I havent dont much on the website or blog lately, basically because my harddrive crashed. I had all the files needed for making money online, my website, everything, on my harddrive...and it crashed.
TOSHIBA SUCKS!!!!The money itself is not the issue, its the principle. It is the ridiculous markup companies put because they know how valuable your data is. My naive opinion is things should cost as much as they actually cost, plus a fair markup so that the economy can keep going. However data recovery companies feel that since the harddrive is such a valuable asset, the information on it must be very valuable, so people are willing to pay just about anything to get it back and are pretty desperate about it. This company actually doesn't overcharge and actually prepares you for a hard drive crash before it happens
Another option, which is what I did do also, is purchase an external hard drive and from now on will be backing up my data weekly. I did some pretty intensive research on the web and the best deal available was at TigerDirect
Luckily, my harddrive was under warranty, so the replacements free, I just have to wait about a week. The annoying part is they won't give me my old harddrive back so I can do the data recovery myself. Again this is simply because they want to charge some ridiculous amount to do it themselves. They only told me they won't give it back after I already gave them the laptop to send out to be fixed. So whatever, point is, always have a warranty, back up your hardrive regularly, and don't trust Toshiba. Its the third harddrive crash in 5 years. You'd think I would learn and back up stuff. But theres nothing like a good lesson in detachment and I've been apart from computers this entire week and still living. Good news is that I do have my handheld portable PC to work from and my blackberry so I guess its not exactly "roughing it".
This happened just as I relaunched my eBay business which needs daily monitoring from a real computer so I think I may lose a few bucks there, no biggie.
What I have been doing with my time is a lot of reading on Search Engine Optimization and its amazing to me what this world includes. There are blogs, and websites, and companies all dedicated to the topic. People compete daily to be the #1 page rank on google for certain keywords and when they lose a spot, they write pages and pages of blogs on why. Its quite fascinating to me and something I could easily see myself getting lost in. To this point I've made the majority of my online money through the eBay or affiliate marketing so I've never really been too concerned with SEO. But now that I have a website, I really want people to visit it and learn all the really great stuff about making money online, so I think I may devote some time to this.
I found a great website, at Globalpromoter.com which has tons of free Search Engine Optimization Tools .
Of course what I've learned is that money can buy you any page rank that you want, but the real challenge is doing it without costing anything, and since my website is built solely around the idea of making money online without costing a dime, then I really want to master getting top billing without paying for it. It will be challenging, I will need to devote hours and hours to it, and in the end it might completely fail simply for the stubborn reason that I'm using Google Pages to host my site. I say stubborn reason because I have a choice of any host, but I am hell bent on doing everything free of cost, and Google has the best option for the cost of nothing. So I'll keep this blog updated on my successes, failures and learnings in the world of Search Engine optimization. If you're not up for the challenge, I think global promoter is the best.
For now I'll be leading people to my new site through this blog, myspace and my eBay business since I know Google isnt putting me anywhere near the top just yet. I've actually learned that the most important aspect of optimization is to be linked from other pages. But I've also learned that buying links on other pages, or trading links could lead to actually hurting your optimization as well, I guess the search engines are smart or something. Still I'm hoping that my content is good enough that people will actually want to link to it from their sites. If you like my stuff, link to it from your blog or website and tell your friends about it. After all, all I'm offering is a free education on making money online.
I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this subject. Have you tried it, have you succeeded, failed or are still trying? Any tips for other readers? or even for me?
Also as I've mentioned in my free Members only group, I'm looking to start an affiliate business with somebody else who is interested. It will work like this. You sign up for an affiliate program. I'll tell you which products to create affiliate links for. You create a free website with those links. I'll drive traffic to your website through my eBay business. You keep 100% of the profit on traffic you generate yourself and 40% on traffic that I bring there. The cost for you will be absolutely nothing other than a few minutes spent setting up the free page. If that's not an easy income stream, I don't know what is.
Well this blog has covered making money online, harddrives, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, myspace, and eBay. This is the way my mind works if I don't have my own computer. Hopefully I'll get it back soon and I can go back to working on my website. Actually since all the files from my website were on the old hard drive, I'm gonna have to create it all from scratch again and make it look just like the old. But that actually gives me a chance to improve on some stuff and will keep me busy while my wife studies :).
Have a great day and feel free to leave any and all comments....and HAPPY HALLOWEEEN!
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