In this video, MEWEBHOST.COM is going to show you how to use WordPress widgets and how to use those widgets on your WordPress blog…
Now, the first thing you need to do is make sure that you have installed a WordPress theme that supports WordPress widgets. This should not be a problem if you are downloading a theme that has been recently updated, but older themes may not support WordPress widgets, so make sure you have a theme that supports WordPress widgets. The default WordPress theme supports WordPress widgets, so that’s what I’m going to show you today – an example of how to use widgets using the default theme.
First, you need to click on “Appearance,” and click on “Widgets.” And in this section, you can select which sidebar you want to edit. Some themes may have more than one sidebar. But the default theme has only one sidebar, so you can select the sidebar that you want to edit here, and these are all the widgets that you can add to the sidebar. So you can have a look at all these widgets. I’m going to add the Recent Comments widget. And then I’m going to add Tag Cloud, and Recent Posts…alright. So I’ve added three widgets to my sidebar, and you’ll notice that each of the widgets can be moved to edit the order that the widgets appear on your sidebar. For example, if I want Tag Cloud to appear at the bottom section of my sidebar, I can just move it right to the bottom. And you’ll also notice that most of the widgets can be edited by clicking on the “Edit” link, so I can give this Recent Posts widget a title, and I can also select the amount of posts that I want to show. So if I want to show 10 posts, I’d edit to 10, and click on “Done.” And I can also edit the Recent Comments. So for example, if I want to show eight of the most recent comments, I click on “Done” again, and then when I’m done making the changes, I just click on “Save Changes.” Alright.
And you can see that now, my Recent Posts and my Tag Cloud widget have already been used up, so I cannot edit anymore to any other sidebar, but there are other widgets here that you can have a look at; for example, a Text widget, which is really very useful if you want to add in banners or any type of HTML or even AdSense ads onto your sidebar. You can just use the Text widget.
And you can see, the Text widget is pretty…very flexible, and give it a title, and you can enter anything you want, as long as it’s valid HTML in this section, and click on “Done”.
If you want to remove a widget, just click on the Edit link and click on “Remove,” and the widget has been removed. And then you click on “Save Changes” to save your new widget order. So that’s it.
Now, let’s look at our theme and see how these widgets appear on the sidebar. And you can see here, this is how the default WordPress blog will look like if you have not installed any other WordPress theme. And you can see in the sidebar section, now I have Recent Polls that shows right on top, and Recent Comments. So that’s how you use WordPress widgets. For more visit http://www.blog.mewebhost.com
In this video, I’m going to log into my Aweber account and show you some of the basic features so you can understand exactly how Aweber works and you can also plan how you want to use Aweber for your own online business.
And the first thing you’ll be able to see, unless of course you just signed up for Aweber, but otherwise the first thing you’ll be able to see is all your list inside Aweber, and remember that Aweber allows you to have unlimited email lists, so on this screen there are several, some of my lists here, and you can see the amount of people subscribed today.
Let me give you a better example…
Okay. So you can see the amount of people subscribed today, the amount of people subscribed yesterday, and then you’ll be able to see the amount of active subscribers, the amount of people who have unsubscribed, and the total number of subscribers, which basically comprises of active subscribers as well as subscribers who have opted out of your list.
If you scroll down, you will be able to see all the most recent broadcasts that you have sent out to your email list, and you can see the total number of people who you have sent out a broadcast to, the number of bounces, which basically means the email that you sent has bounced back or resulted in an error, and then you would be able to see the number of complaints.
This should be relatively low unless you are intentionally spamming people. But otherwise, complaints usually means the amount of people, or the percentage of people in that particular broadcast who have probably marked your emails as spam.
And then you will be able to see Opens, which is the amount of people who have actually opened your broadcast, so in this example, it’s about 10.7%, and out of that, the amount of people who clicked on links within your email, and in this example, it’s only 4.5%. But you can see how this data, or these figures here varies from each individual broadcast that you send out. Certain broadcasts may have a higher open rate, a higher click rate, etc., etc. So it really depends on the messages that you’re sending out.
And if you scroll right to the bottom, you’ll be able to see some of the pending broadcasts, these are the broadcasts that are about to be sent out, or that you have queued to be sent out at a later date, and you can always access those broadcasts by clicking on the review links here, and you can edit those broadcasts and perhaps even change the broadcast date, etc.
So within your Aweber account home page, if you scroll to the right end, you will be able to see on the right-hand section here a quick link for you to be able to search the subscribers if you want to find a particular subscriber, either by name or email address. And then you can also access the Help section now.
Now, Aweber has an excellent Help section and you’ll probably want to look at some of the video styles, the online guide, and also the PDF guide. If you’re a new user, I highly recommend that you at least go through some of the training available here so you know exactly what you’re doing, and so that you can avoid any silly mistakes.
Now, let me give you a run-through of some of the top navigation links. The first one you’ll see is My Lists, and you will be able to see List Settings, Confirmed Opt-In, Custom Fields, Global Fields, Automation, and also Email Parser. So these are the settings for the individual list that you maintain in Aweber.
And next to that are the messages link, and this link controls all the messages that you currently have in that particular list. It could be a follow-up message that the subscriber would receive right after they have entered their name and email address, or it could be a broadcast message that you have manually sent out to all the subscribers, which is not part of the initial follow-up emails.
And then you can also send a blog broadcast, and in the next tab here, you will be able to search for your subscribers. You will be able to manually add in subscribers, so if you have actually maintained a different subscriber list at some other autoresponder service, or using some of the script on your website, then you may want to either add them manually if the number of subscribers are small, or you can also choose to import subscribers to your new Aweber account.
But one thing that I should mention is that whenever you add or import names and email addresses into Aweber, they would require that an automatic confirmation or double opt-in confirmation email is sent out to the subscribers.
So, they do not just simply accept any email addresses and names that you put in because they want to, of course, maintain the quality of their service and avoid any spam complaints. So if you import subscribers from elsewhere other than the ones that you have got directly into Aweber, then it may be a bit more tedious and a bit more difficult, and everyone that you import will have to confirm again.
And then you can also manually unsubscribe some subscribers if you want to, or you can block certain subscribers so that they’ll never be able to subscribe to that particular list. And then you have the web forms section, which you can generate web forms to put on your website, and finally, a pretty awesome section here is also the reports section where you can generate all kinds of report and basically, you can get a very in-depth analysis of all your subscribers to see the amount of new subscribers you get per day, the amount of unsubscribes you get per day, and even right up to the very detailed level, for example, what links have individual subscribers clicked on and what email has caused individual subscribers to unsubscribe from your list.
So, that’s basically, that’s pretty much the introduction to using your Aweber account, and remember, as I said before, there’s a pretty good video section and also a pretty good online guide section, and then Aweber also publishes an awesome blog that gives you email marketing tips, but if you are a beginner, then you probably would not want to read the blog post until you are familiar with email marketing, how email marketing works, and also with Aweber.
And then you can also join the free live webinars that Aweber has from time to time, and you just need to call in to the webinar and you will be able to join in the discussions and understand more about Aweber and email marketing in general.
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In this video, we’re going take a look at how to edit your WordPress permalinks for SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
Now first of all, a permalink is nothing more than a URL. In Wordpress you can define how your URLs will look in the address bar of a person’s browser. For SEO purposes, you want your URLs to contain keywords that are related to your blog/page topics and words that are related to the words that one would use to search for your blog in search engines.
To edit your permalinks, simply click on “Settings,” and you’ll see here a link that says “Permalinks” – click on that. And here, you would see that the default permalink for the WordPress blogs you’re using looks something like this: http://www.yourdomainname.com/?p=, and the number of the WordPress posts, or page.
Now there’s absolutely nothing wrong with leaving the permalink as it is by default, but if you want to optimize your blog for search engines and get more free traffic from such search engines, then you have to make your permalinks more search-engine friendly. The other three options that are listed here that are actually more search-engine friendly permalink structures.
So let’s select the third one here that will display the month and the postname. So as you can see here, your post would display the year, followed by the month, and followed by the postname. But generally speaking, the year and the month numbers are pretty much redundant and they really don’t help you a lot with search engine optimization. So you may want to delete this entire section here and leave only the postname permalink quotes. And then I’m going to scroll to the bottom and click on “Save Changes.”
And after I did that, you can see I get a message from WordPress saying that “you should update your .htaccess now.” Htaccess is basically a file that controls access permissions to your WordPress blog. There are 2 ways you can edit your htaccess file: No. 1 is using an FTP application or your cPanel file manager. The other way is just contacting support and letting them do it for you. So I’m going show you the first one, which is using FTP. So I will just use my FTP program and connect to my web server, and then I will go to the public_html folder. And here, you can see your .htaccess file. So what you should do is right-click on this, and select “File Permissions.”
And then you can either check all the boxes here to make it 777, or you could simply type in the number you want, and you’ll automatically update the access permissions. Then to edit this file, you need to set this to 777, oo 755 or 766. But in most cases, 777 will do just fine and click on “OK.”
Now, you go back to your WordPress permalink settings and your WordPress dashboard, and click on “Save Changes” again. And it says here that “Permalink structure updated.”
And that’s how easy it is to optimize your permlinks for search engines.
