Dave Wooding
The WordPress plugin that keeps on giving.
Affiliates who want to control where their visitors are sent to, that want to know that the affiliate cookies are being set properly, who use a WordPress blog for promoting products.
Is this describes you, then I suggest you check out Soda Popper.
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If you want to embed Youtube videos on your website, there are more options available then shown on the standard Youtube video page.
Here is the tool that will do it YOUTUBE EMBED TOOL
These default youtube embed player options are a good start.
As of this writing … things change, you know – Youtube gives you the option to:
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It is one thing to personalize your emails by using an autoresponder service like Aweber or GetResponse. It is another to personalize your self hosted WordPress blog.
Personalizing your WordPress blog can be done using “shortcodes“.
So what are they?
Introduced in WordPress 2.5 is the Shortcode API, a simple set of functions for creating macro codes for use in post content. … It enables plugin developers to create special kinds of content (e.g. forms, content generators) that users can attach to certain pages by adding the corresponding shortcode into the page text.
Huh? Does that make sense ?
Lets forget all the techy mumbo jumbo and talk about what shortcodes can do for you.
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Ever heard of the site?
Located in Boise, Idaho. Where yours truly lives.
BodyBuilding.com has an Alexa rank of 737. They get a ton of traffic every day. To the tune of 300k uniques a day.
They have over 400 content providers adding ~40 pieces of content every week. That doesn’t include the content generated by the million plus active users who participate in one of the largest forums driven by VBulletin 4.
Side note: Apparently, BodyBuilding.com is one of the only “large” sites with a VBulletin forum that upgraded from version 3.x to version 4.x (even Disney decided to forgo the upgrade from version 3.8.4).
Apparently, the people at BodyBuilder.com know what the hell they are doing.
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I know the Super Affiliate Guy.
The first time I heard Andy speak he said something so brilliant, so simple – I had a “light bulb moment”.
Or in Homer-speak: “d’oh!”
Andy is a top 100 Clickbank affiliate. He knows a thing or two about making money online.
If you are a little bit jaded about making money online, then your first question is probably along the lines of “how much money does he spend” to make money.
It’s one thing to be a top affiliate, but at what cost?
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Here’s how you create a Facebook page that gets visitors to take the actions you want them to.
(click here or the image below for an example)
What’s not to like about this page.
There is no need for someone to login to their Facebook account to view or more importantly take the action you ultimately want them to (if they decide to “like” the page, they will need to be logged in).
And if you are willing to spend a little money, you can drive targeting vistors to you fancy pancy Facebook page.
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Let’s just cut to the chase here – how do you embed a Youtube video on your Facebook Page?
There are a few assumptions to make – namely, you have a Facebook account (and maybe a Youtube account).
Before you dive too deep into this … you might just head over to the official Facebook Pages page to see what they have to say.
Here’s some example pages:
Kind of boring if you ask me.
Your page, on the other hand, will stand out once you get that Youtube video posted … so here we go.
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Yes, the time has arrived.
Time to use YouTube videos on mobile squeeze pages.
What’s cool about this is it is NOT an app, it is a web page that uses the JqueryMobile scripts to create the “look and feel” of a mobile phone. In this case, it works well with the Apple IPhone.
When a visitor taps the Name or Email field, the mobile phone’s keyboard pops up.
When complete, they just click the “Send Me The FREE Report …” button.
Once signed up, they get to view the promised video.
Look at the first image – the one with the image that looks a little blurred. That “blur” was done on purpose. It indicates that the video isn’t really available – at least not until you signup.
If you look at that same screenshot, there is a link at the bottom “What do goldfish and coffee have in common? Sign …”.
That’s a link to content you provide.
Content that you use to sell your visitor on signing up. Don’t worry, your visitor is not going anywhere. On that content page is only one link, the “Back” button.
Second image – the signup. Easy, peasy.
As soon as your visitor taps any of the input fields (name and email, in this case – you can have as many or as few fields as you like), the built in mobile keyboard pops up.
Third image – what they get. A video, a YouTube video. Notice that there is also a link to additional content. Just like before they signed up, the only link on that content page after signup is back to the video.
They are setup to NOT autoplay. Probably more importantly, they don’t show links to other videos which YouTube videos do by default. Nor do they show more information about the video itself.
Again, the only option (the only real option) is for your newly signed up visitor is the “Done” button which brings them back to your mobile web page.
What I have shown you is one way of setting up a mobile squeeze page with a YouTube video.
Here’s a little secret.
The additional content and YouTube video included on the squeeze page are all optional.
As a matter of fact, you don’t have to include any content or any Videos.
Or you could have two YouTube videos (one before signup and one after signup).
There are a whole bunch of combinations.
Let me give you some scenarios and see if this gives you some ideas.
Aweber signup, YouTube video before signup and YouTube video after signup (two different videos), no content either before or after signup.
You are going to rely on the videos to make the “sale”. The sale being signing up to your mailing list.
You’ll have to create the first video and put it on Youtube. More than likely you will also want to create the second video.
Make the first video short and sweet. Make a promise that you fulfill on the second video.
In other words, the first video is a teaser for the second video. And the only way to see the second video is to …
Almost totally the opposite of scenario #1.
Let’s say you are an online marketer for local (read “offline”) businesses.
Go with me on this one.
You’re getting your hair cut (or making your daily visit to the local coffee shop up the road in Narabeen – I’m just saying).
Your barber mentions how business has been dropping off. You mention that you help businesses increase their revenue and profits by marketing online.
Your barber is definitely interested in what you have to say.
Alas, the haircut comes to an end (hopefully your barber was paying more attention to your hair then what you had to say – again, I’m just saying).
Since you don’t carry your laptop everywhere you go, you take out your mobile smartphone and pull up your mobile signup page (that has no videos and no content – straight up autoresponder signup).
Enter your barber’s name and email and tell him that you will send a report out to him right away that has some ideas to help his business (your autoresponder has already sent the report!) and pay him (and include a nice tip).
… this is your scenario, what do you see possible?
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Lets just say that you want something (an image, a phone number, whatever) to show when someone clicks on a link.
You can do this using the jQuery javascript library in WordPress.
Make a post in WordPress just like you normally would.
If you are using a more recent version of WordPress (3.0+ as of this writing), then scroll down below the text area and find the Javascript area that looks like this.
Couple things to do here:
1) Tick the box that says jQuery library.
2) Where is says Embed Your Own JavaScript embedded script code (please include <script> tags), add the following (modified from Slicker Show and Hide):
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.pack.js"></script>
<script language="javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
// toggles the slickbox on clicking the noted link
$('a#slick-toggle').click(function() {
$('#slickbox').toggle(400);
return false;
});
});
</script>
Now, go back up to your post.
Click on the HTML tab
and add the following (this will display a link that when clicked shows a phone number – make the appropriate substitutions).
<p><a href="#" id="slick-toggle">Call</a></p> <div style="display: none;" id="slickbox">1 800 277 1212</div>
Publish your post and check it out.
Your post should have a link that looks (and acts) like this:
Note, this effect only works on this particular page.
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