In nearly 10 years, IM NewsWatch has published 100,000 news stories, over 10,000 every year. We feel elated about that accomplishment, so we invited Ken Reno to partner with us on free product to our loyal subscribers. Link Gate WordPress Plugin. This plugin lets you create a pop-up that is shown when a visitor clicks on a special text link you place in a post or a page. Your pop-up can contain whatever you like: an image, an opt-in form, text or any HTML. You can change color of the background, the color of the submit button, the text labels for fields, the border, the radius on the pop-up box... [...]

Matthew Toren says, “When it comes to your website, you want to take advantage of any technology that helps maximize your efforts and get more traffic to your site. Other than creating epic content that you post consistently, what else can you do that will really leverage traffic flow? There are some incredible WordPress plugins that can help you optimize, audit and promote your site to help you increase your traffic. Here are seven great ones: 1.  Sharebar Sharebar is an easy-to-install WordPress plugin that syncs with the big social media outlets so that visitors can easily share your... [...]

The IM Wealth Builders team (Soren Jordansen, John Merrick and Cindy Battye) made a surprise announcement yesterday. They have just released a new version of their popular software for selling t-shirts online, Covert Shirt Store 2.0. Anyone who invested in version 1, whether last year or just last week, gets a free upgrade to the new version that is redesigned for the latest version of WordPress. (All buyers get free updates for life.) If you didn’t invest in the original version, it’s not too late. Version 2 help you will make up for lost time. With the Covert Shirt Store 2.0 theme... [...]

Chris Record started blogging back in 2004 when he made his first 6-figure year online using the Google Adsense™ program. Since then, Record and his team at Internet Marketing Bar have developed numerous WordPress products and services. They are also the creators behind Kalatu™, the multi-user WordPress blogging network currently used by many thousands of bloggers. Today, they are announcing Speed Blogging, new software for bloggers. Here’s what it will do for you: • Instantly embed any Pinterest image to your blog without ever logging into WordPress • Instantly embed any Facebook... [...]

Christopher Ratcliff says, “Whether a brand new blogger or a seasoned writer, WordPress is one of the most popular and versatile content management systems (CMS) available. You can set up a quick, good-looking, fully-hosted blog using one of its many templates, or you can get into the world of self-hosting and coding to build your own professional site from scratch. Last year I wrote a complete guide to setting up and running your own WordPress site along with an SEO for WordPress best practice guide. That latter SEO guide has become somewhat out of date now, so this is a revised and updated... [...]

Perhaps you have heard of “private blog networks”, a tool to improve your visibility in search engines. Some SEO experts say that no other method of increasing your ranking compares. Todd Spears and Clinton Dixson have a solution for people wanting their own private blog network: Blog Network Blueprint. In this new training, they have created 15 fun, easy-to-understand videos that will show you how to set up your network of blogs that will effectively promote your site in the search engines. They are so sure of the quality of their training that they are offering a 30-day, 100% refund... [...]

Millions and millions of tee shirts will be sold in the coming weeks. Some in brick and mortar stores, but many more online. You can participate in this e-commerce bonanza by setting up your own online tee shirt store. You may think it’s hard, but it doesn’t have to be. There is a software package that sets up a tee shirt store on your blog that you can have running in an hour or less. The IM Wealth Builders (Cindy Battye, Soren Jordansen, and John Merrick, have designed a WordPress theme, called Covert Shirt Store, that can have your online tee shirt store running in less than a day. The... [...]

Facebook and YouTube both have their strengths, but each has its weaknesses, too. In fact, they complement each other and the marketer who uses them in combination reaps the reward of higher sales. Displaying your YouTube videos inside Facebook doubles your chances of finding and persuading people intrested in your offer. FB Tube Pro is a WordPress plugin that shows YouTube videos on your blog, and also shows them on Facebook. You can build a whole gallery of videos on Facebook very simply with this plugin, using its easy integration with Facebook and with YouTube. Then place the gallery on your... [...]

The results are in: online videos are the best way to persuade people to follow your advice (like “you really should buy my product”). But the leap from watching the video to actually taking action loses a lot of people. The problem probably isn’t with your video. It’s the effort to click 2 or 3 times to get to the screen where they can buy. Peter Beattie calls this the ‘video death gap’. People have to stop watching your video and go elsewhere to take action. It may seem like just a few seconds of work, but history shows a big percentage aren’t willing... [...]

Videos you load into YouTube are good, but how much more could they help you if all your Facebook followers could also see your videos without leaving Facebook? FB TubePro is a WordPress plugin that lets you create a gallery of your videos, multiple videos arranged on the same page, with an optin form and, optionally, a “fan gate” so they have to become a fan to see your videos. With this new plugin by James Howard, you can set up as many timeline optin pages as you want, as many gallery pages as you want. FB TubePro is designed to make it easy to integrate your site with both Facebook... [...]