What’s your excuse for running a free blogger blogspot blog?
Posted by guerilla in Blog Traffic on December 2nd, 2009
Use your social media brain and get a real wordpress blog
On our last post I showed you how easy it is to transfer all of your blogger content to a brand new wordpress blog. It showed how wordpress can host all of your content with a few quick clicks.
I also pointed you in the direction of a full tutorial that shows how to get a reliable wordpress blog hosting.
So what is your excuse for having a free blog?
If you’re a social media guerillero looking to dominate whatever battle you’re fighting, what’s stopping you from having a decent, professional blog hosted at your own domain?
I’d love to hear your answers.
What could possibly make you use a weird address like yourblog.blogspot.com instead of a simple yourblog.com?
The Image/Brand Effect
I may be offending some people with this comment – but do you know what comes to my mind everytime somebody tells me their blog address and it’s a blogger blog?
NEWBIE.
And the fact is – I’m right.
And even if I’m wrong, and they’re not newbies, they’re just too lazy to transfer their stuff to a new domain?
Somehow this doesnt compute in my brain.
The SEO aspect
I honestly cant say that having your own domain is better for seo – but I do know that one of the main reasons people just dont transfer their blogger over to a real wordpress domain is that they’re afraid of losing their rankings.
The thing is – the plugins that wordpress offers can make your life a heck of a lot easier when it comes to SEO.
Plus, there are channels you can use to get BLOGSPOT to place a redirect over to your new domain. That should clear most search engine issues.
So, please tell me - why would ever have a free hosted blog?
Sign up for Hostgator now – and then follow this tutorial to install Wordpress on your domain
Talk to you soon!
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How To Import Your Blogspot Blogger Into A Wordpress Blog
Guerilleros, you’re looking at a Wordpress blog. A darn good one on my opinion.
But there are some guerilleros that still use blogspot Blogger blogs to carry their battles.
I honestly recommend anybody that is serious about their guerilla to switch to Wordpress – it’s just the most intelligent weapon on your online arsenal.
So today I’m going to show you how to import your Blogger posts and pages into a new wordpress blog.
1. Log in to your WP Dashboard
Like this – yourblogname.com/wp-admin
Under Tools, click on Import
2. Under Import, click on Blogger
Import Blogger content to Wordpress
3. Authorize Wordpress to pull your info from Blogger
Authorize wordpress to access your blogger content
4. Grant access to your Google Account
Click on Grant Access to let Wordpress pull your blogspot info
5. Click on IMPORT
Final stage: click on import
And that’s it!
Wordpress, the awesome tool, converts your entire Blogger content into posts on their platform. So your brand new domain is not so brand new anymore – you’ve got everything back.
Now, if all you want is to have your blogger hosted on your own domain , read this other quick tutorial.
And, if you need a cheap and reliable wordpress hosting, check this out. I’ve got a special PENNY coupon for you.
Jeff Johnson’s Coaching Program Is Live – Here’s The Guerilla Bonus!
Posted by guerilla in Guerilla Marketing on November 25th, 2009
Social Media Guerilla BIG Bonus for Jeff Johnson
So Jeff Johnson’s private coaching program went live a few minutes ago – (he’s the guy that created the free seo traffic plugin for wordpress) and we’ve put together a KILLER bonus if any of our guerilleros(as) wants to get access to his tremendous knowledge and cool tools.
First of all, Jeff is offering a full 30-day money back guarantee AND letting you keep all the tools. So there’s NOTHING at risk here.
Second of all, you get FULL ACCESS to my entire TEAM.
Yes, you read it right:
My entire team will be available to you to help out on any marketing endeavor that Jeff puts you through.
Need to setup a blog? Get my team to do it.
Need to learn how to use Camtasia? Get my team to do it.
Want to have your twitter and facebook updates outsourced? Want to manage multiple twitter accounts?
Let my team find you the best way.
FREE!
$1500 BONUS For Jeff Johnson
PLUS – you get 10 hours of consulting from me – I will give you my personal cell phone number (the one I answer) and you will have a $1500 credit to get me to answer all your questions and help in any project!
Heck – with my team and Jeff’s team helping you out, there’s NO WAY to stop you from making money.
Get in NOW:
Click here to get on Jeff’s program
The Synnd software is growing HUGE – Get in now while you can!
Posted by guerilla in synnd software on November 20th, 2009
The Synnd software is reaching well over 600 members on the community
Guerilleros, I will make this quick and painless…
1. Sorry about the lack of content lately.
I’ve been swamped and having a hard time to sit down, look at data and write cool posts like the one about social media silos or social community building.
But I am working on it. That’s why I’ve been posting about Jeff Johnson’s free stuff – I figured I’d at least point you in the direction of a high-quality content provider.
2. My favorite social media marketing software is growing!
The Synnd software has now well over 600 members, which is huge for our syndication campaigns.
Think about: 600 people that get 20 credits a day free = 12000 credits going out daily (each credit means one bookmark, digg or Retweet). It’s a tremendous force to be reckoned with, specially when it can reach the first page of Digg for pretty much any category.
Yes – with 20 votes within 24 hours, your content can easily be featured on Digg or Reddit’s upcoming page – TONS of people hang out there. It’s huge traffic, free, coming straight to your site and taking action on your content!
I tould I’d make this quick, so here it goes:
Sign up for Synnd now, enjoy the free trial, and I will help you with anything during your setup. Personally!
CLICK HERE
Warning! Jeff Johnson’s Wordpress SEO Plugin Needs A Quick Fix!
Posted by guerilla in Blog Traffic on November 16th, 2009
Quick fix for Jeff Johnson's Plugin will improve its results
A couple of days ago I publicly revealed my secret weapon for social media guerilla when it comes to wordpress plugins – jeff johnson’s free traffic-getting plugin. This cool plugin for wordpress combines major plugins in one package that is easy to install (less than 10 minutes) and can REALLY boost your SEO.
But of course, amongst the 100+ core changes that the plugin makes within Wordpress, I dont agree with one – a big one.
I’ve explained before the optimal permalink structure for wordpress – Jeff Johnson’s plugin goes straight to that permalink structure, but changes one major thing.
This is how the plugin structures your permalinks:
/%post_id%/%postname%/
The problem here is in the first part of the structure, which will use your post ID as part of the URL – post IDS carry very little – if any – relevancy to your post. It’s a random number that wordpress assigns each plugin, no matter what your topic is.
So why would you have unnecessary, irrelevant items on your url?
EXACTLY!
Guerilleros, here’s the one thing you should change after installing Jeff Johnson’s SEO plugin:
/%category%/%postname%/
This simple change will add you post’s category into each permalink url – which will now carry a major addition that can heavily influence your rankings. This is what your posts will look like:
http://socialmediaguerilla.com/blog-traffic/quick-permalink-structure-fix-improves-blog-traffic/
Much better than:
http://socialmediaguerilla.com/?p=89/quick-permalink-structure-fix-improves-blog-traffic/
Yeah, I though so.
But dont let this quick little fix stop you from getting all the other benefits of Jeff’s plugin:
DOWNLOAD IT NOW – it’s still free!
How To Insert Images & Embed Videos In Wordpress (VIDEO)
This tutorial will cover really basic aspects of writing a wordpress blog post.
It shows you how to log in, add text, images, and embed a video from youtube within the body of your post.
It also explains a little about the photo gallery feature and how to manage pictures once they’re loaded into the WP interface.
Hope this helps your guerilla a bit 
See you soon!
Killer Social Media Marketing Software For a $1 – Synnd Bonus!
Posted by guerilla in synnd software on November 11th, 2009
click here to get Synnd today for $1
Guerilleros, I will make this short and to the point – the revolutionary social media marketing software that Charles Heflin has been developing for the past 2 years is now offering a never-before-seen 14 day trial for a $1.
This is a 24 hours deal – so dont miss it!
I’ve been talking about the importance of content syndication in social media for a while now and you should know that Synnd takes it to a completely new level.
Charles said that there are over 600 members using Synnd right now, and that the new posts can rack up to 30 DIGGS in ONE day – that pretty much guarantees a front page appearance on the Upcoming Digg page.
That’s by far the most effective way to gain viral exposure.
Click here to sign up for Synnd now for only a $1
Jeff Johnson’s Cool (and free) Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin For Wordpress
Posted by guerilla in wordpress plugins on November 8th, 2009
Jeff Johnson's Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin
It’s pretty hard to talk about any kind of social media marketing without going through a good list of Wordpress plugins. Every blogger has their preferred set, but nobody really talks about them.
Advanced users may even step into the programming side and make their own tweaks to plugins such as TweetMeMe or the XML-sitemap generator. But it takes time – too much precious time!
But what if you could install ONE single plugin that would install all of the others by itself? And configure them to bring the most traffic?
Jeff Johnson decided to take up on the idea and turned his list of SEO plugins into a fully automated traffic-getting collection. And he’s giving it away for free!
Jeff’s FREE plugin performs 36 core optimizations (like using a better permalink structure) within your wordpress interface to increase on-page and off-page SEO. And it comes with a list of the 6 MUST-HAVE plugins ready to install at the click of a button.
The list includes classics such as the ALL-IN-ONE SEO and the Sociable Plugin, but also includes sneaky ones like the PING OPTIMIZER.
Overall, it’s a basic list – but one that every blog must have.
I use it on niche blogs that I really dont want to spend too much time on – just set it and forget it. The thing works wonders!
Of course, I’m going to give you my affiliate link so you can go and get your free seo plugin. But the whole thing is REALLY free – there’s no catch. And it works, so I feel comfortable recommending it. Go and get it!
here’s the link to the plugin
Does Your Business Suffer From Social Media Anxiety?
Posted by guerilla in Guerilla Marketing on November 4th, 2009
Social Media Anxiety affects MANY businesses... Kill It Now!
You’ve received an internationally famed professional into your company, he presented super cool new techniques, and you’re very excited about it…. Who do you tell?
You’ve just won an award of excellence that was voted on by your own community …. Who’s going to know about it?
Guerilleros, the situations above may seem impossible for us, but they are REALITY for way-too-many business owners. Trust me – I’ve had clients that won a State Tournaments in a major category and they told me about it two months later.
Sometimes, they will even surprise me and run a freaking TV ad bragging about their award…
But most of the time, they simply do nothing. I’ve written about social media silos before, but this is way worse.
In your daily Guerilla, I’m sure you run into people that still see blogs and social networks as a useless teenage passtime, like MTV. But have you ever asked these people how much they spend on Press Releases? Impressive enough, if they even have a PR budget, they will eventually drive themselves into this conclusion:
“I’m smart enough to pay this super famous magician to come entertain the drunks at my bar – I may be even smart enough to change the message on the Marquee – But where else can I post such a major announcement? Huhh… Maybe, if I had a platform I could update as I see fit, that my current drunks and potential drunks from the area would check, maybe leave a comment, or even see their own pictures?”
So lose the darn Social Media Anxiety – everything is BLOGsworthy
Receptionist had a baby? Post about it.
Have a crazy customer? Post about it (but omit the names)
Just closed a major deal? Post about it.
PR people wants to charge you $400/release? Laugh about it and post about it.
And to make sure you post gets seen (also, to reduce the traffic anxiety issues) be sure to start using SYNND.
You can sign for a free trial here
Integrating Social Media – Blog RSS to Facebook to Twitter Automatically
Posted by guerilla in Social Media Marketing, twitter marketing on November 1st, 2009
Integrating Social Media Is An Advanced Guerilla Move..
So yesterday I posted about a social marketing manual for small businesses and I got a couple of questions in regards to the automatic updates from blog to Facebook and from Facebook to Twitter.
Well, here it goes:
Linking Your Blog To Facebook
If you click on the link above, you’ll watch a video tutorial I made a couple of months ago. Facebook changed A LOT since then, but the concept is the same.
1. Find Your Blog RSS Address
Usually, it will be something like YourBlog.com/RSS. Write it down.
Log into your Facebook account, and click on Notes.
Click on the Notes icon
Click on Import Settings (if you’re not importing any RSS, it may show Import Notes)
This tab will be on the upper right of your NOTES section
Then, all you have to do is enter your RSS address into this next form and click IMPORT
enter your RSS address and hit Import
Alright. Everytime a new RSS feed goes out (you write a new post), FB will display your post in full, as a new note.
Now, from FB to twitter, it’s even simpler (this is only for Fan pages):
Go to Facebook.com/Twitter
You should see a screen like this (with your Fan pages)
From there, you just have to follow the instructions. Put your twitter log in and password, and you’re good to go.
Remember – Facebook is weird – sometimes it will update Twitter, sometimes it wont. I havent spent enough time to figure it out, but I know it works.
Let me know how it goes for you. Also, I’m thinking $47 for the Social Guerilla Manual. What do you think?
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