What this means to you is that if your post is too long, then you need to shorten it, split it into different posts or do something called paginate.

If you are using WordPress blog platform then you like millions of others has chosen the best platform around and they have, though it is little known, a way to send parts of your long posts to the next page and at the bottom it lists page numbers for the person to click on.

The reason this bit of information is not readily talked about especially by WordPress, is that originally WordPress was created for blogging, which are normally short, easy to load posts.

Whatever way you decide to split up your post, there are options and for this one it is really simple.

• Go to Your admin panel of the WordPress site you are using
• Go to a post that is written or write up a new post and where it says visual/html
• Choose the html.
• Wherever you want your post to be split and moved to the next page put the following short code in.

Short code: Place the following code where you want the page breaks to be. You post the whole article on one post or page then use the break short code.
<!–nextpage–>

To get a real time example of this pagination in action, check out this. Look in the right bottom just below recent posts and there will be numbers from 1-5 those are the pages wp created to break up the length of the article.

www.danlew.com – I have used many programs in the past and many failed to do what I needed to do effectively. With Aweber you have not only full control but easy access to all management tabs with very advanced options. I highly recommend using Aweber and recommend if you have not yet tried it out you do so at just for the first month.

www.aweber.com Chris Garrett discusses what he tests in his email marketing campaigns. Chris also talks about the value of tracking long-term metrics, not just short-term ones. Recorded at SXSW 2010 in Austin, TX.

I woke up this morning and of course first thing I did was to look at my email.. Well..I have to say this. I am just getting so tired of the “catch me phrases” that litter the subject line. So I thought what gets me to open an email? For instance these do not work for me:

I’ve got bad news…Do they really think i want bad news first thing in the morning? Just keep it to yourself!

Can I tell you a secret…NO you cant, I cant keep secrets

Stop what your doing and read this…I don’t want to stop, go away

The secret is out…Who cares if the secret is out, another new secret will be out tomorrow.

Someone finally cured…Oh yeah right, like I believe that one.

Important-Must read in next five minutes…OMG that has to be the silliest thing I ever heard

Brand new…Is there such a thing as original thought anymore?

blah
blah
and blah

then click
click
click
and delete

So that is my personal opinion on writing a grabbing line for emails which are the words that should get me to open an email. I am simply tired of all the ick and crap that is written to get me to open an email. So what do I think will get me to open an email? The persons name is the first thing, and the only other thing that will get me to open an email in the subject place is something that is not hype.

Subjects with I’m sorry, You just have to look, Sorry I am sending this out again but it is so important, just don’t work with me. I need bold. I am selling this, Buy this because, I tried this and it worked, I want to help you and things like that.

Yes this was a bit of a personal rant, but I cant believe I am the only one out there thinking these things.

When you are doing business online, the people that you want to come to your site, cannot physically see walls and shelves and products. So instead what they do see is the website design of your business. You website then becomes the hub of your business life online. And as it is true in the real world it is true online. People judge a book by hits cover or people will judge your business level of professionalism by your website design.

It is important that your website design show your visitors that you are professional and care about the quality of your design, i.e. your business. In a real store on some street you would not let your sales people run around in cut offs and t-shirts with holes in them, would you? No, of course you would not; you would want to show that you were professional and dressed for business. First impressions are vital in all aspects of our life, business life included and the first impression you will make will be in your website design.

It is the same online. If you throw up a five minute shabbily done website, you are literally telling everyone that comes, that you are not a professional and that you don’t really care about quality. Worse the website design may be telling them that you might be some fly by night salesman that they should not trust. So make sure that your website design shows what you want it to.

Now if on the other side, you have a wonderfully done professional looking website design, you are telling your visitors that you cared enough to do it right and that you think details are important. You show a great sense of professionalism and that you are going to be around to do business.

Good Website Design Practices

You website is where you customers will go to purchase something from you. Make sure that your website design has clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion.

When doing website design for your business website it is best to keep down the number of images on your website. They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize them using image editing programs so that they have a minimum file size.

Keep the text on your website design in “readable chunks.” If the paragraphs are too long, then shorten them or make two paragraphs, as people are more likely to read it. Use bullets to point out important concepts.

Make sure your website design is cross-browser compatible. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective visitors.

Website design rule to make sure your website performs well:

Do not use splash pages

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have very beautiful pictures with welcoming words or enter website here. They are empty and worthless as they really have no purpose. Don’t give your visitors any reason to click the leave or back button! Give them the immediate value of your site upfront.

Do not use excessive banner advertisements

Too many banners and people don’t see them. So it is a waste of your website space. Instead provide more valuable content and use affiliate links or adsense and let your customers want to buy something from you.

Have a simple and clear navigation on your website design

This is a critical step. You should have a well thought out simple way to navigate around on your site. It should be easy enough for a child to use. Don’t have complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered drop down menus. If they can’t find the buy button or are having a hard time going where they want to go on your site, they will leave. Don’t give them that chance.

Avoid using audio on your website design

Have you ever been to a site that has that annoying audio feed of the same 30 second speech over and over again? Well don’t put one on your site. Your customer while reading your site is not going to want to hear it. If you just have to have audio, then give the option of closing it or turning the volume down by the customer.

Think through every aspect of your website design. Make it user friendly and people will keep coming back.

If you have a website one of the toughest things to do is to get traffic to them. There are plenty of articles out there telling you all the things that you need to do if you want more traffic. I thought it would be nice to speak on what NOT to do if you want to get and keep people coming to your website.

Do not make it hard to get around your website
The first thing would be to not make it so stinking hard to get around your site. I can not tell you the amount of times I have gone to a website and had to look for the things that I wanted to look at.

Sometimes even the buy key is hiding from me. So please if you want traffic to your website and you want to keep that traffic coming back then make navigating your website easy and enjoyable. For most people are not patient and if they cannot find what they want right away, you know what they do? Yeup, they leave!

Do not ignore your visitor’s suggestions and questions
Remember without visitors to your website, there really is no reason to have a website. That and you will never make any money online. Never disregard or ignore a comment or a question. Part of having a website is to build a relationship and that means they need to trust you. Would you trust someone that never pays attention to what you say? If they criticize your site, tell them thank you and you will look into it. You don’t have to get all huffy and defensive.

Do not fill your site with advertising
No one really likes going to a site that is filled with advertising banners and ads. It is too busy to look at and most people will just leave. People like neat and tidy websites that they can find easily the things they want to find. Plus if you have ads on your site make sure that they are relative to your niche. Do not sell dog food on a make money site.

Do not plagiarize your content
Your site should be full of information that is unique. The articles and opinions that you give out should be your own. You don’t want your site penalized either due to duplication. If people come to your site and see the same old content they have seen forever then they will leave and not come back. It is good to have quotes and even visiting authors but make sure to give credit where credit is due.

Do not have links that are broken
Have you ever gone to a site read the information and then pushed on the link that says if you want to read more and you get a bad link? What a waste of time that is! Make sure that when your site is up and running all the links work. Dead links might make people think that you are no longer running your site, so they leave and don’t come back.

The hottest trend right now for making money online is Search Engine Optimization (SEO.) This one foundational strategy alone can determine whether you will make money online or not. Of course doing SEO does not mean you set up one thing and you are done, oh no, you must do a variety of things to tease the search engines to come visit your website.

SEO is what will get search engines to rank your website high on the results page. The higher you are on the results page the more traffic you will get. A basic foundational skill for using SEO is choosing the right keywords that are best for your websites content.
The key ways through which you can optimize your website for search engines:

Keywords are the most vital part of SEO. Know your keywords and your keyword phrases well and use them all on your website. Use your keywords in vital places like the title tag, header tags, description tags, you find them in the source of your pages. Go to any website that is similar to yours and up at the top hit view, scroll down and click on page source. It will tell you what keywords that site has used. Good spy information!

We all want to use our keywords at an optimal amount, if you use them use them wisely or if you over use them you can be called a spammer. Have more than one or two or ten keywords for your site. Use the Wordtracker tool, or traffic Travis tool to find your keywords, check them out on Google adwords tool and the competition for it in Google, make sure to use quotes, that will then return exact phrase for you. It is best to use low competition keywords with high search as then you will have a better chance to get ranked higher in the search engines.

Make sure that you use your keywords in the title of your blog, the title of your webpage headings and subheadings.
Search engines look for high quality fresh content when they spider your website. You should never use another person’s article unless you have permission and give them credit. Duplicate content will penalize your website with the search engines.
Have high quality, unique and fresh content on your website. Duplicate content can result in your website being penalized by search engines. Having fresh content means that your website will get indexed by search engines and more people will visit your website because you have useful content on your website.

Once your website is up and functional don’t just sit on it hoping that people will come to it. Go to website directories and submit your site. This means that your website will now be visible for all the search engine spiders to come and crawl it and index it. People will now be able to find it.

Get links from other sites that are related to yours. It is like going for the popular vote, the site with the most links wins. You want to be that website! For one way links you need to write articles and submit them to the article directories with your author resource box, join forums and make sure you add a signature with the URL of your website.

Get reciprocal linking. This only works if you have good and unique content on your site. This can be a long tedious task but the results are usually quite worth it. To get this done, you need to find other niche sites like yours and ask the owner to exchange links with you. If you link with sites that have above Google page ranking of five it will hold more weight in the popular link contest and push your site up in rankings which again will give you more traffic.

Get internal links, this is where you link from one of your pages to another.

Include a site map. It is a good idea to create a site map with text links that you link to the site map from your website’s homepage.

If you use the basic steps in the basic strategy to search engine optimization then it will help you to increase your ranking in the search engines. Higher rankings in the search engine mean more traffic and that is what we want.

Lately I have been receiving a lot of emails that are not very easy to read. Is it because of the content? No, it is because of the email formatting. I had wondered if it was a problem in my own email formatting setup, but then I realized that I get other email messages formatted for easy reading.

So, my questions to you are, “Are you getting email messages that are all broken up? If so, “do you think you might be sending out the same?” Is the email formatting on your own outgoing mail done correctly?

You know what I am talking about; the text is spilled all over the page. Two words on one line then ten words on the next and then a big white place and a few more words.” It looks very unprofessional and if you are trying to get people to trust in your business, then it should be an absolute must that you send out your email messages formatted correctly. When I receive an email like this I simply hit the back page button and don’t read it.

Now I know for myself and I am sure for you as well, that you want your email formatting done for for easy reading. This is what you need to do. First go and check to see if any of your autoresponse messages that you are sending out look scrambled. If they are perfect when they arrive to you, then you do nothing. I checked and sure enough a few of them in my autoresponder series arrived all broken up! Gasp! My email formatting was not done correctly!

Understanding why your email formatting is doing this is the first step to fixing it. Character count is important. It is the amount of typed letters, signs and spaces on each line. Each email client is different. So if you are using seventy characters and it looks good with your email, but unknowingly send it to someone whose client only allows 60, then your last ten characters will go to a new line. Thus they will be seeing a broken up message and probably one that they will not read. To solve this problem, just limit your character line to say 60-65 characters.

The next problem with your email formatting could be in the font you choose. The default standard is not the best way to go, for the character varies with width. This means that an “I” will take up less character space than a “W” and because of that, the text might end up being taken to the next line after the character count is done. It is best to choose to use a fixed font, sometimes known as mono space font, something like Courier or Letter Gothic.

Do not type your text long enough on a line to use the wrap around feature. It is best to hit enter to go to the next line, also known as a “hard return”. Most of your word processing programs will have somewhere that while you type it displays the line you are typing and the character number, keep tract of it and when you are near your 60-65 limit, hit the return key.

One final way to avoid formatting emails that send out distorted communications is to save them in a universal format. Save your message either in plain text, which is almost always Courier New Font or Rich format, which every word processing can open. Look for these formats in your “save as” dropdown box.

Now that you know the reasons behind the jumbled email and in your email formatting tools you can fix it so that none of yours go out that way. You can send out your email messages formatted for easy reading, and know that they will not only get opened but read.

It will show your professionalism and care that you take in communicating with your email list.

Here we are again, so let’s continue. You should have your list of at least ten things. One thing on my list is fishing; of course that is a far too big and competitive term. If you typed it on Google and searched the term fishing, you would come up with over 189 million competing pages that have the word fishing in it.

So think a bit on fishing. You can go to Google Keyword tools and type in fishing and it will come back with some ideas or you can check out a few fishing sites and see if anything grabs you. When I drill down to find something I want to sell I use quotes around the term in Google. This gives exact phrases in the exact order that I type them.

If I want to know how many titles are matched to the keywords I have chosen I will type in the word, intitle:”exact phrase”. For example, intitle:”saltwater fly fishing rods” Saltwater fly fishing has 222,000 pages, so lets it drill it down some more. Saltwater fly fishing rods, now that is more manageable at 2910 pages.

So to sum it up what I do when searching one of my ideas.

Google it
Google it with quotes
Google it with intitle: quotes

In our example fishing it would look like this:

Fishing-189 million
Saltwater fishing-1,580,000
Saltwater fly fishing-1,340,000
Saltwater fly fishing rods-396,000
“Saltwater fly fishing rods”-2,910
Intitle:”saltwater fly fishing rods”-0

Whether or not it is a good word to use and focus on will take into consideration many aspects. One that is good to look at is: On the Google page down the right hand side does it show any sponsored links? It should have at least three to show that someone is making money in the niche, and then all you want to do is make it before them.

We can see that there are many sponsored ads on the page. That means that people are making money if they are paying to advertise and from Google Keywords tool it shows it gets 400 searches a month so should be a great keyword to focus on.

The key then is to write about saltwater fly fishing rods, and get those articles out to the directories for people to read and those that are looking for what you have to offer will click on your site and hopefully buy from you.

Again I will have to point out that if you don’t want to write about this topic or pay to have it written, then perhaps you need to look elsewhere for a money making idea online.

The next aspect of having a business online is choosing a domain and getting a website. I know that this might seem daunting if you re new, but really it is not that scary. Your Website gives what you are selling credence and lets people know that you are serious about your business. So in choosing a domain make sure that you remember how important that name will be to your business.

The first thing that you need to be thinking about is choosing a domain. This is the address where your website will be living. The domain name is the thing that comes after the www. in any of the internet addresses that you see. The most well known extension is .com. But there are also: .info, .ws, .org, .net and so forth.

When choosing a domain you need to remember that .com is the most recognizable form of address, and so would behoove you to try and find an address that you can get with a .com extension. It seems that people will remember it easier.

It might be easier to explain it like this. Both you and another are selling junked toys. You have junkedtoys.com and the other has junkedtoys.net. When someone is searching they most likely will type in the junkedtoys.com and go to your site versus the other. Now can you understand how important it may be?

When choosing your domain name make sure it is the same as your website name! This may seem silly to say, but I can’t tell you how important it is. The people that think of your website will think of it by name. If your website is the domain name then they will know exactly where to go. So when people think of junked toys and they type in junkedtoys.com, as the URL they will go to that site. Your site!

You have been dilligent and sat and pondered on choosing a domain name, you have reasearched and tried out many domain names. It took time but now you have choosen a domain name. But how do you know after that long process of choosing a domain name if it is taken and being used? To find that out you can go to any number of places such as: go daddy .com, nameboy.com, dotster.com and register.com to name a few.

If in choosing the domain name you find that it is taken you can always use your own name. (Hopefully that is not taken) If you decide that you want a name that someone else is already using, you can go to a site called, whois.com. It will tell you who owns the domain and you can contact them and ask to buy it.

So the choosing of the domain name is done. Now all you need to do it go register it. To do this you go to a registrar site and put it into the field that asks for what domain you want. It comes back that it is available and will cost from 10-30 dollars for the name. If you pay it you will now have the name for a year and can renew the same name for the same amount annually.

There are many domain registrars out there, some will even have coupons that you can get a discount. If you want to find those simply type in coupons for “registrars name” in Google and it will show you where to go. Now that you have taken the time in choosing a domain that you like, guess what?

You are now an official domain owner!