by Robert Plank July 21, 2011

How Long Should Your Blog Posts Be?

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When you're adding a new post to your blog, it's always tough to figure out how long you have to write. But that's the wrong question to ask. In fact, it does not matter how long your blog posts are.

I've checked on my own blog as far as comments, and the short posts get just as much response as the long posts, which means that there's no correlation between the length of your post and how many people read it, and how much response it gets.

This means that if you have a point to make, if you can make it in a shorter amount of time, then that's less work for you. In other words, if you can take the same 1,000-word blog post and say the same message in 100 words, then do it. Because there's no minimum requirement on a blog, and you will still get the same number of comments, but with ten percent of the effort and time as you did before. So your blog post is just as long enough as it has to be.

If you read different people's blog posts, you will find that some bloggers actually have very, very short posts. And if you can follow those bloggers, you can model what they do, and you will see that they use some different techniques to keep the length of their posts at a minimum.

My favorite technique for keeping the length of a blog post down is with lists and bullets. Instead of telling a big long story about the top ten things to use to fix a home, you just list the top ten things, and that in itself is a blog post as long as it condenses the same information down. And even then, you don't have to cram every little thing you have to say into one blog post. If you have ten things to say, those could each be ten short blog posts scheduled over time. And then, blog post number 11 can in itself be a list linking back to the other blog posts, which gives you more content, which provides more easy-to-access solutions and more ways for people to find you from searching something specific on Google or on your website.

The length of your blog post doesn't matter because you get the same number of comments, whether you have a short or long blog post. It just needs to be as long as it has to be to keep attention and make your point, and a great way to do this is lists and bullet points to make it easy to read and easy to jump down to the comments, leave a comment, or click on a link.

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by Robert Plank July 19, 2011

How To Choose The Perfect Title For Your Blog Posts To Get The Most Traffic And Biggest Response Every Time

The biggest reason why you're probably making blog posts is so that people find you from the search engines. And when people get to your site, they stay as long as possible and see all the authoritative information you shared on that blog. But if your titles suck, no one is going to click from the search results. They aren't going to stay on your site for very long, and they might not think that you know what you're talking about. That's why you need to have very good titles for your blog posts. But luckily, there is not a lot of thinking involved if you just follow these simple steps.

The first thing you can do is think of things you see searched for. You can check your statistics in your cpanel, check AWStats, and find out what key phrases people type in to search engines to end up on your site. When you look up these similar topics, what exact phrases do you put in the search engines to end up on these pages? If you want to search, for example, for how to create a logo, then an obvious blog post for you would be "How to Create a Logo." That way, if someone types in the exact phrase "how to create a logo," or even "how to create a logo for a small business," then there is a greater chance that they will see your blog post in the search results and also click, because it contains the exact phrase you looked for.

Another good tool is GoogleSuggest. Google will guess what you are about to type in their search engine. So you start to type something into Google, a dropdown will appear with various suggestions. That means you might start to type "how to design" and it could list suggestions like "how to design a web page," "a logo," "a graphic," things like that. And you can use those to get the exact phrasing that people tend to type when they're looking for this exact solution. And that's something to keep in mind is you are not just talking on your blog to talk. You are answering real problems and real solutions. Think about what would you ask. And it's okay to have some of your blog posts be statements, and some be questions. You can have some blog post titled, "How to Design a Logo," and it's also acceptable to title your blog post "How Would I Design a Logo?" And both of those will capture different types of people looking for the same information.

To get good blog posts, type in things you see searched for. Use the GoogleSuggest tool to figure out what are popular search phrases and consider what you would ask when looking for this information, keeping in mind it's okay to have statements-titles, and question-titles.

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by Robert Plank July 17, 2011

Re-Use and Re-Purpose Your Blog Content

When you make a blog post, you aren't limited to just using it one time. You can recycle this same exact, word-for word information in many different ways including articles, sequel content, e-mail auto-responders, and guest blog posts.

When you make a post to your blog, that's great because someone can see everything you've written all in one place, it's ranked very highly on the search engines, but if no one knows about this information, it's no good.

That's why you can take the same exact blog post, including the title, and post it to different article sites or different forums, or different guest blogs. And what's funny is that some forum software actually allows you to have your own blog within that forum. You have to look around to find it but there are many places that accept this guest material in the form of articles.

You can also create a sequel, or follow-up, or revised version of any of your blog posts. Let's say that you made a blog post about how to install WordPress. And in the future, WordPress changed the setup process. Then it's time to update that, and edit the time stamps so that it appears as if you just wrote it because you just modified it.

But here's what's even more interesting, is that there's nothing wrong with taking a blog post that's two or three years old that's still relevant, even if you didn't have to change anything in that post, and do the same thing. Make it appear as if it came out today, and put it on the front page of your blog.

Another easy thing to do is take the contents of that blog post, and set it as an e-mail follow up. You can either paste the entire blog post as an e-mail message that gets sent, or just make the message link people back to your blog post and they can leave a comment.

And finally, you can take your best blog posts and either use them as is, or improve them and contact other blog owners, and offer this as a post on their blog. There's always articles, sequel content, e-mail auto-responders, and guest blog posts to take the same exact thing you wrote on your blog and reuse it over and over again.

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by Robert Plank July 7, 2011

How To Connect A Sales Letter, Payment Button And Download Page To Deliver Your Digital Products Automatically?

The nice thing about the internet is that you can automate so much of what you do. If you have a digital report which could be a simple PDF file for sale. People can pay you and can get access to this report instantly even if it's 2 o'clock in the morning. You can do this with three components, a sales letter, a payment button and a download page.

A sales letter is usually the first page or index.html file of your website and you explain what someone is about to purchase. At the bottom of the webpage you add what is called a payment button. I personally use PayPal as my payment button, what you can do is log in once you're having an account, go to merchant services and create a new buy now button. Then you'll be sent to a form where you can fill in the name of your product, the price, the cancellation page, which means if someone's about to buy and they cancel. It's in the back to the front page of your side and finally a thank you page.

You might name the park name "simple word press secrets" priced a fee $7 cancellation page will be the front page of your site and the thank you page will be yoursite/thankyou5678.html, once you fill in that form, it would generate a button for you, and it's simply a copy and paste chunk of code that you can grab and paste on your sales letter, paste on that index.html file. If you don't know how to do this then give this code to your webmaster.

And then we have to setup the download page! Remember how when we created the button we said that after purchase someone would be redirected to download5678.html. That means that we would make a new page with that name and place the PDF link or video code on that exact page and there you have it. You have a sales letter, you have a download page and you have a PayPal button which paste on that sales letter and after someone pays you money they are redirected to that download page.

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by Robert Plank July 6, 2011

One Business Partner or Many?

The great thing about the internet is that we are all connected and we can all talk to each other very easily, whether that is over the phone, text messaging, Skype, Instant Messaging, twitter, facebook or any other avenue. But that is also the problem, there are tons of choices and it is very tempting to try to network and partner with every single person in your niche, that way you will have access to everyone you need.

The problem with that is that also means you will have to manage multiple people they will have to manage you, you will have to make commitments to them and there is also the issue of splitting up the money. Let's talk about which is better, having one business partner with internet marketing or many business partners.

The good thing about having multiple business partners when you are working online is that you can delegate or outsource much of the work. If you want to pay a copywriter, pay an article writer, pay a graphic designer a set amount of money for them to complete a preagreed task, that is great. That is less learning curve for you, less time you have to spend, and less work in general for you.

That is great because you can focus on the one thing you are great at, for example it might be video creation or webinars, and let someone else worry about the things you might not be interested in such as copywriting or graphics.

Another interesting thing about working with different partners is that they all motivate you in different ways. You might be motivated to help one person because you simply don't want to let them down, or you want to make them proud. You might help someone else because they are simply enthusiastic and energetic about what you are working on, and you want to match that level of energy.

If you are working on a team of five or ten people and you all have websites or you all have lists, and all are marketing each other there is a huge exchange of ideas, and resources, and excitement. The problems with working with many people is the distractions, and that you have to split up the money.

What I mean by that is if you have a mini syndicate of 10 marketers and you all promote for each other, it's a double-edge sword. If they all promote you that is going to be great because now you are getting ten times as much traffic, ten times as many clicks, ten times as many sales as you would otherwise. The problem is that you are now dedicated and expected to promote those other nine people at a later date. If you do some kind of affiliate program or revenue sharing program now you are going to have to split your money many different ways.

What I would recommend is stand on your own at first, make your own product, make your own business, have other people come on as affiliates and promote other people as affiliates as well, but don't necessarily hook up with and make commitments to many people right away. Start marketing alone then maybe work on one business partner and then expand to other business partners later.

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by Robert Plank July 5, 2011

How To Hide And Secure Your Digital Product Delivery Download Page

Your prospects come to your website, they decide to purchase from you, they click the buy button and are sent possibly to PayPal, they pay, they check out and they are sent back to your download page to get the product. How can you make sure that only people who see this download page are people who actually pay? There are a few thing you can do to make sure that only people who see your download page are the people who buy and anyone who does not bought, does not have the access to it. First of all add the "no archives" and "no index" med-tags to your download page. You can do the search and figure out the exact code to add make sure that the search engines do not pick it up. Next thing you can do is name you download page something hard to guess, may be "download5587g1.html", chances are someone might try to get to download.html or thanks.html but not that big long name. In addition you can also rename this download page every week or every month, just to make sure that if someone does end up on that download page, they won't have access to it for very long.

And above all the best thing you can do to secure your download pages is to not have a download page at all and is to put your product delivery inside of a membership site. But a download page is a perfectly good way to offer a digital product for download and consumption and is a good start towards making up a first few sales and to already, set it all up inside of a membership site.

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by Robert Plank July 3, 2011

Reduce Refunds Today By Setting Up Your Download Page Properly

I want to share with you a few quick items to make sure you place on your download page to reduce refunds and keep your buyers happy. A download page is where you deliver a video or port that your customer just pays for. They might have just pay through PayPal, or CLICKBANK or one shopping cart but they were on your site, they left your site to pay and now they are back and it's time to deliver their download.

You might have the download link and given them typical instructions but we want to make sure, first of all, that they know who you are. So place your contact information on your download page, preferably on every page to your site, so that people know what email address to leave a email on, may be even add a phone number which they can call and get a voice mail and leave you a message there to tell you if the order incomplete, or whether they aren't just sure whether you respond, or for whatever reason they were not able to get the download, you need to know about it. And it's better if you find out about it by an email than simply if they charge back the purchase, number one, add your contact information.

Also stay what name will appear on their credit card statement. You can find this out by logging in to your PayPal or CLICKBANK or your Merchant account. If you still cannot find it, email the company that handles your payment delivery and find out what appear on somebody's credit card statement after they buy from you. Tell them what will appear on their credit card statement and also the exact dollar amount they were just charged. So that when that bill comes later on, they are sure this is the thing I bought and they don't negotiate refund or charge back.

And one final optional step that you can take to make sure you reduce refunds is telling them what extra bonuses are coming. And this is very easy, just set up a second hidden download page then extra bonus and schedule that link to that download page to be sent out seven days from now after they buy. And that will go a long way towards reducing refunds. On the internet most people who are your buyers are good, so by providing contact information, telling them what will appear on their credit card statement, and telling them what bonus are coming up, will help them reduce the confusion of your customers and at the same time, reduce your refund rate.

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by Robert Plank July 1, 2011

Avoid These Common Mistakes On Your Download Pages

Most people do not put too much thought into the download page. It's just a place where you deliver the product. Someone already came to your site. They already decided they want to purchase an offer. They already paid you money and they were sent to this page to collect their product. Seems simple, right...? It actually is, as long as you make sure to avoid potential pitfalls. Don't hide your download link from other people. Test your download link and put it into its own zip file. And if you have many different pieces and many different links on your download page, provide an "all in one" download.

When someone has paid you, the most important thing to them right now is to get access to the item you promised. That could be the video, that could be the report but we don't want to hide what they came for. That means to centre the text that says, "Download your report here." Put it in huge letters. May be even draw an arrow point toward or have the words that say "Right click the report above, to save your report right now. If you have a video for sale, make the video automatically played as soon as someone comes to that download page, but make it super obvious and super simple that here is the thing you just pay for, here is how to get it.

A really important thing you should do is, pretend to be your own buyer or have a friend buy from your webpage just to see what experience they go through. You would be surprised because some payment processors take a long time to process the order, or you might have misnamed a file, so when somebody pays you, they don't end up on a download page. May be they do end up on a download page but you've misnamed the zip-file, so you know, they see the thank you message, they can't actually download the thing they actually pay you for. It seems obvious but it will really help you out if you have somebody pretend to be a buyer, buy from you and make sure everything is ok. And that also includes downloading a file! Because you might have included a corrupt zip file or the download process might be too involved. Just imagine if you had 16 parts video training course, you might think that it's a good idea to put each video in its own individual zip file. Well, that means that when somebody buys from you, they have to save 16 different things one after another. Not very fun, right... But what if you offered all 16 pieces, on their own, plus an all in one, giant, zip file. That way they could save first couple of videos, and start watching them, but while they are watching those first few, download the entire package at once. And those are some easy things you can look for adjust on your download page to make sure that your customers are happy with the purchase they just made, so that they will continue to read your emails and look for promotions and buy from you again, at the same time produce the customer support you have to deal with.

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by Robert Plank June 29, 2011

Make Money From Other People’s Download Pages With These Little Known Techniques

It's true that a lot of marketers leave money on the table by offering something for sale while in the download and not rolling any other offers. This might be true but this can also be true with people you know, and that's how you can monetize the download pages of your friends, your affiliates and even your competitors.

First of all it can't hurt just to send a quick email and ask if your affiliate link to your product is a good match for their download page may be you just buy from that person, you notice that may be on the download page they don't have an up sell. As if they are going to sign up for your affiliate program and place that special link on their download page. That way someone would come to their site, buy from them, and on the download page, they link to your offer, and if they buy from you that original product seller will get the commission plus you get that extra sale and extra lead as well. If you have an email auto responder that allows for affiliate tagging you can place your opt in form, your email sign in form on someone else' download page. What this does is it allows new people to sign up for your list and if it ends up leading to a sale you'll credit that person who referred that subscriber to your list. That means that someone will buy from your competitor, on their download page they'll see your email form with some kind of free gift or other offer and if and when they buy from you, you get the sale and that competitor gets the commission, even though the subscriber might have taken weeks or months to buy.

And finally, if you are getting trouble for someone to agree to place a link to their download page try offering them a small monthly fee on top of an affiliate commission that you are providing because any extra sale from this joint venture is a potential buying in the future. So even if you break even on the sale of the original product it does not cost you anything. That means you might have to offer 100% commission, if the product is $20 and someone just for sale, may be that person gets all $20, may be you offer a monthly fee and 50% commission, which means that, that person gets $10 for sale, but regardless of the sales or not, you pay them $20 just to have your link on their download page. This might seem a waste of money at first but, no new sales is coming in without affiliate id, stop paying them the monthly fee and they can remove the link if they want because that has not been shown to be a venture that makes sales.

Monetize other people's download pages with an affiliate link, with an "opt in" box or a crazy offer such as 100% commission, or a monthly fee plus an affiliate link.

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by Robert Plank June 27, 2011

Three Easy Ways To Monetize Your Download Page Finally Revealed

However someone pays you money online, they are automatically redirected to your download page. This is great because the delivery of your digital product is automated and action of them paying you is automated as well. It's an auto-pilot system. But there are always ways we can change things around and get a little more money out of every transaction by adding a little something to our download page. If all you are doing is delivering a link or download on that page, you're missing out some extra sales that you could have had. You can link to another product. You can add a banner ad to an affiliate product or just deliver a follow up sequence after they download.

It's very simple to link another product or an affiliate product as soon as someone buys from you. You might just have one e-book or one report or one video for sale and that's fine. Do a search for your affiliate. Go on Google, type in your niche and the word affiliate, or search the CLICKBANK marketplace, or contact any of your friends, see if they offer an affiliate or referral program where you can send your buyers to them and if they buy the other product, you get a commission.

If you have another related report or video, it can't hurt to introduce your buyers to this. There's nothing wrong in asking for a second sale. So, if someone just bought from you today, prove your buyer so they are not going to get offended if you try to help them out even more. You can easily link to either one of your product or an affiliate product. And what's great about these affiliate products is, they have a product called affiliate centers, where they will supply you with things such as graphics, or banner ads to place on your blog or on your download pages. To take advantage of them, grab one of these banner ads, and make it a link to this other person's product as an affiliate link. It will look more official than a simple text link. And finally, some of these affiliate centers also provide you with simple copy and paste emails to your blog post, to send to your subscribers. Just take these and place them on your auto-responder sequence for people who have already bought from you. This way you can get people to buy from you the first time. Out of the year they are proven buyer then, convert on someone else's offers. Monetize your download page by linking to another product or affiliate products, add a banner ad or set up a follow-up sequence for the buyers after they download.

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