Beatle.me.uk site overhaul

If you were fortunate enough to see this website within the first 2 weeks of existence you would have seen a very different site. “How would this have been fortunate for me?” I hear you ask, well then you may have seen the early stages of setting up a Blog site. One of the things I am going to do whilst getting my self all geared up and knowledgeable on the whole Internet Marketing, traffic generating and Blog\Twitter posting is to keep a ongoing technical diary detailing what I go through so that hopefully somebody else can benefit from my trials and tribulations.

This site is hosted by Uk2.net and I have gone for a hosted package ( I have been using Uk2.net for about 9 years now and all I can say is Wow! what a good hosting company, although they are a lot more than just that, check them out at Uk2.net. Using their new control panel I have tried several of the software packages available for installation on your website and I’ve opted for the WordPress Blog package. I originally started with a CMS package but I’ve been down that route on my other domain www.beatle.org.uk and it can be a lot of work. I also gave the Nucleus blog package a go but after reading The underground secret Twitter manifesto exposed! I opted for a different package.

I was convinced to choose the Wordpress package. Installation using the Uk2.net CPanel couldn’t have been any simpler and I have a full bona fide Blog site up and running within minutes. I’d copied the Blogs I’d posted in the Nucleus version of this site and simply pasted them into Wordpress.  A word to the wise, If you write any of your blogs in Word, for the spell checking or simply to save them on your PC, and then past them in Wordpress, check the HTML tag and remove all the garbage HTML code that comes across with the paste. It just bogs down you page and slows down the loading of the posts. Clear everything up to the first letter of your post, also Wordpress has a spell checker so you can avoid the pasting thing all together if you want.

Any how, after a little digression, I have also made use of a few Plug-ins that was one of the main reasons for using Wordpress and they integrate very nicely and are a breeze to install and configure.

The first one I’m using is TweetMyBlog which not only places your Blogs onto your Twitter page, that’s possibly how you found this post, as you post them but also brings your latest tweets to your Blog page as you can see in widget that is in the lower part of the side bar to the right.

The second plug-in I decided to use is the Aweber Intergration plugin. This allows you to place a mailing list subscription form widget, also on the right hand sidebar, onto your blog site to easily allow your blog readers to subscribe to your mailing list that you distribute using Aweber.

Now I know that a lot of you may be reading this saying “So what’s new, I knew how to do that!” but hopefully there are those who didn’t know and will gain some benefit from this post.

I’ll be looking to add some more pug-ins and widgets so keep on coming back to have a look. If at any stage you feel the site is loosing it apeal due to widgets or advertising please let me know rather than leave the site, after all I’d like to keep you entertained!

Regards

Today’s Blog

Well you must know what it’s like working for the man? You go ahead and make all of these wonderful plans that don’t involve work and then along comes the man and dumps a tonne of work on your lap.

I had great plans of writing reviews of two books that I think are great and should be shared to be enjoyed by as many like minded people as I can find. I was also looking to put up a blog with regards yesterdays ShortList magazine as I was slightly miffed by a 2 page centrefold of a bloke (in a mans magazine) but doe love the ramblings of Danny Wallace.

The 2 books in question are:
The underground secret Twitter manifesto exposed!
and
Money for nothing and your property for free!

Instead I got boring administrative chores to do that even prohibited me from indulging in the ritualistic Friday lunch time pint, or 2.

Alas my loyal reader I will endeavour to write the 3 reviews mentioned above as well as try to read something new to review by the end of next week, even if the stag party that I’m going to this weekend kills me.

I’d like to end of this post with a joyful note that wishes you all a memorable weekend and may you bask in the knowledge that I will have at least one of the hangovers that will cloud the judgment of many a mind in this great nation of ours.

Till Monday (dare I commit?)

Getting to grips with marketing!

It’s now been 6 days since I actually joined the YourNetBiz.com and I have already generated 2 opt-in leads from Google Adwords.

I’m very much a crawl-walk-run person but sometimes get all three going together at the same time. With YNB I have been able to do this as I have some technical knowledge but I am still learning a lot in other areas.

I’m busy expanding my reach by delving into other areas of marketing and below is where I’ve gotten to:

As soon as I had signed up to YNB I immediately jumped onto my Google Adwords account and created an advert to direct some traffic to one of the 3 domains I created. www.makemegamoola.com The ad read “Make Money Online” and I used the forwarding with Masking option to ensure that google would allow it as it actually forwards to my YNB Landing page. I played around with a few permatations of the advert but none of them resulted in an opt-in lead.

I change the ad to one of the ones provided by MIB and used another domain name I registered www.your-mega-bucks.com. This forwards to exactly the same landing page and has resulted in 2 opt-in leads within 3 days. The keywords stayed exactly the same, the impressions grew at the same rate as the previous ad but the 2 opt-ins resulted. Now this could have been purely due to the fact that it was changed in time for my opt-ins to see it but in the short amount of time since I changed the ad I saw a change in results. Longer term experimentation will be the decider but I feel good about what I have done.

I have recently joined Twitter and trying to grow my following. Reading an very good ebook Underground Twitter Secret Manifesto has opened my eyes to the possibilities this social networking site has and I hope to exploit them to the fullest. There is a lot of good content in this ebook and well worth the read if you’re an online marketing person no matter what your level of competence.

I will be looking at exploiting the Facebook social networking site as this site has one of the largest foloowing in the internet and it was recently published that 1 in 8 minutes spent on the internet is spent surfing Facebook. As I get the MIB part of Facebook setup so I’ll update this blog with the links to that page. Coma back here in the future to see where I go with this.

The above is some examples of me running with things as I’m wanting to generate as much traffic to my capture pages as possible and hopefully convert a good percentage of these into actual sales but the area where I’m still learning to crawl is in the running of this machine that MIB is and all of the back office components that make it such a good product.

The group that I have decided to associate with, The Jerimiah 2911 as they offer a very good mentoring and support team and with 4 nights a week training that you won’t get anywhere else it’s the only choice for somebody starting out in this business.

I’ll definitely be reviewing this posting but please also look out for new posts as I will be keeping this site up to date.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life!

Today marks a very big day in making decisions for me as I have opted to join an internet marketing business. I will let you in on more details as we go along but if you’re interested in having an overview please have a look at YourNetBiz (formerly know as MyInternetBusiness)

Welcome to Beatle.me.uk

Hi there,

I’ve created this blog site so that anybody out there even remotely interested in what I’m up to can get regular updates. I do have a Twitter page for the short blasts but I’ll put a bit more meat on the bones in here.