I’ve decided to post each week’s module into a single blog post and just update it each day instead of creating separate posts for each day.
Day 1: find a domain
Day 2: we use market samurai to find content to write about for our chosen niche
Alright, time to catch up with the last days of module 1. In day 5, we were to create tables of our niches and keywords that matched certain market samurai search criteria. I’ll share one of those tables (and niches) that DIDN’T match the search criteria below:
game server hosting (theme / niche)
clan hosting
teamspeak server hosting
counter strike server hosting
tf2 server hosting
dedicated game server
Day 6 had us look at competing sites related to our chosen keywords.
Day 7 had us look for market indicators related to our niche.
Day 3 went over exact, phrase and broad-match keywords and didn’t even assign a task to complete.
Day 4 had us use the Market Samurai tool to find some niches that match pre-given criteria in order for us to make sure we are able to compete the given niches. I’m still debating whether to share my niches yet or not, as the more competition there is the worse it’ll be for me starting out ;)
So here we are with day 2 of the challenge
Our challenge today is to identify seven markets or niche ideas that’ll explore further in the later days of the challenge. My list will be made of things I like and would enjoy researching more in depth:
Ready for day 3 tomorrow, can’t wait! If you haven’t joined yourself and would like to find out more about building online resources that could potentially add some nice spending cash to your income… then by all means please don’t join as of course more competition is just bad for the rest of us ;)
Since I’ve decided to partake in Ed Dale’s 30 Day Challenge, I figured I might as well blog about the progress and any results that may or may not come from it. The challenge this year is formulated to ideally take you roughly 30min/day to finish, and is designed to take you step by step from nil to hopefully building a website that earns you money by the end of it.
First day we’re to make a list of 3 markets, niches and miro-niches.
Here’s my three:
Market / Niche / Micro-niche
Video Games / Simulation Games / Sim City 3000
Digital Photography / Nature Photography / Macro Plant Photography
Exercise / Body Building / Chin-Ups
Quick and simple. Since I’m lagging behind on my blog and it’s day two already, another post will be up shortly.
Thanks to Trisha Lyn, I have managed to attain free access to Affiliate Summit East in NYC!
I was hanging on the fence whether or not to attend but it looks like Trisha came up and rattled the pole I was resting on… grrr ;) Thanks again to Adam for letting me know about the contest, and to all who’ll be in NYC for ASE I’ll see you there.
A few weeks ago I figured I’d try to save money and health by cooking at home and pre-packing my lunches. Thanks to my procrastination, I JUST finally got around to getting started! Found a really neat site frugal and health (kitri recipe) which drags you through step-by-step on how to start cooking decent cheap meals from scratch. Here’s the results of my first dish
kitri
So there’s been some talk recently in some blogs on the interwebs regarding cloaking/masking/hiding HTTP REFERERs to protect your traffic sources.
I did some simple testing of my own and thought I’d share my results and some sample code to help some people out with a simple jump/redirect script. The three basic ways to accomplish a redirect are via javascript, meta refr
esh, or an HTTP 30x header. The former two are sent within HTML and the latter is sent before any HTML output to the browser.
Here’s a sample of each:
Javascript Redirect:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
window.location = "http://www.example.com/"
//-->
</script>
Meta Refresh:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=http://example.com"/>
HTTP 302 Header Redirect in PHP
<?php header('Location: http://www.example.com',true,302); exit; ?>
The odd thing I found was that IE handles javascript and meta refreshes slightly differently than FireFox or Safari. Internet Explorer will null the REFERER when it hits the target site, while FireFox and Safari will both set the REFERER to the URL with the javascript or meta refresh code on it.
If you want to cloak an Internet Explorer redirect, you’ll have to follow xmcp’s frame/iframe suggestions. If you’re fine with blanking the REFERER in IE and sending a masked REFERER in FF and Safari, the example below may be useful (coded in php).
<?php
// Filename jump.php
// syntax http://www.example.com/jump.php?url=http://myaffiliateurl.com?id=myid
$url = htmlspecialchars($_GET['url']); // clean the url
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=<?php echo $url; ?>"/>
</head>
<body>
<div style="height:300px;line-height:300px;text-align:center">
<a href="<?php echo $url; ?>">Click here to continue</a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
window.location = "<?php echo $url; ?>"
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>
One additional note, if you are redirecting from an encrypted HTTPS (SSL) page to an HTTP url, the REFERER is not supposed to be passed. This may or may not be the case, in my testing… a regular a href link will pass a blank REFERER, but an a href= to the HTTPS which does a 302 to a HTTP host DOES pass the REFERER. Make sure to always test your intermediate jump script if referer cloaking/hiding is important to you!
Today I noticed digg sets a cookie named ‘1337′ with a value of 0 (zero) when you browse their digg.com/iphone url. I’ve tried changing the cookie using FireFox’s webmaster tools to various values (1, 31337, 1337, leet, etc) but it just switches back to 0 each time.Anyone happen to have any guesses or perhaps inside knowledge into the use of this cookie?
Not that anybody reads my blog, but things are shifting around and will hopefully be settled in the next couple weeks.
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