The Mage

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What is The Mage

The Mage is a collection of software programs that work in conjunction the the blogging software Wordpress©. The total Mage system encompasses several software programs. There is CPMage, WPMage, and WPMage Plugins.

CPMage

CPMage is a system designed to be a push button site creation system that allows the user with little to no experience in Wordpress© to develop blogs and monetize them. To use the system a user must have a domain set up on a hosting account so the software can be installed in the root directory of the domain. Sometimes you may hear this domain called a "sacrificial domain".

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.

WPMage

WPMage is a system designed for those who have a desire to build their own Wordpress© blog. The software has all the files to install a WP blog and all the Mage plugins. Users who want more control over their blogs will use this system. This system provides all the required software to monetize the blog also. Again the instructional materials provided explain how to install and use the system.

Mage Plugins

Mage Plugins are the files that allow you to use the system to create posts and monetize blogs that are already created. These plugins can be installed on any Wordpress© blog that is already online. Sometimes you will hear the term "Pimping" you site when discussing using the Mage Plugins.

The Creator

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.

Stop in and see what all the excitment is about!

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January 19, 2010

Mark Weese @ 11:15 am #

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

Esther Lesperance @ 1:04 pm #

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

January 21, 2010

Amy Guenther @ 6:14 pm #

Your site is great! People LOVE videos, keep it up!

January 22, 2010

Mark Weese @ 1:21 pm #

you’ve got some good info on your site too Amy!

January 26, 2010

Mark Weese @ 9:44 am #

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

Mark Weese @ 1:40 pm #

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.

January 28, 2010

kathleen st martin @ 12:43 pm #

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

January 31, 2010

Rick Yeo @ 12:22 pm #

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

Rick Yeo @ 1:59 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

February 4, 2010

Quincy @ 6:13 pm #

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?

Michail41 @ 7:57 pm #

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

February 6, 2010

Dot @ 12:12 pm #

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

February 13, 2010

Chadi @ 1:25 pm #

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 @ 2:56 pm #

@Mager: Mike,
Thanks so much for the very detailed reply! This is very helpful!
-Chadi

February 14, 2010

Danielle @ 8:12 pm #

Is CPMage a free software ?

February 15, 2010
February 17, 2010

John @ 11:41 am #

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

February 20, 2010

Andrea @ 5:53 am #

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

February 21, 2010

Lizzy @ 12:17 pm #

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

February 25, 2010

Maria @ 5:39 pm #

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

February 28, 2010

Chadi @ 10:56 am #

Hi Mike,
Do you a recommendation for site that we can use to check domain names for a trademark?
Thanks!
-Chadi

March 1, 2010

Brian @ 4:36 pm #

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.

March 2, 2010

Phil George @ 11:15 am #

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.

March 8, 2010

Greg D @ 8:11 pm #

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

March 12, 2010

brian @ 12:19 pm #

mike, what software are you using for your videos ? thanks

John @ 5:35 pm #

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

March 14, 2010
March 15, 2010

Jim @ 6:13 pm #

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

March 16, 2010
March 19, 2010

John Cowburn @ 4:22 am #

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

March 20, 2010
March 22, 2010

John Cowburn @ 3:17 am #

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

March 30, 2010

Paula @ 11:19 am #

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

April 8, 2010

Jim Thompson @ 4:44 am #

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 Thompson @ 11:51 pm #

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

April 9, 2010

Jim @ 7:40 am #

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 @ 7:10 pm #

@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

Jim @ 7:23 pm #

Forgot to ask Mike, what clicks is the dashboard referring to?
Jim

April 10, 2010

Greg @ 8:10 pm #

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.

April 11, 2010

Jim @ 8:49 am #

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

April 12, 2010

Dianne @ 11:20 am #

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

Jim @ 11:50 am #

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

April 13, 2010

christine @ 10:16 am #

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

April 14, 2010

Eric @ 11:18 pm #

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

April 15, 2010

Jim @ 3:53 pm #

Mike,
Does Keyword mage work with ebay motors. I’ve tried it but get zero results. Am I doing something wrong.
Thanks…
Jim

April 16, 2010

Jim @ 5:19 pm #

How can yoy tell if your mage? site has been delisted

April 17, 2010

tubassum @ 5:04 am #

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

April 22, 2010

Chadi @ 1:16 pm #

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

April 23, 2010
April 29, 2010

Holger @ 6:25 am #

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?

Holger @ 6:30 am #

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.

May 2, 2010

Nancy @ 1:34 pm #

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

May 7, 2010

Michael @ 10:29 am #

@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

May 11, 2010

William @ 6:29 pm #

@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

May 12, 2010

William @ 9:45 am #

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

May 13, 2010

Val @ 6:03 am #

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 @ 3:25 pm #

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?

May 14, 2010

Olghi @ 4:05 pm #

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 :)

May 15, 2010

Olghi @ 6:05 am #

@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 :)

Dennis @ 5:48 pm #

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

Esther Lesperance @ 7:00 pm #

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?

Jim @ 7:09 pm #

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

May 16, 2010
May 19, 2010

Jimp1 @ 7:45 am #

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

May 23, 2010

Lee @ 3:00 pm #

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

Steve @ 3:43 pm #

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

May 24, 2010
May 25, 2010

Holger @ 9:52 am #

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

May 26, 2010

john @ 8:37 am #

Mike, your site is a good read. Keep up.

May 27, 2010

EveW @ 10:11 am #

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!

May 31, 2010

Tanya @ 3:48 pm #

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

June 1, 2010
June 4, 2010

David j Raven @ 6:37 pm #

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.

June 6, 2010

Jim @ 10:37 am #

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

June 7, 2010

cynthia @ 8:16 pm #

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!!!!!!

June 8, 2010

Stoney Jackson @ 9:51 am #

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.

June 9, 2010

Colin @ 12:56 am #

@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

June 10, 2010

sadish @ 4:21 am #

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..

michael @ 1:00 pm #

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

June 13, 2010

Diarmuid @ 4:03 pm #

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

Cece @ 10:34 pm #

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.

June 14, 2010

Diarmuid @ 12:52 am #

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

Diarmuid @ 12:54 am #

If today suits you or what ever day suits you

Diarmuid

Diarmuid @ 2:28 pm #

Hi Mike i sent you an email with my contact details look foward to hearing from you
Regards
Diarmuid

June 15, 2010

Jim @ 12:25 pm #

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

June 16, 2010

Jim @ 3:33 am #

Thanks Mike.

I must say your information videos have cut the Mage learning curve down tremendously. Keep up the good work.

Regards

Jim

michael @ 3:10 pm #

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

jim @ 7:31 pm #

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

June 17, 2010
June 18, 2010

Diarmuid @ 3:21 pm #

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

jim @ 6:44 pm #

@Mike: But I would be able to sell it wouldn’t. Just to try and recoup some investment.

June 19, 2010

Diarmuid @ 10:25 am #

Thanks Mike i found my DNS info much appreciated

Cheers

Diarmuid

June 20, 2010

sadish @ 8:33 am #

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

June 21, 2010
June 22, 2010

sadish @ 12:59 pm #

Thanks Mike, thats a relief hearing from a veteran mage.I will add in the static page .

thank you
sadish

June 24, 2010

Evan Beck @ 5:38 am #

I would say this is a terrific resource. I found you on my first search at the forum. Thanks for your help in advance.

June 25, 2010

Diarmuid @ 12:02 am #

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

Diarmuid @ 7:42 am #

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

June 26, 2010

Diarmuid @ 11:08 am #

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

June 28, 2010

michael @ 11:15 am #

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

June 29, 2010

Jim @ 8:11 pm #

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

June 30, 2010
July 1, 2010

Saul Friedman @ 6:46 am #

@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

BoomerMary @ 9:42 am #

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

July 2, 2010

BoomerMary @ 9:35 am #

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.

BoomerMary @ 9:57 am #

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?

July 5, 2010

Holger @ 8:43 am #

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

July 12, 2010

Brooks Freed @ 9:36 am #

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

Jim @ 10:23 am #

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 Freed @ 11:21 am #

(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

Brooks Freed @ 11:57 am #

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

Jim @ 12:38 pm #

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

Brooks Freed @ 12:44 pm #

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

July 14, 2010

Olga @ 1:02 am #

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

July 16, 2010

Eileen @ 7:55 pm #

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

July 17, 2010

Eileen @ 7:42 am #

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

July 18, 2010

Nate @ 9:00 am #

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

July 20, 2010

Elyce Klein @ 12:26 pm #

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

July 21, 2010

Richard Crandall @ 11:10 am #

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

July 22, 2010
July 23, 2010

Elyce Klein @ 11:02 am #

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

July 24, 2010
July 26, 2010

Elyce Klein @ 12:57 pm #

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

July 27, 2010

Peter Kwee @ 5:06 am #

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

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