Issue 006

Web Master Alert... Exclusively For You!

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All the best,

In This Issue:

If you don't have time to read this whole ezine, just click on an area you want to jump down to.

What's New -watch a mini site being built in real time in less than 30 days

Webmaster Tools -a tool to help prevent loss of all your hard drive data

Webmaster Tips -Is anyone reading your ezine/newsletter? This will help!

Webmaster Income Here's an affiliate program that pays again and again and again!

Linking Strategy -I bet you haven't thought of this linking strategy!

Your Comments - Don't make me feel like the lonely Maytag Repair Man... speak up!

Coming Soon!

Mini Site Diary

Can a small 5-10 page site really earn some income? Watch the construction of a mini site in real time!

Here's the site: Autoresponder Report

Day 1

I purchased the domain name autoresponder-report.com with the sole intention of seeing if a small mini-site can pull in some decent income.

My Mission:

To review the major autoresponder companies and provide unbiased reports to help people make an informed decision on the best autoresponder tool!

I need to act as a reporter and just give the facts.

I will sign up for all the affiliate programs so that I will earn income no matter which autoresponder service is chosen.

Want to follow along? Autoresponder Report

Online File Folder

You work hard building your site. Nothing chaps my butt more than having it all come crashing down when my hard drive fails.

It would make a priest curse.

Is there a tool for keeping my data stored away from my home computer?

Yep, and I got the price down to about $10 per year for my friends.

Say goodbye to the hassle of carrying around storage disks, removable memory, or emailing important files to yourself! Online File Folder gives you secure, 24/7 access to your most important files from any computer with an Internet connection.

Want to know more?

Go to FYI Hosting Scout and look for "Online File Folder" under Hot Deals and Announcements at the bottom of the page.

Thumbnail Maker

If you missed out on the FREE thumbnail maker program, you can get it here.

It's a small but powerful program that takes your big pics and scales them down to nice smaller pics without giving up quality. The software is virus free and spyware free.

Free Clipart

If you missed out on the free clipart, here's another chance to get it.

I'll be adding more clipart pieces later so keep an eye out for it.

For those of you who missed the first go around, you can get it here.

Note: You are about to download a zipped file ("clipspecial150.zip"). Save it to your desktop. After you have downloaded, unzip it.

If you have windows and need a unzip program, try the one below.

Windows users need WinZip to unzip files -- free trial

Train Your Subscribers

Next to your hard drive crashing, I can't think of anything more frustrating than building a list of subscribers and having no one read my stuff.

How about you?

Well, what do we do about it?

Believe it or not, some people just go crazy with their "delete" button when they go into their email accounts.

Can't blame them. The average person gets 20-30 spam ads every day and they get real mad at all the ads.

So why don't you train them to look for your emails from the get go?

Here's what I do and you can steal the idea if you want because I did.

When you subscribers sign up for your ezine, newsletter or ecourse tell them upfront that their email will come from you with "your name" in the subject line.

In my case I say something like this.

Thanks for subscribing to Web Master Alert. I don't want you to miss out on good stuff so here's how you'll recognize my emails to you.

You'll see from: "The Mad Webmaster" in the from address and you'll see [web master alert] in the subject line.

That wasn't hard was it?

It's not enough just to have exciting headlind grabbing headlines in your email. Remind them to look for you.

Site Linking Strategy

You know the power of site linking. Right?

I have a question for you. Which link do you think is most valuable, a link exchange or a inbound link from another site that is related to your site topic?

See search engines look at link exchanges and those are ok and better than nothing, but the value of a inbound link to your site from another site is powerful.

The theory behind it is this. If other sites link to your site, without you linking back, your site must be pretty good stuff. It's that simple.

How do you get inbound unsolicited links from other sites... in you niche?

In a past issue we talked about writing good articles, with good headlines, with good content, with good bio boxes.

Here's another strategy.

Review other sites similar to yours, but not in direct competition, and give them a testimonial or award!

What the heck does that mean?

Let's say that you have a weight loss web site. You notice a really great "Six Pack Abs" site that has a Google Page rank of 4. Wow. You want a link back from that site but you don't want to spam the site owner and seem self serving. You don't want to exchange links because we all know the power of a link back.

What do you do?

Contact the site, blog or ezine owner you want a link from and send him a testimonial like this.

Hi Six Pack Ab Site Owner. Paul Ellis here from weight loss.com. I just wanted to send you a testimonial about your site and if you feel it valuable to place on your site, feel free to do so. Here it is:

As the owner of wight-loss.com I can tell you that "Six Pack Abs" is right on target if you want to do more than just lose fat. This site has powerful tools for building your abs and I refer my customers to this site on a regular basis. All the best, Paul Ellis www.weight-loss.com

Was that hard?

Want to see one? Go to this site and see if you can find my testimonial. All About Drawings.

Well, what do you think?

I don't know about you, but I want to get paid more than once when I promote other people's stuff.

Don't you?

I have nothing against affiliate programs, but dog gone it, it would be nice to get paid just like the affiliate program owner.

I know that there are great affiliate programs with great eBooks and that's fine, but there are a handful of affiliate programs on the web that allow lifetime commissions.

Mind you some of them need a lot of research before you go referring your site visitors. I work too hard to build trust with my site visitors just to throw some up some programs. I do some careful research on all of them.

In fact, I won't recommend an affiliate program unless I use it or have used it in the past.

By the way, feel free to comment on your favorite affiliate program down at the end of this issue.

Ok, let's get to some good affiliate programs that pay lifetime commissions, or at least more than a one time commission.

If you sell weight loss products, hair loss products, skin care products, men's health products, cosmetics or sports nutrition here's an affiliate program that pays you again and again and again.

Market Health

We would love to hear from you. The truth is, this will not be a very exciting ezine if I do all the talking/writing!

We need you! Just fill out the form below with your comment.

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Grammar Witch 
OK, Paul -- I'll tell you what frosts my butt! When saucy commentators like you think they can get away with unprofessional misspellings just cuz they'...

Nancy: Mindbridge-loa.com webmaster  Not rated yet
Hi Mad Webmaster!

Thank you for the tip about spam filters looking for the word "free" in the body. Wouldn't that be something we would use as a thank ...

Affliate question  Not rated yet
Paul,

Are you recommending this affliate program or is it just a google ad on your site. I am looking for an affliate program but there are so many ...

Thanks for the thumbnail maker  Not rated yet
Hey Paul

I really like your site and this ezine, and have been telling others about it. I have downloaded the thumbnail maker and will have a look at ...

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