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More WpUnique Reviews

wpunique-uniquecontentI found some interesting wpunique reviews so I thought I would share them here. Seems every place I look where people are talking about their experience with wpreview…..all seem to be having great results. Anyway, check out the below comments if wpuique is of interest to you.

Hey all, I’d like to know if there’s any people here experienced with WPUnique:

WpUnique

There’s a few people who mention it here, and some using it, but not a whole lot of info. It’s essentially a WordPress plugin that turns your text into machine-readable symbols and supposedly makes Google believe that it’s unique.

I’d like to see if anyone has good experiences or has seen themselves move up in the SERPs shortly after installing/using it.

I’m going to contact him to see if I can use the functions on a non-Wordpress site. This isn’t for a blog, but I need to try something with a bunch of duplicate content pages.
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Oh it works alright. It’s a plugin FOR wordpress. And just wondering how can installing a plugin that basically hides duplicate content help you increase your serps? I can say that you can use ezine articles and post it as content on your site with this plugin and not get penalized for duplicate content since it incoporates symbols.

So this sentence in coding looks like s#o# t#h#i#s #s#e#n#t#e#n#c#e
but to readers it looks like plain text. It’s a very nice plugin i use it for micro niche sites. I take articles from ezine and plop it on my page till it starts rakin in cash then i outsource articles to replace it.
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I can say this worked for me. I had an autoblog that wasn’t doing anything but collecting posts and it had nearly zero traffic. A couple weeks ago I put this plugin into it and figured what the hell, I went ahead and changed all 250 or so posts. Suddenly a few days later it started getting hits on search terms from the serps. I don’t know how it works but I can say it helped breathe a little life back into a dead site. I wouldn’t call it a miracle plugin either, but any traffic is better than a stale autoblog.
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I got it a couple of months ago. Used it on some obscure disposable adsense type sites with some trepidation.

I was shocked. Got great results, a lot of page 1 for some long tail keywords. And the results appeared within hours of the post.

I was using Auto Social Poster, a wp plugin. Didn’t do anything else.

Someone mentioned ezinearticles. WpUnique really does work wonders with reprint and plr crap.

Find an article one ezinearticles thats on page one. Post that article exactly as found at ezinearticles. If you bookmark the post…..then you’ll find your article/post directly beneath or on top of the original ezine article.

I’m using it on one blog that is an old internet marketing related blog, I get an IM PLR article a day and use wpunique to post the article. I’m usualy the only one to be found on google for the original article title.

However, my traffic to that blog seems to have slipped by about 25% over the last week or two…..don’t know if its from the wpunique plugin or not.

I wouldn’t hesitate to use it on a new blog…..but if it’s something you want to baby and keep around for a while, I think I might think twice.

How long can G let a simple trick like this get by :) So…my review of wpunique would be to get in now!!!

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WpUnique Review

“Just Think…Your Blog Post Ranked and Indexed
In Less than 5 Minutes Even When Using
PLR or Reprint Articles….or Any Content
By Just Pasting It Into Your Blog!”

wpunique-uniquecontentI’ve been using a new wordpress plugin called wordpress unique or wpUnique for the past couple of months with outstanding results. In fact, this is one case where I’d prefer to be selfish and keep this information to myself….however, the wpUnique has been released to the public and by virtue of the fact that “It Works!” I’m sure everyone will be using it….so, jump to the front of the line and grap a copy of Wordpress Unique today!

Simply said, WpUnique is a wordpress plugin that automatically creates unique content from any blog post you place on your wordpress blog. It amazingly converts a unique version or any PLR article or duplicate content you feed it! However, the article looks exactly the same as the original plr or duplicate content….. the magic happens behind the scenes, in the html coding of the blog!

Seriously, this thing works so good I wish no one else knew about it….it works by using something called “html encoding” and alters the blog post on the html version and makes no change at all to the Visual Version of the blog post. There are other features that allow you to further alter the blog post in an effort to create a more unique blog post and in an effort to monetize the blog post. These are all options that are completely controlled by you!  The entire plugin, all the features,  can be applied to the entire blog or it can be applied to a single post….. giving you the ultimate control of your blog posts.

I think I’ve been using wpUnique for about 2 months…maybe more, and in that time there have been at least 4 updates. These haven’t been cheesey little updates but major upgrades to the plugin. Steve Fullman has gone all out on this baby and has made wpUnique a premiere wordpress plugin, in fact, Steve originally offered Wordpress Unique on the warrior forum in the WSO section. It’s been one of the most successful wso’s that I can remember…..I’m surprised it took him so long to create an affiliate program and offer the plugin to the general market!

Testing Wordpess Unique on Blogs

I’ve been testing wpUnique on 2 well established blogs and 2 brand new blogs. I can get a blog post indexed ….literally in minutes on the established blogs. It doesn’t matter what the article is….it gets indexed. For instance, I get an article a day from one membership. The owner of the membership usually already has the article indexed on his blog in the SERP’s. And sometimes  a couple of days will go by and the article is indexed on another member’s blog. In both cases I search for the “title” of the article in google or the first sentence. Often times there are 5 or more other results in the supplemental results….but as you know they do not show up unless you force them to.

This is the cool part. I’ll copy the article into a blog post exactly the same as it was sent. Next I tick the box for wpUnique to “Uniquify This Post“  That’s the only option I use…there are other options such as:

  • Uniquify Comments
  • Auto-Spin This Post
  • Keywords to Cash Links

I haven’t use any of those other options and then I “publish” the post. I’ll check Google for the “Title” of the article or blog post and voila…..my post is on top of the SERP’s….that’s right….Wordpress Unique altered my post so that in Google’s eyes the post was actually different than the posting’s previously indexed. That is some powerful stuff. Like I said….I wish I was the only one to know about this. I didn’t think the SERP circumstances would last very long, however, all articles and posts have maintained their positions! I almost feel guilty using wpUniqe :)

In the interest of full disclosure, I need to report that Wordpress Unique did not work the magic as fast on new blogs. As with any new site or new blog, the new blog really needs to be indexed by Google before you’ll start to see your articles in the SERPS. WpUnique still works, it just might take a little longer for the results to show up.

You might be confused and wondering exactly how wordpress unique works. You might think that it changes your plr article or blog post somehow. Maybe you think the wpunique spins new content out of your blog post. Actually, the plugin has grown to include many features since its inception, but the main way it changes the content is by doing something called “html encoding” which changes the html view of the post but not the actual words. I’m not sure how, but to the search engines, the content appears unique enough to be considered different than the original article or blog post.

Here’s a view of a post that has been “uniqified”….it looks as standard as any blog post:

blogpost-wpunique1

Here’s a view of the same blog post from the “source code” view….as you can see the text has been changed to the html encoding.

wordpressunique-htmlencoding

So…if you need to know how it works…now you know :)

If you’re like most of us you just need to know THAT WpUnique works….and I attest to the fact that it does!

Wordpress Unique has many other features….I think I’ll discuss those in another post. Suffice it to say, these other features serve to further change your blog post so that it becomes even more unique and thereby overcoming the duplicate content issues. WpUnique also has features that helps you to automatically monetize your blog posts with affiliate links and keywords or keyword phrases.

Check out these videos, they’ll help you gain a better understanding of Wordpress Unique, how it creates unique content and how some of the features work!

I don’t do this often, buy click on WpUnique and grab a copy of this awesome plugin and watch it work it’s magic!!!

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banner.actionpopup-336x280Do You Have 30 Seconds to Spare?

If you had a chance to take a peek at the Action PopUp web site recently…

Do it now….. Action PopUp

You might notice that the installation of this script can only be described as… SUPER DUPER EASY. Here’s the exact breakdown:

Step 1: Paste your opt-in code to a file. (5-10 seconds)
Step 2: Upload the script. (10 seconds)
Step 3: Paste one line of code on your sales letter. (5-10 seconds)

Total Install Time: 20 to 30 seconds

Robert even threw in a few video tutorials… of you looking over his shoulder, onto his computer screen, as he installs Action PopUp on his OWN sites! That means there’s absolutely no way you can fail.

In previous e-mails I explained how adding a pop-up to ONE web site increased my yearly income by $11,181.72… and that’s just from ONE of his fifty web sites!

Seriously, if you aren’t building a list through autoresponders and exit pop-ups, you are leaving serious money on the table. That’s all there is to it.

Have you heard the saying, “It takes an average of 7 follow-ups to make a sale?” It’s taught by internet marketers and college professors worldwide.

When you build a list, you are always going to get subscribers who will never buy, no matter how well of a marketer you are.

But there are so many people who WILL buy, if only you push the right buttons.

After seven follow-ups, only HALF of those people will accept your offer and buy.

Imagine how many profits you are missing out on by not building a list and marketing it using popups?

If you can accept an extra $11,181.72 every year, for every 30 seconds of work you put into your sites, grab a copy of Action PopUp and put it to use immediately, at:

ActionPopUp

Remember: if you are not following up with clients, you are losing clients.

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Still Not Convinced You Need Action PopUp?

banner.actionpopup-336x280On the last post I stressed the importance of building a list and a creating a follow-up series to increase sales.

Every time I offer a new product for sale, I have a sub-list so people can opt-in for updates (and future product announcements). Same thing for the free lists… if I have monthly newsletter content, free report updates, more free reports and software, or more paid products… they’ll hear about it, unless they unsubscribe.

That’s 1,980 unique people on my freebie lists, and 2,741 unique people on my “paid customer” list. 737 of my current subscribers are on both my freebie lists and my paid lists.

Do you know what that means? It means (ignoring “tirekicker” unsubscribers), that 37% of people who subscribed to my freebie list, converted to a paid product at some point.

Still Not Convinced You Need Action PopUp?

If I send 1000 people to my blog, and I know 10% of that traffic opts into a newsletter, that’s 100 new subscribers and I know that will lead to 37 new buyers. The average buyer purchases 2.82 products from me at an average price of $20.77.

0.37 * 2.82 * 20.77 = Every new opt-in is like getting $21.67 in the bank.

100 new buyers = $2,167.

Pretty cool, right? It’s just a numbers game. That $2,167 probably won’t be immediate… it will happen over time as I build a relationship with those people, they get content through timed follow-ups and eventually see something they want to buy.

The average person on my list has purchased 2.82 products from me. That means if you pick a random customer, they have probably purchased THREE DIFFERENT products from me.

They get on a freebie list, I market to them and convert them into a buyer, I market some more and turn them into a paid buyer.

Most of my products are in the same niche so usually, if they buy one thing from me, they’ll buy more from me.

How do you get all these people on a mailing list? I said before to offer an ethical bribe, like a free report or free e-course, in exchange for that name and e-mail address. It works wonders.

You can take the usual direct response sales letter that begins with a headline, tells a story, lists benefits and leads into a call-to-action… but instead of leading to an order button, it leads to a name and e-mail address where people can get onto your list for this free content.

But what if someone comes to that site ready to buy? You might miss out on sales. That’s where Action PopUp comes in.

You can place this special popup on your sales letter, so if someone wants to buy right now, they can. But if they decide NOT to buy… and move their mouse cursor to the top of the page…

The entire page is grayed out and a popup appears at the top of the page! It might say something like:

Even though you have decided not to purchase today, I want to give you a free gift, “How to Fall Asleep Instantly… Every Night” just for taking the time to consider my offer. Type in your first name and e-mail address in the form below, and I will fire the free report to your e-mail inbox faster than you can bat an eyelash.”

You get the idea. Your visitors get a last-chance offer to get this free gift. There’s a good chance they’ll take that offer because they ended up on your site to begin with and are probably interested in what you’re selling.

That’s an “on-exit” popup. You can also place “on-entrance” popups on your site, so people won’t even get to read the sales letter until they provide a name and e-mail address.

They fill in that info, the popup disappears, and Action PopUp submits that info to your autoresponder in the background while your prospect continues to read the sales message. NO OTHER popup software does this!

That’s why it’s so important to have an autoresponder and a popup script such as Action PopUp … capture leads even if your prospects DON’T buy… and try to convert them into customers. Would you be happy with a 37% conversion rate?

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How to Triple Your Sales in 10 Minutes?

banner.actionpopup-336x280How to Triple Your Sales in 10 Minutes?

I’ve attended a couple seminars in my day. At one of these seminars, a speaker on stage held a small cup. Then, he poured a ton of pennies over the cup. Most of the pennies ended up scattered everywhere on the floor. Only a small handful of pennies ended up in the cup.

He poured the pennies again, but this time, he put a funnel over the cup. Many of the pennies still missed, but he filled that cup with pennies.

The analogy is: if you capture as many leads as possible, you’ll make more sales and more money.

When people come to your web site – whether it’s a sales letter or content site – you want to convert them to something. If it’s a sales letter, you want to convert them into a buyer by paying you. If it’s a content site, you want them to register or add their own content to keep your site fresh… maybe click on an ad.

By adding a lead capture system to your site, you’re placing that “funnel” over your cup and getting more buyers.

That visitor might not yet be in the buying mood when you present your offer. Maybe he has lots of browser tabs open and he’s “researching” who he should buy from. Maybe he only has a limited amount of time and closes his browser before he’s done reading your sales letter.

Whatever the reason is, you can easily miss a sale. But by collecting a name and e-mail address on your site, you can get people on a list and follow up with them day after day.

There are many autoresponder services that will handle this for you. In addition, you can write follow-up e-mails that will automatically send them MORE e-mail after a certain amount of time.

You can send a welcome e-mail when they first sign up… then maybe another message tomorrow, and another the next day.

If there are some extra benefits they might have missed out when they read your page… you can remind them when you send these follow-ups. Give them one of the benefits in the message you send out on day three, and another benefit on day five…

You could try hard selling, and hit them with a sales pitch in every e-mail, or you could try a low-pressure high-content follow-up series… and offer an ethical bribe in exchange for opting in.

They want that free report, or free software, so they give you their first name and e-mail address. You send the free report via e-mail and then you can start sending them more content, or more sales pitches, over time… so even if they didn’t buy RIGHT NOW, they’ll buy eventually.

Is this legal? Of course… most autoresponder services will save the first name, e-mail address, IP address, URL, time and date of every subscriber… so you are protected. You have proof that someone asked for this information.

You ALSO have a one-click unsubscribe function at the bottom of every e-mail, so if someone wants to stop getting messages from you, they click on ONE link and are gone forever.

An awesome service that handles all of this is Aweber Autoresonders

They handle everything for you… the opt-ins, unsubscriptions… you just sign up, create a list, and they give you some cut-and-paste code that you can paste on your site… and instantly add a form.

Then you write the follow-ups you want to send, and when people signup, they automatically get these messages.

You can place this signup form on a pop-up, like one you create using ActionPopUp … so you can place this on ANY kind of site – an article site, made for AdSense site, blog, sales letter… anywhere! (We’ll discuss this in more detail later.)

That’s the long and short of how to triple your sales in just 600 seconds. Get an autoresponder if you don’t already have one, and place the Action Popup signup form on your site, to get people to signup to an autoresponder series, which will funnel them back to your order button even if they didn’t buy right away.

We’ll talk again soon…

Check out Action Popup today and start building your list faster!!

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Anyone who’s been working online experiences severe bouts of “put up a site and never touch it again” :) …..I’m kidding of course, however, sometimes it becomes difficult to get motivated and go back to update older sites.

I’ve got some really old sites that need to major remodeling and I’ve been procrastinating severely!

The reason is because they are static sites and I want to either convert them to wordpress sites or I want to turn it into a wordpress site. Those really are 2 different tasks. The first instance, I would have to take all exsiting pages and turn them into either wordpress pages or wordpress posts. In the second case, I would leave the existing static site intact and add a wordpress blog, any further additions to the site would be done through the worpdress blog.

One site I want to turn into a membership site and I’ve been researching solutions for turning a wordpress blog into a membership site. It’s amazing how many wordpress membership plugins have entered the scene in the last year….some expensive and all encompassing and some simple and cheap. It’s important to keep in mind the ultimate purpose of the membership. Simple membership sites known as Micro-Memberships are easy to set up and run with the right system and if you use wordpress with a membership plugin….setting up and maintaining these micro memberships becomes very easy. So….my goal is to turn a couple of my sites into these micro membership sites and see what happens.

I have another site with tons of ebooks, videos, smallreports and a variety of other eproducts. I wanted to turn it into a type of directory site that I’m sure you’ve seen, however, I wanted to take advantage of wordpress’s seo capabilities and easy managment, so, I’ve been looking for an ecommerce plugin that would work specifically with digital downloads. I think I found one at Tips and Tricks HQ….in fact you should visit the site because you’ll find a variety of good and free stuff, but they have a very nice eCommerce Plugin for Digital Products that I’m anxious to try out.

My other project is to turn an exsiting static hodgepodge site into a ecommerce site. This becomes a priority because it’s my wife’s site and someting I’ve been promising to do for a long time. Liz is an artist and paints glassware. So the site sells hand painted glasses of various types and other one off art pieces. There’s a shopping cart on the site now that uses paypal, however it is very archaic and shipping and handling charges are a real pain….besides all that the site was one of my first and now looks horrible!

So….I really need to spruce it up and work and getting some traffic to the site. Wordpress is my best option and there are a ton of Wordpress ecommerce themes or storefront type themes. In fact, the options that are available today for creating a storefront or ecommerce site with wordpress are absolutely staggering. I’ve been researching the best method of creating a storefront or just a site that I can sell a few products with for the last month and it seems as though wordpress is a given but the selection of a specific method of creating the ecommerce site is mind numbing.

So, as I go on with my research I’ve decided to compile a list of resources and recommend what I think to be the best solutions to:

  • ecommerce with wordpress
  • digital store plugin
  • storefront with wordpress
  • directory type site with wordpress
  • membership site with wordpress

Right now I’m leaning toward a WP plugin from Tips and Tricks HQ called WP eStore Plugin for the digital store, it has everything I need. Integration with Aweber, built in shopping cart, instant delivery and security for eproducts, easy checkout, integration with eMember Plugin, integration with NextGen Gallery for digital images, and a whole lot more. I’ll keep track of my progress as I move forward with the selection of these plugins and let you know how they work…..so keep tuned!

As far as Liz’s site that sells physical products, I’m not sure yet. The Market Theme is an ecommerce storefront theme with shopping cart, everything is built in and looks very nice. They have some nice example sites. There’s another theme and shopping cart combination that I just found at Shopperpress.com, it offers even more, though I still need to investigate.

When remodeling any website I would caution you not to just jump into the first thing that looks good. Do your due diligence and make sure your research is good. Changing an existing ecommerce site or creating a new one is not a process you want to go through twice…..especially after pages get spidered and indexed.

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