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GoPagesPro Review: An Incredibly Easy-to-Use Affiliate Marketing Plugin for WordPress!

Jason Keith — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:40:22 +0000

I just wanted to take a few minutes to tell you about a really cool WordPress plugin I grabbed today. This plugin is different from many other affiliate marketing plugins that I've used previously.

This plugin, called GoPagesPro, is an amazing plugin for managing affiliate links and tracking your affiliate marketing campaigns.

This plugin does three really important things when it comes to affiliate marketing:

It offers multiple ways to redirect your affiliate link to increase conversions
It offers really easy-to-track statistics for every affiliate link you create
It gives you the ability to exponentially increase traffic to your affiliate links via viral traffic from social media sites.

Let's discuss all three features in greater detail:

Redirection Features

GoPagesPro allows you to easily redirect your affiliate links straight from your own site. Here are some of my favorite redirect features:

Create shortened, clean links that are proven to get more clicks
Hide your affiliate IDs from commission thieves
Keep people on your site using iFrames
Select from either an iFrame or standard redirect via a drop down box.
Amazon affiliates: Bypass Amazon's "no iFrames" rule with simple redirects
No 301 Redirects
Built in SEO (add descriptions, meta tags and keywords)
Plus many more features.

–> Click here to learn more about the GoPagesPro WordPress Affiliate Plugin

Link Tracking Features

GoPagesPro allows you to effortlessly track all your affiliate links in one location! Here are some of the tracking features:

Track referring sites sending you traffic.
Monitor your social marketing campaigns. Track multiple sites and fine tune your efforts.
Monitor Paid Advertising / PPC campaigns, compare clicks, track traffic and more
Track your Social Stickiness, social shares, PinIts, Tweets with these powerful metrics
Track, measure and compare all of your SEO keywords performance
Track your organic traffic sources and performance, based on your meta data
Plus Much More!

–> Click here to learn more about the GoPagesPro WordPress Affiliate Plugin

Viral Traffic Features

When you use the iframe affiliate link feature, GoPagesPro can display social media sharing icons (Facebook like button, Pinterest pin button, retweet, etc.). This means you can get more traffic out of your existing marketing strategies.

Summary

I have been playing with this plugin for the past hour or so. I am very impressed. It is incredibly easy-to-use and setup and the opportunities are amazing. It is going to make tracking and setting up affiliate campaigns so much easier!

WP Arcade Engine Plugin Review

Jason Keith — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:47:30 +0000

For people who wish to create a niche gaming site using WordPress, the WPArcadeEngine plugin is a great way to customize a site. The WPArcadeEngine can be bought with a single site license for $29. You can also buy a game pack, which comes with over 6000 games, for an additional $29. The WPArcadeEngine also comes with an unlimited site license (and the 6000 game pack) for $99.

There are several features provided by WPArcadeEngine that any person trying to create a gaming site would find useful. The plugin comes with automatic detection of .swf file dimensions. This automatic detection comes in handy for people who are posting flash based games and do not wish to manually enter the dimensions. WPArcadeEngine also supports gaming rss feeds, which can come in handy if a person wishes to provide extra content from other gaming sites within their own site. For people that wish to publish nonflash games, WPArcadeEngine supports all files types. Ratings are fully supported with the plugin, allowing for an extra layer of user interaction. For people who are making their first journey into the world of WordPress and feel a little lost when getting started with the plugin, WPArcadeEngine offers unlimited lifetime support.

WPArcadeEngine is easily customizable. The administration area of WPArcadeEngine simply adds on to WordPress’s administration area. With this easy synching of administration areas, the WPArcadeEngine plugin offers an administration area that most WordPress users are already familiar with. WPArcadeEngine will also work with every WordPress plugin, offering a gaming site platform with unlimited potential for customization. Since WPArcadeEngine is just a plugin, it can utilize any WordPress theme, providing nearly unlimited choices for gaming site design.

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WP CSV File Importer Plugin Review

Jason Keith — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:39:43 +0000

If you are looking for a WordPress plugin that can quicken the import and conversion of Comma Separated Value (CSV) file formats, PressMatix has a point-and-click solution. Their WP CSV File Importer Plugin (“WPCSVImporter”) is an easy to install, quick launch database merging tool that comes complete with post template creation tools, customized data field links, and flexible Post dating controls.

Priced at $39.00 US and ready for immediate download, the WPCSVImporter carries a 30-day unconditional cost refund guarantee. The price tag also includes unlimited, lifetime support and updates.

Here are some of the fine points of performance:

1. Import Features: Not only handles MySQL exports into CSV files and then back again, but also imports data feeds from various affiliate networks;
2. Templates: Supports simple or complex field definitions combined with multiple conversion features and reusable templates;
3. Category Controls: Provides automated category creation subsidized by user specified category names and category field types;
4. Data Fields: Set up precisely defined data conversion criteria and input formats;
5. Post Dating Generator: Define random Post dates, including prescheduled future Post release dates;
6. Field-Controlled Data Updates: Merge new CSV data into existing files without losing previous changes. Limit updates to predefined fields.

Whether you have an established web site or you are just getting started, WPCSVImporter contains features that can lessen the time and expense of data conversion. Existing sites spend considerable time seeking and inputting new content. Beginning sites spend time trying to collect enough content to draw some attention.

Why not give your web site idea a kick-start? With WPCSVImporter, a new article submission site could purchase CSV database, merge it into the WordPress MySQL file, and be up and running in only a few hours.

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Digital Access Pass Membership Plugin Review

Jason Keith — Sat, 01 May 2010 14:53:32 +0000

There are a handful of options on the web these days for turning WordPress sites into paying membership sites. Digital Access Pass is one such product.

It is an excellent choice when it comes to member management due to its built-in affiliate program, sequential content delivery options, supported payment processors, partial content protection and download protection.

The great thing about Digital Access Pass is how easy it is to setup and use. You can have your membership site up and running in a few minutes using this great "made for WordPress" membership script.

One feature that really sets Digital Access Pass apart from some of its contenders is the ContentResponder with Tru-Drip technology. This is where you can setup certain content to be available only after a certain length of membership per member. This works much like an autoresponder. For example, on the first day, you release a certain PDF, then on day 10 you release a video and day 45 another member content module is released. No matter when a person joins, he or she gets the same content at the same interval. This is a really cool feature.

Digital Access Pass is not restricted to just WordPress. It will work with basic HTML sites too.

The customer support is great with Digital Access Pass. I have submitted several inquiries and received responses back within an hour or so.

There are several packages available ranging from single site plans to unlimited site plans. There is also an option for a "Membership Site in a Box" which is the option where they set everything up for you and hand you the keys to the finished membership site. This option is great for newbies and for people who don't have time to mess with learning how to set everything up.

The Best Spinner Review: How to Spin Articles and Sentences with Ease!

Jason Keith — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:26:55 +0000

For several years now, I have used article spinning in my article marketing efforts, in website content development efforts and for some backlinking efforts. I have used a number of different article spinning programs…but none been as good as Jon Leger's The Best Spinner.

This program is better than other article spinning and article rewriting programs because it has the largest database of spin variations of any program I am aware of. It is able to have such a large number of variations because the users grow the database as they add new alternatives for words and phrases.

Below you will find a step-by-step guide along with screenshots for how to use this software. I also have also created a video showing how to use this software that you can view by clicking here.

It is also very easy to use. Let's take a look at how you would spin a simple sentence using The Best Spinner.

Step One - Open the Software and Insert the Text You Want to Rewrite or Spin:

Step Two: Let the Program Identify Synonyms for Your Words and Phrases:

Step Three: Select the Word or Phrase and Choose Variations from the List:

Step Four: Review Your Spin Text to Ensure it Looks OK:

Step Five: Preview Your Article Spins to Ensure They Read Correctly:

Step Six: Export Your Spin Variations to a Text Document:

Final Step: Review the Spun Articles in the Text Document:

The Best Spinner Video Tutorial:

Summary: As you can tell from the image above, we were able to quickly and easily create 10 unique variations of this sentence using The Best Spinner. We could have created even more variations.

For the money, you won't find a more powerful and easy to use article spinner in my opinion.

EZ Empire Review: This is Better than Any Autoblogging System for WordPress

Jason Keith — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:43:12 +0000

I have to admit that I have had a hard time sleeping this past week.

No…it is not because I have been sick or suffering from insomnia.

It is because my mind has been flowing with ideas for how to use a new WordPress product I have been testing the past week. Let me tell you about it.

This new product is Bumblesoft's EZ Empire Builder. It is an amazing WordPress system that will no doubt change the way you build websites. I have never seen anything like it. It is amazing.

Let me try to explain to you what this terrific product does…

EZ Empire Builder lets you pull content from ANY database straight into WordPress posts. After you pull the content, you can manipulate the data, rearrange the order, spin it in content, add photos, CPA offers, AdSense and other types of affiliate offers and revenue models.

You can use it to import affiliate datafeeds, business directory databases, yellow pages databases, article content, music databases, medical databases and much more.

You can click the link below to visit the sales page and watch some videos of how the owner's setup a 25,000 page song lyrics website in under and hour. (NOTE: if you plan to buy, be sure to use coupon code WPSLTHEME to save 15% off the special launch price for the next 5 days!)

–> http://wp-internetmarketing.com/ezempirebuilder/

Here's a little more on this cool system…

You can setup the posts to all publish at once, or use the built in drip feature to post only a few per day or week.

You can literally create 50,000+ page, highly targeted websites in one sitting or have it slowly build over months or even years using this program. The great thing is you can make your website totally UNIQUE from any other website utilizing the same type of database content.

In my opinion, this is WAY BETTER than any AUTOBLOGGING system I've ever seen. With most autoblogging systems, you are competing with 100's or 1000's of other marketers using the same RSS feeds. With EZ Empire Builder, you are using lesser used content and you are able to customize it to make it unique to your site.

When I first heard about EZ Empire Builder, I thought it sounded interesting, but was a little intimidated by it because I thought it would be difficult to use. Nothing could be further from the truth.

It is an AMAZINGLY easy system that I believe any WordPress user will be able to handle…regardless of technical skills or experience.

This product is brand new to the market and the owners have the price significantly discounted for the launch. They have also graciously agreed to give my subscribers an additional 15% discount off the launch price for the next 5 days. To take advantage of this additional discount, you need to enter coupon code WPSLTHEME when you go the checkout page.

To get a real feel for how this product works, I highly encourage you to click the link below to checkout the sales page and watch the videos.

–> http://wp-internetmarketing.com/ezempirebuilder/

I think it will have your head spinning and I apologize in advance if you lose any sleep over the next week as your ideas for how to use EZ Empire Builder start to flow!

Has Your WordPress Site Been Hacked?

Jason Keith — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:52:34 +0000

Did you know that the latest version of WordPress has been downloaded over 5.2 million times by Internet users?

That's an astounding number…but it doesn't really surprise me. WordPress is hands-down the best system available for building great-looking, highly interactive websites.

The downside to the popularity of WordPress is that it has caught the attention of malicious hackers, scammers and spammers.They know that the fastest way to gain entry and hack into a website is to use backdoors and security vulnerabilities of WordPress.

Of course, if you keep your WordPress installation always up-to-date with the latest version of WordPress and you make sure the plugins you use are always updated you can probably keep your site protected.

The problem is WordPress and plugins are constantly updating to stay ahead of hackers and it can be very difficult for website owners and administrators to stay current with updates.

All it takes is missing one update and your website could be completely vulnerable to an attack.

This happens to the best of us. Even former Vice President of the United States Al Gore had his WordPress blog hacked!

So what can you do to protect your sites?

I highly recommend you checkout Craig Desorcy's Blog Lockdown book. This excellent 90-page book gives you the blueprint for how to protect your WordPress site completely.

http://wp-saleslettertheme.com/bloglockdown.htm

In this terrific book, you will learn how to:

Ensure your WP site and database is always backed up
Keep your WordPress site up-to-date with the latest updates
Use a WordPress Plugin to Minimize Your Risk Exposure to Hackers
How to Protect Your Plugins from backdoor intruders.
How to Protect Your WP Themes from Attacks
Plus Much More!

You can go to the link below right now to check it out:

http://wp-saleslettertheme.com/bloglockdown.htm

If you have never had a website hacked, I can tell you from personal experience that it is no fun. It is incredibly frustrating experience and will leave you feeling vulnerable.

Take action today to ensure it NEVER happens to you and your sites.

DataFeedR Review: Build WordPress Affiliate Stores with Ease

Jason Keith — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:20:06 +0000

I get quite a few questions from my subscribers about how to build affiliate stores with WordPress. Today I want to share with you to tool I use to build WP affiliate stores. I am even going to share the actual URL of a new affiliate store I just built later in this email!

Datafeedr is the service I use to create my affiliate stores. It enables me to easily create professional-looking and search engine friendly stores on WordPress using affiliate datafeeds from the top affiliate networks including Commission Junction, Linkshare, Clickbank, ShareASale, Google Affiliate Network and many others. Here's a link to the Datafeedr site:

http://wp-saleslettertheme.com/datafeedr.htm

In case you are new to the term "datafeed", let me try to explain a little. Many merchants provide feeds or lists of their products to affiliate networks. These feeds include product name, price, description, pictures and sometimes other information.

These feeds are then made available to affiliates to build websites with them. The problem up until now has been that building websites with datafeeds was simply too complex for most affiliate marketers. Datafeedr changes that.

With Datafeedr, any affiliate marketer can build complex affiliate stores with datafeeds and WordPress. As a matter-a-fact, Datafeedr gives you access to over 119 million products to build affiliate stores with. That number simply astounds me!

I personally love the options I have when I build my affiliate stores. I can use whatever WordPress theme I want and most plugins and widgets will work just fine with the Datafeedr plugin and widget.

I can also choose just the merchants or products I want to include in my affiliate store.

So how do I use Datafeedr?

I spend some time looking through the affiliate networks for products I think have potential. I will usually make a list of 5-10 products or niches. For my WP affiliate stores, I tend to focus on the low hanging fruit (smaller niches with lesser competition).

I then take the products or niches I have researched and start running them through the Google keyword tool and Wordtracker. I try to find a keyword phrase that gets 2k to5k or more searches per month and that seems to have less competition in the search engines.

My next step is to purchase a domain name with the keyword phrase I chose. I then install WordPress on the domain and upload the Datafeedr plugin.

I then log into my Datafeedr account and select the exact products and merchants I want to list in my WordPress store. I can categorize the products however I want.

My Live Example WordPress Affiliate Datafeed Store

At the beginning of this email, I promised to share the URL of a website I just built using Datafeedr.

For this site, I chose the keyword "outdoor cat houses" and picked dozens of products from a handful of Commission Junction merchants.

I chose this niche because it was not too competitive and the potential commissions were high. The average "outdoor cat house" sells for $200-$300 USD with commissions of 5-8% depending on the merchant.

Without further ado, here is the URL to my new site:

http://outdoorcathouses.net

Now I will build some incoming links to this website using article submissions, social bookmarking, directory submissions, etc. and wait for the traffic to start trickling in. I fully expect this website to be profitable in 4-6 weeks.

More About Datafeedr

Ok, now that you have seen one of my websites built with the Datafeedr service, let me tell you a little more about it. Below are the pros and cons of the service:

PROS:

You can quickly create professional-looking affiliate stores with WordPress. This frees up more of your time to focus on marketing the websites instead of building them.
Anyone familiar with WordPress can use this service with little training.
The support seem to be great. I have had very fast email reponse to my questions and the forum is regularly monitored.
The service is regularly updated to improve functionality and to add more affiliate networks and merchant datafeeds.
It is a great way for pay-per-click marketers to quickly create landing pages for product specific keywords.
It is search engine friendly and uses WordPress which is also a great SEO tool.
It offers a "drip" feature which allows your site to appear to be constantly updated to visitors and to search engines.

CONS:

It is a bit expensive starting at $27 per month. That expense is really an investment though if you promote your affiliate stores correctly. You should be able to make money with this service.
You have to be an affiliate of the various networks in order to add products to your store. This isn't really a problem, but can sometimes take time for diferent merchants to approve your affiliate request (many will approve you immediately).

If you are an affiliate marketer who uses WordPress to build sites, I really encourage you to at least try out Datafeedr. I think you will be very impressed.

The owners of Datafeedr have offered a 10% discount to WP Sales Letter Theme subscribers. If you decide to try out the service, simply enter 49B01B1271 in the coupon code section to secure your discounted price. Here's the link:

http://wp-saleslettertheme.com/datafeedr.htm

Thank you for taking the time to read this long email today. I hope you learned something. Please feel free to reply if you have any questions.