I can’t wait for the PR Update that should happen very soon. I have two sites that are predicted to go to PR5 and since that’s somewhere I’ve never been I really enjoy the prospect.
4-5: http://www.iwebtool.com/www.mlinkz.com
3: http://www.iwebtool.com/www.display-ip.com
4-5: http://www.iwebtool.com/www.studentproxy.com
2: http://www.iwebtool.com/www.mastertheweb.org

So if all of those do as predicted then I will hold a combined PR greater than I ever have before. Google needs to get a move on it.

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As you might have noticed, I haven’t updated MasterTheWeb in almost two weeks. This is because I haven’t had the time. My course load at school has sky rocketed giving me hours of homework every night. This isn’t much fun for me, but its what I have to do.

So what this means is that I’m getting to spend a lot less time online working on my webmastering. For instance, I don’t have time to work on php any more. Hopefully I can start that back up again in the summer.

Anyway, I’ll still update MasterTheWeb when I have something worth saying and I have the time.

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Adsense has a very nice reporting page. You can do lots of things with it, and get all the stats you could ever want. But it just doesn’t do channels very well. I know that I have a channel for all my sites. Yet my total impressions are always more than the sum of my channels. Sometimes I even get CPM payments of a couple of cents from who knows where. Well this morning I got a $1.24 click (The highest click that I’ve ever received) from somewhere other than one of the sites that I have a channel set up for.

My solution is that Google should automatically set up temporary url channels for everywhere that your ad code is displayed, and then you have the chance to decide whether to make it permanent. This way you always know where these mysterious clicks and impressions are coming from.

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Yesterday was the official launch of my newest website: StudentProxy. Yesterday I made over a dollar by adsense from the homepage only and today I’m almost there again.

Google
Google has sent two bots to StudentProxy and has already listed it in the index. In fact, I’m already receiving traffic from google which bodes well for the site since I have never had a site that got much search engine traffic at all.

Promotion
I’ve spent all of five to ten minutes promoting StudentProxy. I exchanged 1 link (which I’m getting most of my traffic from) and I joined three topsites. This has yielded me in total on day 2: 141 unique visitors!

Future
I’m looking forward to this site growing. I can’t wait to finally own a successful money making site.

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Today is the first day that I’ve ever made over $1 in adsense! The best part is that the site wasn’t even live until late last night. Today was the first day that it received any traffic. With a simple link exchange I’m listed on a very high traffic website which I’m already getting traffic from. Additionally, the site only has one page and Google and MSN have both already visited.

I’m seeing big things in the future for this site.

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I’m currently moving to a new host, a vps in fact, and so I’ve been struggling with various ways to move my sites. The files aren’t that much trouble, but the databases have been causing me some trouble. So if you don’t want to mess with ssh/telnet and you have cpanel then this is the way for you.

1. Login to your old host cpanel.
2. Go to backups and download a backup of the database you want to move. It will be downloaded as a .gz which is greatly compressed. One of my databases was compressed by over 8 megabytes as compared to a .zip.
3. In your new host’s cpanel go to backups and upload the .gz file that you get and you should have a working database within minutes.

I hope you find this useful as I wish that someone had told me this before I spent so much time looking for a good way.

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If you’re anything like me then you are thoroughly addicted to forums. You are constantly joining them sometimes you say for days, sometimes you stay for years (my longest is 2 years as of today). The thing that most forums have in comon is that they don’t pay you to generate content for them. Most are very happy just sit back and roll in the dough. But there are some revenue sharing forums out there that you can both learn a lot from, and get paid to post.
The concept is called revenue sharing whereby you enter your adsense publisher id and then your ads are shown half of the time when someone reads a thread that you’ve started. There are three webmaster forums that I know of that do this

To participate you generally have to have a minimum number of posts and you must of course have an adsense account. Earning don’t normally accumulate, but some of them, DigitalPoint in particular, have such a high CPM that even if your ads aren’t clicked you can still make money.

Bottom Line: If you’re going to post on a forum, you might as well get paid for it even if it is really more of a nice gesture than a way to make a lot of money.

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Could it be that a site is impossible to sell? What is it that makes people decide to buy a site only to back out when it is time to pay?

I’m of course talking about one of the sites that I mentioned in my post about patience. The other I’ve heard from the buyer and found that he’s just waiting for some money to come in which is perfectly acceptable and puts my mind at ease, but this site has just got me so confused.

I listed it for sale several months ago when it was in its prime and I didn’t even get any nibbles. I was really anxious about giving it up so looking back I don’t think that I was ready to give it up. But this time, I have complete peace about giving it up. Quite simply, it is time for me to move on with my life. After all I’ve put into it I can’t bear to see it go to waste, but at the same time I know that with my limited knowledge that I’ve done all that I can with it. It’s akin to loving a pet but knowing that it would have a better life without you. I’m just not the right person any more.

But I can’t get the thing to sell. Remember that this is my second time to offer it up for sale and it is at about a quarter of what I originally wanted for it the first time. So the price has settled on $200. I’ve had 4 people offer to buy it at this price. The first backed out after 2 or 3 days of me waiting for payment because he didn’t think that he could manage the transfer. And the second lowered his offer because “everything doesn’t seem okay”. The third I haven’t heard back from after her initial offer of interest. I just hope that buyer 4 will come through for me.

I’ve now had someone else offer $150 for the database and $100 for the vB license. I acepted because I was ready to be done with it. Not 15 minutes later someone offered $275 for it all. So it ended up selling for much less than what I wanted, but I have glad that it is off my hands and that I have some money to work with.

All that remains now is for the vB licensed to be transfered and I will glad that this process is done with.

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I’m always looking for ways to promote my brand new blog and so far, the most handy dandy thing I’ve seen so far is FeedBurner

Publicize
Share your new FeedBurner feed address by:
Providing a link on your web site. Learn how to modify your blog template to advertise your feed on your site.
Modifying auto-discovery settings on your blog so people can find your feed easily. Learn how to do this to your site and watch circulation grow.

Optimize
Enhance and extend your feed with FeedBurner’s array of services. Use SmartFeed to maximize feed compatibility, improve feed appearance with BrowserFriendly, or easily create a podcast with SmartCast.

Analyze
Get an up-close look at who’s using your feed, and how. Track feed circulation, readership details, clickthroughs and item views (if you’re a PRO subscriber).

Monetize
Place context sensitive advertisements (that is, ads that make sense with your content) in your feed using Google AdSense. Burn your Amazon.com Associate ID into any links to Amazon.com in your feed.

“Troubleshootize”
It’s true, some good feeds go bad. Learn how to diagnose and solve the most common problems FeedBurner encounters when working with your original feed. The best part? We also notify you about any issues we discover using our FeedMedic reporting service and place the alerts right here.

If you haven’t joined FeedBurner and you have a blog you need to do it now!

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MLinkz is my only site that I own that has already had any measure of success.

MLinkz is general web directory that I started in early August because I wanted to try my hand at owning a directory. It isn’t costing too much to run and it doesn’t take much time to manage. It’s made several times what it’s cost to set up and advertise and I take pride in owning it.

If you’re looking for a free backlink with PR then submit your site to MLinkz. I accept any family friendly website and generally acceptance or denial is within 12-24 hours or your submission. And although I appreciate any reciprocal links, it’s certainly not required.

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