Saturday Morning Ramblings

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This was a pretty hectic week on the affiliate front, although there’s not a lot to show for it in the “Done” category. I ended up sinking a lot of time into a potential freelance project, which basically involves building out a pretty large site from scratch as a resume, which hopefully will be good enough to land me the gig. I’m also in the process of reviving a couple of older projects that had lain dormant for awhile, Oddsnark and Science Fiction Robots, as well as getting close to launching an entirely new sort of endeavor that’s got  me pretty excited.

But what about your Cisco Certifications site, you ask, the one you were going to bang out by last Sunday and be done with?  Err, yeah, not so much. But in the whole vein of not fearing getting sidetracked (as long as you’re working on something), I’m not going to sweat it too much. Remember, new sites don’t get full traction in search engines for months, so the only real deadline for new sites you launch are the fairly arbitrary ones you set for yourself, at least until it gets fully indexed.

I still plan on knocking out the Cisco site in the next week or two, but I’m not going to freak out if I end up working on other stuff. As long as I’m doing work and making progress and not sitting in my boxers, watching Beauty and the Geek marathons, picking my nose, it’s all good.

I’m probably going to skip the full on review of traffic and stats income this week, as I’m a little short on time this morning, but it wasn’t very exciting. I think I made $12 on the Adsense side, and $0 at CommissionJunction. Traffic was up a bit from the previous week but largely due to people coming back to work after vacation.

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  1. 1 On January 7th, 2007, John said:

    don’t you think its easier to sometimes pay people to do writing or web design? I dislike both of them and would rather focus on ideas and implementing them.

  2. 2 On January 7th, 2007, ScurvyDog said:

    John,

    It’s pretty much always easier to pay someone to do work for you, so yeah, I’d agree with that.

    Very few of the affiliates making tons of money these days are doing it solo, as far as handling all the content creation and Web design themselves. At the same time, I’d wager that probably 95% of those people started in affiliate marketing as a solo operation, just some ideas in their heads, a keyboard, and the willingness to work at it. For people starting out, I think it’s usually a big mistake to pay for content or Web design, as you usually end up wasting a lot of money on either crappy content that you can’t recognize as such or

    As far as my own personal stuff, I like writing content and I’m good at it, so it doesn’t make much sense for me to offload that. I’m not dealing with any industry where there’s much of a difference between professionally designed sites and WordPress themes I can grab for free, so no real need to offload that. But yeah, if you’ve been doing the affiliate thing for awhile and hate writing content or designing sites and have proven you can make money focusing on ideas and implementing them, there’s no reason to grind away at something you hate.

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