Google affiliate ads for bloggers in the UK now!

This year we launched Google affiliate ads for bloggers in the United States and additional enhancements in June. The positive results and feedback that we have received are very promising, and we are pleased to announce that this gadget Blogger users in the UK is now available!

To refresh your memory, Google, affiliate ads for bloggers is a gadget, which makes it easy for Blogger users insert an affiliate ad in a blog entry and receive a Commission when someone clicks on the link and purchase on the advertiser's site does.

The video below for a quick refresher:

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If you're a blogger who switch user in the United Kingdom or the United States, to the after tab in Blogger and sign up for AdSense, if you don't already have a Konto.Sobald an AdSense account have, possibly the Google affiliate for blogger gadget display ads if you have a new blog post. * write write a new post and choose the 'Advertise products' gadget a relevant partner display. your post, and Voila! You can a Commission when someone clicks on your partner ad and makes a purchase.Participating UK advertisers:
Advertisers including Bestbathrooms.com, eFlorist, Cheapsuites.co.uk, crooked tongues, diamond manufacturer, have Hudsonreed.com and perfume then click the Snugg already on board, and more are joining every day.

If you an advertiser participation in Google affiliate ads for bloggers are interested, Google affiliate network customer team or contact us please now on your if you are not already working with us.

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Mobile, List Building, Analytics and Automation: July 2014 Apps Roundup

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With more and more integrations available every month, we decided to skip the theme approach for this roundup.

July’s five featured apps include services to help you grow your email lists with mobile opt-ins and forms, use powerful segmentation and automation options, and roll your email analytics into a comprehensive dashboard.

In their own ways, each of these services provides a boost to your email marketing efforts.

How do you determine which ones are the best fit? With these helpful at-a-glance overviews, how-to videos and special offers from our partners.

Justin Mastrangelo, Founder of Join By Text. Twitter: @JustinPGH

Who is Join By Text best suited for?

Join By Text is best suited for businesses and nonprofits who want to grow their email list offline at events, in-store, or through traditional media. It lets users sign up for an email list quickly and easily by texting a keyword to a five-digit number. By using text messaging to grow their list, organizations can eliminate time-consuming, inaccurate sign-up methods.

What sets Join By Text apart from other, similar apps?

Join By Text is completely text message-based, making it compatible with nearly every mobile phone today, even those that can’t browse the web. Unlike app-based sign-up methods, which require users to wait in line for a tablet or kiosk, there are no limits on how many people can sign up simultaneously from their own phone.

What benefits/results can marketers expect from using this integration?

Marketers can expect to grow their email list faster offline and save the time needed to manually enter and decipher handwritten email addresses. In addition, adding a text-to-join keyword to traditional media like TV, radio, and print gives marketers a new channel for growing their email database.

Why should AWeber customers connect to Join By Text right now?

Join By Text is one of the most effective ways to capture email addresses offline.

What’s the pricing model? Is there a special offer for AWeber clients?

Join By Text is free for the first two weeks, and then $19 per month for capturing up to 500 email addresses per month. Larger plans are available upon request. However, AWeber clients can take a 45-day free trial (first full month free, basically) now until August 31, 2014.

How can I get started today?

Nicky Hajal, Developer at Pippity. Twitter: @PippityPopup

Who is Pippity best suited for?

Pippity is great for anyone looking to quickly build their email list – especially if they don’t want to hurt their relationship with readers in the process. It allows site owners to create popups and popup bars that convert like crazy without driving away traffic and annoying visitors.

Pippity is also a powerful tool for web designers and developers that want to offer custom popups to their clients. Creating a totally custom popup, with the full functionality of Pippity, is as simple as creating a bit of HTML and CSS.

What sets Pippity apart from other, similar apps?

Many popup plugins are clunky to work with, have limited functionality and often don’t consider the experience of the site visitor at all. Site owners get hassled by annoyed readers and decide popups aren’t for them, sacrificing their valuable mailing list in the process.

Pippity makes it extremely easy to create effective popups that behave in ways that interrupt the visitor of the site as little as possible. With analytics and A/B testing, you can even see if your popup is driving away traffic and make changes accordingly.

What benefits/results can marketers expect from using this integration?

Many site owners are happy with even a one percent conversion rate of their opt-in forms. With Pippity, it’s normal to see a 400 to 500 percent improvement rate. We sometimes see conversion rates of popups over 10 percent (here’s a Pippity customer with a 14 percent conversion rate)!

Why should AWeber customers connect to Pippity right now?

How many visitors this month have come to your site, enjoyed the content and then left, perhaps never to return. You may be losing leads right now.

It doesn’t have to be that way. It takes five minutes or less to get your first Pippity pop up live, and start converting visitors into long-term fans and customers.

What’s the pricing model? Is there a special offer for AWeber clients?

Site owners can start growing their list starting at $49 per year for a single site. We also offer plans for five sites and unlimited sites. Plus, AWeber clients can get 33% off any plan with the coupon code AWEBERONLY.

How can I get started today?

Neeraj Agarwal, CEO at Magnet Brains. Twitter: @MagnetBrains

Who is this app best suited for?

Anyone who wants to create forms for their website, attract tons of visitors and maximize form conversion. For promoting and growing your business online, FormGet is your helping hand.

What sets FormGet apart from other, similar apps?

It is one of the easiest form-building solutions. Create and design any kind of form with just a few clicks. Easily create payment channels and collect payments for services via the form as well. FormGet has a powerful dashboard to manage multiple form entries (lead questions) and an integrated helpdesk system to communicate with clients in a real-time conversation. Additionally, form queries can be easily delegated to different team members. In all, you can quickly create forms, manage lead requests, track forms and analyze sales performance with just one app.

What benefits/results can marketers expect from using this integration?

Create branded, mobile-optimized forms to increase conversionCollect payments via formsManage lead details and sales queries from one dashboardAccess form analytics and tracking

Why should AWeber customers connect to FormGet right now?

With the help of AWeber’s integration in FormGet, one can get customers’ contact details like name and email ID directly from FormGet forms to the AWeber dashboard. That means you can create forms and do email marketing, all on a single platform.

What’s the pricing model? Is there a special offer for AWeber clients?

The basic FormGet price is $95 per year, which provides 10 form limits and unlimited form entries/messages. FormGet also provides plans for larger businesses and agencies.

How can I get started today?

Arienne Holland, Director of Marketing and Customer Experience at Raven Tools. Twitter: @RavenTools

Who is Raven Tools best suited for?

Raven is great for smaller to mid-size online marketing agencies looking for efficiency and professionalism. Raven helps teams collaborate quickly on SEO, social, PPC and content marketing campaigns from one central location. Then it makes client reporting as easy and automated as possible, with brandable reports, so agencies can emphasize their value.

What sets Raven Tools apart from other, similar apps?

Most modern online marketing agencies use a variety of tactics to meet their clients’ business goals, such as SEO, social, email, content marketing and so on. Raven gives these agencies an affordable, effective option for managing and reporting on all of those campaigns. There’s no need to jump from tool to tool or manually compile reports from a variety of data sources.

What benefits/results can marketers expect from using this integration?

To quote one of our customers: “Raven Tools allows us to speed up our reporting process and keep track of metrics that are important to us and our clients. The more efficient we are – the higher value we can provide to our clients.”

Why should AWeber customers connect to Raven Tools right now?

Email marketing is a key online marketing tactic. In fact, it’s a primary tactic for how we market Raven itself. But usually, it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Perhaps there are related social campaigns, or content marketing with a lead capture form. No matter the tactic, consider the effect of those campaigns on your client’s website. Are they paying off in terms of Google Analytics goals and conversions? Raven helps you tie all of that information together and report on it in a way that’s meaningful to your clients.

What’s the pricing model? Is there a special offer for AWeber clients?

Right now, Raven has two pricing plans: $99 per?month and $249 per?month. Our prices are very competitive, so we don’t usually offer discounts. However, if you’re serious about using Raven, we’re offering AWeber customers 50 percent off their first paid month. Just send us an email at help@raventools.com.

How can I get started today?

Jack Born, Founder of AW Pro Tools. Twitter: @AWProTools

Who is this app best suited for?

AW Pro Tools gives you the power to segment your list automatically based on triggers. What this means is that AW Pro Tools will move your subscribers to the “best match” list based on automation rules that you set. As each subscriber interacts with your marketing, AW Pro Tools will instantly adjust your follow-up marketing based on what links they click, what pages they visit and even which videos they watch.

What sets AW Pro Tools apart from other, similar apps?

AW Pro Tools is the only app designed specifically for AWeber users that want to automate their list segmentation. If you’re already using AWeber, AW Pro Tools gives you the benefit of trigger-based marketing automation.

What benefits/results can marketers expect from using this integration?

AW Pro Tools can help grow your sales and decrease your opt-out rates by automatically making your followup marketing more relevant to each subscriber based on rules that you set.

Why should AWeber customers connect to AW Pro Tools right now?

If you want to segment your lists based on automated rules, AW Pro Tools makes it simple. Instead of sending the same follow up messages to all subscribers, AW Pro Tools helps you automatically tailor your marketing to match what interests your subscribers most.

What’s the pricing model? Is there a special offer for AWeber clients?

Currently the pricing is $29.99 per month after a 14-day free trial. For a limited time, AWeber users can lock in an annual discount using promo code AWEBER and decide later if AW Pro Tools is a great fit for your marketing automation.

How can I get started today?

These apps run the gamut from helping you simplify email campaign management to enabling you to create more effective, lead-generating forms. We hope to hear your feedback on these apps.

Meanwhile, if you missed our recent roundups, you can catch up (June, May, April, March, January) or head over to our App Showcase to explore the variety of third-party integrations and make the most of your AWeber account.

What other apps are you looking for? How have our featured integrations been working for you? Tell us in the comments!

Olivia Dello Buono and Kristen Dunleavy contributed to this post.

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Are You Required To Reconfirm Your Subscribers When Switching to AWeber?

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Maybe not.

Questions arise when deciding to make the move from other email service providers to AWeber:

Will my subscribers need to re-confirm that they want to continue receiving my emails?

How can I be sure that my list will be approved?

How can I be sure my subscribers will get the emails I send from my new email service provider?

We realize that requiring your existing email subscribers to re-opt in to content they have already agreed to receive can be confusing. Switching your email service provider should be seamless to your subscribers and painless for you!

The short answer is “not always.” By default, AWeber requires new subscribers to use confirmed opt in (COI), sometimes referred to as double opt in, to any imported list as per industry standard. COI is a process that involves having new subscribers provide their email address to you (via a web form) and then receive an email asking them to confirm that they want to be added to the list. This reduces the risk of spam complaints because users must explicitly confirm that they wish to receive your emails. Without using confirmed opt in spammers, bots, malicious site visitors, and typos can inadvertently add addresses to your list that did not request your information, thus lowering your deliverability and risking your email reputation.

Generally subscribers who confirm are more likely to be engaged, meaning higher response rates and more qualified leads. This is the safest way to build a list, as following this practice allows for improved deliverability to the people who really want to receive your messages, while establishing the credibility of the sender (you).

If you are importing a list from another email service provider, you may be able to import your subscribers without going through confirmed opt in again. While there are exceptions to this, if you have an email list that is well managed (low bounce and complaint rates) and brings good response rates (consistent opens and clicks), our Import Specialists will be able to review your third party account to see if it is eligible to bypass confirmed opt in. Our team wants to make importing your list easy to ensure your emails get delivered.

Something that isn’t talked about very much is how having confirmed subscribers improves the deliverability of your emails. AWeber has published a 5-Point Inspection on Email Deliverability, Email Delivery Tips, and a free PDF ebook Get Your Emails Delivered that cover some of the items that can cause your sent emails not to reach the inbox of your subscribers.

AWeber maintains some of the very best email deliverability rates in the industry. Our team works to maintain our relationships with major Internet Service Providers to ensure that your email gets delivered to the people that want it.

Maintaining opt in email lists are a huge part of keeping a high deliverability rate. Mail that is requested from subscribers is much more likely to reach the inbox than unsolicited emails sent to purchased or rented lists. AWeber monitors all of our customer accounts to make sure they only send to subscribers who asked to hear from them.

Our Customer Solutions team is available seven days a week to ensure that the migration process is as seamless as possible. We do all of the heavy-lifting, so you can focus on making the most of your marketing content.

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Engage with your readers through threaded commenting

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You may have noticed that we’ve rolled out a number of improvements to Blogger recently. The folks over at Technorati referred to it as a “rampage”. Call it what you like, we’re definitely having fun giving Blogger the makeover it’s long deserved, and we appreciate all the positive feedback we received at the recent BlogWorld expo.

If you follow us on our Buzz blog, you’re aware that we publish surveys from time to time. They are one of several methods that we use to collect your feedback about what we can do to make your blogging experience better. A top request on the wishlist is improving Blogger’s commenting system, so we’re happy to announce that we’ve done just that.

Blogger now supports threaded commenting, which means that it is now much easier to differentiate between whether someone is making a general comment on the thread, or responding to another comment on the thread.

What do you have to do to enable this on your blog? Nothing! If you have Blogger’s commenting feature enabled, “Blog Feed” set to “Full”, and are using “Embedded” comments, then you’re ready to start a discussion with your readers. To check, or change your feed settings, select: “Settings > Other >, and then “Full” from the “Allow Blog Feed” dropdown:
To check your current form setting, select: “Settings > Posts and Comments, and select “Embedded” from the “Comment Location” dropdown: Visit the Blogger Help Center for additional information.
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How to Get Higher Email Opens By Split Testing Subject Lines

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Are your email open rates struggling? You might be making mistakes you don’t even know you’re making. You can find out with a split test.

Last week, we explained the power of a good split test and showed how it can be done with sign up forms and lightboxes. But split tests don’t end once your list has taken shape. You can also test different elements of your emails to see what makes for more successful emails.

One of the easiest things to test is your subject line. Subject lines are crucial because they are the very first thing people see in their inbox. If it doesn’t intrigue them, it could also be the last thing they see of that email.

ClickZ, a marketing blog, did a test (and a retest) of a consistent subject line for a newsletter vs. a subject that indicated the topic of that edition of the newsletter. The consistent subject was “Subscriber Newsletter,” and the test ensured that the key theme of the newsletter was in the first 25 characters (ie “Prime Real Estate”).

Despite common advice that a consistent subject line helps open rates, ClickZ found the opposite:

More people were opening and engaging with the newsletter when they knew what would be covered. Though consistency was impacted by the change, the insight provided by the title allowed people to determine if it would be worth reading.

When people knew ahead of time that they would be interested in what the email had to say, they engaged more with the content as well.

Here at AWeber, we tested direct, relevant subjects against creative, sometimes ambiguous subject lines.
The more direct subject lines were the clear winners. Though the creative subjects could be intriguing in the inbox, if people weren’t sure what they were going to gain from opening it, they were less likely to do so.
These are the subject lines we tested, organized by style:

Are Blacklisted Link Shorteners Getting Your Emails Blocked?Grow Your Email List 99% Faster: How One Site Did It43 Free Animated GIFs For Your Email CampaignEmail Timing: A Look At 6 MarketersEmail Marketers, Here’s What to Watch For in 2012What Do Teens Really Think Of Email?Customer Spotlight ? SEER InteractiveAWeber’s AWesome Anthony A.Selling Digital: The Perfect Last-Minute Christmas GiftGetting Earth-Friendly Beyond EmailThreadless’ Frequency Alert: Hot or Not?Why You Want Your Emails Filtered

The clear subject lines outperformed the creative ones in every metric. These were the numbers:

The split tests above give just a small snapshot of what’s possible when it comes to testing your subject lines. There are so many variables that go into the subject that it’s important to take them all into consideration, then test them one at a time.
Some variables to consider, courtesy of The WordStream Blog:

Length (does shorter or longer work better for your audience?)Personalization (including their name or other details in the title?)Use of Numbers (are they better spelled out or as numerals?)Question Marks and other icons (Eye catching or annoying?)Humor (Do people respond well to jokes or do they prefer a straightforward approach?)Scarcity tactics (Do people act on urgency?)

As always, even if you think you know what your subscribers like best – it’s worth the test.

There is a lot of research out there about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to headlines. Though these aren’t hard and fast rules, we want to give you some of the highlights to make your tests more effective.

In short, the spam filter. A few things to steer clear of:

CAPS LOCK IN YOUR SUBJECT LINELots of punctuation!!!!!!Spammy words such as free, winner, or profitsAny combination of these things

Though these tactics might catch someone’s eye in their inbox, if they’re coupled with other spam concerns, they’ll be caught in the spam filter first.

Convince your reader, through the subject line, that your content is worth their time and won’t take up too much of it.
According to Copyblogger, there are a few key things that accomplish this:

“How to” headlinesHeadlines with numbers, indicating a listSimple, direct statementsHeadlines that sound like news, not an adThe use of “you”

Use these tips, consider your variables and run some tests! We’d love to hear your findings in the comments section.

Check out Split Testing Sign Up Forms For More Subscribers to learn more about building your list with split tested sign up forms.

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What You Need to Know About Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (CASL)

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Canada’s new spam law, better known as CASL, is set to take effect on July 1, 2014. Similar to CAN-SPAM here in the U.S., Canada’s upcoming legislation is a way for regulators to help consumers dodge unsolicited commercial electronic messages sent via email, text and other channels. Here’s a quick overview.

CASL is a Canadian anti-spam law that protects Canadian email subscribers (those who have an email address using a .ca top level domain). The law is broken down into three parts that will require email marketers to have:

Consent – Senders need to get recipient approval to send marketing messagesIdentification – Identify who you are and whom you’re sending on behalf ofUnsubscribe Link – Every message must have a valid unsubscribe option

No, CASL also affects commercial electronic messages that are sent to other forms of electronic addresses. An electronic address is defined by CASL as an email account, telephone account, instant message account and some social media accounts. For example, Facebook messaging or LinkedIn messaging would fall within CASL’s restrictions.

Pretty much anyone who has no user consent or does not track or store this data. Likewise, those who purchase subscribers through other entities will be affected. Marketers who don’t clearly identify who they are or don’t use unsubscribe links should also take caution.

At any time, you can log in to your AWeber account to check opt-in confirmation for subscribers who have a .ca email address. From your account homepage:

Select “Subscribers” from the top menuChoose “Manage Subscribers”From the “Select field” drop down menu, choose “email” “ends with” and type .caView the Subscriber Information for each user to obtain opt-in date, opt-in ID and the IP address that was used to confirm opt-in

Although it is not required by CASL or CAN-SPAM, industry best practice says marketers should re-engage their email subscribers every six months to confirm they want to continue receiving content. What better way to ensure you’re giving subscribers what they want than by asking? Check out How Can I Re-Engage Inactive Subscribers?

More information

The AWeber Service Agreement may differ from what’s required by CASL so be sure to visit Canada’s anti-spam legislation website for additional guidelines and steps you should take to ensure you’re CASL compliant.

This post was updated on 6/20/14 to further clarify CASL and how it will affect commercial electronic message sending.

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Burgers and Brews: AWeber-Style

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Summer and BBQ go together like AWeber and email marketing. Since we don’t suggest putting your email list on a grill, we have rounded up our team’s favorite burger recipes along with their ideal craft brew pairings.

Our in-house chefs hand-selected these winning duos from our 1st Annual Burger of the Week team member contest. We hope these clever and quirky creations inspire you to grill up something different at your next BBQ. Have a favorite? Let us know!

If burgers aren’t your style, our AWesome AWeber chefs have created a few more summer favorites to keep your BBQ grill busy.

Photo Credit: Hunter Boyle, Senior Business Development Manager

2 whole 3 lb Fryer Chicken8 Lemons (Reserve 2 for when chicken is cooked)6 Rough chopped Garlic Cloves6 Stems of Rosemary (plucked and chopped fine)1 Red Onion shaved thin2 cup Olive OilSalt and fresh ground Black Pepper

Slice Lemons into 4 and squeeze juice over the chicken. Combine the rest of the ingredients along with the lemon slices and coat chicken completely. Cover and refrigerate for 12 to 24 hrs.

Grill on high heat for approx. 5 to 6 minutes per side. You are looking for a nice caramel-colored sear, not black. Lower grill temperature to medium heat then cover and continue cooking for 20 to 30 minutes, or until internal temperature reaches 165 degrees.

Pull chicken off grill and let rest for 10 to 15 minutes.

Place chicken on serving plate, squeeze remaining lemons over chicken, sprinkle with cracked black pepper and enjoy!

2 lbs cleaned String Beans1 Jar Roasted Red Peppers3 medium Shallots1 oz Honey1.5 cup Balsamic Vinegar.5 cup chopped Basil

Toss string beans in oil, salt and pepper. Place on grill with heat on high. Cook until they begin to char a little. Not black all up and down, spots of char is what you want. Remove from grill and immediately toss with all remaining ingredients. Place in refrigerator and let cool for an hour.

Drain most of the liquid off (reserve for another use such as a salad dressing) and serve.

6-8 1.5 inch bone-in Pork Chops2 T Dijon Mustard4 T Honey6 T Sweet Chili Sauce2 T Soy SauceSalt and Pepper to taste

Combine all ingredients together and cover pork chops. Marinate for 24 hrs.

Set grill to high heat and begin grilling pork chops for 4 to 5 min per side with a quarter turn halfway through each side. Continually brush chops with marinade. Cook until internal temperature reaches 135 degrees.

1 Can Refried Beans1 Packet Taco Seasoning1 Can Green Chilies1 16 oz Sour Cream1 16 oz Jar Salsa1 Diced Tomato8 oz Shredded Cheddar Cheese1 Chopped Green Onion

Layer in serving dish starting with #1. Chill in refrigerator for 2 hrs and serve with tortilla chips.

Stay tuned for more #AWeberLife fun on the first Friday of every month!

Contributing Authors: Allie Naughton & Olivia Dello Buono

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