Author Archives: Caimin
Website Usability: Are You Making These 10 Web Design Mistakes?
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. – Steve Jobs, 2003 Web usability is something that most online publishers spend time on, but few spend enough time on. Design and usability…
WordPress Video Tutorial – How to Use Widgets
One of the reasons WordPress is such a good way to create a website is because it’s easy to customize. Take Widgets, for example, which make adding new features to your sidebar and other areas of your site as easy…
How To Find and Install Free WordPress Themes
One of the reasons WordPress is such a popular way of publishing websites is that it’s so easy to make changes without having to edit programming code or hire a web developer or designer. The key to that is Themes…
6 Google Analytics Statistics You Should Be Tracking
Google Analytics is the industry standard for measuring website statistics, but the interface and sheer amount of information you can get from it can be overwhelming. Here’s a guide to the key statistics you should be keeping an eye on…
Why WordPress is the Easiest Way to Build a Successful Website
If you’ve been thinking about starting your own website, you’ve probably seen WordPress mentioned a lot. It’s the most popular way to publish websites and blogs, it powers many of the world’s top online destinations and it’s used by millions…
Increase Your Web Traffic With Triberr
ALERT: Do not believe the “gurus”. The internet is not a push button-operated cash machine that generates money for you while you sip cocktails on a beach in Mexico. If it was, I wouldn’t be here now and neither would…
Social Media Marketing for People in a Hurry
At the time of writing, Google lists over 3.1 billion pages for the phrase social media, 14 billion for twitter and 19 billion for facebook. That’s a lot of stuff to get through. But most of it is about building…
116 Niche Social Media Sites for Marketing Your Business
Quick, how many social media networks are there? Three? Five? Eight? After researching this post, I now know of at least 116 to add to the big, famous networks. Why niche sites matter The trouble with only concentrating your social…
7 Classic Online Business Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
Knowing what not to do is as important as knowing what to do. Here are arguably the 7 worst ways to start a business. Avoid these and you’re already ahead of the pack. Mistake 1: Not using your own hosting…
How To Use Reseller Hosting to Start an Online Business
The need to be online has never been greater. If you sell stuff, you can sell more by being online. If you have a customer service business, you can generate more leads by being on the web, just make sure…
Making Money By Blogging Tutorials
The usual strategy people have in mind when they plan to make money from blogging goes like this: 1. Start a blog 2. Write lots of content 3. Wait for the money to roll in from advertising. Sometimes this works,…
Triberr – the Secret Web Traffic Generator
There are two things bloggers and website owners like to do more than anything else: 1) Write 2) Check their site stats. And that’s actually in reverse order. Unfortunately, the beautiful upward curve of rising web traffic in your site…
How to Start Your Own Question & Answer Website
As any Mercedes-driving psychiatrist will tell you, there’s money in people’s problems. There are also some good web business ideas too. At first glance, for example, it might look like ChickRx just another online question and answer site – a…
How You Can Save Your Business With Automated Security and Backups
Imagine you’ve been blogging for a while and are building a loyal audience who love what you write. One day, in a Eureka style moment, you come up with a killer product that ties in perfectly with your blog niche…
How To Hire & Communicate With Web Developers Without Going Clinically Insane
Or: Web Developers Are From Mars, You Are From Venus If you have a great relationship with your web developer, can communicate flawlessly and always get what you want you first time around, this post isn’t for you. You may…
How To Turn Your Current Job Into an Online Business
If you’re stuck doing a job you don’t like but are having trouble coming up with a business idea for a website, the answer is probably more obvious than you think. In fact, it’s probably been right under your nose…
How To Double Your Web Traffic With Triberr
What’s your favorite bookmark? Twitter? Facebook? AdSense? For me, it’s my Triberr bookmark. Because that’s my instant, double-your-traffic-now button. That’s not an exaggeration – it really has doubled my traffic. The long-awaited silver bullet has arrived. What is Triberr? Whatever…
YouTube Resources for Online Video Marketers
This is a guest post by Neil Davidson of My Web Presenters (full bio below) Enjoy! One of the reasons that the Internet can be so intimidating to newbies is the pure rate of change. Technology is constantly advancing and…
9 Ways To Find Time To Start an Online Business
Nobody has enough time for everything these days. To be honest, I don’t have enough time to write this post. There’s a ton of marketing I should be doing, a series of ebooks to plan and somewhere out there –…
WordPress Security – 10 Quick Ways To Protect Your Website
According to Google, there are almost 10,000 newly hacked websites every day. The trouble is, most site owners don’t take security of their website seriously until they get swamped by complaints about viruses, automatic dialers and other harmful software. The…
How To Make Your Video Marketing A YouTube Hit
You’ve heard all the blah-blah about You Tube being the second largest search engine on the planet but somehow you’ve never quite got around to launching your brand on it. Enough! Today’s the day. If you’ve been shying away from…
How to Use Content Curation as a Business Model
The internet is awash with crap. What if you could cut through all that, giving your readers links to the resources they crave – and at the same time make a business out of it? You can. It’s called content…
Bing – Why You Should Optimize For Microsoft’s Growing Search Engine
Google is king of search engine traffic, right? No other search engine is worth bothering about, right? Wrong! Let me ask you this. How much daily search engine traffic do you think Bing is responsible for? I bet you didn’t…
How to Start Crowd Funding Your Way to Success
A total of 64,216 projects have launched on Kickstarter (the largest crowd funding site), sending over $241 million to startup founders. Would you like a piece of that action? I’ll bet. But not every project gets funded. Here’s a guide…
WordPress Ecommerce Themes to Make Your Online Store Sizzle
There are thousands of WordPress themes out there, but they’re not all optimized for ecommerce. A successful theme also needs to be well-designed and easy to use. Here are a hand-picked bunch of five that are all these things. Clicking…
How Not To Choose a Business Model for Your App
Spool is one of the those startup ideas that seems like such a good idea until you realize their business model is about to go down the pan. Here’s a look at why, so you don’t make the same mistake.…
How to Use Email Marketing to Grow Your Online Business
As different as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are, they have one thing in common. They may be cutting edge social networks but all of them use “old-fashioned” emails as a big part of their marketing – sending out regular targeted…
Niche Business Idea: Selling Photography of Where You Live
Seems like everyone’s a photographer these days. Some are good. Some are great. Some are crap. If you fall into either of the first two categories, then I have a business idea for you. Many photographers try to sell their…
What Jennifer Lopez And Her Startup Can Teach You About Original Business Ideas
Like many celebrities before her, Jennifer Lopez is going into the online entrepreneur business. According to the pre-launch website of Teeology.com, the “countdown is on” for the latest celebrity startup. Lopez has teamed up with two well-known entrepreneurs – MJ…
Why You Need to Understand Bounce Rate and How To Reduce It
Your website’s bounce rate is one of the most useful web statistics you can get your hands on. This one statistic can tell you whether your online efforts are successful or not. Here’s why. The Definition Every time a visitor…
Website / App Idea: Food & Travel Escape Site
People love food, people love travel. Most people love both – so why are there so few websites that connect these two incredibly popular interests? If you have a passion for both, you could fill a big gap in the…
Tumblr – The Huge Social Network You Forgot
Have you been concentrating so much on the usual social media networks like Facebook and Twitter that you’ve ignored other important traffic sources? It may not hog all the media attention like Pinterest, but Tumblr is one of the fastest-growing…
How To Write Killer Blog Posts Quickly
Have you ever had a brilliant idea for a blog post that just seemed to fall apart when you tried to write it? It’s that uncomfortable moment when what started out as the World’s Greatest Blog Post turns into a…
Instagram Inspires New Startups
Instagram, recently snapped up by Facebook for the nice round sum of 1 billion dollars and one of the biggest startups of recent years, is now inspiring several smaller startups who have come up with clever business ideas that make…
What You Should Know About Content Marketing
One of the most significant recent trends for startups and web businesses has been the explosion of content marketing. But how can giving away free content help you build a profitable business? Sometimes called branded content or custom media, content…
How to Make a Secure WordPress Backup
How badly would your business be affected if you lost your website overnight? Unfortunately, server and database crashes, site hacking, virus and other security problems are more common than you think. If you don’t make regular backups you risk losing…
How to Generate Successful Online Business Ideas
Choosing an idea for your business is arguably the most important step you’ll take. Get it right and all the subsequent work – site building, web marketing and monetization – will be much easier. On the other hand, all the…
How To Buy a Domain Name Like a Pro
Time and again you’ll hear someone moan that all the good domains are taken. Happily, that’s just not true. Now, it’s true that all the one-word domains are gone along with many of the good, but by no means all,…
How to Get a Professional Web Design for Under $99
Your content is important. Very important. But your site design is almost as important. Here’s why. Have you ever picked up a book in a store just because you liked the cover? It’s like that with web design. A good…
Why Pinterest is the Queen of Conversion Rates
How good are Pinterest and other social shopping sites at driving traffic and product sales? While social shopping sites have taken off in a major way this year, the question for internet marketers involved with ecommerce sites has been how…
Smart Link-Building Tutorial
Is it possible to increase your traffic by 560% in 10 Days? Yes. Read on to discover the exact methods I used to do exactly that for this site. Link Building is one of the oldest but most abused marketing…
Social Media Buttons for Better SEO
You don’t need me to tell you social networking is a big thing. Depending on your site niche and how active you are on the network, you’ll probably find that at least one of the major social networks is a…
How to Improve Your Video Marketing by 300%
How’s that title for hyperbole? Pretty good. But it’s true. Using video can be a highly effective way to reach your audience. Yet in all the video tutorials you can find on the web there’s one crucial secret that almost…
Affiliate Marketing for Complete Beginners
Can affiliate marketing make you as rich as the books and experts tell you? And what’s the secret? If you’ve heard of affiliate marketing but aren’t exactly sure what it is or how to earn good money with it, this…
How To Be More Effective With Your Twitter Marketing
You got yourself a Twitter account because it’s the cool thing to do. Now what? Twitter is a great marketing tool, but like all tools you need to put some effort into learning how to get the best out of…
3.. 2..1.. Website Launch Checklist
Ready to launch your sparkling new startup website? Great! But before you do, run through this checklist to make sure it’s really ready. (Don’t have website yet? Not sure where to go for help? Start with the How to Build…
Best Time to Post on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest
Nothing beats hitting the Publish button on a great blog post you’ve worked hard on and then being able to bask like a cat on a sunny lawn as the retweets, follows, repins and likes start flowing. The first step…
How to use Pinterest to Drive Traffic To Your Site
It may be the newest major social network, but Pinterest is already sending more traffic to U.S. retailers than YouTube, Google Plus and LinkedIn combined. That fact alone means it should be part of your promotional strategy, along with Facebook,…
Google’s New Page Layout Algorithm – Too Many Ads & You’re Out
The Google search ranking algorithm undergoes hundreds of changes every year. Some minor, some major. The Page Layout Algorithm is a major one. The target is web spammers and shady search ranking optimization types – but honest publishers need to…
How to Make Money with the Amazon Affiliate Program
Millions of people spend millions of dollars on Amazon each year – and you can get a cut of the revenue by incorporating Amazon’s affiliate program as part of your website content. Suppose you’re running a gadget blog and you’re…
WordPress Admin Font Editor Plugin
I love using WordPress but one thing has been annoying me for a while – the size of the font used for the HTML editor on the Edit Post / Page screen. Everything used to be fine and until one…
34 of the Best WordPress Plugins (and How to Use Them Effectively)
One of the reasons WordPress has become the biggest publishing platform on the web is because it’s easy to extend the basic features with plugins. That makes it simple to add things like social sharing links or image galleries or…
5 Fixes For Low AdSense Earnings
Google AdSense earnings not as high as you’d like? Clicks and profits taking a nosedive? Here are 5 reasons your ads might not be making you the money they should – and what to do about it. 1 – You…
How To Build a Website – The Complete Newbie Guide
If you’re a complete beginner when it comes to running a web business this guide is for you. Even if you have some knowledge of how websites work but aren’t 100% sure how all the pieces fit together this article…
SEO Tutorial – How to Get More Google Traffic Easily
For information or product driven websites, one of the most vital parts of your web marketing strategy will need to be SEO: Search Engine Optimization. Although traffic from social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter can be substantial, very often…
Speed Up Your Site For Better Search Engine Optimization
Even though site loading time is now a crucial part of ranking well in Google, it’s surprising how few sites are optimized to load as fast as they could. Over time that will mean lower rankings and less visits –…
6 of the Best Adsense Alternatives
Google AdSense is one of the best known and most popular web advertising programs and because it’s contextual advertising – serving ads based on the content it’s surrounded by – it tends to work well for most websites. But there…
How to Generate Revenue: Advertising, Affiliate Marketing Programs or Your Own Product?
There are many ways to generate revenue online but they break down into three broad areas. You can either make money through advertising, promote existing products through affiliate marketing (where you earn a commission) or sell your own product or…
A Quick Guide to Content Management Systems
A content management system – often shortened to CMS – is a publishing program installed on your web server. There are hundreds, probably thousands, of Content Management Systems to choose from but they all have the same aim – to…
Buying a Domain Name – Tips & Pitfalls
Buying a domain name is one of the first things you need to do when setting up an online business. It’s also one of the most crucial. A memorable domain name that suits your business is a tremendous asset, while…
