Rant of Ferox

After reading lots of different things I finally bought two domains with GoDaddy and hosted them at Hostgator.

I chose to do this because of a special offer for Bloggeries forum members, where I can get $25 back after two months if I sign up to both places using the forum owner’s affiliate ID.

Googling for coupon codes from each company means that $25 will cover my first two months hosting, plus the cost of registering my domain names for a year.

I’ll show you my domain names when they’re ready to be unveiled to the public. But for now, they’re serisouly under development and I’m on a steep learnign curve figuring out how to work them.

For a while now I have been contemplating making websites to sell at a profit on sites like digitalpoint. I have two really good ideas that I’m confident I could create and establish, but I don’t have a clue where to actually purchase domain names or hosting, or how much I need or anything like that.

 I’m also not sure how much I should be looking at investing initially, or what sort of returns I could expect. It’s so much easier starting with free blogs, it really is.

 I will keep a record of my progress here, and maybe even show you teh sites as they get going.

In an effort to spread my name around by providing helpful and accurate answers to pet owners of the internet or the simply curious, I signed up with Yahoo Answers to share my growing veterinary knowledge.

I confess that recieving a ‘Best Answer’ is rewarding, but the place is full of twats that don’t know what they’re talking about, the spay & neuter Nazis, idiots, spammers copying entire wikipedia articles and people who give you negative rep for either no reason, or because you didn’t call the Asker a horrible scumbag for not neutering their animal in your answer. Read more…

Well, a few weeks ago I added Project Wonderful to all my blogs, and at first it was really exciting to be approving all these adds every day, and slowly seeing the cents accumulate. However, recently it seems to  have faded out to a tiny trickle, despite the traffic to my blogs improving. I have to assume that something screwy is going on with the PW advertisers.

1. First option is that they’ve all gone broke. That’s fair enough, but they certainly didn’t go broke bidding on any of my blogs.
2. They’re on holiday over the weekend. I wonder why I’m not?
3. They wouldn’t know what an increase in traffic looked like if it poked them in the eye. Read more…

I had a big surprise today whilst innocently jumping between my blogs and updating them. More that a month ago, before even starting this blog, I had signed up for the palperplay phenomena, netaudioads.com, to see if it was going to be a viable way for me to earn from my blogs.

I eagerly awaited the first of February when they said that these ads would start playing, only to find silence. I forgot about it for a while, until today.

I am not impressed. The range of ads played seems to be mostly payperplay itself, desperate for advertisers, or political garbage for the upcoming elections in the USA. These ads are boring, not relevant, irritating and now removed from this website.

If I don’t want to have to listen to them, then I don’t expect you to either. All my blogs are now silent and free from audio ads.