Revised 06/05/10 - Melissa, for whatever reason, doesn't seem to be online at the moment and therefore not offering services!

A couple of months back I tried out a new tool for spinning articles called The Best Spinner and it really was one of the best article spinning tools I have ever used and I've tried and tested most of the popular ones. It allows you to easily take 1 article and spin it to produce several copies of that article, each with a certain percentage of uniqueness. If you don't own this software or don't have the time to use it then Melissa Eaton (long time BANS member and one of the first forum moderators) is offering several extremely cheap article spinning services which may interest you. She has several options on offer Read the rest of this entry »

For a while now we've being getting a few emails asking about whether SEO/cloaked URLs for the affiliate links contained within the CompariPress PCU could be added to CompariPress PCU ... well the good new is we've just released an update for the plugin which enables you to cloak all of the outbound affiliate links within the PCUs you display in your WordPress pages or posts. That's cloaked affiliate links for all Amazon products, Linkshare products and CJ products.

We have also added several other smaller features which have enhanced the usability of our price comparison plugin for WordPress.

We have also been getting a few other common questions/requests so I thought I'd take the time to answer them here. Read the rest of this entry »

I wanted to write about something a little different today, something away from my usual tutorials that I tend to write, so I thought I would tell you about 3 Addons for Firefox which are an absolute must for me in my niche site building and my web designing. Now, I like to vary the browser I use to view the internet, my favourite is Google Chrome and I like using Opera as well but purely for some of the fantastic addons you can get for it I still LOVE using Firefox, even if it has got 'clunkier' as time's gone on.

Three Addons I can't Live Without

ScreenGrab Screen Capture Addon

Screengrab is a fantastic and powerful little tool which integrates a screen capture ability into your browser. Screengrab enables you to capture the entire window, the entire page (visible and non-visible) or a selection which you choose, whatsmore you can even save directly to file OR copy the image to paste into your favouriate image editing tool for later use. Read the rest of this entry »

Well this is the final post in the Fliptatics series and I really hope you've beenable to take something away from it, I know I've certainly enjoyed writing it. Inthis last post I would like to cover some of the things you should and should not bedoing on auction day in order for you to achieve maximum profit from your websitesale. The first thing which needs to be said and probably the most obvious is that if you don't have a fairly decent site to sell then no amount of sales copy orjargon is going to get you a good price and I'm sure you wouldn't expect it toeither.

The first thing you absolutely must do before you even begin to construct yourlisting for Flippa is familiarise yourself with all of the selling fees which you can potentially incur.  A full list of the auction fees can be seen here:http://flippa.com/pricing.  For a standard basic listing it's going to cost you $19 which is payable immediately when the auction is created, in addition there is a 5% success fee which must be paid after the auction completes. The success fee is capped at $498 and can be split between the seller and the buyer or paid in full byeither party.

There are several listing upgrades available which, if you purchased all of them,would cost you over $100, but if you are selling a high priced site then many ofthose upgrades may certainly be worth the investment, particularly the front page listing. Read the rest of this entry »

Update:  I would like to provide a couple of updates to this post for a couple of reasons. Firstly to apologise to the guys at HalfAgain for any bad feeling caused by my post below, as I can see how some of my comments may have been taken to cause offence. The comments weren't mean to come across as they did and after reflection and a lengthy discussion with Omar at HalfAgain I would like to retract my comments.

The second reason I wanted to provide an update was to give you more information on why they guys at Half Again decided to try and raise some cash from their business. I had a long email conversation with Omar at HalfAgain and essentially what they were looking for, and may still be looking for, is a partner who could potentially manage the marketing side of HalfAgain, allowing them to free up their time and put their effort into more mainstream projects. They have developed some great products which are stable and just require marketing, really it's a "no brainer" as to why they would have tried to take on a partner.

End Update

Okay so this was one I guess I didn't really expect, I was in the middle of writing my final Flippa post in the Fliptastic series and doing my usual daily browse around Flippa and found this ...Half Again.com, the creators of StoreStacker, BlogProftiz and many other products in the niche site building arena. They are looking for offers around $200,000 or other 'deals' can be negotiated. Will they really achieve their asking price? I don't really know but I'll certainly be watching with interest.

Auction can be seen here!

For those of you who have sent me emails over the last few days asking me about the CompariPress affiliate program you'll be pleased to know that it's now up and running. You can earn 30% of the CompariPress sale price by referring sales through your affiliate links. I have added a range of affiliate banners and links to the affiliate area which will help you to promote CompariPress but if there is anything extra you feel you need then please feel free to let me know.

Accessing the Affiliate Program

Accessing Your Affiliate Area – CompariPress Users

I've had several of you tell me that you didn't receive the early bird email which went out yesterday, I think it may have been caught up in a lot of spam boxes, so I just wanted to post this last update about CompariPress to let you know that it's now live and open to the public. You can grab your special discounted copy over at CompariPress.com for the next 7 days.

I would also like to say a HUGE thank you to all of you who have purchased the plugin so far and I hope you are enjoying using it on your own affiliate websites.

It will be back to business as usual tomorrow/Friday here on the blog and I will finish off the Fliptactics series with the final post in that series, "Fliptactics - Auction Day - Achieving Maximum Profit!"

In the previous video "CompariPress Video Preview", I took the time to show you how easy it was to create a price comparison unit containing your selected products and insert it into your WordPress pages or posts.  I wanted to create this next video in response to 3 frequently asked questions which I've received on the blog and through the support desk over the last few days. What I've tried to demonstrate for you  is how easy it is for ANYONE to use CompariPress PCU to quickly and easily create nicely styled price comparison units for their WordPress affiliate website. The video is just over 7 minutes in length, so my apologies for that but I think you will find it useful to watch!

I just want to firstly say a BIG thank you to all of you who have commented or emailed me via the support desk to ask questions about CompariPress or give feedback, all of your comments have been taken on board.

We are happy to announce that we will be launching CompariPress PCU - The price comparison plugin for WordPress on:

Official Launch: March 17th 12noon EST (4pm GMT)

Early Bird Access: March 16th 12noon EST (4pm GMT)

If you can't wait the two days to March 17th then please get yourself onto the early bird pre-notification list at www.CompariPress.com.

If you still have questions you would like to ask, please feel free to post a comment below OR contact me directly via my customer support desk.

As a follow up from the last post I wanted to create a very short video for you all so you can see how easy it is to create a price comparison unit and insert it into a WordPress page or post.

You can get yourself onto the pre-launch notification list at www.CompariPress.com and receive access 24 hours earlier than everyone else.

I know a lot of you have been waiting for the release of this plugin for the last few months and I apologize for the delay, we had some problems with the direction we originally took with its development and decided to start over again. But I have to say I think that it's been worth it and I hope you will think so too!

The original concept of the CompariPress plugin was to utilize one affiliate network to enable you to complete easy price comparisons in the smallest amount of time, but the main downside to this was that the affiliate network you would need to be a part of was taking forever and a day to approve new affiliates into their network and into their developer program. This is where we took a change of direction and CompariPress PCU was born.

CompariPress PCU (Price Comparison Unit) will allow you to select items from multiple affiliate networks and display them within the pages or posts of your WordPress affiliate website in the form of a tidy PCU. Read the rest of this entry »

I only want to make this a short post just to let you know a little tip about getting ahead in your website flip.

One of the things which people find most difficult is getting visitors to their website in the first place, they can build some really great looking sites in really great niches but they struggle when it comes to getting traffic. Whilst there is no miracle solution to this issue, other than good marketing and hard work, there is a little tactic you can use to get yourself ahead from the very beginning.

Where do you buy your domains?

In the previous post 'Fliptactics - Building A Fliptastic Site' we saw how well a site was selling on Flippa which had high traffic, Google PR and an aged domain amongst many other things. But the reason I mention these three things in particular is simply because these are things you can sometimes get to a certain extent just by purchasing your domain name from Godaddy auctions (thanks to Mark - The Niche Store Builder for sending me here a couple of years back). Godaddy auctions have thousands of domain names listed starting from just $5 which already have traffic, Google PR and often many backlinks. In fact, just a few months a go Read the rest of this entry »