Safety gear

Having the right gear for the job is the mantra of any workman or DIY enthusiast. This is learned quickly when one does not have the right tool for the job, if you eventually find the right tool you wish you had found it a lot earlier!
The right tool does the job more effectively, more efficiently and safely!
As it happens, I have just removed my safety gloves because I am sanding some woodwork in the doorway to my office. Safety equipment should always be the first thought when thinking about any new tools or machinery. Over the years I have built up a good stock of gloves, goggles and face-masks for dusty jobs. Nevertheless, these things need replacing and the safety gear that is appropriate for one job may not be appropriate for the next. For instance, there are a range of gloves with different uses depending on the material being handled, similarly face masks are job-specific, a dust-mask is not effective against chemical fumes any more than gardening gloves are suitable for handling corrosive liquids.
Having the right tool for the job applies to safety gear every bit as much as it applies to hand or power tools.

Cheap webhosts and domain registrars

During this month, I am going to be posting about the domain services I am using, this is mainly because I have just gone through a period of changing all my hosting around so that I am getting a better deal.
My new strategy is to treat domain registration and webhosting as separate things because webhosts (even though they sometimes offer one domain for free) are not usually the best people to offer cheap domain registration, and the best domain registrars do not offer the cheapest webhosting.
I have had a couple of UK hosting services because I started with UK domains, then discovered that the best service for registering gobal domain names (.com, .info etc...) is GoDaddy, the best service for registering UK domains is 1and1, and the best webhosting package is from Webhostingpad.
These individual companies offer the best value for money for those who aready have multiple domains, or are thinking of adding domains to their portfolio.
I have been able to save myself a lot of money by taking steps to ensure I have the best cost-effective solutions, and would encourage all my readers and friends to do the same. Click on the links above to find the individual posts about each company.

International domains

I have posted a lot recently about mu new webhosting and domain regsitration services that I am using. The reason is two-fold, firstly I am committed to bringing you the best information I can to help my visitors make money online, but secondly because each of these services have affiliates!
Having said that, I would also add that I am genuinely supportive of each of these companies as I truly believe that they offer great value for money which is why I use them...
The company that I have been using the longest is the one that this domain (munny4hunny.com) is registered with, and in fact ALL my blogging domains are registered with GoDaddy.
Now, to be absolutley clear, it is their domain registration service that I am praising, I do not think that their webhosting is particularly cheap. The domain registration is second-to-none, and the only reason that I ever use a different service is that GoDaddy are not really set up to handle .co.uk domains. Their control panel is comprehensive and allows you to change DNS records, configure your email and re-direct your domains wherever you want them. Added to this, the prices they charge for .info domains are crazy, often no more than a few pence a year....
They are constantly coming up with offers and cheap deals, sometimes even including free hosting as part of a package. nevertheless I think it definitely pays to treat hosting and domain registration seperately - having control over your domains in the way that a good domain registration service offers, means that you can always redirect to another host with very little disruption. If you want to check out Godaddy's pricing, feel free to click below:

Website linking

PageRank is the rating assigned to your site by Google depending on your 'off-site' optimisation - in simple terms, the more links you have coming into your website, the better your ranking. More importantly, the more relevant the linking site (to your own content) the better.
One of the easiest form of getting incoming links into your site is to do some directory submission. This is the relatively simple task of entering your website details into a directory of websites (within a relevant category).
You can trawl the internet looking for directories of course, but there are some sites and software that can help you to speed up the process by automating some (but not all) the tasks.

Renew your filters!

There are certain jobs that get left and left, but once you complete the task, you get a great sense of achievement. The modern household is full of filters, furnace filters air-con filters, vacuum filters, water filters, oil filters and keeping track of them can be a tedious task. But when you get around to changing or refurbishing that filter, the air is cleaner, your appliances run better and more efficiently, in general your quality of life is improved just by changing that filter. My recommendation is that you place a marker on your calendar at the point when your filters should be changed, that way you don't have to walk around coughing and spluttering, wondering why the Hoover isn't picking up and dust, the furnace is cold and the air-con smells so bad...

Get yourself noticed

Getting visitors to your site and backlinks makes up much of the 'back-room' work that goes into creating a successful website, and of course those 'in the know' have methods to make this process as painless as possible.
Posting comments (including your URL) on sites that allow commenting is one method that many bloggers use, getting a directory listing on a renowned directory is another.
There are plenty of directories around so it pays to look for the best ones rather than wasting your time adding your site to useless ones. There are free directories and paid directories, so which ones are best to promote your site?
I have used auto-submission software that can speed up the process by saving your details and populating the submission forms for you and I can recommend that method for getting yourself added to a lot of directories quickly. Also it makes sense to find directory sites that are specific to your niche market if possible - it's all very well having a back-link, but a quality back-link is so much the better.

Even more diet pills..

I am starting to get goggle-eyed over the many different forms of diet pills there are out there and ever more tongue-tied with their names. the latest one I have come across is called Ephedra eca stack and contains caffeine and aspirin (Ephedra Caffeine Aspirin - get it...??)
Now you know right off that some people are sensitive to aspirin, so it is as well to be informed about what these medications consist of. From what I know, caffeine is used as a stimulant to push drugs around the body quicker, so that explains what the caffeine is doing there. There have been restrictions on the use of ephedra/ephedrine in some places in the past so make sure you do your own thorough research before taking anybody's word for the effectiveness of this drug.

Website Indexed by Google

I note that my Google 'webmaster tools' now informs me that this blog has now been indexed by Google, though I note that the cache is not available as yet.
I judge that this has taken about two and a half weeks to complete since submission. A little more work and perhaps Blogitive will reconsider their decision not to use this blog??

Web Site Submission

Tip: Todays task was website submission. I have added the site to my google account and will use 'AddMe.com' (see link on left-hand side) to get the site submitted to search engines for free.
Next I will add Adsense to the blog and will add a 'filter' to my Adsense reporting on google so that I can get an idea of the page impressions and clicks generated.
At some point I think I might practice the art of paid-per-post entries by creating short adverts for my own site. this should give me an idea of structure - one particular task I want to try is a post with EXACTLY 100 words (minimum required by Payperpost) to get a feel for how this can be done.