December 9 Problems

December 9, 2010
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I use a specific domain for building test blogs. I decided to move my Telescope Guide auction site from a Bravenet shared hosting account (which doesn’t support cron jobs) to a VPS webhost. I discovered that the BackupBuddy plugin doesn’t run on Bravenet either (probably takes too many resources) so I had to download all the WordPress files and folders to my PC (Bravenet doesn’t even provide a File Manager so I couldn’t zip up the files). I then uploaded …

December 8 Problems

December 8, 2010
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Bailey’s Tackle is an older domain I had that I wanted to rebuild using WordPress. I put up an initial blog with just 3 posts. The next stage was to populate it with PLR articles using the Easy Empire Builder (EZ EB) plugin.

However, EZ EB’s automated licence issuer isn’t working so I can’t get an unlock code for this domain. Scrub building a site here for today.…

The Best Laid Plans…

December 7, 2010
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I find WordPress incredibly frustrating to work with. Plugin conflicts, plugins that only work on some webhosts, WordPress upgrades breaking plugins, bugs in plugins, the list goes on.

So as much for my own edification as anyone who visits here, I’m going to start documenting when things go wrong, and what things go wrong. Most of it will be WordPress related but there will be other stuff too, stuff to do with running an online business, like my broadband connection …

The MaxBlogPress Black Friday Deal

November 26, 2010
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UPDATE: No Longer Available
MaxBlogPress are no longer in business.

If you want a plugin that masks and tracks affiliate links, get the free Pretty Link Lite. The Pretty Link Pro (commercial) plugin offers more features such as keyword auto-linking.

If you want a system for building an email list, then Clickfunnels® is what you need.

If you’re looking for a course on how to build a profitable blog, then give the Wealthy Affiliate, Affilorama and Clickbank Passive …

Why Blogging Isn’t As Easy As It’s Made Out To Be…

November 23, 2010
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UPDATE: The Web Traffic Genius plugin is no longer available and there’s no similar kind of plugin to take its place. If you want to boost your site’s rank in the search engines, this link building service does a good job.

I set myself the task of building a number of blogs many weeks back as ways of earning some extra money online in these dire financial times. So how has it gone?

Not well.

I’m a member of …

Subscribers Magnet Plugin ? Full Review

October 7, 2010
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UPDATE: Subscriber’s Magnet is no longer available. Try Clickfunnels® instead.

My Thoughts On Subscriber’s Magnet

Subscriber’s Magnet is the WordPress plugin I use to easily add opt-in forms to my sites. The opt-in forms themselves still need to be created using an autoresponder service like Aweber or GetResponse. But the plugin makes it easy to add your opt-in form to posts, your sidebar, as a drop-in window and as a semi-transparent bar on your site.

What’s more, it prefills the …

Blog Creation Experiment – Progress Report 5

October 3, 2010
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UPDATE: The Affiliate Ninja Plugin Is No Longer Available

I now use and can heartily recommend the Pretty Link Pro plugin which does the same thing as Affiliate Ninja. The Pretty Link Lite plugin is a free cut-down version that doesn’t have the auto-keyword-linking option or some of the other advanced features.

I’ve been kind of slow in posting my progress with the Cheap Electricity Options blog of late. The Week 4 progress report was posted a day or so …

Blog Creation Experiment – Progress Report for Week 4

October 1, 2010
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If you read Progress Report 1, you’ll know that the blog I set up for this case study is Cheap Electricity Options.

To recap, Week 1 of the blog development involved keyword research and identifying if the niche wasn’t too competitive and that there were enough products for it to advertise. Week 1 closed with the installation of the blog, selecting a theme and adding a home page and article. The blog is set up to use a …