Today I had the "Good Idea"!

Well, it was yesterday actually, but who's counting. OK, I've already realised where the GuitarLessons site is doomed to fail. That's not to say I can't resuscitate it one day, but I've had a better idea.

I've found a niche where I think I can combine my programming skill, and my knack for daft limerick poems, into a useful AND lucrative site.

I'm using the Free WordTracker Tool to find "long tail" keywords for my main keywords. Then I'm going to do a "quotes" search in Google for each long-tail keyword phrase that I think could be incorporated into an article title - ideally the whole phrase is the whole title.

In my Google search I'll check for

• How much competition - if nobody's got the whole phrase, then great!


• The number of adwords ads - the more the better!

I'll select the best ones from each list (and of course any that meet both criteria, and then I'll create good titles around them, and then write and submit articles on the subjects, rather than write an article and think of a title.

Never mind Test Driven Development - this is Title Driven Authoring!

Off to do this now - let's see how I get on.

Take care!

Adsense section targetting

Today I found out about Adsense Section Targetting. This is explained better at the AdSense Help Centre , but basically consists of wrapping tags around the content that you'd really like Google to index, like this:

Some boring irrelevant content....
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
The exciting content that you want Google to index.
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
Yet more drivel...

My Gift Shop, FurryBee has, predictably, the words Furry and Bee in the title, and I get loads of Adsense ads on the site for Teddy Bears and Bee products, neither of which are relevant to the Gift Shop. I'm hoping that in time, the pages will show ads that are more relevant to the page content.

We'll see...

Have fun!

Javascript.substring - well who'da thought it?

Hi,

Today, I managed to get a small Javascript working, which will eventually become a nice little feature for my "under development" Guitar Lessons page. Something held me up for a while - the substring function.

Now, in C#, which I know quite well, the substring function generally accepts two integers, startpos and length, both zero-based, eg:

"ZanderBoon".Substring(4, 5) would yield "erBoo"

Today I discovered that Javascript, like it's distant relative Java, is totally different, to whit:

"The substring is specified by a beginIndex (inclusive) and an endIndex (exclusive). ". So the string resulting from the above code would be... "e"!

Unfortunately, I discovered this the hard way, by trial and error - still, I reckon I won't forget it in a hurry.

Cheers!

Let's get this party started!

OK, first post!

By way of introduction, I've been web developing for a couple of years, but never made any real CASH! So, I decided to try the old Web Marketing game. I put a few adsense ads on my Gift Shop site, which at time of writing have generated just over $4 - so, no early retirement for me just yet. BUT... it proves that you can get revenue.

So now, I'm trying to do it properly - pretty much learning from scratch.

I've created my first "sales page" - Zander's Guitar Lessons page - which right now is a pile of panda poop, but I wanted to start Article Marketing, and needed somewhere to link to. As time goes by, I'll improve it. Anyway, it points to a couple of my ClickBank affiliate programs, and has a few Adsense ads on it, so we'll see what happens.

In theory, blogging is supposed to help. That's why I'm here.

Have fun!