Since I have so many domains just laying around waiting for me to do something with them, one of my goals was to have them generate some type of revenue. I started by finding and build some sites designed for adsense by using Auto Content Generation. You can read more about this test HERE (Do Auto Content Generation and Auto Link Exchangers Work?). It ended up not really working and I decided my time was better spent on my new sites. You can read What I did with these sites HERE (Auto Content Generation and Auto Link Generation).

NEXT - Article Comming Soon PREVIOUS - Moving to a new server.

Finding a Home
It took me a while to seek out the best hosting plan. I ended up just going with my first choice. I am not here to say who the best host is, but I choose some one with very recognizable name, over great amounts of storage at a medium price point. I found everything that I was looking for in their Business package. It took a while to get set up but everything had been smooth sailing from there.

Making the Move
The Move has been pretty easy since this site (www.Danpereda.com) is the only working site. The other 10 sites were pretty easy to move. I simply logged in to my registrar and pointed my domains to my new name servers. I logged in to my new server and set up all the directories the domains will go to.

There is one site that is going to hard to move and that is this site. Danpereda.com is still on the old (slow) server. There are a lot of issues with this site and I am still contemplating all the changes to be made. I will update this post as I make the changes and move the site. My plans are to set up the blogging/cms system on the new server. Add all the plug-ins to the new system and test out some new plug-ins. I will also probably change the theme and the logo. I will then copy all the content from this site. I will test the new site. Then change the name servers with my registrar. Once all the DNS tables have propagated I will cancel the hosting with this provider.

NEXT - Have unused domains generate some type of revenue

The Web Site Overhaul Project Next - Moving to a new server.

I currently own 11 domain names. Out of that only one is actually working right now and the others are future projects or past projects that never finished. I have finally decided that I have to do something with these sites. Many of the sites are incomplete due to lack of knowledge and time to be able to complete what is/was necessary. I have one major project in the pipeline. One that I believe in so much that I am not taking a chance. I have eliminated my time/knowledge constraints by paying/outsourcing the work to someone that has the knowledge.

To get ready for this new project I have initiated a massive overhaul of all my web properties. I have my project outline below

Web Site Overhaul Project
Overview: The goals of this project is to do the following:
• Move to a more reliable server
• Have unused domains generate some type of revenue while the overhaul is in progress
• Unify the platforms that the sites Operate on(CMS)
• Build out the 2 main sites.
• Learn and Test new CMS, plugins, and other tools.
• Improve SEO of the main sites
• Build out the secondary (unused) domains.
• Improve SEO of the secondary domains

Next - Moving to a new server.

When is it time to revamp and overhaul your website or sites?

These are some of the questions I recently asked myself;
What is the purpose for my website(s)?
What are my measurable goals for the sites?
Is my site fulfilling its purpose and reaching the goals?
Is my site up to date in both content and technology?
Would a revamp / overhaul improve my the website attaining it’s goals and/or serving it’s purpose?

After looking at the answers to these questions I decided that it was time for a change. Here is my Web Site Overhaul Project

Last Month I was testing some Auto Content Generation and Auto Link Generation tools to help drive traffic to some of my sites that are just laying around doing nothing. (You can read the post here.) The test was a failure. My websever wouldn’t allow for some of the tools function and I was putting too much time in and not seeing any results. My time would have been better spent developing real content for the sites and that would have drove real visitors. In the end I ended up just “Parking” the sites with SEDO . They have been there for just a week and have generate 76 hits and 10 cents in profit. I wont be rich, but I may pay for the names in a year.

The Domain names at SEDO are:
http://www.keepright.us
http://www.phonefuse.com
http://www.reelspicy.com
http://www.trainingwave.com
http://www.trainingwave.info

The “.info” and the “.us” domains have no hits.

Do Auto Content Generation and Auto Link Exchangers Work?

9-18-07 I am running a test of this new content generation tool over at the site reelspicy.com lets see if it works and appears in google’s ranking under “Fishing”.

The site have never really been visited before. I want to see if I get some Hits, Clicks and maybe a Google ranking. This is mainly a test to see what happens.

9-19-07 Ok It has been 24 hours since I put up the site and there has been no real visitors (not a surprise). I have also done a test with Read the rest of this entry »

By Dan Pereda
www.danpereda.com

I know you have heard it before, “Linux will never be main stream because of … (Insert reason)”. And all the fan boys will respond in a nice polite manner to explain how much better Linux is or how IF you had learned to use Linux first, Windows would just seem wired stupid and wrong. Well that is just it.

Windows is not better than Linux for what it does today. It is better than Linux for what it did 20 years ago. What was that you might ask? Windows took a new technology (Computers) that scared most people and made it easy and user friendly. Why were people afraid of computers? They were afraid of change, did not really want to have to learn something new, and most of all they did not want to look stupid. With Windows, the power of a computer was now graphical and any thing was just a click away.

Fast forward to today and Windows is the defacto standard on more than 90% of the worlds computers. Now you are asking the world to change from Windows to Linux. Why would they do that? What do you get from Linux that you don’t get from Windows? For those that don’t remember or were not alive, it took along time for a lot of people to accept computers as something that everyone was going to need or want. It was only after there became a social and economic mandate that you be able to use a computer and then own a computer or your gonna get left in the dust, that computers boomed in to expansion.

I do not see that Linux has much to offer the average user. Not enough to warrant people dedicating time to learn something new, or worse admitting that they don’t know something to begin with. I know some of your arguments:

• Linux is free - Most people never pay for Windows, it’s included in their computer’s purchase price.
• Linux is more secure - Most people don’t care. People think “Security problems are going to happen to me”.
• Linux is more stable – Fine, whatever. Windows XP almost never crashes. And Id rather reboot my PC once a year than learn Linux.
• Linux has a ton of free programs – It doesn’t have the main stream programs that I bought for my PC (Adobe Premier or NASCAR 2008)

What prompted me to write this is that I have several computers in my house all with different operating systems including Debian, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Ubuntu and more. Now that I am getting a little older and I am becoming busier, I just don’t have time to manage all these systems. I need to consolidate and upgrade. I pondered going to a new MAC and scrapping everything else, No my programs that I have won’t work on a MAC and I will not repurchase them just to put them on a MAC. Fine I will go fully Linux, No I can’t even port my graphics/video software to Linux. Well what is wrong with Windows? I already own copies of XP pro and Vista and frankly with my short amount of free time Windows is the easiest way to go.

Don’t get me wrong. I love Linux. It is great and unbelievably powerful. I use it everyday to run this website and others; it also runs my phone system. I don’t feel that Linux will become main stream until it can offer something that Windows can’t and the world can’t live without.

In summery Linux is still missing the “KILLER APP”.

I know what some of you are thinking and for that, in this article I am only talking about Linux on the desktop. Servers, appliances and other geek only systems don’t count.

By Dan Pereda
www.danpereda.com