Check out the video and hopefully you’ll enjoy just as much as I do.

I’m currently spending most of my time researching various different internet marketing, seo, ppc, and email marketing techniques that I’m currently implementing on some of my own sites and pretty much all of the sites that I work with at my day job.  It’s a constant learning process as things are always changing but I honestly love doing it and learning all that I can.  In addition I’ve also been spending some type cranking out some Ebay affiliate sites with PHPBay an Ebay auction plugin for Wordpress that allows you to build your own niche Ebay Store with wordpress and the Ebay Affiliate program.  It’s an awesome plugin that I highly recommend considering that it’s only $49.95 for unlimited sites and it doesn’t take long to recoup that investment.  More information the phpBay pro wordpress plugin for Ebay.

Life Changing Events

Ok so here is the big news that I’m overly excited about.  I actually found out about 3 weeks ago that I’m going to be a father for the first time in my life!  My wife Amber and I are expecting to have our first child in early February.  It’s definitely going to be a huge addition in our lives, but we’re both so happy right now and the next 7 months should definitely be an exciting journey.  I’m already getting the question on if I’d rather have a boy or a girl and honestly it doesn’t matter to me because the only thing that I care about is that we have a healthy baby.  I’ll be blessed and honored to have a baby boy or a girl!

Expect more updates on this exciting time in my life over the next few months and be on the lookout for some quality posts on a variety of different topics as well.

Had he not had so many injuries over the last few years, he was projected to hit over 800 home runs and I’m pretty confident that it would’ve happened.  In my opinion he’s got one of the greatest swings in the history of baseball and is arguably one of the greatest players to ever play the game.  He’s still got a good amount of time play and I look forward to him reaching more historic milestones before retirement.

If you missed it, here is some video of his 600th home run against the Florida, Marlins.

I’m really just excited to relax and hang out on the beach in some warm weather and enjoy some quality time with my wife. The last month for me has been a very long one as I’ve experienced some changes in my life that I wasn’t really expecting so I’m definitely looking forward to this time away on vacation.

I’ll be back in a week and I’ll definitely add a follow up post with some photos of the area down there. I’d better get to bed though as I’ve got to get up for a 6AM flight in a few hours.

On a side note I signed up with CX Digital this week and I’m very impressed with their affiliate network.  They’ve got an awesome interface and I’m really excited to work with them more once I get back from vacation.  So if your looking for another quality network, then I’d recommend them from my experience thus far and reviews from several others as well.

Have a good week because I know I am while I’m enjoying myself in Florida!

This is actually site running of the popular wordpress ebay plugin called PhpBay and I highly recommend it for building some great niche ebay sites to make some cash.  It’s the best $49 that I’ve spent in awhile to generated some solid profits.

So I’ve got a few sites running this plugin but only one seems to be having problems with the permalink structure.  I’m really not sure what the issue is because some of the permalinks work and others that should be working are pointing to 404 errors that the post is not there.  In addition I’ve got lots of other plugins running as well and I’ve made sure they’re all compatible with 2.5, disabled them, and nothing seems to fix the problem.  At this point I’m probably going to restructure the whole site anyway to take advantage of some SEO stuff that I overlooked the first time around, but this is still very frustrating because I cannot figure out what seems to be causing this.

If anyone else has had any problems like this I’d definitely love to hear the solution that you’ve come up with.  I’m honestly just thinking that something crazy happened during the upgrade since this is the only site that it happened on.

I know it doesn’t seem like anything groundbreaking, but I’ve enjoyed it so far.  In addition I see a whole world of marketing opportunities for that it can be used for in the future so I’m definitely excited to see how things progress with it.  So if you want sign up for Twitter and go ahead and follow me and see what I’m up to.

So lets think about this one for a minute. These advertisers are actually paying to be in the sponsored results but clearly either they aren’t monitoring your ads or haven’t made a proper investment in quality web hosting. It actually made me think of how much of this probably goes on all the time. I guess when you think about it with the mass amounts of people looking to get their business on the web, then the result is probably going to be a lot of inexperienced people trying to do it all themselves. The biggest problem here is the fact that not only have you paid for that visitor, but you’ve also lost a prospective customer that could have turned into a lifetime customer. So ultimately the overall costs can be much higher than what you pay per click when you look at the bigger overall picture.

The Simple Solution

Well here are my suggestions on how to keep from wasting money sending your prospective customers to site that’s down.

• Site Monitoring Service - Sign up with website monitoring service to monitor your site and notify at any time of any outage. I’ve used Watchmouse in the past and I’ve had great experience with them, but there are also a ton of other free or low cost site monitoring services you can use. Just do some searching out there and you’d be surprised as to what you’ll find. This is a small investment to make to ensure that your site is always online.

• Get a Reliable Webhost - Get a good company to host your website with. If your current host isn’t working out then do some searching and get some reviews of some reliable web hosting companies. I personally currently use Hostgator and I’ve had great success with them. Their support is great and I’ve always had great customer support with them and they’ve got some great pricing as well.

• Monitoring Your Pay Per Click Ads - Don’t just launch campaigns and then never check up on them. It’s pretty easy to make a mistake when launching PPC campaigns and all you’ve got to do is the monitor your campaigns and making sure that everything is just like it should be.  If you run PPC Ads then you should be monitoring them on a daily basis anyway.

So hopefully these tips can provide some helpful information for those currently running PPC ads that may be experiencing these problems.

Anyways today is the 9 year anniversary of my wife and I getting together on top of being married almost 4 years.  I’d just like to tell her that I love her very much and cannot imagine what my life would be like without her.  I’m definitely a lucky guy and I look forward to many more years together with her.

I’m looking forward to getting back to blogging regularly once I get back from my trip, until then have a good one.

I’m having a lot of fun working on my different affiliate campaigns and I’ve definitely learned quite a bit over the last few months about affiliate marketing. I’d also like to mention that NeverBlueAds is one of the best affiliate marketing programs around. I’m continuing to have great success with them. I’m also in the midst of trying to learn ASP.net for my day job as me and 2 other members of my team look to build an awesome web app that will hopefully be launched later this year. It’s definitely been a challenge, but I look forward to becoming fluent in Asp.net.

I’ve also been in the process of trying to do my own taxes and let me tell you that’s been a barrel of fun. If you’d like to know the secret to an exciting Friday night just buy the 2008 Ernst & Young Tax Guide and spend the night reading about tax laws and you’ll see what I mean. I don’t know how accountants do it day in and day out, but I know that’s definitely not a job that I’d ever want to do.

One recommendation that I do have to make though is for you to see the movie Juno. I saw it about 3 weeks ago and it’s by far one of the best movies that I’ve seen in the last few years. It’s definitely the complete package from the script, to the acting, and everything else in between. Next time you go to the movies go check it out and I promise you won’t be disappointed.

Well now that I’ve given a brief update on what has been going I’ll definitely get back to posting on a more frequent basis. That’ll probably be next week though as I’m heading to Los Angeles this weekend for a short vacation with my brother and parents to check out the Nascar race.