My Website Is Rising From the Dead

Yes, it is. My website now has something in it:

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I made contact with the programmer, exactly two weeks after. He said the reason was a digital crash in hostgaotr, which he said is the No. 1 hosting company in the world.

There are more explanations and more bullshits but I didn't care. I just wanted to have my website running again. I really miss it.

So I said show me the website no later than Friday and we are still in business. He is working on it now and I hope he will meet my deadline.

Pay Per Post

My sister introduced me to this pay per post system wherein a blogger is paid for every post she makes pertaining to a product. She told me of a friend who made about $800.00 out of it.

But that friend now feels sorry she did pay per post. Her wordpress blog lost its Google Page Rank of 4. Yes 4 to nothing. My sister said Google doesn't like pay per post. Now, because her blog is not ranking anymore, she could not get any more project from pay per post. So I said, why would I do it?

From my understanding, pay per post is getting paid for posting or blogging a product or service. It is covert advertising. You are writing about a product and promoting it. But your blog has to meet certain criteria in order to qualify as a pay-per-post blog.

I don't know the whole picture about pay per post yet. Need more research and will blog it later.

Somebody Stole My Domain Name

Can't believe that my domain name is now owned by another person. I'm talking of wealthyfreelancer.com. Yes, someone bought it and it is parked free courtesy of a hosting company.

Now this is what I call legal stealing.

Why? Because wealthyfreelancer is an establsihed domain name. What with all the URLs there are over the internet. See for yourself, type wealthyfreelancer.com on Google.

Because I did not renew it, somebody took interest. Now, I regret letting it go.

Honest Riches Is Useless

I am so angry at this point. I think my patience has been drained. What an experience this has been. You try hard and work hard but then you efforts go to waste.

I have spent money, time, and energy with all these internet marketing. But still no fruit for my labor. And this in return for all the trust and faith I gave.

For those who want to go into internet marketing, you are just wasting yoour time and money. There is no better honest way to make money than tangible means. Get a job; sell physical goods. Info-prenuer is just hype. They are all there to get your money. And no, I'm not making an exception.

Another Day in Limbo

Here's my final report on Scriptlance: don't hire your programmer there. Scriptlance has no guarantee with the job. Once you choose the bid, it's between you and the programmer. Once the money is in escrow, you cannot withdraw the money if the programmer would not cancell it. You really have no power in your hands. Learn from my mistake. Read my previous posts and see for yourself.

Exactly two weeks have passed and the money I paid to the programmer, $240 in all, would most likely vanish. I can't access my website, i can't contact the programmer, I can't do anything. I contacted Scriptlance and the only thing they could do is re-open the project so I can post a message to the programmer. Yes, after the project closes, you cannot contact the programmer. What is sadder is that I also bought my webhosting and domain name with this programmer so pretty much, my website, my articles, my dear ideas, my concepts, and my whole internet dream go with it.

What can you say Holly Mann? Do you still recommend Scriptlance?

Holly Mann Proved Herself Right

Since my website is not working, I have been busy with other online activities. One of them is eBay selling. I have been an eBay seller since last year. I have 34 points with a 100% positive status. I happen to be registered as a travel agent so I thought I will post one travel deal trhough eBay.

It is hard to sell travel on eBay, its partner company has to validate you and you have to pay a joining fee plus $9.95 monthly fee. It is too much for me since I am not planning to post travel deals on eBay on a regular basis.

Good thing, I can still list the travel deal as 'other travel' which means I don't have to be registered or validated. I did that. It was okay. Then I thought I would add my email address and travel website. To my amazement, the eBay system accepted it and even made it clickable. To make the story short, I was able to post my listing. End of that portion of the story.

Now, I read from Holly Mann's ebook, Honest Riches that eBay does not allow you to put links in the description. She then shared a trick on how to overcome this restriction.

While writing my product description on eBay, I was kind of testing the water. In my mind, I expected that eBay would not accept my listing once I submit it. Then, it went through with links and all. I thought Holly Mann was wrong. Or that her advise was no longer applicable. Maybe now, eBay accepts links unlike before.

Well, Holly Mann proved herself right. Exactly 24 hours after I posted my travel listing, I got an email alert from eBay saying that they ended the auction because of invalid links. I could not use links/URLs because it is against eBay policy.

Meanwhile, I already had three watchers for my listing. I lost all of them. I wrote eBay and asked if they could relist the item but minus the links. And eBay did reply back one day later. They said they could not relist it again because once they end the auction, the template is not saved. Good thing is, I could relist the item myself. This time, I'll be more careful not to put links and follow Holly Mann's technique.

Sorry, I can't share the technique here but you could learn about it and more other useful things when you buy her eBook.

Happy internet marketing, everyone... and wish me luck!

More Website Blues

Since my website is out, I have been busy with other things. Yes, what can I do about it? I hope my programmer is not yet dead. My advise to anyone who wants to sign up with cheap hosting, DON'T! Better sign up with the giants. Even if they are expensive, they are reliable and you don't have to worry about them going out of business. The only issue is the price but in the long run, it would pay for itself.

I already know about this even before I signed up with an unknown hosting, they are called resellers. But the reason I signed up with this reseller is because he is also my programmer. I found him from Scriptlance. And going back, it is Holly Mann who recommended Scriptlance in her Honest Riches eBook. (This blog is all about my internet marketing stint after buying Holly Mann's eBook).

The price I'm paying right now exceeds what I bargained for. I really choose a low bid (but not the lowest bid) when I have the project posted at Scriptlance. The programmer offered his service, his own CMS, and his own hosting. Looks like a sweet package deal but it turns out to be bitter. Don't get me wrong, the programmer is smart and accommodating but there are matters that are beyond him. Like this internet service interruption. I don't know where the damage is done. The bigger problem is that he is unreachable. If his internet is shut down, he won't be able to get online. And so this cycle of frustrations coming through.

I hope that by this experience, someone would learn the lesson and not make the same mistake like I did.

My Website is Not Yet Running!

I am really very upset. One bad thing after another. This is the height of my internet fiasco. I don't know what's going on. Can somebody please help?

My Wow Ezine is now better called Gone Ezine. Yes, even the website of the webhost is gone. Where do I go from here?

My Website Fiasco

As of now, my website connection is not working. This really sucks. I have an unreliable hosting. Now, I'm realizing the quality of a cheap hosting. For three days now, I cannot access my website; so is everyone. It's really really frustrating.

I got my webhosting package from an Indian based company which is operated by the Scriptlance programmer that I hired. I originally signed up with BlueHost as recommended by Holly Mann in her eBook Honest Riches. But since the space or bandwidth offered by BlueHost cannot accommodate the big chunk of data that my website requires, I have to cancel my account with BlueHost and go with the one suggested by the programmer at Scriptlance. I did and now I'm paying the price.

Actually, he gave me a $50 discount just to match up the price of Bluehost but with a bigger number of gigabytes. Plus, he also gave me free domain hosting. What a deal you may think, right? It went well at first but this is the second time in one and a half month that I could not access my website.

I am practically a newbie and I have not foreseen this problem coming. It's really making me down and weak and all the negative energy you and I can think of is taking me over. One bad thing is that my webhost/programmer cannot be reached because he is also affected by this internet blackout. It really sucks from the ground up to the top down, sideways, and around. Whatever.

For those who want to see my website, please click this: Wow Ezine. If nothing comes up, that means it is not yet working at the time you read this. And that means I am still sulking in the dark.

Building WebsiteThrough Royalty-Free Content

It has been weeks since I made my last post here. It was just hectic doing my website. Website needs content especially when you are just selling information. Holly Mann in her Honest Riches eBook said we can use some royalty-free articles and graphics just to fill in our website. I chose not to use royalty-free articles but I did that with graphics.

It's just difficult to come out with pictures especially when you want a picture of Jamaica or the Eiffel Tower in your website. Good thing, there's royalty-free photos.

Not with articles. I do not use articles that were written by other people even if they are not copyrighted. I just feel like my website should offer something new, something different. For a lot of website owners, they compromise the quality of content just so their websites would rank high in search engines. I hope I am not hitting on anyone in saying this. I just personally want my content to be all-original, fresh, and never been published nor read before.

I want to set the example to the future members/contributors/writers of my site. I will be the head editor so I want to show a good example. No matter how vague, how, mundane, or how small an idea is, it has a room in my website. It is just a matter on how you present your ideas. It is just a matter of how strongly you feel about something. If it is yours and you really want to share it with others, then your article has a room in my website.

Once again, I want everyone to know that Wow Ezine is a medium that you can use to further your internet marketing efforts. That and so much more. So do visit when you got a chance.