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Ok, I’ve been told that in order to get my website noticed, I have to submit my feed to RSS engines. So, the first thing I did was go out and find listings. Wow, there are tons of listings. But, from what I’ve found, a lot of them are not correct. Some work, some don’t, some are not free, don’t exist, or are sites designed for you to click around so someone can make PPC money from you. So, below is a list of the real sites available to submit your feeds to. If one doesn’t work, please let me know. I’ll keep it updated as I go!

Name: Millionrss Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: HotVsNot Submit here Description: Free?: Yes, if you put in
Name: Solar Warp Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: Postami Submit here Description: Free?: No 24.99
Name: 2rss.com Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: Ping-o-matic Submit here Description: Pings your feeds. You have to bookmark your page and come back and ping again every once in a while Free?: Yes
Name: Feedsee Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: 4 Guys from Rolla Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: Feedcat.net Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: Feedage.com Submit here Description: Had issues getting to the site. Free?: Yes
Name: Plazoo.com Submit here Description: Free?: Yes
Name: RSS Mountain Submit here Description: Had to register Free?: Yes

Ok, I’ve had this site for a while. Upon my first introduction to Adsense, I was pretty excited. I mean after all, I may make some money just because people are browsing my site. And, since this is a WordPress site, there are tons of ways to integrate Google Adsense ads easily.

Recently, I ran across affiliate marketing. For those of you that don’t know, affiliate marketing can work similar to Adsense, except instead of making money from someone clicking on a banner, you will make money from someone clicking on a banner, then buying something.

So, the first question you may think is, “With Adsense, I always make money, with an affiliate link I won’t.” This is true. But, I’ve looked at the money I’ve made through adsense and it doesn’t amount to more than $5 over a period of several months.

So, I thought wow, that’s pennies. Then it dawned on me. If just one person bought something (from links or images that look identical to Adsense ads) I would make that amount of money or even more with one sale.

So, today, I made the leap. I removed all Adsense ads from this site. Ok, I may be crazy. But, I figured it’s worth the chance.

So, the first thing I did before proceeding was figure out how I could do this easily with WordPress. And, to my smiling eyes, I found the Advertising Manager plugin.

So, how does the Advertising Manager plugin help? Well, I’ve added several of my affiliate links and banners to the plugin. It was an extremely easy process. And, I’ve set it up so they will rotate! So, they will function similar to Adsense. And the BIG bonus. I can customize which affiliate ads display with each post I write. Wow, focused ads on my own articles. Also, I had difficulty figuring out what to do. After I did it one time, everything was easy. Here are the instructions for Advertising Manager just in case

So, if you’re not doing this yet, consider it. I’ll keep you posted on how it works.

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Did you know it is possible to point a domain name (website address) to your LinkedIn profile? For example, my profile can be found at http://www.linkedin.com/in/joebailey? So what right? Well, if I owned the domain name joebailey.com, or hirejoebailey.com, I could point it to my LinkedIn profile. And it would only take about 10 minutes from start to end.

How does this help me? Well, if you need to direct someone to your linked in profile, you could just give them your website address (domain name). It would be a lot easier. Also, you could set up an email address for that domain name as well. So, if anyone ever wanted to get in touch with you, they’d know your email address as well.

Here’s how to do it.

1. Go to JoesWebshack and purchase a domain name. It will be less than $10 a year, and it comes with an email address
2. Once purchased, log into your account if you haven’t already.
3. Now, click on the top or left navigation where it says “My Domain Names”
4. Now, you will see a list of your domain names. Click on the hyperlink of your domain name.
5. At the top of the page in the navigation, click on the “Forward”, then “Forward Domain” option
6. In the box, type in your LinkedIn address and press OK, and you’re finished!

After setting up several Wordpress websites, it dawned on me, this can get technical, and it can get time consuming if you’re just learning how to use Wordpress. In addition, what if you’ve never had a website before, and you don’t know about hosting, or domain names, what do you do then?

Well, this post is just to see who’s out there, and if this is even a need. So, if you would like us to install Wordpress for you, let us know. You can respond to this thread or use the “Ask the Webmaster” option.

Initially, the package I was thinking about creating consists of the following:
1. Domain name
2. Hosting
3. Set up an email address with the potential to have more.
4. FTP Access
5. Wordpress installation
6. 5 standard plugins to be determined. Maybe the idea is we could let you choose from a list.

Requirements:
1. It would have to be on our hosting
2. You would have had to choose a domain name already.
3. You would have to pay up front, because the cost of domains and hosting are real costs.
4. We would need 24 hours to set it up.
5. Hosting questions would be directed through JoesWebshack.com.
6. WordPress questions would have to be posted on this site or elsewhere. This way, we could build a shared list of questions and help for everyone. In addition, there is so much to do with WordPress, we would be overwhelmed with the questions and would have to charge to answer questions.

Today, I was notified that I had some malware. Not too excited about that. As it turns out, the easy way to block this in the Firefox browser was to add an Ad Blocker plugin to my browser. Sounds cool right. Well, just out of curiosity, I looked at my website and found out that all of my ads were blocked! Makes sense right.

Well, there’s one drawback. If I’m only using ads to make revenue from my site, I’m out of luck. So, what to do? Well, I’ve come to the conclusion that I should mix my ads with some links to affiliate programs. I know, this may seem obvious to some, but it wasn’t to me.

So, now, my next task is to add to my general template links to some affiliate sites. Otherwise, if all of the ads are blocked, I’m out of luck.