” Upgrade current website to WordPress and add blog and iHomefinder IDX intergation….call anytime after 9am EST”

I called at 6:10 our time (9:10 EST) and asked him the question i already had an idea of the answer to:

“How did you find me?”

Of course it was a two word Google search: “ihomefinder wordpress”; which yielded this March blog post:

http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/seemless-integration-of-ihomefinder-idx-into-a-wordpress-blog/

I have been trying to explain this to people who are buying PPC and lousy leads for years, since 2001: because of ActiveRain.com, some of you are finally starting to get it.  Maybe this example will help   (PS: It is about the content!)

To work around this bug, here is how to embed video into your blog posts and pages:

I had to fix the videos in code view, here are instructions for now, to work around the incompatibility of the Youtube player with the visual editor:

1.  Build the rest of the page forst
2. In the editor, click HTML tab, now you are looking at code, but the text is still text so you can see where you are
3.  Insert the embed code from Youtube: example:
<object width=”640″ height=”385″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/YAwJR0_G2vU&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/YAwJR0_G2vU&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”385″></embed></object><br />
4.  Remove everything but this:
<embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/YAwJR0_G2vU&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”385″></embed>

5.  Surround the embed code like this with

<div><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/YAwJR0_G2vU&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”385″></embed></div>

6.  Save without going back to visual editor.

7.  If you edit the page later, you can use the visual editor to make edits and change things around, but only save in code view (HTML tab)

8. For WordPress – there are plug-ins that fix this problem, I found this one with a five star rating:
http://www.press75.com/v4/the-simple-video-embedder-wordpress-plugin/

But most people do not realize the value of a group like this one for market testing: case in point: we are about to launch a replacement for e-Lance and Rent-a-Coder for the buying and selling of digital media products and services of all kinds including websites, video, and marketing – all free, with nothing standing in the way of the transactions (sort of like a free dating site for business, with the best features of Linked-in, Facebook, Meetup.com.)

What Better place to get some feedback about the initial copy and branding: your opinion please:

Welcome to Ideapals: Bringing passionate people together to collaborate, innovate, and make money doing what they love:

We have created the ‘currency’ of “NODS”: work your passion here and get paid! Everything you do around here earns NODs (Natural Overtures Of Distinction) and we have placed a value on the currency of NODs: Whenever you have an idea, an opinion, a comment, a friend, or what we call a ‘spark’, and you share it: you get paid in NODs!

Innovation and acknowledgment are the bricks and motor, the raw materials with which an idea, a group, or a community are formed.

Buy bringing together in the simplest way possible the best features from top social media sites, using the hottest, newest ‘open source’ (free) software (LAMP+AD, or LAMPAD: Linux,Apache,My Sequal,PHP,Aquia,Drupal ‘the new stack’) we bring to you in one free, online application, the best features of:

• Linkedin (HR)
• Twitter  (Global Chat)
• Facebook  (Friends)
• Basecamp (Project management)
• Meetup(Social Networking in person)
• ActiveRain (Niche Community Affinity Blog)

You could win a $50,000 marketing campaign and Modern Social Website for your business for just for signing up here for free! Here is what we will give away:

• Absolutely FREE Aquia Drupal elaborate, custom website:
• Complete with Branding, Grapics, custom Functions,
• Public Realations
• Video in HD and Web-ready formats distributed to the world on multiple video sharing sites
• SEO (search engine optimization) * SEM (search engine marketing)
• Premium, dedicated, unlimited Hosting for one year
• Link building and other advertising including
• A premium video advertisement added at the end of the 56 week Crowd Driven Series we are about to Release  You will also have the chance to win may other prizes and upgrades including:
• Free websites
• Free hosting
• Free upgrades
• Free advertising
• Free video production
• Free project management
• Free CRM
• Free mass email campaign And many other incentives just for participating, collaborating, even soliciting:

You will automatically have chances to win the Grand Prize and other prizes without doing anything but signing up: but you will also be compensated here for: Actions you get NODs for:

1. Authoring the best reply – 5 NODs
2. Commenting on Sparks (ideas), IdeaPals groups, – 5 NODs
3. Invite other people – 5 NODs each
4. When invited user registers – 50 NODs each
5. When you register if you were invited – 50 NODs
6. Moderation – Approve – 1 NOD
7. Moderation – Delete – 1 NOD
8. Moderation Response -5 NODs
9. Viewing IdeaPals Group, Spark – 1 NOD
10. Registering – 25 NODs
11. Posting an IdeaPals Free Group – 50 NODs
12. Posting a Spark (idea) – 10 NODs
13. Moderating a comment – 1 NOD
14. Posting a picture – 10 NODs
15. Voting up or down – 1 NOD
16. Flagging – 1 NOD

1. Graphics
   
2. Concept
3. Copy
4. Anything else that you would like to add
5. Role, if any, that you would play in our launch (IE: Beta Tester, Partner, Vendor, Reseller, User, Buyer, Seller)

1. Problem: The homepage doesn’t target a specific keyword combination that people actually search for.

Solution: Add specific keywords to the homepage title, use a plugin like ALL in One SEO Pack to rewrite the default wordpress titles.  If you don’t know any specific keyword phrases offhand that also sound good to use for marketing purposes try keyword research.  An easy starting place is:  https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

2. Problem:  The homepage, posts, or pages are missing header tags (most importantly the h1 tag) or they’re not targeting the same keywords as the title tag for that page/post.

Solution:   Some themes do not use the h1 tag properly or at all.  Add an h1 tag with the page title in it somewhere on the post and page templates.  Usually this is put first before the content begins.  Also in some themes the main blog title is always the h1 and the posts are h2, this is not the way I setup the semantic markup, but it is a ‘correct’ alternative.

3.  Problem:  All of the various sections (pages, posts, categories,  archives) do not have unique meta tags and/or h1 tags

Solution:  Every page on your website needs DIFFERENT meta tags, a unique title, description and keyword tag.   There are wordpress plugins which will help you do this automatically by using the content in the posts / pages themselves again see the All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin.

Additionally it would be beneficial if each page contained a 4 word exact keyword phrase in the title tag and also on the page in the h1 tag.  You can use any keyword research tool to find exact phrases.  A free one that gives information on google’s searches is located here:  https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

4.     Problem:  Too many links to unimportant sections on the front page

Solution: Please  reduce the amount of links on your front page.  I would try to keep that number below 40 and for your site we would personally recommend only 20.  (more pages dilute the “importance value” of each page, since your site has no page rank and a high amount of posts and pages which Google will not return in the main results.  Google will only rank a limited number of posts and pages from a low pr website, so it’s better to push the most important parts of your site and have those link to the less important pages / sections).   One easy way to do this is with a simplified front page before they get hit with links to every single section of the site.

5.    Problem: No  alternative text tags on images so the search engines can’t tell what keywords to associate with the image.

Solution:  Make sure to add an alternate description to each image you upload using the visual editor.  Alternatively think about using time saving plugins like Photodropper which insert photos with alt text and credits right from the editor itself.

6.    Problem:  Duplicate content – You have content available elsewhere on the web in your site.  This can hurt rankings as search engines only like to rank the same content once.

Solution:  Please exclude that file in your robots.txt file, or add a <META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX” /> tag to the header of those specific sections of the site.

7.       Problem: The site contains structure errors are in the actual html and css.

Solution:  Although it’s not important It’s not important for rankings that your site validate perfectly, but any major errors should be fixed – Run your site through http://validator.w3.org/ and fix any major structure errors.