Affiliate marketing can be a difficult thing to learn because those who are successful are reluctant to disclose exactly how they make money online. This is perhaps why income reports are so popular. You can learn a lot from these reports, but most bloggers and internet marketers are still a little protective about exactly how … Read more
Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money online. If you are successful it can provide you with passive income for years. Who doesn’t want an endless stream of money coming into their bank account? I am going to make a concious effort to step up and increase my affiliate income. In the past … Read more
Earlier this year I closed my newsletter and started using the Jetpack Subscriptions module instead to deliver email updates to subscribers. In my quest to increase suscribers, I took the advice of Colm from Create & Code and added a subscription form underneath my blog posts and pages. In this short tutorial I will show … Read more
Kinsta is a popular managed WordPress hosting company that has offices in Los Angeles and London. The company has been active for eight years and has been on my radar for a long time since long-term Rise Forums member Brian Jackson is the Director of Inbound Marketing for them (which is why the Kinsta blog … Read more
The dust has settled on another WordCamp adventure so it is time for me to share my thoughts on WordCamp Edinburgh 2017. In short, it was fantastic. The event was very well organised, the speakers were great, and I got to meet lots of amazing people from the WordPress community. As I noted in my … Read more
Advertising remains one of the key ways of monetising a website. This is particularly true for content websites that increase profits by increasing page views. Apart from widgets, the core version of WordPress does not give you any functionality to integrate banners and track advertising on your website. Thankfully, there are many good WordPress advertising … Read more
I have been reviewing WordPress themes and plugins actively since 2007 and have always been aware of all the major players in the industry; however my experience at WordCamp Europe last month in Paris opened my eyes to so many WordPress companies I was never been aware of. There are so many new companies fighting … Read more
One of the biggest announcements at WordCamp Europe this year was the release of the page builder Gutenberg (other important issues, such as WooCommerce doubling their renewal fees, were not brought up). Gutenberg represents a step forward for WordPress and helps it tackle other platforms such as Medium, Wix, and SquareSpace. Whilst I appreciate the … Read more
It is now four days since I arrived back from my trip to Paris for WordCamp Europe 2017. The weather was amazing, the drinks were flowing, and I met a lot of great people at the event. How could I not have fun in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. This was … Read more
WP File Download is a feature packed WordPress file manager solution from JoomUnited. It allows you to upload files to your website and categorise them. You can then display files and categories of files to website visitors in a user-friendly AJAX powered directory. It has a lot of great features such as search engine friendly … Read more