On January 30, 2010 I did a lecture for the DFW WordPress Meetup group which we called, “Make More Money with WordPress, Social Media and Analytics”. This lecture was similar to the one I did two years ago called, “45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog” in that it covers a wide range of topics all targeted at helping you learn to drive more traffic and earn more revenue from your blog or Website.
As a follow up and companion to this lecture I also posted “The 8 Best Ways to Earn Money With Google Adsense Alternatives“, and I suggest that you investigate that post as well, but not until after you’ve endured this grueling 1.5 hour lecture. I know it’s long, but just remember that it took me many, many more hours to prepare for and deliver this lecture than it will take you to view it. And I’m holding nothing back here, so if you want all the secrets this is the price you have to pay.
Huge thanks go out to Cali Lewis for filming and assembling the video for this lecture, and also to Giovanni Gallucci for assisting with the videography. Also, show some love to Tony Cecala for talking me into doing this and organizing the entire venue and event, and of course thanks to the Art Institute of Dallas for hosting. Now, without further ado, here is the lecture.
By the way, Viddler allows you to leave comments right on the video, so feel free to make those comments. They are most useful when you create a “marker” for a particular point which you might want to go back and reference later.
I also uploaded the presentation to SlideShare, so you can now browse through the slides if you are having trouble with seeing the detail within the video. You can do both at the same time, so feel free to work the slides independently as you are watching the video.
When you are done with that, you may be interested in the follow up show we did on Wealth Nation, Episode 16 Increase Blog Visibility and Revenue.
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Excited to watch/listen to both of these – I’ve been eagerly awaiting the lecture! Migraine today – will have to wait. Urgh. I’m glad to know it’s here when I’m ready, though. And I think I’ll add it to your Squidoo page, too! :)
Hey John,
WOW!
I am literally spotting your video, writing down notes, and checking up on all the things you’re discussing. This is pure gold, action packed content. I’m already making changes to my sites. Cheers Mate, you rock!
Anthony Wakefield
Thanks Anthony. I’m glad you are getting some good use out of it!
John P.
John, what a great site. I’ve been working on our site for quite some time and was trying to get some pointers and your stuff is phenomenal. I will keep checking back. Thanks again for the great info.
Alex J.
Absolutely Mate. Oh, and i purchased Pretty Link Pro via your link as thanks.
Dear Mr. (Sometimes Dresses Like a Pimp) John, gracias for the the great lecture; you are opening my eyes to so many things that I wasn’t even aware of in the blogosphere; I can’t wait to take a look at Woopra and the list of alternatives to adwords is so helpful! (Clicksor sounds good) I appreciate so much that you present good information that helps me without a pitch; makes me (and I’m sure everyone else) really interested in Woopra.
Just a few minutes in and I can already tell this is huge. Ever since I found your site I have been pleasantly surprised at the quality of the blogging done here. Let me get back to watching this.
I had not heard of Tony before but after right now he is definitely on my twitter follow list. And one thing I am doing right is using a site map on all my sites.
Once again I am flabbergasted. When you said in the beginning of this article it was hard hitting and packed full of tips you weren’t kidding. I have already written an article about your blog on my blog, and published it in my local business networking blog as well. But most important I took notes and have already implemented a number of the plug ins you recommended. With your permission I am going to steal your opening quote about the horse and water. That tells so much more than you might think about web sites and local small businesses. I will be back to go through all the related articles just like your lecture talks about.
Hey. Stunning info! Thanks for sharing!
This was an AWESOME lecture, John. Can’t wait for my blog to get as good as yours!
This is a great reference with lots of fantastic information. I spent more time installing plugins during the video than I have in the last 3 months.
I noticed in the WP DBmanager support forum the developer is unable to provide support for the plugin because as of Feb. 1, 2010 he has a full-time job.
Again, this is an awesome lecture.
I’m having some difficulty finding the WP Search plugin that was mentioned verbally, but no link was given. There are several in WordPress, yet I’m not seeing the one as you described. It would be great if you could post a link.
Thanks for all you do.
When you say content is King, I tend to agree based upon my own experience. The blog post I spent the most amount of time on (i.e., quality content) has consistently been the most popular via Woopra stats. However I didn’t know if this was due to the subject matter being popular, or my efforts.
So to run a test I’ve written another blog post about Evernote, which shouldn’t be as popular, yet I put a great deal of time preparing the content. So in the coming weeks and months I should know how this new post stacks up and how much of a factor the “content” really is for my particular blog.
I loaded the Delete-Revision plugin and got a little nervous when looking at all the revisions for my 45 posts because in checking the time stamps it seemed that the current posts were going to be deleted as well. However I decided to backup my database and go for it. Not to worry. It worked like a champ and got rid of 2,489 revisions that were bloating the database. Nice recommendation John. Thanks again for doing the video.
I installed the WP Super Cache plugin and it works great. However, I just recently bought the Thesis Theme for WordPress, as I see you’ve done with One Man’s Blog, and I had some trouble.
In setting up Thesis I was making frequent changes to my web site, but WP Super Cache would not show those changes unless I logged out and logged back in. Then I got smart and noticed in the WP Super Cache settings that I could click the box “Don’t cache pages for logged in users” and that made my life a whole lot easier.
Don’t ask me how I got smart all of a sudden. It comes and goes.
I used Clicksor and Infolinks and i would have to say that infolinks pays better than clicksor.’,*
i haven’t signed up with clicksor yet but i want to join that program too.~..
Clicksor is also nice but there are alternatives to Clicksor that pays much better,’.
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