I have had lots of questions over the past couple of days about my demo sites not being indexed in Google and the other search engines. There is a very simple answer and it it is because I don’t want them to be indexed. I use these sites for PPC (Pay Per Click) traffic and I will eventually set these sites up for normal SEO traffic at some point, but right now I don’t have the bandwidth to do so and I don’t want these sites to be indexed until I can set them up the way that I want them.

There is a setting in Wordpress in settings -> privacy section that gives you the option to have your site indexed or not. The option that I chose was I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors . This creates a robots.txt file with Disallow / turned on. No search engine will index the site with this present.

When you are setting up a site from scratch, this is an excellent way for you to get it the way you want before you open it up for indexing. It is a pain to have to go back and put in redirects to indexed pages after the fact, especially if you change the permalinks to your posts.

I hope this clarifies things for everyone and please shoot me an email if you have any questions!

-Brad

I’ve been asked to make available for purchase some custom headers from the Flip Video squeeze page post that I did last week. I’ve created 16 variations based on the color of the Flip camcorders that are offered at amazon plus some additional color backgrounds for the White Flip. These headers are for use with the FlexSqueeze Wordpress Template.

These headers are of the 60 minute version and each header has 3 product details listed as well as the picture and product name text. Each header also has a Free Shipping badge image that you can swap out if the product is eligible for free shipping.

The colors are as follows:

• White with Blue, Green and Red and black gradient background
• Black with Blue background
• Orange with Orange background
• Green with Green background
• Pink with Pink background

Price: $14.99 for all 16 header images

You can see some sample images from the collection below:

Since my last post, I have had quite a few emails and comments on how to create Pay Per Click (PPC) landing pages using ReviewAZON and FlexSqueeze. I have put together a very short video on how to create these ultra simple and very powerful landing pages.

I used Photoshop to create the custom landing page header. Other than using Wordpress, ReviewAZON and FlexSqueeze, that is all I did. I think it turned out very well and you are going to be amazed at how quickly and how simple this was to create.

Let me know what you think!

It’s no secret that I am a huge fan of PPC and Amazon. I really love the instant feedback that I get from running PPC campaigns along with Google Analytics. Don’t get me wrong, I love SEO and free search engine traffic, but I guess it is mainly that I am impatient and love the thrill of the chase.

By now you may have heard about Ryan Grabenstein’s FlexSqueeze Wordpress templates that is the successor to the famous Flexibility 2 theme. If you haven’t seen it in action, well, you just have to visit his site and take a look.

Ok, so back to PPC. Everyone knows that it is a pain to create PPC landing pages or “squeeze” pages as it is know in internet marketing circles. It is my least thing that I like about doing PPC internet marketing. When I found out that Ryan had created a squeeze/landing page Wordpress template I was the first one to try and get a copy. I was also fired up because it was built on the Flexiblity 2 framework and that is my favorite Wordpress theme of all time.

Tonight I took some time off from ReviewAZON updates, and spent some time really looking at this theme in depth. I gotta tell you, I am digging this theme. I like it so much that I went out and bought a domain name so that I could do some testing via PPC with a landing page that I created using FlexSqueeze and ReviewAZON.

I think it took me more time to buy the domain name and create the custom header than it took me to create the page. I literally uploaded the theme, created a new Wordpress Page, selected the FlexSqueeze template from the page template dropdown and added a ReviewAZON Product Page Post to the page. Once the page was created, I uploaded my custom image and set the FlexSqueeze page to load the custom header.

That’s it. Nothing more. In just a few minutes, I had a landing page that showcased a hot Amazon product (#1 in the Camcorder Category), complete with customer reviews, and I can now send PPC traffic to and make Amazon affiliate commissions. I can also create as many pages as I want and drive target traffic to those pages as well.

If you want to check out the page you can visit the page here: http://videoultrareviews.com

Oh, and be sure to check out Ryan’s incredible FlexSqueeze theme. I promise you will not be disappointed in the price or the quality of his work.

As you can see, with ReviewAZON and FlexSqueeze for Wordpress, you can really create some fantastic landing pages for your PPC campagns.

-Brad

I’ve had several questions about how ReviewAZON works with other themes and one of those questions was about the Hybrid News theme.

I’ve created an “out of the box” Wordpress blog using the Hybrid News theme just to show everyone what it looks like. These are the default templates that ship with ReviewAZON and it looks really good I think.

You can view the Hybrid Theme with ReviewAZON plug-in here:

http://hybridnews.reviewazon.com/

-Brad

One of the biggest time saving features of ReviewAZON is the ability to add bulk Amazon products/product reviews to your blog. Not only can you add multiple products at one time, you can also schedule those products to post to one or more categories and post at a scheduled time or interval.

For example, if you wanted to post 10 DVD product reviews to your blog, have them start posting tomorrow at 5pm and post one per day over the next 10 days you can do that.

Check out the demo video that shows you the incredibly simple interface that you can use to save TONS of time adding Amazon products to your blog!

YouTube direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn1R9iuc4_M

Due to overwhelming demand, I’ve added a YouTube video that shows you how easy it is to add Amazon product reviews to your blog using ReviewAZON.

I’ve had numerous emails asking to see a little of the interface and posting process. I am still tweaking and styling the interface a bit, but it is more polishing it up than anything at this point.

I’ve really tried to focus on usability in regards to the interface so that adding these reviews are a simple and straight forward process. Yes, there are lots of “power user” features in this release, but for those who are looking for the “choose a product and post” simplicity, the out of the box functionality gives you that and more.

Check out the video and let me know what you think. I’d love to hear what you have to say!

ReviewAZON also lets you add YouTube video reviews to your posts to enhance the review experience. You can add them via the tabbed interface or embed them in your custom review template.

There are literally thousands of product review videos on just about any product imaginable available on YouTube. Now that video is becoming more and more popular, you can really enhance the user experience by adding these videos to your review product page.

You can add multiple YouTube videos via the settings tab for each post and display them by using the %%REVIEWVIDEOS%% token anywhere in your custom HTML template. Of course, you can also use the out of the box templates to display the video reviews if you wish.

ReviewAZON has affiliate program support for all the major Amazon affiliate programs. These include, United States, Canada, Germany, France, Japan and the United Kingdom.

Once you get your web services key and create your Amazon associate account id you want to use for tracking, you plug the values into the settings screen and choose the country of your affiliate program.

Amazon tracking links are automatically created for you to use in your templates that are targeted to your specific affiliate program.

That is all you need to start get commissions from those customers who visit Amazon by clicking links on your site.

One of the out of the box features ReviewAZON offers is the ability to display product review information in a tabbed interface.

More and more product review websites are going to a tabbed approach to save space. This offers your customers a very uniform and easy to navigate way to get to the product review information.

You will have the ability to create multiple tabs and assign product review information to each tab you create.

As an added bonus, you will also be able to add eBay auctions as a tab in the interface by integrating phpBayLite.

This is just another way that ReviewAZON gives you the flexibility to display data in a creative and user friendly format.