When after sitting on 93 domains for a year you realise they are about to expire and you’ve NEVER used them!!    Yes folks that is what I’ve done (the observant amongst you may remember a month or so ago I mentioned this was about to happen).

This evening I’ve been busy deleting (yes deleting) the domains from my VPS server and with each deletion the pain associated with my obvious stupidity increased until I couldn’t take it any longer and decided to stop and write about it.

What makes it worse is that earlier this evening I decided to browse through an online job site to see if there are any better jobs out there that I could apply for… you see I’m not earning enough in my day job to get ahead… I’m just about living from pay check to pay check and although I don’t want to change jobs, it would be nice to earn a bit more until I start making my own money online. 

Unfortunately not only was there nothing remotely suitable but I realised that salaries in IT are pathetic, so much so that it appears I’m actually being overpaid (or at least being paid better than I thought).  That kinda sucks, but its also good in that it might motivate me to a) do a better job at work and b) get more of my own stuff done. (Then again I’ve been saying that for a while haven’t I).

Oh well I’ve still got a lot of domains to delete from the server, so its back to that and more guilt….

Tags: affiliate programs, making money online

Not too long ago I was thinking to myself just how smoothly things were going, but then in typical fashion things slowly started to go as we say in the UK, pear shaped.   Its really pretty normal for my life to seem to be about to improve, only to then go back into decline.  

However, I’m pleased to report that I’m actually slowly managing to get on top of the problems I’ve been having with this site lately.  

Take today for example.   I’ve just managed to successfully re-enable my feedburner setup so after a week or so with no RSS feed people can once again subscribe to get updates from this blog.   I’d really appreciate it if you’d subscribe, its really good motivation for me to know that at least some people are reading what I write.

Now onto an idea I’m working on……  At work today I completed a pretty complex online tutorial system, I created it to teach some of the company’s employees in the US how to use the online order processing system I built, without me having to either go to the US and show them in person or write out lengthy text based instructions.  Its comprised of 17 individual html pages that perfectly mimic the real order process system.   It took me about 3 days (with lots of breaks of course) to finish.    Whilst I was doing it I thought why don’t I create something similar that I can either sell or perhaps give away ?

I’ve got a pretty good idea what it will be, the only problem is its a huge undertaking and I’m not entirely sure its going to be worth doing.   Will people want it ?   I guess I need to think it through a bit more, figure out exactly how much work it will be and then decide if I want to invest that time in this project or put it into something else.   

Tags: affiliate programs, blogging

I’m still having problems here and as a result still running tests

Edited:  It worked !!  I’ve been having problems with the Auto Social Plugin not working, the cause turned out to be related to the number of sites in my Ping list.  I’ve cleared the list and now I need to figure out which site might have been causing the script to timeout.

Tags: affiliate programs, theadsenseidiot

I’ve just checked and Google has started indexing pages from this site, which is awesome as they wouldn’t index the old domain no matter what I tried.   So far its only a couple of pages, but its a start.

I’d like to be able to report some more good news but that is sadly it for today’s update.  I’ve been having an issue with the backend here and dealing with that has meant I’ve not been able to get much else done.

Still now that Google is showing me some love I’m feeling all positive and will be churning out some more interesting articles soon.

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argh !!

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Earlier this evening I installed Auto Social Poster, a great plugin for Wordpress that automatically posts to Social Bookmarking sites when you make a new post on your blog.   What I didnt do is check if there was a new version, nor did I look for the original archive, so I didnt read the documentation.   End result ?  the plugin didnt work….

My tip for when you install any plugins ?  check if there is a newer version and always work from the original archive so you have the full install with documentation. 

Pretty obvious really, but not when your an Idiot like me !!

Its been a tough few days, I’ve been ridiculously busy at my day job with a massive deadline and the stress I’ve been under has really been taking its toll.   As a result I’ve barely had the time or energy to do anything related to my own business efforts.  Thats not to say I’ve done nothing, I’ve tried to get at least a few things done everyday but it hasnt been easy.  

This evening I’ve installed Auto Social Poster on TheAdsenseIdiot so when I post something it automatically gets posted to various bookmarking sites.  The next task is to find more bookmarking sites to post to, at the moment its only posting to 2 sites and they are mine !! 

What you (and I) need to remember is that if you are trying to make money online and doing it in your spare time, then you need to try and keep working on your sites even when it seems like you just don’t have the time.  Whatever you do try to do something everyday, no matter how small just keep the momentum going, because once you stop its hard to get going again.

Now go do something on your own site(s).

I’m testing a new addon for FireFox called ScribeFire, that lets you post to your blog(s) whilst you are surfing.  This is the first time I’ve tried it so this is really only a quick test. I’ll write a review if I think its worth using.

Gotta say it seems pretty cool so far.

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http://www.findinfosites.com/ is my new social bookmarking site, I’ve set it up with Scuttle Plus and when I have time I’ll post a review, for now I’m just announcing it.

I’m hoping that this helps with getting my sites indexed quicker and perhaps for longer.

Changing this site from adsenseidiot.com to theadsenseidiot.com is progressing reasonably well, although I made a completely idiotic mistake last night when I tried to switch my feedburner feed and basically messed it up completely….  what it means is I’m not going to have a working feedburner feed for a month !!  Told you I was an Idiot !

I’ve been installing plugins and setting them up today - at some point I think I’ll write up a review of the plugins I use and how useful I think they are.  Watch out for that.

Of course the main job is still waiting to be done - transferring the content from the original blog to this new one…. Maybe later tonight, maybe tomorrow…..