Wow! What an education!
My last post was when I had decided to enter the forex niche. Seemed like it would be no big deal and the adsense payouts would be high. Not so simple!
I built a site with adsense and a clickbank product for monetization. I have posted new content almost daily. I have identified some long tail keywords that I should be able to rank for -- they get a reasonable number of searches and are lower competition. And I've gone about building some links to the site. Traffic is starting to pick up…
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I just successfully completed the transition of a static website to a wordpress blog. That wording sounds kind of awkward so I'll try again. I just took one of the sites I originally created in XSitePro and turned it into a wordpress blog, keeping the page urls consistent in the process. I'm thrilled. I've been wanting to do this for quite awhile but have felt anxious about it, not wanting to screw the whole thing up in the process.
There are a couple reasons that I wanted to do this. I find wordpress to be much easier to add content to. …
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Okay, so I wrote that using the WordPress Automatic Update plugin was great and the upgrade went smoothly and everything was wonderful.
Well it wasn't.
Thank goodness I had backups.
When I published a post using WordPress 2.6 my screen went totally white. Same thing for the other blog that I upgraded to 2.6.
So, what do I learn from this?
Restoring a database from cPanel went very smoothly. This was my first experience having to do this and the thought of it had always made me very nervous. Not anymore.
I'm pretty sure the blank screen problem lies with WP 2.6 and not…
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A couple months ago I became aware of a really cool video creating service on the web. It's called Animoto.
The way the system works is you feed them a bunch of pictures/images along with some music and they create a video with a mixture of the pictures and a variety of special effects. The result is very cool and can look quite professional.
I'll show you a sample video if you keep reading and click the "continue reading" part below. Then you'll be able to see the video.
At the time I first heard of Animoto, I decided to create…
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A few days ago I mentioned that I noticed a couple trends happening in my marketing ventures lately. Actually they seem diametrically opposed (is that the right way to use that term?). The first is the forced continuity by marketers selling their products. The second is the free training being offered by a number of very successful marketers.
The first seems incredibly greedy while the second is incredibly generous. And I get to benefit.
I've been participating in the "16 Steps to Success" training by Sam Clark in conjunction with Jack Humphrey and the Authority Site Center. It's…
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