How to Increase Email Open Rate?

If you are into email marketing, testing is the key. There are various things to  tested to improve Email Open Rates. Link click through rates is completely different area.

Send Email once a week ( on high traffic days)
Send Email once number of articles reaches certain number  ( RSS to Email)
Generic Email Subject ( What’s New, [...]

25% Increase in Average Time on Site

Average Time Spent by visitors on the site depends on type of sites  ( Blogs, Forums, Shopping Site, …). But, over period of time one can recognize the pattern establish a pattern and data will speak for itself.
In one of my blog, Average Time on site was around 3  Minutes, but I started testing Adsense  [...]

Wordpress Password – Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid

If you run into Password Recovery Error with Wordpress Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid, do the following

To correct this, fire up phpmyadmin ( it will be usually mysql.yoursite.com) in Cpanel,
click on the database name,

Select “wp_users” Table

Click on Brose Icon ( first icon)

Click on the Row to edit the password
Click [...]

Wordpress Database – Backup and Restore

List of Wordpress Database related articles

Wordpress Database Backup and Restore – Quick Online Tips
Daily Wordpress Database Backup Quick Online Tips
Blog Backup Strategy David Risley
Manual wordpress Database Backup

Wordpress Email/Comments Notification Not Working – Fixed

After updating Wordpress to 2.8.4 version, Comments and Contact form email notification was not working. I’m using Contact Form 7 for Contact Page.
Problem –
Looks like php mail function is not working properly after wordpress update or it could be because of your hosting provider disabled PHP Mail functionality.
Fix -
Configure Wordpress to use SMTP instead [...]

Change in Google Search Results Layout?

I was searching in Google and noticed change in Google Search results page layout. They have moved the Sponsored Links on right end of the search results page towards the search results. Is this going to be permanent change or just me seeing some test version? Can we expect new search features soon?

Or it’s just [...]

10 Daily Wordpress Blog Health Checks

If you are a blogger, then every morning it’s required to run a quick health check on the blog. I do the following checks as soon I jump out of the bed

Check the Home Page and open the latest posted article
Check page views ( it’s easy to know the page views that should [...]

Top 10 Search Terms – July 2009

Top 10 search terms for Week ending 08/01/2009.

Create Landing Page in Wordpress Blog in 2 Minutes

Landing page is also referred to as Squeeze Page. Sometimes Sales Page will also serve as Landing Page. Landing page in wordpress can be created by two ways, depending on design of  landing page.
Landing Page in Wordpress

Landing Page Blends with Wordpress Theme
Typical Unique Landing Page (lengthy sales page)

What is Landing Page

A landing page serves [...]

Email Marketing Metrics – Not from Aweber

If you are using any Email Marketing services like Aweber, iContact, Constatnt Contact, Get Response, Mailer Mailer,… I’m sure you will be spending lot of time trying to optimize the newsletter.
Mailer Mailer have released their Email Marketing Metrics. It’s very useful to increase your Click through rate and email open rates. They provide Top 10 [...]