Today Cash The Checks celebrates its’ 1 year anniversary. Here’s some quick stats about this blog.
There are currently 115 posts and 37 comments, contained within 15 categories.
Akismet has protected your site from 3,921 spam comments.
Google Pagerank: 3
Domain registered since: 10/21/2004
Cash The Checks Blog started: 05/31/2006
The next year itself will likely bring about the same amount of posts, more comments, more spam comments, and I predict a pagerank increase to 5 by the next update.
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For a few hours Cash The Checks was hacked. Luckily I was able to see it within 5-10 hours. It happened in the middle of the night or else I would have caught it sooner. I was able to restore all of the posts and get everything back up and running within an hour. It’s a good reminder to always back up everything that is of importance to you.
Every few weeks I back up all the posts on my blogs and every few months I back up everything I own on an external hard drive. You never know when you might suffer a catastrophe and it would be awful to try and start over from scratch.
Below is a part of what the text said:
“We are as Turkish-muslims, for 1000 years following the way of Muhammad (peace be up on him). Our ancestors, Seljuks and Ottomans taugth the World what is humanity and tolarance, with their heart and sword. Don’t forget that we are 1.5 billion muslims and we are on the same way.
Come to Islam ! Come to being human!
Cartoons of Jyllands-Posten aren’t same with other paintings those of muslim artists. These cartoons are insulting our Prophet. It wouldn’t be approved in freedom of expression. This is just cursing? You’ll pay for it!”
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Due to being hacked one too many times, I’ve switched this Cash The Checks blog to Dream Host. Their best feature is a one-click install of the latest wordpress version, plus over a hundred pre-installed blog themes. I’ll be installing all future blogs at Dream Host plus moving my old ones over ASAP.
I’ve dealt with another host (MidPhase) and their mysql server kept going down, so I’ll be keeping the blogs at DreamHost for now. The only downside I see is that I notice that sites load slowly at times. That’s a lot better than a site going down for days though.
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In an effort to make some more money off of this site, Cash The Checks, I added a top banner, 720×90 in size, just under the title. It leads to ING Direct. If you sign up for free to their online savings account, which is currently earning 4.40% APY, then I’d get $20.
I’ve also added some Chitika eMinimalls ads on the left hand column featuring several products which may be relevant to readers of this site. The products are random things such as Poker chips, wallets, money clips and laptops. I still have a 160×600 google adsense ad unit on the sidebar which serves relevant ads based on the content of the blog posts.
I’m having trouble deciding what types of products to offer or ads to display, I’m not sure what readers of a personal finance blog would be interested in purchasing..
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TheMoneyBlogs.com…Nothing But Money
SHERMAN OAKS, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — September 14, 2006 — “Nothing but money.” That’s the fitting slogan for the giant new blog aggregation site, www.TheMoneyBlogs.com.
Featuring over 130 high-profile bloggers, TheMoneyBlogs.com is one of the largest personal finance/investing blog aggregators on the Internet. Articles cover everything from stock investing to real estate; personal finance to venture capital, and are updated several times per day, so content remains fresh. Incoming articles are monitored and editors choose which blogs to highlight on the home page. Editors also choose “Today’s Best Money Blog” and “This Week’s Best Money Blog” and readers vote on what will be the “Highest Ranked Money Blog.”
The goal of TheMoneyBlogs is to house the best personal finance and investing blogs on the Internet — all under one roof. Bloggers include: venture capitalist Paul Allen, money managers Birinyi Associates (Ticker Sense), financial journalist Tom Foremski (Silicon Valley Watcher), investment manager and author Donald L. Luskin (The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid), and mutual fund expert Paul Merriman, among many others. All blogs are archived and there is a link back to each blogger’s home page.
“There’s fresh, new content on the site all the time. We showcase what we feel are the best, most interesting, entertaining and timely personal finance and investing blogs every day,” says TheMoneyBlogs.com editor Brice Wightman. “Being proactive in managing the content results in a better finished product.”
By year’s end, TradingMarkets will launch TheTechBlogs.com, an aggregation of the top technology blogs on the Web, and plans to do the same in sports, finance, and politics, among other major verticals.
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Speaking of The Money Blogs, I’m one of the “130 high-profile bloggers” and you can see my blog here: http://themoneyblogs.com/cashthechecks/
It’s just an RSS feed of this site, all it does for me is increase my exposure and it gives them more content. So it’s a win-win situation for everyone involved.
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With more and more projects being built and re-vamped, I decided to get a new hosting account. I decided to go with Cyber Wurx. They have a real cheap blog hosting plan. You can host 5 domains, 5 blogs, for only $5 per month.
This wasn’t extremely necessary, but you can’t keep all your eggs in one basket. If one host goes down you don’t want to lose all your revenue so it’s best to spread things out a bit.
There’s also an SEO benefit to having several hosts. Separating your different sites into different IP’s (class C IP’s to be specific) is crucial if you’re going to be cross-linking your domains or if your sites have a similar theme.
I haven’t been with them long enough to test the speed and downtime. In the few days I’ve been with them, there hasn’t been downtime but I know a few days isn’t enough to truly test the service. But the support is great, I was getting responses within minutes and there were at least 2 people available to answer questions and help getting me set up.
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I almost forgot to add something to the previous post, the most important part. What’s the point of making that site? Of course it’s to make money off of it. I added Chitika and Adsense ads on it in the header and the sidebar.
What’s Chitika? It’s a pay-per-click sponsor that pays you for every visit you send them. Look at my sidebar on the left to see some of the ads I’m displaying. You choose which ad-size to place, what colors you want your ad to be, what item(s) you want to display, and Chitika eMinimalls does the rest.
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Part of the Ethernity
