I admit I was slow to jump on the XSitePro bandwagon. I already know HTML, CSS, PHP, and a variety of other acronyms, so how could a website creation tool like XSitePro help?

The simple answer was that, although I can easily make sites that way, I can make the same sites FASTER with XSitePro, leaving me more time for other things.

I didn’t buy XSitePro for that reason initially. I bought it because people kept emailing me asking me whether my software, Conversionary, worked with XSitePro. Until I tried, I couldn’t give a proper answer. (The answer, incidentally, is YES! it works great with XSitePro.)

But once I started fiddling with XSitePro, I found that it’s a powerful tool for creating websites quickly, and adding to them effortlessly. All I needed was to find the content.

I’ve had an InfoGoRound subscription since the service launched, and I’m quite happy with the content, so I began there. I started by copying and pasting from the site into XSitePro… but it was very time consuming, especially when special characters and extra line breaks and other oddies crept in.

Then I discovered the Import Pages feature of XSitePro, and I realized that my own free software, InfoGoGetter, would be perfect for quickly gathering and formating articles for batch import into XSitePro. This tutorial will show you how it works.

First, you’ll need a copy of InfoGoGetter, a freeware application you can download from infogogetter.com.

Unzip the executable to your desktop for easy access.

You should also download this zip file [InfoGoGetter_and_XSitePro.zip] which includes a PDF version of this information along with a template to use for creating pages for XSitePro to import. The page should look something like this:

Once you’ve got InfoGoGetter unzipped and your template in a place you can easily find it back again, start up InfoGoGetter and sign in with your InfoGoRound username and password. Once you’ve successfully logged in, you’ll be able to enter keywords as well as the number of articles you want to retrieve that match those keywords. For this example, I’m going to build a site about Ebay selling. Hitting the Go button will generate a list of results.

Double clicking on any title will allow you to read the article, make quick changes, and save it into a template.

Click on the “Browse” button beside the Template Path field, and you’ll open a file browser window. Find the template that came with this package, and click on it. Choose your preferred file extension (I usually pick .html), and then Generate when you’re ready to save the file.

You can repeat this process for as many articles as you wish. All your articles will be saved in a folder on your desktop (or wherever you ran the InfoGoGetter executable from) that’s named with today’s date.

Once you’ve generated pages from all of the articles you want to use, open up your project and website in XSitePro. Choosing the Other tab will bring up a screen with a variety of small boxes with different options and features. The box you need is called Import Pages (Power Pack). This allows you to import your pages directly into your XSitePro website.

In the form that appears once you click, choose the folder with your InfoGoGetter generated articles, and choose whether you’d like the pages to appear under a parent page, or on a particular menu.

Once you’ve chosen your options, go ahead and import the pages. You can then see all your new pages in the “Web Pages” tab of XSitePro, where you can decide whether or not to add keywords, change the description, and add Adsense.

Your title, headline, and article will have imported flawlessly, so all that’s left after any small tweaks is to publish your new pages!

I recently found a two neat software applications I haven’t seen mentioned very often in IM circles.

The first is free. VMN Toolbox adds a tiny widget to your screen that lets you pick colors, capture the screen or parts of it, magnify anything on your screen, post sticky notes to your desktop, and measure anything on your screen in pixels. It doesn’t take much screen real estate, but it can be very handy if you’re designing websites, or trying to match colors with CSS.

The second application I’ve found is great for creating links blogs in topics I know nothing about. When I’m creating such a blog, I subscribe to Google Alerts on the topic, and whenever a good page or article comes up in IE, SenseExplore Summarizer highlights the important bits, which I then ususally excerpt or rewrite to create a keyword targeted blog post linking to the original.

It’s not free, but at under $20 it’s not expensive either. And it has allowed me to venture into some new niches that I wouldn’t have had the time to deal with before.

UPDATE:

Just 14 more copies to be sold before I cut off memberships. Get in soon, or miss out!

At long last UltraBookmarker is available to the general public.

Check it out at http://www.ultrabookmarker.com

It’s a steal compared to similar software. And even if all you do is tag your Adsense pages, I’ll bet you make your monthy subscription fee back in one or two days, leaving lots more time to make a tidy profit from your bookmarking activities.
And so far I’ve seen one affiliate even offer a bonus package for subscribing through their link, which I think is astounding, considering the low cost of the software.

(If I hear of any more bonus offers, I’ll let you know.)

At least, the first public release of UltraBookmarker is finally done.  To preserve some exclusivity to the pre-release offer price, you’ll have to find the url to purchase it in the Warrior WSO forum, or by signing up to my list at http://www.hitminder.com (the url is in the PS of the very first message).

I have to say that getting it to public release mode has been a challenge, but very worth it.

I’ll only be offering maximum 100 copies at this way-too-low price, so you might want to check it out soon!

Not too long ago, I focused my traffic building efforts on the BIG sites.  I wouldn’t submit to a directory unless it got lots of traffic, and lots
of existing listings.

I wouldn’t submit tags to a site that wasn’t one of the top ten social bookmarking sites.

And then it all changed.

I asked one of my employees to do a little promotion for a new site,  and submit the URL to every related directory he could find. And he
did exactly that.

He submitted to sites that got maybe 1,000 visitors per year.  Directories that had only one or two other sites in their index. Sites I would have ignored completely.

A few months later, as I was analyzing my stats, I slapped myself upside the head seeing what I had missed by ignoring low traffic
underdog sites.

I saw that low traffic does not mean NO traffic.  I saw that many of those sites have a ‘recent submissions’ section on their
front page. Even with only 100 visitors a month, each and every one of those visitors were seeing my listing. And with not much else
to click on, a LOT of them came to visit.

In fact, one of those teeny, tiny underdog directories brings me more traffic each month than my listing in Dmoz/Open Directory
with all its billions served.

The same holds true for Tag and Ping.  I had a fine piece of software built for me that submits to social bookmarking sites automatically.
It submits to Digg, and Furl, and Del.icio.us. And those are valuable sites to be sure. As long as they don’t institute the nofollow tag
they’ll pass on some Page Rank too.

But I also had my programmer add some of the less popular sites, and that has made all the difference in my tag and ping efforts, and related
revenue.

A submission to Del.icio.us might bring one or two visitors, but a submission to my favorite underdog bookmarking site brings me
50 new visitors per day.

And all this brings me to a request.  I am going to be releasing my social bookmarking product in a week. I’d like to ask you to hold off
purchasing any other bookmarking software till you see what I’ve got to offer.

Here’s my promise:

• It will be affordable
• It will submit to the ‘big dogs’
• It will submit to the ‘underdogs’
• It will be fully supported and updated each and every month.

So, please hold on to your wallet. I promise it’ll save you money,
and bring more traffic.