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		<title>$67 Freebie! High-Quality Video Converter (only till 25 Sept so be quick)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just heard about a good quality video converter, a $49 product normally, that&#8217;s being offered for free until 25th September 2010, in a promotion they&#8217;re running.  Make sure you fill in your name and email or they won&#8217;t be able to send you the activation key! So if you hurry you can get this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve just heard about a good quality video converter, a $49 product normally, that&#8217;s being offered for free until 25th September 2010, in a promotion they&#8217;re running.  <strong>Make sure you fill in your name and email or they won&#8217;t be able to send you the activation key!</strong></p>
<p>So if you hurry you can get this by going to their Facebook page and clicking the &#8216;Like&#8217; button.  Click on this link here:  <a href="http://www.facebook.com/wondershare?v=app_11007063052" target="_blank">free video converter software</a></p>
<p>This is their product description:</p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;">&#8220;</span><span style="color: #333399;">From </span><a href="http://download.cnet.com/windows/wondershare-software/3260-20_4-6256729.html"><span style="color: #333399;">Wondershare Software</span></a><span style="color: #333399;">:</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;"> </span><span style="color: #333399;">Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate is an all-in-one DVD Video Converter, by providing you a one stop solution for family video/DVD conversion. You can convert both SD and HD videos to any video format for your portable media player or cell phone including iPod (Classic, Nano and Touch), iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, PSP, Pocket PC, Creative Zen, Archos, and 3GP mobile phones, etc.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;">You can rip DVD to video in any format for enjoying them on your mobile devices on the go. You can also burn video to DVD and edit DVD from video for playback on your home DVD player.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;">Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate is surprisingly easy and amusing for family media enjoyment, by allowing you to merge multiple files into one file, to clone a file, to clip one file into multiple segments, to trim the file length, to crop video, to adjust video effect, to edit either text or image watermark, to add subtitle, to set video and audio output settings, to capture images from video/DVD files, to customize DVD menu and so on.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;">All the best,</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;">Miranda </span></p>

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		<title>Namecheap: Burning Hot September Pricing on Domain Registrations!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discount]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make the most of Namecheap&#8217;s generous discounts till the end of September.  And this is not a measly $1 but something like 50% of the normal cost. Definitely worth taking advantage of if you need domain names anytime soon &#8211; this is what they are advertising: &#8220;For the rest of September, Namecheap is holding its [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Make the most of Namecheap&#8217;s generous discounts till the end of September.  And this is not a measly $1 but something like 50% of the normal cost.</p>
<p>Definitely worth taking advantage of if you need domain names anytime soon &#8211; this is what they are advertising:</p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>&#8220;For the rest of September, Namecheap is holding its </strong></span><strong><span style="color: #000080;">LOWEST PRICED SALE EVER</span></strong><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>. Buy any new .com, .net, and .org domain name for a </strong></span><strong><span style="color: #000080;">super low price of $5.99</span></strong><span style="color: #000080;"><strong> (which includes ICANN fees)&#8230;&#8221;</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Here&#8217;s the link: <strong> </strong><a href="http://www.namecheap.com/sep10promo/register-for-5.99.asp?utm_source=SeptemberSizzlerNewsletter&amp;utm_medium=mail&amp;utm_campaign=SeptemberSizzlerRegister" target="_blank"><strong>Namecheap</strong></a></span></p>
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		<title>New WordPress Version 3.0, including WPMU</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is an enormous upgrade to WordPress, that has just come out:  Wordpress 3.0,   aka &#8216;Thelonious&#8217;! Matt says this about the new version:   &#8220;Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is an enormous upgrade to WordPress, that has just come out:  Wordpress 3.0,   aka &#8216;Thelonious&#8217;!</p>
<p>Matt says this about the new version:   &#8220;Major new features in this release include a sexy <strong>new default theme called Twenty Ten</strong>. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_SubPanel">menus</a> (no more file editing), <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Post_Types">post types</a>, and <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Taxonomies">taxonomies</a>. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited <strong>merge of MU and WordPress</strong>, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new <strong>lighter interface</strong>, the contextual help on every screen, the <strong>1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements</strong>, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and blah blah blah just watch the video.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a video that runs through the new features:</p>
<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="640" height="360" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="flashvars" value="guid=BQtfIEY1&amp;width=640&amp;height=360&amp;locksize=no&amp;dynamicseek=false&amp;qc_publisherId=p-18-mFEk4J448M" /><param name="src" value="http://v.wordpress.com/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.21" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="360" src="http://v.wordpress.com/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.21" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" flashvars="guid=BQtfIEY1&amp;width=640&amp;height=360&amp;locksize=no&amp;dynamicseek=false&amp;qc_publisherId=p-18-mFEk4J448M"></embed></object></p>
<p>I&#8217;m installing it on a new blog today and will let you know how it goes.  Also, I have just upgraded this site (themarketingmother.com) using WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin, and everything went smoothly and blog looks fine!</p>
<p>Here are some useful links with more info on this exciting new WordPress version:</p>
<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WpmuTutorials">http://feeds.feedburner.com/WpmuTutorials</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/">http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/</a></p>
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		<title>Frank Kern, John Reese and Tony Robbins &#8211; &#8217;3 Heroes&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.themarketingmother.com/inspirational-motivational/frank-kern-john-reese-and-tony-robbins-3-heroes</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is only going to be a very short post, but I wanted to pass on a link to you of a video I&#8217;ve just watched&#8230; It&#8217;s a 38 minute video &#8216;starring&#8217; Tony Robbins, Frank Kern and John Reese and it&#8217;s well worth the watching! They talk about why some people just can&#8217;t seem to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:sFYGgMs9LAxQ5M:http://www.yvettesfavoritethings.com/blog/uploads/3/Anthony%2520Robbins.png" alt="Tony Robbins" width="127" height="85" />This is only going to be a very short post, but I wanted to pass on a link to you of a video I&#8217;ve just watched&#8230;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a 38 minute video &#8216;starring&#8217; Tony Robbins, Frank Kern and John Reese and it&#8217;s <span style="text-decoration: underline;">wel</span>l worth the watching!</p>
<p>They talk about why some people just can&#8217;t seem to get going on their &#8216;success road&#8217; in life and Tony gives a great way to solve this problem.  It&#8217;s a simple solution that has far-reaching results if we actually DO it.</p>
<p>All 3 of the guys say how they applied the solution earlier on in their lives, and what they achieved because of it.   Here&#8217;s the link:</p>
<p><a href="http://tonyrobbinstraining.com/320/interview-with-frank-kern-and-john-reese/#comment-5846">http://tonyrobbinstraining.com/320/interview-with-frank-kern-and-john-reese/#comment-5846</a></p>
<p>Actually, I&#8217;m going to give you another link which is somehow related to the video &#8211; it&#8217;s to an article by John Reese that I read about 10 days ago and made something really &#8216;click&#8217; for me, big-time &#8211; it&#8217;s also very amusing <img src='http://www.themarketingmother.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>It&#8217;s called:  &#8221;How *Crap* Can Dramatically Boost Your Profits!&#8221; and you can find it here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.im4newbies.com/traffic-secrets/john-reese-articles/article7.htm">http://www.im4newbies.com/traffic-secrets/john-reese-articles/article7.htm</a></p>
<p>The result for me after reading that article was to (finally) get going on my first product &#8230;.and no, the content <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">won&#8217;t be</span></strong><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> *crap*!</span></strong> &#8211; but maybe the presentation and graphics might be &#8211; to my mind, as long as the info is good in a product it doesn&#8217;t matter so much about what it looks like, I just won&#8217;t sell as many as if I had great graphics but I won&#8217;t be embarrased to put my name to it.</p>
<p>Btw, while I&#8217;ve been writing this post, I&#8217;ve just seen a new video by Frank and it could be very interesting for a lot of marketers, as long as you&#8217;re willing to part with $1.  I don&#8217;t know what it will be like but he&#8217;s getting my $1 as soon as I finish writing here.  If you want to give him yours, here&#8217;s the link:</p>
<p><a href="http://masscontrolsite.com/blog/?p=56">http://masscontrolsite.com/blog/?p=56</a></p>
<p>Speak to you soon &#8230;and onwards and upwards!!</p>
<p>Update:  I HIGHLY recommend Frank&#8217;s offer &#8211; I signed in and as usual he&#8217;s giving great content &#8211; and a big supply of it <img src='http://www.themarketingmother.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<title>Google Starts Clamp-Down On Affiliate Review Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you use Google Adwords to promote affiliate products then you need to read this &#8211; because Google appears to be launching a big clean-up of sites promoting affiliate products. Recently I posted about the FTC starting a similar clean-up campaign which many people decided to ignore but I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll be able to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.themarketingmother.com/wp-content/uploads/pictures_for_post/7d571da874d9cfe707f987a0bd792103.jpeg" alt="Search engine listings image" width="120" height="79" />If you use Google Adwords to promote affiliate products then you need to read this &#8211; because Google appears to be launching a big clean-up of sites promoting affiliate products.</p>
<p>Recently I posted about the <a href="http://www.themarketingmother.com/tips-howtos/bloggers-stay-ahead-of-new-ftc-laws-on-affiliate-marketing" target="_blank">FTC starting a similar clean-up campaign</a> which many people decided to ignore but I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll be able to ignore Google&#8217;s decision now.</p>
<p>Although it&#8217;s early days as yet, a number of marketers using Adwords found that their quality score went through the roof overnight so they were paying enormous cpc.  They seemed to think that it was happening to any landing page that had an affiliate link on it.  Landing pages that had cloaked affiliate links, or re-directs were not affected  (yet) but most experienced marketers feel that soon those landing pages will also come under Google&#8217;s hammer.</p>
<p>You can see Google&#8217;s point &#8211; so many affiliate landing pages all ending up at the same product makes it boring for web visitors &#8211; and so many bogus, &#8216;honest opinion&#8217; review sites misleading visitors as to which product really does offer the best value.  This is a valuable blog article here on the subject of <a title="Useful article about scam sites" href="http://www.jayweintraub.com/2009/06/the-perfect-storm.html" target="_blank">scam sites</a>.</p>
<p>Experts like <a title="Perry's announcement on latest 'Google Slap'..." href="http://www.perrymarshall.com/product-review-google-slap/" target="_blank">Perry Marshall</a>, <a title="Alex and Glen's audio about the latest 'google slap'..." href="http://www.netfrontiermarketing.com/glenn-livingston-interviewed-on-latest-adwords-slap-for-affiliate-review-sites.html" target="_blank">Alex Goad and Glen Livingston</a> have given their input about Google&#8217;s latest actions so click on those links if you want to know the whole scoop.</p>
<p>Although it looks as though Google are starting the clean-up with Adwords users, it&#8217;s highly likely that their seo algorithms will also change in the coming months so it&#8217;s wise to start adjusting your blogs and websites now.</p>

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		<title>Bloggers! Stay Ahead of New FTC Laws on Affiliate Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FTC are starting to implement new laws restricting how bloggers promote affiliate products and most of us will need to modify how we present our promotions &#8211; or we&#8217;ll find ourselves in trouble. If you&#8217;ve been on the web for any length of time you&#8217;ll be aware of the rubbish &#8216;reviews&#8217; written by many [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The FTC are starting to implement new laws restricting how bloggers promote affiliate products and most of us will need to modify how we present our promotions &#8211; or we&#8217;ll find ourselves in trouble.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve been on the web for any length of time you&#8217;ll be aware of the rubbish &#8216;reviews&#8217; written by many affiliates trying to make money by promoting products.   Even if you have been writing honest reviews you will still need to make a few tweaks to your pages to make sure you stay within the FTC&#8217;s guidlines.</p>
<p>In a nutshell, the FTC say that all reviews that contain your affiliate link to a product must state this clearly and visibly so that the reader knows you will be paid a fee if they buy the product through your link.</p>
<p>This doesn&#8217;t have to be all negative though and to really understand how to go about implementing the new laws successfully I strongly recommend that you go now and read Mark Ling&#8217;s excellent blog post where he explains everything clearly and also suggests how to go modify your reviews so that you have no loss in your profits&#8230;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the link to <a href="http://www.affilorama.com/blog/ftc-plans-to-regulate-bloggers" target="_blank">FTC plans to regulate bloggers, but what does it mean for me?!</a></p>
<p>&#8230;and this : <a href="http://www.affilorama.com/blog/honesty-may-be-the-best-policy">http://www.affilorama.com/blog/honesty-may-be-the-best-policy</a></p>
<p>Happy blogging and continued profits!</p>
<p><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><span><strong><br />
</strong></span></span></p>

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		<title>Namecheap and Hostgator Coupon Codes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best place to go for the Namecheap newest coupon codes is this site here: http://www.hostingdiary.com/namecheap-coupon.html they are very consistent with updating each month. &#8230;and for Hostgator &#8211; the webhost I&#8217;ve been with for 3 years and I swear by &#8211; just click on the aligator image on the left and it takes you to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The best place to go for the Namecheap newest coupon codes is this site here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hostingdiary.com/namecheap-coupon.html">http://www.hostingdiary.com/namecheap-coupon.html</a> they are very consistent with updating each month.</p>
<p><strong><br />
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<p><a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=xztrainer" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.themarketingmother.com/images/hostgator.bmp" alt="Hosting logo" width="100" height="85" /></a>&#8230;and for<a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=xztrainer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000; text-decoration: none;"> </span></a><a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=xztrainer" target="_blank">Hostgator</a> &#8211; the webhost I&#8217;ve been with for 3 years and I swear by <img src='http://www.themarketingmother.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  &#8211; just click on the aligator image on the left and it takes you to their page with the coupon code right there on the right among the graphics about midway down.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll get the first month nearly free when you sign up using that coupon code.</p>
<p>Click here to read why Hostgator is my first choice for a <a title="Hostgator Web Host Review" href="http://www.themarketingmother.com/reviews/best-hosting-reviews-and-hostgator-is-my-winner-by-far">hosting account</a>&#8230;</p>

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		<title>Increasing Traffic, Conversions and Sales With Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 22:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to know some nitty-gritty on how to use video to increase your traffic, conversions and sales then you can do no better than go and download a FREE 39 page report that&#8217;s being offered by one of Frank Kern&#8217;s favorite buddies, Jeff Schwerdt  (otherwise known as &#8216;Herschey&#8217;). Although he&#8217;s promoting his product [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to know some nitty-gritty on how to use video to increase your traffic, conversions and sales then you can do no better than go and download a FREE 39 page report that&#8217;s being offered by one of Frank Kern&#8217;s favorite buddies, Jeff Schwerdt  (otherwise known as &#8216;Herschey&#8217;).</p>
<p>Although he&#8217;s promoting his product at the end of this report, the first half is full of really detailed great information on how to make and use your videos to get real results.   There&#8217;s no optin sign-up or anything</p>
<p><a href="http://qvmblog.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/QuickVideoMarketingReport.pdf" target="_blank">You can download it for free here.</a></p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure  you&#8217;re already well aware that videos are still one of the greatest ways to successful marketing and this FREE report shows you exactly how to start making your own videos immediately.</p>
<p>Herschey&#8217;s report is really excellent content, superior to a lot of stuff that&#8217;s being charged high dollars for   &#8230;<a href="http://qvmblog.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/QuickVideoMarketingReport.pdf" target="_blank">download it here.</a></p>
<p>This is a small exert from the report:</p>
<p>&#8220;If you go to our blog you&#8217;ll see some recent posts on a video launch we ran in March 2009 for a Forex product.  The past two launches of this product have brought in six figures each and every time the product was released.</p>
<p>Over a 30-day period we released several videos, and since I was the director, editor, and post production manager you get the uncut insider&#8217;s look at how we scripted and executed a product release using videos&#8221;.</p>
<p>Herschey then gives you links to videos showing their campaign and they were <strong>very</strong> enlightening!</p>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[. The best way I&#8217;ve found to cloak affiliate links is as follows, it&#8217;s quite simple to do and it works well&#8230; and if it&#8217;s good enough for Mark Dulisse and Willie Crawford then it&#8217;s good enough for me! Making a Simple Redirect Link . Using Notepad or other text editor that you use, open [...]]]></description>
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<p>The best way I&#8217;ve found to cloak affiliate links is as follows, it&#8217;s quite simple to do and it works well&#8230; and if it&#8217;s good enough for Mark Dulisse and Willie Crawford then it&#8217;s good enough for me!</p>
<h3><strong>Making a Simple Redirect Link</strong></h3>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ffffff;">.</span></strong></p>
<p>Using Notepad or other text editor that you use, open a  file and save it as &#8220;index.html&#8221;,  &#8221;index.htm&#8221; &#8211; or whatever file type you&#8217;re using.</p>
<p>Then insert the following code in the HTML<br />
section of your  page.</p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">&lt;html&gt;<br />
&lt;head&gt;<br />
&lt;meta  http-equiv=&#8221;Refresh&#8221;<br />
content=&#8221;0;url=<span style="color: #ff0000;">http://youraffiliatelink.com</span>&#8220;&gt;<br />
&lt;/head&gt;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">&lt;body&gt;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">&lt;/body&gt;<br />
&lt;/html&gt;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">J</span>ust copy this code, making sure to replace the words highlighted above in red, &#8221;youraffiliatelink&#8221;, with <strong>your own real affiliate link</strong>.</p>
<p>Save the file, placing it in  a directory (a folder) that you have created in the root folder of your site and which you named after the product name.  When you want to refer  someone to this great product, you just refer them to your new url &#8211; as in:</p>
<p>http://www.yourdomain.com/productname/</p>
<p>If you have any questions please ask away in the comment box below&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>NOTE:</strong></span> It&#8217;s not advisable to use a javascript encryption method to do cloaking &#8211; in fact I&#8217;ve understood that it&#8217;s a big no-n0 because encoded javascript is the sort of thing scammers and hackers use so has the potential to be harmful which is why Google wave a red flag as of course they know this.</p>
<h3>Free WordPress Affiliate Link Cloaker Plugin</h3>
<p><span style="color: #ffffff;">.</span></p>
<p>If you use WordPress, there is a good plugin for <a href="http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/07/28/link-cloaking-plugin-for-wordpress/" target="_blank">cloaking affiliate links</a>, called &#8217;Link Cloaking Plugin for Worpress&#8217; (surprisingly!) which you can download for free.  Make sure you read the &#8216;readme&#8217; file as you have to carry out a couple of additional small steps after you&#8217;ve activated it.</p>
<p>Quick &amp; Simple Cloaking</p>
<p>If you just want to do a really quick and simple cloak then go to:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.budurl.com" target="_blank">http://www.budurl.com</a></p>
<p>enter your long affiliate link, click on the  &#8217;shorten&#8217; button and Hey-presto! there you have your new link <img src='http://www.themarketingmother.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Hope you find these methods useful &#8211; any questions or comments please add them in the comments box below&#8230;</p>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using Hostgator hosting for 3 years now and I would not swap them for anything.  For starters, I&#8217;ve never &#8211; and I mean never &#8211; knowingly had downtime with any of my sites.  They give great value for money, have excellent support and are very helpful, pleasant and professional.  At the most recent count [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been using Hostgator hosting for 3 years now and I would not swap them for anything.  For starters, I&#8217;ve never &#8211; and I mean never &#8211; knowingly had downtime with any of my sites. </p>
<p> They give great value for money, have excellent support and are very helpful, pleasant and professional.  At the most recent count they are hosting over 1,300,000 domains, which is QUITE an achievement&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=xztrainer" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.themarketingmother.com/images/hostgator.bmp" alt="Hosting logo" width="100" height="85" /></a></p>
<p>Apart from the quality of the hosting they offer, one of the useful facilities they have is LIVE CHAT 24/7 &#8230;I love it <img src='http://www.themarketingmother.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  so if you need to know something quickly, you can.  Or you can phone in, which I believe is also 24/7.  If you&#8217;re emailing in a support question, their support staff are excellent and usually answer within several hours.</p>
<p>Hostgator uses the updated Cpanel and they have a good selection of video tutorials on how to set up your hosting account.  Cpanel includes Fantastico &#8211; which means you have a long list of webscripts available to you, most of them for free, like:</p>
<p>LiveChat, a PhpBB Forum, Support Ticket System, Content Management systems (like Joomla for example), 2 click automatic installation of WordPress blogs, Shopping Carts, Faq scripts, Image Galleries, unlimited email addresses, Polls &amp; Surveys, Site Builders with templates &#8230;you can even build your own Wiki.</p>
<p>They also have a forum, both for pre-sales and for members.  I&#8217;ve never used the forum because I&#8217;ve never needed to and I prefer using LiveChat or Support emailing.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to think of any negatives that Hostgator have but I just can&#8217;t think of any &#8211; and that&#8217;s the truth &#8230;they&#8217;re even patient when you&#8217;re really new to the web and need to ask idiotic questions.  Well, they haven&#8217;t managed to be host to 1.3 million domains for nothing, have they?!</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re just starting out you can opt for the &#8217;Hatchling&#8217; package at $4.95/month which allows you to host only one domain and has genuinely unlimited disk space and bandwidth.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you plan on developing your web business you&#8217;ll probably want to go for the &#8216;Baby&#8217; package which allows you unlimited domains &#8211; with of course the genuinely unlimited disk space and bandwidth.  This costs $7.95/month.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you click on the banner image below, you&#8217;ll also see there is a coupon code there which you can use to get a 20% discount.</p>
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