AWeber vs GetResponse. Marketer’s Best Friends. Epic Review

May 4, 2016April 25, 2017 Adrian Jock 28 Comments

My Email Marketing Services Series continues with a comparison between two veterans: AWeber (founded 1998) and GetResponse (founded 1999).

If you’re an internet marketer, I guess you know how restrictive the majority of the email marketing services are.

From no content from work at home & make money online niches to no affiliate marketing, or MailChimp‘s funny “While affiliate marketing is fine under certain conditions, we do not allow affiliate marketers.”

AWeber and GetResponse are different. Both are internet marketing friendly. (more…)

Switching Wordpress Blogs to Https Without Losing Social Proof

How to Switch WP Blogs to Https Without Losing Social Proof

June 12, 2017June 12, 2017 Adrian Jock 10 Comments

Switching your blog to https has a significant impact on the social proof related to all published posts.

While the share count buttons for Twitter and LinkedIn will preserve the figures they previously displayed, the buttons for Facebook, Google+, Pinterest and Stumbleupon will reset to zero.

That’s because the latter social media networks don’t consider https pages as being the same thing as their relevant http versions. (more…)

CommentLuv Support for Fixing the Errors Caused by Https Links

CommentLuv: How to Fix the Errors Caused by Https Links

April 25, 2017July 12, 2017 Adrian Jock 27 Comments

CommentLuv is a popular WordPress plugin that unfortunately hasn’t been updated lately.

More and more bloggers switch their blogs to https. But CommentLuv doesn’t like these links. And it displays errors in some specific cases.

I can hear you saying that you didn’t switch to https yet, so CommentLuv works fine for you.

No, it doesn’t. So keep reading, this article is useful also for you. (more…)

4 Types of Affiliate Terms Traps Jeopardizing Your Commissions

January 12, 2017April 12, 2017 Adrian Jock 12 Comments

Most people don’t read the Terms section. It’s a fact. And affiliate marketers don’t make an exception.

Today I’ll reveal four types of traps that sometimes are included in the Affiliate Terms and seriously jeopardize your commissions.

The most unpleasant consequence of some of these traps is that if you don’t read and understand the Terms, then you’ll not be able to detect the trap and you’ll keep promoting such a program.

Awful. A continuous loss of commissions. (more…)

3 Little Known Blogging Issues Affecting Email Deliverability

October 12, 2016April 12, 2017 Adrian Jock 14 Comments

Both the bloggers and the other email marketers send their emails via professional email marketing services. So what’s so specific to bloggers?

Well, some blogs send emails… “New blog post” email notifications. Or “Your comment on the post X has a new reply.”

No third party service to help your email deliverability. You’re on your own.

And you don’t want your email notifications to land in spam folders. Discovering at the end of the day that your domain name was blacklisted – the worst case scenario – would be scary. (more…)