Democrats are preparing to attempt to prevent President Trump’s agenda at all costs. Senate Democrats have voted increasingly in unison in opposition to Trump’s Cabinet nominees, and now there is the even communicate of an exceptional filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee. It’s what the party’s base is demanding right now. Continue reading
Can bet the President Trump was NOT happy to hear this. That’s why he immediately shot back with a Tweet and Facebook post that has the liberals scared like little babies…
Trump Tweeted:
He is right. This is not just some stupid game Donald Trump is playing. ISIS is a very serious threat to Western democracy as a whole and they are using the refugee programs from these countries to sneak in and establish terror colonies across Europe!
US District Judge James Robart in Seattle, Washington today ruled against government lawyers’ claims that the states did not have the standing to challenge Trump’s order and said they showed their case was likely to succeed.
“It’s a very very serious situation so we look forward to seeing them in court.”
They have no idea the can of worms they just opened. Donald Trump LOVES lawsuits. He is the king of them. Now that they are threatening his country and right to lead, there is gonna be Hell to pay.
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Have you considered using promoted pins?
Pinterest promoted pins can help you drive referral traffic and increase sales.
In this article, Zia Ahsan SEO Specialist discovers how to create promoted pins on Pinterest.
Discover how to create and use promoted pins on Pinterest.
Pinterest’s promoted pins, which are now available to all businesses, are designed to increase visibility to a targeted audience.
They help you get your products or location in front of people who are far along in the buying process and ready to make a purchase.
Promoted pins are searchable, so you can add keywords to connect with users who are searching for content like yours.
Promoted pins will show up in relevant searches, which can help you connect with users who are further along in the buying cycle.
With promoted pins, you’re paying to have your pins placed where users are most likely to notice and interact with them.
The promoted pins that users see are based on their interests and activity on the site. Users can’t turn off promoted pins, but they can hide specifically promoted pins that they don’t like.
Here’s how to get started with promoted pins for your business.
Just like with other types of social media ads, you can run promoted pin campaigns based on specific goals and objectives. There are three objectives you can choose from:
This pin was promoted to drive traffic.
Promoted pins, like other social media ads, work on a bid system, so keep this in mind when setting your budget.
To create and use Pinterest’s promoted pins, you need to have a business account. If you don’t already have one, you can either create a new account or convert your current Pinterest profile to a business account.
Once your account is set up and ready to go, hover over Ads at the top left of the Pinterest home page and select Overview.
Pinterest’s ads dashboard gives you an overview of your current campaigns.
This article walks you through how to create an engagement promoted pin, but traffic promoted pins work exactly the same way. From the Ads Manager, click on the Promote button next to Engagement Campaigns.
Click the Promote button next to the type of campaign you want to create.
Next, select Boost Engagement With Your Pins. If you want a traffic campaign, you’d choose to Get Traffic to Your Website.
Select the goal for your campaign.
On the next page, name your campaign, select a start and end date (the end date is optional), and choose a daily budget. I recommend setting an end date since you can only have daily budgets instead of lifetime budgets. If you don’t set an end date, make sure you keep an eye on the campaign so you don’t spend more than you intended.
Add a name, start and end date, and daily budget for your campaign.
After you click Pick a Pin, you’ll see a list of your pins. Select the pin you want to use for your campaign. If you want, you can search for a pin using the search box, or view the pin that’s been most clicked or the most repinned in the past 30 days.
Select the pin you want to use for your campaign.
After you select your pin, enter a name for your promoted pin and set a destination URL. Make sure that the URL goes to the specific page where you want users to land, not a generic homepage.
For the destination URL, enter the specific page you want users to go to.
In the next section, select relevant topics that will help you reach your target audience in their home feeds. You want your pin to be placed in the right Pinterest categories so users come across it while browsing. Make sure to choose only relevant interests for your pin, not random interests your audience might have (as you might do on Facebook). This step is about pin placement, so it needs to be accurate.
Select only relevant interests for your pin.
Next, select keywords to add to your promoted pin so your pin will pop up when users search for those keywords. This is important for connecting with users far along in the buying cycle (which they normally are if they’re searching for something specific).
When you type a keyword in the search box, Pinterest will show you relevant keywords (and related keywords) you can add to your campaign. Click a specific keyword to add it. The keywords you’ve added to your campaign are shown in blue.
Choose as many keywords as you’d like to add to your campaign.
Now choose the geographic locations, languages, devices, and genders you want to target.
These targeting options help you reach the right audience.
At the bottom of the page, you need to enter a maximum CPE (cost per engagement) bid. This is the maximum amount you’re willing to spend on your bid. Pinterest gives you a range of what advertisers are currently bidding to help you make this decision. Pinterest will tell you if your bid is low, good, or strong.
Pinterest tells you how your bid ranks compared to other advertisers’ bids.
The last step is to enter your payment information and set up your billing if you haven’t done so already. Keep in mind that there’s no review page, so make sure your campaign is how you want it before you click Submit. You can’t change the creative of your ad once you submit it.
You can edit certain details about your campaigns at any time, including the campaign name, end date, and daily spend, as well as pause the campaign. To access the campaign you just created, go to the Ads Manager Overview page and click on View All next to the campaign type.
To find a campaign, click on View All next to the campaign type.
From the Overview page, you can view your campaign’s progress, edit certain details, and export data for the campaign.
The Overview page shows the specifics of your campaign and allows you to export the campaign’s data.
Keep in mind that the campaign won’t run while pending approval.
To see how well your promoted pins are performing, you’ll want to set up Pinterest’s conversion tracking. To do this, you add a snippet of code, called a conversion tag, to your website to track referral traffic behavior.
To create a conversion tag, select Conversion Tracking from the Ads drop-down menu.
You can access conversion tracking from the Ads drop-down menu.
From here, you can review all of the conversion tags you currently have or create new ones.
View and create new conversion tags on the Conversion Tracking page.
When you create a new tag, add a name for it, choose an objective to track (Page Visit, Sign Up, Check Out, or Custom), and select time frames for clicks, engagements, and views.
Customize your conversion tag.
After you click Create Tag, Pinterest displays your conversion tag. Copy this snippet of code and paste it into the webpage or website you want to track.
Place this snippet of code on your website.
It doesn’t appear that you have to add these tags to specific campaigns and that they’ll be applied to all of them automatically.
As with individual campaigns, you can export the data from a conversion tag.
Final Thoughts
As Pinterest continues to gain new users who make buying decisions on the site, promoted pins will only increase in value to businesses. Having a well-placed promoted pin, optimized for visibility, can help you connect with a relevant audience that’s ready to buy.
What do you think? Are you considering using promoted pins? How have promoted pins worked for your business? Share your thoughts, experience, and knowledge with me.
Let me give a quick look at what Affiliate marketing is and how it works before listing out the best WordPress Affiliate Plugins.
In simple words, you advertise and promote a product or service on your blog or website, with every visitor that you bring to them, and who actively buys the product or service will fetch you a share of the revenue generated or a standard fixed price will be offered.
These affiliate campaigns depend on the success of the following network: the merchant, the publisher and the customer.
If you are thinking of linking up one or the other affiliate marketing programs on your blog or website, then you will find the following five free plug-ins working efficiently on your WordPress blogging platform.
These are some basic affiliate plugins for WordPress, and we will cover advanced Clickbank WordPress plugins and Amazon affiliate plugin in another post.
1. Thirsty Affiliates
This is the first plugin that I would recommend as this is well-maintained and offers more features than any other affiliate link Cloaker plugin for WordPress.
The plugin is free to download & use, one just need to pay for add-ons or bundles. There are many great add-ons that any affiliate marketers would like including me & you. Especially Geolocation & Google link tracking is great for every user.
2. Pretty Link Lite
This plug-in is a shrink, track and shares any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website like creating shortened domains for Twitter.
The advantage of using this plug-in in WordPress is that you will be able to experiment with using your domain names, unlike the traditional domain names that the internet URL shortening widgets do so. Some of the features that are worth mentioning will include clean and simple URLs, track the number of hits and unique hits per link, intuitive JAVA/AJAX admin user interface and much more.
Overall, this is a clean, friendly and simple to use the plug-in for a creating a creative URL shortening app.
3: EasyAzon – Perfect Affiliate plugin for Amazon Affiliate marketers
If you are one of those affiliate marketers who is using Amazon affiliate program to monetize your blog, EasyAzon plugin is the perfect affiliate plugin for your WordPress blog.
I’m a huge fan of this plugin Link localization feature that let me increase my affiliate sales by 286%.
4. WP Auto Affiliate Links
This plug-in when incorporated into your WordPress blogging platform, you will find them provide you with a back-end interface to add affiliate links and also associate keywords to them for being detected by the web crawlers.
This will also help in getting listed in a search engine during a keyword search. This works by displaying the affiliate link, whenever you add or mention the desired keyword in your post.
5. SkimLinks
SkimLinks is one of that ad network, which quickly let you add affiliate links in your blog post. It usually automatically links the keywords that can be monetized with affiliate links, and if any customer buys the product it will make money for you via Skimlinks.
Especially, if you are a tech blogger and linking to app store links or Amazon store link.This plugin will help you to make money out of them.
The Plug-In aids in monetizing the contents that you post on your blog, it converts the texts into affiliate links by working behind the scene. You need to sign up for Skimlinks here.
Some of the features that are very useful will include the easiness in installation, earn from your RSS feed, increase the click through rates and thereby drive more traffic and visitors to your blog. SkimLinks Affiliate Marketing tool is a hard worker behind scenes of affiliate marketing.
Recommended for anyone who is using Amazon affiliate program or iTunes affiliate program. You should mix this with Geni.us to increase your earning.
8. Floating banner ad rotator with tracking:
This is a free WordPress plugin which let you rotate ads at the footer of your website. Also, let you track the clicks, which is useful to find which one of your affiliate ad is performing well. You can use image + link or HTML tag to add banners.
9. SEO Smart link:
I have written about SEO Smart link in detail earlier. Using this plugin, you can auto-link any word with a link. Also works with links in your RSS feeds & comment section. Very useful to get more affiliate sales.
A good free alternative us auto affiliate links plugin. On paper, it looks great, but I haven’t tested it yet. If you try this plugin, come back & share your views.
Auto link generator iTunes: Useful for bloggers who are part of iTunes affiliate program. Makes it easy to search & add links from WordPress dashboard.
Have you ever wanted to allow users to subscribe to specific authors in WordPress?
If you run a multi-author WordPress site, then your users may want to subscribe to their favorite author. In this article, we will show you how to allow users to subscribe to individual authors in WordPress.
Most large multi-author blogs like Huffington Post allow users to follow their favorite authors. You can offer this feature in your multi-author WordPress site as well.
WordPress generates RSS feeds for all authors, categories, tags, custom post types, and comments on your site.
However, your users can’t see these feeds link without knowing where to look.
As a site owner, you just need to add links and subscription options so that users can subscribe to authors.
Having said that, let’s take a look at how to allow users to easily subscribe to authors in WordPress.
All the authors on your WordPress site have an RSS feed of their own. This RSS feed is located at a URL like this:
http://www.example.com/author/tom/feed/
Don’t forget to replace ‘tom’ with an existing author’s name on your site.
Many WordPress themes come with a section that displays author’s biographical information at the end of the article. You can add this HTML code in an author’s bio section to display a link to their RSS feed.
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<a href="http://www.example.com/author/tom/feed">Subcribe Tom's Posts</a> |
You can also automatically generate the link and use a shortcode to manually insert it into posts.
First, you need to add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or a site-specific plugin.
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// Function to generate author's RSS feed link |
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function wpb_author_feed() { |
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$authorfeed = get_author_feed_link( get_the_author_id(), ''); |
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$authorfeedlink = '<a href='. $authorfeed . '>Subscribe to get more posts from ' . get_the_author_meta( 'display_name') .'' ; |
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return $authorfeedlink; |
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} |
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// Create a shortcode to display the link |
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add_shortcode('authorfeed', 'wpb_author_feed'); |
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// Enable shortcode execution in WordPress text widgets |
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add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode'); |
You can now just use the shortcode [authorfeed] in your posts, and it will automatically generate a link to the post author’s RSS feed. Feel free to customize the text you want to display for the link.
We will be using the shortcode method we showed above to display a subscribe to author link in the sidebar of your WordPress blog. Simply go to Appearance » Widgets page and add a text widget to your sidebar.
You will need to add [authorfeed] shortcode in the text area of the widget. After that, don’t forget to click on the save button to store widget settings.
You can now visit your website to see the sidebar in action.
The problem with this method is that it will display the widget on every page including the homepage, category, and tag archives, etc.
You need to install and activate the Display Widgets plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Upon activation, you need to visit the Widgets page and edit the author’s feed widget you added earlier.
You will notice new options to control widget display on different pages of your site. Now you need to select ‘Show on checked pages’, and then check the single post option.
That’s all you can now visit your website to see your author subscription link in action. You can use a little CSS to create a button, or add an image icon as the subscription.
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