This site has been a bit quiet over the last couple of days. I’m not giving up, I have just been extremely busy setting things up and also working on an idea I have that should make a massive improvement to the click thru rate that people receive.

I’m currenty testing this idea elsewhere, and once I know the results I’ll fill you all in on how to do it (assuming it works).

When I first set this up, I made a choice not to include the title in the permalink because I prefer short titles.

Following a post and some of the comments made on the post I have decided to change the permalinks to include the title, I figured I should do it now rather than later. I seriously doubt anyone has had linked directly to an article at this point.

If you have, sorry for changing things under you.

As I mentioned in another post back in 98 I was running a site about Trading Cards, it was actually an Auction site for trading cards.

I haven’t used this domain for a couple of years for anything other than my partners email. I also have an email alias for myself with this domain.

Recently via my alias I have been getting strange queries about items purchased on eBay, that have absolutely nothing to do with me. At first I thought someone must of gotten hold of my eBay user id details and was using my account.

I also bought this book back in 2000, it’s an e-book and I found it a good helpful read, it is also a lot cheaper than the IMC course.

Which should you buy?

Well I bought both, and I’m not going to attempt to tell you which you should buy, thats for you to decide.

Ken has also written a number of other ebooks. One of the just got my attention because it’s about making your words sell, and in case you haven’t noticed I’m not the best writer in the world.

Back in’99, I was running a Trading Card site and at the time it was doing ok, but I wanted to improve the site. I didn’t know much about marketing and I came across a site called The Internet Marketing Centre [aff] by Corey Rudl (who I just discovered passed away recently driving a Ferrari around a race track).

This morning I spent a couple of hours setting up the software to drive my project, then I spent a bit more time working out the modifications needed to make it do what I want.

Should be pretty easy to achieve the required results, I have it all mapped out in my head already.

So, I’ve been thinking, I’ve got this nice new shiny server sitting here not doing a hell of a lot. I have full control of it and can do what I like with it.

I know there are a lot of bloghosts, especially free ones, out there, but it seems to me that a lot of them offer very limited setups.

I replied to a post made by Darren about his 31 days blog improvement program and within a very short time there was a comment left on my site by Matt (http://startingtoblog.blogspot.com/) who is doing a similar thing.

Of course I went straight over and had a read, I like his idea of breaking the earnings down into an hourly rate, unfortunately for me thats pretty hard to do as I am on and off the computer all day as I look after our two year old at the same time.

I purchased another site today.

This wasn’t in my plan, but a niche market forum that I was a regular on got pulled by the sponsor and I decided to resurrect it.

It will be interesting to see if I can manage to generate some income from it. I’m not particularly concerned in this case as I am more interested in the community.

I submitted this site to Google Sitemaps last night, within 1 hour google had come and grabbed my sitemap.

I just checked and as yet Google hasn’t indexed my site, I’ll let you all know when it finally does.