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Posts Tagged ‘niche browser’

First I have to give props where props are due. I ran into WikidPad via other users at Wakoopa. I played around with it a bit and then forgot about it. Then I ran into this post about using WikidPad to organize your keywords.

And something clicked. I had been using a folder with various reports and text files in it to store the information about the blogs I’ve been building. But it was a mess. I tried mind maps and they became overwhelming in the end. So I gave WikidPad a try. I just started with keywords.

I am building a few niche blogs currently. I am still building product pages. At first and up to about a week ago, I copied and pasted the whole sales page into whatever blogging software I was using and then trimmed that content down. This took a long time and had me stalling, because I really hated to wade through all that information, so productivity dropped dramatically on the new blogs.

To get started, I needed a WordPress theme that had extra page templates without sidebars. This was hard to track down and I have created themes in the past, but I didn’t feel like it this time. These special pages will be the landing pages for my PPC campaigns.

I found the Super Affiliate WordPress Theme from Profit Blogger. It takes some gymnastics to get it, but the theme saves you time and it’s free.

I will be using a page as my homepage on the blog, not the traditional home page. This way I have total control over where people go from the home page.

Free things are cool. I like free things. The only thing about free things is that you can never tell the quality of something free until you actually sit down and try to use it and that takes a little bit of invested time. I have a few gigs of free stuff on my computer, both software and ebooks.

The software never stays long because I don’t like mystery programs hanging out taking up space. I have set a rule. All of the software I use must fit on my desktop and taskbar. I see those all the time. I hardly use the start menu and anything there will most likely be lost forever. I will forget I have it and download the same software again.