Tips Tuesday – AI Images Webinar, Domain Prices, Future of Being Found

Hello Happy Site Owner!

Tips this week include:

• AI Images Webinar on Thursday – register now
• Not updating to WP 6.3 yet
• What to watch out for with mass hacker attacks on accounts
• Domain price increase coming in September
• The future of being found – what you need to do to get more eyeballs on your content
• 8 ways generative AI will impact Search and SEO

AI Images Webinar This Thursday

The AI Advantage Summit was totally mind blowing. But, the time was so short for each presenter that we barely scratched the surface on all you can do with AI images.

But, the folks who took the leap and got into the AI Images for Profit course already have things up for sale.

It’s that fast and it’s that fun. In fact, it’s addictive. We’re having a ball with them.

Join us for a webinar this Thursday and see why we’re all going bonkers with AI images.

Register now

You’ll also get:

• The AI Image Revolution ebook
• Access to the replay

WordPress Tips

Not Updating to WP 6.3 Yet

I’ve heard a few screams about this update, and a few high fives. So, it’s a mixed bag right now.

So, I’m not ready to call it safe for most everyone to do the update yet.

BlogAid News subscribers will get the only folks who get my special update instructions when I feel it is safe for us to do.

Site Owner Tips

Mass Hacker Attacks on Accounts

Have you received an email or message on a platform that your account has been suspended or notification of login attempts or such?

You’re not the only one.

It’s rampant right now on Facebook and Instagram accounts.

Have also seen folks getting them for their Gmail accounts too.

Don’t click those links or take those actions.

Domain Price Increase

I received an email from Namecheap stating that some of the registries they partner with will have a price increase.

They said:

“On September 1, 2023, the domains registry for .COM and .XYZ will implement universal price increases of up to 9% for .COM renewals, and up to 9% for .XYZ renewals, registrations, and transfers.”

The Future of Being Found

Getting eyeballs on your content has been a mix of good SEO and social media marketing for the last decade.

That’s over now.

If you want to stay in front of people, here’s the path forward.

Video, Video, Video

Platforms like YouTube and TikTok are their own, giant search engines.

Yet the top blogging niches simply don’t have a large presence on either.

This, despite the fact that audiences are looking for that content there.

Even when folks do a Google search, videos are at the top if there are any to show.

And now AI video creation is readily available to make generating videos easy, even from still shots.

Find a way to get into video.

Your Opinion Matters

In fact, that’s what your audience wants most – to hear YOUR opinion about something.

That is exactly why you are reading this post right now.

You want to hear from ME about what’s going on and what to do about it.

I am a trusted voice in your world for something that matters to you.

YOU need to be that for your audience.

Find a way to write a post with an opinion.

Take a stand on something and stand out from the crowd by doing it.

CLAIM the fact that you know something that can help someone.

AI answers can’t do that – though they come across that way – and folks believe that stuff because they don’t know about anyone who has more experience and authority to tell them differently.

YOU be that difference.

And the only way to do it is to tell what you know in a way that claims your authority on the topic.

Gather

Are you focused on getting traffic or building tribe?

My follower count on TikTok and YouTube for the AI Discover Hub is small.

But my Saved to Favorites and Likes are high.

And my visits to the site from TikTok and YouTube are high, as are optins.

My email lists for AI Discover Hub and BlogAid are small.

My open rates are high – averaging 72% across both.

My percentage of buyers and clients is high.

My long-term client numbers are high.

Once folks find me, they stick with me, and they buy what I sell.

I’ve built a loyal tribe that keeps coming back over and over.

Look at your site’s analytics.

How many new visitors vs repeat visitors do you have?

If it’s mostly new visitors, you’re working WAY too hard for your traffic.

Repeat visitors cost less to get. And they make you more money.

Bond

Do the birds of a feather thing.

Find other creators who have an audience where you can bring a complimentary solution.

I had speaking gigs for months with GA4.

I’ve suddenly got speaking gigs all over for AI Images now too.

Folks have followers that want to hear about a topic that their mentor doesn’t cover, but is related to what they cover.

Find them.

Make friends with them.

Let them know you’re available.

Marketing

NOTHING gets sold without a sales department.

I know that the words marketing and sales are repugnant to most bloggers.

Find new words.

Try these:

• I’m so on fire about this that I can’t stop talking about it.
• Have you seen this?
• Have you tried this?
• You mean to tell me that I’ve been alive for 40 years and didn’t know this until now?
• This is so good that it feels illegal to know.
• I bet you didn’t know this about _______.

Those are the very words I see at the start of so many TikTok creators that have millions of followers.

FOMO is the new scroll stopper (Fear of Missing Out).

You don’t have to scream to be heard.

But you do have to sizzle like a hot plate of faitas.

Y’all know me. I don’t do hype. But I am figuring out how to do sizzle.

You can too.

HINT: Video is a great way to do sizzle without feeling like you’re doing it. There are plenty of AI video generators that allow you to type in text and it will pick the images, voice, and music and make the whole thing for you.

AI Opportunities Everywhere

Nearly 20 years ago, when I started a side gig as a website builder (back in the day when you needed a coder to have a site), I couldn’t give away my services. I needed to build my portfolio and I approached the businesses I frequented to see if I could build them a site – for free.

After about 15 no-thank-yous I finally got an unenthusiastic okay.

Long story short, 3 months after her site went live she cancelled ALL other advertising including her very expensive Yellow Page ad. She couldn’t believe how much more business she was getting because of her site.

Just a few years later, all businesses had websites. 

I feel that same way right now when I speak with my clients after their site audit checkup when I tell them about all of the AI opportunities they could incorporate to expand their income.

“That’s interesting,” is about all the enthusiasm they have for it.

And I’m over here bursting at the seams with new AI business ideas.

It’s as frustrating as it was 20 years ago, trying to convince folks how much money they are leaving on the table by not embracing the new disruptive technology.

Are you ready to see how you can expand your current business, or take off in another direction entirely by incorporating AI?

Contact me. Let’s dream it up and then make a plan to do it.

AI SEO

8 Ways Generative AI Will Have an Impact on Search and SEO

AI is disrupting everything – except for regular search.

But it will eventually disrupt that too.

Even though Bing and Google have included AI chatbots into their search interface, not many folks are using those tools for regular search queries.

And when they do, they’re just getting the same top 5 search results they would have gotten otherwise – and it’s just a summary of that info.

For the last couple of years, video at the top of search has been far more disruptive to bloggers than AI has been, or likely will be for another year or two.

Go read the post linked above from Torque to see the impact AI is having and what they see for the near future with regard to search.