{"id":2252,"date":"2014-10-06T06:33:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T20:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2017-04-28T10:43:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T00:43:17","slug":"what-i-learned-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/what-i-learned-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What I learned today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning is a lifelong process and that is never more true than in online marketing! With that in mind, here are a few things I picked up today that may also be useful to you&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Email Marketing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoid using\u00a0a free email account address as your reply email for your email autoresponder messages or campaigns. Use your own domain name email rather than eg a gmail address. It\u00a0improves deliverability.<\/li>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t have a website, spend $10 and <a href=\"http:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/namecheap\" target=\"_blank\">buy a domain name<\/a> just for using as an email server for your email marketing. I recommend and use <a href=\"http:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/namecheap\" target=\"_blank\">NameCheap<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>When you are about to buy a new domain name, especially if you are buying a previously used domain, check if it has any issues with being blacklisted as a spamming email domain.<\/li>\n<li>Useful sites for checking domains\n<ul>\n<li>http:\/\/mxtoolbox.com\/<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/www.dnsstuff.com\/tools#<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/www.dnsbl.info\/dnsbl-database-check.php<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ebook Covers<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Design your front cover, back cover and spine then upload the image and convert it to a 3D eBook cover image for free\n<ul>\n<li>http:\/\/melaniedayauthor.com\/eCoverAuthority\/<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/3d-pack.com\/<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/www.myecovermaker.com\/ecover-design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Site SEO<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Stats are not my thing despite getting a Distinction in the subject at Uni. Still, we need to know how we&#8217;re performing. Today I found a quick site analysis tool of interest. Nice to see my Alexa rank has improved recently \ud83d\ude42\n<ul>\n<li>http:\/\/alexa.com<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/siteexplorer.info\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em>It&#8217;s been a mildly productive day but as I was taking the day off, I thought I&#8217;d catch up on emails and learning. Now, it&#8217;s off to the Grand Final. Go the Rabbitohs!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning is a lifelong process and that is never more true than in online marketing! With that in mind, here are a few things I picked up today that may also be useful to you&#8230; Email Marketing Avoid using\u00a0a free email account address as your reply email for your email autoresponder messages or campaigns. Use&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/what-i-learned-today\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What I learned today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[194,360,42,32],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-domain-names","tag-ebook-cover","tag-email-marketing","tag-seo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/learning.jpg?fit=500%2C316&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3M6th-Ak","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}