AdsenseAccelerator Update

April 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment

AdsenseAccelerator was briefly open this week - it opened on Wednesday and a few lucky people got in. It filled up quickly. By Friday evening, it was closed to new members again

All you can do now is sign up for the AdsenseAccelerator waiting list…

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Adsense, Advertising, Affiliate Marketing, Blogs, Monetizing Your Site 

Blogging to Share and Exchange Information

March 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

WordPress is one of the most popular blog software packages and is available free for use in your own web hosting package. Or, as one of my subcribers did, you can create your blog for free at wordpress.com.

This subscribers is using his blog to share genealogical research information with other family members. That’s why he wanted to set up multiple userID’s that could post to his blog. wordpress.com allows people to sign up for an account without creating a blog — this is intended to do exactly what Sprague wants to do.

But, apparently, they’ve got a slight program glitch at wordpress.com such that, in order to post to a blog, you have to have your own blog wordpress.com blog first. That’s not too bad of a problem, since they’re free…

Normally, a blog has one or two people who post the messages; everyone else uses the Comment feature to write their response to one of the posts.

I know others who use blogs to share family photos with family members who are far away. It’s certainly a lot more interesting than emailing them, since viewers can comment on the blog entries.

What about privacy? Most blog software allows you to configure your blog so that only specific people can see it. Similarly, the software can control who (if anyone) is allowed to comment on the posts.

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Blogs 

New Version of WordPress Blog Software

January 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Wordpress.org released version 2.1, codenamed Ella (for jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald) in mid-January.

So far, I like the changes and improvements. Upgrading from the previous version was easy, although it required locking the site and deleting almost all the previous WordPress files and replacing them with the new versions of the files. This step was necessary because some of the files were renamed (so old file names were obsolete).

Fortunately I didn’t have to rework any of my template customizations.

The only problem I had was that I accidentally uploaded my revised .htaccess file, the one with the password protection turned on, into my account’s root directory — and managed to password lock ALL of my web pages in all my domains. Arghhh! Resolving the problem was easy once I figured out what I did…

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Apache Web Server, Blogs, PHP Scripting, Templates 

Good and bad points of web design templates

January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Andrew West has a very interesting article about using purchased web site templates in his Wongablog.

After starting with a relative’s purchased site template, he finally bit the bullet and redesigned it using CSS instead of the tables design.

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Blogs, HTML, Templates, Web design tools 

Joel’s lost his mind

January 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Maybe it’s all he money he’s making from Adsense…

http://www.drawingontheweb.com/r/ads1995special

Adsense guru Joel Comm wrote an ebook a few years ago called Adsense Secrets - What Google Never Told You About Making Money With Adsense. I bought it — at the price of $79.

Then, he came out with the 2nd edition — and I bought it at about a 50% upgrade price.

Then, he came out with the 3rd edition. He raised the list price to $97, too. But I got it from him for a pretty good upgrade price.

I still think each of these purchases was worthwhile. Each edition was updated and had a lot of new tips and techniques.

But, now, Joe’s lost his mind!

Now, he’s dropped the price to $19.95. I don’t know how long the price will be so low, but now’s your chance to get his book at a great price.

http://www.drawingontheweb.com/r/ads1995special

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Adsense, Advertising, Blogs, Monetizing Your Site, Yahoo Publisher Network 

Articles for Web Sites and Newsletters

December 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment

If you’ve been thinking about using articles on web sites, you can do it the hard way, as I have been doing — writing them all for TerrysComputerTips.com, for my newsletters and for TerryStockdale.com.

Or, you can get a head start with articles from one of the many article directories. These have author “biography/advertising” boxes that you must publish along with the article. The authors’ consent to you to use their article is based on your agreement to show their links as working links. You get content and they get links to their sites, which may send visitors directly there and which will help with search engine rankings. But, you can’t change the articles, so your content duplicates that of many other sites.

You can pay ghostwriters to generate content, if you like, but that can get expensive quickly. Plus, you have to find a good ghostwriter…

Another way to generate content for web sites, newsletters and ezines is to use “Private Label Articles.”

PLA’s are articles that someone has written, or has paid to have written, and then are providing for you to use. Usually, you purchase PLA’s for your use on your web sites or in your newsletters and ezines.

Sometimes, however, you can get private label articles at significant discounts, or even free — you’re really signing up to receive their newsletters and advertising emails, usually about some aspect of marketing via the web. (There are some huge differences between these advertising emails and “spam.” First, you agree to receive them. Second, the emails have an “unsubscribe link” that really works like it should. These marketers are running legitimate internet businesses and they can not afford to “spam.”)

Normally, you can not sell or give away the private label articles that you buy, but you are free to use them on your web site(s) and in your newsletter(s) or ezine(s).

Even better, PLA’s normally do not have an author bio block (so you don’t have unwanted links to take visitors from your pages) and you are usually permitted to change the articles so that you have unique content.

If you have a web site or a newsletter, or are considering setting up a web site, you can get some private label articles for content from Garrie Wilson.

Garrie is is giving away some free private articles - 250 to be exact!

I can’t guarantee how long he will be giving these away so I suggest you get them while you can.

http://terryscomputertips.com/gw250

If you’re really getting started, another option is to buy complete article sites. George Pluss is running one of his 10-cent specials on packages of multiple, complete Adsense-ready web sites — every time someone buys his current AdsensePak3, the price goes up 10 cents! I picked up this package.

George is offering his earlier AdsensePak and AdsensePak2 site collections, too.

Posted by Terry Stockdale | Filed Under Adsense, Blogs, PLR 

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