I would personally like to apologize to anyone that visited here and got a virus. Awhile back someone told me that there was a virus on bobschmuck.com so I investigated by checking my site from my computer and on two other computers. On those three computers, no virus showed up so I thought it wasn’t on my site but instead on their computer or just a mistake until today when I read Matt Heckman’s blog and he talks about a virus is on bobschmuck.com.
The last thing I would want to do is spread a virus so I terminated my site from my mothers hosting account (The domain bobschmuck.com was a Christmas gift four years back so she hosted it on her server) and removed all the post/files and reinstalled wordpress. The reason for not doing this sooner was because the virus wasn’t showing up on my computer and I was afraid of losing all the content/files on my site; however, if I knew the virus was really there I would of done this a lot sooner.
So if you have any questions, just post a comment and I’ll answer them as best as I can.
Truly Sorry,
Bob Schmuck
WARNING: Please do not click on the Google Cached for bobschmuck.com. It still contains the virus.
I know you have been busy making money on line and haven’t graduated to WordPress yet. Here’s your new domain, paid up for 2 years! By the time you get this I should have your blogger blog transfered over here and organized.
Yesterday, I was reading Jon Waraas’s Blog on using a 301 Redirect on all of his websites. He explains that using this little tip will send you to http://www.sitename.com when you type http://sitename.com. This avoids search engines from giving http://sitename.com credit. Instead your main address will receive the credit. Basically, this little tip on improving your ranking will merge the two addresses into one.
How to do this? You might be wondering how you can do this little SEO tip too. All you have to do is access your .htaccess page and add the following code.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.sitename\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.sitename.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Replace “sitename†and “TLD” with your site’s name and TLD.
I’ve decided to begin adding this code to all of my sites too. I’ve already added the code to my two flash game sites. 2 sites down 16 sites to go!
This month has been superb with a record daily average.November Income - $38*
*Even though I sold a total of $290.83 of private advertisement, most of the links sold were for multiple months.
AdSense - $204.47
Yahoo Publisher - $194.07
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Total - $436.54
Daily - $14.55
Keep in mind. My goal is to be earning $1,000 by January 2007. I only have 30 days to double my income. Wish me luck!
You might know that Jan Pavis, an excellent writer and an Internet entrepreneur, is my mother. I would like to take this moment to tell everyone that she is one of the best online article writers around with the ability to write on any topic. I’m not just saying this because she is my mother. She’s been writing all her life and recently she’s been learning the differences from offline and online writing and catching on quickly too.
Lately, she has been receiving requests from other Internet Entrepreneurs that want articles so she decided to setup a page on her Blog for anyone wanting her writing service. If you need an article wrote, check her Writing Service Page. You won’t regret it!
Not only is she a great writer, she also helps other Internet Entrepreneurs improve their writing skills by explaining how she goes about researching a topic, writing an article, and much more. I would highly recommend reading these two posts:
I’ve followed, “HOW I WRITE ARTICLES“ for one of my paintballing articles and notice a great improvement compared to the previous ones. So if you want to boost your writing skills, check out her blog at, jansideas.com.
Even if you don’t have the money or don’t need her service, read her Blog so you can learn form a great self-taught writer for FREE. With her advice, you might become one too.
Al has asked very good questions and I will answer them as best as I can. If anyone else have question just drop me a comment.
Al’s first question, He asked, “Where did you get started?â€
The very first site I developed was in 2001 for my Boy Scout Eagle Project on the topic of Testicular Cancer. At that time, I wasn’t aware of the chance of making income from developing a site. It wasn’t until 2005 that I found out there was a chance of me making money online. I was studying and trying to develop sites for 4 years until I made my first $0.16 (July 1, 2005). Keep in mind I wasn’t trying to make any money during this time because I wasn’t aware that I could. The first month I started to try to make money was December 2005, which I made $33.76. Since then I’ve been studying and testing different layouts, ad placements, and more.
Al’s Second question. He asked, “Where did you earn your first dollar on the web?” After moving my first site to its own domain name, I made my first $1.00 from AdSense. I don’t think I could explain the process of making your first dollar because it took me four years :). It was a great feeling knowing that I made a dollar without working for someone. The key in making your first dollar is to keep it simple, using trial & Error, and work to learn not money. When your are developing a site focus on using your site to help the people on your topic not on how much money the site will make at lease in the beginning. Also use your first site to test out different methods. The number one thing to do is use your thing between your sideburns.
Al, your goal on seeing a dollar amount in AdSense is a great idea. I remember when I first started, I set goals of making any amount of money and seeing a small amount in my AdSense account made me very happy. Think of it this way, every racer must start at the beginning of the track to reach the finish.
I know it has been awhile since my last post. I will have a nice update on my progress of becoming successful. If you have any questions on a specific topic, leave me a comment and I’ll answer it with my next post.
I hear about Internet Entrepreneurs owning to many undeveloped domains all the time. The domains just sit in their collection yelling, “Develop meâ€. These people never have the time to develop these sites because they have to many and feel over whelmed. Well, let me enlighten you with my secret on avoiding that dilemma…
After registering a domain, I fully focus on that domain until it earns my initial investment back, which is normally only $8 for the registering fee. This means I never purchase another domain until my previous domain returns the invested funds. In the beginning, this would take around 4-6 months however now it only takes about 30 days.
When you first start out, you might want to register 3-6 domains to create volume so you arn’t just focusing on one site that doesn’t work. But remember not to register another domain until these sites bring you back the invested funds. When developing one of these sites first develop the site then promote it after you have a finished product (site). You might even want to develop the 3-6 on related topics so you can cross-link them.
