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Marketing How To Products

By on September 21, 2016 in Internet Marketing, New Blogging

Living in today’s time, the internet is where the money is at. You can take a simple idea like writing a how-to article and turn it into cash. People turn to the internet to figure out how to do just about anything and everything.

Think about the last time you wanted a recipe, or to figure out how to do something that you saw someone else do. Did you turn to the internet? Most people do a quick search and find what they are looking for. They can be really easy how-to articles, or they can be more advanced guides.

Sometimes people post videos on how to do things, and their videos can be invaluable to people that need the help. One day while cutting my bangs, it occurred to me that I might not be doing it the best way. I went to the computer, and searched “how to cut bangs.” After watching a few of the videos online, I became the pro at cutting my own bangs.

There is a huge market for how-to products because people will search for all kinds of information. Whether you wanted to learn how to change your oil in your car, or teach your girl scouts how to earn a badge, you will find the information online. People want to make sure that what they are doing is the correct way to do it, or even just the easiest way.

People can save money by turning to online how-to products rather than paying a live person to teach them or for someone to do it for them. For example, if you wanted to learn how to line dance, you could go to a studio and learn it, but why not just search online and see if someone has posted how to videos?. The ideas and options are endless.

Marketing how-to products on the internet is a very lucrative niche, and one that should be taken seriously. The internet has turned us all into sponges and researchers. We all love to turn to the internet to find exactly how to do all kinds of things. How to do just about anything and everything is at our fingertips and opened up a great opportunity for selling how to products.

Were you at a party where they had the most amazing artichoke and spinach dip and wished you had gotten the recipe? No problem, search the internet and see if you can find it. There are even sites that will charge you to get the recipe or how-to article. It’s still cheaper than buying the entire book of recipes, and a lot quicker to get the information. People will be happy to pay for a how to product instead of having to either order the book, or go out and get it.

There are several ways to market your how-to products. List your how-to articles on an auction site, or market them to the proper audience. For instance if you are selling a how-to product on parenting topics, you would want to join as many online forums as you can and work on building relationships with parents and then put your link in your signature.

Marketing ” How To” Products

Another way is to frequent blogs of your niche. Again if your how-to is on parenting you would want to comment on all the parenting blogs you can find and include a link to your site where they can buy your product. The how-to niche is a booming market on the internet today just waiting for you to take advantage of it.

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The Punchcut WordPress Theme – Want a Theme For Your Blog That is Customizable, Simple, Yet Complex

By on November 10, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

The Punchcut WordPress Theme – Want a Theme For Your Blog That is Customizable, Simple, Yet Complex?

The Punchcut WordPress Theme is a very different theme than what we are all used to. It is a very simple theme, yet it is also very sophisticated, and really carries its own kind of voice. The themes overall layout has been created in a way that is competitive, and extremely user friendly. Needless to day, most of the traffic that this theme receives is because of how simple yet complex the theme itself is, which simply places it miles ahead of many other themes that are currently available.There are so many flashy themes available in the market at the moment,. which leaves this theme really in a league of its own, deserving all of the positive chatter that it is receiving all over the web. Needless to say, there have been plenty of webmasters who have purchased this theme, and incorporated it into their blog, which is a statement to itself of the level of quality and ease of customization that has gone into this theme.

The best element of the Punchcut WordPress theme is that it really doesn’t matter what the overall theme of your blog is, this theme in itself is suitable for any layout, and has a very unique yet simple design. The contents of the background allow for the contents of your blog to really stand out more than the flashy elements of the theme, which in itself, is something that all to many themes lack these days. Of course, this is exactly what most blog owners seek in a theme these days, with content being king, especially when it comes to not only ranking well in the search engines, but retaining visitor loyalty.

One of the turn offs about WordPress for the inexperienced user, is that sometimes, even basic customization can be a very difficult task. The Punchcut WordPress Theme offers a level of customization that is unparalleled in a theme in its price bracket, all accessible through the fully functioned administration panel. Even the inner coding of this theme is clearly labeled, so that anyone with even so much as a basic HTML knowledge can jump right in and add their own personalized element to this theme. Of course, the only drawback of using custom themes for WordPress is that it is never going to be unique, however with a combination of the administration panel, and easy to understand and modify coding, this explains in good part the popularity of this theme.

To cap this article off, the level of customization, beauty, simplicity and usability in this theme is something that is rarely seen, with so many people wanting themes for WordPress that are colorful, flashy, and with fancy java script elements that only serve to slow down the page loading speed. The PunchCut WordPress theme has kept these considerations in mind, and the result is a theme that is beautiful, easy to customize, easy to install, and is something that will keep your visitors coming back time and time again.

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The Punchcut WordPress Theme – Want a Theme For Your Blog That is Customizable, Simple, Yet Complex1

By on November 8, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

The Punchcut WordPress Theme – Want a Theme For Your Blog That is Customizable, Simple, Yet Complex?

The Punchcut WordPress Theme is a very different theme than what we are all used to. It is a very simple theme, yet it is also very sophisticated, and really carries its own kind of voice. The themes overall layout has been created in a way that is competitive, and extremely user friendly. Needless to day, most of the traffic that this theme receives is because of how simple yet complex the theme itself is, which simply places it miles ahead of many other themes that are currently available.There are so many flashy themes available in the market at the moment,. which leaves this theme really in a league of its own, deserving all of the positive chatter that it is receiving all over the web. Needless to say, there have been plenty of webmasters who have purchased this theme, and incorporated it into their blog, which is a statement to itself of the level of quality and ease of customization that has gone into this theme.

The best element of the Punchcut WordPress theme is that it really doesn’t matter what the overall theme of your blog is, this theme in itself is suitable for any layout, and has a very unique yet simple design. The contents of the background allow for the contents of your blog to really stand out more than the flashy elements of the theme, which in itself, is something that all to many themes lack these days. Of course, this is exactly what most blog owners seek in a theme these days, with content being king, especially when it comes to not only ranking well in the search engines, but retaining visitor loyalty.

One of the turn offs about WordPress for the inexperienced user, is that sometimes, even basic customization can be a very difficult task. The Punchcut WordPress Theme offers a level of customization that is unparalleled in a theme in its price bracket, all accessible through the fully functioned administration panel. Even the inner coding of this theme is clearly labeled, so that anyone with even so much as a basic HTML knowledge can jump right in and add their own personalized element to this theme. Of course, the only drawback of using custom themes for WordPress is that it is never going to be unique, however with a combination of the administration panel, and easy to understand and modify coding, this explains in good part the popularity of this theme.

To cap this article off, the level of customization, beauty, simplicity and usability in this theme is something that is rarely seen, with so many people wanting themes for WordPress that are colorful, flashy, and with fancy java script elements that only serve to slow down the page loading speed. The PunchCut WordPress theme has kept these considerations in mind, and the result is a theme that is beautiful, easy to customize, easy to install, and is something that will keep your visitors coming back time and time again.

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Great WordPress Plugins- Identifying Another One Of Them

By on August 3, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

Great WordPress Plugins: Identifying Another One Of Them Another of the great WordPress plugins that deserves special mention is ""Simple 301 Redirects"". One thing about essential WordPress plugins is that if you do not know about them or do not know how to use them, you do not realize how great a functionality you are leaving out of your content management system. ""Simple 301 Redirects"" is a good example of this. I recollect that I have been in and out of internet marketing three times over the years before this my final stay. Each time I resurfaced on the internet marketing scene, had I known about this great WordPress plugin, no doubt my search engine rankings would be higher today. I simply would have deployed it to transfer my old blog posts to the new amended/updated pages and thereby seamlessly preserved the old pages rankings. But alas, each time I resurfaced on the internet marketing scene, I simply discarded the old blog posts and posted new/updated pages of these old blog posts on my new blog without linking the two. That is one of the many setbacks great WordPress plugins like ""Simple 301 Redirects"" set out to correct. It provides an easy method of redirecting requests to another page on your site or elsewhere on the web. It’s especially handy when you migrate a site to WordPress and can’t preserve your URL structure. By setting up 301 redirects from your old pages to your new pages, any incoming links will be seemlessly passed along, and their pagerank (or what-have-you) will be passed along. Note that ""age"" and ""number and nature of backlinks"" are critical factors in search engine rankings. Any action you therefore take to preserve these for your blog posts will definitely positively impact your search engine rankings. I’ll give you a perfect example here. I wrote a blog post in December 2009. At that time, I still was not as thoroughly grounded as I am now in search engine optimization (SEO) and so was not optimizing effectively for my intended keywords. I recently changed the title and made some minor adjustments to the body of the blog post and were it to be before, I would simply have left it at that. Does it strike a chord in you that anytime you do such and leave it at that you are simply beginning your SEO for that post all over again? All the backlinks to the previous post will be gone forever. So also the age, as the new blog post will now be indexed afresh while the old blog post on subsequent visits by the Google bot will read ""not found"", again compounding your crawl errors in your Google webmaster tools. Note that all these ultimately negatively impact your page rank. So what did I do? I simply inserted my old url in the ""Simple 301 Redirects"" interface and pointed it to my new url which I also inserted in the interface and saved. Just as simple as that and wow! a whole lot has happened with those simple steps. The backlinks and age of my old blog post will be seamlessly passed over to my new blog post and the page rank of my web page preserved. Let me explain another purpose to which you can deploy this plugin that I have identified as one of the great WordPress plugins. If you go into your webmaster tools account, you will see indicated, crawl errors that resulted while the search engines were trying to crawl your web pages. You can rectify some of these errors and thereby have a more ""efficient"" website which will impact positively on your search engine rankings by utilizing this plugin to redirect some incorrectly specified links to their originally intended destination. Those links that you have control over and can still amend such as your backlinks in forums, you can make amends to. But what of incorrectly specified links that you no longer have access to? For example, links on your articles republished on other sites. This is again better explained with an illustration. I erroneously inserted a link in one of my articles which was republished on another site and noticed the error from ""crawl errors"" in my Google webmaster tools account. The link led nowhere i.e. 404 page and I subsequently redirected it to its originally intended destination, thereby preserving that backlink. This becomes very important when you realize that you can have many of such errors over time.The ""Simple 301 Redirects"" plugin’s many uses can only be limited by your imagination. In summary, the ""Simple 301 Redirects"" is one more of the great WordPress plugins.

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Introduction to WordPress Themes

By on June 23, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

Introduction to WordPress Themes

Without a doubt, WordPress is one of the most popular blog and website creation tools. That is, WordPress.org which is the WordPress version that is hosted on the hosting company of your choice. WordPress.com is rather limited and is hosted on WordPress own servers. It is free, but you are limited to a small number of themes and the customizations options are limited. As long as you are willing to pay for your own hosting service, ie – Go Daddy, JustHost, MonsterGator, etc., WordPress.org is the way to go.

Most of the top blogs use the WordPress platform. By looking at these blogs, you can see a great variety in their design. In fact, many of them don’t look like blogs themselves, but look like traditional websites.

The reason for this is that WordPress allows users to create their own themes, and upload them to the WordPress website. Many people do this for fun or the good of the community. However, some create what is called a premium theme which is basically a paid version. Some of the themes offer a free starter theme, but a paid version gets you more features.

One of the strengths of WordPress is also a weakness. There are almost too many themes out there. It can get frustrating finding a theme that suits your purposes, especially after reviewing hundreds of similar themes.  To eliminate some of the frustration, consider the following:

What do you want in a theme. On one hand, there are people who are just interested in their blog writing, and they want it to look nice. Commercialization or ads do not interest them. On the other hand, there are other people who are interested in their blog, but would also like to make a little money.

This generally involves AdSense, banner ads, etc. However, the placing of these ads (or the HTML code that supports them) on a blog or website is of prime importance to the advertiser, and also to the website owner. You don’t want ads to distract from your website, but complement it.

WordPress accomplishes this by having areas of your blog where you can place widgets. Widgets are basically place holders where you can place a great variety of content. It could include a link page, a poll, a photo, text, or HTML code that generates an ad.  However, depending upon the theme, widgets will be in different places and different sizes.

The WordPress database allows you to search for specific elements of themes.

For example, when you search the WordPress database, you will find hundreds of themes that say “”ad sense ready.””  Many of these themes have only a few widget areas available for ads, and some have as many as 11 different widget areas.

Generally, the more widget areas the better in a theme, because no matter what your purpose, it gives you more flexibility. 

Another factor that comes into play is that many themes are highly customizable.  Don’t be deceived by the initial appearance, look at the option page before you move on.   Many themes have great features, you just need to choose the appropriate option.  Background image, color, placement of widget sidebars, etc. are all common things that can be customized.

Finding a theme you like is a trial and error process.  However, before you begin, have an idea on what you want to accomplish.  Do you want widget space for small rectangle ads?  Or do you want widget space that will accommodate skyscraper ads, leaderboard ads, and the other popular banner ad formats? Do you want a widget space that will accommodate a particular photo dimension format?

The process of looking for a theme you like is a daunting task, but if you have a general idea of what you want, it will make the process go faster.  With the thousands of WordPress themes out there, you are bound to find one you like.

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WordPress Themes-An SEO Friendly WordPress Theme Will Increase Search Engine Visibility

By on June 17, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

WordPress Themes: An SEO Friendly WordPress Theme Will Increase Search Engine Visibility!

Want to start your own website and do not want to hire a website designer. You have great chances of successfully starting a website with the WordPress blogging software. WordPress is easy and absolutely manageable and within a day you have mastered the art of maintaining and managing website without too much hassle. There are hundreds of WordPress themes to choose from, moreover for those who cannot spend too much on their website you can use the free WordPress theme for the purpose of starting the website.

Most of the web hosting packages allow use of WordPress, you need to install this software and start using it. Another way of using the WordPress is by logging on to the website and getting your own domain name. For those who want to use a hosting package, using WordPress is the easiest way.

When you start a website, one of the most important components of making it visible to search engines is making it search engine optimized. Not all themes support direct optimization that is putting in of Meta tags, Meta description as well as title of the website. However, some themes allow just this thereby making it very easy for the user to make a great blog which can be modified easily and at the same time make it easily visible to the search engines.

There are some themes which use the tags as keywords and submit those to search engines. This makes it very important that you keep an eye on the keyword and density when submitting website to search engines. There does happen to be a popular belief that Meta tags and description do not have any significance for the search engines. On contrary to this belief, most search engines do make a primary classification and categorization with the help of Meta tags and web page/site description.

Some themes allow ease of use, you can change text color, background color, font, etc. i.e. almost every feature according to your liking. You may not have to pay for each of these fabulous themes. Free WordPress themes are available in abundance. Some do not allow all the features to be used unless you have purchased the theme. However, you can make basic changes.

Benefits of purchasing the themes:

Not purchasing a particular theme will save you money. However, it also means you will not be able to use the theme to its 100% ability. Also, you will get help from the developers, you will get reference material that those using the free version of WordPress theme will not have access to. Moreover, using the paid version is also a way of repaying back all the hard work that is done by the programmers. Only those who are hard on cash end up using the free version.

SEO friendly WordPress themes are most famous. Here are some of the examples like the Atahualpa, SEO Basics, Clearline Theme, etc.

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Installing a WordPress Theme Yourself

By on June 7, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

Installing a WordPress Theme Yourself

Having a WordPress theme for your blog can be a really good decision because an apt theme conveys two things: 1- You care a lot about the presentation of your blog. 2- You want the visitor or reader of your blog to derive the maximum utility or value from your blog through interaction and good user-experience.

Here is how you can install a WordPress theme.

1. Go to a blog or website that is known for WordPress themes. There are some of them who charge you to download the themes, those are high quality and are of the premium variety. It Is up to you if you want a free WordPress theme or buy one. Go to the category that is in sync with the theme of your blog, check the ‘demo’ to see how the theme may look on your blog.

2. Download the theme; it will be downloaded in the zipped format. Copy it to the wp-content or the ‘themes’ directory. You will find this folder in the location where you had installed WordPress.3. Now unzip the zipped file that has the theme.

4. Once you have unzipped, you will find a directory listed as wp-content/themes/theme_file, apart from the existing directory.

5. Now you can choose to retain the theme_file.zip or take it off.

6. Go to the WordPress Administrative Panel and choose Appearance.

7. The newly installed theme should be present. Now you just have to activate it, and you are all set to see the new theme on your blog.

There is also another option that will tell you how to install a WordPress theme. Use the built-in theme uploader, which can be accessed directly from the WordPress Administration Panel. Go to the appearance section in WordPress and choose the ‘theme’ section. Once there, you can click on ‘add new them’ to get started.

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