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How to Add Olark Live Chat to WHMCS

amped — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:40:44 +0000

Olark is a nice simple chat widget that you can add to your WHMCS. One of the best things about it is that you can use an IM like AIM, Adium and GoogleTalk to chat to your customers. Best of all it’s free!

Here are some quick instructions on how to add Olark live chat to your WHMCS.

1. You will need to access your whmcs files, you can use an FTP client for this, I recommend smartftp.

2. Go to … Public_html > WHMCS (or what ever folder you have called your WHMCS, ours is billing) > Templates > Portal > Footer.tpl

3. Open Footer.tpl in a text editor

4. Paste your Olark code just above the tag.

5. Save the Modified file

6. Upload it to your server.

7. Test it out. It should now appear on your WHMCS pages.

http://www.olark.com

Get electronics, money, ipods, Tesco vouchers for as little as 1p?

amped — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:51:52 +0000

This isnt really a make money article, its more of a freebie.

I came accross a website today, Maxbid.com. I got 3 free bids so thought i would have a go.

What is Maxbid.com?

Maxbid.com is a website offering people the chance to receive anything from Mini coopers to £50 Tesco vouchers for prices as little as 1p.

The way it works is you buy bids, these are £1.50 each or you get them for less depending on how many you buy in bulk.
You then use these bids to bid on an item of your choice. The items up for auction start at 1p and everytime someone bids the price goes up 1p.
Every time someone bids the timer goes up 1 min 30, so you need to have the current bid when the timer runs out.

Does it work?

Personally I dont know if this works, I dont think I would buy credits as its basically like a lottery, there is no skill, you just have to be lucky.

But saying that, I have referred a few people already (to get some extra credits) and one guy won 25 free bids.

Free Credits

This website is offering 3 free credits when you sign up. So potentially you have the chance of getting something like a Mini Cooper for 1p. (if you check the past winners, someone won a red mini cooper for £2.30!)

To get your free credits just go to www.maxbid.com and sign up. Please put ‘ amped ‘ as your referer

I have been watching a few auctions and I have seen 3 things go while I was sitting there watching them, a tv for £3.78, a ipod nano for £7.90 and £100 cash for £4.29.

So see if you can win anything with your free credits. Let me know by leaving a comment below.

Good luck!!

Adding Affilaite Banners to Your Website

amped — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:32:10 +0000

Theres quite a few people have been asking us how to add affilaite banners to their new website.
We will do this free of cost for you, but a few people want to learn how to do it themselves.

Heres what you have to do:

To get into the code for the pages:

1 - Log into your cpanel (yourdomain/cpanel)

2 - Go to ‘File Manager’

3 - Go to ‘Public_html’

You will see the website files in that folder. Remember index.html is the main page.

How to get your banner onto your website:

Copy the affilaite link code by placing your cursor at the start of the code, left click on it and hold down the mouse button, and then drag the cursor across the code until it is all highlighted. Once highlighted right click on it and select copy.

You then need to go to your cpanel and click on index.html. Click on the HTML editor link on the right.

Click on the ’source code’ button in the bottom left of the screen. Now you can see all the website code. You now need to click in the code where you want your banner to appear, right click, and select paste. This will paste your code into the website. You can now click on the ‘preview’ button (bottom left of screen) and it will show you what your website will look like.
If your banner has not appeared where you wanted it to, just click on the ’source’ button again and delete the banner code, and paste it somewhere else. Keep doing this until you are happy with the position. Once you are happy click on the ‘design button’ (bottom left) and then click the save disc ( blue disc, top left of the screen)

A few tips:

Always place your code below the tag. Anything above this will not show up on your website.
If you want to place your ad below the black menu bar you need to paste your code just below
“content”>
If you want it to appear at the bottom of the page, place your code just before
“footer”>
To center the ad, place before your code and after your code.
If you have messed up the page and want to start again just close the editor page and click on the editor again. NEVER save the edited page unless you are happy with it.

How to See How Many Visitors your Website is getting

amped — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:50:34 +0000

There is a great program that will tell you how many visitors you are getting and where they are coming from. This is already running on your websites if you have cpanel! Here’s how to access it….

1. Log into your cpanel (www.yourdomain.com/cpanel)

2. Go to Web/FTP Stats

3. Click on Awstats

This will show you all the infomation you need.

How to Access your Cpanel Emails and Create a New Email Account in Cpanel

amped — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:44:23 +0000

A few of you have asked how to access your emails or create new email accounts to go along with your new websites.

To access your emails (admin@yourdomain.com)

1. Log into your cpanel (www.yourdomain.com/cpanel)

2. Click on the Main Icon

3. Click on Add/Remove/Manage Accounts

4. Find the email address you want to check the mail for and click on the ‘Webmail’ link next to it

5. Put in your password (the password will be the same as the cpanel password you received in your ‘New Account Information’ email)

5. Click on the ‘horde’ link

To set up a new email account

1. Log into your cpanel (www.yourdomain.com/cpanel)

2. Click on the Main Icon

3. Click on Add/Remove/Manage Accounts

4. Click on ‘Add Account’

5. Choose your new email account name (e.g info@yourdomain.com) and put in a password of your choice.

6. Click create.

Benefit of Having a Blog

amped — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:44:25 +0000

Will having a blog on my website benefit it? ..Absolutely!!

Blogs are easy to use, they make adding new content to your site simple and search engines love them!

Every SEO proffessional knows that content is king!

So say you own a store website selling Dog supplies. You website is just a clean simple store. You don’t really want to keep updating or changing the feel of the website as 1, you dont know how! 2, You want to keep your website as a simple store! So how are you going to keep you content fresh so search engines visit your site regularly? Add a blog!

Blogs are so easy to use, you just log into your admin area, write some content in a box and click submit! Simple!

If you have bought one of our websites and would like us to add a blog just email us we will charge a small fee of $30 for the integration.

A few tips for blog success..

Add it to social bookmark sites such as Digg and stumble upon. Google and other search engines crawl these sites and will index your pages.
Add your key words to your posts atleast twice per post.
Try to blog atleast once per week..the more the better!
Try and make your posts interesting so people come back to your site to read it regularly.

How to get backlinks to your site

amped — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:20:00 +0000

OK I have had quite a few people ask how to get backlinks to their websites.

If you dont already know, one of the important steps in SEO (search engine optimisation) is getting good quality backlinks to your website.

So where can you obatin backlinks?..

Forum Signatures
Forum Posting
Directory submission
Blog commenting
Paid advertising (links)
Social Networking sites
Link exchanging
Article submissions

Here are a few websites you can have a look at regarding getting backlinks.

Link building fundamentals

131 Link Building Strategies

Free Macbook Air …….

amped — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:33:16 +0000

ok…..so I was looking for a new laptop! I decided to do a bit of research on Google and I noticed a few websites stating that they can give away free Macbooks and iphones etc?! Sounds interesting? well it did to me!

Ok so i read through about 20 of these websites (yes i like to reasearch stuff..alot!) and it actually looks like these websites give away free laptops! I found a few clips from the bbc and CNN (which you can view here) which claim that these sites really do work! ok…so if CNN approve it must be worth giving it a try!?

So heres what im going to do. I have signed up to the website that has the most positive reveiews and I have knocked up a basic website to promote my links. www.IwantAFreeMacBook.com

Take a look at the site, it tells you what you have to do to get the laptops. (saves me writing it here again!)

I am going to keep you guys posted on my progress! I will report back here every few days with information.

My website went live last night. I have submitted it to a few blogs etc and have had a few visitors but no sign ups yet! I will check back later tonight….

If you guys want to help out or get your own free macbook either sign up from my website or click this link

The website is open to both UK and US citizens.

Free Playstation 3

New features wordpress 2.6

amped — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:26:14 +0000

I love the new wordpress 2.6!

Whats different?

Watch the video below

Get Paid Every Time you Make a Search On Google!

amped — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:58:11 +0000

Everyone would like money for nothing! I found something that does just that!….

I stumbled across this website last week, done a bit (well quite alot) of research on it and it seems genuine enough.

The website has partnered with Google. You use their search bar to do your searches and they will give you 50% of the revenue they get from Google for that search. This normally works out at around 3p per search. This sounded too good to be true so I thought id try it out…

I use the search function on my FireFox tool bar to search Google all the time when im working, so I thought it cant do me any harm using the new search bar and get paid when I do my searches. The paid search bar searches Google and comes up with the same results as it would if you used the normal Google search.

[ad#ad-2]I must say, this isn’t a get rich soon scheme, I have been using it for 7 days and I have earned £10.20. I know its not much, but I havent changed the way I search, and im not doing extra searches to get money. Im just doing my every day work and it got me £10.20 so its kinda cool! Thats nearly an extra £50 a month for nothing

The thing that put me off signing up was that I knew they used Google, but thought it would come up with some basic search results screen from their website, but its not, you get the same screen as you would with a normal Google search.

Another good part of this website is that you can refer people and you earn 10% from the searches they do! You also get 5% of the revenue from friends they refer and 2.5% off your friends friends friends..that might sound complicated so I added the chart below…

So What Do you Have to do?

Sign up to My Search Funds (Its actually a partner site of ASK search engine so its all genuine)
Update your search bar (This works for the FireFox search bar and the Internet Explorer 7 search bar) If you don’t want to use the search bar, or if you don’t use any of the browsers shown above you can just set your personal search page as your home page and use it that way.
Use the new search bar for your all your normal searches. You have to actually click on a link once you have done your search to get credit for it. Don’t try and outsmart the system by searching for the same thing over and over or performing loads of searches in a short space of time just to crank up your profit. They will find out and will contact you and you wont get paid for those searches.
Keep an eye on your earnings. Once you have received £20 or over you will get paid. They pay you 45 days after the month you hit the £20 mark. You can get paid either by PayPal or Bank Transfer.
Refer Some friends. You’ll earn more money for doing nothing. You will find the referral link in your area of the website.

That’s it. Easy!