feed all

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...

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...

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...

A couple of yearsago, social media sites werea great source ofentertainment and ameans of coecting withfriends. In recent years, however, social media has become a haven for marketing, sales, and networking (i.e. making coections with like-minded people). If yourwork is in any way related to digital marketing, your presence on social media sites is a necessity. In a previous post, I wroteabout thesocial media sites on which an online marketer should haveapresence. Today I will be sharing tips that will help you to improve your personal brand on these sites. One of the most commonstatementsI hear from fellow bloggers or young entrepreneurs is: “I want my brand to be visible… not me”. In othe...

Do you want massive traffic on your blog? Of course! But I am sorry to say your dreams can not be a reality, As long as you just create only quality content. Don’t get me wrong. Indeed quality content is an essential power for a blog’s success but to get a quick victory you need to promote your content well. So that people know you and your work quickly. Below is the Magic 6 strategy I use to promote my content, take a look. 6 Tools to PromoteContent: A properly promoted good content can quickly come to be great content. And these 6 tools know the fact the finest. These tools are incredible on its own and highly recommended to use, to promote your content. Sumome: Sumome is a suite of smal...

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...

Customer fuels are things every marketer knows about. Specific to each project, they help to understand how visitors tu into clients, and if visitors leave before then, precisely when and why they leave. Every stage of a customer fuel lets you catch a client and retu them to the website. Understanding why they leave and retargeting them accordingly, you can build trust and push up your sales. It’s like trying to restore a lost happiness. Retargeting your customers reminds them of stories from romantic films where everyone lives “happily ever after”. Let’s explore this film and marketingrelationship. “50 First Dates”: Clients visit your website 50 First Dates is amovie where a girl has short...

Here at ShoutMeLoud, I use theOptinMonster WordPress pluginfor list building. I have been using this plugin for the last eight months. It’s the only email capture that I use on all my other blogs as well. If you are looking for a perfect email marketing plugin, well you are in luck, as you still have a chance to save 60% of your money. This plugin has been featured multiple times on SML. Read about it here: The guys behind OptinMonster are increasing the price by 60%. This doesn’t come as a surprise because they have added a plethora of new features to make it the best lead capture WordPress plugin. This is one of the reasons I highly recommendthe OptinMonster plugin. They ensure that their...

Here at ShoutMeLoud, I use OptinMonster WordPress pluginfor list building. I have been using this plugin for last eight months & now this is the only email capture that I use on all other blogs as well. If you are looking for a perfect email marketing plugin, well you are in luck as you still have a chance to save 60% of your money. This plugin has been featured multiple times & you can read about it in below posts: The guys behind OptinMonster are increasing the price by 60% & it doesn’t come as a surprise because they have added a plethora of new features to make it best lead capture WordPress plugin. This is one of the reasons I recommendOptinMonster plugin, asthey ensure tha...

Customer fuels are things every marketer knows about. Specific to each project, they help to understand how visitors tu into clients, and if visitors leave before then, precisely when and why they leave. Every stage of a customer fuel lets you catch a client and retu them to the website. Understanding why they leave and retargeting them accordingly, you can build trust and push up your sales. It’s like trying to restore a lost happiness. Retargeting your customers reminds them of stories from romantic films where everyone lives “happily ever after”. Let’s explore this film and marketingrelationship. “50 First Dates”: Clients visit your website 50 First Dates is amovie where a girl has short...

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...

Note: This post is a little long, but if you give me 15 minutes of your attention, I guarantee I can make your online appearance more professional. My name is Eric and I’m an editor. I’ve been a freelancer for many years working with various companies, marketplaces, students, professionals, joualists, entrepreneurs, copywriters, travel portals, bloggers, musicians, and all other facets of writers. If you’vesubmitted a post here at ShoutMeLoud, you may have had an encounter with me. Some of those encounters may have been favorable, and others, well, maybe not so much. First, let me start off by answering this question: What is an editor? Editors are essentially grammar nerds. We seek to make ...

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...

Images are essential for enhancing your blog posts. Visual content is easy to understand and also is more memorable than textual content.With the right images, your content will be more appealing. The main problem that comes with adding images to posts is finding images, even though there are hundreds of websites selling graphics (or even giving them away for free). We caot just use someone else’s images as it can create legal problems and using tools like Photoshop is not an easy task. When Istarted my blog, I started finding tools which let me create images for my posts. I had tried my hands at Photoshop and Corel Draw, but the only thing Iknow how to do is write (not draw). One day while ...

If you’ve landed here, you’ve probably spent the time looking for all sorts of solutions to get Stripe to work on your website without an SSL or formultiple different free SSL solutions. As a small business owner, I know paying for SSL or premium plugins can bestressful for start-ups with small budgets. I am happy to share our solution for a FREESSL on your woo commerce website, with FREE functioning stripe payment gateway with- No Coding Needed. Follow the five steps below and you will be ruing in no time! For our example, we have a ruing installation onwww.wearATA.comso feel free to headover there and check it out before you get started. 1. Install and activate all the following FREE plug...

Are you completely confused about finding effective ways to promote your blog on social media? Navigating this minefield of Facebook marketing, twitter promoting and G Plus sharing feels like an overwhelming, paralyzing task at times. You may be ready to quit on social, to just publish a post and hope that the Blogging Fairies magically promote the post to interested, targeted, eager readers, without any effort on your part. Stop sniffing that Fairy Dust. Blogging doesn’t work that way. If you’re willing to give freely on social sites you will receive generously. The pain, suffering and frustration of having little or no blog traffic will dissolve into the happiness, contentment and satisfac...

A lot of bloggers these days don’t want to useads and sponsored posts to promote their content. You might have read umpteen posts advising bloggers to advertise their content intelligently across platforms. Harsh has also suggested quite a few variations of this practice. That said, advertising is not the only way you can boost your blog’s popularity. There are many other sustainable ways to get your bloginto the Bloggers Hall of Fame and steadily improve your traffic and visibility without over-spending! Ways to get the word out: 1. Throw money at your content If you want to reach people who have a voracious appetite for content, your best bet would be to target them on other content-intens...

We don’t hangout on the inteet anymore. We live on the inteet. Just like our physical world, the inteet is a fuy place – at it’s times quirky, at times it’s random, and at times it’s safe. Well, we think it’s safe. As developers and website owners, we are responsible for providing a safe web experience to all of our users. As users ourselves, we have seen it all – Malware injections Popups triggering software installs Trojan horse viruses etc. Luckily, most of that is over. The mode age browsers take care of these issues by default. But browsers are justa container that renders whatever the server throws at it. There is only so much it can do. Users (and by extension, websites) are still vu...

Where do you usually send your visitors immediately after they’ve completed a certain task on your blog/landing page? Where do they goafter they’ve completed a sign-up form or after they’ve purchased a product from you? That next pageis very important and will determine whether or not you’releaving money on the table. That next page is your Thank Youpage. You knowthat page which takes you a few seconds to put together? That’s the one I’m talking about. Your Thank You page is one of the most vital pages on your website and should be treated as such. A good Thank You pageprovides anopportunity to build on the trust and engagement level of the customer at that particular point in their decisio...

Every single marketing or product blog suggests you start building an e-mail list. The number one method ofdoing thisis by giving away an e-book, or a course, or something that is somehow valuable aroundyour nicheand in tu,capturing a reader’s e-mail information. This is good advice becausee-mail marketing works bydistributing your content and making sales of your products. But, most of the advice stops there. They talk about e-mail collection strategies, but do not go beyond that. Today we’ll cover another areaof e-mail marketing that is generally not covered: The reasons your users are inactive. Defining an inactive e-mail subscriber An inactive e-mail subscriber hasone or more of the fol...