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Recent Articles
The Story Of the ‘Buy Now’ ButtonPosted on October 7, 2010
The Four Easiest Ways to Improve Your Website’s SalesPosted on July 19, 2010
WordPress Plugin Tip – MySQL Transactions with $wpdbPosted on June 1, 2010
16 Ideas for Promoting your Website in the Real WorldPosted on May 24, 2010
Top 7 Things I Learnt at Think Visibility IIIPosted on March 15, 2010
How to Quickly Triple your Click-Thru-Rate (CTR)Posted on September 30, 2009
10 great benefits of Guest BloggingPosted on September 17, 2009
Why I use Artisteer for creating WordPress ThemesPosted on July 23, 2009
26Oct2009
Top 25 Most Common Website Mistakes
When I review people's websites as part of my website mentoring service, I seem to come across certain problems time and time again. So I've compiled all of the commonly made mistakes into a single article. I bet that most of you are making at least 1 mistake on this list!
Read More30Sep2009
How to Quickly Triple your Click-Thru-Rate (CTR)
In an attempt to boost my commissions via affiliates on my eco-gadget review site EnviroGadget, I wanted to see if I could improve the number of visitors clicking through to the merchant website. I don't get a commission for all of the products I review on EnviroGadget. However, for the products I do earn a commission, I wanted to make sure that I was getting as many people clicking through my affiliate links as possible. Therefore I decided to run some experiments with different types of button. Just by changing the colour of a button and changing its text a little, I found a way to triple my click-through rates (CTRs)! Yep, you read that right, triple! Read on to find out how.
Read More17Sep2009
10 great benefits of Guest Blogging
I've recently launched a platform called BlogSynergy which allows you to find host blogs who are looking for guest bloggers, in addition to allowing you to advertise your blog to look for guest writers. I was a fan of guest blogging long before I created BlogSynergy, and the platform is designed to make it as easy as possible to get involved with guest blogging. In this article, I give a concrete example of what guest blogging is about, followed by 10 great reasons why you should be guest blogging.
Read More23Jul2009
Why I use Artisteer for creating WordPress Themes
This article is all about a template design tool called Artisteer. Artisteer is a essentially a design application that allows you to create your own great looking templates that can be used with Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress without needing any technical skills or needing to know how to use Photoshop or Dreamweaver. When you're creating lots of websites, coming up with unique designs all the time is hard work, particularly if you're not artistic. Artisteer comes with loads of ready-made elements which you can blend together to create a great looking and unique theme. So for plenty more compelling reasons why its worth using Artisteer, keep reading!
Read More16Jul2009
20+ Questions to ask yourself before creating a new Website
If you're thinking of starting any kind of website, or you're working with a client to create a new website, here are some questions to ask to help discover the goals of the new site. These questions are intentionally probing, teasing out how the website should look, and how the website should focus on the visitors.
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