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Whether you are looking for traffic from search engines, others sites, or even within your own, the title of your article or page usually has a large part of determining if people want to visit your site or not.
Big picture there is really nothing wrong with a nice descriptive title as long as it can covey what the article is about, but a short bland title really won’t improve your chances of somebody actually wasting their time and visiting your article.
Before we can really start to dive into what makes a good title, there are two key points to remember when creating catchy title… Are you creating a title for search engines or social networks?
There is no real easy and concise way to breakdown why you would want to differentiate the two, but it should become clear after reading this article.
The Ultimate Title Template
Everybody has their own brand of creativity, but you can never go wrong with your post title by following this formula (great for lists).
[Number] [Ways, Steps, or Synonyms] To [Power Word] [Subject]
Examples:
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If you are trying to promote something and you aren’t already on twitter, then you are really doing yourself a disservice, but this article is more about branding your twitter profile page.
When it comes to the customization of twitter, all you can really do is change the text/link colors and the background picture. If you have no design skill or access to program, then creating a good background that displays your brand can be pretty hard.
The following is a list of viable options for twitter backgrounds. Some are free and some are paid, while some are completely customizable and others just allow you to avoid the boring default twitter background.
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If you are unfamiliar with what sales and squeeze pages are, then it is time to get familiar. These type of pages are basically a single web page that focuses on getting the visitor to perform one action.
- Sales Page – Focuses on visitor to buy the product.
- Squeeze Page – Focuses on visitor to opt-in to mailing list.
There are obviously advantages and disadvantages to creating each one over the other; however, each one is almost a vital part to launching and selling any product or service. We think they are so important that we have created free templates for these specific pages that you can get for free.
Although these pages seem relatively easy to produce, it is almost an art form. How will you keep somebody’s attention and convince them to perform the action you want? That is why it is imperative that you understand exactly how these pages work and then also study what successful marketers are doing on these pages.
I have created a video that you can watch below to get a better understand of how a sales or squeeze page works, and we will also look at a couple examples.
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The easiest step to outsource in all of the “make money online” process is the design phase. With so many tools and resources available, why waste time coming up with that perfect design when you can just find one already made and run with it?
Just like with any business, time is money.
If you are uncomfortable with coding and web design, but still trying to create your site from scratch, to save a couple dollars, you are going to be wasting so much precious time. Even if you had to pay $30 to get a design template, you will easily save more money than spending hours trying to come up with your own design.
Better yet, there are always tricks, tactics, and other special coding stuff that will boost your traffic, but you probably don’t know them. These designers do.
There is only one problem… How do you find good quality templates?
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Hopefully, you have already downloaded our latest template package. While the templates were already created to be extremely easy to tweak and personalize, we know that it can be even easier. That is why we have made a screencast video that details step-by-step what to do from the second you download the pack to finally editing everything so it fits your product or whatever you are promoting.
While the video is geared towards our free template package, it also covers a very easy way to learn web design. In fact, this is how most people learn. From looking at templates or finished product, and then seeing what changes what. These instructions also work for other themes and templates.
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Why would it matter what the build of Wordpress is? Almost every time Wordpress releases a full on update they usually add some new template tags, codes, or other strings that don’t work anymore or they created some new stuff that is much more efficient.
If you are planning to build your site around a theme, then wouldn’t you want that one to have the most bells and whistle that it could? The following is a lit of some of the best free themes that I recommend to use with Wordpress 2.8.
Blog Themes
One Room – Demo
Fusion – Demo
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