Upgrading WordPress

April 29, 2007 By Leave a Comment

My project today has been to implement the suggestions from a wso I purchased called “Blogging with Success.” The ebook is great. I’m learning a ton about optimizing a WordPress blog for SEO, tags, and keywords. The author recommends a number of plugins, and I’m incorporating those as well.

In the process of playing with the blog, I upgraded to WordPress 2.1.3. I immediately noticed that most of the features that are supposed to be available in the rich visual editor are missing, like text alignment, linking, adding an image, etc.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the source of the problem and finally ended up reading about it the WordPress support. Here I learned it is an ongoing bug that hasn’t been fixed for months. Hmm. I also learned that people are having much more serious problems than just the loss of some icons for editing posts. Not cool.

Now I have to decide, go back to 2.0.7 until the problem gets fixed or stick it out here? I absolutely want to use the visual editor and not just the code option. I have a copy of 2.0.7 and I backed everything up before beginning the upgrade process, so I can go back. Not sure yet what I’ll decide.

In any event, it’s a gorgeous spring day here, and the yardwork is calling. Have a good one!

Filed Under: Internet Marketing, Product Reviews, SEO

Portal Feeder Decision

April 27, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Got an email from Mike Liebner of Article Underground promoting Portal Feeder. He has just joined and is really excited about. What he clearly emphasizes is that it is not for inexperienced marketers or those who aren’t making a solid income online yet. The sales letter says it’s for all levels of experience and they provide step by step training. Oh well. I have decided against it, but still think it looks fabulous.

Mike Liebner seems very ethical to me and so do the guys behind Portal Feeder — actually, they seem brilliant. It’s quite interesting to learn who appears to be trustworthy among the IM gurus and who does not.

If you’re thinking of joining PF, the guys behind DupeFreePro (which I mentioned last night) are offering a very generous bonus if you order through their link. Check out DupeFreePro to find out what the bonus is.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Filed Under: Progress Updates

Adsense Lessons Learned

April 26, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Portal Feeder opened its doors again today. It’s a huge program that teachs how to create websites and really develop a presence on the web. It’s the whole deal with built in traffic promotion, market research, and you name it. It looks fabulous and I’m so tempted!

But, I said the same thing last night about Niches-In-A-Box. Both offer a tremendous program with a ton of training. Sounds like you couldn’t lose with either. My question is, do I want to invest in a program with more structure, or do I want to continue to put the pieces together myself?

One thing I’ve realized is that the adsense website model I learned in the training I took a few months ago is a bit archaic. I wish I had the same awareness then that I do now. While the method was probably really sound a year to 18 months ago, adsense is not the same entity it was then.

The cost in time and/or money for article marketing is tremendous, and recouping that through adsense clicks is a challenge. To do so requires a huge number of adsense sites and a tremendous number of fresh articles regularly to keep the traffic flowing. I’ll continue to build up the sites I have already created, but will not put the time or money into creating any more at this point. Was taking the class a mistake? No. The education has been invaluable.

Today I learned of another cool tool. It’s called DupeFreePro and it calculates the percentage of duplication in articles you’re working with, and checks for duplicate content on the Internet. The best part is it’s free. Check it out.

That’s all for now. Have a good one.

Filed Under: Adsense Websites, Article Marketing, Product Reviews, Progress Updates

Monetizing Websites

April 25, 2007 By Leave a Comment

The last few days have been filled with mapping strategy, keyword research, and catching up on reading. I’ve been reading the series of ebooks in JP Schoeffel’s, How to Turn Sites into Money. These are valuable so far for his analysis of the state of internet marketing (i.e. adsense sites alone are no longer viable) and his recommendations for how to monetize for success. He talks about building a group of websites based on different aspects of the same niche, basically building “silos” and linking them to a central landing page.

His Niches-In-A-Box membership is based on that concept. I have to admit I’m very interested in it, believing I could learn a lot. We’ll see.

System Restore is now functioning beautifully on my computer. I did get a response to my inquiry on the Tablet Questions forum. The response just referred me to another website that I had already scoured in an effort to troubleshoot, so I thought it wasn’t helpful. But I went back to that site anyway and played around somemore, tried some things that shouldn’t work, and voila!, discovered that System Restore was restored! Puzzling process, but very gratifying in the end.

I’m also reading an ebook, Blog With Success, by Shannon Herod. I’m looking forward to implementing some of his recommendations. You can look forward to some evolution on this blog in the near future.

Thanks for being here — have a good one!

Filed Under: Computer Issues, Keyword Research, Progress Updates

Tweaking Websites and Computers

April 23, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Can’t say I’ve been real productive lately. I’ve been tweaking websites and building links and strategizing. I’ve decided to give up on AuctionAds for now. They just don’t match the content very frequently. So I’ve replaced those ads with others on the sites.

I’ve also been spending time reading some of the ebooks that have amassed on my system. Lots of good stuff on article writing, blogging, monetizing websites, etc.

Awhile ago I lost system restore function on my computer. I checked around a little bit at the time trying to find a fix but didn’t end up solving it. Today I researched the issue at www.tabletquestions.com, again trying to figure it out.

This is the best forum for assistance with computer problems that I have come across. I tried a couple of the suggestions I found, but no solution yet. I did leave a post and I’ll see if anyone can come up with anything. I love those techies for being so willing to share their knowledge.

Sort of boring today. Sorry. I’ll be sure to get more interesting in the coming days. Have a good one!

Filed Under: Progress Updates
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