What is your new years resolution?

Lea · 15-12-03

A year has passed - and I am now a fully qualified internet geek!
I was - until last week spending about 12 hours a day online, and 6.5 days a week. In this time I built - with my hubby - 60 or so sites. This was mostly down to meeting a guy at a property investor meeting in a pub last year (Kevin), and then finding this site !!!!

Last years resolution was to build 100 sites. I have 60 main domains and 14 subdomains. I just wanted to share a bit of how I got there - and then tell you my next years resolution.

I got really cheesed off with trying to think of a new domain name every time I had an idea for a shop / store/ community or info site. It has been costing me a small fortune.
I came up with the idea of using one domain name - and creating subdomains (I am sure other people do this too - but I want to share my experiences)

So basically I used sites like
Nameroute and searched for store type words - then found www.store.uk.com and a few others like it.
So set up websites like www.computer.store.uk.com and www.cashflow.store.uk.com and lots more like it. This kept my urls fairly short – and snappy – and also kind of seems to show an authority – I think.

I bought the store name as I said - and basically worked on individual sites - by using Neureal Hosting and their subdomain setup (which is free to have as many subdomains as you like once you pay for their hosting)

I then cottoned on to the oscommerce shops (these were included into Neureal Hosting and I just switched it on. - hey presto I had a shop! (like www.cashflow.store.uk.com and www.housemouseuk.com/catalog)

Then from that I grew more interested in having other features around my shops - and found Nuke system - a great online management system that you add on modules and blocks- to make pretty funky sites. I found OS4Nuke – which was an oscommerce shop that could be added to NUKE – (see www.tool.store.uk.com to see what I mean – tho ignore images – this one is still new and not launched)

Now believe me - I had no experience of HTML, PHP, Open source software etc – but totally taught myself by using and searching lots of discussion forums like this one (thanks guys) – and by trial and error.

I have now got quite a few number one sites – and can get into google in about 4 days, and normally front page – moving upto top in a few weeks.

I found a lot of useful sites on the way that have helped me – and affiliated with a lot of them as I will eventually build a site on how I built my sites – lol

Clickbank was an interesting one, got me interested in writing a course for property investors and selling it – but then someone had already written on – and I made over £600 for the 1st 3 months just by selling it on housemouse (my main site). My hubby then wrote a course – that we will launch ourselves – but we will not market it just yet in the click back way (to shy)

Bravenet tools helped me a lot – they do free chatrooms, counters, form sending etc. And whilst I used them in the beginning, I can now write some of my own code – or have found other open source material. It was a great way to get started tho.

So basically why have I written this? Well I have had time to reflect on why I am where I am now – and figured that if my info can help one person – then why not? I would have loved to hear other people’s stories when I 1st started.
I always thought internet geeks were young lads who learned how to use a pc from a young age by playing games, then eventually got into hacking etc – but me – well having 60 sites, running several communities myself, makes me a true geek – and I am 30 – and only learned about websites at 28 ish – and really got going at 29!

So even if you are new to affiliate marketing – the internet is still young – most people do not optimize their site, as they don’t know how to – so I know there is still a good chance to get to the top!

I wish you well – the internet currently pulls in about £800 - £1000 a week for me – some of it is manual – ie posting stock – but still – I think from £0 - £1000 in a year – I have something to be proud of!

I aim to go over all of my sites, and refine them to all be number one this coming year – and that’s my next new years resolution I would also like to get into writing a bit more and holding seminars on making money.