geek/talk - Making Money On The Internet
geek/talk’s talk
--> http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/index.php

This geekvillage.com forum contains more than 80,000 posts. The major categories are
— Making Money with CPC and/or CPM Programs
— Making Money with CPA Programs
— Making Money with Regional Affiliate Programs and Networks
— Making Money with Email
— Business Principles.

Then there’s more: another 18 forums.



$2.00 Ads at Trafficaces.com

”We welcome the opportunity to bring you the highest returns available online.”
--> http://www.trafficaces.com/publisher_intro.php

I just stumbled upon these guys today. If you publish their ads on your Website, they offer these CPM rates (24 hour unique, USA):
Banner (468×60) 50¢
Skyscraper (120×600) 50¢
Pop-under $1.50
Flash superstitial $2.00



There’s quite a promotion happening at contextweb.com.
contextweb promo

If you join before June 1st, they’ll give you $50 and the 70% net revenue share. Their CPMs run as high as $10.00
internet advertising

Mammamedia pays for clicks originating from a metasearch bar youplace on your site. You an publish their banners, as well.
--> http://www.mammamediasolutions.com/



May 24, 2005
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“The concept is very simple. You read other blog sites and they in return visit your blog. Blogexplosion is the internet’s first blog exchange where thousands of bloggers visit each other’s blogs in order to receive tons of blog traffic. Imagine how many other people out there could be adding your blog to their blogroller and how many people would be reading your blog every day with this sort of attention. It’s free to use!”





May 23, 2005
Messageboard.com :: For Webmasters By Webmasters?

Here’s my recent reply to Messageboard.com (which alleges that it is “For Webmasters By Webmasters”):

What do you allow [in your forum]? You have to look a bit to find my name on the Web sites I listed. And those sites review/promote Web hosts and search engines and facilitate users.

Like a huge portion of the Internet, I have Google ads (I’ve had them on for a week, but I’ve only made $10, which doesn’t even get us out of the gas station here in Canada). Other than Google and what I still haven’t received for promoting a bank, I don’t get any money or special bargains from Internet businesses.

I’ve surfed quite a bit and find that different webmasters define self-promotion differently (and almost all webmasters are somehow promoting themselves or their affiliates, even when they pretend it isn’t so). It gets confusing and that creates apathy among users.

Anyway, thanks. See you around in cyperspace.

[Yeah, and the location of the rules varies among various Web sites. But I guess you are expected to spend 5 minutes just looking for the rules — 5 minutes on each and every Web site. Whew! Where’s the user friendliness on this Great Web?]



May 22, 2005
Fear of Submitting Brought on by Urban Myth?

Quite a few surfers say things like

I wouldn’t advise you to use autosubmitters, many Search Engines don’t allow auto-submissions,

or

I think autosubmitting is like a quick fix.

I’ve posted my response elsewhere. Here’s what I said:

You guys sometimes advise against automated submissions, but you never provide data/facts to back up what you say. Small European search engines are unlikely to randomly crawl your sites. You have to bring your site to their attention. If everyone relied exclusively on big search engines for traffic, this World Wide Web would not be a net–just a one-way toll road.

Even MSN offers automated multiple search-engine submissions (but please note that their service is not free). See for example microsoft items or http://submitit.bcentral.com/subcats2.htm

Microsoft says,

Maintaining top listings on a variety of search engines helps drive new visitors to bigfishtackle.com. . . . It’s very important to stay diligent with search engine submissions. . . . When he’s pressed for time, he knows that [automatic submissions are] still working for him, automatically checking his listings and resubmitting URLs on a regular basis.

Why would Microsoft automate submissions to various engines, directories, and services if those services picked up on everything the big search engines indexed? And why would German and Dutch engines pay much attention to English directories? Anyway, who says the whole world can’t submit to foreign-language search engines? And who says anyone is completely reliant on quick fixes? Most people utilize various services and techniques. For example, Google may index DMOZ but DMOZ does not index Google. DMOZ is run by human editors who manually choose sites. The BBC in England has a search engine/directory run by human editors, too. They found one of my sites through a press release — not from Google or Yahoo, etc.

And if being listed on FFA’s spells doom for a site, then we are all doomed: any stranger can submit any site to any FFA from anywhere in the world. Who’s to say the aliens aren’t busy submitting your site to 100s of thousands of FFAs right this second.

We can’t label the various sectors — the Internet is too complex for generalizations.



05.19.05 @ 09:03 PM EST [link]

Saturday's Stuff (14 May 2005)

WebMaster Win - Add Link
--> http://www.webmasterwin.info/dir/index.php

WebmasterWin.info is inviting site owners to add their links to the Webmaster Resources Directory. At this time, reciprocal links are not compulsory, but they do appreciate links back to their site.



mozdev.org - search plugins
--> http://mycroft.mozdev.org/findmycroft.html
--> http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html

You can add a few hundred search plugins to your Mozilla and Firefox browsers.



Resources
--> http://www.sales-support4u.com/resources/

A nice concise list of resources for webmasters and sales persons: HTML and Tutorials, Promote Your Site, CGI Resources, JavaScripts, Graphics For Your Site, Sticky Tools, Credit



Aquatic Link Exchange
Ledbetter's Aquatic Links

Reciprocal exchange: If you are running a water-related site, submit your link for free.


Submit Your URL for Free
Ledbetter's Enhanced Submitforce

Add your sites to more than 140 search engines for free. Just type in your URL and a secondary email address. That’s it. The rest is automatic.
submit url

Posting a new Free AD at Doston Classifieds
--> http://freepgs.com/ledbetter/classpro/newad.html

Post your offers and want ads at * Doston Classifieds *. They’re free.


05.14.05 @ 02:19 PM EST [link]

Fisheries: Aerial Surveillance of British Columbia Salmon Purse Seiners
http://freepgs.com/ledbetter - Aerial Surveillance of BC's Seiners--Fleet Dynamics, Exploitation Rates, Spatial Analysis, Catch Rates, Census

. . . one of my sites. salmon fishing

05.10.05 @ 03:40 PM EST [link]

Born Today
Afterword (31 May 2005):

I can’t be sure what the problem is, but if I was you I would stay clear of txhost.info. My experience with them says to me that they are both unprofessional and intrusive. If I divine correctly, they jump to snap decisions based upon a lack of expertise. It’s a waste of time, and their offer of a 5gb bandwidth with no control panel (just ftp) does not match the other readily available plans out here in this cyberland of complete strangers. free hosting

Quite often, it seems, free hosting plans are tacked together by teenagers pretending to briefly reign as “kings of the hill.” I’ve even talked to one or two of them on the phone. free webhosting

Then there’s free hosts and there’s fringe hosts. The fringe hosts are free, too, but you’re left wondering about the owners/operators/hobbyists. Are they nosey pranksters and mean-spirited drunks? Are they the smallest of small-time political hacks? An unemployed snake-oil salesman would find it easy to set up a borderline server next to the beer fridge.

Maybe they don’t like Canadians.

I guess we have to give them the benefit of the doubt. I guess we have to hope they’re not phishing: I guess we have to hope they’re not scamming users into surrendering private information that will later be used for identity theft. I know quite a few wealthy men and women who would not even give a free host the email addresses they use to decoy (i.e., avoid) bulk spam, never mind names and phone numbers.

But like I said, I can’t be sure about what’s going on at txhost.info. And that’s possibly because that’s the way most webhosting businesses play the game. Ah well, pretty soon they’ll all get gobbled up by lawyers, fighters, whistle blowers, insurance companies, and irate moms.

Yes, it’s thumbs down. But don’t generalize too much, and remember, I still enjoy http://memebot.com, http://moved.in, http://hostrave.com, http://atspace.com, http://90megs.com, http://brinkster.com, http://netfreehost.com, and http://thefishfinder.com.
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But not http://www.txhost.info/
Just Launched - 100% Free Web Hosting - Auto Activate with FTP upload

100MB Storage
5000MB bandwidth per month
Instant/Auto Activate
FTP upload
subdomain
PERL/CGI/Javascript support
05.10.05 @ 01:51 PM EST [link]

Hosts Yet To Be Reviewed
1) Free Hosting, Photo Albums, Ecards - BOBOS dot CA
- no ads of their own

2) FREE WEB HOSTING ORGANIZATION - orgfree.com
- unlimited traffic
- 125 MB webspace
- no ads (limited time)
- subdomain and/or domain hosting
- real FTP access
- PHP 4.3.10/MySQL 4.0.24 (one db)
- phpMyAdmin
- GD support
- Web-Based File Manager
- Free Website Tools
- all files, except video, are allowed
- quality high traffic sites (subdomains) are eligible for a free domain

3) http://www.275mb.com/
- GREEDY host: small banner ad and a popup
- 200 MB Space
- MySQL Database
- 5GB Bandwidth
- FTP Supports
- 1 One Click Forum Install!
- PHP

4) One GIGABYTE of space for FREE - atgig.com
- 1024 MB (one gig) of web space
- PHP + CGI + SSI Scripting (coming soon)
- 100 gigabytes of bandwidth
- Optional 'no-popup' ads...your site stays clean.
- Free Support from professionals.
- MySql free upgrade options.
- No file size limits!

5) http://www.navlem.uni.cc/
- 200mb of space
- unmetered bandwidth
- media files
05.10.05 @ 01:32 PM EST [link]

Need Bandwidth?
If you don’t mind using H-Sphere (instead of cpanel), you can get a 1000mb account with a 150gb monthly bandwidth from monsterdns.net.

ADDENDUM: These guys at monsterdns.net are unreliable. They are unprofessional and lack apparent common sense. They open and close doorways to they’re service at random and add and delete accounts at the most inopportune times. I’ve witnessed and read various complaints.

For complaints about monsterdns see this complaint,

and http://www.radiotoolbox.com/, where the webmaster reports,

"You may or may not have noticed that our site was pulled down by our previous provider. Long story short, they pulled down the site without notifying me of why so I will probably never know why.

There act however was enough for me to get the fact that their service was completely unprofessional. I assume that the growth I have experienced finally put me in the unprofitable category for their company. When you reach that point, the company has no real reason to provide you with any communication or good service. It is now the bare minimum to keep you from taking them to court. It took threats to action for them to finally re-enable the service so that I could finally get in and get the files needed to move the site to our dedicated server. At any rate I definately would not ever recommend MonsterDNS as a webhost."

http://r1652.res.monsterdns.net
free hosting
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Go to http://moved.in and ask for an invitation (ask on their forum). Moved.in provides 150mb webspace, 5gb bandwidth, cpanel, PHP, fantastico, no ads, no compulsory posts to the forum, and more.

http://90megs.com gives you an ad-free 90mb plan, with a 10gb/month bandwidth, cpanel, fantastico, etc.
05.09.05 @ 12:44 AM EST [link]

Wonax.com is Back Online
May 7, 2005

Wonax.Com

After successfully moving to a new server, Wonax is again accepting instant registrations. When you get to Wonax’s homepage, just click on the “Your Account” link in the left-hand menu.

My URL is now http://www.wonax.com/users/doston/

05.09.05 @ 12:41 AM EST [link]

May 6, 2005
Wonax Update
The Wonax site is still up, but its hosting service is down. They’ve had a note posted on their front page for a few days now. It says their users’ sites will be back online in 24 hours. It’s been at least 120 hours (maybe a little less, maybe a lot more). Wonax just keeps on saying, Welcome To Wonax.Com. We Moved TO New Server. Members Data Will Be Updated/Transferred From Old Server to New Server within 24 Hours.

-- http://wonax.com/index.php


Utopia World: Small But Speedy
sign up: http://utopiaworld.bgfweb.com/uploader/

Utopiaworld.bgfweb offers small accounts (5mg) but big (unmetered) bandwidth. They plan to shorten their users’ urls sometime soon. http://utopiaworld.bgfweb.com/forum

http://utopiaworld.bgfweb.com/uploader.../krebcycle

BUT PLEASE NOTE: http://www.navlem.uni.cc/ gives you the same interface and 200mb (rather than 5mb).
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May 5, 2005
Host XP: What you get.
-- http://www.hostxp.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2

Host XP is new in town. It looks like they started up this morning. Obviously, we do not know anything newsworthy about their uptime and speed.

Host XP offers 50mg of diskspace, 1.5gb of bandwidth/month, Cpanel, and Fantastico–with no ads. They’ll give you a subdomain (you.hostxp.info).
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May 3, 2005
spotquick.com
Has anyone succeeded at registering with http://spotquick.com? Spotquick allows input from various countries around the world but only allows American zip codes, and even when everything you’ve typed in seems ok, and is ok, you get the message, “Sorry, something went wrong trying to create the account.”

Spotquick.com can’t even get it’s name right in its title tag: –title– SpotQucik - Quality FREE Hosting! –/title–

It should be SpotQuick, not ..Qucik.


Clickherefree.com Online Voters
A BIASED rating system forms the basis of http://clickherefree.com’s “Voted Best” section. It is formulated from users’ votes and therefore usually ends up spotlighting free hosts that upload ads and/or require forum posting. Most surfers won’t take the time to rate a site they don’t like. They could spend every waking moment rating all the low-end sites out there in waste-your-time land.


Get @ SPACE Hosting
If you don’t need PHP or Perl, www.atspace.com seems reliable.

» 50 MB Free Web Hosting
» Free UNLIMITED Traffic
» Host Unlimited Web Sites
» NO BANNER ADS
» Instant Account SetUp

Atspace says,

We shall put [small ads on] automatically, and garantee that they will not be annoying to your user in any way.

But I haven’t seen any of THEIR ads on my site http://seine.atspace.com/.

Max Ledbetter

05.06.05 @ 01:51 PM EST [link]

H-SPHERE from monsterdns.net
H-SPHERE

ADDENDUM: These guys at monsterdns.net are unreliable. They are unprofessional and lack apparent common sense. They open and close doorways to they’re service at random and add and delete accounts at the most inopportune times. I’ve witnessed and read various complaints.

For complaints about monsterdns see this link,

and http://www.radiotoolbox.com/, where the webmaster reports,

"You may or may not have noticed that our site was pulled down by our previous provider. Long story short, they pulled down the site without notifying me of why so I will probably never know why.

There act however was enough for me to get the fact that their service was completely unprofessional. I assume that the growth I have experienced finally put me in the unprofitable category for their company. When you reach that point, the company has no real reason to provide you with any communication or good service. It is now the bare minimum to keep you from taking them to court. It took threats to action for them to finally re-enable the service so that I could finally get in and get the files needed to move the site to our dedicated server. At any rate I definately would not ever recommend MonsterDNS as a webhost."
free webhosting


This looks like one heck of a service! They just increased the bandwidth to 150gb and the diskspace to 1000mb, and it looks like you can have more than one 150/1000 account under your chosen username–for example, under one username, you can create 2 accounts, totalling 300gb of bandwidth and 2000mb of diskspace.

AND SIGN UP IS AUTOMATIC!!!

The host tells you that once you’re in there’s a bit of a learning curve. But it’s worth it!! Lots of pro features and more.

http://r1652.res.monsterdns.net:8080/.../psoft.hsphere.CP

05.01.05 @ 11:23 AM EST [link]