

Article marketing or article advertising is a great way to get attention to your products or services, if it is used correctly. Take some time to learn how to do it the right way or find a good ghost writer to do the work for you and you will find customers who are not only willing to buy from you, but trust that you are going to meet their needs and may come back to you for other purchases. Done correctly, article advertising can help you climb to the top and make you a success.

Distributing your articles can be accomplished in many different ways. The simplest is to open up several accounts at some of the article directories and submit your articles one at a time to each directory. This obviously can take quite a long time. I use a service called, Unique Article Wizard which automatically submits unique versions of your articles to over 1,000 article directories, there is another Brad Callen’s article submitter that is quite good and offers a free version that works great.

Here’s a FREE Ebook for you to download called Attrack Highly Targeted Free Traffic with Unique Content to Your Niche Blogs Automatically using free unique articles!

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Make Some of Your PDF’s Public And Website Traffic Explodes

New Xsitepro website builders get discouraged quickly. Sure they learn how to build their websites but nobody comes! When it comes to website traffic an xsitepro site is no different than any other website or blog….you need traffic. Check out the below post and start employing this technique for generating traffic. Don’t be afraid to purchase some of the tools I mention, they will all help you accomplish your goals.

Traffic, everybody wants website traffic!

Nobody but a sadist wants to be in traffic.

You can spend days, weeks or months researching the various ways to get website traffic and with all things related to internet marketing you never know who’s got the right stuff. I mean, you never know who is legitimate or who hired a ghostwriter to put up a few articles or ebook.

So at the risk of repeating myself, make sure you’re being mentored or following real internet marketers. That is, people who have had success online and are actually making money. I belong to an internet marketing forum called Earn1KaDay that has a small monthly fee but you can be confident that the advice is solid. In fact, the very purpose of Earn1KaDay is to get each member making $1,000 a day. It might sound like a lot, but it’s accomplished in baby steps. Dennis Becker, the founder, started off with the concept of making 5BucksADay, a very doable task if you know the right stuff.

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Sorry….I got a little distracted.

I wanted to mention a technique I tried today. I don’t have any results but I think it will be promising. I’ve been watching a site called www.scibd.com , it’s site you can upload documents of just about any kind and they are offered free for the public to view and use.

You can really let your imagination go wild with the type of documents you would upload. I’m thinking mainly pdf’s and word .doc’s. If you do much affiliate marketing, many of the good affiliate programs will offer you branded pdf’s and these would make excellent material for the Scribd site.

The strategy is simple. Take or create a pdf explaining a product, concept or method, make sure you have it loaded with affiliate links and upload it to the Scribd site. Make sure you do some social bookmarking and see what happens. As with all things, if you upload some garbage or spammy documents, nobody is going to want to download your scribd document.

Next thing to do is go to your personal page, mine is http://www.scribd.com/scottparat and look for the rss icon. Grab the icon feed and start submitting it to the rss feed sites. You’ll be surprised at the traffic that will come in over time. You can automate the RSS Submissions, I found this service to be excellent and gives you some great backlinks.

Back at the Scribd site you can grab a variety of links for any of the documents you upload, for instant if you want to post one on your blog, just grab the embed link. Below you’ll see an example of a pdf I uploaded called Unique Content Traffic.

Give it a try!
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Belcher Button Beats Buy Now

Xsitepro users are always using a version of Paypal’s “Buy Now” button. So a discussion about the buy button may not seem important. You’re wrong if you think that way. Some dude by the name of Perry Belcher came up with some interesting stats regarding the graphical appearance and text of the standard buy now button. It’s all described below in a post from Internet Marketing Tips…Add to Cart regarding the use of a change for the Buy Now to “Add to Cart”!

Xsitepro users take notice!!! If internet marketers are using the text “Add to Cart”…..you should at least give it a try. Actually you should test this type of button versus what you are currently using now on your xsitepro pages.

What’s up with the “Add to Cart” payment button I’ve been seeing around for the last couple of months? Seems like more and more big time marketers are using this type of payment button on their sales pages these days. Come to find out….it’s for good reason

Once you see big name marketer’s using a technique that differs from the norm, you can bet that somebody has discovered a technique that increases conversions or sales…..and that means more profit! Be careful though, internet marketers tend to act a little like lemmings. Sometimes we copy techniques, colors, styles or fonts and before you know it everybody is doing it….problem is, that the change really was never proven necessary or successful.

The Belcher Button or Add to Cart Explained

Anyway…..I’ve been seeing everyone using this new “Add to Cart” button but couldn’t find much information about it. That’s all changed…thanks to fellow marketer Garrie Wilson…Behold we have the……………

Now we have “The Belcher Button”!

This is the button you’ve probably seen around that is orange in color and has “Add to Cart” for the text. You’ll also see the price above the button, both the regular price and the current price. Under the button you see another “Add to Cart”….this time in the standard hyperlink blue with an underline. Finally at the very bottom is a line of credit card images. Then the entire image is surrounded by a box composed of dashed lines.

Perry has tested his “Add to Cart” button or as he calls it, “The Belcher Button” on hundreds of sites in dozens of different markets. He has done explicit testing on the button and has found it to increase his closing rates from 35% to 320% over any other button around and he adds that he’s tested it in over 10,000 transactions.

Perry has given permission for anyone to use the button. Thanks be to Perry for letting this info out! Check out any of Perry’s stuff, he speaks with clarity and wisdom……and is someone you can learn a lot from. You can go to his blog at www.perrybelcher.com to read more.

Check out the video below where he explains in more detail the reasoning and results of the Belcher Button.

Here’s what the Belcher Button looks like!

Here’s a psd file of the image in case you’d want to change anything. However, I would be careful not to change anything except the prices. Jesus from Blue Square Web Design took the original image and created a photoshop .PSD image for anyone who would like to further edit the button

Garrie Wilson put together a set of images and files for the Belcher Button…..I was going to package some images for you however, for now he beat me to the punch! His package is awesome download The Belcher Button: Redux free of charge…..hurry though you never know when he might start charging $2.00

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Using Widgets and Squidoo Lenses for More Traffic

Lot’s of xsitepro users will develop networks of blogs and websites in an effort to create traffic. Using squidoo lenses is a common and good practice for any xsitepro user to work on. One problem with a squidoo lense is that you have limited amount of html coding you can use on your squidoo lense. I found a good post that shows you exactly how to add optin codes and other html code snippets.

Did you ever want to add an optin form to your squidoo lense?

I know at one point in time Squidoo allowed you to paste your optin code into a lense. Then they allowed you to put your optin code into a squidoo lense using iframes. They stopped allowing both of those methods. Finally the only way to put an optin code was by creating an image of the optin box and putting that image into your squidoo lense and then linking to an off site landing page with the real optin code. Not very good for list building!

Finally there is a way to easily add your optin code to a squidoo lense using widgets. In fact, you can create a widget for just about any snippet of code including things like Amazon, Ebay and other affiliate program.

Well…I stumbled on a squidoo lense that actually tells you how to create a widget for just about any chunk of html coding….including your optin form code.

Stop over at Clearspring Tutorial and you’ll discover some tricks you can use to get a variety of html coding in your squidoo lense’s that was previously banned and from what I read, it is totally legal to use widgets for creating html or javascript optin code in your squidoo lenses.

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