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Do you want to make your YouTube videos to get more clickthroughs and to be more effective for you?
If you haven’t noticed that YouTube Videos can now be posted with clickable links, check out this video for a fun example of what can be done with it. It’s called “Interactive Hot Tub Girl”.
The same concept [...]
Shocking Blog Analysis: Rate The Guru
An interesting site http://www.typealyzer.com/ analyzes what type of person you are by your blog writings.
Out of curiosity, I ran my own blog TimGross.com first (duh, I’m a self-involved narcissist)
And then I ran quite a few other business marketing blogs to analyze as well. If you’re not familar with the 4-letter labels used in the [...]
How To Troubleshoot Slow Wordpress Admin Panel
If your Wordpress blog is running slow, especially the Admin panel, here’s how to troubleshoot and fix it.
Note: Regardless of what you think, it may not be Wordpress or your hosting company’s fault, even if it seems like it is.
1) Change your Wordpress Theme to the default theme, see if pages load faster. If it [...]
Useful Firefox Plugin: Copy As HTML
Here’s a handy Firefox Plugin that adds a contextual “Copy As HTML” option when you highlight an area of a web page and right-click.
It’s a good time saver.
Amongst other things, it’s a simple way to copy an HTML link, etc. If there’s a couple sentences of a description and then a link to something on [...]
Easiest Way To Embed Youtube Videos In Wordpress Blog Posts
Easiest way to put YouTube videos in your Wordpress blog without installing a video plugin etc, is:
1) Turn off the visual editor by going to Users=>Username=> Uncheck “Use the visual editor when writing”
2) Go to YouTube, find the video you want, and copy/paste the “embed code” link from it into your Wordpress blog.
3) Publish post
Important: [...]
Avoiding Hand Fatigue & Tendonitis Working On Computers
I take my computer interfaces serious because I’ve gone through periods of losing strength in my hands and fingers from overexertion and overuse. I’ve played piano full-time and used a computer full-time, two activities most likely to cause tendonitis.
A couple tips that I do:
1) I’m left-handed, and there’s a left-handed mouse that helped significantly over [...]
My Tapeworm Diet Ad Joke Turned Out To Be Real…
For a silly example of how to use my Free Sales Letter Generator software, I wrote a joke ad about a tapework weight loss diet, but the joke’s on me… turns out, it’s a real diet! Here’s an actual 1920’s ad for it.
Blech.
Well, disgusting or not, the free sales letter generator can help you quickly [...]
Article Marketing Exposed: How To “Cheat” And Get Mega-Traffic Free
OK, it’s finally released… The easiest way to start making an online income starting with nothing. Complete video walk through of exactly how to find topics to write simple articles on the best topics, and how to link to products from the article that earn you commissions automatically.
In a nutshell, article directories like EzineArticles.com have [...]
What Social Bookmarking IS And Why You Should Care
A lot of people have heard the term “Social Bookmarking”, heard the names of Digg and Del.icio.us and others, but don’t really get what the point is. As marketers, website owners want people to link to their websites using Social Bookmarking because it gives them visitors.
But why would people want to bookmark your website, and [...]