Foltyn Advertising blog

A lot of work
Thatīs what are those days about. But wait, isnīt making money about a lot of work? Of course! Iīm thinking about a lot of new projects also, but I just donīt have time to do all that work. So Iīm selecting priorities. Itīs the only way, how to prevent transfer to psychiatric clinic.

 

 

New Site. Ehm New Sites...
I'm actually working on two projects together. After I finished translation from Czech language to English (it wasn't that easy as I thought first. I start working on two new sites. First is new affiliate marketing project and second is another addition to my travel sites group.
So I have a lot of work, but you know - productivity is the key. I have ideas for another few sites so I must increase productivity. In last few days I note brutal decrease of AdSense income so I badly need some new sites.
You can always do more!

 

 

How to make sites with CTR almost 40% ?

We always think, that bunch of content is the best. But sometimes less is more.

In one of my site Iīm using the concept of not too many informations. All content is only in one page and in front and on bottom is PPC Advertising. Good contect between ads, but not too many and almost without any external links. That high CTR is exception, but very nice exception, which deserve more analysis and duplication in other web projects.

 

 

Your Wordpress blog crashed? You can export posts with this script
Before few days my 3 WP blogs crashed. I dont know, if it was some problem with databases, or plugin, or with my hosting company (probably so). After a week I try to delete some plugin databases, some files and I try to go back to basic WP configuration. Nothing helps. Two sites was with quite good traffic, so I must act fast. I download all WP files to my harddisk and than deleted all files on server, except databases and than I load new .htm only pages. It was necessary, becouse I was running payed advertising on both sites. I left third site with low traffic only with some major changes and after unsuccesful try to repair site I left it as it was. After few week (2-4) the site becomes to full recover... So it looks like some problem was at webhosting company (nothing that unusual here).
When I was making new .htm pages, I need all old posts from Wordpress databases. So i write small php script, which extract all posts for me. If you think you may need script like that sometimes, you can download it here (right click on this and "Save as"). Than just copy this file to your web space and than execute (www.yourweb.com/export.php)
And as last but no least - dont forget to backup data from your computer often!


Do world really need new Windows Vista?
Microsoft is really big company and I know, how it works in big companies. They just dont ask some important questions. So I ask - do world really need new Windows? A lot of people is using Windows XP without any big problems, except if they use passwords like "123456" or st like that. The plot behind new Windows after 3.11 or Win98 was big improvement. Have W-Vista any new big improvements? (I dont count new icons)
Or is it just need from Microsoft to make big money?


Niche content or mainstream content?
You can make easily nice profits in niche content. But can you make big profits in those low traffic niches? Not in Czech Republic. If you want decent profit, you must go in bigger traffic mainstream content. You can make one site for small niches, but if you want to make really big money, you must think big. Its not that easy (to both think and do big)
, but its the only way for me.
Last year I make really good site with high traffic - and our "great" big search engine fuck me off becouse of I added PPC advertising on my site. Nice. But I fight back, of course
You can always deal with any problem, if you want to be good enterprener.
So this year I try to make it really big, and you should do that also!


Brtiney Spears is bad?
Every body is criticizing Britney Spears becouse of her partying with Paris Hilton. I say - Britney go ahead! You have some money, so have fun!
Britney was working so hard, so she deserve to have some fun and enjoy life. Its big change for her and not much people was ready for that change. But everybody must live with changes. Everything is changing, also Britney. I am not her fun, I just like few of her early songs.
So, this is my advice for everybody - enjoy your life, mayby you will not be here tomorrow.


CīMAN - HAVE FUN
We all know rat race. Its here and we live like that. Few of us are even workoholics (I am with one my foot between them)
But I think, its not that bad. We just must intelligently manage our money. Most important things are our time, our friends, our fun. NOT important things are big tv, big car, big flat or thing like that. You can always have some small cheap Tv (I actually have one) and I tell you - I really dont need any big 1000 inch Plazma model. The same situation with other things. Use money to expand your time with friends, have fun, live your life. Money isnīt that important.

Next big problem of this and next generation is artificial world. For old persons is only world, in which they live, the world on Tv screen. They practically live lives of Tv stars. They come from work and first thing, what they do, is switch on Tv and starts watching. They just forget, that itīs not their life, which they are living.
It looks to me like a big problem - we just need less television!
For younger generation is also very big problem computer games and another artifical online worlds. Hours and hours spend with computer and virtual friends, virtual experience and virtual life. And I can tell you, I know that very well. In my early years, I was playing for whole days and weeks and I waste a lot of time

More dangerous are online games - same problem, but more addictive.
I dont say playing games or watching tv is wrong, but think about your own life either. My plan is make some decent money, and than fry myself at some beautiful beach with of course few beautiful girls

 

 

So as first post, few raw numbers about my business:

My income structure:

60% from Affiliate marketing

20% from eShops

10% from Adsense and other PPC programs

10% from direct selling of advertising

 

My eShops:

50% books about finance and stocks

50% electronics (bluetooth devices)

Few words about me:

1. Sorry, my written english isn't perfect

2. I'm enterprenuer from Czech Republic

3. It's a small country in Europe

4. I have "only" 40 sites

 

 

Sites, which I like and read:
(If you are in this list, I will be happy
to be in your blogroll too)