Dot Com Masters

As blogging and in particular blogging for profit becomes ever more popular amongst online entrepreneurs, we’re seeing new tools developed to assist in this process being released, what seems like every week.

In this post I’m going to talk about one such tool, Firepow Blogging Software,because I believe it might just be a cut above the rest in terms of it’s flexibility of use, and overall effectiveness in accomplishing the three primary aims of blogging - creating a blog, managing it or maintaining it, and getting traffic to it.

It was hard to know where to start with this post because there are so many individual features of this software that could be mentioned.

To give you a brief overview of how it works…

Firepow is based on the Wordpres platform, and allows a user to install a fully customized and functioning wordpress blog with a few clicks of the mouse.

If you’ve used Wordpress before, you’ll know that one of the best things about it is it’s ability to be enhanced by third party plugins. You’ll also know that it’s not hard to get LOST in all the plugins and potential feature additions that CAN be made.

The first thing great about Firepow from my point of view is that they have done the plugin work for you. The best 50 or so plugins from around the web have been programmed into the software so as to be automatically installed when your blog is.

That’s a good feature, but it’s even better when you consider that while these plugins normally require manual fiddling to get installed, tweaks made to your theme CSS code and more - the software actually does that part for you too - so you click the button, and you have the function of that plugin added - VERY time saving!

The “Create” part of the process is also helped by the ability to create your own custom wordpress theme completely from scratch, with more functionality than we’ve seen from free theme generators EVER before - not to mention the ability to create your own categories from scratch, automatically create the perfect permalink
structure for SEO, and more.

Before even getting into the Wordpress panel of the site Firepow creates you’ve also got a site management tab where all your blogs can be managed from one place, an SEO tracking tool to monitor the search rankings of all your sites, and a task manager
that tells you what needs to be done to maintain your blog/s and when.

I dare say though that the best things happen once you’re actually IN the blog.

Here you have crazy abilities to make your post content better, easily being able to add relevant images, videos, or trackbacks (automatically building backlinks to your site) to your posts… and even that’s leaving alot out.

OR the crazy abilities to monitor your blogs success, like being able to split test the results of different posts, monitor your traffic through in depth reporting (utilizing Google analytics), monitoring your search spider activity, the popularity of your posts, the terms people are searching on your site, and more still.

I feel like I’m getting too salesy in this post to you but I can assure even with everything you’ve read here, I haven’t even really touched the surface of what’s going on inside this thing called Firepow - heck we didn’t even get to the promotional tools.

The best thing I can probably do is tell you go to look at the darn thing yourself:

http://www.dotcom-masters.com/recommends/firepow.php

Oh and I could also tell you that if your into blogging and you don’t, you’ll probably regret it big time.

I hope you’ve found the information here valuable, and don’t hesitate to leave your comments on Firepow here to share with others.

Before I start, here’s what we’re going through:

1. What is PLR (Private Label Rights)

2. Top 3 ways to use PLR Content

3. Top 3 mistakes people make

I wanted to spend some time to explain to you what PLR is, because there is a lot of misinformation out there right now surrounding PLR, and I’d like to help set the record straight!

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Over the next 7 days I want to take you from front to back on PLR material, and how it can help you in your online business. There won’t be much of a sales pitch here, but I will tell you the best place to get your PLR material from, but more on that later!

These next 7 days you are going to see content that you can actually USE and apply right now, rather than 80% sell, and 20% content, so enjoy!

So with that said…

What is PLR?

It’s simple, it’s stuff that you can put your name too.

The thing is, private label rights (PLR) has been around for a long time, you’ll see vitamin companies, electronics manufacturers and other offline businesses doing it all the time.

From a content point of view though (or in respect of articles etc.) it is content that you can put your name on, and use in anyway you’d like to.

The only restriction is that you cannot sell it (that is what resell rights are).

Let’s go through the top 3 things you can do:

1. Build a site and populate them with the content, monetizing it with adsense and affiliate programs

Simple really, all it means is that you are building a site, and whacking the content up with some adsense and affiliate products, and then start the search engine optimization process (this is a whole other area) and start getting ranked in the search engines.

What I’d do if it were me (and it is since I do this too), is put up 2 separate sites (go to a place like www.domainsbot.com and search for an ‘on topic’ domain name) use a free template from somewhere like www.oswd.org and build my site from that (you can use something like Dreamweaver, Frontpage, XSitePro, or a site builder like www.websitearticlewizard.com).

2. Submit to article directories to build traffic to existing sites

This requires that you rewrite about 75% of the article at least… now you might be saying, “well why the hell would I get articles just to rewrite them???”. Have you ever sat down and tried to write 40 articles? I’ve timed it and it takes at least 4 days (writing about 10 a day and taking about 40 minutes to 1 hour to write each one).

Once I learned about PLR articles, a 75%+ rewrite takes me MAYBE 20 minutes (in reality it is more like 10 minutes once you get good at it)…

It’s really simple, all you need to do, is read the paragraph that you are rewriting, digest it, and then just write it in your own words… expand on it, make some additions, change some stuff, and there you go!

Once you’ve finished your rewrite, go to some of the article submission places, or use software like www.articleannouncer.com, or a service like www.isnare.com and away you go!

3. Turn it into an autoresponder

Now, I’ve had to write this autoresponder myself… but it’s no different than if I had gotten someone to write information for me (like PLR articles) and put them up for you as content.

Articles are just content, that’s it… an autoresponder is a way you can get your people coming back to your sites more and more often, and is a great way to build rapport (so long as you’re actually GIVING something of value).

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Top 3 mistakes people make

So if PLR is so easy to use, how do people make mistakes?

Well that’s easy…

1. Join a service that is sub par or is part of a wholesaling network

There are a lot of services out there that offer sub par quality content. It’s written by writers that don’t have English as their first language, or in some cases, give content that is less than third grade level.

It should be obvious you don’t want to join these kinds of PLR memberships.

The other thing is that there have become a few wholesaling PLR networks. What this means is that a membership can offer PLR material that other memberships are offering. They get their articles all from the same source, and the articles are identical!

Why do you stay away from these? Because the service might say “limited to 300 people” but the reality is that there are 10 or 20 other places out there that are offering the same material to the same number of people!

2. Join a service that has too many members or offer backlogs to their articles

This should be quite obvious, but places that are open to 1000 people, just aren’t the place to join (unless you are getting it really cheap!).

The reason is that the more people that have the content, the more people you are going to be competing with, and the less likely people are going to rewrite their content.

3. Forget about the fundamentals of building sites

Sometimes people get into this building frenzy, which makes them just want to build site after site after site.

The problem with that is that on the internet the phrase “Build it and they will come” just doesn’t apply… this is where you need to remember the fundamentals of building a site.

When you build a site, make sure that you keep the on page SEO factors right, and that you are building the site over time, slowly uploading content, and building links.

Important stuff, but it needs to be remembered.

So, that’s it for today, look out for the next blog tomorrow, in it, we’ll be covering how to use PLR articles with blogs.

Debbie

PLR PRO