Dave over at BrightonVibes posted his earnings to date, and a request/suggestion for others to post theirs for comparison purposes.
So here’s mine:
All of us probably have a set of tools we use on a regular basis to maintain our sites. I occasionally find a new useful tool when someone mentions the tool. So I thought I would run through all the different tools I use, what I like (and dislike) about them, how I use them, where to get them, etc.
I am going to break this topic up into a number of posts because I use a lot of different tools.
I noticed something interesting the other day. I have a couple of new sites that do not yet have page rank as listed via the Google API or the Google Toolbar. I had these sites registered and verified for Google Sitemaps and while looking around the sitemaps site I noticed that the area that shows Page Rank for the site actually showed some Page Rank for the site.
In my case the site in question had the entire “low” bar full of green, instead of the “Not Yet Assigned” bar as I would have expected.
Google won’t be sending me anymore cheques, no I have not been banned. New Zealand is now one of the supported Countries for Electronic Transfer. So if you hadn’t noticed you need to head on over and set it up.
I set it up earlier this month and had the account verified, so early next month I should receive a direct deposit of earnings.
It’s been a while since I posted anything to this site, and I don’t have any deadlines to meet tonite so I am finally getting around to writing some new posts.
This is a general update on where things are and then I’ll do a few more posts on specific items I want to cover.
Behind the scenes I have been busily working away on this project, so if you haven’t heard back from me for a while then this is probably why.
I have just finished migrating to a new faster server with far more bandwidth than the previous one, as part of this project I am prepared to offer space on this server to New Zealand based website publishers who are just starting out.
Of course there will be some terms and conditions on this free service, but they will be pretty much what any hosting provider would have.
There are probably a number of people who don’t believe me about what I am earning. Which is strange because I am not making wild claims or even earning a huge amount like some people I know.
I even had one person post a comment on an earlier article (here) saying that it was all in my head, so here is some proof. Remember this is only a copy of my adsense cheque (check for Americans). In addition to this I receive payments from various other advertising networks each month as well.
For a long time now I have been a regular visitor to a couple of major website publisher forums, both of them are great places to learn and full of very helpful people.
Unfortunately I recently quit one of these sites because of the way one of the volunteer staff was treated, fortunately that ex staff member also runs another website publisher forum, so I have replaced SitePoint with his forum.
If your keen to learn then you definately want to drop in on websitepubisher.net, the other site is DigitalPoint.
Well I’ve been very busy upgrading quite a few of my sites, everyone seems to be releasing news versions at the same time.
Anyway, When I upgraded this site last night I made a mistake in a template (or two) and all the comments and the ability to leave comments disappeared. It’s all fixed now, sorry about that!
People sometimes ask me how I manage to publish so many websites (currently I have 17 I think) and then manage to get people to visit them.
Publishing the sites is easy, the hard part is getting traffic to them.
