James Bachini

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  • 8 Tips For The Perfect Blog Post

    8 Tips For The Perfect Blog Post

    This is the revised 2020 complete guide to the best practices when creating content for your blog. You can use this framework to create a “perfect blog post” and move your site up the search engine rankings. James On YouTube The Title The title or headline of a blog post should be a close match…

  • How to encrypt text file in Visual Studio Code (VSCode)

    How to encrypt text file in Visual Studio Code (VSCode)

    I wanted a way to quickly encrypt and decrypt text files in VSCode using a memorised pass phrase so I created an easy to use plugin to encrypt text in Visual Studio Code. VSC has become the text editor of choice for most developers and it is relatively simple to create and publish a plugin…

  • Setting up HTTPS (SSL) with Cloudflare and WordPress

    Setting up HTTPS (SSL) with Cloudflare and WordPress

    If you are just running a wordpress blog or simple website you can setup Cloudflare to manage SSL for you. Cloudflare acts as a proxy between your website and the user. I recently setup Cloudflare which provides a SSL certificate with their free account plan. Step 1. Setup Cloudflare Register for an account. Then select…

  • Setting Up Facebook & Google Adwords Conversion & Retargeting Pixels

    Setting Up Facebook & Google Adwords Conversion & Retargeting Pixels

    Conversion tracking is important because it will show you how much each lead or purchase is costing you in advertising costs. For most marketers this is their key performance indicator as it has a direct influence on their profits. Retargeting (or remarketing) tracking is important because by building an audience we can launch cost-effective marketing…

  • What is required to dominate an online niche?

    What is required to dominate an online niche?

    Here is a checklist of factors that need to be taken into account when building an online business. Money Site (main website) High Converting Optimised Landing Page Effective Sales Funnel Lead Magnet / Lead capture methods Designed for user The money site is where prospects will be converted to leads. An effective sales funnel is…

  • 7 easy ways to make money with affiliate marketing

    7 easy ways to make money with affiliate marketing

    Build a blog and setup adsense banners This is where most affiliates start, all you need is a domain name and a wordpress installation with some hosting. Build your blog, do some guest posts, read about SEO and hope Google sends you some traffic. Monetisation is usually done with Google Adsense which means selling advertising…

  • How to choose offers from an affiliate network

    How to choose offers from an affiliate network

    The most useful bit of information you can get from your affiliate manager is what offers are running the most volume. This is the only data I ever ask AM’s for because it tells me in no uncertain terms what is competitive on the network at the moment. AM’s are notorious for bombarding us with…

  • Setting Up Retargeting Pixels for Adwords and Facebook

    Setting Up Retargeting Pixels for Adwords and Facebook

    Retargeting works by placing a image pixel or code snippet on your website. You can then launch advertising campaigns targeted at those specific users that have visited the page and “seen” the hidden pixel. This is how to set it up… Facebook Go to Ads Manager > Audiences > Create Audience > Custom Audience >…

  • SEO for Fun and Profit

    SEO for Fun and Profit

    SEO Summary Search engine optimisation can be broken down into onsite and offsite factors. Onsite Factors Domain age Domain relevance (Topics throughout site) Domain name relevance (keyword.com) Domain registration factors such as renewal date and private whois Site speed, page load times Site freshness, new daily content Title relevancy Keywords in meta description H1 tag…

  • How to fill out a W8-BEN form

    How to fill out a W8-BEN form

    Updated March 2020 What is a W8BEN form? Officially a W8-BEN or W8-BEN-E form is a “Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding and Reporting” This essentially means if you are not a US resident but are working with US companies then you need to sign this form to declare…

  • How To Optimise Online Affiliate Marketing Campaigns

    How To Optimise Online Affiliate Marketing Campaigns

    This is going to be another long post about a seemingly boring topic of optimisation. If you ask a hundred affiliates how they optimise a campaign 90% of them will tell you they just get a feel for it. Very few affiliates actually have a set process or mathematical formula they use when optimising. Whether…

  • How To Make Money Online

    How To Make Money Online

    Historians will look back at this period of time as an information revolution in the same way we look back at the industrial revolution. In the space of 30 years we have gone from basic communications to having a small portable device connected to a network capable of delivering answers to any question, maps, shopping…

  • Coding PHP for Affiliates | A Getting Started Guide

    Coding PHP for Affiliates | A Getting Started Guide

    Coding for me is one of the most important skills you can have as an affiliate marketer. I’ve met plenty of affiliates that are running huge volume, making millions and can’t write a single line of code. “I just outsource it all” but for me I couldn’t imagine coming up with a tweak to a…

  • First Steps in Automation

    First Steps in Automation

    One of the great things about this industry is the lifestyle flexibility it offers you. The dream is to setup a campaign or website, let it run itself and live off the money tree you’ve made. In reality it rarely works like this but automation can release hours off your daily routines and go some…

  • Simple HTML Cheat Sheet

    Simple HTML Cheat Sheet

    Rich’s Simple HTML Cheat Sheet   <h1>This is a heading</h1>      <b>This is bold</b>       <i>This is itallic</i> <br />     = New line       &nbsp;   = Extra Space <a href=”contacts.htm”>Contact Form</a>    = Link <img src=”images/picture.jpg” />       = image <font size=”3″>hello world</font>     = changes font size Lists <ul> <li>List item1</li> <li>List item2</li> </ul> Tables <table> <tr> <td>top left</td> <td>top…

  • Affiliate Marketing 101 | A Timeline for Success

    Affiliate Marketing 101 | A Timeline for Success

    Time Frame: 3 Years Day 1 – The Study Period Read, read, read. You’ve probably heard from a friend, colleague or just through the grapevine that people are making alot of money promoting affiliate products online and want a piece of the action. It’s time to start soaking up knowledge to give yourself an idea…

  • Looking for an angle

    Looking for an angle

    My most successful campaigns are normally also my most creative and abstract. If you can take an offer and think of a way to promote it which is “outside of the box” then you are on to a winner. Coming up with the idea is the difficult bit and I’ve laid out an example of…