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Here’s an inspiring tale; this guy wrote a flash game to find differences and is using it to encourage zip submits. Or something. Here’s a link to his cool game cool spot the difference game.
Smart idea; wish I’d thought of that.
Written by russ on February 20th, 2008 with no comments.
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Well, I’m getting tired of the moaning and crying about “stealing my content” this and “DMCA” that, so I’m taking the autoblogs on tuggboat.com offline. Yeah, they were spam, yeah they were not the best idea in the world. They did bring in enough adsense clicks to pay for three months of hosting ( or one night at McDonalds with my family), but ultimately they’re not the sort of legacy I want to leave my children.
Anyway, I’m redirecting them with a .htaccess file and a index.html file to some appropriate MFA or other kind of advertising sites, which while aren’t the best content on the web, are less “spammy” or “angry email producing.”
Here’s the htaccess file I’m using to 302 redirect the domain to a new location
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://new location here [R=302,L]
And here’s the index.html file that will use a meta refresh to go to the new location, if for some reason the .htaccess file doesn’t work.
< html>
< head>
< meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://new destination here">
< /head>
< body>
< /body>
< /html>
< /code>
( note the extra space after the open tag < mark on each of those tags. )
Written by russ on February 12th, 2008 with no comments.
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A week? Fifteen Bucks?
Jan 1-7: $1.00
Jan 8-14: $26.00
Jan 15-21: $8.00
Jan 22-28:$31.00
Well. Almost consistency there; that averages $16.50 a week. Those are just numbers from eBay; and I’m using a variety of blogging methods to drive those sales. Mostly, though it’s a wordpress blog and the PHPBayPro software ( see blue box on the right ). So what are we setting our goals at for February? Well, we’re aiming at a fifty dollar week. Just one. The rest, maybe, should fall into place. What comes after that?
Written by russ on February 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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This mashup package is pretty redonkulos. By which I mean, if you want to get ten niche sites rolled out the door tonight, go get this software and you’ll be done in two hours. Not counting buying the domains and hosting.
Watch the video; you’ll see what I mean.
The version I downloaded required a .htaccess line to make it use php5. You’ll want to check on your hosting for that.
In the version there, you’ll probably want to add the “sitetitle” variable at the top ( he shows it in the video but on reflection I’m not sure it’s used in the script. And when you go to enter the development tags, make sure you have a good search index ( my site tried to use SoftwareVideoGames but the proper one was VideoGames; I printed out the xml with a print_r to figure that out ). The request token is obvious ( you have to fumble around a little to get the REST token, though ) but while you might assume the RequestUserId is the developer id, it’s not; when you get the REST token you have to log in as a regular user. Use the username you used for that in that variable.
I think the tracking id is the pid you see in your commission junction “website settings” and the “affiliateuserid” is some string to make me know where it is ( the sid ) but I’m waiting to hear back from Mark on that.
The template file is pretty basic — you can easily modify it. I cleaned up my copy of the style.css, there’s a lot to trim out there.
Oh, by the way, it’s over here..
Written by russ on February 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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