Wednesday, October 4, 2017

SendPulse: Subscription Forms Builder Review

SendPulse: Subscription Forms Builder Review

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SendPulse: Subscription Forms Builder Review

Posted: 04 Oct 2017 08:37 AM PDT

SendPulse Subscription Forms BuilderBlogging or running a site is useless if you are not converting your visitors into returning visitors or customers. A blog's reader or an ecommerce's site customers can be engaged more using a user friendly subscription form that may blend perfectly to your site layout.  Generating new leads is not an easy task. If you are in legal business, you would do this via a subscription form. Building a clean email list is all you need to run a productive email marketing strategy for consistent flow of income from recurring customers.

One such platform that I have personally enjoyed using is SendPulse Email which allows you to create a subscription form in a new form builder in extremely easy way with drag and drop utilities.

I recommend SendPulse to most of my readers and clients because If you have less than 2,500 subscribers you can send up to 15,000 emails per month for free using SendPulse.

At MBT we have shared several subscription form scripts to create email subscription forms using JQuery, JavaScript and simple HTML/CSS but most of these methods does not provide you with insights about the click-events and the activity of your subscribers. SendPulse provides full info about user activity such as about opened/closed/bounced emails or what links are clicked by the subscriber.

There are 2 ways to create a subscription form:

1. Existing templates

If you don't want to create a subscription form wholly on your own, you can choose one of the 10 already existing templates and edit it to your liking. In spite of being a ready template, you can make your form original and creative, using different elements and design.

2. Form Builder

You choose the type of a subscription form. There are 4 variants.

  1. Embedded: You can paste the code in any fixed location on your site.
  2. Popup: User will see a popup alert on screen
  3. Floating: Sticks to a right corner as user scrolls down
  4. Floating Footer: Sticks to the bottom of your blog

type of subscription forms

What is available in form builder?

Lets discuss each feature of this interactive subscription form builder in detail:

Double opt-in

Double opt-in is included in subscription forms, it means that users are fully aware of what they subscribe to. Firstly, they fill a subscription form, then, receive a notification to confirm a desire to subscribe, following the link. There are 2 types of notifications in SendPulse. Edit it as you wish at the last stage of creating a subscription form.

Input field

Use these fields to collect the necessary personal information about the users, such as name, email, phone number, etc. Don't forget to create the corresponding variable. Thus, a new column in your mailing list will occur.

Dropdown list

With the help of this element, you can gather more useful information about the users to use it for segmentation.

Radio buttons

This is a useful element, when you want to find out the users' age, for example. You just specify the text of the options and add a variable.

Text

You can write any text you want, don't write just "Subscribe". Be creative!

Image

Images make subscription forms original and creative. Make use of them! Available size – 1 MB.

Design

You can apply any design you want to any of above mentioned elements. Change fields direction, width, form background, form border, round corners, font, inner padding, fields' size, alignment, labels position.

Subscription Form builder

After having created the form, you will receive code, just add it to your website.

So, the form builder is pretty easy in usage and allows to create original and beautiful subscription forms in couple of minutes.

Need Help Setting Up SendPulse?

Let me know buddies if you need any help in setting up your SendPulse account. I found it quite useful so I thought of sharing it with all of you. Do let me know how productive was this pleasant discovery for you. Peace! =)

Google will Penalize all sites Sharing widgets, Plugins and Templates

Posted: 03 Oct 2017 11:54 AM PDT


Latest Google Back-linking Policies

Google keeps on changing its algorithms and policies regarding link building and link exchange. This time around, in their updated link schemes document under the Webmaster guidelines, Google has included large-scale guest posting, advertorials, and links in distributed articles/press releases/products to be in violation of their policies. This new development is among the stream of other changes Google has made so far this year, and seems to be an alarming one. Because not only will it apply to large scale guest posting and press releases, it will also apply to sites sharing free widgets, plugins, and templates, and then linking to themselves in those products.

UPDATE: This article was updated in 2017 to include latest link building policy by Google.

These new policies include three major types of backlinks. Links generated from large-scale guest posting and article marketing, links generated from advertorials and native advertisements, and links in distributed articles/news releases.

Large-scale article marketing

As expected, Google doesn't take very kindly to links generated by large-scale guest posting. We covered this topic in an earlier post about How Google treats guest blogging. If the guest posts themselves do not add much value, and are solely intended for backlink building, then you have a problem. You better make your guest posts relevant, useful, and good quality. Otherwise, you're just wasting your time.

Advertorials

This shouldn't come as a surprise, because we all know how Google looks at links from Ads. Google discourages advertorials or native advertising where payment is received for articles that have links that pass PageRank. If such a thing was ever to be encouraged, then anyone could simply 'pay' to rank higher in search results. Therefore, such links need to be nofollowed, so that they do not pass PageRank.

Optimized Anchor text in press releases

According to Google, "links with optimized anchor text in articles or press releases distributed on other sites" are considered as unnatural. If you're publishing an article or press release on your website, and then distributing it through a wire or through an article site, you should nofollow all links that are considered as "optimized anchor text" (i.e. keyword rich anchor text).

About plugin and template websites

So, how does all this relate to sites that provide widgets, plugins, and templates for free? Well, Google doesn't have a problem with you providing people with free (or paid) tools and resources. But what most free plugin and template websites do is, they add a link to one of their own sites, so that whenever someone installs a widget or a plugin, that plugin links to the host site. And usually, it is a followed link.

Similarly, in almost 95% of the free themes and templates, there are some links in the footer (which you can't remove, especially for some premium WordPress themes). These links also point towards the host site. Not it isn't the theme or the plugin that is violating the policies. It is the links. Such links come under the distributed links category with "Optimized anchor text" (3rd category listed above). Google has just recently announced that this sort of link violates its policies. So you should either not include such links in your plugins and themes at all, or you should nofollow those links, so that they do not pass PageRank to your own website.

Got any questions regarding these new Google Policies? Any opinions? Please leave your responses in the comments section below, and let us know what you think! Cheers ;)

Text Resizer For Blogger: Resize Font Size in Blog Posts

Posted: 16 Sep 2017 09:25 AM PDT

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I came across an excellent jQuery based text resizer script for blogger blogs that lets your visitors to change or resize font size of the text in your blog posts. This decreases or increases the text size providing your visitors with better readability. Its useful especially to those with weak eye sights and for those with display issues. Fluid Text Resizer widget has been designed by mybloggertricks and script is adopted from dynamic drive. It will appear just below your post titles and will allow your visitors to toggle the text size to their comfort. Text size on your entire blog will be zoomed in and zoomed out. From sidebars till footer, all text will be maximized. It also includes a Reset link that toggles the default font level. Lets get to work then!

It can adjust the text size of a particular section of your blogger blog, such as just the primary content area or comment section, or the entire document in general.



Live Demo

Add Text Resizer Widget To Blogger

  1. Go To Blogger > Design > Edit HTML
  2. Backup your template
  3. Check the "Expand Widget Templates" box
  4. Search for this,

]]></b:skin>
     5.    Just below it paste the following code,
<style type='text/css'>

/*----- Text Resizer By MBT ------*/
.controlstyle a{ /*links inside DIV sizecontroldiv*/
outline:none;
}
.controlstyle a img{ /*image links inside DIV sizecontroldiv*/
border-width:0;
}
.controlstyle a.selectedcontrol img{ /*selected control&#39;s image*/
border-bottom:4px solid darkred;
}
.mbt-text-resizer{
font-weight:bold!important; color:#F07727!important; text-decoration:none!important; font-family:arial,tahoma !important; font-size:16px!important;
}

#mbt-text-resizer-container {
margin:4px 0px;
padding:4px;
border-top:1px solid #ddd;
border-bottom:1px solid #ddd; width:100%;
}
</style>
<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/fluidtextresizer.js' type='text/javascript'>
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var mytextsizer=new fluidtextresizer({
    controlsdiv: &quot;sizecontroldiv&quot;, //id of special div containing your resize controls. Enter &quot;&quot; if not defined
    targets: [&quot;body&quot;], //target elements to resize text within: [&quot;selector1&quot;, &quot;selector2&quot;, etc]
    levels: 10, //number of levels users can magnify (or shrink) text
    persist: &quot;session&quot;, //enter &quot;session&quot; or &quot;none&quot;
    animate: 200 //animation duration of text resize. Enter 0 to disable
})
</script>

    6.   Next search for this code,
<data:post.body/>
     7.   Just above it paste the following code,

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div id='mbt-text-resizer-container'>
<div class='controlstyle' id='sizecontroldiv'>
<font style='color:#666; font-weight:bold;'>Adjust the font size:</font>  <a class='mbt-text-resizer' href='#smaller'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA8D-_WmoaOhVZaOPK9d8iuCSBq5JGQQ-uTCAWDezmho3l1bu8bzSLpuWkom1288ajXtgETyJDy1_6ciSPfVvWUUzzD7rC_Qpgq9p4dqBfRb0-VnK6Bf_YzRjVXl3pibh15HDWccqckig/s400/oranged.png'/>&#160;</a>  <a class='mbt-text-resizer' href='#bigger'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2mC3nfWwKpCoxFH0hv7BshJYSOzZuaaPmsr4NhHxC6bhMhPsUr_w7Yqtti0RJTuH_rG8H9PR2rGw_lgKPGIFDJ1s7rL3B8RbK6k6EU9J3d2UsnPkEZNRSfVV4Hd0B1UMqlgjDS1hyacE/s400/orangei.png'/>&#160;&#160;</a><a class='mbt-text-resizer' href='javascript:mytextsizer.setFontLevel(0)' rel='nofollow'>Reset &#8597;</a>
</div>
</div>
</b:if>
You can change the text being displayed if you wish.
     8.      Save your template and you are all done!
Visit any of your post to see it appearing just below the post title. I have turned off the widget display on homepage. If you want the widget to be displayed on homepage too then simply delete the purple lines from the code in step#7.

Need help?

Do let me know if you wish to change anything. I will publish more color variations and styles of this gadget today so stay tune. Feel free to ask anything which is still un clear for you. Peace buddies! :>

10 Best Desktop SEO Software to Optimize Your Site

Posted: 05 Aug 2017 11:11 AM PDT

10 Best Desktop SEO Software
Whoever said you need to go to online services each time you want to look over at the Search Engine Optimization of your website? SEO is not a one-time process. Rather, it's an on-going one, which might make going repeatedly online to different sites a drudging work. To make it easier, there are certain desktop SEO software that you can install right to your computer, and they will work in the background when you're not interacting with them, hence making ordinary tasks SEO tasks easier for you. Here are the 10 best desktop SEO software to optimize your website.

Web CEO Professional Suite

Web CEO Professional is a complete Suite for webmasters, SEO professionals, and even search engine marketers. It integrates more than 12 different tools for SEO related tasks into a single workspace, From keyword research to building targetted traffic, and from finding a niche to performing site promotions on search engines, there's a lot you can do with this powerful SEO Suite.

Traffic Travis

Traffic Travis is all about optimizing your site for increasing traffic. It is a comprehensive SEO software that will give you insights into your competitors, and will suggest ways to improve your ranking and come up ahead of the competition. It can be used to remove errors in your site, and to build quality backlinks.

Internet Business Promoter

This is another great SEO Suite for professionals. Like Web CEO Professional, it also offers a lot of tools. But the primary use of iBusiness Promoter is analysis. Whether you want to do some keyword research, or analyze competitions, or simply want to track how well your keywords are doing, then iBusiness Promoter is for you. It will help you get into the first page of search engine results.

AdvancedWeb Ranking

Advanced Web Ranking can be rightly termed as a complete SEO Software. It provides a complete solution for managing all the SEO related tasks. It provides the most accurate and comprehensive keyword research tools, measures and improves search engine traffic as well as revenue, does effective link building and analysis, provides integration with Google Analytics, provides automated reports, updates and backups, and comes with complete data privacy and enhanced security and reliability.

SEO Power Suite

SEO Power Suite provides world-standard SEO software. It helps to improve the search rankings of your website on the search engines by doing proper keyword research and analysis, building quality backlinks, content optimization, and by doing other SEO tasks as well. SEO Power Suite comes in Free, Professional, and Enterprise versions. It provides powerful tools which make SEO tasks easy and effective and result oriented. Its toolkit includes tools such as Rank tracker, SEO SpyGlass, Website Auditor and LinkAsistant.

SEO Elite

SEO Elite offers a massive collection of traffic generating tools; reveals how a webpage ranks high in search engines, finds high PageRank sites, finds Super Affiliates, monitors reciprocal links on partner sites, backlink search, reveals how many and which pages each major search engine has indexed, regular updates of your search engine rankings, analyzes and compares special search commands on Google, reveals exactly which sites your competitors are advertising on, uncovers penalized sites you may be linking to, finds link exchange partners, and submit articles to article directories.

Microsoft Free SEO Toolkit

You can make your site search engine friendly using Microsoft Free SEO Toolkit. Free SEO Toolkit eases your efforts for search engine optimization (SEO). It can be downloaded for free. Free SEO Toolkit provides detailed analysis of your website and provides helpful suggestions to improve the overall relevance of your website in the search results. It helps you to grow your website traffic and revenue, controls the access and display of website content in search results, and improves the overall user experience as well.

Apex Pacific SEO Suite

SEO Suite is one of the most advanced and powerful SEO Software which comes with more than 25 SEO tools delivering high quality website optimization. It combines Web Ranking Software as well as Dynamic Submission Software and has hosts of other useful features as well. It comes with Web Site optimizer, Link Building Tools, Reporting Tools, does keyword research and analysis and also monitors the rankings for keywords and does lots of other tasks as well.

Screaming Frog

Screaming Frog is a SEO Spider software that lets you crawl a site or a link list quickly, scanning for target keywords and attributes, or checking for errors or inconsistencies. You can do a lot with this handy tool. And we demonstrated some of the ways you can use it in a previous post. Read the following post for more information;

Rank Tracker

Rank Tracker is a cool SEO tool designed to track rankings of your website for multiple keywords in all major search engines

10 Popular Blog Topics that will Make you More Money in 2017

Posted: 07 Jul 2017 12:09 PM PDT

top 10 topics to blog aboutThe thought of becoming an entrepreneur and building your own empire in no time was a dream few years back, but with online money making opportunities today, it is all possible. The urge to start a blog and becoming rich and popular at the same time is increasing day by day, resulting in producing thousands of Newbie Bloggers each week. However, it greatly disappoints them when soon they realize that their blog would hardly generate any revenue for them, forcing them to leave this domain to earn money.

It's important to figure out about the most productive niches that generate maximum revenue, even before planning to start a blog. What happens for example is, a person might be a good painter and plans to share his painting techniques and his creations on his blog. The idea is appreciable if we talk in terms of talent, but such a blog would hardly attract any traffic. The reason behind this is, the global change is making lives busy where people do not have time to read about your skills, but are in search of fulfilling their own thirst.

Many of our readers have been complaining since a long time that their blogs are not paying them anything, so here is something they need to check about their blogs.
If you are looking forward to high profits in return of easy blogging, you must first know which niche to choose as your blog topic.

Let me share 10 popular blog topics that can bring you massive traffic plus more money in 2017.

10.Health

health related blogsAs the world going online, people are now interested to find solutions for their health related matters online. This blogging niche enjoys an open traffic where there are no barriers of culture, state or society. A person from Pakistan would be equally interested to know about the remedy for losing his weight as a person from USA. If you have a command on medicine and fitness related issues and think you have the potentials to provide people worth-reading and then worth-following tips regarding fitness and Health, then you will see a huge traffic following your blog in no time.

9.Fashion

learn about fashioon on blogsHealth and fitness blogs are mostly visited only by those who are either going through some disease or are way to curious to learn tips for their fitness. But above health blogs, comes Fashion. Knowing about health is need but learning all about fashion is addiction. If you have got that glamorous side of yours and enjoy learning and sharing about Fashion trends leading the society, you can really earn huge money with it. People all over the world find internet as the most easiest access to know about fashion and follow it.

8.Relationships

relationship blogsRecent statistics have shown that 90% of the people have an emotional part in their personalities that leaves an effect on the entire life per fifteen hours a day as an average. People find internet as the most secure way to improve their relationships, believing in the idea of self-aiding learning online about professional working relationships, love relationships and getting advises from people around the globe. According to the latest reveals, blogs with this domain enjoy huge traffic.

7.Finance

finance blogsMan's love for Money will last till the end of this world. This common nature of people to learn ways to double their money forces them to search about such methods. Blogs having a domain related to ways of improving their finances and helping them setting up their own business, telling ways to manage their money always appeal them, further generating good traffic for a blog.

6. Question and Answer Blogs

question and answer blogsLet us go back to school to make the concept clear. Which teacher you preferred to visit the most in times of need, the one who always had a solution for your problems or the one who used to tell you to "come later"? We all have same views about it I hope. Similarly, starting a blog with a niche of active question and answer session will soon generate considerable revenue for you. People look forward to places where they can be listened and can get their queries been answered. Just like answer.com, you can start a question and answer blog and make real dollars with it!

5. Celebrities

all about celebrities on blogsThe easiest- yet the most interesting niche to adopt in a blogging career is undoubtedly to start writing reviews, updates, latest photos and everything associated with them, is the celebrities. The best part about this domain is, all you need to have as your qualifications to rule is your interest in entertainment world

4. Buy and sell

buy and sell blogsOnline shopping has taken up the physical market with a great pace. Now you choose all what you want to buy from your living room and get it delivered at your doorsteps. If you have the ability to work like a middle man, establishing a forum similar to olx.com, you can attract bulk of visitors each day.

3. Social Media

social media blogsThis post will be too less to describe the power of social media at this time of life where one might not have a bank account but must be having three or four accounts on different social networking websites. Due to the huge number of Social media users, the sites that write about every single happening on Social media get the most of the benefit. Take an example of Mashable.com. What do you think is the reason for the success of this site? It can't be uniqueness, there are much better unique sites available than it, it can't also be a good grammar, as even I have been noticing grammatical mistakes in the posts plenty of times. Then what makes it a hit? It's the domain of the blog! People want to know each and everything about their social media. Therefore, picking this niche to start a blog is one of the best choices available among the most productive niches.

2. Technology

technology blogsTechcrunch.com has been making Millions of Dollars each year by simply cashing its niche. In this Hi-tech world, staying up to date with the latest technology been revealed in the market is mandatory. Moreover, the biggest benefit of choosing this niche as your blogging topic is , when a new gadget/device is launched in to the market, it automatically creates a hype, big enough to bring visitors to your blog to know more about it. This happens every time-little too often, ensuring a continuous inflow of money.

1. Blogging Tips

bloggingtips websitesBlogging has recently become too popular even in the developing countries. The best sources to learn for the new bloggers are the blogs themselves. Just like MBT, blogs having a domain of sharing tips and tricks, making blogging easy with tutorials and everything related to blogging world are earning considerably large at this time. However, such domains require you to have the capability and knowledge about web designing and web development so that whatever content you share, it gains reliability for you from your readers.
The decisions you take on initial stages while starting a business, decides the future of it, therefore always play it safe and think about your potentials and pick the domain that goes most smooth with it.
All the best
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