Archive for September, 2009


WordPress Wizard 2.0

Cost: $97
Media: Online service
Guarantee: 60 days money back
Category: Blogging

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First, I’ve got to tell you that my expectations when it comes to the brand new product from MaxBlogPress was really high. I’ve bought both of their other products, the Ninja Affiliate and The $365K Blog Traffic Formula. Since I thought both of them were awesome, I didn’t expect anything less from WordPress Wizard 2.0.

What’s WordPress Wizard 2.0?

It’s more than 50 video tutorials about how to blog using WordPress. It’s everything you need to get started. Everything from setting up your own blog, how to drive massive traffic to your blog and how to earn money from your blog. When I say everything, I actually mean everytyhing (at least everything I can think of).

The tutorials

As soon as I got access to the vault, I started watching the videos. I didn’t watch the first ones though (module 1 and 2), since they’re basic knowledge for someone who’s been blogging for a several years.

The videos are of high quality. It’s easy to watch everything they do, and it’s easy to hear what they say. You can watch them online, or you can download them to your computer.

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Module 3 covers advanced WordPress tips, like how to upgrade your blog, how to set up and use windows live writer, and how to create backups.

When it comes to making money from your WordPress blog, that’s module 4, and it covers it in depth, at least when it comes to Google AdSense and ClickBank.

Module 5 is about search engine optimization (SEO) and link building. This is probably the module that I was hoping to be a little more detailed. The first video is awesome, because it explains everything about links. The problem is that the three next videos is only about one way to create your link campaign, and that’s using 3WayLinks. Hopefully, MaxBlogPress will be updating this module sometime soon.

Module 6 is about email marketing, and especially how to use RSS. They explain in details about how you should set up AWeber or GetResponse in order to drive traffic to your blog, and once you’ve set it up, it’s all done automatically.

The future of WordPress Wizard 2.0

You’ll become a life time member if you join, this means that they’ll be updating the tutorials. It looks like they have some very interesting tutorials planned:

During September and October they’ll be adding an autoblogging series, and it will reveal:

- How to automatically submit your blog posts to social bookmarking sites
- How to use 3-way links to get massive backlinks
- How to use 1-way links to get links from other blogs

During October and November, they’ll be adding tutorials about:

- How to Import Content from One WordPress Blog to Another
- How to Import Content from Blogspot to WordPress
- How to Install and Use WP Cache
- How to Install and Use “All-in-One SEO Pack”
- How to Install and Use “Google Sitemap Generator”

My final thoughts

WordPress Wizard 2.0 is an awesome product. It’s one of the best products I’ve seen when it comes to learning how to blog, both for beginners, intermediate and professional bloggers. If you enjoy learning by watching videos, then you can’t go wrong with WordPress Wizard 2.0. The price is also a bargain. It’s a one time fee, compared to similar products like Blog Mastermind from Yaro Starak.

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Spam Arrest

Media: Online service
Cost: $3.75 monthly
Guarantee: Free trial
Category: Email marketing

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A few years ago, I was really fed up with all the spam I was receiving. I’m not sure how many emails I received in my inbox every single day, but it was a few hundred. It didn’t take a lot of time, but enough for me to get quite frustrated. The reason I got frustrated was that it happened every single day.

I’ve been using Spam Arrest for a few years now, and I’m receiving close to zero spam.

They have some awesome statistics. I’ve received more than 101.000 messages, and close to 54.000 of them have been classified as spam. Check the stats below.
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More than 50% of all the emails I’ve received was classified as spam, no wonder I was frustrated when I had to delete hundreds of emails every single day.

Easy to set up

It’s easy to set up. Just add some information to your Spam Arrest account, and add the new Spam Arrest information to your email account. It takes a few minutes, and it starts working straight away.

How Spam Arrest works

You have one white list of people you want to receive emails from (like your contacts). You have one blacklist of people you don’t want to receive emails from. When people that’s not on either of the lists sends you an email, they’ll get a message in return, asking them to confirm their email address by entering a captcha (random letters and numbers). When they enter it, they’ll never get the message again, and all their new emails to you will be sent directly to your inbox. If they don’t enter the captcha, you won’t receive the email.

All the automated spam messages will be stopped. If a few people sends you messages that you don’t want to receive, you can still block them even though they’ve entered the captcha. Just add them to your blacklist.

The free trial

I tried the free trial of Spam Arrest more than 2 years ago. Since then I’ve been a loyal member, and I probably will be for many years a head. It’s a real time saver and they have awesome support.

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Wordpress Landing Page Templates

Cost: $47
Media: Wordpress templates
Guarantee: 60 days
Category: Internet Marketing

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I have created many landing pages and squeeze pages during the years, even though I’m not a web designer. I’ve hired several web designers to create the pages for me.

A landing page is crucial if you’re using Pay Per Click (PPC) and many other marketing techniques. The problem is that they’re hard to create, and fairly costly to hire a professional web designer to create them for you.

A few days ago, I discovered Wordpress Landing Page Templates, 12 very interesting landing pages ready to be used.

Wordpress blogs are awesome when it comes to search engines, it’s actually fairly hard not to receive traffic from them. I bet you couldn’t get 0 traffic to a wordpress blog even if you tried. Therefore, using a page at a Wordpress blog for your landing page is very interesting.

When you use a Wordpress blog for your landing pages, you can also use all the various plugins for wordpress. And it’s very easy to update the landing pages, you don’t have to use html. You can just write your landing page, like writing a regular post at your blog.

My experience with Wordpress Landing Page Templates

I installed the template I wanted to use in a couple of minutes. It was really easy, I used ftp and it was close to impossible not to understand how to do it. The instructions were easy to follow.

I uploaded an image, started to write using headlines and bullet points. A few minutes later, I clicked on preview, and my landing page was ready. It looked really professional, even though it was the easiest and fastest landing page I’ve ever created.

My next test was creating a squeeze page. I did the same procedure and added an AWeber subscription form. It worked just as amazing as the first landing page.

I think that the $47 one time payment for the 12 landing pages is very cheap. If you want to hire a web designer to design one landing page, you’ll probably pay more than $150. With Wordpress Landing Page Templates, you can use the landing page templates over and over again.

I give Wordpress Landing Page Templates my highest recommendations.

Update: This is my first landing page using the template.

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