Once the software is installed all the user has to do is login to the software and build a site. Naturally the user must have other domains available to build with. In the instructions provided for the software (both video and PDF file) this is all explained in detail.
Greg Jacobs is the creator of the software. Greg created the software to help him automate his blog creation process. As the rumor has it after he started using it he decided to develop the system and have it available for others to purchase. He along with Hodge are constantly providing updates to the software and providing it to the users of the product. Now here is the greatness of these individuals, they do not charge a monthly fee or a fee for the updates. This is unheard of in the IM business. They want to make the system easy to use for all.
The above is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many other benefits to being a Master Mager. The Mage forum is one of the best. The members freely share ideas and expertise to anyone who needs help or has a question. If someone has a great idea on how to create income they will share it with members of the forum. Again this is rarely heard of in the IM world.
Who am I You Ask
Well my name is Mike McDonough and I live in Texas (that is in the US LOL). I have been online for more years than I like to think. I am like others, I have not made a lot of money online but am looking forward to this system to change all that. I am kind of a process guy. I know a little about code but not much. I do know my way around the processes though. I am developing this site to help others (new users as well as seasoned ones) with some of the processes, tips and tricks of the system, and how to's. As I see a area of concern I will see if there is anything I can create (video or post) to help make it easier to understand.
If you have a question or need help setting up your system please let me know and I will be glad to help. Just drop me a PM in the forum of contact me through this site.
If you have the plugin installed and configured you can append, prepend, or do a search and replace to put the products on the posts. More to come on this. Hodge is working on a update where you can upload plugins to cpmage through the cpmage dashboard.
I’m learning and very glad to find this site. 1) Can you list the additional software needed to make the most of this mage system, please. 2) I find references to PHPbay and PHPzon and Xenu do I need to purchase these and Socialbot as well. 3) How do I open my posts before the bots get there? 4) Anything else I’m missing. 5) What is all the talk about code showing. How do I ensure that I don’t make that same mistake
To further answer the question the only way to get the plug installed on sites already built is to do it manually. Also you can add it to the WPMage.tar.gz file and upload the modified file to your root domain. You will then have the plugin installed on new builds, however you will still need to activate it and set the settings you want.
I’m on youtube right now trying to learn how to use Amy’s idea of WP-MU. I think I’ll start with a .info as a add-on, and go from there, and next week when my friend gets his new server/CPanel up, I’ll build some on a stand alone that has some “google love”, and see how well that works too.
i guess.. i just spent a 1/2 hour with the great people at hostgator to try and get this up and running. the site is up and working on the domain i set it up on, but i cant access the backend , or frontend of a new add-on blog when i try… that’s the wrench in the whole works right there… im thinking that there is some options i’m not getting right or something like that.
Hi Mike and thanks for the great work on this site> I am a newbie working diligently to learn this system> right now it feels like all the mages are in the castle, putting up sites and making money while I am standing in the moat… Although most of your info is seems a bit advanced for me it helped alot just watching the videos> even if i haven’t a clue to what you are doing? thanks for the good work, kathy
Thanks for all your efforts in creating these videos to help out fellow mages. They were very helpful.
I just wanted to check one thing with you…
I noticed that you have Web Traffic Genius in your tabs, have you or are you using it to drive traffic to your sites currently?
I am looking for a good and powerful Traffic software solution to drive swarms of traffic to my sites and I like to know your experiences in this area.
Yes I use Web Traffic Genius on all my sites. I like the abilities the program has and using multi rss feeds to acquire back links. Also the program works well with mage. If you have any questions please email me or send a PM
The thing is, myself or other mages have experienced not being able to get good expired domains and sometimes, need to get new domains without any backlinks…So the question of driving traffic becomes essential and I was trying to understand which traffic software tool would drive the quickest and consistent traffic to my mage sites (other than PPC).
So, I guess you have also tried the other software available in the market and preferred the Web traffic Genius most?
Rick, that is correct I like the ability to set up a cron to send rss feeds out of back dated posts. Also the software has the ability to set up extra feeds So that every time your post is published it mixes the extra feeds with the new post. If you would like more info on it PM me
Will you consider providing a vid on simplified tracking & using tracking ID’es for the different affilitate programs (amazon, ebay, overstock, CB, CJ, etkc.)?
I’d really like a straightforward, ez way to track what’s working & what’s not so I can intelligently prioritize which campaigns to “beef” up versus which may need reworking. Thing is this needs to be simple and quick so that it doesn’t take away from building sites.
Hey Mike, I don’t want to get off topic, but love the videos. I was wondering about setting up cron jobs. I would like to use Web Traffic Genius to create backlinks. Haven’t made the purchase yet, but I was more than a bit intimidated when I checked out how to set up a cron to release the posts. If you get a chance, maybe a quick video, or post on the how to… I don’t think I’m the only one without a clue on this one.
Just watched a few of your vids. They have been really helpful and it is great that you take the time to share your knowledge with us all. I do have a question though, that I have not been able to find on the forum. I may even have missed it on your videos. Keep in mind, that I am a complete dunce when it comes to WP.
On my sites with 5 or 6 categories, these are related obviously, but the CB product is different for each one. Is there any way to post some sort of ad, whether a hopad (which, BTW, I just learned about from your video), banner or whatever, specific to each category, in other words, a different CB product on each category.
On one site, I have had 500-800 visitors a day for the last 3 weeks but have not really been able to monetize it. Adsense hasn’t gotten me anywhere, just a few pennies.
I don’t know if I made myself clear, but would appreciate the help.
Hi Mike, I joined CPMage recently and your site has been very helpful to me. Thanks for sharing all this info! I posted a couple of sites using the CP mage and i want to do more manual updates to get them look better. I want your recommendation please on the following: 1- For these Mage sites, do you do any editing to the “Contact” , “Privacy”, “T&C” pages? 2- Do you have any inputs on the process for generating a good static page? Thanks! -Chadi
Hi Mike, Just to let you know I am new to the mage. In fact I just purchased the mage master. I installed the cpmage to my new hostgator account. Everything went fine until when I entered my db info into my cpmage panel. It keeps comming up with an error message of 1102 that the db info is incorrect. I have checked it and reentered it a dozen times. I sent a support ticket and they told me I must have put it in wrong. Like I said I have checked and rechecked. Can you help? I thought about deleting the the data base but I don’t want to mess it up. I am not that much of a computer wizard. Thanks John
HI Mike I am a new master mage. I still have not installed my first site! Now I have a slight er…problem? The new updates look overwhelming to me. Do I just follow the videos – will it work? Or do I have to do all of that extra stuff? Perhaps I should just ask for a re-install with the new updates? I had the first install put in by Greg. Thanks for any help. thanks for this page Andrea
If you are updating CPMage all you need to do is click on the link on the CPMage control pane. If you are updating WPMage all you need to do is upload the new Mage plugins.
Amy…thanks I kind of missed this comment, I would like to put a link to your stuff here if you want, I was thinking of creating a short page with other resources.
Thanks for putting in your time with this site, I really liked the way you present your Mage help videos. I am a new Mage owner, also very English and find most US IM salesmen a bit much with their “I was so poor now I am awesome” way of talk, but you explain things very well. You should be on TV – like that gentle artist guy!
I came here through your link on the bottom of the mage forum and bookmarked already as a reference through my mage journey. Thanks for putting up this blog.
Brian, Yes it is a good idea to have a static front page without all the adds and product displays on it. The rest is your posts with all your product feeds and content.
Thanks for stopping by and your support. Hope this helps you Out and if you have any questions let me know.
You are a true gentleman, I just wish you had been my French teacher at school !
I understand that you normally construct your sites initially with just one post, is that so you can alter the templates to include phpBay, phpZon ?.
I have been considering building ’sniper sites’ using info domains( with the cpmage system and only one initial post ), targetting a specific term with high search volume and not too much competition , ranking for that specific term, and then start adding posts for products in that niche.
Thanks for stopping by Phil. I am no good a French wish I was. Yes I create my own templates to use for different niches and applications. That gives me the freedom to put the product location where I want it and how I want it to show up. I use phpBay, phpZon, and phpOstock to accentuate my posts.
Hope this answers you question. Again thanks for stopping buy and I hope the information here is helpful for you.
Hey Mike, This site is awesome. Fantastic job with the videos. I do have a question. I tried to search the site first for an answer and I am not finding it. I have got the installation down where I have the WPMage on a sacrificial domain, so I can build multiple sites. I am looking to put the program on a standalone domain that will be resting on it’s own class C IP address. I am sure this install is different than the one for bulk, or no? Any help or advice would be great. Thanks for all of the resources. Wish you the best. Greg
Hi Greg and thanks for stopping by. On the sacrificial domain you should have CPMage to build your sites with and you can put WPMage on the standalone domain. They are different programs. CPMage has all the features that all you to build sites from the CPMage control panel. WPMage allows you to upload a whole Wordpress installation with the Mage plugins installed also.
Hope this helps and if you have any questions PM me
Hi Mike, First of all let me say I love your site and your tutorials. Being new to the mage they have helped me a whole bunch. I was wondering if you could make a video tutorial on how to set up a static page. Thanks again, John
Great site with lots of good help for all us newbs. I just want to reiterate John with wanting to see a video on setting up a “static Home Page” to be better able to “sculpt” our first page for human review as Greg suggests. Again thanks for all the help you provide. Jim
I sent you a message on your Contact Form but have been having some problems with my email account and as I haven’t heard back, wondered if your reply has got lost. I can’t remember the exact details so this may be a different question(s):
Since our last converations about a week ago I have now built 7 sites and am wanting to start some customising of my sites before building more.
First, how long before you started seeing some decent traffic to your sites?
I am thinking of installing PHPBayPro and PHPZon from your links – and want to know – do they make a considerable difference to your bottom line?
Does using customised templates also make a difference?
Do you do anything to improve linking of your sites to make your sites are more attractive to Google?
Finally, thanks for all your videos and information, they are excellent!!
Hi Mark, Thanks for settup this site which is very useful for all the mage newbies. I just got approved by epn. However, when I activated epn on the affiliate mage of my mage site, it didn’t work. How can I fix the problem? Thanks, Paula
I just bought master mage last week and it looks good. Found your site on forum and well done to you. One question on setting up hosting in the Mage manual they suggest using liquid for vps hosting. I currently use HostGator and was just going to upgrade my reseller to a VPS and also open a baby as well.
Is the hostgator VPS good for cp and wpmage just wondering as the liquid hosting is stated as preferred for vps and I am happy with HostGator
Thanks for the reply Mike that clears that up. Tried the mage out for first time pimping a site. Got on good for trying it for the first time the editing of the templates is a great feature this system has great potential.
Regarding clickbank was worried about cloaking as when hovering over links seen they showed up as full aff link. Spent time trying cloakers till I happened to look at the source code and seen it was Javascript(wish I done that first).
Can you verify this for me – Even although the full aff links appear hovering it does not matter as the search engines still wont read it as it is within javascript.
Mike, Real helpful stuff here, you do a great job. Three questions if I may.
1) Any progress on a video of how to correctly build a static homepage?
2) On my sites I have created various categories to make the site more specific to the user. Question is, how do I get the categories to show on the sidebar or wherever, What now shows is Recent Posts and Recommended? Is there a video anywhere on categories and how to show them.
3) Lastly, if I go to an epn report it shows some clicks on my sites, however, if i Check Stats of a site from Mage Admin page they all show as “no Clicks”, Do I have something set wrong somewhere?
Thanks Mike, lots of us would be lost without you. Jim
1) On the static page there are many different way to do this. Each person has their own unique way. To be general I would try to writh a small intro into the site explaining what it is about. Something about the niche. Good way to get a idea is to do a search of other sites in the same niche and see how they do the intro or about.
2) There is a widget you can place on the sidebar that will show the categories. Just go to Appearance>Widgets find the category widget and drag it to the sidebar. Open it up and there are a few settings you can set.
3) eBay clicks will not show up in your stats in the dashboard so if you see clicks in EPN they are happening.
@Mike: Question 1 a clarification. I wasn’t looking for aesthetics but a mechanical question. More how to set it up in software, not how I want it to look. Thanks again,,, Jim
Love your stuff. How do you make and place the videos on your site? Is there an option other than Camtasia? Something that might not require hundreds of dollars and the same in hours to learn how to operate and manipulate? Any suggestions would be great….or perhaps another video…(hint hint) Thanks Mike.
Mike, On the dashboard what are the “clicks” or perpetual no clicks referring to? I know it’s not epn clicks, so what clicks is it? Many thanks again. Jim
The clicks are referring to the clicks to the links you put in the site. If you put links to other sites or pages then when they are clicked on they are registered.
Do you have any specific information about the “Get Your Site Indexed” step 4 in CPMage? I do not know what to do with or why there is a list of domains on the index page?
If you go to Index Mage you will see a area to put the URL to your site into. After you enter your URL you can click on each of the URL’s there to send a ping to those sites to let them know you have a site up. This helps in getting your site Indexed with the search engines.
Mike, If a mage post comes up with good content but non appropriate flikr photo or youtube video , can those parts be edited out of the post. Example for clarification. A Knife site that has a keywor of blade. The content is good, but the photo and video are showing windshield wiper shots. Can I not delete the post but somehow remove the photo and video? Thanks… Jim
Hi Mike through your great videos I’ve installed CPmage and Wpmage on my sacrificed domain – which is a recently purchase aged domain.
But I’m not sure what to do next? Do I install the ‘Welcome to the WP Mage Install Wizard’ for the sacrificed domain or add another domain and work on that?
I am still wondering about the WTG software and your thoughts about it. Do you still use this software on your sites?
I am in a traffic drought and I am looking for some way to enhance this without getting my IP banned from unpacking the posts (definitely don’t want to do that). I would purchase additional software if it would work effectively and would integrate well with the mage.
Are there any additional things that you do for your sites as far as traffic goes?
hi mike i bought the cpmage when it was first released . since then i am recieving so many emails promising better seo, better traffic,list building, also other products .i just bought george brown’s the ultimation .was that necessary .am i wasting my time going through my e mail.i have got round to building my first site . but not got any further .i applied to amazon and clickbank put the details in to core options but not through the cpmage dashboard .i have now found out about access to the dashboard but there is no id info in amazon or clickbank that explains why there are no products showing on my site.after sending then an email to resend the info i have not heard from them. would it be quicker to apply again or would their be a problem with that.what is phpbay and phpzon and what are they used for you cant tell am a newbie can you. thanks
You can out in the information in affiliate mage for your site. You shoukd have a copy of the emails you got when you signed up. If not it might be easier to do it again.
Concentrate on working and learning the Mage system. Do not get bogged down or sidelined with other projects. As for phpBay and phpZon they are paid plugins that compliment Mage. They are not required but a nice and on.
Hi Mike, Hope all is well. Thanks again for all the useful info on your site! Regarding the PPinger plugin, how often do you configure it to ping? I am setting it to 24hrs but i want to see what you advise. Thanks much, -Chadi
Has Google an issue with ads on the first page of a blog? Would ads reduce ranking? Are info sites inferior to com sites when it comes to Google ranking?
Your helpful info here and your videos have been fabulous- as well as your help on the forum!
Just one example: I had to delete all my posts on my first site (because I loaded some of my keywords twice), and I found your recommendation for the “mass post manager” plug-in on the forum. It was easy to install, and I was able to delete all the posts in one click. What a timesaver!
Thanks, Mike, for your wonderful and generous help for all of us here!
Thanks for sending me the email you sent to Chadi.
I just bought WPmage and below is what I am planning to do, from your experience, am I on the right path. Please correct anything that is wrong.
1. I want to buy an expired domain and put both CPmage and WP mage plugins on it so I can use the same domain to create a site that I can use to apply for EPN. I want to do this so the authority of this site can be carried over to other sites that I create on the hosting account. My plan is to find an expire domain that have information in the cache/archive that I can copy and use to populate the site so I can use the site to apply for EPN. Is this a good idea? Please advice
2. After you load CPmage on a domain, can you load WP mage plugins on the same domain to enable you to create a site on the same domain that you have CPMage on?
3. I am planning to use ipage hosting or kvchosting. Do you know if anybody is successfully using these 2 hosts for CPmage sites. What hosting companies are you using? I was reading the forum about hosting and I read a lot of people having problems with hosting companies concerning wpmage sites. Even some people were having problem with Hostgator which has been around for a long time and seems dependable. Money is very tight for me now so I can only afford share hosting and as I start making money, then I can switch to more powerful hosting, so I will really appreciate it if you can suggest some share hosting companies that are currently working for some people.
4. I hear of people back posting 1000s of post. For example if I buy an expire domain and it is 2 years old, since there are 365 days in a year, the it means it is 730 days old. How can you back post say 3000 postings when the domain is only 730 days old? Does this mean posting mage will be posting more than one post per day when it does the back posting or pimping?
Hi Mike, I have purchased the Mage, and have built the first site. I’m more used to XSitePro than WP, so it is a learning curve for me! I don’t want to create 1,000’s of poor quality sites… I really like the quality of the sites in your Blogroll – are they created with Mage? How many pages/posts are within? They are of the quality that I would like to mimick for my niches, and would probably need phpBay I guess. BTW, please check out your blogs as I think the Amazon listings are having problems.
Also, I too would like to know the answer to point number 4 in William’s comment above. If I am using a new domain, can I back post at all?
Val, Thanks for stopping by. Those sites are created with Mage. I have around 900 hundred posts on each site is all. And on question 4 of William’s post If you post 3 new posts a day (not unreasonable) that comes out to 1095 a year. I back date new sites for 3 years and have not had a issue.
Hope this helps and thanks for the info about my sites.
Thanks for your help Mike – and keep up the good work! Will definately use your links for phpBay etc. I plan to purchase them soon. Hope you received my message via your contact page?
Hi Mike, Am I glad to find your site. I can see from all the comments that you are our best resource. I want to thank you for all your help in advance. As a matter of fact I have just posted a message on the forum to you asking some of the questions I have, but I am going to ask it here again. Maybe it will help others as well. What I am most confused about is do I have to have a new hosting account to use CPmage and WPmage efficiently. I have a HostGator account, and didn’t want to have to open another so I asked Tech Support at HG to change my main domain to a new one in order to install CPmage on it thinking that I will add some more domains to my hosting account and created the mage sites with WPmage. The only trouble is that I have one fully developed site on this account and I am worried if I install CPmage on this new main domain it will interfere with the existing site. I do have WP installed on the existing site. Anyhow I hope this is not too confusing. I would very much appreciate your input. Many thanks Olghi
You can use your existing domain to put CPMage on and build site with it. If you have a WP blog already on the main domain you can “Pimp It” by adding the Mage Plugins to it also. If you have any questions please drop me a PM or email.
@Mike: Good Morning Mike, I have installed cpmage last night and I do have WP installed already, but when I type in petadoreblog.com/cpmage I don’t get cpmage page but one of those pages that comes up when there is nothing on it. I don’t even get the message that the site is under construction or something of this nature It is all installed under public_html. So I don’t understand what is wrong? Any suggestions? Thanks Mike
Hi Mike, Do you or know of someone that will construct affiliate application sites to get approved by EPN, CJ, Amazon. I am having difficulty getting this done myself. Thanks Mike
Thanks for your blogroll it shows us what is possible and gives us ideas. On your fishing site I noticed how you have categories and when you go to one of the pages at th ebottom you can navigate through all these category pages – I love it and have been searching for ways to do this. How did you do it?
Mike, What is a good program to use to keep track of site statistics as well as EPN and Amazon stats also? What do you use to see what is drawing clicks and buyers. Greg says NOT to use Google Analytics, and I understand why. So what’s the alternative? Suggestions from anyone please. Thanks… Jim
Hi Mike.Thanx for your site.I recently got my epn account.I pimped the site.Traffic soared and I made my first $95 online thru epn.But now nothing.The site seems to be all mixed up.As a visitor you cannot get to, say ,Nordic Jumps or Luge Training thru the categories on the part of the site I built up myself first.All you find is the pimped posts,which are also good ,but what happened to my skiing stuff?Any info would help.Kind regards Ingrid
Is it just me? Today is May 19. For the last two days (5-1 & 5-18) I haven’t gotten any EPN Earnings or EPC information. The clicks are showing, but no info on Earnings or EPC. Does anyone know what’s up?? Jim
Hello Mike, What a fantastic resource you are, thank you so much for being here.
I’m a new Mage (less than a month) and I am having problems finding a domain with decent backlinks, and a name that looks “pretty” as Greg suggests. Domain Mage says it displays 500 domains, but I only find about 50 that have more than 100 backlinks, and most of those are poor. I’ve read through all your posts and didn’t notice anything about getting good domains to register. Any thoughts about Domain Mage or other ways to find expiring domains with a list of backlinks? Thanks! Lee
Hi Mike, Thanks for your site, I just wonder if you are planing to make a video about site linking, using links that are on our own website. Regards Steve
Steve, thanks for stopping by. I link to some of my other sites through my sites to get a backlink. I try to incorporate 5 or 6 links to related sites.
Hi Mike! Can I use my own keywords instead of or in addition to the ones generated by the Mage system? If so, will Mage generate a Post for every of my own keywords? Thanks for your advice, Mike Holger
I can’t thank you enough for the great videos and your help in the forum. I have been going round in ever decreasing circles for months, so with your help I hope to finally move forward! Just wish the old brain functioned as well as it used to do!
Hi Mike, Love your site, great info. I am new to all of this including mage. I built my first site using mage and would love your feedback on it. I do not know how to put categories or why I would want them or not. Here it is http://www.fishingonthefly.info I am having a site built that will get me approved for ebay, should be done this week. Will buy phpbay pro from you (whatever that is). WTG has a new version that is pre installed, can we use that with mage, and if so, how? I am in this for the long haul, I have deleted all other offers from my emails so I can focus, so if you could steer me in the right direction as to effectively building mage sites I would forever be in your debt! Thanks! Tanya
Hi Tanya and thanks for stopping by. Good luck on your EPN site hope you get it soon. I would focus on building sites and learning the system. Read all the PDF’s and watch the videos. Build sites and learn the basics of WP. Also Use some of those 89 cent domains from godaddy to practice with.
hi mike……it would be great if i could resolve my issues with someone like you as i dont seem to be getting anywhere with the support desk….what i mean is they think im experienced when im not and so im not understanding exactly what needs to be done….believe me ive listened to and read the pdfs. ive just purchased cpmage. cpmage is installed on my host and on my domain. ive just purchased another domain called raveninsurance.com and have put that into the first step of building my site but the message below appears. Sorry, there were errors creating the addon domain for raveninsurance.com. Nothing has been modified – Please review the error message returned by cPanel below, and ensure raveninsurance.com does not currenlty exist as an addon or a sub domain in your cPanel account:
Error returned from cPanel:
Error from park wrapper: raveninsurance.com is owned by another user.
Now, with my host i can buy my domain with them and when i do this it is then installed on another cpanel giving me another user and password……….is this the problem do you think ? or is there another reason ?? when i buy domains should they be on the same cpanel or different………..im confused.
thanks mike
my skype is david j raven and mobile 07973 597007.
I have just bought Mage and have started to get my head around all the information.
I picked up your url from the Mage forum and I have to say that the information you have put together here is absolutely fantastic (bookmarked already). I think it will go a long way in reducing the Mage learning curve for me.
I have a couple of questions if you don’t mind me asking.
1. Is ReviewAzon compatible with Mage. I have used that a lot on some of my domains.
2. I noticed from a previous post you said that you have back dated posts on brand new domain names (say purchased today). Is that possible to do without being flagged by Google?
3. Mage states that Blue Host and Host Monster are not compatible, do you know of any other hostings that are not compatible. I have just started using Just Host and Host Papa and was wondering if there is any problems with them.
Hi Mike ,i hope you can help .I went through your video on setting up templates, copied it and then did a total repost as have just been accepted for Amazon.However when i now view my site my html code is showing , which is obviously a disaster, as i`m waiting to be indexed by Google.HELP!!!!!!
I thought Greg mentioned in the webinar that you could use sub-domains, but I don’t see anything in the materials about it. Can you? Could a newbie do it? Would search engines handle them separately as if they were different domains?
@Mike: Hi Mike, Only purchased WPmage last week and, as a complete non-tech newbie, it ’s all a bit mind-blowing at present and difficult to take it all in. My costs are escalating with all the unforeseen extras to get this up and running succesfully and I worry about ever starting to make a profit with my inexperience. Your site is sure to be a great help to me, keep up the excellent service. I would like to hear your comments to Williams point #1, I see that it is essential to gain access to EPN but my budget is stretched and $250 for someone to build a new site may be beyond me, the problem is that I cannot find a suitable expired domain with quality material in the archive to set up my application site. Also, I couldn’t see your reply to Val’s query:If I am using a new domain, can I back post at all? Regards, Colin
Colin I backdate me new domains three years. It is up to you how far back you want to go. Also on Williams question#1 in my opinion you need a clean site to apply to EPN. It should be a stand alone site not developed with Mage. You can use a new domain but register it for at least two years and follow Greg’s pdf and EPN’s terms of service.
hi there mmc,i am new to the mage few days old, iam having problam,downloding the word wizard,when i download its stalls ,how do i download the system,what am i doing wrong here.i will be gratefull for a answer soon ,thank you for your time..
hi mike I’m new with cpmage and I’m so confused i bought the cpmage system and also got myself 4 domains from godaddy and got myself web hosting from coolhandle and they installed for me the cpmage on one of the domains and i started building sites i put up 2 sites and i find it not that simple i never blogged before so i have some questions 1. i choose to make product focused sites so the way to find a good niche for that they explain in the pdf that i souled go to the eBay categories and look for a category that haves allot of products under it so my question is if the fact that this category haves allot of products in it dos that mean that allot of people are looking for that ? 2. if yes so there are allot of sites on that why should someone come to my site for that 3. how souled i pick from where to take the content from all the options there what souled make me diside which one to choose the same question i have with the monitizaition what souled make me diside which one of them to choose 4. how can i control the ads ones my site is up how can i move them up or down or put them in the side also if i diside after the site is up that i don’t want some ads for instance if i diside i don’t want the clickbank ads how can i change the settings after the site is up or i diside i want more ads how do i do that 5. he says in the pdf that i souled not keep all my sites on one hosting account so that means that i need a different hosting company for every 30 sites or by the same provider i can open several accounts and put like 30 sites on each account thanks from michael
Hi Mike i am totally new to IM and i purched the WP Mage i am trying to follow the steps but finding it very difficult wondering if you talk me through some of it maybe on skype my skype id is diarmuid.murphy1973 i am from Ireland i would be very grateful if you could find time to help me out with this Thanks
Can you give me a bit of advice regarding backdating posting. I have set up my first site in Mage and I am ready to put posts on it. If the domain is only 7 months old and has not been used before is it OK to backdate for just those 7 months. Or is it advisable to predate only?
hi mike thanks for your help. i applied to epn and got rejected i replied to the email and got a massage that i cannot reply to that address now where do i need to reply and what can i do to get accepted thanks michael
There’s a lot of Jim’s on here. Anyway, I have 20 Mage sites up. But still no money from adsense. But I guess I need more sites. You’d think I’d get a buck or two. I wish there was a way to get on page one without the arm and a leg thing through PPC. I also wish I could sell the sites on Flippa. When can Mages do that? What happens if you delete a site from the Mage then rebuild it withOUT the Mage using Plugins or original content? How does that work?
Hi Mike i am starting my first site i am looking at keyword mage just a quick question when it asks for a category id , i only have clickbank is it ok to put in my clickbank id there or can i use keyword mage for clickbank
Thanks for your reply Mike i already tried it , could you take a look at the first site i set up. http://www.gasconversionkit.info and tell me what you think please
hi mike getting started with the mage system i setup a .info site to learn can you please give a look at http://www.thedigitalcamerareviews.info and tell me how i can improve it and how to do it thanks
Mike, I’ll say it again …your videos are a tremendous help. Question…you talk about building a site and then you wait for it to be indexed before loading it with posts. What’s the reason for that? Why not just create the posts when you create the site. I know there must be a reason that you know and I don’t. Thanks again… Jimp
I do this so the site builds faster. Also it gives me the chance to configure all my plugins and install my templates the way I want them before generating all the posts. It works for me because of the way I configure the sites.
Think of all the tasks you do after the site build. Would it be more advantages to create your posts after the site is built? It is your choice.
i have the same questions as you – as I am just starting to get heavy into wpmage education from other magers as I am convalescing following months of operations after being struck by a drunk driver. feel like I missed the boat, need help with sooo much (please). Anyway, hope you have some good info for me. Saul
Sorry one more question I bought a bunch of aged high quality sites, but they are not blogs. Do I have to turn them all into blogs or can I just add a blog to the site, eg: helpforbaldness.com/blog
If it is way better to create blogs out of the HTML sites what is involved? how time consuming is it? and how difficult is it? I’ll outsource it but it gives me an idea of what to expect
Mike I really want to thank you for the videos you do great easy to follow videos
Would you do a video on how to create videos. Before going to automated posts I want to draw attention to the blogs and would love to do it with a video but all the explanations for how to make a video are so complicated I TOTALLY GIVE UP
Just so you know I have both a MAC and a PC if that makes any difference, but I do not have a video camera I also have Jing but the instructions there are truly hopeless.
In addition to the video showing us how to make a video, would you please show us how to pimp a site, like how do you keep all your categories intact etc?
Hi Mike, Could you point me to a good but free tracking software with which I can monitor my traffic and see the number of clicks per individual page? Thank you, Holger
Hi Mike, I saw where you are going to have a live Q&A on Tues. I will be working out of town and will not be able to sign on until after 3:00. I think you are 2 hours behind me here in Marietta Ohio, so is there a chance you will still be on then? Please advise. Thanks, Brooks
Mike, I installed phpzon a couple of weeks ago. Before that I had straight AMAZON LISTINGS and was selling 6-15 items per month. Since then I’ve added more sites and am getting 20-35 amazon clicks per day, but not one sale since zon was installed. I don’t think I did anything wrong in the setup, but bmore clicks with zero sales. Two questions if I may First is there any way to test if the zon links are workingg correctly, and second if need be how do I kill the zon listings on my sites and revert to my previous straight Amazon listings on all my existing posts and future posts. Any other advice you have will be greatly appreciated. As I say I’m extra confused because the clicks are showing on the daily reports Thanks… Jim
Brooks I am in the Central time zone I will not be in the room at that time I have a previous commitment. I will be there Wednesday most of the day. If you need a special time we can set that up
(Brooks I am in the Central time zone I will not be in the room at that time I have a previous commitment. I will be there Wednesday most of the day. If you need a special time we can set that up)
Thanks Mike, I will be available Wed between 1:30 and 5:00 if you are available. That is my time, easter dayilght time. Please advise. Thanks, Brooks
Hi Mike, Noq I have another problem. All my sites are loading very very slowly and then this comes up.
(Warning: imagecreatefromstring() [function.imagecreatefromstring]: Empty string or invalid image in /home/youmustg/public_html/fourlegidentity-blog.com/wp-content/plugins/content-mage/ContentMageFlickr.php on line 1
Warning: imagejpeg(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /home/youmustg/public_html/fourlegidentity-blog.com/wp-content/plugins/content-mage/ContentMageFlickr.php on line 1
Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: No such file or directory in /home/youmustg/public_html/fourlegidentity-blog.com/wp-content/plugins/content-mage/ContentMageFlickr.php on line 1)
Mike, Thanks. Yes I updated the htaccess and pasted it at the very top (above phpbay) did it via the robots meta as shown in the video. What address do I pm you at? Thanks again Mike. Jim
Hi Mike did not see my latest post so here goes again. I will be available Wed from 1:30 till 5:00 eastern daylight time. If this is ok with you please advise.
Also now I have another problem. All has been ok till today but now when I try to see my sites first they are very very slow loading and then this comes up. (Warning: imagecreatefromstring() [function.imagecreatefromstring]: Empty string or invalid image in /home/youmustg/public_html/fourlegidentity-blog.com/wp-content/plugins/content-mage/ContentMageFlickr.php on line 1
Warning: imagejpeg(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /home/youmustg/public_html/fourlegidentity-blog.com/wp-content/plugins/content-mage/ContentMageFlickr.php on line 1
Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: No such file or directory in /home/youmustg/public_html/fourlegidentity-blog.com/wp-content/plugins/content-mage/ContentMageFlickr.php on line 1)
Please advise if any suggestions what happened. Thanks, Brooks
Hey Brooks, I have the same problem with all my Mage sites!!! Sad.. I think the problem is with Content Mage plugin, but I don’t know what to do and how fix it. Mike, help us please if you can. Thank you! Olga
I like your websites. thank you for all your info.
I need your help. I already got this website using wpmage. I like to change the theme to the existing website , how do I do that? I didn’t find the video on your site. Could you please point me to any thread ?
Eileen go to the dashboard of your site and on the left side you will see a list of options. Go to Appearance>Themes then you can scroll through the themes that are available to use. Select the one you want and click on it. You can activate it be clicking on the activate link at the top.
I like to change the theme to another theme not provided by the WPmage. eg like the theme you are using. Am I suppose to just upload new theme to the existing website and do I have to add in all the plugins to the new theme? How do i do that and is there a video that I can watch?
I am interested in the most efficient way to drive traffic to my sites. Do you recommend using both SEO Pressor and Traffic Genius or do you recommend something else? Which one do you normally implement first?
Mike, thanks for your willingness to help out with wp-mage, I really enjoy your site here. May I ask a very basic question.
Because of the frustrations with finding used domains I have been purchasing new domains and want to take advantage of posting many posts but wondered if it hurts my Google slapping possibilities to back date posts to before the website was created.
Thanks again for your Master the Mage site. Thanks Rich
I took your advice and ordered SEO Pressor. Unfortunately I cannot get access to the plug in. They are not accepting my clickbank order number. There is no sound on their videos (after the first one). They are not responding to my trouble tickets. I am going to have to request a refund since at this point I’ve not received anything on this.
Is there an easier way to add no follow to the external links than manually inserting them on the html page?
Also, when SEO Pressor refers to Alt Tags set to your keywords, how do you fix this. I changed the titles and picture captions to my keyword and it altered the word density but didn’t change seo pressors X status on this issue. Am I missing something? Also, I thought that its good to have specific product titles for the pictures to attract long tail searches?
Finally, how does SEO Pressor optimize your posts unless you go into every post which is really difficult if you are using Mage?
I’ve got a 0% rating on most of my Mage posts.
I also am curious how you prevent WTG from swamping the aggregator sites when you schedule WTG to run a chron job on thousands of back dated Mage posts.
I just finished building 50 Mage sites – 20 are used domains and 30 are brand new domains. Now, I need to drive traffic to these sites. I am thinking of using Miracle Traffic Bot and SEO Pressor. Do you have any other suggestions of driving traffic to these new mage sites? Also, what do you think about youtube videos on each site to create a back link from youtube?
I will try to answer your questions On the WTG issue it only sends out a max of 15 feeds to the aggregators even if you have a lot of scheduled existing posts. SEO Pressor you have to do some of it manually. If you input your keyword into the area there in SEO Pressor it will do some of it automatically determined by your settings. The Alt tags refers to the alt tag for your photos. On existing photos I have found that if you go to edit the post in the HTML tab you can enter the keyword there in the area after the alt= call. Just reenter the keyword. The no follow links is a manual requirement as of right now.
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Hi Mike,
if I use phpZon, is there a way to install it on my sites automatically? or is it strictly a manual install?
Thanks
Mark
If you have the plugin installed and configured you can append, prepend, or do a search and replace to put the products on the posts. More to come on this. Hodge is working on a update where you can upload plugins to cpmage through the cpmage dashboard.
I’m learning and very glad to find this site.
1) Can you list the additional software needed to make the most of this mage system, please.
2) I find references to PHPbay and PHPzon and Xenu do I need to purchase these and Socialbot as well.
3) How do I open my posts before the bots get there?
4) Anything else I’m missing.
5) What is all the talk about code showing. How do I ensure that I don’t make that same mistake
Esther,
I sent you a email please reply to it. I hope you enjoy the site. More to come
Your site is great! People LOVE videos, keep it up!
you’ve got some good info on your site too Amy!
Mark,
To further answer the question the only way to get the plug installed on sites already built is to do it manually. Also you can add it to the WPMage.tar.gz file and upload the modified file to your root domain. You will then have the plugin installed on new builds, however you will still need to activate it and set the settings you want.
Thanks Mike…
also, another idea for you…
I’m on youtube right now trying to learn how to use Amy’s idea of WP-MU. I think I’ll start with a .info as a add-on, and go from there, and next week when my friend gets his new server/CPanel up, I’ll build some on a stand alone that has some “google love”, and see how well that works too.
what are your thoughts my friend?
Mark
I have not looked at WP-MU but correct me if I am wrong. Is it not adding blogs to the root directory but in different files?
i guess..
i just spent a 1/2 hour with the great people at hostgator to try and get this up and running.
the site is up and working on the domain i set it up on, but i cant access the backend , or frontend of a new add-on blog when i try…
that’s the wrench in the whole works right there…
im thinking that there is some options i’m not getting right or something like that.
PM me your issue
Hi Mike and thanks for the great work on this site>
I am a newbie working diligently to learn this system> right now it feels like all the mages are in the castle, putting up sites and making money while I am standing in the moat…
Although most of your info is seems a bit advanced for me it helped alot just watching the videos> even if i haven’t a clue to what you are doing? thanks for the good work, kathy
Kathy,
Thanks for stopping by. Don’t get discouraged you will understand more each day. If there are any questions PM me through the forum.
Hi Mike,
Thanks for all your efforts in creating these videos to help out fellow mages. They were very helpful.
I just wanted to check one thing with you…
I noticed that you have Web Traffic Genius in your tabs, have you or are you using it to drive traffic to your sites currently?
I am looking for a good and powerful Traffic software solution to drive swarms of traffic to my sites and I like to know your experiences in this area.
Thanks,
Rick
Yes I use Web Traffic Genius on all my sites. I like the abilities the program has and using multi rss feeds to acquire back links. Also the program works well with mage. If you have any questions please email me or send a PM
Hi Mike,
Thanks for your reply.
The thing is, myself or other mages have experienced not being able to get good expired domains and sometimes, need to get new domains without any backlinks…So the question of driving traffic becomes essential and I was trying to understand which traffic software tool would drive the quickest and consistent traffic to my mage sites (other than PPC).
So, I guess you have also tried the other software available in the market and preferred the Web traffic Genius most?
Thanks again,
Rick
Rick, that is correct I like the ability to set up a cron to send rss feeds out of back dated posts. Also the software has the ability to set up extra feeds So that every time your post is published it mixes the extra feeds with the new post. If you would like more info on it PM me
Love your site!
Will you consider providing a vid on simplified tracking & using tracking ID’es for the different affilitate programs (amazon, ebay, overstock, CB, CJ, etkc.)?
I’d really like a straightforward, ez way to track what’s working & what’s not so I can intelligently prioritize which campaigns to “beef” up versus which may need reworking. Thing is this needs to be simple and quick so that it doesn’t take away from building sites.
Any suggestions? What techniques are you using?
I will look into it
Hey Mike,
I don’t want to get off topic, but love the videos. I was wondering about setting up cron jobs. I would like to use Web Traffic Genius to create backlinks. Haven’t made the purchase yet, but I was more than a bit intimidated when I checked out how to set up a cron to release the posts. If you get a chance, maybe a quick video, or post on the how to… I don’t think I’m the only one without a clue on this one.
Keep up the Great Work!
Mike
Cron nobs are simple to create. i will do a short video tomorrow on them. Thanks for the idea.
Hi Mike,
Just watched a few of your vids. They have been really helpful and it is great that you take the time to share your knowledge with us all. I do have a question though, that I have not been able to find on the forum. I may even have missed it on your videos. Keep in mind, that I am a complete dunce when it comes to WP.
On my sites with 5 or 6 categories, these are related obviously, but the CB product is different for each one. Is there any way to post some sort of ad, whether a hopad (which, BTW, I just learned about from your video), banner or whatever, specific to each category, in other words, a different CB product on each category.
On one site, I have had 500-800 visitors a day for the last 3 weeks but have not really been able to monetize it. Adsense hasn’t gotten me anywhere, just a few pennies.
I don’t know if I made myself clear, but would appreciate the help.
Thanks again,
Dot
Not that I know of. I will check around.
Hi Mike,
I joined CPMage recently and your site has been very helpful to me. Thanks for sharing all this info!
I posted a couple of sites using the CP mage and i want to do more manual updates to get them look better. I want your recommendation please on the following:
1- For these Mage sites, do you do any editing to the “Contact” , “Privacy”, “T&C” pages?
2- Do you have any inputs on the process for generating a good static page?
Thanks!
-Chadi
Chadi,
I sent you an email.
@Mager: Mike,
Thanks so much for the very detailed reply! This is very helpful!
-Chadi
Is CPMage a free software ?
No it is not.
Hi Mike,
Just to let you know I am new to the mage. In fact I just purchased the mage master. I installed the cpmage to my new hostgator account. Everything went fine until when I entered my db info into my cpmage panel. It keeps comming up with an error message of 1102 that the db info is incorrect. I have checked it and reentered it a dozen times. I sent a support ticket and they told me I must have put it in wrong. Like I said I have checked and rechecked. Can you help?
I thought about deleting the the data base but I don’t want to mess it up.
I am not that much of a computer wizard.
Thanks
John
John,
Make sure your info is correct
data base: XXXXXXXX_dbid
db User: XXXXXXXX_user
db PW: password
Hoat: local
the XXXXXXXX_ is the id for the site givento you by the hosting company.
do not put the XXXXXXXX_ with the password just enter nthe password you created.
Hope this helps
Mike
HI Mike
I am a new master mage.
I still have not installed my first site!
Now I have a slight er…problem?
The new updates look overwhelming to me.
Do I just follow the videos – will it work?
Or do I have to do all of that extra stuff?
Perhaps I should just ask for a re-install with the new updates?
I had the first install put in by Greg.
Thanks for any help. thanks for this page
Andrea
Andrea,
If you are updating CPMage all you need to do is click on the link on the CPMage control pane. If you are updating WPMage all you need to do is upload the new Mage plugins.
If you need assistance PM me
@Amy Guenther:
Amy…thanks I kind of missed this comment, I would like to put a link to your stuff here if you want, I was thinking of creating a short page with other resources.
Mike
Hi Mike,
Thanks for putting in your time with this site, I really liked the way you present your Mage help videos. I am a new Mage owner, also very English and find most US IM salesmen a bit much with their “I was so poor now I am awesome” way of talk, but you explain things very well. You should be on TV – like that gentle artist guy!
Liz
Liz,
Thanks for stopping by and your comments. I enjoy doing this. Keep this site in mind.
Mike
Hello Mike,
I came here through your link on the bottom of the mage forum and bookmarked already as a reference through my mage journey. Thanks for putting up this blog.
Keep up the good work!
Maria
Hi Mike,
Do you a recommendation for site that we can use to check domain names for a trademark?
Thanks!
-Chadi
Hi Mike,
Can you tell me if I can do this and if it is the right thing to do.
1. I was planning on having a static page for the main page and have it looking nice, natural and pretty with good content and no adverts.
2. After that I would have the posting page with all my posts and advertising ( and load it up with all the mage posts.
Can you tell me if this is a good approach and if it will work OK?
Thanks for this site and your help–you really are making a difference,
Brian
p.s I will be ordering a VPS hosting account in the next few days and will orderr thru your link as a ‘thank you’ for your help.
Brian,
Yes it is a good idea to have a static front page without all the adds and product displays on it. The rest is your posts with all your product feeds and content.
Thanks for stopping by and your support. Hope this helps you Out and if you have any questions let me know.
Hi Mike
You are a true gentleman, I just wish you had been my French teacher at school !
I understand that you normally construct your sites initially with just one post, is that so you can alter the templates to include phpBay, phpZon ?.
I have been considering building ’sniper sites’ using info domains( with the cpmage system and only one initial post ), targetting a specific term with high search volume and not too much competition , ranking for that specific term, and then start adding posts for products in that niche.
Thanks for stopping by Phil. I am no good a French wish I was. Yes I create my own templates to use for different niches and applications. That gives me the freedom to put the product location where I want it and how I want it to show up. I use phpBay, phpZon, and phpOstock to accentuate my posts.
Hope this answers you question. Again thanks for stopping buy and I hope the information here is helpful for you.
Hey Mike,
This site is awesome. Fantastic job with the videos. I do have a question. I tried to search the site first for an answer and I am not finding it. I have got the installation down where I have the WPMage on a sacrificial domain, so I can build multiple sites. I am looking to put the program on a standalone domain that will be resting on it’s own class C IP address. I am sure this install is different than the one for bulk, or no? Any help or advice would be great.
Thanks for all of the resources. Wish you the best.
Greg
Hi Greg and thanks for stopping by. On the sacrificial domain you should have CPMage to build your sites with and you can put WPMage on the standalone domain. They are different programs. CPMage has all the features that all you to build sites from the CPMage control panel. WPMage allows you to upload a whole Wordpress installation with the Mage plugins installed also.
Hope this helps and if you have any questions PM me
mike, what software are you using for your videos ? thanks
Hi Mike,
First of all let me say I love your site and your tutorials. Being new to the mage they have helped me a whole bunch.
I was wondering if you could make a video tutorial on how to set up a static page.
Thanks again,
John
I use Camtasa 6 for my videos.
Thanks for stopping by and the question.
Mike
John Great idea I will work on that one next week. On the road in D.C. this week
Mike
Great site with lots of good help for all us newbs. I just want to reiterate John with wanting to see a video on setting up a “static Home Page” to be better able to “sculpt” our first page for human review as Greg suggests.
Again thanks for all the help you provide.
Jim
Thanks Jim and keep stopping by.
Hi Mike
I sent you a message on your Contact Form but have been having some problems with my email account and as I haven’t heard back, wondered if your reply has got lost. I can’t remember the exact details so this may be a different question(s):
Since our last converations about a week ago I have now built 7 sites and am wanting to start some customising of my sites before building more.
First, how long before you started seeing some decent traffic to your sites?
I am thinking of installing PHPBayPro and PHPZon from your links – and want to know – do they make a considerable difference to your bottom line?
Does using customised templates also make a difference?
Do you do anything to improve linking of your sites to make your sites are more attractive to Google?
Finally, thanks for all your videos and information, they are excellent!!
JC
John just got back from a road trip. I sent you an email hope you received it.
Hi Mike,
No I didn’t get an email from you. Checked my Spam filters and there’s nothing there? Can you send again or put it on here?
John
Sorry John I have been in email H–L while out on the road last week. I will get to this quickly.
Hi Mark,
Thanks for settup this site which is very useful for all the mage newbies. I just got approved by epn. However, when I activated epn on the affiliate mage of my mage site, it didn’t work. How can I fix the problem?
Thanks,
Paula
I will send you a email
HI Mike
I just bought master mage last week and it looks good. Found your site on forum and well done to you. One question on setting up hosting in the Mage manual they suggest using liquid for vps hosting. I currently use HostGator and was just going to upgrade my reseller to a VPS and also open a baby as well.
Is the hostgator VPS good for cp and wpmage just wondering as the liquid hosting is stated as preferred for vps and I am happy with HostGator
Thanks
Jim
Jim, thanks for stopping by. I use hostgator VPS myself and it works ok for me.
Mike
Thanks for the reply Mike that clears that up.
Tried the mage out for first time pimping a site. Got on good for trying it for the first time the editing of the templates is a great feature this system has great potential.
Regarding clickbank was worried about cloaking as when hovering over links seen they showed up as full aff link. Spent time trying cloakers till I happened to look at the source code and seen it was Javascript(wish I done that first).
Can you verify this for me – Even although the full aff links appear hovering it does not matter as the search engines still wont read it as it is within javascript.
PS Your vids are very well done
Jim,
I do not worry about cloaking CB links. If someone wants it they can get it unless the vendor uses a page re-direct.
Mike,
Real helpful stuff here, you do a great job. Three questions if I may.
1) Any progress on a video of how to correctly build a static homepage?
2) On my sites I have created various categories to make the site more specific to the user. Question is, how do I get the categories to show on the sidebar or wherever, What now shows is Recent Posts and Recommended? Is there a video anywhere on categories and how to show them.
3) Lastly, if I go to an epn report it shows some clicks on my sites, however, if i Check Stats of a site from Mage Admin page they all show as “no Clicks”, Do I have something set wrong somewhere?
Thanks Mike, lots of us would be lost without you.
Jim
Jim,
1) On the static page there are many different way to do this. Each person has their own unique way. To be general I would try to writh a small intro into the site explaining what it is about. Something about the niche. Good way to get a idea is to do a search of other sites in the same niche and see how they do the intro or about.
2) There is a widget you can place on the sidebar that will show the categories. Just go to Appearance>Widgets find the category widget and drag it to the sidebar. Open it up and there are a few settings you can set.
3) eBay clicks will not show up in your stats in the dashboard so if you see clicks in EPN they are happening.
@Mike:
Question 1 a clarification. I wasn’t looking for aesthetics but a mechanical question. More how to set it up in software, not how I want it to look.
Thanks again,,,
Jim
Forgot to ask Mike, what clicks is the dashboard referring to?
Jim
The links you ad to you site not from the modetization
Sorry ’bout that. you need to create a new page or post then go the Settings>Reading area and select the Static page and the appropriate Item.
Mike,
Love your stuff. How do you make and place the videos on your site? Is there an option other than Camtasia? Something that might not require hundreds of dollars and the same in hours to learn how to operate and manipulate?
Any suggestions would be great….or perhaps another video…(hint hint)
Thanks Mike.
Dewd thanks for stopping by and for videos you can get the free software from TechSmith. Jing is used by a lot of folks here is a link.
http://www.jingproject.com/
Hope this helps
Mike,
On the dashboard what are the “clicks” or perpetual no clicks referring to? I know it’s not epn clicks, so what clicks is it?
Many thanks again.
Jim
The clicks are referring to the clicks to the links you put in the site. If you put links to other sites or pages then when they are clicked on they are registered.
Mike
Hi Mike,
Do you have any specific information about the “Get Your Site Indexed” step 4 in CPMage? I do not know what to do with or why there is a list of domains on the index page?
Dianne
If you go to Index Mage you will see a area to put the URL to your site into. After you enter your URL you can click on each of the URL’s there to send a ping to those sites to let them know you have a site up. This helps in getting your site Indexed with the search engines.
Mike,
If a mage post comes up with good content but non appropriate flikr photo or youtube video , can those parts be edited out of the post. Example for clarification. A Knife site that has a keywor of blade. The content is good, but the photo and video are showing windshield wiper shots. Can I not delete the post but somehow remove the photo and video?
Thanks…
Jim
Yes Jim you can edit each post individually and remove them or edit them.
Hi Mike
through your great videos I’ve installed CPmage and Wpmage on my sacrificed domain – which is a recently purchase aged domain.
But I’m not sure what to do next? Do I install the ‘Welcome to the WP Mage Install Wizard’ for the sacrificed domain or add another domain and work on that?
Help…
Christine
Run the install wizard first then build new sites with CPMage
Mike,
As always all the info on this site is great!
I am still wondering about the WTG software and your thoughts about it. Do you still use this software on your sites?
I am in a traffic drought and I am looking for some way to enhance this without getting my IP banned from unpacking the posts (definitely don’t want to do that). I would purchase additional software if it would work effectively and would integrate well with the mage.
Are there any additional things that you do for your sites as far as traffic goes?
Thank you,
-Eric
Yes Eric I use WTG on all my sites. I also I use this plugin http://cleverplugins.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=ilvm_fly_admirable.tpl&product_id=30&category_id=29&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1
Mike,
Does Keyword mage work with ebay motors. I’ve tried it but get zero results. Am I doing something wrong.
Thanks…
Jim
How can yoy tell if your mage? site has been delisted
hi mike
i bought the cpmage when it was first released . since then i am recieving so many emails promising better seo, better traffic,list building,
also other products .i just bought george brown’s the ultimation .was that necessary .am i wasting my time going through my e mail.i have got round to building my first site . but not got any further .i applied to amazon and clickbank put the details in to core options but not through the cpmage dashboard .i have now found out about access to the dashboard but there is no id info in amazon or clickbank that explains why there are no products showing on my site.after sending then an email to resend the info i have not heard from them. would it be quicker to apply again or would their be a problem with that.what is phpbay and phpzon and what are they used for
you cant tell am a newbie can you. thanks
You can out in the information in affiliate mage for your site. You shoukd have a copy of the emails you got when you signed up. If not it might be easier to do it again.
Concentrate on working and learning the Mage system. Do not get bogged down or sidelined with other projects. As for phpBay and phpZon they are paid plugins that compliment Mage. They are not required but a nice and on.
Hi Mike,
Hope all is well.
Thanks again for all the useful info on your site!
Regarding the PPinger plugin, how often do you configure it to ping? I am setting it to 24hrs but i want to see what you advise.
Thanks much,
-Chadi
I have it set every 6 hours
Has Google an issue with ads on the first page of a blog? Would ads reduce ranking? Are info sites inferior to com sites when it comes to Google ranking?
Hi Mike. I did not want to be rude with my last Comment. I thoughtlessly clicked the submit button without saying Hi and Thank you. Sorry.
No Problem
I sent you a email on this subject. hope it helps
Hi Mike:
Your helpful info here and your videos have been fabulous- as well as your help on the forum!
Just one example: I had to delete all my posts on my first site (because I loaded some of my keywords twice), and I found your recommendation for the “mass post manager” plug-in on the forum. It was easy to install, and I was able to delete all the posts in one click. What a timesaver!
Thanks, Mike, for your wonderful and generous help for all of us here!
Nancy
@Mager:
Like all the info on your site I also use the Mage system am currently trying to get into ebay keep up the good work.
Best Regards Michael
@Mager:
Hi Mike,
Can you do me a favor and forward me the email you sent to Chadi since I need your answer to his questions.
Thank for your good work. This is really generous of you to help others.
Thanks
William
I sent you a copy of it. Let em know if it is what you want
Thanks for sending me the email you sent to Chadi.
I just bought WPmage and below is what I am planning to do, from your experience, am I on the right path. Please correct anything that is wrong.
1. I want to buy an expired domain and put both CPmage and WP mage plugins on it so I can use the same domain to create a site that I can use to apply for EPN. I want to do this so the authority of this site can be carried over to other sites that I create on the hosting account. My plan is to find an expire domain that have information in the cache/archive that I can copy and use to populate the site so I can use the site to apply for EPN. Is this a good idea? Please advice
2. After you load CPmage on a domain, can you load WP mage plugins on the same domain to enable you to create a site on the same domain that you have CPMage on?
3. I am planning to use ipage hosting or kvchosting. Do you know if anybody is successfully using these 2 hosts for CPmage sites. What hosting companies are you using? I was reading the forum about hosting and I read a lot of people having problems with hosting companies concerning wpmage sites. Even some people were having problem with Hostgator which has been around for a long time and seems dependable. Money is very tight for me now so I can only afford share hosting and as I start making money, then I can switch to more powerful hosting, so I will really appreciate it if you can suggest some share hosting companies that are currently working for some people.
4. I hear of people back posting 1000s of post. For example if I buy an expire domain and it is 2 years old, since there are 365 days in a year, the it means it is 730 days old. How can you back post say 3000 postings when the domain is only 730 days old? Does this mean posting mage will be posting more than one post per day when it does the back posting or pimping?
Thanks for all your help
William
William I am sending you an email on this subject.
Hi Mike,
I have purchased the Mage, and have built the first site. I’m more used to XSitePro than WP, so it is a learning curve for me!
I don’t want to create 1,000’s of poor quality sites… I really like the quality of the sites in your Blogroll – are they created with Mage? How many pages/posts are within? They are of the quality that I would like to mimick for my niches, and would probably need phpBay I guess. BTW, please check out your blogs as I think the Amazon listings are having problems.
Also, I too would like to know the answer to point number 4 in William’s comment above. If I am using a new domain, can I back post at all?
Val,
Thanks for stopping by. Those sites are created with Mage. I have around 900 hundred posts on each site is all. And on question 4 of William’s post If you post 3 new posts a day (not unreasonable) that comes out to 1095 a year. I back date new sites for 3 years and have not had a issue.
Hope this helps and thanks for the info about my sites.
Thanks for your help Mike – and keep up the good work! Will definately use your links for phpBay etc. I plan to purchase them soon. Hope you received my message via your contact page?
Yes I got it I replied hope you got it.
Hi Mike,

Am I glad to find your site. I can see from all the comments that you are our best resource. I want to thank you for all your help in advance.
As a matter of fact I have just posted a message on the forum to you asking some of the questions I have, but I am going to ask it here again. Maybe it will help others as well.
What I am most confused about is do I have to have a new hosting account to use CPmage and WPmage efficiently.
I have a HostGator account, and didn’t want to have to open another so I asked Tech Support at HG to change my main domain to a new one in order to install CPmage on it thinking that I will add some more domains to my hosting account and created the mage sites with WPmage.
The only trouble is that I have one fully developed site on this account and I am worried if I install CPmage on this new main domain it will interfere with the existing site. I do have WP installed on the existing site. Anyhow I hope this is not too confusing. I would very much appreciate your input.
Many thanks
Olghi
Olghi,
You can use your existing domain to put CPMage on and build site with it. If you have a WP blog already on the main domain you can “Pimp It” by adding the Mage Plugins to it also. If you have any questions please drop me a PM or email.
Glad to help
Mike
@Mike:
Good Morning Mike,
I have installed cpmage last night and I do have WP installed already, but when I type in petadoreblog.com/cpmage I don’t get cpmage page but one of those pages that comes up when there is nothing on it. I don’t even get the message that the site is under construction or something of this nature
It is all installed under public_html. So I don’t understand what is wrong? Any suggestions?
Thanks Mike
If you want me to look ar it PM me you site info
Hi Mike,
Do you or know of someone that will construct affiliate application sites to get approved by EPN, CJ, Amazon. I am having difficulty getting this done myself.
Thanks Mike
Hi Mike
Thanks for your blogroll it shows us what is possible and gives us ideas.
On your fishing site I noticed how you have categories and when you go to one of the pages at th ebottom you can navigate through all these category pages – I love it and have been searching for ways to do this. How did you do it?
Mike,
What is a good program to use to keep track of site statistics as well as EPN and Amazon stats also? What do you use to see what is drawing clicks and buyers. Greg says NOT to use Google Analytics, and I understand why. So what’s the alternative?
Suggestions from anyone please.
Thanks…
Jim
Hi Mike.Thanx for your site.I recently got my epn account.I pimped the site.Traffic soared and I made my first $95 online thru epn.But now nothing.The site seems to be all mixed up.As a visitor you cannot get to, say ,Nordic Jumps or Luge Training thru the categories on the part of the site I built up myself first.All you find is the pimped posts,which are also good ,but what happened to my skiing stuff?Any info would help.Kind regards Ingrid
Search for Art Turner on the forum and also put out the request on the forum.
I use a sitemap plugin called Dagon Design Sitemap Generator. Here is a link to it also it is a free plugin. http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/
I use the StatCounter plugin. Go to their site they have a free version of the plugin. Also I use just a good old excel spreadsheet.
Is it just me? Today is May 19. For the last two days (5-1 & 5-18) I haven’t gotten any EPN Earnings or EPC information. The clicks are showing, but no info on Earnings or EPC. Does anyone know what’s up??
Jim
Do not know I am the same Must be something with EPN
Hello Mike,
What a fantastic resource you are, thank you so much for being here.
I’m a new Mage (less than a month) and I am having problems finding a domain with decent backlinks, and a name that looks “pretty” as Greg suggests. Domain Mage says it displays 500 domains, but I only find about 50 that have more than 100 backlinks, and most of those are poor. I’ve read through all your posts and didn’t notice anything about getting good domains to register. Any thoughts about Domain Mage or other ways to find expiring domains with a list of backlinks? Thanks!
Lee
Hi Mike,
Thanks for your site, I just wonder if you are planing to make a video about site linking, using links that are on our own website.
Regards
Steve
A domain the has even a few quality backlinks is worth looking at. Look fro quality not just quantity
Steve, thanks for stopping by. I link to some of my other sites through my sites to get a backlink. I try to incorporate 5 or 6 links to related sites.
Mike
Hi Mike!
Can I use my own keywords instead of or in addition to the ones generated by the Mage system? If so, will Mage generate a Post for every of my own keywords?
Thanks for your advice, Mike
Holger
Holger the answer is yes you can use any keywords you desire.
Mike, your site is a good read. Keep up.
Mike
I can’t thank you enough for the great videos and your help in the forum. I have been going round in ever decreasing circles for months, so with your help I hope to finally move forward! Just wish the old brain functioned as well as it used to do!
Hi Mike,
Love your site, great info. I am new to all of this including mage. I built my first site using mage and would love your feedback on it. I do not know how to put categories or why I would want them or not. Here it is http://www.fishingonthefly.info I am having a site built that will get me approved for ebay, should be done this week. Will buy phpbay pro from you (whatever that is). WTG has a new version that is pre installed, can we use that with mage, and if so, how? I am in this for the long haul, I have deleted all other offers from my emails so I can focus, so if you could steer me in the right direction as to effectively building mage sites I would forever be in your debt! Thanks! Tanya
Hi Tanya and thanks for stopping by. Good luck on your EPN site hope you get it soon. I would focus on building sites and learning the system. Read all the PDF’s and watch the videos. Build sites and learn the basics of WP. Also Use some of those 89 cent domains from godaddy to practice with.
If you have any questions PM me
hi mike……it would be great if i could resolve my issues with someone like you as i dont seem to be getting anywhere with the support desk….what i mean is they think im experienced when im not and so im not understanding exactly what needs to be done….believe me ive listened to and read the pdfs. ive just purchased cpmage. cpmage is installed on my host and on my domain. ive just purchased another domain called raveninsurance.com and have put that into the first step of building my site but the message below appears.
Sorry, there were errors creating the addon domain for raveninsurance.com. Nothing has been modified – Please review the error message returned by cPanel below, and ensure raveninsurance.com does not currenlty exist as an addon or a sub domain in your cPanel account:
Error returned from cPanel:
Error from park wrapper: raveninsurance.com is owned by another user.
Now, with my host i can buy my domain with them and when i do this it is then installed on another cpanel giving me another user and password……….is this the problem do you think ? or is there another reason ?? when i buy domains should they be on the same cpanel or different………..im confused.
thanks mike
my skype is david j raven and mobile 07973 597007.
Hi Mike,
I have just bought Mage and have started to get my head around all the information.
I picked up your url from the Mage forum and I have to say that the information you have put together here is absolutely fantastic (bookmarked already). I think it will go a long way in reducing the Mage learning curve for me.
I have a couple of questions if you don’t mind me asking.
1. Is ReviewAzon compatible with Mage. I have used that a lot on some of my domains.
2. I noticed from a previous post you said that you have back dated posts on brand new domain names (say purchased today). Is that possible to do without being flagged by Google?
3. Mage states that Blue Host and Host Monster are not compatible, do you know of any other hostings that are not compatible. I have just started using Just Host and Host Papa and was wondering if there is any problems with them.
Cheers
Jim
Hi Mike ,i hope you can help .I went through your video on setting up templates, copied it and then did a total repost as have just been accepted for Amazon.However when i now view my site my html code is showing , which is obviously a disaster, as i`m waiting to be indexed by Google.HELP!!!!!!
Please PM me your template so I can review it.
Thanks for all you do, Mike.
I thought Greg mentioned in the webinar that you could use sub-domains, but I don’t see anything in the materials about it. Can you? Could a newbie do it? Would search engines handle them separately as if they were different domains?
Appreciate your insight.
Stoney,
Each site needs it own domain pointed to the nameserver of your hosting account
@Mike:
Hi Mike,
Only purchased WPmage last week and, as a complete non-tech newbie, it ’s all a bit mind-blowing at present and difficult to take it all in. My costs are escalating with all the unforeseen extras to get this up and running succesfully and I worry about ever starting to make a profit with my inexperience.
Your site is sure to be a great help to me, keep up the excellent service.
I would like to hear your comments to Williams point #1,
I see that it is essential to gain access to EPN but my budget is stretched and $250 for someone to build a new site may be beyond me, the problem is that I cannot find a suitable expired domain with quality material in the archive to set up my application site.
Also, I couldn’t see your reply to Val’s query:If I am using a new domain, can I back post at all?
Regards,
Colin
Colin I backdate me new domains three years. It is up to you how far back you want to go. Also on Williams question#1 in my opinion you need a clean site to apply to EPN. It should be a stand alone site not developed with Mage. You can use a new domain but register it for at least two years and follow Greg’s pdf and EPN’s terms of service.
hi there mmc,i am new to the mage few days old, iam having problam,downloding the word wizard,when i download its stalls ,how do i download the system,what am i doing wrong here.i will be gratefull for a answer soon ,thank you for your time..
Make sure you are saving it to your computer.
hi mike I’m new with cpmage and I’m so confused i bought the cpmage system and also got myself 4 domains from godaddy and got myself web hosting from coolhandle and they installed for me the cpmage on one of the domains and i started building sites i put up 2 sites and i find it not that simple i never blogged before so i have some questions
1. i choose to make product focused sites so the way to find a good niche for that they explain in the pdf that i souled go to the eBay categories and look for a category that haves allot of products under it so my question is if the fact that this category haves allot of products in it dos that mean that allot of people are looking for that ?
2. if yes so there are allot of sites on that why should someone come to my site for that
3. how souled i pick from where to take the content from all the options there what souled make me diside which one to choose the same question i have with the monitizaition what souled make me diside which one of them to choose
4. how can i control the ads ones my site is up how can i move them up or down or put them in the side also if i diside after the site is up that i don’t want some ads for instance if i diside i don’t want the clickbank ads how can i change the settings after the site is up or i diside i want more ads how do i do that
5. he says in the pdf that i souled not keep all my sites on one hosting account so that means that i need a different hosting company for every 30 sites or by the same provider i can open several accounts and put like 30 sites on each account
thanks from michael
Hi Mike i am totally new to IM and i purched the WP Mage i am trying to follow the steps but finding it very difficult wondering if you talk me through some of it maybe on skype my skype id is diarmuid.murphy1973 i am from Ireland i would be very grateful if you could find time to help me out with this
Thanks
Let me know a time
Hi Mike;
You post good information. Keep it up.
If I were you though I would look at the posting and amazon keywords for this page http://www.thebassfishermen.info/253/house-feed/
I don’t think a fishing site needs and article about dog training.
Hi Mike thanks for your reply would around 4pm your time suit as that would be about 11pm my time and i would have son gone to bed
Regards
diarmuid
If today suits you or what ever day suits you
Diarmuid
Thanks for the catch. And thanks for stopping by the site
Please send me a email with your contact information.
Hi Mike i sent you an email with my contact details look foward to hearing from you
Regards
Diarmuid
Hi Mike,
Can you give me a bit of advice regarding backdating posting. I have set up my first site in Mage and I am ready to put posts on it. If the domain is only 7 months old and has not been used before is it OK to backdate for just those 7 months. Or is it advisable to predate only?
Regards
Jim
Jim I backdate NEW sites for three years so backdate as far as you want.
Thanks Mike.
I must say your information videos have cut the Mage learning curve down tremendously. Keep up the good work.
Regards
Jim
hi mike thanks for your help. i applied to epn and got rejected i replied to the email and got a massage that i cannot reply to that address now where do i need to reply and what can i do to get accepted thanks michael
Hi Mike,
There’s a lot of Jim’s on here. Anyway, I have 20 Mage sites up. But still no money from adsense. But I guess I need more sites. You’d think I’d get a buck or two. I wish there was a way to get on page one without the arm and a leg thing through PPC. I also wish I could sell the sites on Flippa. When can Mages do that? What happens if you delete a site from the Mage then rebuild it withOUT the Mage using Plugins or original content? How does that work?
Thank you
Jim
Do a search on the forum I saw an address there you can email to
If you delete a site and rebuild it manually it will be like any other Word Press Blog
Hi Mike its Diarmuid here im trying to find the DNS information but cant seem to find it just wondering where to find it
Regards
Diarmuid
@Mike: But I would be able to sell it wouldn’t. Just to try and recoup some investment.
Your hosting company should have sent it to you. You can also find it in the control panel.
Thanks Mike i found my DNS info much appreciated
Cheers
Diarmuid
hi there mic,
i just completed 2 sites,i would like your opinian about it.i am new here ,so i just followed the instruction and when about it.
http://www.doplusplus.com
http://www.jennaandthejoneses.com
i just want to know wether is there anything wrong that i have done,
will i be able to make something out of this sites.
thank you,
sadish
Good start I would add a static page to each site.
Thanks Mike, thats a relief hearing from a veteran mage.I will add in the static page .
thank you
sadish
I would say this is a terrific resource. I found you on my first search at the forum. Thanks for your help in advance.
Hi Mike i am starting my first site i am looking at keyword mage just a quick question when it asks for a category id , i only have clickbank is it ok to put in my clickbank id there or can i use keyword mage for clickbank
Regards
Diarmuid
The category ID is for eBay categories. You can still use the keywords from eBay for other than eBay products.
So does that mean i look for something in ebay that is similar to what i am writing about on my post e.g run car on water and put that ebay id in
Thanks for your reply Mike
Diarmuid
Yes use that Category ID in Keyword Mage
Thanks for your reply Mike i already tried it , could you take a look at the first site i set up. http://www.gasconversionkit.info and tell me what you think please
Diarmuid
hi mike getting started with the mage system i setup a .info site to learn can you please give a look at http://www.thedigitalcamerareviews.info and tell me how i can improve it and how to do it thanks
Site looks okay. Please PM me for more information concerning this.
Mike,
I’ll say it again …your videos are a tremendous help. Question…you talk about building a site and then you wait for it to be indexed before loading it with posts. What’s the reason for that? Why not just create the posts when you create the site. I know there must be a reason that you know and I don’t.
Thanks again…
Jimp
Hi Jim,
I do this so the site builds faster. Also it gives me the chance to configure all my plugins and install my templates the way I want them before generating all the posts. It works for me because of the way I configure the sites.
Think of all the tasks you do after the site build. Would it be more advantages to create your posts after the site is built? It is your choice.
@Esther Lesperance:
i have the same questions as you – as I am just starting to get heavy into wpmage education from other magers as I am convalescing following months of operations after being struck by a drunk driver. feel like I missed the boat, need help with sooo much (please). Anyway, hope you have some good info for me. Saul
Hi Mike
Sorry one more question I bought a bunch of aged high quality sites, but they are not blogs. Do I have to turn them all into blogs or can I just add a blog to the site, eg: helpforbaldness.com/blog
If it is way better to create blogs out of the HTML sites what is involved? how time consuming is it? and how difficult is it? I’ll outsource it but it gives me an idea of what to expect
Thanks again
BoomerMary
You can add a blog onto it if you wish. If you want to convert it it would be labor intensive.
Mike I really want to thank you for the videos you do great easy to follow videos
Would you do a video on how to create videos. Before going to automated posts I want to draw attention to the blogs and would love to do it with a video but all the explanations for how to make a video are so complicated I TOTALLY GIVE UP
Just so you know I have both a MAC and a PC if that makes any difference, but I do not have a video camera I also have Jing but the instructions there are truly hopeless.
In addition to the video showing us how to make a video, would you please show us how to pimp a site, like how do you keep all your categories intact etc?
Hi Mike,
Could you point me to a good but free tracking software with which I can monitor my traffic and see the number of clicks per individual page?
Thank you,
Holger
Hi Mike, I saw where you are going to have a live Q&A on Tues. I will be working out of town and will not be able to sign on until after 3:00. I think you are 2 hours behind me here in Marietta Ohio, so is there a chance you will still be on then? Please advise.
Thanks,
Brooks
Mike,
I installed phpzon a couple of weeks ago. Before that I had straight AMAZON LISTINGS and was selling 6-15 items per month. Since then I’ve added more sites and am getting 20-35 amazon clicks per day, but not one sale since zon was installed. I don’t think I did anything wrong in the setup, but bmore clicks with zero sales. Two questions if I may First is there any way to test if the zon links are workingg correctly, and second if need be how do I kill the zon listings on my sites and revert to my previous straight Amazon listings on all my existing posts and future posts.
Any other advice you have will be greatly appreciated. As I say I’m extra confused because the clicks are showing on the daily reports
Thanks…
Jim
Jim did you update the .htaccess file after you installed phpZon? Also PM me and I will guide you through the process.
Brooks I am in the Central time zone I will not be in the room at that time I have a previous commitment. I will be there Wednesday most of the day. If you need a special time we can set that up
(Brooks I am in the Central time zone I will not be in the room at that time I have a previous commitment. I will be there Wednesday most of the day. If you need a special time we can set that up)
Thanks Mike, I will be available Wed between 1:30 and 5:00 if you are available. That is my time, easter dayilght time. Please advise.
Thanks,
Brooks
Hi Mike, Noq I have another problem. All my sites are loading very very slowly and then this comes up.
(Warning: imagecreatefromstring() [function.imagecreatefromstring]: Empty string or invalid image in /home/youmustg/public_html/fourlegidentity-blog.com/wp-content/plugins/content-mage/ContentMageFlickr.php on line 1
Warning: imagejpeg(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /home/youmustg/public_html/fourlegidentity-blog.com/wp-content/plugins/content-mage/ContentMageFlickr.php on line 1
Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: No such file or directory in /home/youmustg/public_html/fourlegidentity-blog.com/wp-content/plugins/content-mage/ContentMageFlickr.php on line 1)
Any help here.
Thanks,
Brooks
Mike,
Thanks. Yes I updated the htaccess and pasted it at the very top (above phpbay) did it via the robots meta as shown in the video.
What address do I pm you at?
Thanks again Mike.
Jim
Hi Mike did not see my latest post so here goes again. I will be available Wed from 1:30 till 5:00 eastern daylight time. If this is ok with you please advise.
Also now I have another problem. All has been ok till today but now when I try to see my sites first they are very very slow loading and then this comes up.
(Warning: imagecreatefromstring() [function.imagecreatefromstring]: Empty string or invalid image in /home/youmustg/public_html/fourlegidentity-blog.com/wp-content/plugins/content-mage/ContentMageFlickr.php on line 1
Warning: imagejpeg(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /home/youmustg/public_html/fourlegidentity-blog.com/wp-content/plugins/content-mage/ContentMageFlickr.php on line 1
Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: No such file or directory in /home/youmustg/public_html/fourlegidentity-blog.com/wp-content/plugins/content-mage/ContentMageFlickr.php on line 1)
Please advise if any suggestions what happened.
Thanks,
Brooks
I shold be in the room around 1pm your time.
Actually just go to the contact page on this site and send me a email
Hey Brooks,
I have the same problem with all my Mage sites!!!
Sad..
I think the problem is with Content Mage plugin, but I don’t know what to do and how fix it.
Mike, help us please if you can.
Thank you!
Olga
Have you sent in a support ticket? Try that also
Mike
Hi Mike
I like your websites. thank you for all your info.
I need your help. I already got this website using wpmage. I like to change the theme to the existing website , how do I do that? I didn’t find the video on your site. Could you please point me to any thread ?
Your help is greatly appreciated.
thanks
eileen
Eileen go to the dashboard of your site and on the left side you will see a list of options. Go to Appearance>Themes then you can scroll through the themes that are available to use. Select the one you want and click on it. You can activate it be clicking on the activate link at the top.
Hi Mike
I like to change the theme to another theme not provided by the WPmage. eg like the theme you are using. Am I suppose to just upload new theme to the existing website and do I have to add in all the plugins to the new theme? How do i do that and is there a video that I can watch?
Thank you for your help.
eileen
Just upload the new theme select it and you will be good to go. The plugins are with the site not the theme
Hi Mike,
Just wondering if you have had good results using SEOPressor. I’m thinking about buying it, but was interested in your opinion first.
Thanks,
Nate
Nate, I give it Two Thumbs Up! I have used it ever since it came out and I love it. I just put up a post on it http://www.masterthemage.com/673/seopressor-save-optimization-time-immensely/.
Hi Mike,
I am interested in the most efficient way to drive traffic to my sites. Do you recommend using both SEO Pressor and Traffic Genius or do you recommend something else? Which one do you normally implement first?
Thanks,
Elyce
I use WTG first then SEO Pressor to drive traffic.
Mike, thanks for your willingness to help out with wp-mage, I really enjoy your site here. May I ask a very basic question.
Because of the frustrations with finding used domains I have been purchasing new domains and want to take advantage of posting many posts but wondered if it hurts my Google slapping possibilities to back date posts to before the website was created.
Thanks again for your Master the Mage site.
Thanks Rich
I have not had a issue with that. I have backdated them as far as three years on a new site
Hi Mike,
I took your advice and ordered SEO Pressor. Unfortunately I cannot get access to the plug in. They are not accepting my clickbank order number. There is no sound on their videos (after the first one). They are not responding to my trouble tickets. I am going to have to request a refund since at this point I’ve not received anything on this.
Thought you’d like to know this.
Thanks for your informative videos.
Elyce
Sorry to hear that maybe give them a chance to correct it.
Hi Mike,
Got SEO Pressor working finally.
Is there an easier way to add no follow to the external links than manually inserting them on the html page?
Also, when SEO Pressor refers to Alt Tags set to your keywords, how do you fix this. I changed the titles and picture captions to my keyword and it altered the word density but didn’t change seo pressors X status on this issue. Am I missing something? Also, I thought that its good to have specific product titles for the pictures to attract long tail searches?
Finally, how does SEO Pressor optimize your posts unless you go into every post which is really difficult if you are using Mage?
I’ve got a 0% rating on most of my Mage posts.
I also am curious how you prevent WTG from swamping the aggregator sites when you schedule WTG to run a chron job on thousands of back dated Mage posts.
Thanks for your help Mike.
Elyce
Hi Mike:
I just finished building 50 Mage sites – 20 are used domains and 30 are brand new domains. Now, I need to drive traffic to these sites. I am thinking of using Miracle Traffic Bot and SEO Pressor. Do you have any other suggestions of driving traffic to these new mage sites? Also, what do you think about youtube videos on each site to create a back link from youtube?
Peter
I will try to answer your questions On the WTG issue it only sends out a max of 15 feeds to the aggregators even if you have a lot of scheduled existing posts. SEO Pressor you have to do some of it manually. If you input your keyword into the area there in SEO Pressor it will do some of it automatically determined by your settings. The Alt tags refers to the alt tag for your photos. On existing photos I have found that if you go to edit the post in the HTML tab you can enter the keyword there in the area after the alt= call. Just reenter the keyword. The no follow links is a manual requirement as of right now.
Youe tube videos do help also there is a plugin called PPinger that is also good