Cyber Shoplifters, How Do They Get Their Kicks?
What do people who steal from others on the Internet get out of it. I call them cyber shoplifters, petty thieves.
In the off line world, shoplifters get a bit of an adrenalin rush when they get away with stealing from retail stores. They’ve beat the security system and the store detective/detection.
But in the online world, where or how do they get their kicks? Do they get any satisfaction from sitting in front of their computer, 
Googling all the different words that will get them through to a download page to steal someone’s product…..the mind boggles at the mentality….you have to feel sorry for them. What a life they must have or NOT!!! Some achievement.
I know there are forums where they pass around how they got to these download pages but they are still nameless/faceless, they use avatars and nicknames so no one really knows who or what they are. Still with achievements like they have, maybe that is the idea.
Recently someone got through to a download page of mine, well to actually get there they had to subscribe to my list for that product and as soon as that happened and no payment, I sent them an email asking for their receipt number so I could put them in a draw for ‘money’ prize competition. Naturally I didn’t hear….lol.
But then I went to the site and checked on a great WordPress plugin called StatsPress Reloaded. This plugin shows you the terms searched and the page on your site that is accessed.
There was only the one search that qualified. So I went and changed everything that this ‘petty thief/cyber shoplifter’ could have passed on.
Then for several days everytime the search term appeared in the StatsPress they went through to another page. So my little cyber shoplifter looked like a ‘BIG DUMBE DILL’ to those on the forums where he big-noted himself.
Not the most satisfying experience for the poor little no-name/no-face.
So if you want very up to date stats, take a look at StatsPress Reloaded, it’s a free plugin and well worth adding to your favourite plugins list. You can take a look at it here
Well that’s my little tip for today, take care and I’ll catch you later.
Cheers
Carmel
Posted in Wordpress Plugins
A Lil’Bit About WordPress You May Not Know
I had payed and signed up for a membership, registered and confirmed my subscription and waited for the next step.
Nothing…..no email telling me how to access, checked the trash folder…..nothing.
Now this membership was set up with WordPress, which is fine, I’ve joined many membership sites set up with WordPress. Actually I’m getting ready to set up one myself. And….I’m very thankful that this happened as you will see.
Anyway, I was about to contact the person who owned the site when I needed to check a few of the folders that I have emails directed to and there it was…Guess who sent it? WordPress….that’s who it was from and I have a folder where anything with WordPress in the ‘From’ goes directly to that particular folder(the folder is called something else, not WordPress but that’s my filing system).
I have never had a site where ‘anyone can register’ so had never come across this before.
Now I was adding the plugin Web Invoices to one of my sites to make sending accounts to clients easier. This is a great plugin, actually there are two of them, I’ll tell you my pick later.
With this plugin, you need to enter your clients, they don’t register, that’s how my site is set. They need a username and password to access their past invoices and the WordPress will send that to them automatically the same as if they were registering as a new user.
So that was the email that would go out to clients and they would have no idea why they were getting an email from WordPress and who the heck is WordPress anyway? (these clients don’t do much stuff on the Internet)
So Google, being such a good friend of mine, helped me to find a plugin for WordPress that would solve this problem.
There are a couple, actually three that I considered. The one I chose has templates of the emails which can be easily changed to suit and now the clients will know just who is sending them an email.
If you install it through your dashboard, which is very easy, that should be the latest version, (I had to upgrade mine as soon as it was activated) so check just in case, because the latest version has some really good ‘Settings’ options. You can reword the email that goes to the client/user and even send a test so that you are sure it is right.
This is the plugins site.
http://epicalex.com/new-user-email-set-up/
And it works like a treat!!
Now read all about Web Invoice here
Dust Off The CyberDust – WPUnique Is Here! An Update -
This is an update about the WPUnique, WordPress Plugin.
Late yesterday I was finishing off a site and there was some content needed on three pages. So I thought I would try using something I already had.
I had submitted articles for this site to EZA and the content in three of them was perfect for these pages. I didn’t need the content for the site to be as much as the articles contained so I took sections of them about 200+ words and added them to the relevant pages.
On this site I had installed WPUnique and had it set to ‘unique’ all the pages and posts, you can do that with an option in the settings.
Now on the individual pages and posts there is also an option to change that setting to something else.
I wanted to see how the ‘spin’ option would work on these articles, I’m not a great lover of spin unless I have set up the options in Magic Article Rewriter.
I also have a program that checks the original and the spin or rewrite version of an article for the percentage of uniqueness.
So, with setting up nothing for the spin options, using it ‘out-of-the-box’, the uniqueness from the originals came out at – 32.58%, 37.45% and wait for it 55.56% and…….there was only one word that needed changing.
Now that’s what I call – Uniquely Brilliant!!!!!!
I did check some of the PLR articles that I had included on another site through my checkup program and guess what – from the original to the article on the site, it was 100% unique, now reading that article on the site, it read exactly the same as the original but my checkup program, when I copied and pasted it into there, from the live page, it was 100% unique…….that is how the search engines see it – 100% different from anything else out there on the ‘Live WWW’.
That’s why WPUnique is – Uniquely Brilliant – all this duplicate content – well is simply disappears, no-more, not-a-worry, no-no-dupe. Love It!!!
I know there will be those who say you still have to rewrite PLR articles, (yes you do – for submitting to article directories, not EZA though, they don’t accept rewrites of PLR)
And…there are those who say you still have to wash your dishes by hand and dry them by hand too, all the while having a perfectly good automatic dishwasher.
Or…those who say you still have to install WordPress manually while there is a perfectly good Fantastico sitting on their Cpanel.
Or…those who say the only cricket to watch or go to, is a test match while eveyone is out having fun at a 20-20 or a One Day game and it is the 20-20 and One Dayers that is putting bums on seats and allowing the test matches to continue…….
Sorry got off the track a little there, but you know what I mean. If you have PLR articles sitting on your computer with, as they say, cyber dust all over them, blow the dust and cobwebs off, go get WPUnique while it is at this great price (I can’t see it staying there, it is too good), set up your niche sites and make some money, add Adsense, Clickbank, make your own product, whatever……..just do it!!!!
Click here, yes it is my affiliate link and I do stand to make a few dollars and so can you, but you won’t unless you – and you know what’s next – TAKE ACTION!!!!
Catch you later,
Cheers
Carmel
Posted in Wordpress
This Is Really Unique – WPUnique Plugin
I haven’t been here for a little while, actually it is much longer than I thought, as the saying goes, time flies when you are having fun.
It is great when work can be classed as fun.
Apart from the ‘fun’ I have managed to find some great tools and products which I will fill you in on over the next few days.
The first one is a, wait for it, WordPress (knew it would be that didn’t you) Plugin. This is no ordinary plug,, no this one is unique and so simple to use too.
Now it is not a free plugin and after you find out what it does, you wouldn’t expect to get something this powerful for free. But the price is right……
Okay! Here it is!!
WPUnique……now can you guess what it does?
Yes! it turns your PLR content into unique content, actually it turns any content you have on your site into unique content.
Watch the videos here.…..I tried what is in the videos and my results were really, really good!
A site that I installed the plugin on was really doing nothing, looking great but doing nothing. I had heaps of PLR articles and content for the niche but was too busy with other work to rewrite the articles and unique them.
After adding the WPUnique plugin and setting up the un-rewritten, PLR articles to drip feed onto the site, I noticed the traffic to the 
site had increased to the point where the month was only a couple of days old and the visitors had increased to many more than the two previous months. And….visitors who will leave a comment too, not just the ‘link’ kind of comment either, a comment relevant to the article they have read, and by that, you can see they have really read the article.
I’m not going to try to explain the WPUnique plugin to you, I’ll let the developer do that, Steve does it so much better than I can. I can only tell you the results I have been getting and they are only two instances.
But I will give you an outline of what else this plugin can do -
You can unique all your posts and pages.
You can unique individual posts and pages
You can spin all content.
You can spin individual content.
You can link keywords up to your money products
You can make these links Dofollow or not
And -
The links can be opening in a new window or not.
With the unique option for posts and pages, they still read the exactly the same, it is not the visitor who picks up the duplicate content, it is the search engines and that is where the content is made unique, all above board too, not black-hat stuff.
So far I have only used the spin option on one site and on one article but even without setting up the ‘necessary’, the article still read well and was 32% unique from the original. So with a little bit of work there, this will be a winner too.
Okay, if you are like me and have lots of PLR stuff, even a little PLR stuff, then this is the plugin for you, don’t take time to think about it, give your brain a rest, this is one of those ‘no-brainers’, or as they say in Nikeland – “Just Do It!!!”
Head on over to WPUnique now,read all about it, watch Steve’s video but most importantly, make the decision to ‘get it’…….
Catch you later
Cheers
Carmel
Posted in Wordpress
Easy Article Rewriting, Good One!!
I came across another article rewriter, this one is called Easy Article Rewriter and I went to take a look thinking that it would be another of the type that changes a fairly good article into a lot of gobbledegook.
Well….did I get a nice surprise! This is the quickest and best article rewriter that I have found.
You do need to actually rewrite but the way this tool is set up makes it easy, as it’s name says, and very quick.
You can achieve 100% unique in no time at all.
You see, it is set up so that after you paste your article and click a button, the tool parses the article and presents you with the sentences set into their own sections. All you need to do is rewrite each sentence which as they are set into these sections, are much easier to rewrite. The paragraph breaks have check boxes ticked so that you know where the break is and you can change them around if you wish.
Easy Article Rewriter is a web based tool but I received an email from the developer last week saying he may develope a desktop application if there is enough interest.
At the moment there is no charge to use Easy Article Rewriter but the desktop version would cost something but I feel it would be worth it. It certainly saves me time with the single rewrites and I’ve come up with 100% unique from the original each time I’ve used it.
It is a totally different tool to something like Magic Article Rewriter, MAR is a tool that will allow you to add options for words and sentences and will then turn that seed article into anything up to 999 articles that will be anywhere from 30% to 99.9%, depending on how much effort you put into it.
I don’t know about you but I have such a lot of PLR articles that need rewriting before I can use them. To get that one unique article to post to your site or submit to the better article directories.
So all in all I give this one a big thumbs up!
The developer has a video here that you may like to see, just click here and all will be explained.
Posted in Article Writing
How To Make Article Writing Profitable and Enjoyable!
I seem to be in a very sharing mood these past couple of days.
Yes! I’m going to share something else with you, this time it is about your article writing. Not that there is anything wrong with the way you write articles, i’m sure it is really very good. But…… 
There is an easier way to do it and get lots and lots of attention, the right kind of attention that is over at Ezine Articles.
You can see for yourself over at 5 Minute Article Plan. There is a video to watch which explains what is involved and what you will learn. Then all you need to do is apply it and you will be getting the attention over at EZA too.
I must admit, some days, writing articles is the job I put off until I can’t put it off any more but with what I learned in these videos, it is not a chore any longer.
So go take a look, unfortunately there is a cost involved with this video course but as they say “it’s a cheap as chips” but with much more value. Actually there is a special on at the moment, so don’t miss out.
One of the testimonials said that the bonuses alone were worth as much as the video course and I have to agree.
So go take a look, grab the offer while the price is right and be prepared to go “Ooh!” and “Aah!” and “Wow! I never knew that!” “Love that bit!” “Hey! this is really good!” and all for watching a few videos that won’t bored you to tears either.
Here is the link again, simply click here
Posted in Article Writing
A Little Rant About Daylight Savings Brought on by @Ed_Dale Tweet!
I’m just going to have a little rant here…..about daylight savings.
I live in Queensland, Australia and we do not have daylight savings, we simply stay on our regular time while the other States change their clocks for the summer.
I just saw a tweet by @Ed_Dale about Queenslanders, fading curtains and confused cows, which is so old hat and what does it matter to someone from another State whether Queensland has daylight savings or not, they don’t live here so why should they care?
The ones who come to live in Queensland from other States are the ones lobbying for us to have daylight savings, they knew when they came here that is wasn’t going to be, so if they want it badly enough, then go back to where they came from.
Maybe that would be a good thing because if they can’t work out a simple time difference to contact their original State then…..not very bright!!!
We should have a special sign at our border letting them know when they cross into Queensland to live they accept that we do not have daylight savings, we have voted on it already and they missed out so now is the time to turn back or forever hold their tongues on the subject.
There is always another so called argument put forward each year and that is doing business…….time differences etc. etc. Hey!!! this is the communication age, we have phones (several varieties), faxes, the Internet, webinars, teleseminars, conference calling, we are in communication overload.
I’ve even heard people argue that they ‘need’ to communicate with companies and the time difference is stopping that, the companies they are talking about are international companies in other countries, oh dear! who is going to be the one to tell them that they are not in the same time zone…..not me! I’ll leave that to someone with more patience than me.
If they can’t work one hour time difference, how on earth are they going to work out all the time zones across the globe.
btw someone can tell them that there are several websites that will work it out for them, these websites will even do the States in Australia for them.
So if you are living in Queensland and want daylight savings, then there are States offering that option and you are more than welcome to go there to live, we may not miss you though.
Posted in Time Out
Sharing A Great Little Tool For Keyword Research! Enjoy!
If you have been following my blog, you will probably realise that I love tools. Especially tools that make life easier and take care of a fairly mundane job for you.
I also like the Warrior Forum too, I’ve been a member of the War Room for a while now and have found it to be an incredibly generous place. One of these days I will have something to give back and thank all the people who have helped me.
Often times when I have something in mind to do and want to find a tool that will help me make the process easier, I visit the WF and so many times there is just the thing I have been looking for.
Well this morning was no different.
You see I had a keyword tool that I used most days and not sure what happened to the programmer/developer but, used it one day and the next it was gone. Until now, there has been nothing to replace it.
While there are many keyword research tools around, often times you need one that will do, just certain tasks not all the bells and whistles, the basic tasks, so that you can get on with other research. A tool that will give you the results for :-
Search results in Broad, Phrase, Exact.
Number of results for searches over a certain number
Number of results for competition under a certain number.
These are the basics of where you want to start, to see if a keyword or topic/niche is worthwhile following up on.
Okay, well I am happy to share with you such a tool, it’s called NicheTaser. I’ve just been told that I can share this tool with you ( it won’t cost you a thing) and also supply you with a video of how it works. It does more that what I said above too.
So here is the video and below that is the link to download the software.
Here is your download link, click here for NicheTaser Keyword Research Tool
I’m sure the developer would love to hear your comments, if you want to leave them here, I will pass them on to him.
btw this is a work in progress too, if you subscribe to receive updates etc, there is more to come I’m sure. You can subscribe here
As I said earlier, this tool is just the right size to do all that initial research you need to get done before making the decision to continue.
Posted in Keyword Research
Save Heaps Of Time With Magic Article Submitter!
I am sitting at my computer watching a wonderful tool work for me. That’s what tools are supposed to do, right?
Well this one is the best in it’s field, now!
It is an article directory submitter. Not the regular article directory submitter where you have to go into each directory, sign up, wait for your activation email, activate your account and them go submit your article. 
So how is this one different?
Well, I’ve just watched it submit my profile to over 700 article directories, mind you it took all of about three minutes, yes! three minutes.
Then after another couple of minutes I checked the email address that I have in my profile and sure enough, the activation emails over seven hundred of them were waiting to be clicked on.
No, I didn’t have to go into each and activate them, I only needed to go back to this tool and click ‘Next’ and then watch the magic happen with my Inbox. Gradually all the emails are processed and the accounts at the various article directories are activated.
This is actually taking longer, something like five minutes.
Now that all this is done, I can submit my article that has been set up as a spun article with Magic Article Rewriter, so that there are many versions of my article to submit to the various directories, not the same copy to all, they each get their own.
And….I can select the categories, days, time and number of directories I want the article submitted to. It even shows you a list of categories and if a directory doesn’t have the category then you can tick a little box to skip that directory.
Not a bad tool!! It is magic, almost. No, really it is called the Magic Article Submitter go see for yourself.
Backlinks, you can get a heap using this tool and the time you save is magic too, leaves more time for interesting things.
Catch you again soon
Cheers
Carmel
Magic Article Rewriter Is Magic To Work With!
After the 2009 30 Day Challenge it is apparent that to keep up with the content that is required today, all the unique articles for the various Web 2.0 type sites, you definitely need help with the writing. Of course you can outsource it but that can get a trifle expensive or you can invest in an article spinner.
Right, I can hear you now, not that garbled mess that most article spinners push out?
No definitely not!
I have used article spinners for a couple of years now. These are the type that you insert the replacement/substitute words so you make sure the content reads well and more importantly makes sense.
My first couple of spinners, I had to add the brackets and bars and after getting used to doing this, it didn’t take that long to set the article for spinning, you had to be careful that you didn’t misplace a bracket or a bar, that would send you on a merry chase to find where you went wrong.
Now the one I have to tell you about today, has taken spinning to the next level. I have put up a video over on ctbmarketing to show how this one works. It is not hard to get the spun articles to over 75% unique. Pop over and take a look. It is called Magic Article Rewriter and has a partner called Magic Article Submitter which is the be all and end all of article submitters.
The worst part about article submitters is setting it all up, signing up and activating the subscriptions. Magic Article Submitter not only signs up to all the article directories for you but also activates the subscriptions.
The articles you spin in the Magic Article Rewriter are in the format that the Magic Article Submitter needs to send a different version of the spun article title, body, description and resource box to each article directory and not only that, will do it over whatever time you select, days of the week and number of articles. This way the articles are not all submitted at the same time but spread over a period that looks natural.
At the moment these two tools are being sold together at a great price. What I really like too, is that you download the tools to your desktop, that’s right, it’s not a monthly fee to use them, a one off payment and they are yours and being on your desktop, there is no relying on somebody’s server to be able to use them.
Now there is a special price if you purchase both pieces of software. If you want to get on top of your article marketing and Web 2.0 then don’t delay, while this special price is on, it is a good deal. You can find out more here.
Posted in Article Writing