Obscure Mania

There are certain ways to speed up the process of building WordPress blogs. Why would you want to build multiple blogs? It’s part of Internet Marketing and creating Niche Blogs and there are other reasons why you would want to create a simple, WordPress blog fast.

The sound is a little screwed up because I was trying to cut the file size down. If it’s an issue, let me know.

This isn’t an Internet Marketing blog, but I am familiar with making money online myself and I know others that do as well. A few of the tools listed here like OpenX are designed for websites that make money through advertising.

There’s a dark side to the MMO niche. There are Internet Marketeers that prey on the dreams of people looking to make money online. People spend hundreds and sometimes thousands only to find out the secret of making money online is to sell crap to new people that don’t know any better.

One of those appears to be Site Build It. If you ever run across this “business opportunity” run, don’t walk. Don’t take my opinion on it, look at people I know that are sincere and honest in their teachings about making money online and telling the truth to people trying to make money online the right way. Vic at Bloggerunleashed has one of his famous post blasting Dr. Ken Evoy, Griz’s post about the Site Build it Scam at Make Money Online for Beginners and the post that started the firestorm Lissie’s Review of Site Build It, Steve’s Is Site Build It A Scam? post and another Site Build it Scam post from Jeremy.

If you’re ever looking at how to really make money online, look at those people above for the honest truth about making money online – It can be done and it takes a lot of work and most get rich quick schemes are the same as they are in real life, just scams.

If you have several ads either rotating in various places on your website and or have multiple websites with multiple ads and advertisers you realize things can get out of control rather quickly and you can lose track of your advertisers or what banners are where. A few tools can help.

OpenX

If you’re not using the open source adserver OpenX, you don’t know what you’re missing. At first glance, OpenX seems complicated, it can be, but it’s not any more complicated than keeping track of multiple advertisers with multiple websites and campaigns.

OpenX is worth the time invested or the money invested in someone else to install and set it up for you. There are plenty of tutorials at OpenX.org, a forum and a list of paid consultants. I’m not on that list, but I can help you out.

In the next few days I will be uploading video tutorials explaining how to install, setup ad campaigns and installing into your WordPress blog.

Affiliate Director 2

Affiliate Director 2 is a great tool for keeping track of all of your affiliate programs.  AD2 is not only a central location to keep track of your affiliate programs, it also provides a cloaking link that hides your affiliate links. You use the AD2 links in your websites, so if any of your affiliate programs change or you want to change a link you change the link in one place instead of trying to find every link in every website that link may be installed in. Read the rest of this entry »