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		<title>How Will You Get Google Rankings Now?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Laffar-Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of marketers have already invested in Market Samurai, and secured their full copy of Market Samurai. And right now, as I write this&#8230; They are snapping up easy, low-competition keywords with good traffic, and good profit potential, possibly in YOUR market. ==> http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info They are now armed with the tools inside Market Samurai, they <a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/how-will-you-get-google-rankings-now/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thousands of marketers have already invested in Market Samurai, and secured their full copy of Market Samurai.</p>
<p>And right now, as I write this&#8230;</p>
<p>They are snapping up easy, low-competition keywords with good traffic, and good profit potential, possibly in YOUR market.</p>
<p>==> <a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info" title="Get Market Samurai to power up your Niche Marketing and SEO for just $97">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info</a></p>
<p>They are now armed with the tools inside Market Samurai, they can avoid making the mistakes that cause 99% of online marketers to fail &#8211; picking the wrong keywords, going into markets with too little traffic or too little value, or trying to break into markets that are far too competitive. As a result, they&#8217;ll profit where most others fail.</p>
<p>DID YOU MISS YOUR OPPORTUNITY?</p>
<p>If you didn&#8217;t take advantage of Market Samurai&#8217;s lowest offer for my subscribers &#8211; for most of you, this offer has already expired &#8211; and you&#8217;ll never have the opportunity to buy for such a low price again.</p>
<p>That offer is gone forever.</p>
<p>So if you&#8217;re feeling a twinge of regret right now because of the lost opportunity, that&#8217;s understandable. </p>
<p>After all, it really was a great deal.</p>
<p>And even though I can&#8217;t extend that offer for you, I want to give you one last chance&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />
Here&#8217;s the deal<br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>If your $97 discount has expired, there&#8217;s no way to get the $97 price back&#8230; It just wouldn&#8217;t be fair to the people who acted quickly, and took action to invest  in what is really THE ONE tool you need to run a successful online business.</p>
<p>But because I genuinely want to see you succeed &#8211; and because I believe Market Samurai is a no-brainer &#8211; here&#8217;s what I convinced them to do:</p>
<p>If you buy Market Samurai before your trial period expires (you should have another 5 days or so left by my calculations), then you can still pick up Market Samurai for a discounted $127 a one time payment instead of the full retail price (the price that&#8217;s offered to the general public, on Market Samurai&#8217;s own web-site).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info" title="Get Market Samurai to power up your Niche Marketing and SEO for just $97">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info</a></p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t own Market Samurai yet, you need to get it now. This is one tool that you&#8217;ll use practically daily, it has more advanced features than any other piece of internet marketing software available today, and at $127 (with no hidden subscription fees), it&#8217;s a no-brainer.</p>
<p>Especially when you consider that this product should be selling for AT LEAST $500+ or more based on what it can do for your business!</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />
So you have two choices:<br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>1. Register Market Samurai now and keep all the functionality AND pay just once instead of every month, not to mention the confidence you&#8217;ll have just by being equipped with tools that will help you avoid joining the 99% of all SEO marketers who fail&#8230;</p>
<p>OR&#8230;</p>
<p>2. Pass on this offer, and lose the majority of Market Samurai&#8217;s functionality in a few days time when your trial expires.</p>
<p>(including the vital SEO Competition module which you&#8217;ll need to assess the strength of your competition &#8211; the MOST IMPORTANT of the 3 Golden Rules)</p>
<p>I can only hold them to this special treatment for my subscribers for a little while longer:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info" title="Get Market Samurai to power up your Niche Marketing and SEO for just $97">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info</a></p>
<p>Talk soon,</p>
<p>PS: One quick question for you to ponder: SEO is a hard game, if you don&#8217;t have the right tools. How will you avoid search engine insignificance when your Market Samurai trial expires?</p>
<p>Avoid the harsh reality of having to answer that question by acting on your one last chance to get Market Samurai for far less than the public price:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info" title="Get Market Samurai to power up your Niche Marketing and SEO for just $97">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info</a></p>
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		<title>WARNING &#8211; just a few hours left&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Laffar-Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you downloaded Market Samurai when I recommended it, but you haven&#8217;t purchased yet, you need to act now! In just a few hours, your chance to get your hands on Market Samurai at its lowest price will be GONE FOREVER. http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info If you want to be able to&#8230; * Effectively analyze your SEO competition <a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/warning-just-a-few-hours-left/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you downloaded Market Samurai when I recommended it, but you haven&#8217;t purchased yet, you need to act now!</p>
<p>In just a few hours, your chance to get your hands on Market Samurai at its lowest price will be GONE FOREVER.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info" title="Get Market Samurai to power up your Niche Marketing and SEO for just $97">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info</a></p>
<p>If you want to be able to&#8230;</p>
<p>* Effectively analyze your SEO competition instead of fighting and losing costly and time-consuming battles against almost unbeatable competitors.</p>
<p>* Find relevant web content that fits your chosen keywords instead of being forced to research and write content the old way &#8211; from start-to-finish by yourself, or paying for outsourcing.</p>
<p>* Find opportunities to build high-value backlinks to your content from relevant sites, practically on autopilot &#8211; including valuable blog pingback links.</p>
<p>&#8230; then make sure you go here now before it too late:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info" title="Get Market Samurai to power up your Niche Marketing and SEO for just $97">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info</a></p>
<p>And more important than anything, Market Samurai enables you to follow the 3 Golden Rules of SEO:</p>
<p>* SEO Golden Rule #1 &#8211; Pick keywords that ATTRACT TRAFFIC, and avoid 90% of all keywords that will NOT attract traffic.</p>
<p>* SEO Golden Rule #2 &#8211; Pick keywords that have COMMERCIAL VALUE, and avoid all of the unprofitable, useless-traffic keywords.</p>
<p>* SEO Golden Rule #3 &#8211; Pick keywords with LOW LEVELS OF COMPETITION &#8211; and avoid keywords that give you have no chance to get front-page Google rankings.</p>
<p>Only around 1% of all keywords fit within these 3 Golden Rules.</p>
<p>If you EVER want to drive free search engine traffic to your website, then without Market Samurai you&#8217;re playing &#8220;SEO Roulette&#8221; with the odds stacked against you at 100 to 1, trying to &#8220;GUESS&#8221; the right keywords to target!</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get left behind by those that take action while you sit there and wonder.</p>
<p>Make sure you get Market Samurai before your 35% discount. By my calculations, most users only have a few hours left!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info" title="Get Market Samurai to power up your Niche Marketing and SEO for just $97">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info</a></p>
<p>To Your Success,</p>
<p>P.S. &#8211; Remember, this is the lowest price available for Market Samurai &#8211; and you only have a few hours left until your discount expires.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info" title="Get Market Samurai to power up your Niche Marketing and SEO for just $97">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info</a></p>
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		<title>URGENT: Your Market Samurai Discount Ends Tomorrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Laffar-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time is running out for you to get Market Samurai at the lowest price available &#8211; just $97 &#8211; with no subscription costs, or keyword data charges, ever! http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info By my calculations, tomorrow this discount will be expiring for you &#8211; forever. If you&#8217;re already using Market Samurai (like I am), you&#8217;ll already know it&#8217;s <a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/urgent-your-market-samurai-discount-ends-tomorrow/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Time is running out for you to get Market Samurai at the lowest price available &#8211; just $97 &#8211; with no subscription costs, or keyword data charges, ever!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info" title="Get Market Samurai to power up your Niche Marketing and SEO for just $97">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info</a></p>
<p>By my calculations, tomorrow this discount will be expiring for you &#8211; forever.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re already using Market Samurai (like I am), you&#8217;ll already know it&#8217;s one of the few must-have pieces of software in your internet marketing toolkit.</p>
<p>So save yourself 35% off the normal price by getting your copy NOW &#8211; before your discount expires forever.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info" title="Get Market Samurai to power up your Niche Marketing and SEO for just $97">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info</a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s really a ridiculous discount &#8211; it&#8217;s already a one-time fee (there aren&#8217;t any monthly subscription fees) &#8211; they really should be charging more.</p>
<p>But the 35% discount that I&#8217;ve secured for you (saving you over $50) is drawing close to expiring forever &#8211; so time is running out for you to secure your discounted copy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info" title="Get Market Samurai to power up your Niche Marketing and SEO for just $97">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info</a></p>
<p>P.S. &#8211; Remember, the clock is ticking. If you downloaded Market Samurai when I first recommended it to you, then you only have 1 day left until your 35% discount expires forever.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info" title="Get Market Samurai to power up your Niche Marketing and SEO for just $97">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai-info</a></p>
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		<title>Are you missing out on this?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Laffar-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t downloaded your copy of the Market Samurai software yet, you need to get it now: http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai I don&#8217;t usually make recommendations this strongly &#8211; but you NEED TO GET THIS software, END OF STORY. If you want TOP RANKINGS in Search Engines; If you want to find PROFITABLE KEYWORDS; If you want <a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/are-you-missing-out-on-this/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you haven&#8217;t downloaded your copy of the Market Samurai software yet, you need to get it now:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai" title="A SECRET WEAPON for Niche Market Research and SEO">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai</a></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t usually make recommendations this strongly &#8211; but you NEED TO GET THIS software, END OF STORY.</p>
<p>If you want TOP RANKINGS in Search Engines;<br />
If you want to find PROFITABLE KEYWORDS;<br />
If you want to know what it will take to DOMINATE YOUR COMPETITORS&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;You need to get on board, and get this software.</p>
<p>Here is where you need to go, right now:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai" title="A SECRET WEAPON for Niche Market Research and SEO">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai</a></p>
<p>P.S. &#8211; If you HAVE already downloaded your copy, you&#8217;ll know what I&#8217;m talking about. </p>
<p>Incredible &#8211; isn&#8217;t it? </p>
<p>I can&#8217;t remember the last time something like this came out!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai" title="A SECRET WEAPON for Niche Market Research and SEO">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai</a></p>
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		<title>A SECRET WEAPON for Niche Market Research and SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Laffar-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After hearing about a bunch of first-time internet marketing &#8220;newbies&#8221; using this TOP SECRET Market Samurai software to easily capture front-page rankings, traffic and sales in their first few weeks online, I had to check it out. I was so impressed by the software that I even worked out a deal to give you INSTANT <a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/a-secret-weapon-for-niche-market-research-and-seo/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After hearing about a bunch of first-time internet marketing &#8220;newbies&#8221; using this TOP SECRET Market Samurai software to easily capture front-page rankings, traffic and sales in their first few weeks online, I had to check it out.</p>
<p>I was so impressed by the software that I even worked out a deal to give you INSTANT ACCESS to download it at NO COST to see for yourself just how powerful it is.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai" title="A SECRET WEAPON for Niche Market Research and SEO">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai</a></p>
<p>If you want the secret to quick, profitable, high traffic Google rankings &#8211; the secret is finding the &#8220;right&#8221; keywords&#8230;</p>
<p>And this tool will help you achieve just that:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai" title="A SECRET WEAPON for Niche Market Research and SEO">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai</a></p>
<p>P.S. &#8211; There are over 153674 other results-driven internet marketers using it already just in its first few months online. I use all the time and love the results.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get left behind &#8211; get free access to this software, and try out its advanced features here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai" title="A SECRET WEAPON for Niche Market Research and SEO">http://www.webtechndesign.com/samurai</a></p>
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		<title>Future-Tarot Theme</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Laffar-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally designed for the wonderful women at Future-Tarot.com the Future-Tarot Theme has a unique layout and design with rounded edges and twin column sidebar. This theme is not currently available for public release but I&#8217;m hoping to put together a public version and will update with more details when it is available to download.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Originally designed for the wonderful women at Future-Tarot.com the Future-Tarot Theme has a unique layout and design with rounded edges and twin column sidebar.</p>
<p>This theme is not currently available for public release but I&#8217;m hoping to put together a public version and will update with more details when it is available to download.</p>
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		<title>Add/edit a Followup Email in Aweber</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Laffar-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A client of mine recently asked for help creating and editing her mailing list messages in Aweber. Aweber is fairly straight forward, they&#8217;ve put together a great collection of forms with handy hints and a comprehensive help center. But, sometimes it can get a bit confusing. I&#8217;ll break down this single process for you and <a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/addedit-a-followup-email-in-aweber/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A client of mine recently asked for help creating and editing her mailing list messages in <a href="http://www.writersroundabout.com/aweber" title="Web Tech 'n' Design Recommends Aweber For Your Mailing List Solutions">Aweber</a>. Aweber is fairly straight forward, they&#8217;ve put together a great collection of forms with handy hints and a comprehensive help center. But, sometimes it can get a bit confusing. I&#8217;ll break down this single process for you and if there is anything else you&#8217;d like to learn to do with Aweber leave a comment to let me know and I&#8217;ll put together another tutorial to show you how.</p>
<p><em>Click on screenshots for full-size images.</em></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/01-LogIn.jpg" title="Start by Logging into Aweber"><img src="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/01-LogIn.jpg" alt="Start by Logging into Aweber" title="Start by Logging into Aweber" align="right" width="400" /></a><strong>Ok, start by logging into your Aweber account.</strong>
<p>If you don&#8217;t already have one they&#8217;re very affordable and are great value for money. You can <a href="http://www.writersroundabout.com/aweber" title="Sign up for an Aweber account if you don't already have one!">sign up now</a> and get started with a new mailing list in minutes. I&#8217;ll walk you through that process another day but for now, lets assume you already have a mailing list but want to put together a collection of followup messages to send out when people subscribe on your site.</p>
<p>Enter your <em>username</em> and <em>password</em>, click &#8220;remember me&#8221; and &#8220;Login&#8221; to log into your account at Aweber.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/02-SelectList.jpg" title="Select your list from the dropdown menu."><img src="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/02-SelectList.jpg" alt="Select your list from the dropdown menu." title="Select your list from the dropdown menu." align="right" width="400" /></a><strong>Select Your Mailing List.</strong><br />
Select the list you want to work with from the dropdown menu. In this tutorial we are working with a list I manage for one of my clients, &#8220;amanifestingmom&#8221;.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/03-SelectFollowUp.jpg" title="Select Messages and FollowUp from the menu."><img src="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/03-SelectFollowUp.jpg" alt="Select Messages and FollowUp from the menu." title="Select Messages and FollowUp from the menu." align="right" width="400" /></a><strong>Go To Your FollowUp Messages</strong><br />
Go to Messages and then FollowUp to show a list of your existing mailing list messages. When you created your list you would also have created the first Follow Up message.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/04-PickMessage.jpg" title="View your followup message statistics and add or edit your messages."><img src="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/04-PickMessage.jpg" alt="View your followup message statistics and add or edit your messages." title="View your followup message statistics and add or edit your messages." align="right" width="400" /></a><strong>View Your Messages</strong><br />
On this page you can see all of your follow up messages. They&#8217;re listed by a message number (mesg) and include other important information. Like the interval between messages (Interval), they type of message (Type), when it was last edited (Modified), if clicks within links from that message are being tracked (Click Tracking), the subject line of the message (Subject),<br />
how likely it is to be mistaken for spam (Spam?) and links to (Test), (Copy) and (Delete) the message.<br /><br clear="all" /></p>
<p>Now, click on the subject line of the message you want to edit or click &#8220;Add New Follow Up Message&#8221; to create a brand new email.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/05-SubjectLine.jpg" title="Include a Subject Line for your email."><img src="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/05-SubjectLine.jpg" alt="Include a Subject Line for your email." title="Include a Subject Line for your email." align="right" width="400" /></a><strong>Include a Subject:</strong><br />
I recommend including your mailing lists name and enough description to make readers know they want to read it right away. Use the same techniques as you might use when choosing a title for a blog post or story.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/06-Template.jpg" title="Choose a Template for your email"><img src="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/06-Template.jpg" alt="Choose a Template for your email" title="Choose a Template for your email" align="right" width="400" /></a><strong>Choose a Template:</strong><br />
You can select from the list of templates or you might prefer to have a template designed that is unique for your company or your mailing list. When you choose a template from the list you&#8217;ll see an example image. Click &#8220;Load Template&#8221; to have that template loaded into the editor so you can work within it.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/07-CustomizeHTML.jpg" title="Customize your HTML message."><img src="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/07-CustomizeHTML.jpg" alt="Customize your HTML message." title="Customize your HTML message." align="right" width="400" /></a><strong>Customize your HTML Message:</strong><br />
Now you have a template you can begin changing the text, images, and links within that template to reflect the email you want your subscribers to receive.</p>
<p>You can use the buttons and tools in the editors toolbar to make many changes. Customize your email in whatever what you like.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/08-PlainText.jpg" title="Add a Plain Text Alternative"><img src="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/08-PlainText.jpg" alt="Add a Plain Text Alternative" title="Add a Plain Text Alternative" align="right" width="400" /></a><strong>Add a Plain Text Alternative:</strong><br />
Some readers won&#8217;t like HTML emails and spam filters hate HTML only formats. Include a plain text alternative. The easiest way to do that is to copy the text you&#8217;ve added in your HTML version and present it here without the formatting.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/09-Interval2Finish.jpg" title="Set a Delivery Interval, Track Clicks, Preview, and Save"><img src="http://www.webtechndesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/09-Interval2Finish.jpg" alt="Set a Delivery Interval, Track Clicks, Preview, and Save" title="Set a Delivery Interval, Track Clicks, Preview, and Save" align="right" width="400" /></a><strong>Set a delivery Interval:</strong><br />
Each time you create a new followup message you can decide how long after the message before it the new email will be sent. Having your emails staggared in a regular pattern gives you the opportunity to keep bringing your business to the attention of your subscribers but don&#8217;t make it so frequent that their inbox is inundated with your brand.<br />
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<p><strong>Track Clicks?</strong><br />
When you want to keep track of how your email messages are performing it&#8217;s a good idea to leave this box checked. You&#8217;ll be able to view reports on how many of your subscribers click through to your links.</p>
<p><strong>Finally, Preview and Save.</strong><br />
Once you save you message will queue ready to send so, if your interval might mean some of your subscribers are due to receive it immediately you need to make sure it&#8217;s perfect before you save. Take advantage of the preview option to see how it will look before you save.</li>
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		<title>Add A Google Adsense Blog To WordPress Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 06:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Laffar-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This tutorial is being expanded upon. Please bare with me while I flesh out the details for you but meanwhile you might be able to follow the &#8220;steps&#8221; to get started. Log into your Google Adsense Account Log into your WordPress Blog Dashboard Go To _Adsense Setup_ AdSense for Content Choose Ad Type Ad Unit <a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/add-a-google-adsense-blog-to-wordpress-blog/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>This tutorial is being expanded upon. Please bare with me while I flesh out the details for you but meanwhile you might be able to follow the &#8220;steps&#8221; to get started.</p></blockquote>
<p>Log into your Google Adsense Account<br />
Log into your WordPress Blog Dashboard</p>
<p>Go To _Adsense Setup_<br />
   AdSense for Content<br />
	Choose Ad Type<br />
	  Ad Unit<br />
		Text and image ads (default)<br />
		Text ads only<br />
		Image ads only<br />
	  Link unit<br />
	Choose Ad Format and Colors<br />
		Format (select style of Ad Block)<br />
		Colors<br />
		Fonts<br />
		Corner Styles<br />
		More Options &#8211; Alternate Ads or colors<br />
		[CONTINUE]<br />
	Choose Ad Channels (what are ad channels)<br />
		[CONTINUE]<br />
	Save and Get Ad Code<br />
		AdSense unit name:</p>
<p>   AdSense for Search<br />
   Adsense for Feeds<br />
   AdSense for Domains<br />
   AdSense for Mobile Content</p>
<p>Follow the steps to create the ad<br />
Then copy the Adsense unit code as a:<br />
	Text box Widget for your sidebar<br />
	or into directly into your Theme</p>
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		<title>New Services Catalog!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Laffar-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey! How are you doing? I hope the tutorials have been helping you out. Please, leave a comment or contact me if there is anything you&#8217;d like to learn to do on your computer, online or off. I have other tutorials in the works but I&#8217;d love to put together tutorials to help you with <a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/new-services-catalog/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey! How are you doing? I hope the tutorials have been helping you out. Please, leave a comment or <a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/contact-me/" title="Contact Me!">contact me</a> if there is anything you&#8217;d like to learn to do on your computer, online or off. I have other tutorials in the works but I&#8217;d love to put together tutorials to help you with anything you might be finding difficult.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, today I&#8217;m releasing an all new <a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/services/" title="Web Tech 'n' Design Services Catalog">SERVICES CATALOG</a>! Now you can browse the catalog to see the services I offer and make a purchase right away with our handy new shopping card integrated with Paypal. <a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/services/" title="Go shopping!">check it out</a> and let me know what you think. Are there any other services I could add?</p>
<p>Speaking of new things coming to Web Tech &#8216;n&#8217; Design, I&#8217;ve got big plans to add screenshots and screencasts with tutorials in the future, including updating past tutorials to be more comprehensive and user-friendly. Have you had trouble following any of our past tutorials? Leave a comment on that tutorial with your advice and suggestions for making the tutorial easier to follow or with any questions you still have.</p>
<p>Have a fantastic week and I&#8217;ll see you again soon!</p>
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		<title>Pretty Link &#8211; A Must-Have WordPress Plugin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Laffar-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever wished you could remember that link you&#8217;re always referring to, shorten a lengthy URL, eradicate a messy querystring, have a one-stop-shop to updating or redirecting a link that moved house, or mask an affiliate link, then you NEED to read this post! WordPress has some very awesome plugins but this has to <a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/pretty-link-a-must-have-wordpress-plugin/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wished you could remember that link you&#8217;re always referring to, shorten a lengthy URL, eradicate a messy querystring, have a one-stop-shop to updating or redirecting a link that moved house, or mask an affiliate link, then you NEED to read this post!</p>
<p>WordPress has some very awesome plugins but this has to be one of the simplest, most versatile tool, every WordPress blog should install.</p>
<p>So, &#8220;what is it?&#8221; you ask. It has a rather simple, unassuming name that suits its cleverly simple use.<br />
<a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/pretty-link/" title="How-to install and use Pretty Link">Install &#8220;Pretty Link&#8221; on your WordPress blog</a>, and let me show you the magic.</p>
<h3>Easily Remember Pretty Links</h3>
<p>Ever had a link you use frequently but always had to go look up? What about one you had difficulty spelling or often mistyped? And then there are the long ones you just have to copy and paste if you don&#8217;t want any part forgotten. Well, Pretty Link has the answer.</p>
<p>You can create quick, short, easily remembered links. You can also use a keyword or word association in your link so you&#8217;ll always be able to bring it to mind when you want it. And it is your own domain name; I hope you don&#8217;t forget that!</p>
<h3>Pretty Link for URL Shortening</h3>
<p>Sure, you have bit.ly, su.pr, digs.by, and other URL shortening sites that can chop your permalinked post links to jumbled letters, but have you ever considered the SEO ramifications of giving up your link ju-ju? Those URL shortening domains lap it all up. Sure, your site is getting retweeted and stumbled but what if you could have short urls that used your domain name?</p>
<p>And, what if you could use short keywords instead of jumbled letters for those shortened links? How is your SEO mojo looking now?</p>
<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EN71HC?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=outlandagames-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B001EN71HC" title="Random movie culture reference! Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery (1997)">Yeah, baby, Yeah!</a>&#8221; Pretty link does it and does it with style. One click from the dashboard of your WordPress blog and you&#8217;re a domain-shortened-link-star.</p>
<h3>Querystring Begone with Pretty Link</h3>
<p>If you&#8217;re an Amazon Affiliate you&#8217;re already cheering, aren&#8217;t you?</p>
<blockquote><p>Amazon Affiliate Link Example:</p>
<p>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EN71HC?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=outlandagames-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B001EN71HC</p></blockquote>
<p>These miles-long links are cumbersome and although you may not know it, querystrings can often break the XHTML validation of even the best designed WordPress themes. They are also an opportunity for your users to &#8220;tweak&#8221; their destination. They can remove or change details of your link that you&#8217;d rather remained as intended.</p>
<p>While Pretty Link can&#8217;t prevent users making changes once the target location has loaded, it does maintain the integrity of your querystring links until they get there. And, it is so much nicer (and easier to remember) when you have a short, simple, querystring-less link in place of the URL array of variables.</p>
<h3>Mail Forwarding When Your Pretty Link Moves House</h3>
<p>If you&#8217;ve ever moved house you may know that the post office offers mail forwarding services, for a price. Online you can set up forwarding if you still own the directory of your old address. But what if you don&#8217;t own the old house?</p>
<p>With Pretty Link you don&#8217;t have to! Any time you use a Pretty Link it redirects visitors to the target URL set up for that Pretty Link. So, if your target moved house you can edit the pretty link and, automatically, every single time you used that link it will point visitors to the new location.</p>
<p>Can you imagine the time and effort involved in manually updating those links one at a time? As a Web tech I&#8217;ve had to do it a time or two in the past and it is not fun. And just think of all those now dead links you CAN&#8217;T edit like the one&#8217;s you tweeted. No way, avoid the nightmare by using Pretty Links for anything that might move house in the future.</p>
<h3>Pretty Link Affiliate Masks</h3>
<p>There are a number of reasons you might want to mask an affiliate link and they don&#8217;t have to be shady. You should (in fact, in the USA you&#8217;re required to) disclose that you use affiliate links, but the link itself can wear a pretty, your-domain, URL.</p>
<p>Why do we mask affiliate links?</p>
<ul>
<li>So we can keep the SEO mojo on our own domain.</li>
<li>So we can enhance SEO with a focus on selected keywords.</li>
<li>So we can remember a commonly used URL on the fly.</li>
<li>So we can get rid of a clunky, poorly formed, or ten-miles-long querystring.</li>
<li>So we can easily update the link target if we change our affiliations, update the affiliate offer, or have a seasonal promotion.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Convinced Yet? Get Pretty Link Installed Now!</h3>
<p>At Web Tech &#8216;n&#8217; Design, I&#8217;ve put together a quick &#8220;<a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/pretty-link/" title="How-to install and use Pretty Link">How-to install and use Pretty Link tutorial</a>&#8221; to get you started. If you need any help, want an expert to manually update some of your existing URLs to your new Pretty Links, or want to know more, <a href="http://www.webtechndesign.com/contact-me/" title="Contact Rebecca of Web Tech 'n' Design">contact me</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Let me know what you think of Pretty Link, or any plugin that you consider are &#8220;must-have WordPress plugins&#8221;, in the comments below.</strong></p>
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