Hints and Tips

Hints and tips for online marketing, tracking, and others.

Free Alternative to Camtasia Studio

You’ve probably heard of Camtasia Studio. It’s an excellent tool for recording demonstrations of software, and it makes for a fantastic marketing tool because not only can you demonstrate a software product or web-based interface, but you can also inject enthusiasm into your sales pitch with your voiceover. The main problem with it is the [...]

Improve Page Rank with htaccess by chopping off the www

If, like me, you’ve been promoting your website with both the www tag included and without the www tag, you’ll have been dividing your efforts as far as the search engines are concerned, because technically they are regarded as different websites. Using your .htaccess file on a server running Apache, you can recombine your Page [...]

WordPress Automatic Posting SQL Errors

I’ve been having problems with automatic posting on WordPress 1.5.2! My new Clickbank News service requires automatic posting to work with this WordPress site. I was getting SQL errors that prevented posts from being applied. I did a bit of research, and I found out that the problem was caused by apostrophes not being escaped. [...]

Big drop caps

Just a quick tip I heard about on WPS. You can put a big drop cap in as the first letter of your posts on your WordPress blog by using the following plugin: Increase Blog Readership 13% By Changing One Letter Whether it actually increases the blog readership by 13%, I doubt, but it certainly [...]

Blocking your own views with Google Analytics

This tip applies to anybody running Google Analytics on their own web site. If you’re like me, you’ve never got the filters to work in Google Analytics. I’m a seasoned programmer; I know all about regular expressions, and yet getting the system to exclude page views from my IP address just doesn’t work. I either [...]

Campaign Tracking and Optimisation

When you have a successful campaign running, you want it to make as much money as possible per day. How are you going to achieve that? You may be surprised to learn that it’s not by buying as many clicks as possible. Let’s look at some example figures. Example 1: You make $17.83 per commission. [...]

Tracking with Commission Junction

I like to know certain information about the people who buy the products that I promote. The following are handy to know: 1. What keyword did they use to visit my site? 2. Did they come from the search network or the content network? 3. When did they visit my site? (Useful to know, so [...]

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