Blog for Profit Ezine
Welcome back!
Welcome to my Internet Business Ezine, a place where I try to draw breath after a hectic week of blogging and troubleshooting from the headquarters office (spare bedroom) that forms the heart of my Blogging for Profit empire. In fact the location of my office moves from Sussex to London and back again, according to my commitments, my mood and also the weather.
The biggest mystery to me since I began working from home three years ago is, ‘where does the time go?’. In my former employment there were days when the time seemed to drag by as everybody in the organisation tried to look busy even though many of them had very little to do. The big difference when you work for yourself is that the profits depend on your own efforts and ingenuity. Unfortunately there are also plenty of distractions that can knock you off your well-planned daily schedule as well. Family and friends do not understand that you really are working: that is my experience, anyway. When I am working at my Mother’s house, a stream of family members turn up for tea or lunch, and the pressure is on me to stop work and join in.
Writing this ezine at regular intervals is a useful way to chart my progress with blogging as well – and maybe get an idea of where the time went. This is a serious business, I earn my money by blogging and I need to keep my skills up to date in order to maintain my online income.
Last week I had a very difficult time moving a domain from Blogger to Wordpress. This was a blog that started off with a Blogspot address, and later I bought a domain name for it. At the time I decided to use the domain for the existing blog and I chose the Blogger option ‘upload to your site via FTP’. This meant I could carry on using the existing template design. At the Domain Name Registrar this means the domain is hosted on their servers and pointed to ghs.google.com. That was the soft option, as I realise now.
At the time I was not very experienced with using Wordpress, otherwise I would have realised the advantages of putting the domain name on my own server.
* How to Start a Website
This is a regular listing of recommended services to get you started online with the most reliable services at the lowest cost.
1. A Domain Name
GoDaddy is the cheapest reliable source of Domain Names, plus they include Free Privacy cover as well. It is very easy to find out which names are available and sign up for your chosen domain. GoDaddy offer free privacy protection as well, so choose your Domain Name today.
2. A Web Hosting Company
We have tried a number of Hosting Services ourselves, and in our view the best budget provider around is Hostgator, who will host unlimited domains for $9.95 a month. They do not lock customers in to long contracts, and there is a 30-day moneyback guarantee.
3. Web Pages
You can use this free HTML software if you do not have access to Dreamweaver or similar. OR you can sign up for the Richjerk’s Newsletter and he will give you a FREE website that you can display, and also use the template design to start you off. Get Your Free Website Design Here – the page was supplied to us under the Rich Jerk’s free offer, and I think it looks good.
4. Traffic
Start by displaying your site at
Linkreferral, a totally free service where other members visit your site and review it, and you do the same. This is a source of quality visitors, PLUS Linkreferral provides a quality link back to your site and can help speed up the indexing of your pages for the search engines.
I’d like to add to the selling section that you should read up on copywriting, especially for your product’s landing page. I’m looking at an copywriting analysis tool that lets you analyze each line of your copy. You can make changes and it recalculates your rating. Sometimes an ! makes a difference. I’d be interested if you have tried the product Glyphius and your feedback.