My Favorite Web Stuff

Gosh, this is so embarrassing…

I should have done this a couple of years ago, but I’m only now getting started with doing it systematically…

What, you may ask…

Optimizing my thank you pages.

So I decided to share with you what I’m doing so you can optimize yours too if you haven’t already:

I’m currently installing all sorts of new offers on my Thank You pages, and not just on those that appear after purchases, but also those that show after an opt-in.

There’s so much stuff I have neglected to do, and now is the time to take action (since I can’t take action retroactively).

Here’s what I’ll do:

1) Add Freebie offers and other offers to my thank you pages.

2) Instead of sending people to the direct download link of a file, I will send them now to a download PAGE (which contains more freebies that have back-end offers)

Here’s an example:

http://www.ebayvsamazon.info

3) I finally filled in that form in 1shoppingcart that asks where to send people if they abandon the cart.

Sheesh! What took me so long.

Still have to do that with my PayPal offers.

I’m also setting up my squeeze pages for my coaching progrrams. Go take a look:

http://www.manifesting-abundance.info

I may have to rewrite the free report a bit (it’s a bit too much focused on building a business), but at least it’s all set up now.

And here’s a really cool FREE report for YOU: Not even an opt-in is required:

And that’s it for thank you page strategies for today. More to come soon.

A few people have asked me how to get those cute Twitter badges posted so that they’re clickable links.

Here’s the step-by-step.

First the illustration:

And now the explanation:

First, you have to find the badges you like.  You can go to one of mine or to the link posted a few posts down (on the other post about Twitter badges) and go straight to the source for lots more where mine came from.

Here’s the step-by-step:

1) Control click (Mac) or right click (PC) to “save as” the image on your desk top. Let’s say your image is called image1.jpg

2) Go to your server and create an “images” folder on your server if you don’t already have one.

2) Upload the image to your server, into the image folder, for example to MyWebsite.com/images

3) Switch to your HTML editing view and find the spot where you want to add the Twitter badge.

4) Add the following code to your blog

<a href=”http://twitter.com/YourTwitterNameHere” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.MyWebsite.com/images/image1.jpg” alt=”Twitter Badge 1″></a>

Obviously, you need to replace YourTwitterNameHere with YOUR Twitter name, and MyWebsite.com with YOUR website URL, and images1.jpg with YOUR image name.  You can leave out the alt=”Twitter Badge 1″ if you like. Make sure you close the bracket though with a > even if you leave it out.

Like so:

<a href=”http://twitter.com/YourTwitterNameHere” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.MyWebsite.com/images/image1.jpg”></a>

Note: some of the spaces look bigger than they’re supposed to be in the above codes.  Just leave A SINGLE space where there are spaces.

And you can add a bit about the desired size of the image if you want.

That’s it.

Or not.  One last thing.  If you want to make sure that Twitter opens in a new window, then add the following code into the first set of brackets:

target=”_blank”  like so:

<a href=”http://Twitter.com/YourTwitterNameHere” target=”_blank”>

I actually already inserted it into the example, but that’s what it is.

Now THAT’s it.

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Let me know (by way of comments) if this is helpful and/or if you have any questions.

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Thanks.

Elisabeth