This is not a though provoking post about the pros, cons, and insides of site flipping. Why not? Because I'm just starting down that path, so I'm not really qualified yet to comment. I'm just putting it "on record" that I'm giving it a go. I've set up one site only so far, and after giving it what quick tweaking and SEO I could in a couple of hours, I've thrown it to the wolves.

With a bit of backup, of course. I've set up a little AdWords campaign to get it started until it escapes the Google Sandbox. I suppose I could also add a Google Sitemap to help it become Google's buddy, however it would either 1. be all of 1-2 pages, or 2. need to be dynamically updated/appended to every day to add popular search terms to the "pages" on the site. Hmm, actually that's not a bad idea - and it will help it appear fresh in Google's eyes.

EDIT: Also consider adding RSS feed of search terms, on results page...

Haven't posted in a while - cos I don't have much to write home about :P

Life continues much as it has this last while, and as always there are ups and downs.

I am slowly getting motivated enough to try my hand a certain online money making ventures, however.

To start with one of the trickier but less sleazy avenues - site flipping. I'm also in the process of automating syncing the prices and inventory levels of the Wigglebum site with our mobile pet supplies store systems.

I just finished reading CopyBlogger's 5 part series of articles on keyword research. That's right, all of it. In one sitting. While watching comedy on TV.

ZOMG, does that make me, like, a brainiac?! T'aint hordly likely, dorlin.

I found the read quick and easy, despite Brian's warning label on the front. Which started me wondering - what the heck is wrong with people nowadays, if they consider 8000 words an epic? Is it a general degeneration? Are we all so much busier than ever before?

Or is it that we crave more leisure time than ever before, and with the addiction of the quick and shallow satisfaction of the 'net we don't think we can spare the time to read 8000 words?

How thorough are you when it comes to verifying the legitimacy of your credit card sales? When someone pays by credit card I tend to check their signature against the card's signature, however I usually don't check their name against the name printed on the card. Why? In many cases, I don't know their name.

This came back to bite recently however, when a customer used someone else's card to make a purchase. When the card owner called me to query a charge on their card I was able to get the receipt for the matching amount, and from that I recalled the individual who purchased the items. It was resolved quietly without the card owner or myself out of pocket, however the story could have ended much worse had I not been able to identify that customer by their purchases.

While I'm sure this comes as no shock to users of Microsoft Windows, newer is not necessarily better. Recently I've been developing a retail site for a friend, and once I settled on Joomla as the platform, I assumed that the latest version would offer the best, most stable experience. Ouch!

While I believe plain ole vanilla Joomla 1.5 probably is better than 1.0, it seems any useful component for it (e.g. shopping cart) is a pretty bumpy ride. After an hour tweaking the theme and a couple more hours bashing the shopping cart component around, I tried Joomla 1.0 and was amazed at how much more stable and bug free it was.