Ryan T Malone

Looking For A WP Membership Plugin That Doesn’t Suck?

December 20, 2011 By Ryan T Malone 1 Comment

I’m fresh from creating a WP Membership plugin based website using a combination of Optimizepress, and Wishlist Member. Truth be told, I bought Wishlist Member some time ago now, but have been waiting for the right project to come along – and it has. Finally.

But… at the end of the day, why exactly is it that I chose to use Wishlist Member over a ton of other WP membership plugins?

Simple. I don’t like to create what I refer to as “wham bam” membership sites, where a customer pays for their membership, and are dumped a ton of content for them to get confused by.

No, I prefer to drip feed content and leverage the new relationship – release one piece of content at a time, so that my members can get through it at their own pace. Not just that, but I like this all to be backed up by an Autoresponder, such as Aweber, that notifies them as new content is being added, and helps me further build on that relationship and keep it fresh.

Steven Pressfield Would Be Proud Of Me.

November 28, 2011 By Ryan T Malone 4 Comments

If you’ve been following my rants about resistance, then the image below really wont need a long drawn out explaination.

If I’ve sent you here because you don’t quite understand that “obstacles” only make way for success, remember… I weigh 130kg. Sometimes walking is an obstacle for me.

If neither – grab a copy of Steven Pressfields “The War Of Art” and it will change your world.

Filed Under: Getting Things Done Tagged With: do the work, resistance, steven pressfield, the war of art

Dont Forget Why You Do This Stuff.

November 25, 2011 By Ryan T Malone 4 Comments

It’s natural to work your butt off if the results are worth the time spent on the task. We all do it, whether it is working from home, running your own business, or working for someone else. We all work hard to get an end result, and that’s cool.

So, if I think back to why it is that we create businesses, and/or the ability to be able to work from somewhere of our own choosing, be it our home, the local cafe, or our own office building… does it not defeat the purpose of going our own way in the world if we do nothing but work 18 hour days, only to sleep for 6, get up rinse and repeat 7 days of the week?

Filed Under: Getting Things Done Tagged With: building business, doing the work, internet marketing

There And Back Again – An Internet Marketers Tale…

October 28, 2011 By Ryan T Malone 14 Comments

Three days ago, I resigned from a job that I accepted working for a large insurance company here in Melbourne, Australia. It didn’t feel good. It should have, but I didn’t enjoy it like most of you surely would. Not one bit.

The reason that it felt bad was because through my own mind, and the path that I had planned for myself, I truly believed that the idea of taking up part time work three months ago was not just the best thing for me, but the best possible thing for my own business.

With the extra cash, I could hire an article writer or two, I could pay for extra accounts that I needed and other memberships that I wanted. I could make use of several of the paid services that I have been wanting to use for some time. Money, at the time, meant that I could take my business to the next level, even with me involved in it 70% or so less.

Filed Under: Getting Things Done Tagged With: internet marketing, productivity, resistance

WordPress SEO Plugins – An 8 Minute Guide

August 31, 2011 By Ryan T Malone 6 Comments

Whilst I am taking a forced 4 weeks of lockdown mode whilst I work on a few ideas and start a new adventure (more on that soon!), I managed to sneak in some time to create a video about WordPress SEO plugins. In fact, I’m going to create a few more of these over the[Read the rest of this post...]

Filed Under: SEO

Google Gives Reputable Authors The Whole “Above The Fold”

August 10, 2011 By Ryan T Malone 8 Comments

Just a quick one today folks. Luke Moulton who apart from being one heck of a top guy (payments via PayPal Luke. ) has also proven to have one of the quickest and most keen eyes I have ever known.

Silently, he is also responsible for my love of Affiliate Marketing, which although he is probably not all that aware of it, his quick eye helped me notice an opportunity some time ago that paid off big time.

Anyway… I’m not writing a post about Luke, I’m writing one about something that he stumbled across today, and like anything that Luke shares, it kind of spiraled from there and has become something much bigger.

Filed Under: SEO Tagged With: author rank, authorship markup, google, sitelinks

Keyword Ideas & Selection – How To Pick A Winner

July 28, 2011 By Ryan T Malone 6 Comments

There is no hard and fast rule to anything in life. Saving for that house deposit, buying your first car, and even coming up with profitable keyword ideas. However, the main difference between the three is that it’s not that straight forward to test drive a keyword. You just have to earn it, and see how it performs, and adjust accordingly.

Here’s the problem. It can take a fair amount of time to rank highly in Google – it recently took me 3 months to take out a highly competitive phrase, however, at the end of the day, with all of the time that I spent writing articles, submitting them, paying for other services, spreading the word on social media, and so on, what says that a keyword is going to pay off well enough to pay off the time investment involved in winning it?

Filed Under: SEO Tagged With: keyword research, keyword selection, search engine optimization, SEO keywords

The Vicious Creation Cycle

July 27, 2011 By Ryan T Malone 4 Comments

Now, this is going to take a little bit of digging, but I’m pretty sure it was early 2009 when I started buying domains. I think. Cheap dot info domains too, because I was way too cheap to spend a whopping ten bucks on a domain. Why buy one when I can buy ten, right? Ha! I totally had the “smarts”. I had also discovered the Wordpress platform (which I still proudly use today), and blinded by the the thousands of opportunities that were in front of me, all I knew was that in some way shape or form, websites meant money, and lots of it. Or, something like that…

So lets fast forward to 2011. Sadly, I didn’t earn my millions. Not yet, anyway. I’m not going to lie to you for the sake of building false trust – I ain’t a high earner by no means. Yes, I teach people how to do what it is that I do (because I have had my successes), but do I earn millions? Nope. Here’s what I do…

Filed Under: Getting Things Done Tagged With: content creation, creation, taking action, to do list

Google Authorship Markup Verification Tutorial For Bloggers

July 24, 2011 By Ryan T Malone 105 Comments

At the start of July this year, many people started noticing that there were a few pretty big changes happening in search. The number one most influential change being the inclusion of a profile image to the right of search results. I’d also like to make it very clear that I am not talking about the smaller avatars below results, as per some confusion on Twitter and Facebook this weekend about a breaking story from Google that actually broke a month ago.

Understandably, this is going to be a pretty drastic change, a real “Make Or Break” kind of change, and one that (luckily enough!) we can use to our advantage. For example – consider the impact that having an author profile image may have from a traffic generation standpoint.

Filed Under: SEO Tagged With: author markup, authorship markup, google, google profile, rich snippets