One day I sat and wrote a 295 word article for one of my sites. The article will not win a Pulitzer Prize, but it wasn’t trash either. I think it took me a total of 20 minutes. The majority of the time was spent signing up as an author.

I submitted the article and had it reviewed by their editors within two days. The article went live on 30 Aug 2007 and I was named an “expert author”. To date the article was viewed 319 times and I’ve received 25 site visits. These visits spend 4.22 minutes on the site and view 2.25 pages.

This is just one article. What if I wrote nine more? You get the picture. From my brief experience, I would definitely recommend you write a few articles to support whatever site you’re working on.

If you’re blogging (or even considering it) you should read this post on screen captures.

I’d like to publicly state that without Mike’s comprehensive reviews of Ed’s rambling podcasts, I’d be lost. Great work Mike. I certainly appreciate all you’re doing.

I had an opportunity to read through it and I can tell you it’s packed with insightful information about what he tried and what worked for him. If you’re new to monetizing a website or aren’t having much success so far, this ebook is for you. Some of the areas discussed are:

• niche marketing
• website creation using a content management system (CMS)
• web hosting
• URL optimization
• site navigation
• user created content
• traffic creation secrets
• Adsense and other advertising

Another part I like about the ebook is that Randy just lays out the content. I’m very much a “just say it” kinda guy. I’m not into the stories and endless fluff to make an ebook 99 pages (when it really has 10 pages of actual content).

Currently Randy is selling this ebook for a mere ten dollars. I highly recommend you purchase it. Anything that can save you precious time is worth it. Like I’ve mentioned before, your time is your most precious resource. You can search the forums and scrape together bits and pieces but you are making much better use of your time taking advantage of this ebook.

You can read more about the ebook and find testimonials from others here: How i was making over $1,000/mo after only 4 months

You can purchase the ebook directly from Randy by sending him an E-mail: Contact Randy For Your Copy Of The Ebook

Simple math: 150 x 5000 = 750,000 dollars.

P.S. He’s getting all those that didn’t get the 150 seats to sign-up for his second chance offering.

For me, red flags of danger start waving when:

1. You get semi-useful, common sense “free” ebooks released
2. You get all the “gurus” plugging it to their lists
3. You get a sudden E-mail from Rich saying “WARNING: There are 36,832 people receiving this email and there are only 1,500 passes available. If I were you, I would STOP READING this email and go DIRECTLY to my site to get your “front-of-the-line” pass that I told you about yesterday.”
4. You get testimonials posted detailing outstanding successes (and they include fellow ebiz gurus)
5. You read glowing and non-criticial testimonials on multiple ebiz websites
6. You find candid comments saying “Several months ago, a fast-talking Web marketer named Rich Schefren tracked me down… and we began a long damn conversation about something near and dear to both our hearts: Creating a killer “money funnel” online that automatically attracted, captured and vitually hypnotized vast mobs of prospects… and flipped them, fast and easy, into becoming eager, loyal paying customers.”
7. You find a website with Rich’s name and registered to his company asking you to “authorize the $697 monthly membership to be billed to my credit card.”

To point 5 above, when I read other sites saying things like “Just Realeased June 27th. Written by Rich Schefren, one of THE most sought after business consultants (even the gurus have him on their speed dial list)”, you should take notice.

I think flags are waving everywhere on this one. Anyone want to guess about how much this course will cost? 1000 dollars? 5000 dollars?

I can’t say if Rich will help you or your business. What I can say is that Rich is about to get a whole lot richer.

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Another Hostgator feature I love is the fantastico installation program. With this, I am able to immediately add a wordpress blog or a CMS like Joomla.

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For 9.95 a month, this shared hosting plan can’t be beat. I have six sites running now and all of them hosted on the same account. So far there have been no issues. I’m truly happy with their service and I think you will be to.

If you want to start out doing ebiz, you’ll need a website at some point. Give Hostgator a try.

I’ve reviewed the site and the adsense appears primarily as a leaderboard on the main pages. It is near where a person selects the type of person they are searching for, so that’s good placement as most clicks are going to be in that area to begin with. Outside of that, it appears it’s simply a numbers a game. Get tons of traffic with a free dating site and you’ll get a certain percentage of clicks regardless.

So the keys again are give people what they want (in this case opportunity to find love, sex, companionship) and a novel service idea (free dating service), some good SEO and you’ve got a winner.