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“Good Moing” – a greeting that is dished out several times during the day. For some people, moing is at 6AM, for somebody else, it’sat 11AM. One of the most famous early risers is Apple’s CEO Tim Cook. Tim Cook wakes up at 4:30 AM. He’s done with almost an entire day’s work by 12PM. You might have read posts like this onesuggesting that waking up early has a lot of benefits. That’s because it does. So what are these benefits? Waking up early gives you: An early start on getting work done. A quieter time; the house/the city is quiet and peaceful. Your mind is the most clearin the moing and primed for handling the toughest tasks. So how do you become a moing person? 1. Prepare for the next day...

Imagine if you could send an email to users based on the exact actions they take. What if you could automatically email anyone who visited a specific page or clicked on a certain button? That would be pretty cool, right? With SendinBlue’s WordPress plugin, you can do just that. Without needing to know any code or set up detailed tracking. It’s a really nice tool. SendinBlue also functions as a complete email marketing service, letting you build subscriber lists and create beautiful email campaigns. Why should you care about all that? Because email marketing is important. I think all smart bloggers need to take advantage of email. That’s why I’m sharing about SendinBlue with you. You can crea...

As a website owner, ideal content creation and content sharing is an important aspect of making your services effectively speak to your audience. A content marketing strategyinvolves many phases through which the right content is drafted and shared cleverly enough to its most relevant audience so as to increase sales. 1. Begin with an understanding of the right content and its importance to your business Whether you are an owner of aservice website or an eCommerce store,content has a lot to do with your business growth. One has to create content in many forms (including rich texts and graphics). Content is like a bridge that can coect your audience to what you sell. Content that is written...

The Clk.im Integrator monetization plugin is perfect for WordPress publishers looking to make money with their site. Many WordPress monetization plugins have limited functionality, which can be fatal for your monetization efforts. With Clk.im, the versatility of your ad serving goes to a whole new level. (The full functionality of the plugin is unlocked when you sign up for an “Expert”account.) In this article, we’ll go into greater depth of using these features to maximize the monetization potential of your WordPress site. We’ll also cover how you can create trackable shortened links for your entire site. These links will allow you to launch: Top-bar HTML ads Full-page interstitial ads Pop...

Checklists are essential for getting things done (especially for repeated tasks). A few weeks back, Kishen shared about theProcess Street checklist app& this is where the idea to add a checklist for our premium members came into my mind. We started creating checklists for our premium content atpro.shoutmeloud.com so that our members can keep track of tasks when leaing about making money from their blog. The checklist can also be used as a content upgrade & I’m sure you have heard about the importance of content upgrades for list building.Content upgrades can perform magic for your list building efforts, and you may now be consideringjoining the bandwagon and creating your own conten...

As a blogger, you’re probably always worried about writing interesting blog posts that your readers care about. But you can’t just spend time on blog posts – there’s another type of content that you need to focus on: Landing pages. If you ever want your readers to complete an action – like joining your newsletter or buying a product – you need a good landing page to convince them. In the past, you used to have to hire designers to create good landing pages. Luckily, you don’t have to do that any more thanks to some awesome services and WordPress plugins. There are now some great landing page creators that helpyou create beautiful landing pages for WordPress without the help of a designer. So...

You probably know about WordPress and Blogger and likely have a blog on one of them. Now, you are about to start a new blog and are looking for an alteative. So here’s the question: Are there any other viable options apart from WordPress and Blogger? Let’s find out. #1 Tumblr Yes, the first entrant on the list is a hybrid of sorts. At first look, it seems like a potent mix of WordPress and Twitter. It has the right amount of “coolness”. If you are a social butterfly,Tumblr might just do the trick for you. It’s fun to explore and has a magical quality that keeps you hooked with its beautiful UI. I spent a good 15-20 minutes exploring the site while researching for this post. If you are a fa...

Out of all the umpteen social chaels out there, one stands out for its simplicity: Medium was created to be a simple form of expression and displayer of content. The interface is minimal and lets the user focus on either writing or reading. There isn’t a platform like Medium elsewhere on the inteet because all other platforms are constantly looking to add more and more features. Medium seems to be content with its limited set of features. This is good. This is good for the reader, for the creator, and for the community as a whole. What Medium is doing to written content is akin to what Penicillin is doing to humanity: Keeping it alive. So why is the Medium blogging platform important for yo...

India Affiliate summit is a must-attend event forevery affiliate marketer & digital agencies. This year marks the 2nd chapter of India affiliate summit. The tickets ae up for sale & I have few passes to giveaway for our regular readers. You can participate into the contest to win gold or silver passes. The wier will be aounced on 28th August. We have in total 16 passes to giveaway. So, this is a golden chance for you to win the passes which is worth INR 10,000 ($180) each for gold & INR 7500 ($110) each for silver passes. India Affiliate Summit Passes Use the above widget to participate & get a chance to win the contest. More information about India Affiliate Summit: 2016 i...

Here are the steps of writing a blog post: You sit in front of your computer. You grab a topic from your editorial calendar. You start writing your blog post. Is that all? NO! It’s the quality (and only the quality) of your blog post which matters. You’re not writing articles to just fill up your blog with content. You’re not bloggingfor the sake of making money. You’re supposed to be writing for one reason: To help your readers. You need also to create something new while writing up your blog post. Somethingthat will make it rock and stand out among those other resources that are available elsewhere online. For example, when I decided to write about ‘how to make money blogging’, I made sur...

I’m not a native English speaker and here’s my confession: I’m a trained translator with a degree in my pocket. I speak English fairly well, but I never thought I would ever create content on my own. When I got to the English-speaking world of content marketing, I was lost, frustrated, and paralyzed with insecurity. I strongly doubted if I could ever enter a league of those smart guys who create killer content. To be honest, I wasn’t even sure if I could write anything high-quality at all. If you’ve ever been in my shoes, this article is for you. I’m going to share the tips and tricks that have worked (and still work) for me. To begin with, there are only two points you need to consider wh...

Whenever I publish my income reportor share how I ea money with my blog, I often use the term “affiliate marketing”. Bloggers and inteet marketerswho have beeninto online marketing foryears are familiar with affiliate marketing,and with the fact that it is themost lucrative way to ea money online. In this article, I will share the basics of affiliate marketing and all the details you need to know in ordertounderstand how affiliate marketing works. Lea all about Affiliate marketing in one eBook : Buy from ShoutMeLoud store Affiliate Marketing Explained: What is affiliate marketing ? Affiliate marketing is one of the oldest forms of marketingwhereinyou refer someone to any online product and...

Are you looking to move to managed WordPress hosting?If you’ve been using shared hosting but find it no longer powerful enough for you site, this post is for you. I’ve talked before about how shared hosting is best for a new blog. But as your blog traffic grows, you need to think about upgrading your hosting. Shared hosts can’t handle really high traffic sites, which means you’ll have to move up. All the way back in 2008, I started ShoutMeLoud on cheapshared DreamHost hosting. But as ShoutMeLoud grew, I knew I needed to upgrade my blog’s hosting to keep everything ruing smoothly. That’s why I eventually made the switch to managed WordPress hosting. I moved through a few managed hosts until ...

Promoting your website is as important as designing it. After all of your developing efforts are done, you need to attract an audience towards your website and its services. Branding through social media is considered as the best way for redirecting a relevant crowd to a website. Twitter, specifically, is a great means of advertisement and brand promotion. Tweeting is an incredible way to get in touch with your customers. But here’s the major challenge of marketing: Creativity Grab the opportunity to promote your websites through Twitter with these 7 creative ways! 7 Creative ways to dramatically increase your Twitter engagement: 1. Insert Links Into Your Tweets Who says social media market...

The whole world is moving their websites from HTTP to HTTPS! Why? Because it makes their sites secure &rumor has it thatsearch engines favor websites using the “https” protocol. Sooner or later, you will be moving your site to HTTPS. But before you do, you need to consider a few factors in order to make a successful migration from HTTP to HTTPS. In this article (& in upcoming articles), I will cover migration techniques for different scenarios. Here’s our first scenario: The site is hosted on a Nginx server. DNS is managed by CloudFlare. SSL certificate by Let’s Encrypt. Let’s Encrypt + Nginx + CloudFlare : Scenario 1 In this case, my hosting people configureda free SSL certificate ...

When a blogger starts looking for the option to make money from their blog, the first recommendations are usuallyAdSense,Adsoptimal, CPM ads & other similar ad networks. This kind of monetization used to work well… until last year. In recent times, with the increasing adoption of ad blocker tools, using a contextual ad network is no longer an ideal choice. Many bloggers have already moved to other monetization methods such as sponsored content, affiliate marketing & putting their content behind apaywall. Most webmasters, when theythink of apaywall, think aboutrequiring readers to buy a monthly subscription in exchange for access to allof the website’s content. They are not wrong, bu...

When a blogger starts looking for the option to make money from their blog, the first recommendations are usuallyAdSense,Adsoptimal, CPM ads & other similar ad networks. This kind of monetization used to work well… until last year. In recent times, with the increasing adoption of ad blocker tools, using a contextual ad network is no longer an ideal choice. Many bloggers have already moved to other monetization methods such as sponsored content, affiliate marketing & putting their content behind apaywall. Most webmasters, when theythink of apaywall, think aboutrequiring readers to buy a monthly subscription in exchange for access to allof the website’s content. They are not wrong, bu...

Tweet your post multiples times! Keep tweeting your old evergreen posts! Stop your old posts from dying by resharing it on social media! These are all pieces of advice you have likely heard before in order to keep driving traffic to your old blog posts. In fact, I have written several guides myself to help you overcome “dead, old post syndrome”. Today, I have an interesting Twitter plugin to share with you which will not only drive traffic to your old posts, but doesn’t make it look like you are tweeting the same thing over. Before we move ahead, I suggest you read these few posts to master the art of overcoming“dead, old posts syndrome”: If you have already used the popular Revive Old Post...

In our earlier guide, we leaedbasic, yet important things about SSL certificates. In this guide, you will lea about different types of SSL certificates. Knowingthis will help you to get the right SSL certificate for your blog, website, ororganization. The foremost thingthat you need to keep in mind is: SSL certificates areall about trust. Useful SSL Related Terms To Know: SSL: Secured Sockets Layer CA: Certificate Authority DV: Domain Validation OV: Organization Validation EV: Extended Validation CSR:CertificateSigning Request There are several types of SSL certificates. They can be grouped based on: Validation level Number ofsecured domains/subdomains Types of SSL certificates based on val...

Update: Web-push notifications arenow enabled for the Chrome browser. This article has been updated with new information. How many subscription chaels are you offering on your blog? If you haven’t already enabled themust-have subscription options, you should do that now. With recent advancements in technology, there are now a fewnew methods that you can use to notify your readers of latest posts or important updates from your blog. Today, I will be talking about PushEngage:Aweb-push notification service for WordPress. It alsosupports other platforms like e-commerce sites,BlogSpot,Joomla, Drupal, bbPress & much more. Using the PushEngage service, you give another subscription option to th...