Firepow - A new system for niche blogging

By Mike | July 2, 2008

Andrew Hansen, the author of Niche Marketing On Crack has just launched a new service for niche bloggers. It is the most inclusive system I have seen for creating and manging niche blogs. Below is a quick video I did about it.

You can get it at Firepow.

Launches at noon today

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    • Comment remix plugin - hmmmm

    By Mike | June 30, 2008

    Okay I like to play with new things. Guess that is why I got hooked on because there are always new things to play with ;)

    Networking can be very beneficial. One of the people that I saw earlier this month in Philadelphia at JV Alert got in touch with me through Facebook. Jason Dee Elvis just created a plugin that I have started playing with called WP Comment Remix.

    This does some neat things with the comments on your . Now I have not started playing with the tag functions in this yet ;)

    But I love what it does for the comments. You can reply directly to specific comments and link them. You can also automatically quote the comment with just the click of a link.

    Now Old Bald Guy’s just love things that make life easier and this will help not only me but YOU.

    Everyone can reply directly to a commenter and it will be much easier to follow any conversation in the comments for everyone.

    It will even show me how many comments I have not replied directly to (and it was a lot) inside your dashboard.

    Now to go play with the tagging feature and see how that works.

    Great job Jason.

    As always your comments and questions are welcomed.

    Mike Paetzold

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    • Importing Typepad to WordPress

    By Mike | June 25, 2008

    Today’s question:

    Mike, now that I have written and posted 39 articles to my Typepad account I’ve decided that I should have used to begin with. Do any of your ebooks address the problem of shifting a Typepad into a ? Or is it better to just start anew with ?

    No I have never imported a Type Pad .

    However, there is a facility in the latest to import the items from .

    Now I can tell you how to do that but…

    You need to create a mt-export.txt from Type Pad and have that on your computer. It is probably listed under the export options but not being a Type Pad user I can’t give you specific steps to do this.

    If you get that done then it is relatively easy to import it. If the file is less than 2mb you can upload it directly if it is larger you will need to ftp it.

    Importing first - Log in to your dashboard - click manage - click import -click on the Movable Type and Type Pad option. You will now be at a screen that looks like below.

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    Just click the browse button and find the file on your computer then click the upload and import.

    Now if it is a bigger file then you will need to ftp it up to your site. Just upload it to your /wp-content/ folder. Then click the lower button to import it.

    Hope this helps.

    As always your comments and questions are welcomed.

    Mike Paetzold

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    • List building with your blog

    By Mike | June 24, 2008

    Today’s question:

    Hey Mike–I have a two part question about list-building. First, I know you like AWeber as an autoresponder, but are there any free or cheaper services that would suffice for someone who is frugal? And if someone did use an alternate autoresponder, is it possible/reasonable to transfer your list to a different autoresponder down the road after building a decent list?

    Yes there is no doubt that Aweber is my favorite.

    Feedburner has a service that will allow you to collect emails and have your updates emailed for you like AWeberr does. To the best of my knowledge you can’t send any other emails through it though.

    For example when you sign up here I send out a series of traffic tips along with the updates from the . I also have the capability to send a broadcast when ever I want to. I don’t but I could.

    The problem of moving a list from any autoresponder service to another is a different issue.

    Any good service will require an imported list to re-confirm. This will cause you to lose the majority of the list usually. Now that is not necessarily a bad thing.

    It will allow you to sort out those that are really interested.

    Now the final point is about being penny wise pound foolish. My personal feeling is that if you can’t make the cost of AWeber work for you in very short order you need to really look at what you are doing. I have been doing a whole series at Mike Paetzold Recommends on business building and setting up business systems.

    As always your questions and comments are welcomed.

    Mike Paetzold

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    • SEO Plugins - Which ones should I use?

    By Mike | June 22, 2008

    Today’s question:

    what plugins, specially does one really need and how to configure them

    First one of the things to understand is that is a fluid environment. New plugins come - plugins disappear. itself goes through a major change every 3 - 6 months as they constantly improve things. So the list today could each change tomorrow because of changes in either itself or support from a plugins author.

    That is one of the reasons that I have updated the 7 Tips To Make Your Blog Search Engine Friendly three times in the last year. And it will probably happen at least once more this year. It will depend on the changes in the platform.

    That being said here is what I am using today.

    All of those get installed by uploading them to the wp-content/plugins folder then logging in to your dashboard and activating them.

    In order I don’t usually add any special settings to the All In One or All in One Bookmarking.

    The Google XML Sitemaps you should take the time to build the first one and may have to temporarily change permissions to get the first build done. If you do make sure that you turn the permissions back once you have successfully built the initial site map.

    Simple Tags I don’t make changes unless you want to use the in post linking feature.

    Smart Update Pinger does not take any changes unless you have never updated your ping list. You can add to your ping list directly through the settings there.

    WP tags to Technorati - I do add the check box in the Open links in a new window. (I hate to have people leave and depend on them using the back button ;) .The rest are the defaults.

    As always your questions and comments are welcomed.

    Mike Paetzold

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    • Guest blogging for extra traffic

    By Mike | June 20, 2008

    You may have seen that I had a guest posting here earlier this week.

    This can be a great way to JV with other people in your niche. Alex Syseof writes on the same topics () that I do here. We met in Philadelphia a couple weeks back and found that this would be a great way to help each other out.

    Never under estimate the power of getting out and meeting people that do what you do. It can start all types of relationships that can be mutually beneficial.

    Well today is payback and I have contributed a great article on using free resources to generate traffic . Check it out at

    Using Free Resources To Increase Your Blog Traffic

    and take the time to see some of the other good information Alex has there. I know I enjoyed his article that I posted here and he does have some good content there.

    As always your question and comments are welcomed.

    Mike Paetzold

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    • RSS questions

    By Mike | June 18, 2008

    Today’s question:

    How do I get RSS feeds to my please?

    Now this can be answered a few different ways as it is not clear what you are asking.

    automatically creates a feed for your . It is found by appending /feed to the URL for your . So if you are looking for your own feed that is the easy way with .

    Now you might want to add your feed to feedburner especially if you want to use the feed blitz email service. Go to feedburner and get an account and add your feed there then promote your feedburner feed.

    This can be important if you want to sell text links or advertising because most sites base fees off of PR, visitor traffic and RSS subscribers listed at feedburner.

    Now the other question that could be being asked is how to import RSS feeds for content. Now if all you are looking for is a news feed or similar content to enhance your sidebar there are plugins that will allow that.

    If you are looking to scrape content and use someone’s content to populate your my answer is don’t.

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    • WordPress Tag-alicious

    By Mike | June 17, 2008

    Special guest post from Alex Syseof

    Tags in play a huge role in great many aspects and directly influence your performance in such important areas as: Search Engine Optimization, Social Networks relevance and Reader Engagement.

    And yet, many fail to realize full potential of tags and their proper implementation. In this article I would like to address that to some extent…

    Tags for Search Engine Optimization

    Perhaps the most important thing to understand about tags is – What Are They? Tags are keywords that describe your content, simple as that and yet in that description hides the importance of their proper usage. As keywords they become PART of your url and provide huge boost to Search Engine Relevance.

    Using a tag cloud on the sidebar with Do Follow attributes sends search engines to links that include content that includes that tag (keyword) and gives them much needed content. Not only do you get better usage of the archived posts but also boost you rankings.

    Interlinking of your posts for using tags is extremely simple. As we all know internal links to relevant content counts by Search Engines not as highly as external links but still counts. Why not take advantage of it? After all – it is FREE Boost!

    I personally use “Simple Tags” plugin that uses tags to calculate relevance of the posts to each other and gives you options to display relevant posts under each article. Dynamically calculated relevance that is completely HANDS OFF and on autopilo