New Version of Mail2Joomla Released - Mail2Joomla 2.0

Good News! The Developers at Van Eldijk have released a new version of Mail2Joomla, their popular Joomla component for posting via e-mail in Joomla CMS:

http://extensions.vaneldijk.nl/news/mail2joomla-2-is-here.html

The features include the ability to autopublish your e-mails immediately as Joomla articles whenever you send them.

One catch though, it's no longer free. They are selling the new version of this component for € 39 Euros (~ $53.14 US Dollars). I see this as a reasonable price for the new & improved component.

The only thing that bugs me is that they no longer have Mail2Joomla 1.0, the free version of Mail2Joomla, available for download from their website.

From their website, here is some more info on Mail2Joomla 2.0:

• Read emails from your POP3, IMAP, POP3-SSL or IMAP-SSL email inbox and place them in Joomla! articles
• Inline and attached images are also saved
• Auto-publish your articles and place them on the frontpage
• Allow only registered Joomla! users to send an email

For more info, check out the official Mail2Joomla website here:
http://extensions.vaneldijk.nl/news/mail2joomla-2-is-here.html

4 Quick Ways to Build Traffic to your Website

1. Referrals - Build Incoming Links:

• Get other sites to link to your site, possibly in exchange for you linking to them. (link exchange)
  
• Post comments on blogs and forums, and include your website's URL as your website address. This will cause a text link to be added to your post that links back to your website. Make sure you use your site's keyword phrase as your "Name" for the comment post. (rather than your actual name)
  

2. Paid Advertising - Buy Targeted Traffic with Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising:

• Start doing PPC Advertising with the major search engines. Google, MSN, etc. You can target specific keywords, key phrases, geographic areas, etc. You can also set a specific daily or monthly maximum budget. As with all PPC ads, you only pay when someone clicks on your ad.
• Advertise with PPC Ads on Facebook. You can target based on Country, City, Age Range, Sex, Interests, Marital status, etc. This means that you can show your ads to a very specific type of person.
  

3. Organic Traffic - Increase your traffic from search engines by creating more content

• Start a blog with relevant content and make it part of your site
• Set up a forum where your visitors can discuss the topic of your site

4. Article Marketing - Write articles on your topic to draw traffic

• Write articles and send them to an article submission website. Put a link to your website in the "Author Bio" section at the end of the article. Use your site's keyword phrase as the text of the link. For more information on this method, see the great eBook by Jim Edwards called "Turn Words Into Traffic".
  
  

Free 90-Page SEO E-Book (PDF)

This is a free E-Book from Brad Callen on Search Engine Optimization. Unlike some E-Books that are given away as a teaser for you to buy their product, this E-Book actually has a lot of "meat" to it. It's 10 chapters and 90 pages of in-depth information on SEO.

Here is the direct link to download the PDF:
Click Here to Download this Free 90-Page SEO E-Book in PDF Format

Here is the table of contents:

Chapter 1 "Optimize The Wrong Keywords And You'll Likely Never See Results ...”
Chapter 2 "How Changing One Single Onpage Optimization Factor Can Boost
Your Rankings By Over 350 Positions!"
Chapter 3 "The Secret To Getting Listed In Google In Under 24 Hours - Guaranteed!”
Chapter 4 "How To Skyrocket Your Website To The Top Of Google With
Properly Planned Offpage Optimization!"
Chapter 5 "How To Skyrocket Past The #1 Ranked Website On Google For
The Term Diet Information ..."
Chapter 6 "Are You Asking Google To Penalize Or Ban Your Website?”
Chapter 7 "Don't Get Your Website Banned BY Google... By Accident!”
Chapter 8 "Possibly The Biggest Misconception About Ranking Well In The Search Engines...”
Chapter 9 "What You Must Do To Rank Well For Your Inner Web Pages...”
Chapter 10 "The Cold Hard Facts About Google Page Rank And
How To Use It To 1-Up Your Competitors!”

Make Your Own Street Sign Image

This is another free tool from WigFlip.com. You can type in any text you want and it will generate a street sign graphic in PNG format.

You can also download a scalable PDF of your new street sign image so you can print it out at a large size.

http://wigflip.com/easystreet/

Free SEO Course - 7 Days, 7 Lessons

I wanted to let you know about this free 7-day Search Engine Optimization course being offered by Brad Callen, the guy behind SEO Elite. All you have to do is go to their website and fill out your name and e-mail, then you will have your seven lessons sent by e-mail:

Free 7-Lesson SEO Course

The lessons are also available in downloadable, printable PDF format for reading offline.

They even include a link to a free downloadable version of their Keyword Research software with the first lesson.

I've learned a lot from this free course, and I'm considering buying the full SEO Elite product, which is really a steal at $47. If I do end up getting it I'll post a review.

Enjoy!

Generate a Tag Image with Your Own Text

I just found this free site that is called TinyTags. You can use this to generate a "tag" graphic with your own text on it:

http://wigflip.com/tinytags/

After you make the tag graphic, you can download it to your computer or save it to Flickr or ImageShack with a single click. TinyTags generates these images in PNG format.

To get different sized words, add linebreaks to your text in different places. If you want a line of text to be smaller, add spaces before and after that line of text.

Other options you can change are the size of the tag (small, medium, or large), the color of the tag (red, orange, green, blue, or pink), and the angle of the tag (tilt left, tilt right, or not tilted).

Check it out:

http://wigflip.com/tinytags/

Free WordPress Theme Generator

This online WordPress Theme Generator lets you create your own custom one-of-a-kind WordPress Theme. You don't need any technical know-how to use this either:

http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/

You can change the background colors, text colors, settings, layout, preview live, click "save" and download your unique Wordpress theme zip-file. Extract, upload, set, and you are done!

Enjoy!

AWeber meets Twitter

If any of you are not familiar with AWeber, they are the top e-mail marketing service on the web. Basically, they allow you to send automated e-mail sequences to people who sign up for your e-mail newsletter or mailing list.

Followup E-mail Message Sequence
For example, on the first day someone subscribes, your AWeber account sends them a welcome message. Three days later, your second e-mail is sent to them automatically, and so on. You can even personalize your messages with their name in the greeting of the e-mail, or in the subject line, or anywhere else in the e-mail.

Broadcast Email Messages
A second type of e-mail messaging offered by AWeber is Broadcast Messages. These are sent to everyone on a specified list at the same time regardless of when they signed up. You can also schedule these ahead of time. (If you wanted to write three months worth of monthly newsletters at once, for example....)

AWeber talks to Twitter
Now AWeber offers a new feature that will automatically "Tweet" your e-mail broadcasts to your twitter account. It's really easy to use, you just enter in your Twitter account information into your AWeber account and it's ready to go. Then all of the Broadcast E-mail Messages for that list will result in a new Tweet posted at your Twitter account:

Check out the AWeber Blog for more details on this new feature:
http://www.aweber.com/blog/new-features/twitter-email-newsletters.htm

Free Dreamweaver Templates : Website Templates in .dwt format for Free!

These templates from JustDreamweaver.com are terrific. I've used them successfully to build websites and they are excellent! Very well designed, clean and easy to edit.

Most of them have a separate template page for the main home page and then a template for the other pages of the site, which uses a smaller header graphic.


Chamber of Commerce Template

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Real Estate Template

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Digital Downloads Template

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Aquatics Dreamweaver Template

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On Vacation - Who wouldn't want to go?

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Horsepower - a really powerful CSS website template

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Sol Vista - two Dreamweaver templates in one!

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BlueMesa - an easy-to-customize Dreamweaver template

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Sublime - a free website template with an option feature section

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OpenSpaces - Multiple content boxes and navigation styles!

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Web 2.1 Free Dreamweaver Template - CSS and DHTML versions

Preview DHTML menu version

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Trellion Dreamweaver Template

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AdSensation Template - A pre-styled template for AdSense websites

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Free Web 2.0 Icons : Free Icons for Digg, RSS, Facebook, and more

Web 2.0 sites are known not just for their interconnected, social nature, but also for their graphical design style. The large, colorful icons used on modern websites have a distinctive "shiny" look to them.

Here are a bunch of free icons from Fast Icon (http://www.fasticon.com)

Blinklist Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG	BlogMarks Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG	Delicious Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG
Digg Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG	Diigo Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG	FaceBook Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG
Favorite Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG	RSS Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG	FeedBurner Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG
Flickr Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG	Furl Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG	Google Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG
Magnolia Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG	Misterwong Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG	MySpace Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG
Netvibes Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG	Newsvine Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG	Reddit Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG
Simpy Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG	Stumbleupon Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG	Technorati Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG
Twitter Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG	Youtube Icon Download as .ico file Download as PNG