It’s happened before, and I’m certain it will happen again – one of my sites got hacked. This time it was a Wordpress blog, similar to this. I was wondering why I was getting ads for Viagra showing up and didn’t have anything relevant to that posted. After viewing the page source, tucked away in the footer of my blog were hundreds of links to far eastern websites selling knock-off drugs.
Word to the wise: Keep secure, and keep an eye on your websites.
Quite often, I find myself reading the Links for Sale forums in DigitalPoint for a good deal and to keep up on market link pricing. Lately, I’ve been noticing more and more blog owners selling blog posts. These range from $5 to $25, and the shocking part of it is you write the post yourself.
Please don’t get me wrong, I have written reviews for websites and software for hire, but I always write them myself. It just doesn’t seem right to do otherwise.
For a webmaster, two things rule – Money and content. In this case, the blog owner is getting both with no work on his/her own.
For well over a year I’ve been interested in a mod for PHPLD 3.0+ that will update the page rank values for all the links. I’ve looked into it in the past, and couldn’t find anything I didn’t have to pay for. My search ended today as I was reading a post on Alive Blog about sorting a directory by order of page rank, and it mentioned the phpLD PR Update Tool. I followed the link and came to the Jago Harry Blog (Another quality Wordpress theme by Brian Gardner by the way!)
Anyway, I downloaded this Mod, took ten minutes to go through the install and whoala! A new quick, easy, and best of all, FREE PR update mod for my directories!
For those that know me well, I made a small fortune last year with Search Arbitrage. Perhaps I’ll go into details in another post, but for now I’ll share this video with you.
Pepperjam CEO Kris Jones discusses how Google Adwords and others are adjusting to the market. I have noticed these changes, and as a result I have suffered tremendous financial hardship because of it.
AS I watch my web empire grow to over 35 sites, I look over and see my children growing up without me. Sure, I’ve been there for them and work hard to give my family everything they need. However, right now I think that I might be putting a bit too much time into my web activities. Especially since many of my sites are not paying off.
I need to scale down.
I don’t plan to sell off any of my sites, but instead I might try to focus more time on a few of them, and put off some of my other pet projects. Maybe fewer is better anyway. Maybe if I try to spend my time promoting just a few, they will pay off more than a lot of smaller sites.
Maybe what I need is a clear strategy, and keep with it. In the past, I have been the text book case of knee jerk webmastering. I might get an idea, then without giving it too much thought, buying a domain and putting together a quick site.
So, I will not knee jerk this idea. I will think it over for a few days. Some of the things I’m pondering are:
* No more custom templates, just for the sake of building them.
* Eliminate posting to other blogs I own for now, until I have more time to give them good thought.
* Continue to promote my popular forum, and spend time working on another newer one.
* Finish current websites I have obligated myself to building, then scaling back on new ones.
* Complete this year’s income tax return, as the mere thought of it is adding stress to my life.
Hopefully, this will clear my conscience, and give me more time with the family.