Howdy Shez!
Thanks OOODLES
Actually I was moving in the blog direction, looking for ways to automate things, but ran afoul of a product called unique article builder but didn't find a way to monetize it. It's all articles, vvery dry and without the twitter following.
I've got an apple site set up (just as my first site. A) always wanted one and B) wanted to do things as close to your idea as possible so that I could replicate it as faithfully as possible) at http://thebigapple.webneur.com if you or anyone wants to take a look.
A little tip for people who want to set up something like this: Up til now I've been going straight to godaddy and buying domain straight from their buy it now section. Goto a site like freshdrop.com. You can frequently find an already pr ranked domainname you can buy for like $5 + first years domain charge. My webneur.com domain cost me about $6 + 10.69 for the first year and is a PR 3 domain already.
It DOES work though. I set up the site two days ago, and even without twitterfall I'm getting about 100/day targeted visitors and they stay around to read 5-10 posts.
But I ran into a problem with categories. I have NOOOOOO clue why, but I added all of my categories to the blog from the posts/categories link on the wp/dashboard. But when I added a categories widget to the blog, it didn't see my categories!!! Just kept saying 'No Categories'.
I went so far as to last night, tearing the whole thing down and rebuilding it piece by piece, one slow step at time until I figured out what to do about it.
For some reason I had to hand create a post and add the categories that I wanted to it. That was it. Once I created a post instead of depending on the Robot to do it, and created all of the categories by hand in the add new post section, it took right off. Bizzare!
Couple of questions:
1) How do I set up an RSS feed for it. lol. I've got 25 years of experience as a professional computer computer consultant and I've already forgotten more about computers than most people will ever know, but for some dad-blamed reason RSS just won't stick. I think when I hit the button it says something about the owner of the site needs to set up a feedly feed. i know feedly and I know feed but exactly how do I set it up with the robot.
2) I created a personal theme in a product called Artisteer 2 for the blog so had a devil of a time finding just the right place in the single.php file to put the ad code, but finaly nailed it down. lol. probably went overboard on it. Only have ads in the ipod touch category right now but the ads are definitely the most time consuming part of it. But, the single file:
I have the ads for the ipod touch in there. I just add the code for the say, Ipod Nano to the single file in just the same way that I did the ipod touch ads and depend on the ad manager to figure out which one is the right categories are which?
3) Can you add adsense code to this? prolly won't but just wanted to check.
4) Sigh. I dont have an affiliate for ebay and that's pretty flaky nowadays I hear. Clickbank ads suck. Vendors there are more interested in making affiliates than in selling to customers. Articles, yahoo answers and news and youtube can attract people but don't really sell in and of themselves. So I guess it's down to amazon ads unless I've missed something and that's pretty restrictive. Am I misunderstanding something here?
Well, I've been long-winded enough here. Thanks once again for a most excellent method. No profit yet but at least people are looking inside the window so to speak
Thanks again for the help!
Dean
PS had to rebuild it twice and getting to the point where I can build it in about 4 hrs so can spend the rest of my time twitterfalling, trolling for traffic. you're also right inthat it spiders like crazy. They just love it.
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