Wordpress Shopping Cart : 8 Factors You Need To Consider
By : Alan Lewis
WordPress shopping carts are very difficult to find. The majority of those that are available are still in alpha and beta development stages and not ready for a production web site. This is a great pity because Wordpress is the prefered tool of choice for many Internet marketers for well known reasons, including the speed at which you can deploy new sites, and the myriad of tools, themes and plugins that are freely available.
Given the current explosion in popularity this particular development environment is experiencing I am really surprised that there are so few wordpress shopping cart options available. The coding of these scripts and plugins must be a lot more complex than what one would expect.
If you are researching for a shoppingcart solution then the following points constitute the very least that a good system should offer -
1) If the solution requires installation on your server then it must be simple to install, and to configure. You probably do not want to pay good money to somebody else to install a complex script.
2) The shopping cart software must be quick and easy for day to day administration, via a secure web interface.
3) It must be extremely stable. You do not want any errors to occur when you have a hard earned customer busy paying you for your goods.
4) It has to be fast. The fastest shopping carts always work "in" your website. That means it does not leave your site and jump to the payment vendors site everytime a buyer adds a product to their basket. I always get annoyed with shopping cart software that constantly takes ages to add items to my basket.
5) The shopping cart must "look and feel" exactly like the rest of your site. The best solution is one where your customer sees no difference between the shopping basket and the rest of your web site.
6) Usability and simplicity is paramount. It must be extremely easy for your customer to use. Many niches cater to a less sophisticated clientele (not everybody is a computer geek), and you do not want to lose sales from within the shopping cart itself because your customer does not know what button to press next.
7) The shopping cart software must provide your clients with as many payment options as possible. At the very least it must accept PayPal payments, Google Checkout payments, and also all major credit cards and debit cards.
8) Lastly, being a full-time internet marketer myself, I often sell digital "downloadable" content. So, I look for a solution that will keep all of my product download locations completely secret and secure. Unique, hacker-safe download links for each of my product items must be automatically generated on a per customer basis. These download links must be configurable in terms of the number of times they can be used (and also the length of time that they can be used) to download the particular product that has been purchased. This stops a dishonest customer from sharing the download link they receive with other people who have not purchased, thereby defrauding you of sales.
If you want an excellent wordpress shopping cart then point your browser to http://www.wordpressshoppingcart.info
About the Author
Part-time author, professional internet service provider, web host, and full time Internet marketer.
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Blogs: Blogging For Money
Blogs: Blogging For Money
By : Luke Blaise
Blogs have grown tremendously over the years and are now mainstream. It seems almost everyone has a blog these days, but not many people are earning money off these blogs. Just by utilizing a few free resources you can start earning some money from blogging.
The first thing you need is to set up a blog. You can do this for free in many places, but the easiest place to get one is on Blogger. Setting up a blog with Blogger is easy and it only takes a couple of minutes. Blogger is great for beginners because since it belongs to Google it gets much more traffic, which is vital to earn money, and also the Google search engine will rank you higher compared with other similar blogs, another thing vital for traffic.
Before we move on the earning money from your blog, remember that you need quality content. Give people a reason to read your blog and come back. If you have a low quality blog, no one will read it, and you will likely earn no money.
The easiest ways to monetize your blog is with Adsense. You can do this through Blogger. The way Adsense works is you get paid just for people clicking on ads placed on your website. Another great way to monetize your blog is with affiliate programs. Most large companies have affiliate programs, like Ebay and Amazon.
You earn money through affiliate programs when people click a link on your blog that leads them to another website where they can purchase the product.
The great thing about Adsense and affiliate programs is all you have to do is add great content to your blog, you don't have to really work at selling anything at all.
Most people who earn money from blogging have several blogs in order to earn decent money. Write blogs about what you are passionate and the money and people will follow. Regular posts to your blogs will lead to large amounts of traffic over time.
About the Author
Fierce Personal Finance
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By : Luke Blaise
Blogs have grown tremendously over the years and are now mainstream. It seems almost everyone has a blog these days, but not many people are earning money off these blogs. Just by utilizing a few free resources you can start earning some money from blogging.
The first thing you need is to set up a blog. You can do this for free in many places, but the easiest place to get one is on Blogger. Setting up a blog with Blogger is easy and it only takes a couple of minutes. Blogger is great for beginners because since it belongs to Google it gets much more traffic, which is vital to earn money, and also the Google search engine will rank you higher compared with other similar blogs, another thing vital for traffic.
Before we move on the earning money from your blog, remember that you need quality content. Give people a reason to read your blog and come back. If you have a low quality blog, no one will read it, and you will likely earn no money.
The easiest ways to monetize your blog is with Adsense. You can do this through Blogger. The way Adsense works is you get paid just for people clicking on ads placed on your website. Another great way to monetize your blog is with affiliate programs. Most large companies have affiliate programs, like Ebay and Amazon.
You earn money through affiliate programs when people click a link on your blog that leads them to another website where they can purchase the product.
The great thing about Adsense and affiliate programs is all you have to do is add great content to your blog, you don't have to really work at selling anything at all.
Most people who earn money from blogging have several blogs in order to earn decent money. Write blogs about what you are passionate and the money and people will follow. Regular posts to your blogs will lead to large amounts of traffic over time.
About the Author
Fierce Personal Finance
http://www.AdSenseThai.Net
Free Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic
Free Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic
By : kumar
) Comment on Blogs Look for large traffic Blogs in your niche, visit them and leave your comments on their blogs posts. You may use blog search engine like www.blogsearchengine.com, www.google.com/blogsearch and www.searchengineblog.com to find blogs in your niche.
2) Submit Articles Write articles that are related to your blog and submit them to popular article directories such as ezinearticles.com, Isnare.com, Articledashboard.com, Articlealley.com and goarticle.com. Quality articles may drive you a lot of free targeted traffic.
3) Participate in Community Forums Use google to search for forums that are related to your blog. Look for forums that has over 10,000 members and read the rules of the forums to see whether you can promote your blogs and websites in your signature. Join forums that allow you to add a link to your blog in the signature and start participating in discussion. You can ask questions, answer other members questions and post your articles, ideas and thought in the forums.
4) Submit Your Blog to Directories This isn't working to me but some bloggers claim that they gain a good amount of traffic from their listings in directories.
5) Post Often You can lose traffic if you seldom update you blog, try to make it at least 5 posts per week. This not only will maintain your traffic but possibly attract more readers.
6) Write about Blogging Write helpful and quality articles related to blogging can attract other bloggers link to your articles and gain may be truckload of free traffic.
7) Post Breaking News If your found a breaking news of your niche very earlier, post it to your blog. It may give your blog's traffic a boost.
8) Social Bookmarking Bookmark you blog posts in the large social bookmarking sites like Netscape.com, Digg.com, Simply and Reddit.com.
9) Run a Contest Start a contest on your blog. Think about the prizes that people really want. It will create a viral effect and bring in new visitors.
10) On-page Optimization Make sure your blog's title tag and description tag contain your targeted keywords. When you have posted plenty of quality blog post and done a lot of blog promotion, don't be surprise to see your blog ranks top 10 in Google and get free search engine traffic daily.
http://www.flixya.com/user/xbox360
About the Author
kumar
http://www.AdSenseThai.Net
By : kumar
) Comment on Blogs Look for large traffic Blogs in your niche, visit them and leave your comments on their blogs posts. You may use blog search engine like www.blogsearchengine.com, www.google.com/blogsearch and www.searchengineblog.com to find blogs in your niche.
2) Submit Articles Write articles that are related to your blog and submit them to popular article directories such as ezinearticles.com, Isnare.com, Articledashboard.com, Articlealley.com and goarticle.com. Quality articles may drive you a lot of free targeted traffic.
3) Participate in Community Forums Use google to search for forums that are related to your blog. Look for forums that has over 10,000 members and read the rules of the forums to see whether you can promote your blogs and websites in your signature. Join forums that allow you to add a link to your blog in the signature and start participating in discussion. You can ask questions, answer other members questions and post your articles, ideas and thought in the forums.
4) Submit Your Blog to Directories This isn't working to me but some bloggers claim that they gain a good amount of traffic from their listings in directories.
5) Post Often You can lose traffic if you seldom update you blog, try to make it at least 5 posts per week. This not only will maintain your traffic but possibly attract more readers.
6) Write about Blogging Write helpful and quality articles related to blogging can attract other bloggers link to your articles and gain may be truckload of free traffic.
7) Post Breaking News If your found a breaking news of your niche very earlier, post it to your blog. It may give your blog's traffic a boost.
8) Social Bookmarking Bookmark you blog posts in the large social bookmarking sites like Netscape.com, Digg.com, Simply and Reddit.com.
9) Run a Contest Start a contest on your blog. Think about the prizes that people really want. It will create a viral effect and bring in new visitors.
10) On-page Optimization Make sure your blog's title tag and description tag contain your targeted keywords. When you have posted plenty of quality blog post and done a lot of blog promotion, don't be surprise to see your blog ranks top 10 in Google and get free search engine traffic daily.
http://www.flixya.com/user/xbox360
About the Author
kumar
http://www.AdSenseThai.Net
5 Tips For Bloggers
5 Tips For Bloggers
By : Alyice Edrich
I started blogging for personal reasons: to keep in touch with long distant friends and relatives. Then I added a Q&A blog (http://thedabblingmum.blogspot.com) for my magazine (http://thedabblingmum.com) to host interviews I conduct with authors and entrepreneurs. Now I get paid to ghostwrite for blogs and you can too! Tip #1 Understand the industry you want to be paid to blog for.
Let's assume you enjoy health and nutrition and have read up on this topic for years. In fact, you know many facts and "insider secrets" by heart and often share this information with friends, relatives, and strangers in your local health food store. That's a topic you could easily be paid to write about. Because of your vast knowledge, the posts will come easy and when they don't you're magazine subscriptions will offer plenty of food for thought.
Tip #2 Never accept a non-compete contract.
As a blog writer, you will make your living writing for various blogs. A non-compete clause will prevent you from writing about the same topic on another blog and that's not good for business.
As a health and nutrition specialist, you may write for a vegetarian blog, a holistic treatment blog, a vitamin company's blog, and even a diet blog. There's no competition there, right? And no "conflict of interest", correct? The non-compete clause won't even apply.
But what if you're asked to write for another vegetarian blog? That's when the non-compete clause kicks in and prevents you from earning a better living. Is there really a conflict of interest? Not if you don't post the same information on both blogs. You can write for five different vegetarian blogs and still not show a conflict of interest. It's all about choosing a different angle on the same idea and writing about it.
Tip #3 Never rely on revenue sharing as your sole source of income.
You're job as a blog writer is to write about topics relevant to the blog's theme and interact with commenters. Your job isn't to market and advertise the blog. That's the company's job. If the company isn't pulling its weight, the ad revenue will not exist and if the ad revenue doesn't exist, neither does your salary. It's best to be paid a flat fee, but if the company you truly want to work for only pays in ad revenue, negotiate a monthly stipend plus a percentage of the ad revenues.
If you're going to get paid based on ad revenue or clicks, and you're job is to also promote and market the blog, you should start your own blog. That way, you get to keep all the income you earn and don't have to share the revenues with a company who isn't doing anything to help promote the blog--aside from hosting (which you can get for as little as $7 a month and free if you stick to blog networks.)
Tip #4 Get paid in advance.
Negotiate a contract to get paid at the beginning of the month for that month's blogging. That way, you will never be out money for a project you've completed. And remember, if the company can pay the web host, the electricity bill, the web designer, the internet provider, and so forth, the company can afford to pay you!
Tip #5 When writers' block hits, to a search online.
Sometimes bloggers get what's known as "writers' block". Writers' block simply means you've run out of ideas to write about. It happens to the best of us, but it doesn't have to hurt your career as a blogger for hire. When writers' block occurs, get online and search for blogs, websites, and forums related to your blog's topic. After a half hour to an hour of reading, you'll have plenty of ideas to write about.
About the Author
Alyice Edrich is the editor of The Dabbling Mum®, a free parenting publication, and the author of several work from home e-books designed to help parents earn extra cash while spending more time with their children. To learn more, visit her at http://thedabblingmum.com/ebookstore
http://www.AdSenseThai.Net
By : Alyice Edrich
I started blogging for personal reasons: to keep in touch with long distant friends and relatives. Then I added a Q&A blog (http://thedabblingmum.blogspot.com) for my magazine (http://thedabblingmum.com) to host interviews I conduct with authors and entrepreneurs. Now I get paid to ghostwrite for blogs and you can too! Tip #1 Understand the industry you want to be paid to blog for.
Let's assume you enjoy health and nutrition and have read up on this topic for years. In fact, you know many facts and "insider secrets" by heart and often share this information with friends, relatives, and strangers in your local health food store. That's a topic you could easily be paid to write about. Because of your vast knowledge, the posts will come easy and when they don't you're magazine subscriptions will offer plenty of food for thought.
Tip #2 Never accept a non-compete contract.
As a blog writer, you will make your living writing for various blogs. A non-compete clause will prevent you from writing about the same topic on another blog and that's not good for business.
As a health and nutrition specialist, you may write for a vegetarian blog, a holistic treatment blog, a vitamin company's blog, and even a diet blog. There's no competition there, right? And no "conflict of interest", correct? The non-compete clause won't even apply.
But what if you're asked to write for another vegetarian blog? That's when the non-compete clause kicks in and prevents you from earning a better living. Is there really a conflict of interest? Not if you don't post the same information on both blogs. You can write for five different vegetarian blogs and still not show a conflict of interest. It's all about choosing a different angle on the same idea and writing about it.
Tip #3 Never rely on revenue sharing as your sole source of income.
You're job as a blog writer is to write about topics relevant to the blog's theme and interact with commenters. Your job isn't to market and advertise the blog. That's the company's job. If the company isn't pulling its weight, the ad revenue will not exist and if the ad revenue doesn't exist, neither does your salary. It's best to be paid a flat fee, but if the company you truly want to work for only pays in ad revenue, negotiate a monthly stipend plus a percentage of the ad revenues.
If you're going to get paid based on ad revenue or clicks, and you're job is to also promote and market the blog, you should start your own blog. That way, you get to keep all the income you earn and don't have to share the revenues with a company who isn't doing anything to help promote the blog--aside from hosting (which you can get for as little as $7 a month and free if you stick to blog networks.)
Tip #4 Get paid in advance.
Negotiate a contract to get paid at the beginning of the month for that month's blogging. That way, you will never be out money for a project you've completed. And remember, if the company can pay the web host, the electricity bill, the web designer, the internet provider, and so forth, the company can afford to pay you!
Tip #5 When writers' block hits, to a search online.
Sometimes bloggers get what's known as "writers' block". Writers' block simply means you've run out of ideas to write about. It happens to the best of us, but it doesn't have to hurt your career as a blogger for hire. When writers' block occurs, get online and search for blogs, websites, and forums related to your blog's topic. After a half hour to an hour of reading, you'll have plenty of ideas to write about.
About the Author
Alyice Edrich is the editor of The Dabbling Mum®, a free parenting publication, and the author of several work from home e-books designed to help parents earn extra cash while spending more time with their children. To learn more, visit her at http://thedabblingmum.com/ebookstore
http://www.AdSenseThai.Net
Occupation Blogger
Occupation Blogger
By : Artem Belinskiy
Such phenomenon like blogging three years ago was perceived only like hobby. Today situation is changed. About opportunity of making money by means of virtual diary knows almost everyone internet user. Let's see how this statement is justified.
Until recently earn money in internet was not easy. Create site, untwist it and make money advertise on them was possible to the little. That's why 3-4 years ago people who want to earn something in internet choose the easiest way - advertising of websites. The essence is simple. Installation of program and clicking on banners. But not much could earn more than $50 a month.
That' why about three years ago internet community began talking about make money blogging.
Conducting a blog does not demand any special skills or the software from the ordinary user. All you have to do to become blogger is to go to special services (like Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad) register and become posting to your own blog.
Spending on contextual advertising according to statistics of eMarketer are growing from $108 million in 2000 year to $5,561 millions in 2006.
Paid search ad spending in the US
This is only US details. In Europe this spending are equal more than $10 billions. At such situation a sin to not earn.
The most popular way of blog money earning is Adsense. In particular the average blog's owner salary in US is $2500 a month. Every seriuos company employs the blogger in the staff. As a matter of fact it is journalistic work and payment corresponding.
Such corporative blog has DELL. In opinion of experts such blog allows to be beyond dry releases and become closer to potential buyers. Go to BlogIt and find your freelance work there, writing about any subject you want.
If your blog about shopping or on this theme, many companies glad to pay you about $1000 for review of their new product. Also if you have a blog you can do reviews of any blogs in your subject. Such blogs like JohnChow.com and Problogger.com and many others offers about $500 for review of their blog on yours. Go to ReviewMe and browse its marketplace.
Making money blogging depends on writing subject. For example, if you are writing about finances and your auditory consist of 5 thousand visitors a month, you can earn not bad money. If you are writing about celebrities you should collect much more visitors to earn same.
Conclusion is that the epoch of naive self-expression is ending. Places of fans to give vent to the soul in a network will borrow experienced bloggers which will give out dexterously itself for everybody and unostentatiously to advise trustful users to buy this or that goods.
About the Author
Artem Belinskiy. I'm living in Ukraine. My main job is Internet. I'm earning with it's help and want to tell how you could do this too. http://www.earnexperience.com
http://www.AdSenseThai.Net
By : Artem Belinskiy
Such phenomenon like blogging three years ago was perceived only like hobby. Today situation is changed. About opportunity of making money by means of virtual diary knows almost everyone internet user. Let's see how this statement is justified.
Until recently earn money in internet was not easy. Create site, untwist it and make money advertise on them was possible to the little. That's why 3-4 years ago people who want to earn something in internet choose the easiest way - advertising of websites. The essence is simple. Installation of program and clicking on banners. But not much could earn more than $50 a month.
That' why about three years ago internet community began talking about make money blogging.
Conducting a blog does not demand any special skills or the software from the ordinary user. All you have to do to become blogger is to go to special services (like Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad) register and become posting to your own blog.
Spending on contextual advertising according to statistics of eMarketer are growing from $108 million in 2000 year to $5,561 millions in 2006.
Paid search ad spending in the US
This is only US details. In Europe this spending are equal more than $10 billions. At such situation a sin to not earn.
The most popular way of blog money earning is Adsense. In particular the average blog's owner salary in US is $2500 a month. Every seriuos company employs the blogger in the staff. As a matter of fact it is journalistic work and payment corresponding.
Such corporative blog has DELL. In opinion of experts such blog allows to be beyond dry releases and become closer to potential buyers. Go to BlogIt and find your freelance work there, writing about any subject you want.
If your blog about shopping or on this theme, many companies glad to pay you about $1000 for review of their new product. Also if you have a blog you can do reviews of any blogs in your subject. Such blogs like JohnChow.com and Problogger.com and many others offers about $500 for review of their blog on yours. Go to ReviewMe and browse its marketplace.
Making money blogging depends on writing subject. For example, if you are writing about finances and your auditory consist of 5 thousand visitors a month, you can earn not bad money. If you are writing about celebrities you should collect much more visitors to earn same.
Conclusion is that the epoch of naive self-expression is ending. Places of fans to give vent to the soul in a network will borrow experienced bloggers which will give out dexterously itself for everybody and unostentatiously to advise trustful users to buy this or that goods.
About the Author
Artem Belinskiy. I'm living in Ukraine. My main job is Internet. I'm earning with it's help and want to tell how you could do this too. http://www.earnexperience.com
http://www.AdSenseThai.Net
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