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[mythicalphoenix]

I have spent countless hours trying to learn how to sell products, write a profitable blog, and make money off the internet. And after all that searching I wish I had found this site so much sooner. Because I had attempted to make several profitable sites I knew I was doing something wrong, I just didn't know what. And of course no one is going to tell you - until I found this site. Thank you, thank you, thank you - it is all making a ton of sense now.

However I had problems with Market Samurai and Wordpress Direct. Market Samurai was acting odd last night - every time I kept removing a term it kept putting it back. So I did things the "manual" way through Google. Honestly I am glad that happened because I learned a lot more doing things that way.

Wordpress gave me a lot of odd issues with the templates. I attempted to find the answer but couldn't - does anyone know if you can alter the html code of the template? I found several designs I liked but wanted to tweek it and could not figure out how. And my font link colors would not change to what I wanted. I found a template that eventually worked but does anyone have suggestions? Has anyone else had issues like this?

I just posted my site to social bookmarks - now I have to play the waiting game and keep going with the challenge!

mythicalphoenix

[BrentH]

Originally Posted by mythicalphoenix

Market Samurai was acting odd last night - every time I kept removing a term it kept putting it back.

You're right - that IS odd...

What was the process that you used to remove terms? (There are a few ways to remove them)

Brent

[mythicalphoenix]

I followed the instructions in the training exactly as described using both methods to remove keywords I didn't want to include. Either it didn't remove the keyword when I selected the term or removed the phrase completely and then put it back when I pressed analyze keywords. I had used Market Samurai the day before and did the same steps and had no problem.

mythicalphoenix

[BrentH]

Hrm - interesting.

So you clicked the boxes marked [x] to remove keywords - and they came back?

If you spot it again, let me know. I'd be interested to hear about this. I haven't come across it before, and obviously we like to solve any problems as soon as possible.

Thanks

Brent

[mythicalphoenix]

The issue I mentioned before seems to be resolved when I accepted the upgrade. I can now remove keywords without a problem. But now there is a new issue. When I run everything through the organic filter and adwords analysis everything goes as it should.Once I add the SEO Competition and press analyze my search value and SEOT decrease, and according to the training - that shouldn't happen. And when I add in OCI searches and SEOT decrease even more - and it eliminates all the generated keywords. I know what I am getting back is wrong based on the training transcripts and what I have noticed by the traffic I am getting off a general article I have written which led to the discovery of this niche. I am going to send a note to technical support for Market Samurai as well about this issue.

mythicalphoenix

[BrentH]

Hi mythicalphoenix,

These are all very odd issues.

Are you running a 64 bit installation of Windows Vista?

We've noticed that Vista can cause a lot of weird problems - the solution to these is to run Market Samurai in "Compatibility Mode" (a Windows Vista 64-bit setting).

If you're NOT running Vista 64, could I trouble you to take a short Jing video demonstrating the problem so that I can show the development team precisely what you see - so that they can see it with their own eyes (and believe me when I tell them ).

You're absolutely right - this shouldn't happen. So I want to make sure that any issues get solved ASAP.

Brent

[mary1728]

Hi mythicalphoenix,

You can edit your template in Wordpress by going to the admin area, then design, and then theme editor. I was able to make changes to my template by editing it here. I would suggest copying the section you are going to be editing and pasting it into notepad before making any changes. This way if you make a change you do not like, you will be able to paste the code back into the theme editor.

Also, I only made one change at a time and checked it before moving on to the next change. Good luck with making your changes.

[mythicalphoenix]

The bad news is I am not running Vista - the good news is I am more than willing to make the video to show you what I am seeing. Just tell me what I need to do. Thanks for all your help

mythicalphoenix

[teddarling]

Hello mythicalphoenix,

Through WPD, you do have FTP access to the files, so should you need to make changes there, you can. I will point out that if you make changes in such a way, that the WPD team does not provide support should things go wrong.

Ted

[mary1728]

I did not mean to confuse things. I was speaking of editing the template in WordPress, not WordPress Direct. I am using WordPress from Hostgator's cpanel. I decided not to use WPD because I did not want the extra expense of WPD and I already had an account with Hostgator. I am slowly learning how to edit the template there.