I’m using this program now to create secure, easy to set up membership areas.  This is great little program that will work for any type of web site.  This little program does it all - PayPal, Clickbank, recurring charges, One-Time Offers, free users.  It lets you add members to your autoresponder automatically.  If you want an Easy Solution to Create a Password Protected Membership Site  and don’t like to mess with scripts - this is your solution.

Forget all Complicated Membership Scripts! No more Script Installation, uploading and setup. Instant Membership Site Creator  is an easy to use Tool to create Password Protected Membership Websites. You can create any number of Membership Sites without any experience in programming and script installation.

No complicated database setup and manual chmod settings are necessary any more to create Members only private site. Just fill-up a simple form and press the “Create Your Membership Site” Button, and your membership site will be ready within 60 Seconds.

Features of Instant Membership Site Creator

• Creates a Password protect members only folder in your website.
• Creates Signup Forms for your customers to create membership account.
• Works with multiple payment processors (ClickBank, Paypal etc) to collect membership access fee.
• Includes a system to create unique user ID and password for all members.
• Provides an easy to use Admin Control panel to manage your members.
• Add all new members into your AutoResponder (Aweber, GetResponse etc.) System.
• Advanced Search Option to search members UserID, Email, Receipt number, IP address etc.
• Clickbank™ customers purchase’ details will be automatically added to the database
• Paypal™ customers’ transaction details will be added to the database
• Easy to use Admin Setup page to modify system variables.
• An option to add your One-Time-Offers (OTO) to the welcome page
• Provides a lost password retrieval utility for your members to retrieve their forgotten login details.
• Creates Difficult to guess Signup Page URLs and Database names for extra security
• Provides details on Data backup and signup page settings in the System Settings page.
• Desktop tool with built-in Tutorial and help.
• Works in Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, ME, 2000 and 98 OS.

How to Create a membership site in 3 easy steps?

Step:1 Launch the Program

Double-click on the icon to launch the program.

Step:2 Fill up a simple form

You have to type certain details in a form as given below:-

Enter your website address, web hosting login details, members folder, membership script location, name, email, admin password etc. Details of each field has been given in the tutorial, so filling-up the form is not a big deal.

Step:3 Click on a Button

Click on the ‘Create Your Membership Site’ button and the system will start creating your membership site and install necessary files to your website. Within 60 seconds, your membership site will be ready and you will be forwarded to the following page:-

Is it complicated ? Absolutely not. Your membership site is ready. Now you can upload the content for members into the password protected folder as specified in the tutorial. Your Membership site users will be able to access the content only with their unique user ID and password.

Features added in the new 3.2 version:

1) Multiple Signup pages.

In the new version, we have provided 3 different signup pages instead of a single signup form given in the previous version.

Common Signup Page

This Common Signup page will work with any payment processor like Paypal, Clickbank, 2Checkout and others. This Signup page can also be used for Free Membership Access.

Signup page exclusively for Clickbank Customers

Using this Signup form, only paid Clickbank customers will be able to create membership account. Clickbank Receipt number, customer name and email address will be added to the database. So its easy for you to list or search Clickbank customers in the Admin Control panel

A Signup page exclusively for Paypal Merchants

Only paid Paypal customers will be able to create membership account (Using paypal IPN). Paypal Transaction ID and Paypal Email will be added to the database. So its easy for you to locate members paid by paypal.

2) Advanced Search Feature

In the new version, we have added an advanced search features. Now you can search User ID, Signup Email, ClickBank Receipt#, Paypal Transaction ID, Paypal Email, name and IP Address.

3) Member List Option: In the new version, two list buttons are included - list new members and list all members.

4) An Option to add your One Time Offers (OTO) in the welcome page. Just copy and paste the OTO page HTML code into the Admin Setup page and OTO will be displayed at the bottom of the welcome page. So all new members will see your new Offers after they created a membership account.

5) Encrypted Paypal Button Code Fields. Instead of providing Raw Button Code fields, you get Encrypted Paypal Return URL, Notify URL and Custom Field for extra security. You can easily copy and paste those fields into your paypal buynow/subscription button code. For each signup, the system will verify with paypal whether the new member is paid the xeact amount you specified to the given paypal email address. This option is suitable for both single payment membership access and monthly recurring membership access.

6) New additions in the setup page - OTO setup, List of Signup page URLs, Encrypted paypal fields, Data backup details.

Your Membership Site Admin Control Panel is 100% safe and secure. No Unauthorized Access will be allowed. The following message will be displayed if somebody try to access your Admin Control Panel.

You don’t have to worry about hackers attempting to create a membership account from the Paypal or Clickbank Signup page without making payment. If somebody is trying to access the signup page without making payment, they will be forwarded to the following screen:-

This tool will create random signup form URL with numbers and alphabets that is very difficult to guess. Also the name of Users’ Database file will also be named with random numbers and alphabets combination for extra security.

Note that we provide a detailed Tutorial with this software. So its very easy for you to start using this software. You don’t need any experience in software development and script installation to use this Desktop Application.

What if a member forgot his User ID and Password? Not to worry, you don’t have to manually send those details. We have included a Lost Password Retrieval utility in your Membership Site.

Users login details will be send to his email address that he entered during signup.

Please Remember, you don’t have to worry about Manual Membership Script Installation, No more MySql Database setup.

• No Manual Script Installation.
• No MySql Database setup
• Hack-proof system
• Easy to manage Admin Control Panel
• Easy Account Signup form
• Lost password retrieval utility
• Free Upgrade for One Year
• Free Technical Support
• Perl, CGI and Apache Required

Special Price $47  Only $17 

I’ve done pretty well with my Moodle shopping cart e-course.  I get a ton of traffic on this subject and I really ought to be selling even more e-courses.  So to test the interest in my solution, I’m going to release the course for free.  The only catch is you get put on my mailing list - so you’ll get notified when I post.  No spam, you can opt-out anytime.

In this series of videos, I show you step-by-step how to add the cutting edge EJunkie Shopping Cart to Moodle® - complete with:

• A professional-looking cart and checkout system
• The ability to use any payment processor - not just PayPal
• A pro-grade affiliate management system
• Ability to track payments
• A system that integrates with popular 3rd party systems such as autoresponders
• Professional design and a reliable system

Disclaimer: This procedure should be viewed as a ‘hack’, not a ‘module’ - it will not likely survive a Moodle® version upgrade. Moodle® is a registered trademark of Martin Dougiamas.

This 40 minute video series shows you step by step how to integrate the E-Junkie Shopping Cart into Moodle®. Post is available for free. You only have to agree to be subscribed to my mailing list.  Sign Up Now

Post Update: Here is a great tool to actually use Twitter to make some money - Carl

If you haven’t heard of it before, Twitter is a micro blogging tool that allows you to write short messages (up to 140 characters at a time) that can be exchanged between friends, and posted for all to see. You can access Twitter via Web, Desktop Applications and even SMS.  Here are 5 ways to use Twitter to generate more traffic.

1.Network with people in your niche – add them as friends and ask them to do the same, so they’ll get your updates when you tweet them. Don’t friend random people, try and create a beneficial relationship
with all parties involved.

 2. Use a Twitter Search tool like Summize to see who is talking about your topic. Find out what the buzz is about your topic, who is talking about it, and then join in on the conversation and share your expertise and knowledge. Also use Summize to see what’s popular in the Twitter world, and try and create targeted content around that topic.

3. Let your followers and friends know about your new content – you can use a tool like Twitterfeed or manually update your twitter account when you post a new article, blog post or other piece of content. Your follower list is highly targeted – so they’ll want to know and read new content you’ve published. Not enough followers? Try creating Twitter exclusive content that will attract more followers and friends.

4. Solicit feedback on Twitter – ask friends and followers to give you feedback on new content, get their reactions, and continue the conversation on your blog or on Twitter.

5. Embed a Twitter box on your web page. Let visitors to your web site know that they can always be instantly updated – install a twitter box on your web site that updates with your latest tweets, and invite your website visitors to follow you on Twitter.

Twitter is a great way for getting in touch with other bloggers, promoting content, and increasing stickiness - use it well and you will increase your traffic, create buzz and establish a loyal following.

This post was contributed by Maya Richard, a writer  on the topic of high speed internet. You can email her at mayarichard@gmail.com with your feedback.

In the matter of ranking in Google, links are king.  And building lots a relevant back links is very hard - until now.  There is a new network designed to work with WordPress blogs, that builds back links and takes all of the work away from the individual webmaster.  It’s called 1WayLinks.net and I have been using the beta for several months - and folks, this product really works.

Here’s how it works:

1) You create an account.                                                                                                                   

2) You setup a WordPress blog on one of your sites and configure that blog in your 1WayLinks account.  The blogs can be brand new.  It doesn’t even have to be indexed in Google yet (that’s because Google LOVES blogs and indexes them fast once they start to send out pings).  

3) Once the blog is verified to be working with 1WL, you submit one or more blog posts that will appear on the number of blogs you specify in the network.  The blog posts can contain up to 3 hyperlinks, so you can link out to the pages you want, with the keywords you want.

It’s that simple.  WordPress does all of the heavy lifting for you, so there’s no code to fiddle with.  1WayLinks uses the XMLRPC publishing protocols built into WordPress to automate creating the blog posts. Each month you’re giving a quota of how many blogs your post(s) can appear on. Now that quota is 250 blogs with 3 links each.

BENEFITS

This means that each month you’ll be able to get 750 one-way, in-bound links from a diverse network of blogs across the planet.  With that many links aimed wherever you want, you could easily rank a lot of web sites on page one of Google.

This new service, coupled with 3WayLinks.net, will make it possible for you to rank for more competitive phrases in Google, or to supplement your home-page rankings with ranking inner-pages of your site(s).

The key to getting the most out of 1WayLinks is to choose the correct keywords.  Choose keywords for which you have a decent chance to rank in the top 10 in Google - I use WebComp Analyst to make the process simple.

You’ll never be successful on the web unless you start a back links building program -the 1WayLinks service is the best aid I have seen to get started quickly.

About The Author:

Carl Ringwall is the owner of Data SystemsPlus, a web consultancy offering a variety of e-learning offerings, software and tools. Considered one of the top blogs for forming a coherent internet marketing strategy, Carl’s online business blog is a must for anyone running a internet home based business.

POST UPDATE: Here is another, probably better solution: WordPress WishList - I really like this plugin-Carl

I love iSubscribe from iDevSpot. I am using it on this site to provide a quality Wordpress pay site. Although you can use iSubscribe to protect an entire blog, I like to use a pay per post approach. You can see a preview of my e-courses, and after  you pay via PayPal, you get a password emailed to you to access the full content. I have done quite a bit of tweaking to iSubscribe to allow protected downloads, and have modified the script to use PayDotCom as my affiliate program. I even automatically subscribe buyers to my mailing list application. It’s all seamless, and does not require any intervention from me - truly a ‘hands-off’ business that frees me up to work with my customers, answer their questions, etc. I invite you to try this product - it’s easy to install, has non-encrypted and easy to modify source code, and will work with WordPress, or any PHP-based application. The iDevSpot forums are a great place to get help and ideas. At less than $40, this product pays for itself the first month you use it.

Don’t forget to check out our own E-Course on using iSubscribe: Create A WordPress Membership Pay Site.

About The Author:

Carl Ringwall is the owner of Data SystemsPlus, a web consultancy offering a variety of e-learning offerings, software and tools. Considered one of the top blogs for forming a coherent internet marketing strategy, Carl’s online business blog is a must for anyone running a internet home based business.

In a previous post, I explained how importance of creating a XML data feed for your e-commerce application.  In this 40 minute video E-Course, I show you how to do it, step by step.  When you finish this video, you’ll be able to manipulate data from MySql, pull it into Access and create any type of feed you desire.  You’ll need a copy of MS Access to follow along, as well as access to a MySql database.

Get your online catalog’s products deep linked on the search engines - this video shows you how.

This is a Video E-Course post - (only $29!)

This 40 minute video series shows you step by step how to create XML product data feeds like a pro! This video post is available for a one-time $29 fee. Pay with PayPal.

Note: my affiliates will earn 50% commission promoting my e-courses!

More info….

About The Author:

Carl Ringwall is the owner of Data SystemsPlus, a web consultancy offering a variety of e-learning offerings, software and tools. Considered one of the top blogs for forming a coherent internet marketing strategy, Carl’s online business blog is a must for anyone running a internet home based business.

{Post Update - Check out the Create Product Data Feeds For E-Commerce E-Course }

E-commerce sites need to get their content deep linked on search engines and indexes- one of the quickest and cheapest ways to do that is to create a data feed of your product catalog and post it to shopping sites.

Creating files for shopping feeds like those for Shopzilla or Google Product Search is easy, once you master some basic techniques. The steps are as follows:

- Export Shopping Cart Data
- (Normally, you are exporting MySQL data using phpMyAdmin)
- Import Data into MS Access
- Create Queries to Format Data in Shopzilla/Google/ShoppingDotcom format
- Export Data From Query to Create product data feed file

This same technique can be used to create affiliate data feeds and any other type of web data export.

Start With Google Product Search

Google Product Search is fed from Google Base. To create a product feed for Google, you must first do an export of shopping cart or catalog data to create what Google terms a bulk upload. Follow Google’s instructions, particularly the field name conventions for products, carefully.

After you have downloaded the data from phpMyAdmin, you import the data into Access, then the key step is creating the format queries:

Most providers recommend using Excel to process feed data. We like to import catalog or merchant feed data into MS Access and use the powerful query functions to massage and manipulate the product data.

The process works like this:
1. Import your raw feed or data file into Access using the import feature
2. Create a query to reformat the data into the desired result:
a. Use the field alias feature to ‘hard code’ field data that may not exist in your original file ie:,
expiration_date: “YYYY-MM-DD”
b. Use the concatenation feature to reformat fields from existing data -
ie, your product_image filed contains “image.jpg”:
image_url: “http://www.yourdomain/images/” & [product_image]
3. After your fields are created in the query, simply export a delimited file from your query and process. You can re-import your original feed data into your Access file, run the query and re-export very quickly whenever you need to refresh your data.

Format Query In Access

You use the field alias feature in Access to create the fields with the required field names, and use the concatenation functions to piece together the data in the required formats.

Start with the basic fields (use Google’s naming convention explicitly):

title
description
brand
condition
link
price
product_type
image_link
model_number
payment_accepted
expiration_date (format: YYYY-MM-DD)

You can use any type of delimiter you wish for your file, we prefer pipe “|” for readability, but the Google default of tab delimited works fine as well. (If you change the default delimiter, you’ll need to specify the change in the bulk upload properties.)

You will need to re-upload your file regularly to Google, since bulk uploads typically expire in 30 days.

About The Author:

Carl Ringwall is the owner of Data SystemsPlus, a web consultancy offering a variety of e-learning offerings, software and tools. Considered one of the top blogs for forming a coherent internet marketing strategy, Carl’s online business blog is a must for anyone running a internet home based business.

Hundreds of visitors have viewed my blog to get information about adding e-commerce functionality to Moodle®. Well, here it is. In this series of videos, I show you step-by-step how to add the cutting edge EJunkie Shopping Cart to Moodle® - complete with:

• A professional-looking cart and checkout system
• The ability to use any payment processor - not just PayPal
• A pro-grade affiliate management system
• Ability to track payments
• A system that integrates with popular 3rd party systems such as autoresponders
• Professional design and a reliable system

Here is a 9 minute YouTube preview (the actual ecourse video is much higher quality):

Disclaimer: This procedure should be viewed as a ‘hack’, not a ‘module’ - it will not likely survive a Moodle® version upgrade. Moodle® is a registered trademark of Martin Dougiamas.

This 40 minute video series shows you step by step how to integrate the E-Junkie Shopping Cart into Moodle®. Post is available for free. You only have to agree to be subscribed to my mailing list.  Sign Up Now

There are numerous tools and services on the internet that allow you to track your backlinks and keyword position in the search engines. The one I use and like the best is FREE and is from DigitalPoint.

Set up a free account - and you’ll have some options to configure. You’ll need a Google search API key - there is a link in the sign up form - you also have the option of installing an advanced usage script on your own server - this allows daily updates of your data.

The keyword tracker allows you to track multiple keywords by domain, in other words, you can see where you rank for a given key phrase for any number of domains you (or your competitors) own. Simply enter the keyword and domain, and the system will show your rank on Google, MSN, Yahoo - or you can choose ALL to get your rank on all of the engines.

The backlinks tracker is simple - enter your url, and the system tells you how many backlinks you have on Yahoo for the single url, backlinks for the whole domain on Yahoo, and the backlink count on Google. The feature that makes both of these free tools really outstanding is the ability to track and graph your results over time. You simply set up a simple script and cron it daily, and your stats will be updated each day, with your progress, up or down, logged regularly.

The service even has a simple graphing feature so you can get visual graphs of your progress. All of this takes a couple of hours to set up, and then you can just forget about it - until you want to see your data. It’s interesting to watch how your rankings go up as your backlink counts increase - a great way to validate that a linking strategy is working.

Try the DigitalPoint tracker - it’s a great free tool. I’ll be posting a premium video post on how to set all of this up very soon.

Carl Ringwall is the owner of Data SystemsPlus, a web consultancy offering a variety of e-learning offerings, software and tools. Considered one of the top blogs for forming a coherent internet marketing strategy, Carl’s online business blog is a must for anyone running a internet home based business.

If you’re looking for a tool to promote your website(s), the buck stops with social bookmarking. With the advent of Web 2.0 and its focus on the social aspect of the Internet, listing your pages on bookmarking sites is a surefire way to get visitors to your pages – they either get there by directly clicking on your link, or if your page is ranked highly enough, it turns up on a Google search depending on how trusted your site is.

Since it’s tedious and time consuming to manually add bookmarks to various bookmarking sites, most people turn to automated software that is able to do this for them. While there are many options available, some free and others at a cost, the thing to remember when choosing automated social bookmarking software is to make sure your site is not blacklisted as spam.

Automated software that creates a large number of profiles and continually posts all your pages to every social bookmarking site there is, runs the risk of getting your site(s) labeled as spam. You also abuse your Internet Service Provider by running this tool continuously and risk cancellation of your service. And finally, the bookmarking sites you post to will end up blocking you and putting an end to your posting days.

The key to selecting a good social bookmarking tool is to look for one that does not send out your bookmarks on a continuous basis, but which posts tags gradually and once every few days. You must be able to set the time frame for the posting. You must also look for software that is server based and does not run on your PC. It’s more complicated to install but the difficulty is worth it when you consider the savings on your resources.

The bookmarking tool you use must randomly select tags and bookmarking sites so that the posting process looks like it’s been done by human beings and not a machine. Some tools even offer to post from proxy servers thus reducing the possibility of your sites being blacklisted and blocked as spam.

Automated social bookmarking tools are useful only when used judiciously – after all, there’s no use for a bookmarking strategy or tool when your sites are all blocked out as spam.

This post was contributed by Heather Johnson, who writes on the subject of dial up Internet.   She invites your feedback at heatherjohnson2323 at gmail dot com.