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If you’re looking to sell products or services via your website, it’s important that you understand what actually happens when your customer clicks on that mighty ‘Buy Now’ button. This post will briefly explain the process of online payment and then look at four ways to increase the number of converting customers.
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I often get asked by small businesses how they can improve the results that their website is getting if they don't have a significant marketing budget and any specialized design or programming skills. It's a great question, and I'm going to share the answer with you right here. The expertise I'm about to share comes from over seven years designing, developing, and marketing hundreds of different websites.
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This tip is more for Wordpress theme and plugin developers. I've been working on a client project that required MySQL transactions, as I needed to perform multiple deletions on multiple tables, where the data was interdependent. Since I was writing a Wordpress plugin, I wanted a way of doing a MySQL database transaction, using the Wordpress database object $wpdb.
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We spend so much time thinking about how we promote a website online, with search engine optimisation, PPC, social media, we forget about promoting in the real (offline) world. Most of these tips will apply to your website, and most of them are very cheap to implement. So why not give them a try?
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Well, Think Visibility 3 was on at the weekend, and it was a great event. Many people I know couldn't make it (shame on you), so here's me rubbing it in with what I learnt from the weekend. Here I cover some of the things that I learnt from the event (keeping the very best stuff to myself!). To those of you who haven't heard of Think Visibility, it's a conference covering a range of aspects from blogging, search engine optimisation, affiliate marketing, conversion optimisation, domaining, and more. The event is a pretty intimate affair, with around 150 people attending. As a result, the event is very friendly, interesting and a spectacular opportunity to meet your fellow digital samurai.
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If you're running a website with a number of pages, you might want to disable comments on all pages and posts at once. There's no feature within Wordpress to do this, however, you can achieve this result using a little bit of SQL. For this tip, I'm assuming that you're comfortable using phpMyAdmin with your web hosting package.
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Happy New Year! I'm planning for 2010 to be my most successful year ever, in terms of financial independence and growth. My goals are a mixture of personal development, business goals and lifestyle design. I'm often told I work too hard, so that's why I'm making plans to play just as hard!
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For most people the upcoming holiday season will be one for relaxing and spending quality time with the family. But, for some of us it gives us the opportunity to roll up our sleeves and do some SEO work. Here are 10 suggestions for SEO work which can improve your ranking in time for 2010.
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Regardless of what website you have, are you tracking your visitors? The usual answer I get to that question, is "no". However, if you're not tracking your visitors, you should be. If you don't know where to start, use Google Analytics because it's effective and free. The aim this article is to get you using some slightly more advanced visitor tracking enabled on your website. I'm writing the article from the perspective of an affiliate marketeer, however this Google Analytics advice can be applied to any website, such as landing pages, online shops, blogs, and so much more.
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When I'm talking to people about what I do, one of the most common misconceptions I face is that there's still a strong belief that running a website is easy to do. Running a successful website is far from easy, it's blooming hard work! So I've put together a list of the top 7 problems and issues you'll soon discover when running a website. My goal is not to put you off, but to highlight that it takes experience, skill and bucket-loads of effort to sustain a great website.
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