Lately, I have been testing a wordpress plugin called WP Smart Tools. It’s a plugin that will help people to create landing pages.

So, first of all, it’s tools for people involved in affiliate marketing.

I have tested it to create dynamic dates, geotargeted locations, cloaked links, footer ads and exit popups.

My first thought when I looked at the configuration, was that this seems to be everything an affiliate might need, and then some. There are so many possibilities for tweaking wordpress and making it a very powerful system for affiliates in this system, I was actually overwhelmed by all the features.

The installation process

WP Smart Tools was as easy to install as any wordpress plugin. Just upload and click activate. Then, I had to add my licence, that was all. It worked the very moment I activated it.

The tools

There are so many of them, it will be hard to list them all. I’ll list the ones I have tested and the ones I know about.

Dynamic dates. By a single click, you can add dates inside your blog posts. You can add relative dates throughout your posts, for instance, you can add the date when your visitor reads your post or you can add the date two days after she reads the post. This can be used for special offers, for instance, where you tell the the reader to do something before a certain date.

Geotargeted locations. You can add the readers location, even a small town, to your blog post. For instance, you can tell the reader that, I know you’re in Warren New Jersey, but still, you need this product. Or whatever message you can think of that will help promote your product related to the visitors location.

Exit popups. I know you’ve seen this around. When your visitor leaves your website, she’ll get a popup with a message. The message is usually a discount or special deal. If she clicks on cancel, she’ll be redirected to the offer, if she clicks ok, she’ll be taked away to the original destination.

Location-specific content. You can add content that will only show to people in certain locations. You could apply to certain countries or certain cities. This could be information that you believe will be a lot of help to convert visitors into buyers from this specific location.

Date-specific content. You could also apply content that will only be shown on specific dates, or betwwen, before or after certain dates. This would be really helpful if you apply coupon codes for discounts.

Protect landing pages. With a few clicks you can protect your landing pages from theft. I don’t understand how this works, but it’s really easy to implement. And according to the sales page, you might even get extra traffic from protecting your landing pages.

Integration with Google maps. you can show Google maps in a post or on your page, just enter the address or coordinates and you’re done. This is awesome if you’re writing about something local or specific to an address.

YouTube integration. It’s not that difficult to integrate YouTube videos, althouth with WP Smart Tools it’s even easier. Just enter the url, and that’s all, no need for any coding.

Personal introduction. You can add a widget in the sidebar with a personal introduction to your website.

Display pressure countdown. Many of the most successful landing pages have this included. When you add a countdown, you add scarcity, and the reader will have to decide before the countdown reaches zero. A really powerful tool.

Insert payment badges. You can add images of the most common payment methods in the sidebar. For instance, you can add paypal, visa and master card to your sidebar. This way, your visitors will understand how they can pay for your product.

Affiliate link cloaking. This is important. Instead of long and ugly affiliate links, you can make them short and beautiful in no time. You can also replace keywords with links, for instance, you could do this; every time you write WordPress in a post or on any of your pages, it will automatically be added a link to the keyword. This way, you can have hundreds of affiliate links throughout your website.

Your wordpress theme. As I wrote earlier, it was easy to install WP Smart Tools. It was also very interesting to see that it’s compatible with any wordpress theme. So, I didn’t have to do any adjustments at all. It was working as soon as I installed it.

Four awesome themes. If you don’t have a theme that you’re satisfied with, or you are just now launching your blog, then listen to this. WP Smart Tools comes with four awesome themes.

The price. At first, I thought $117 was a little high for a wordpress plugin. But after testing and looking at how powerful this plugin really is, I have come to the conclusion that the price is more than ok.

WP Smart Tools is many plugins, not only one. And it turns your blog into a powerful sales team instead of a regular blog.

Guarantee. WP Smart Tools comes with a 30-day no questions asked money back guarantee, free lifetime updates and lifetime technical support. Wow!

Now, creating professional looking reviews are just a few clicks away. With My Review Plugin, even if you lack all the technical skills, you can create beautiful product reviews from your WordPress blog within minutes.

A while ago, I tested WPReveiwEngine, and I was extremely satisfied. Actually, that’s the plugin I’m currently using at this blog.

But, then again, My Review Plugin wasn’t available.

About this review

This review won’t be a comparison between the two, because it’s hard for me to distinguish all the features. Hence, write an acceptable review for both. And WPReviewEngine is out with version 4.0, a version I haven’t tested yet.

So, this review of My Review Plugin is solely based upon the test I have done with this plugin alone.

What My Review Plugin is all about

It’s a plugin for WordPress. It will let you add several new features to your blog, features that will let you and your readers review products and services. Some of the features includes:

Create and use categories for your review. You add the categories you need, and as many as you need.

Create a system for your ratings. You can add the ratings you need. For instance, you can add 0 for the worst and 5 for the best.

Use stars to create stunning visual ratings. You can customize the look of the stars. They could be yellow, red, blue or something different.

Let your visitors add reviews and stars to their comments.

Usually, WordPress posts will be shown in chronological order. My Review Plugin lets you control this, and you can make your posts show in different orders, for instance, you can show the top ratings first.

To me, one very powerful feature is that you can have a blog with both reviews and regular posts. Many people, me included, like to create reviews in-between all the other blog posts, and not just have a blog with reviews. Now, this is not a problem. You can add reviews when you like to add them, and write regular posts when you want to.

If you like to, you can add comparison tables to your pages. For instance, you can add tables within any pages where your visitors can view a list of the top products within a category.

I always want feedback on my writing. An interesting feature is that at the bottom of every review, you can add the sentence “Was this review helpful for you?” Your visitors can add thumbs up or thumbs down on your reviews, just like on Amazon. This way, you can get feedback from your visitors regarding your reviews. Hopefully the information can help you write even better reviews.

If your reviews are of products that are localized on various places, you can integrate Google Maps. This way you can add geo data for your products and people will see them on a map where they are located.

If you don’t already have a theme, you get three good looking themes when you buy My Review Plugin. If you already have a theme, then you should know that you can automatically embed the reviews to your theme. I tested this, and it was a breeze. Just a few clicks and everything was showing in my current theme.

You’ll be able to use a widget in your sidebar. For instance, you can add the top rating posts or the most recent posts in your sidebar. This way, it’s easy for your visitors to navigate to other relevant reviews.

The bonuses

When you buy My Review Plugin, at least for now, you’ll get access to three bonuses. I have not tested any of the bonuses, so this is just my description of what they’ll do for you.

Dr. Link is a powerful plugin that lets you convert keywords to affiliate links. For instance, you can chose that specific words you have used throughout your blog should become links to your affiliate products. You can also cloak your links and create professional redirects.

Import man is a plugin that will let you import any database and turn it into a review site. So, if you already have a database or you decide to buy a database with relevant information, you can turn it into a review site with just a few clicks.

Little comment man is a plugin that will let you create comments on your review. Within a few minutes you can create thousands of unique comments. Actually, I don’t like this plugin. I think that all comments should be from real people, telling their honest opinion. The comments shouldn’t be based upon my (or the authors) opinion.

Anyway. Even though I’m sceptical to using this plugin, I admit that the little comment man plugin is very powerful indeed.

The installation

The installation was fast and easy. It was just like installing any other plugin for WordPress. You’ll get all the information you need in order to install the plugins.

No technical skills needed

The setup was almost as easy as the installation. There are many ways to customize the plugins, hence, you can spend a few extra minutes on this if you’d like. If not, you can use the default values and be finished fast and with just a few clicks.

The price

My Review Plugin is not cheap. It cost $90 for a single licence. I don’t think it’s overpriced at all, because it’s probably the most powerful plugin I have ever used. If you use it right, it should be no problem to earn a profit within days.

Guarantee

When you buy this plugin you’ll get 45-days money back guarantee. This is an unconditional guarantee, which means that you can have any reason for a refund and you’ll get it if you contact them within 45 days. Even if you decide that this plugin is not for you, and you don’t have any other reason other than you don’t want to use it anymore and you want your money back, you’ll get it. No questions asked, all within 48 hours.

Free Lifetime Technical Support

You’ll get free technical support for life for My Review Plugin. To me, this is worth a lot more than the money back guarantee. If you ever get any problems in the future, you can contact support and they’ll help you. That’s worth a lot of money for people, like me, with no technical skills.

As you can see from my ratings, I really recommend My Review Plugin. Take a look at the video on the sales page, then, you’ll understand how all the powerful features works and how easy it is to use.

I have been testing WP VideoTube, a YouTube plugin for WordPress, for aproximately a week today. The plugin is all about publishing videos from YouTube to your wordpress blog. You can automate the process 100%, and the setup takes about 2 minutes, or you can semi-automate the process.

The first thing you do, is to enter your keyword. Depending on the version of WP VideoTube you buy, you can use 20, 50, or unlimited keywords.

Pick where you want the videos to be added from, based upon your keyword. It can be added either from all the videos, only the top rated videos, most viewed videos, recently featured, categories and videos, or from the profile at YouTube.

Now, enter how often it should find new videos. It can add new videos as often as every single hour, once a day, once a week, or whatever you want. The choices are many.

You can also import all the comments from the video at YouTube, it will look as the comments have been posted to your blog.

Finally, you can either publish the video directly to your blog, or you can add it as a draft (or pending review, private).

If you publish it directly to your blog, you don’t have to do anything other than set up the process. It takes about 2 minutes, and you’ll have a new video based upon your keywords whenever you want (according to your settings).

I’m using the semi-automated feature

I am adding the videos as drafts. This way I have complete control of what I publish, and I can add some text as well.

Free trial

If you want to test WP VideoTube, you can download a free trial. The only limit is that you can use 3 keywords instead of 20, and you get a footer link (powered by WP VideoTube).

Guarantee

You’ll get 30 days money back guarantee when you buy it. This means that you can use it for 30 days and get your money back if you don’t find it useful.

My experience with WP VideoTube

I think this plugin is awesome. It was fast and easy to install. I’ve been able to do everything I was hoping for with WP VideoTube, and the new videos keep arriving without me doing or thinking about anythhing.

So far, I’ve added 6 keywords, and I get new videos added to my WordPress blogs every single day. I only spend a few minutes to edit some text, before I publish them.

It’s powerful, and I really recommend that you buy it (or at least that you download the free trial).

If you don’t have a really easy and powerful link cloaking system, then you should keep reading, because Ninja Affiliate is everything you need, and it’s super easy to use.

I have been using this WordPress plugin for many months now, and I’m really satisfied with the results. It was very easy to install (anyone can do it), and it’s just as easy to use… and the results are stunning.

Why you really need this plugin

It took me quite some time to understand that one of the most important things when you do affiliate marketing is to cloak and track your links. With MaxBlogPress’ Ninja Affiliate, you have the easiest WordPress plugin when it comes to link cloaking and it has a really powerful tracking system integrated as well.

This way, you can make your links short and pretty, they’re more secure than regular affiliate links, and you can track where your clicks comes from.

For instance, my affiliate link for Ninja Affiliate is http://marketingflop.com/ninja – it’s my domain, and it’s short.

MaxBlogPress

It seems that everything the guys at MaxBlogPress creates turns into pure gold. I’ve bought WordPress Wizard 2.0 and $365K Blog Traffic Formula, both are plain awesome. Ninja Affiliate is no exception, it’s just as awesome as the other two systems.

Autogenerate Affiliate Links

Ninja Affiliate is not only about cloaking your affiliate links, and it’s not only about tracking the links, you can also turn words on your blog into affiliate links in a matter of seconds.

For instance, if I want to get as many clicks as possible from the visitors on my blog to the sales page of Ninja Affiliate, I could turn words like blogging, affiliate, cloaking, tracking into affiliate links. I just add the words inside the plugin and it’s all done automatically, this includes every future blog post as well.

The Guarantee

MaxBlogPress offers a 60 day money back guarantee. If you don’t like Ninja Affiliate, or you don’t find it useful, just let them know within 60 days of your purchase, and you’ll get all your money in return.

A look inside

I haven’t created a video myself, but I found a great one on YouTube. In this video, you can see all the major features of Ninja Affiliate and why I really recommend this plugin.

I recommend that you buy Ninja Affiliate. I have used it for many months now, I’m very satisfied, and I’m sure you’ll be as well.

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.

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.

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.

I am using DreamHost to host my blogs, and I have been using them for a long time. I have also tested a few other web hosts, but DreamHost is by far the company I am most satisfied with.

At the time, when I was going to sign up for a new web host, I was looking all over for reviews and I talked to many people. Most people had strong opinions when it came to which web host I should go with. I decided to go with one of the top alternatives and that was DreamHost, I haven’t regretted this decision even once.

My guess is that the perfect web host depends on what kind of web host you are looking for.

With DreamHost I get four of the most important things I am looking for in a web host:

1. As close to 100% up time as possible

2. 24-hour technical support

3. WordPress (and many other of the top softwares) included with just a few clicks

4. Low in price (there are cheaper alternatives though)

Their technical support is awesome. I have had only a few questions during the years, and the response was really quick, and they helped me with everything without hardly any delay.

You can follow DreamHost on twitter to get emergency messages, you’ll receive a monthly newsletter for the latest updates and you can subscribe to their blog.

I highly recommend DreamHost.

If you are using twitter, then you should be sending tweets with your latest blog posts. This is an easy way to get a lot of extra traffic to your blog, and it’s an easy way to keep building a targeted relationship.

I have been testing several services regarding updating twitter with my latest blog post, and I have been doing it manually as well. If you are not sure whether you should use an automated tool or not, then ask yourself how many blogs you have, and if you want to automate it.

I think it depends on how many blogs you have. If you have one blog, it won’t take you much time to add a new tweet about your latest blog post.

The reason I found Tweet My Blog, the wordpress plugin created by John Merrick and Soren Jordansen so interesting, was that it was created by two well-known marketers. Another reason why I just had to test it, was that it was completely free.

So, what’s this Tweet My Blog plugin all about?

It pings twitter as soon as you publish a new blog post. It’s fast, and it updates twitter within a minute, and it works great for this.

The extra feature that people are talking about is this one.

Whenever someone clicks on the link for your new blog post, they will open your post and see a stripe at the top with your referral link to Tweet My Blog. It will say something like:

Easily Combine The Power of Twitter & WordPress To Create A Viral Traffic Monster. Click Here For Free Instant Access!

When they click the link, they will be referred by you if they sign up. As they sign up under you, they will be presented with a one time offer, and if they buy it, you’ll get 50% commission. They will also be presented with similar offers in the future, and you will receive 50% commission.

… but there’s more

The last detail of this plugin is a widget. You can put it in your sidebar and all the visitors to your blog will see your latest tweets.

I am not using the widget, but I can see why it can be useful.

If you are looking for a way to publish reviews on your blog, then, you should definitely take a closer look at WPReviewEngine. It’s a powerful plugin for wordpress, it makes everything related to writing reviews a lot easier and the results are beautiful.

I am using WPReviewEngine for this blog, so, if you like what you see, it’s all because of this plugin.

Installation

It took me about 10 minutes to install it. I could have installed it in five minutes, but I decided to read the instructions and I ended up with an error. I had to install ioncube loader on my server. I had never heard of the ioncube loader, and I still don’t know what the functions of this file is. I contacted support, and I received an email just a few hours later. I didn’t have time to wait for support, so I decided to google it. It took me about five minutes to find a tutorial and install it. It was no problem at all, even for me, a complete newbie when it comes to installing stuff like this on my server.

It was easy to install WPReviewEngine, it was like any other plugin. And included was two themes as well. The one I am using, and another one.

Support

Support was awesome. I received the email just a few hours later, and I can’t really expect anything else, because I live in Norway. And the time difference makes it hard to expect that I should receive help in just a matter of minutes.

Setting up the blog

It took me about 5 minutes to set up my blog. It was just a few options that I had to take a closer look at, and I had to add the rating categories. It was super easy.

The price

It’s a one time fee of $79.95. I thought about it for a few minutes, and I thought it was fairly expensive for a plugin and a couple of themes. But on the other hand, when I looked at the demo, I saw the power and the beauty of WPReviewEngine. 

At the time I am writing this, you can get an extra 15% off, but the offer will expire sometime soon.

Guarantee

You’ll receive a full 30 day money back guarantee. So, you should be able to use WPReviewEngine for 30 days and, if you are not 100% satisfied, you will get all of your money back.

You’ll receive lifetime support and lifetime updates.

My recommendations

I really like this plugin, it was exactly what I was hoping it to be. It’s easy to use, and the results are awesome. I even enjoy the theme. If you have another theme for your blog, you can still use WPReviewEngine.

The only thing that I don’t like, is that the name of the post is added to the list of the top reviews. For instance, I should have named this post WPReviewEngine Review, but if I do, this will also show up in the list of the top reviews. And I think that this list should only include the name of  the product. 

If you are thinking about writing reviews, I urge you to buy this plugin. So far, I am really satisfied, and it was exactly what I was hoping it to be. The price is a little high though.

What I really enjoy about this plugin, is that all visitors can leave a comment and a rating. All the ratings from visitors, will be added to the overall ratings for each review. So, it’s not  entirely up to me to give the ratings.