Archive for April, 2008
It’s been a while…
It has been a few weeks since my last post. I have been flat out with my “real” job and also building a few websites of a night when I get home, so not much time for blogging! I am actually amazed that my blog is still getting a steady number of daily hits, even [...]
Phishing Scams Exposed
I just read an interesting report issued by Symantec Australia about the current rate of internet fraud carried out via social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. The report stated that for the last six months of 2007, there were nearly 90,000 cases of “phishing” found, which increased by more than 150% on [...]
Some Stats
I have been up and running for nearly a week now and actually have some traffic coming to this site! Over the past week I have submitted the site to Google and tried to advertise where ever I can get a free plug. The stats for the first week are as follows: 707 Pages Requests [...]
What is Google PR?
Since I started this blog last week I have been doing alot reading about Search Engine Optimization and trying to get my blog listed in Google’s search results. A word that keeps on popping onto my screen is Page Rank, or PR. Being new to blogging and website marketing, I had no idea what it [...]
The Need for a Name
Last weekend I saw an news story on the buying the selling of domain names. The article basically was explaining that in the mid 90′s domains such as sky.com and bbc.com were sold for mutli millions of dollars to the respective news agencies. Immediately after watching the story, I picked up the laptop and typed [...]
The Journey So Far
Over the past two days I have continued to research the best way of going about trying to make this blog successful. There are alot of other blogs all over the internet that try to explain the best way of getting hits and making money – and most of them contradict each other. I guess it depends [...]
So Why Can’t I?
I have been off work the last few days, watching crappy day time TV and surfing the net. Lately I have been reading a bit about making money on the internet using blogs and buying/selling domain names. I have been using the internet since I was about 14. I created my first website by 15. [...]
