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PayPal Limited your account? Don’t worry!

Bob — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:50:01 +0000

You are still allowed to use PayPal logos in your auction listings or website!

If you have a PayPal donate button on your site, make sure you are a registered non-profit organization or charity, otherwise PayPal will ban you. Just like that.

Gmail created a special feature just for me.

Bob — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:41:15 +0000

When Gmail first became available in April 2004, I was one of the first people to sign up for an account. Little did I know that picking bobjones@gmail.com would mean that I’d be getting thousands of emails from all over the world, all accidentally addressed to the wrong Bob Jones. I even started a fun site to publish those wrongly addressed emails, but I let it expire

I shouldn’t have to tell you that this has pretty much rendered the email address useless, because it’s impossible to go through all the wrong emails and spam. On the upside, I do get loads of pre-paid porn site logins from people signing up for these services, and using my email address

Here’s a picture of my current inbox. I think I completely trashed the whole thing at the beginning of the year.

It looks like Google has developed a new feature especially for me. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/dont-forget-bob-and-got-wrong-bob.html Let’s see if this will really work, and cut down my inbox traffic. Thanks Google!

Can you switch between Google gmail accounts? Yes.

Bob — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:33:06 +0000

Just sharing a quick tip I only discovered recently. I like organizing my stuff, so for example, every product site I have, has multiple email addresses. Think support@ sales@ billing@ etc.

Because I run all my email via Google Apps, I always had to logout, login, logout, login, logout, swear, login, logout, swear some more, login. A pain in the ass if you’re trying to juggle between the lot of them.

So, Google actually lets you sign into three different Google mail accounts at the same time, in the same browser. This is SO awesome. (well, I think it is anyway – saves me heaps of swearing time).

Go here and be enlightened from now on. https://www.google.com/accounts/b/0/MultipleSessions

Be aware of angry customers

Bob — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:19:13 +0000

One of my WordPress plugin projects, StreamWP, has recently launched a new version, and I notified all existing customers via the streamwp aweber list.

Not only did we re-write the plugin from scratch, we also updated the site, the payment system, the download system, and the support system. One big overhaul, in order to increase customer satisfaction.

We use UserVoice as our ticket support system, and absolutely love it. Response times are much faster, we don’t lose any tickets, and we’re building a dynamic knowledge base, every time we awnser a question.

Anyway, I’m getting side tracked here. The point of this post was to demonstrate, that no matter how hard you try, there’s always gonna be people that are impossible to please. And they even feel the need to try and ruin your business, by writing up bad blog posts about your product. – (mirror)

This particular customer opened a few tickets, asking for a download link of the new 1.5 version, to which she would be entitled if she had bought the full plugin prior to this update.

So ten days ago, I sent her this as a reply to her ticket, with download link #1 (screenshot)
Then, 9 days ago, once again, I reply to her second request, with download link #2 (screenshot)

I get no reply, but three days later, she decides to throw around the SCAMMER word on our suggestions board. I removed the comment there, and didn’t get a screenshot of it unfortunately. I sent her an email following that, asking wheter she did or did not receive her new links yet. No response. So I figured, I’d add her to gtalk and ask her there. No response.

Then today, she triumphantly leaves spam on the suggestions board again. This time with a link to her bad review about not only StreamWP, but also a completely different plugin we created which she’s bought previously.

Angry, angry woman!

Anyway, with this blog post, I hope she receives a pingback, reads this and figures out that we really did try and get in touch with her, on numerous occasions.

Angry Birds = Angry Wife

How to get 236.000 visitors in 2 weeks

Bob — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:04:21 +0000

You copy and post a funny top 21 reasons why English sucks list in 2008 – wait for three years till someone stumbles it, and profit!

My six favorite SaaS online business tools

Bob — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:58:28 +0000

In case you don’t know what SaaS means – Software as a Service

In my spare time, I’ve been known to startup small projects, such as WordPress plugin development. Basically I knew nothing about the business when I started, and I guess there’s still a lot to learn.

Over the course of time, I have gone through a lot of trial and error – resulting in me trying to find solutions for the problems I ran into. Here’s a list of apps I use to make live easier. Trust me, once you get paying customers for your software, you need every little bit of help you can get!

Listed in no particular order:

Google Apps: I’m sure most of you are familiar with this. For every new project I start, I create a new apps account, so that I’m sure ALL my email gets handled by Google. I can create new users in my organisation on the fly, and easily share documents with people that I’m working with. Highly recommended if you want to keep everything accessible in one place on the web.

TaskForce App: This is a great task manager widget that fully integrates with Google mail. Simply install, login, and you’ll keep track of whatever tasks you or your team needs to be doing. I actually use it more to quickly dump ideas into as soon as I have something i think is worth looking into later. Oh yeah, and it’s completely free.

UserVoice: I have only recently started using this, but I’m already in love with it. Previously I used to have a separate “support forum” and a “ticket system” for my users. Everything was locally hosted, had different logins, forums got spammed all the time, ticketsystem would lose tickets etc. It was a headache to handle. Then I discovered UserVoice. Now my users can browse a dynamic knowledge base, submit support tickets, leave suggestions for improvements in a public page, where others can vote for ideas, and help me filter out great additions I could offer my users. All I do is login to the admin panel, and I can keep track of everything in here. This isn’t completely free, but starting at $5 per month, its a no-brainer if you take customer satisfaction seriously.

Zopim: If you want to capture your leads while they’re browsing your product site, this app is a great help. It’ll give visitors the opportunity to get in touch with you, or one of your staff members, immediately. We live in an “instant culture” and you will really miss out on sales opportunities if you do not try and engage with your leads ASAP. There is a free option, but this is pretty limited. You get what you pay for.

Less Accounting: Since 99.9% of my business consists out of services and digital products, most of my payments are received through PayPal. The Less Accounting software automatically keeps tracks of all my income and expenses. All I have to do is login to see how poor I am, who still owes me, and who I still owe. Makes it a lot easier when having to decide any expenses that need to be made – I’ll know exactly how much I can spend. Comes with a cool iPhone app too, which lets your digitalize any receipts you might get.

TimeDoctor: The ultimate Virtual Assistant time tracker. This thing kicks ass, and is completely free! You get your VA to install this app, and you can log in to your online admin panel and see exactly what they’ve been working on, and how long. There’s an option to store a screenshot every minute, so you can browse through them to make sure your VA is doing what they are getting paid for. There’s no fooling the system, if no activity is being detected, it will put the user in a break mode, meaning no hours will get logged.

Hope these are of some use to you

New WordPress Traffic Booster Plugin

Bob — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:27:13 +0000

So we’ve recently finished a little wordpress project: http://lockalike.com/

The idea behind the plugin is very simple – you lock your web pages and force your visitors to vote, tweet, like, share, stumble, or anything else before they can see the content. So you increase web traffic in an “organic” way. You get real people sharing your content. Not some robot script or whatever. This also means you are organically increasing your backlinks and you get your sites indexed in Google a lot quicker.

Anyway, have a look at the plugin. I’m giving my readers $10 off, so you can grab it for just $19.95 (Couponcode = bobjones).

Google Priority Inbox – Please Work.

Bob — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:37:24 +0000

Google mail, or gmail, introduced something new just now – Priority Inbox helps you get through it faster by putting the most important mail at the top of your inbox.

Wonder if this will do me any good.

And to think I completely emptied this account 2 months ago. Guess thats what you get for having one of the most generic email addresses in the world. You wouldn’t believe all the account details, order details, private emails and membership details that I get every week, because people used my email address for some reason.

From amazon login details, to password resets for myspace, twitter, facebook and other accounts, to billing statement, love letters, business memos, cheating housewives, and personal holiday pictures.

Here’s an example you might enjoy
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And yes, feel free to try that free bangbros account. Some John Jones is taking care of the bill.

Blogging for Beginners

Bob — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:17:44 +0000

That’s a question I have been asked several times now, so I figured I might as well write a post about it, so people can share it and I don’t have to keep repeating myself

Before I get started, I just want to make one thing clear; This is the way that I do/did it – and that doesn’t mean if you do things differently, that you’re doing it wrong. Everyone has got their own way of getting things done, and some are more successful than others – which is a good thing, since the Internet would be very boring if we were all equally successful.

Step 1. Get yourself the best possible domain name that you can get.

What do I mean by this? Well chances are that you’ve started blogging to make some money online. And you won’t make money from ads or affiliate sales, if nobody visits your blog. What you need to know is that search engines like Google will become the backbone of your little online enterprise. And therefor you will want to ‘accommodate’ those search engines as much as you possible can. If you make sure that they can find you, and know what you’re on about, they will start sending you targeted traffic for free. That’s traffic that converts!

If you buy a domain, try getting a keyword-rich name, something that relates to your blog’s topic. Try to figure what what sort of keywords and phrases (long-tail keywords) your desired audience is using to find stuff on Google. For example, if you want to start a blog about babies, try to see what most people are looking for. One of the quickest ways to do this is use the auto-suggest feature that Google offers. Just type one of the main keywords of your blog into Google, and see what gets suggested.

In the example down below, I’d probably try to get a domain name like babynamescenter.com or babyboysandgirlsnames.com – these two examples both have popular keywords in them, so there shouldn’t be a doubt for Google (or any humans) as to what your blog is about.

A domain name is just one part of the equation. And it too has other factors involved like age, length and TLD (Top Level Domain, like .com or .net) that can influence the position of your blogs ranking in Google’s search results.

I’m not saying that getting free hosting like blogger or wordpress is a bad thing, but I prefer to not have keywords in my link that I don’t need. (Free hosts usually have their own name or address in your site’s link address).

Step 2. A list of WordPress plugins that will help your blog grow big and strong

One of the greatest features that WordPress has to offer must be their plugin system. This makes it super-easy to add new functionality to your blog, without you having to know any difficult programming and coding. You simply find the plugin which does what you want, upload it, activate it, and in some cases – configure in in your WordPress admin panel. If you’re still unfamiliar with the admin panel, have a look at these WordPress tutorial videos. Here’s a list of my all-time favourites:

1. All-in-one-SEO: The name pretty much covers it all. This plugin will help you to make your blog stand out more for Google, helping it to get indexed quicker and more accurate. Basically you can tell Google what your blog is about by adding the right keywords in the right places on your blog.

2. XML Sitemap Generator: This plugin will create a sitemap of your website, taking out all the guesswork for Google. This ensures the Google is aware of ALL the pages that your site has to offer them. Sitemap = more pages indexed.

3. AskApache Search Engine Verify: Not really a necessity plugin, but ideal for newbies and lazy people like me. This plugin makes it a breeze to verify your blog with Google webmaster tools. If you haven’t added your site there yet, stop reading this post now and GO DO IT NOW!

4. WordPress Stats: Simply because its good to collect as much data as possible regarding your traffic. You can analyse the data to see where you can improve your site. (e.g flush out the 404 pages).

5. WP Super Cache: You probably won’t have much use for this plugin when you first start out with your blog, but when you’re starting to get featured on the frontpage of sites like Digg and Reddit, you’ll be glad you have it. It helps your webserver deal with a lot of traffic, by creating static HTML pages of your content on the fly.

6. SEO Search Terms Tagging: Adds keywords that people have used to find you with in the search engines to the footer of your posts, increasing the odds that your post will get ranked even better for that particular keyword later on.

7. Google Analyticator: Like plugin #3 – This plugin makes it easy for newbies and lazy people to get your Google Analytics up and running. Remember kids, the more data you can get, the better. nomnomnom.

8. Enforce WWW Preference: This plugin simply forces your site to have or not have the WWW in front of it. You should make a choice which one of these two you’re going to use, because Google will see your the site with WWW as a different site than the address without the WWW. Change your settings now in your WordPress admin panel > Settings >General. (The plugin was retired, but it still works, so I created a copy on my server for you to download).

Step 3. Tagging, categories, slugs, and robots

Every post you write has the option to add tags. Basically a tag is an extra keyword you can mark your post with, to help the search engines understand better what the main topic of your post is. Use this option – but don’t go overboard. Adding 5-15 tags will do fine. You don’t want Google to think you’re keyword stuffing/spamming.

Use categories. Not just for Google, but also for your visitors. Some people that are just looking for baby names can click on the baby names category, and find all the relevant information they are after. They don’t have to browse through all the other baby related posts about baby poo, baby vomit, baby pee, and baby snots. You don’t want to put them off having a baby in the first place do you ?

A post slug is a little trickier; what it does is make you have your cake and let you eat it too. If you have your permalinks setup something like this “/%postname%/” – you can have a link which is titled “Blogging for beginners” but which looks like this in your addressbar: “http://bobjones.nl/how-do-you-set-up-a-blog-frm-scratch/”. This way you can optimize your URL for the search engines, and optimize your actual title for other humans.

One more important file you’ll need to create is what we call a robots.txt. This is a (or can be a) simple txt file that looks like this: my robots.txt. This file will set the rules for every search engine that visits your site. If you want the world to find you, don’t add anything to the Disallow: list, but If you have stuff to hide, add it to the disallow list. Here’s a more detailed explanation of robots.txt.

Ok, so that sums up the very basics that I feel every new blogger should start with. There are heaps of other things I would like to tell you, but I feel this post is already longer than it should have been. I’ll write a ‘part 2′ sometime soon.

Hope you’ve learned something, and I advise you to bookmark this post for future reference. And feel free to share it on twitter and such with your friends that are thinking of becoming serious bloggers!

How Imran Naseem gets me traffic

Bob — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:34:46 +0000

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