Nick from http://www.nicksjourney.com/ was looking for a cool ebook cover software that didn’t require photoshop. He had looked at:

http://www.virtual-cover-creator.net/   $90     create
http://www.adolix.com/ecover-engineer    $38    plain
http://www.3d-ebook-shot.com    $97     makes videos
http://www.3d-pack.com/#swf     free
http://www.absolutecovers.com  – subscription service?
http://www.ebooktemplatesource.com/ebook-cover-software.html — 3 free
photoshop templates

He wanted to know what I use. I’ve use a software package called True Box Shot for $45

Nick said “I found the mackdaddy of all the ebook cover creators.  Most of everything I found up to this point was either a simple graphics program that did basic 3D rotations -OR- a photoshop template. It’s Box Shot 3d and it’s only $57

Putting Advertising On Your Blog – Update

I had previously spoke about the OIO Publisher that allows you to sell banner, links, posts, and more on your wordpress site (and its widget ready). After using this for one of my podcast fast pass clients, I’m not a huge fan. It doesn’t allow you to sell clicks, or track stats based on a banner. You get stats for the whole system.  I’ve used Ad Manager Pro from PHP Webscripts and I tested it and it works great in a blog (as I found out that with the OIO publisher I ended up copying and pasting code anyway. While the OIO publisher is cheaper, Ad Manager Pro gives you the flexibility and stats to sell advertisements on your blog.

Comments on Esyndicat

Regular listeners know we use PHP Webscripts for our Link Section (using Link up gold). However, I always like to try new things to make sure I’m using the best, and that I am up on the latest technology for my clients. I had spoken about Esyndicat in a previous show. I thought I would try out their free version. While their system isn’t as robust as Link Up Gold, I did really like the interface. Both Link Up Gold and Eysndicat have a free version. Installing eysndicat was a breeze (once I got over the MySQL part, but that’s my bad). In general if you looking for something simple (and you don’t need the power of Link Up Gold) I would give it a thumbs up.

New Google Insights Tool

Kind of a cross between google trends, and their key word tool. Check it out at http://www.google.com/insights/search

Do You Know of a Good Craig’s List Submission / Automation Tool?

I’ve seen a few at www.uneeksoftware.com and www.adsoncraig.com but I haven’t seen one that heps me post and thats it (not looking to be a giant spammer). Got any ideas? Let us know at 888-563-3228

SEOBOOK SEO Add On FOR FIREFOX
This add on performs the following:
Pulls useful market research data right into Google’s and Yahoo!’s search results, including the following data near each search result.

• PR: (Google PageRank) an estimated measure of global link authority
• Age: age pulled from Archive.org, shows the first time a page was indexed by Links: (Yahoo! linkdomain) shows a rough estimate of the total number of links pointing at a domain
• .edu Link: (Yahoo! .edu linkdomain ) shows a rough estimate of the total number of .edu links pointing at a domain
• .edu Page Link: (Yahoo! .edu link ) shows a rough estimate of the total number of .edu links pointing at a specific page
• .gov Link: (Yahoo! .gov linkdomain ) shows a rough estimate of the total number of .gov links pointing at a domain
• Page Links: (Yahoo! link) shows a rough estimate of the total number of links pointing at a page
• del.icio.us: number of times a URL has been bookmarked on Del.icio.us. Technorati: an estimate of the total number of links to a site from blogs
• Alexa: rank based on website traffic .
• Cached: (Google site:) shows how many pages from a site are indexed in Google
• dmoz: searches the Google Directory to count the total number of pages from a site that are listed in DMOZ.
• Bloglines: shows you how many people are subscribed to a particular blog via Bloglines.
• dir.yahoo.com: is a site listed in the Yahoo! Directory or not.
• WhoIs: makes it easy to look up the whois data for any site.

List and Traffic: How to Grow and Profit Opt-In Lists and Web Site Traffic

This is a membership site ($20/month) that I belong to that has in depth articles on traffic building, list builing, increasing your market reach, lead conversions,  and more.

ARELIS Professional Link Building Tool

The other tool I’m talking about this week is Arelis from Axandra.com I use this tool to create our LINKS SECTION every week. I put in the URLs, add a category and publish (it does the rest). If I want I can use it to send out link exchange requests, as well as help me find sites to link with (and who my competitors is link to) and more. It can be ordered separately, or combined with the IBP software (Internet Business Promoter). I may talk about this software in the future. It helps find keywords, it automates submitting your website to search engines (and reminds you if you try to spam them.

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