Jumping ship - see you over at Osworld :o)

Following an invite from Gary and Oli over at Osworld I'll be publishing most of my online musings there going forward. I may keep this blog going to publish my AIS stats or shameless attempts at link building but we'll have to see what time allows.

Catch you over at Osworld soon :)

cheers for your input so far.......

Thanks
Dave

Publishing on sub domains

As part of my project to build 50 to 60 adsense sites, I'm monitoring the effect of publishing using different domain extensions, age of domains and also the use of subdomains.

The first three months would suggest no real difference in success between sites published on sub domains and those with their own unique domain. This goes for sites published on subs of a .co.uk and a .com. Each primary domain now has up to 7 sub domains, all doing ok in terms of crawl and traffic when compared to those sites published on their own domain.

Maybe early days and perhaps something will kick in to get them de-listed but so far so good. I'm still using a combination of unique domains and subs but if the positive trend continues, I'll wind back my domain purchases and concentrate on the subs. I'll keep an eye on this and let you know progress.

Dave

Three years of web earnings

Just over three years ago my wife (Vee) started to do a little freelance web design, building on her artistic abilities and experience in designing a few personal sites. In year one she earned £8k, year two £23k and this last tax year just ended, £32k. Things have gone quite well but particularly in the last year where she made a deliberate change in the type of work she targets.

In year's one and two she was picking up any work she could, one or two dentists plus a bunch of small web sites for local businesses - the latter stuff was quite low paying and in an extremely competitive market; clients wanted everything but were willing to pay little. It was clear that we needed to have a look at what paid well and try to pursue that niche. Quick analysis showed that the "professional" clients (doctors, dentists, lawyers, opticians etc) were much more lucrative than other local businesses. Similarly, good money could be made with ecommerce solutions as more and more businesses look to sell online.

Consequently she has concentrated her efforts on sites for professionals (particularly dentists) and also ecommerce - equivalent hourly rate is now up over 40%.

The lesson we have learned from this is that its futile to keep chasing business that is ultra competitive with prices constantly being driven down. Vee identified a higher paying niche, built a decent portfolio and reputation and now work chases her rather than the other way around. She is also able to differentiate by designing sites that meet accessibility criteria.

So big up to the missus - a bit of graft and lateral thinking has paid dividends for her but the same opportunity is there for everyone. I'm also chipping in with around £600 per month AIS earnings (and sadly a real job too).

Can a decent living be made online? Sure.........

Dave

Dire week (at work) - good week (AIS)

Not posted for 5 days mainly due to unexpected events at work when my colleagues conspired to burn down one of our factory units. Fortunately no-one hurt but millions of pounds worth of damage, environmental issues to contend with and no sleep for three nights. Ho hum....

So I didn't really have chance to monitor income progress much after month end up until tonight. At least some good news is that the sites are plodding on nicely and the newer projects starting to return better - approx 15% up on a month ago. Again much of this is coming from MSN although I see that G has deep crawled several of the new sites within the last couple of days (at last - hoorah!!). Hopefully this bodes well.

This is the first time I've really appreciated the "AIS" element - adsense hasn't crossed my mind for several days but I'm still well over $100 better off. But now I have to sleep.

Dave

My site landscape

Mark over at 45n5 though it might be worthwhile making a post out of a thread I replied in the other day - so here goes:

My site "portfolio" which made just short of $650 in May:

- a "cash cow" site that gets 1000+ unique visitors per day and fairly high paying ads. However it was not built as an ad. site and so is not the best structure for it. CTR is not high. However, it brings in 50 odd percent of the cash.
- a recent site in a high paying niche where we have access to a bunch of relevant back links (one of the missus's design niches). This one is starting to do well but is still slower than expected with G - maybe sandbox effects as the domain is only 4 months or so old. Still big hopes for this one.
- a couple of older sites that tick along without returning too much (I need to work on these as they have potential)
- 30 "pre-built" sites using a mixture of articles from the web plus some unique stuff chucked in. Certainly not scraped stuff and even mildy useful! We purchase the structure and content for $5 per site and then spend a few hours optimising. We will be publishing another 20 or 30 of these (tho' time is tight on the design side of the business at the moment). I use a combination of fresh domains, sub domains (about 50/50 so far) and to date, it does not seem to matter which you use - results are similar. Domains are primarily .info, .co.uk or the odd .com (if I think its got real potential in a broader context). Hosting is across 3 different servers in different data centres (ip paranoia!)

60% of traffic for the newer sites is from MSN currently with G just starting to increase. If I can get to an average of 30 to 50 cents per site in a few months time, that's all I really expect - but if you have 60 of them it starts to add up. Dupe content will be the biggest issue for these sites as some of them use articles from the interweb.

I have also identified a couple of new niches which I know pay well - I will write all the content for these myself. I've also written the odd article in an effort to get back-links - this is just starting to kick in but early days.

It will be a hard job to move my average up quickly over the next few months unless I decide to publish a *lot* more sites. I'll do another 20 or so but I fancy focussing more on a couple of targetted "home grown" jobs. That plus explore some other avenues like selling the odd e-book. Even with domain purchases, budget hosting etc, return on investment is several hundred percent. It's just a hobby really but it pays for a few holidays, Christmas etc.

Dave

Nearing month end....

Pretty quiet and no real news to report other than I am currently about 15 bucks short of $600 - so just ahead of the game versus last month. Income is holding up but no great leaps ahead in May. Still a nice little earner tho' and not a whole lot of additional effort gone in during the last couple of weeks (sadly the garden and my real job have taken priority!)

Next couple of weeks will see another 10 sites launched, main traffic for the earlier ones in the same mould is coming from MSN with limited bits and pieces from G - Yahoo still not doing much at all. Early days still.

Anyway, looking forward to a few days hol and taking it easy!

Dave

Irate customer :)

Just received an e-mail from an irate "customer" who purchased one of our test products from a demo oscommerce store we run for prospective clients. He'd found it through a Google link but it quite clearly notes that it is a test store, the payment process goes to a test card process area (with big letters TEST everywhere) and he also got an auto e-mail confirmation saying that it was a test purchase and that no cash would be deducted from his account. "Where are my goods!!!" - Sad git....

I have just mailed back pointing out his error.

Adsense - 75% through the month and my daily average is only up around $2, this after publishing another ten sites. The last couple of weeks have seen some of the newer stuff fall back, either because of dupe content penalty or (hopefully) some sandboxing going on. With the latter, at least there's a chance of re-emerging later on. I will continue to publish "bulk" sites for another month or so and then leave them lie. I will also be having a crack at one or two self built and self written niche sites which I can be sure won't attract any dupe content penalties.

So I think it will be "limboland" for the next couple of months until I can see how Google decides to treat the newer stuff.

Dave

Dilemma - black hat competitor

We've recently acquired a number of dental sites from one of our competitors mainly because they offer poor service/design. They have been using lots of black hat stuff (not even subtly) resulting in a few of their former clients being banned by G. We have been successful in getting the redesigned sites re-instated.

However, on doing some back-link checking, I found a number of the competitors sites with hidden text and links back to what are now, our client's sites.

Do I:

• report the toss pots and lose the links (how long before G catches up anyway - seems G is much better at finding hidden divs these days!)
• leave it and hope that the links stay up and we don't get penalised as a result

Maybe I should tell their clients what is going on a grab a bit of new business!

What do you reckon?

Dave

First $40 day :o)

I had my first $40 day yesterday - this after my average had dropped back slightly and I was starting to get a little worried. 60% from the cash cow site, 40% from new stuff! Looking like mid 30's today so things are recovering and pushing on again.

Google is starting to be a little kinder to some sites but MSN has just kicked in across a bunch of them. It may only represent 12% of searches but its coming in very handy just now.....

Dave

Cheap hosting and domain names

Quickie post ref. cheap hosting and domain reg.

I wanted some cheap hosting for ad sites and narrowed it down to these US guys (all cpanel):

Micfo

Hostgator

Reseller Zoom

Site5

Dreamhost

All get mixed reviews (Hostgator prolly best) and cost different amounts. Take your pick. I went for super cheap and cheerful with Zoom for $5 per month - budget servers are slowish and probably oversold but they work well enough for adsense sites with limited dynamic content. I don't put anything important on there tho'. If you want quality go with Clook

Consistently cheap domains at NameCheap

Might save you some time researching......

Dave

Google - "omitted results"

I've spent a fair bit of time over the weekend looking at sites which are suffering from the "omitted results" problem. This seems to be the first sign that the dupe content filter has been at work - entirely logical. Quantifying the other effects of such a filter is quite a bit harder!

It seems that during the early days of a site's life within the index, the presence and structure of the meta description can have quite a dramatic effect. If you use the same meta description for each page (easy enough to fall into this mode when using a "lazy" Dreamweaver template), then the results of G's shallow crawl may disappoint you. Typically we are seeing sites which do not have unique meta descriptions on each page get indexed quickly enough. However, the majority of pages are then lobbed just as quickly into the omitted results section. The pages can languish there for a number of weeks until G gets around to a deep crawl. After this we are seeing sites re-emerge far more sucessfully as the "real" content is grabbed.

I made this mistake with a number of adsense sites which I tried to customise by adding, amongst other things, a meta description. Only problem is I didn't make it unique per page. I'm seeing similar sites faring better where a meta description hasn't been used at all. I'm now experimenting with sites using no meta, unique metas and some left alone (waiting for the deep crawl).

I suppose most of that is fairly obvious but the slightest errors can cause some significant problems :(

cheers
Dave

Parked domains - be careful!

I can't be 100% certain about this but we seem to have problems with SE ranking where clients have parked domains "on top" of their primary domains in cpanel. Indications are that G is seeing this as dupe content.

However, this only seems to happen when the parked domain is different to the primary domain e.g. primary domain = mydomain.co.uk, parked domain = myotherdomain.co.uk. Where the client has just parked a domain which is the same but with a different extension; primary domain = mydomain.co.uk, parked domain = mydomain.com, all seems well (at least for now). Almost as though G is differentiating between the two cases.

Might all be complete coincidence but worth keeping an eye on if you are considering parking a domain. Maybe try a full 301 re-direct or url re-write as an alternative.

Good things today:

• recent articles are getting published - apparently I now have "expert" status at ezinearticles but then I figure everyone does :)
• veedesign is nearly top of Google for all Derby web design searches - the big local agencies are currently eating dust!! - yeeehhhh....
• Gary at osworld linked me - cheers fella!

Cheers

Dave

Article sites - lots of them!

Having written my first article, I've been checking out and publishing to five or six article sites - pretty time consuming. I hadn't realised just what was out there, rafts of sites that vary from pretty shody with pop-ups/unders all over the place to high quality and user friendly.

I've also spotted that you can purchase tools (not cheap) to perform multiple submissions to different site automatically but how effective these are I'm not sure. Also reading a few forum posts that suggest article publishing to gain back-links isn't as effective as it used to be as G has caught up with it in its latest algos. Not sure how true this is either. Apparently to be on the safe side, use only quality sites where the article is actually vetted before publishing. Another minefield :)

Found this page of article sites by PR - not checked the accuracy but its a start.

Also a good list in the forums over at Brighton Vibes

Now the wait to see if they actually publish my stuff :)

Dave

Published articles

I just spent a couple of hours researching and writing my first article to (hopefully) help publicise one of the AIS sites. I do a fair bit of technical writing for my "real" job so thankfully that bit comes quite easily.

I've found a couple of article submission sites which I'll research and hopefully publish to tomorrow.

Seems like quite a good way to get the word out there but, as I'm new to it, I'm sure there are some pitfalls that I don't know about yet. Any advice, including sites to submit to, appreciated. Something new around every corner :)

Dave

More adsense sites published

Just published a further ten sites covering a variety of niches.

Although I'm suffering from being infront of the PC for way too long, I still need to spend a few more hours optimising before I'm happy to post the sitemaps to Google.

I'm spurred on by the fact that I beat my record day on Tuesday with just under $35 - most of it still coming from the cash cow site plus another one that is starting to kick in nicely. Yesterday and today will both be around the mid $20's mark.

Google already pays most of my mortgage - so why not another car too! I'll stop when I've reached that.

cheers
Dave

April's AIS summary

Well so far it's just adsense at just over $610 up from $490 in April - so good progress.

This is mainly down to new sites just starting to kick in together with older sites paying more as SE rankings improve.

I'll be launching another ten sites within the next week or so to try and maintain progress. I'm also considering writing a factual (i.e. no multi-millionaire bullshit) e-book on how to start up in adsense and make yourself a sensible income for relatively little work. I think this market might be saturated so I need to do a bit more research first. I also have no idea about e-book format so a fair bit still to learn :o)

All for now....
Dave

Google - sitemap versus sandpit?

I may be completely off target here but I may have spotted a benefit of using Google's beta sitemap to avoid having new sites "sandpitted".

I've recently registered a bunch of domain names (20+) and used the sitemap technique with all of them. This has been over the last 8-10 weeks. All of the sites have appeared in G within 2-3 weeks and most of them fully indexed. It's still early doors and it could still go all pear-shaped but if Google is running a beta program to assist getting your pages indexed, is it then going to lob you in the sandpit? Hmmmmm.....

cheers
Dave

Adsense - progress on a popular site

A quick overview of my adsense progression on a popular site getting > 1k uniques per day:

• first month with ads not optimised - circa $9 per day average
• month 2 with partially optimised ads (same link colours etc) - $11 per day average
• month 3 - same ads but repositioned on the page - $13 per day
• current - a drop back to around $12 per day

I think I've taken this particular site as far as it will go and maybe just a wee bit too far - overall uniques to the site have fallen away slightly which could either be a holiday effect, pissed off users or the regular guys now savvy to the link positions.

Although I'm now supplementing with other sites up to over $20/day average, I'm obviously keen to keep the cash-cow bubbling - any tips welcomed. Also keen to hear how your earnings have progressed for a particular site with time.

cheers

Dave

Google Sitemap - good so far!

Over the last 4 or 5 weeks I've been experimenting with Google site maps on both AIS and client sites. Results so far have been encouraging with a bunch of news sites getting all pages spidered and included in the index.

The time for the sites to appear in the index was not necessarily faster (2 - 3 weeks + for new domains) but no waiting around to get all the pages included. This has been particularly useful for sites incorporating adsense across 40 or so article pages.

The process is relatively simple - use a simple php script (or one of Googles tools) to generate an xml file, submit it to G and away you go. There is also a simple process needed to validate your site and give you access to the full set of stats but this is straightforward and worthwhile.

Worth a shot - working for me so far.

cheers
Dave

Content Management (not)

We offer our "brochure" site clients the option of content management using various CMS options from bespoke solutions (typically using php/mysql) to PC based apps. like Macromedia Contribute. Some take up the option (maybe 20%) but with the exception of just two of our punters, no-one uses it.

This is not because the systems are "unfriendly" but primarily because most of our clients either don't have time or are simply not sufficiently au fait with a keyboard to operate even the simplest of CMS. Those that tried and failed needed us to intervene to resurrect the site.

To offer CMS is a useful option but in our experience, those who use it successfully will be a small minority. Just wondering about you experiences with CMS.

cheers
Dave

Banned sites - getting 'em back in

Over the past couple of weeks we have been liaising with Google's automaton (and latterly a real human being!) to get a banned site re-instated. We inherited the site concerned for re-design only to find it chock full of black-hat stuff.

Initially we cleaned all of the crap out and quickly mailed G along the following lines:

Hello,

The web site xxxxxxxx has recently been dropped from the Google index.

The old site has been removed and re-designed in house by a new design team. It is now coded to meet the latest WC3 guidelines and also meets the Google web master guidelines.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

Now the site is fully compliant and within our direct control, we would be grateful if you would consider re-including this web site in the Google index.

Many thanks

The first couple of mails back were automated and not too positive so we started to think that all was lost. However, on the third submission we finally received a note (from a real person!) indicating that the issue had been transferred to the Google engineering team and thanking us for our patience.

A few hours later the site was back in the index (and reasonably placed too!)

With Google, persistence seems to be the key. As long as your case is sound and you remain polite, you should get there in the end. However, it could take a few weeks and several mails if our experience is anything to go by. Stick at it......

cheers
Dave

My current web "concerns"

Similarly to most, I've always got a couple of concerns floating around my head with respect to the correct strategy for various web issues. I thought I'd share a couple of my current ones:

• Blogs and linking to niche sites:
  Is linking to your niche sites a good idea or not? Seems like a catch 22 to me - no links and you protect your niche; link and you get the chance of a better search ranking. Figure it has to be the latter but I'd welcome your thoughts....
  
• Duplicate content:
  With pre-built sites, there usually comes the promise of "uniqueness" but this isn't entirely true. With the best will in the world, its almost impossible for a vendor of such sites to make each one offered unique and its usually a cosmetic attempt to change header images and such like. For sure this would not defeat even a simple dupe content filter - or would it? For those using pre-built sites is it best to differentiate by adding unique metas, images and (at least) index page text? Is this enough? There are a number of tools available for making content unique but are the changes they make comprehensive enough to satisfy the likes of Google and Yahoo? There are a number of research papers written on dupe content that would suggest not. So just how efficient are the dupe filters that are currently deployed by the main engines? Thoughts welcomed.
  
• Oscommerce - the future?
  Functionality is great but the coding/accessibilty is questionable. We spent a great deal of time learning to customise OSC but the project itself seems to have lost its way. For sure OSC can be modified to make it more SE friendly and more accessible but not significantly so in my opinion - the nested tables etc are just fundamentally wrong when considering SEO and accessibilty. So do we move away from OSC and push something new?
  
  JShop is not open source but for £300 (or £900 for unlimited installs) you get a cart that is template based, built primarily css based and validates (at least this is promised for the latest version). The functionality compares to a base OSC install with SEO functionality and cross-selling mods added. Anything more than this and you have to pay - i.e. no "contributions". We are seriously considering swithing our efforts to JShop or at least offering it as a compliant alternative to OSC. We have a couple of developments bubbling under which could go JShop so we'll let you know how we get on. Any thoughts? Does OSC have a sound future other than for budget projects?

I'm also wondering about the best strategy for getting quality back-links. Googles seems to markedly favour off site SEO as opposed to on-site so a good link strategy is critical - but I'll save that for now.

cheers
Dave

Day off....

No work today - web sites, AIS etc all put to one side as we drove over to Sherwood Pines with the MTBs to cruise a few forest trails. The weather was reasonable, a few showers but nothing to worry about. Several hours and sore asses later we're back and in one piece - no nasty falls this time!

The Kona, Trek and a couple of Spesh's have been pretty much mothballed over winter (fair weather riders I hear the cry!) and it was nice to blow the dust away. Couple of hours needed tomorrow lubing chains etc but worth it.

I'll also be refocusing on the paying stuff tomorrow as there are a couple of dentists' sites to complete and one for a local solicitors that came in recently - those plus a few new niches to develop.... :o)

cheers
Dave

Oscommerce and offshore developers

Over the last three months we've been going through a bid process for a guy who needs an existing (and successful) store updating to an oscommerce platform. He wanted a bunch of non-standard stuff adding in together with a number of contributions. Some of this required the services of a coder guy that has helped us out considerably over the last couple of years. After a a good deal of work and to and fro with the client, we quoted around the £2.5k mark - good value we thought, particularly for a significantly customised store.

Two weeks later he comes back to us to say that we were way off and an Indian outfit could do it for £250! - uhhhh! He then wants us to validate their work on completion :o)

In an effort to recover some of the costs we had sunk I offered to check the "finished" store over and also involve "our" coder guy as required - at least this would grab a couple of hundred quid back for 4 or 5 hours work.

Sadly ;o) the delivered store was a pile of sh1te; where they couldn't get contributions working they'd just left it and the bespoke aspects were completely non-functional. The moral is that you get what you pay for. We've now quoted the original amount plus a bit extra to put it all right (which may mean starting again). The guy has gone quiet again so I suspect he's still not willing to pay sensible money for a decent job. Maybe the best option is to bin him even if he comes back with a cheque in hand?

Now this is not our first bad experience with offshore guys - I'm sure there are good firms out there but our experience is that they promise lots and deliver little. So please be careful!

Dave

Happy :o)

Well I finally managed my first $30 day yesterday ($33.67 to be exact), about 4 months after my first deployment of adsense. It's likely to follow suit again tonight and what's particularly pleasing is that a few of the new sites are starting to kick in nicely. Average for April is now well over $20 per day and sneaking up.

I'm noticing some trends which I suppose are kinda obvious when you think about it.

• people surfing at work seems to have quite an influence - UK lunchtimes really kick in on a several of the sites.
• Tea-times tend to go a bit flat on the primarily UK targeted sites and then an influx again early in the evening
• The US contributes steadily through the day and then seems to kick in big style after we hit the sack - pretty much as they go online after work and tea.

Nothing too revolutionary there but its kinda interesting watching the traffic and predicting what comes next. Problem is I'm getting addicted to watching the account - my posture infront of the PC is also suffering so I need to get it sorted before my back gives way!

Another thing we are noticing is that the "pre-purchased" sites do better after you spend a little time on them - maybe just a header image, proper meta description and a scree of index page text (the latter also helps differentiate the sites from similarly themed ones)

I've also been wondering about the duplicate content thing and just how rigorous the duplicate content filters actually are. There are a bunch of sites out there with similar articles but they are all still chugging along (not mine of course!)

cheers for now....

Kinda tired right now......

Pretty busy right now creating adsense site (decent looking ones I think) plus a full-time job plus helping Vee with quotations for the main web design side of life.

Quotations for oscommerce stores are still popular although trying to get a decent price is getting harder as punters do their research and find decent looking templates that fit their need for a few hundred quid installed. Not keen on that kind of deal to be honest as it invariably wastes time for relatively little income.

The adsense side of life is going well and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for my first $30 day by end of play tonight. Currently sat at $26.45 so every chance I think. I'm please because some of the newer sites have been indexed and are starting to see the first clicks - good news. Difficult to predict what they will actually return longer term but for sure they will pay back - at least 3 fold based on worst possible case I reckon.

Scalabilty - I did a quick fag packet calculation based on worst case and reckon that if I was able to carry on building at the current rate, £35k per year would be acheivable in 4 - 5 years time. This is without auto site creation and the need for "scraper" sites. Anyway, lets see how it runs over the next few months.....

Next big task will be off-site SEO to try and improve the rankings a little.

Now time for beers..........

AIS Test

We've been running a couple of succesful adsense sites for the last few months to great effect. The highest returning site is quite large, very well ranked and gets 1000+ uniques per day so you might expect it to do well. The second highest returning site draws on our network of links within a design niche that is well established for us.

I've been busy maximising the returns from these and a couple of other sites to the extent that revenues now pay 80% of our mortgage. Granted that its not a massive sum but its certainly significant and very welcome!

I was once highly sceptical of the various adsense "miracles" being reported and no doubt some of it is total BS but clearly there is good cash to be made - so now I'm happy to admit my u-turn and confess that I will be working hard to build on initial successes.

So what's next? A few weeks ago I subscribed to one of the services which provides ready-made sites complete with articles etc "ready" for publishing. The idea is that you just incorporate your adsense code, publish and away you go. Well you could do it like that but I'm findng that if you spend an hour on each of the sites to change a few images, tweak the css and basically tart it up a little, then its a whole lot more appealing. Why do this? - you see a bunch of blog articles suggesting that its not worth spending any time on this type of site. My opinion is that in their "raw" form, punters are likely to just click away without even checking out your links. First impressions count so I figure that little bit of effort should pay back.

I intend to publish 60 or so of these sites over the next few months to see what returns I can achieve. I don't expect miracles - far from it. Many of the domain names are new and this is not good as far as Google goes. So maybe 3 or 4 months before the sites start to bed in and "age" a little. I'm just starting to see the sites get ranked and the first few clicks which is encouraging!

I will also be publishing in various formats with different domains; some .co.uk, some .info and the odd (expensive!) .com. Subdomains will also figure so I should get a fair picture of what works and waht doesn't over the next few months. I've also purchased "cheap" hosting in the US to ensure IP separation so I'll get a few pointers there too.

So the intention is to have some high quality "hand-built" sites which are highly targeted coupled with the bulk approach using pre-built (but tweaked) sites.

I'll be reporting back regularly on progress........

It had to happen.......

What had to happen? The setting up of a blog that is....
Given all the recent buzz about the positive effects of blogging with respect to search engine ranking and also my wish to share useful web snippets, I've decided to refocus some of my efforts towards a blog. So welcome to Spon's blog.

I expect the main content of the blog to be focussed around a couple of main areas of interest:

• web design - vee, my partner runs a successful and growing design business, veedesign, which specialises in oscommerce cutomisation and web sites for cosmetic dentists and legal firms. We'll let you know any tips and tricks we pick up from dealing with these guys!
• AIS - automated income streams (a phrase originally coined by Gary over at OSWorld I think?). This is an area I've recently become interested in and covers a bunch of online cash generation techniques including adsense, affiliate schemes etc. We've run a few adwords schemes in our time and have a fair amount of knowledge of how all this stuff hangs together, some of which we'll share.......
• Any other interesting web snippets we pick up and feel are worth sharing.

To be honest it won't just be me blogging here - Vee, my partner will also be adding any interesting stuff that she comes across and as she's the creative one, probably a good read.

Anyway, I now need to go away and learn how this editor works and research the settings for the blog itself - rss feeds and all that. So bear with me for a wee while at least. Cheers for now.