Do a search on Ebay for “adwords” and you will find hundreds of those coupons Google sends to prospective advertising customers going for around ten cents on the dollar.

I have a couple sitting here right now and don’t even feel like bothering with them.

Google, in their attempt to turn capitalism on it’s ear has disenfranchised the vast majority of website owners who, eventually, take whatever self respect they have left and leave Adwords.

Imagine the worst control freak you could ever hope to deal with and you will have Adwords. Ironically, I like just about everything else about Google.

I have been developing in PHP for around 5 years now and have been selling scripts for about that long too. The website is EdgePHP.com. These last couple of years I got very involved in helping others develop and maintain sites and sort of put Edge PHP on the back burner.

But lately I have been putting a lot of effort into it and it shows. The site’s pagerank is back up to 3 and the Alexa rank, whick is steadily falling fast, is at 238,683.

A I recall, the highest pagerank ever for the site was a pr4 with an Alexa rank of somewhere around 78,000. That is around the time I shifted into neutral and started coasting.

I have developed several new products and improved many existing products.

Three things have contributed to the the recent success of the site.  I developed new products and content, I lowered prices and started contacting my customers directly to let them know what has been going on.

EZFetch is a new,  simple web fetching script that allows you to grab content from other sites and include on yours. Here’s a good real example of how to use EZFetch.

EZFetch Demo

So, if you are itching to scrape some content because there’s no other way to get your hands on it (and you know you are) give this script a try.

EZArticles is a cool and completely automated way to add articles to your website. Just upload and go. The articles are maintained by ARA content. The articles are freely available to Content Infusion members. However, you are on your own to gather them together and provide navigation. EZArticles handles that for you and also opens each article on your own website,  a feat that takes some programming.

So if you are looking for an easy way to add hundreds of self-maintaining artices to a site, give EZArticles a try.

Product Page | Demo

MyMovies is a great script for adding movie listings to a website. However, I must say first that MyMovies is not meant to be a big time global service for use by people coast to coast and I hope you are not thinking you have a shot at that anyway.

But if you have a small community website that could benefit from movie listings you shoud give MyMovies a look. One of the cool things you can do is have the main page open to a particular zip code so people in your community would not even have to search Another cool thing is that the main search page sets a cookie that rememb the user’s last search.

How does MyMovies work. It gets the listings from IMDB. All the movie links open at IMDB. So you are not really showing their content on your ste. Instead you are just linkingto their site. So it is god for you and also good for IMDB because they can attract new users who may not have otherwise found them.

This article does not describe any specific or guaranteed way to make money on the web. Instead, it simply outlines some of the avenues where money may be made. The products you sell may be physical or downloadable information products.

• sell products on ebay or other auction sites
• sell products on a website
• sell affiliate products
• create traffic and sell advertising
• sell services

No matter what, traffic is the key.  If you sell on eBay, they provide the traffic. If you have your own websites, you must get traffic to have potential customers.

I doubt this a any big revelation to anyone who reads this. But though it is simple, it is absolutely fundamental.

Let’s relate the concept to television. Just about everyone watches television. And just about everyone chooses shows to watch based on their own particular taste. That’s what matters most. No one watches a television show based on what commercials are aired during he show. In fact you may prefer to record a show and fast forward through the commercials.

But a television advertiser’s persective is much different. They are focused on whether or not their ad will be engaging enough to get at least a small percentage of viewers to watch it and, hopefully, buy their product.

As a webmaster and/or web marketer you are in charge of the content and the selling. For the most part, web surfers are are looking for information. If you have the information they are looking for and search engines are confident your information matches what people are looking for, you will get traffic.

That’s half the battle. Then you must be diligent in converting that traffic into sales. Procucts, clicks or whatever it may me. Everything should match up as well as possible to the taste of your visitor. Then you will be on your way.

Why get a single domain hosting plan when you could host multiple or even unlimited domains without paying too much more. Sometimes plans like this are called “reseller” plans. But that does not mean they must be resold at all, altghough you can do that. Many plans now are simply labeled “Unlmited Domain”. With any unlimited domains account, you can just add domains at will without paying more or asking permission.

Unlimited domain hosting is the way to go even if you have only one domain now. In most cases it won’t cost you much more and will offer the flexibility to quickly add domains whenever you feel like it.

I have researched all the hosts below and they all offer good unlimited domain hosting deals. Check them out.

	Just Host Just Host is offering unlimited domain hosting for $3.95 a month. Yikes! They also include some nice promo goodies to sweeten the deal.
	Host Rocket Currently Host Rocket is offering unlimited domain hosting for $5.99 a month. Keep in mind you must sign up for 2 years to get this deal. But without that obligation, you can get $9.99 per month.
	A2 Hosting This host is currently offering reseller accounts for only $11.97 a month. When you get to their website, go to the reseller area and you will see an online coupon code. Use it for the discount.
	Aplus Hosting Aplus has a deal that offers up to ten domains for $9.95. It is called their Business plan. That’s a good low price if you don’t think you will need more than ten.
	FastDomain FastDomain is offering accounts with unlimited add-on domains for only $6.95 per month. This deal is worth a look.
	HostGator HostGator is a very good and reliable host who consistently offers great deals. This one is no exception. $7.95 for unlimited domains from a host with this great a reputation is a fantastic deal!
	IX Web Hosting These guys have a deal now that allows for unlimited domain at just $3.95 a month. That’s quite a discount off their usual price.
	Web Hosting Pad Right now you can host unlimited domains with Web Hosting Pad for only $1.99 per month. Hold on though. That’s only if you sign up for 4 years. But they still have a $4.99 a month deal for one year.

Let’s do a test search. It’s getting close to Christmas so we’ll go with toys.

Total Listings
250,000,000

Total Visible Listings
649

Total Listings Shown Including Those Initially Omitted
9,900

Total Percentage of Listings Shown
.0004%

Indexed Sites Completely Omitted
249999999.9996

Aren’t you glad Google is saving you from those 249,999,000 or so listings. Sorry I can’t count that high. I’m sure that would be a giant waste of time, effort and page space. So if you are one of the 249 million who can’t board the gravy train for that simple one word search, feel free throw your money into Adwords. You’ll be competing with the sites who already have the top organic search listings.

Lucky for us Google is saving us from irrelevant listings. That’s what makes it so incredible that before you even get past the first 649 listings, you are already into sex toys. I mean, how relevant is that if you just typed in “toys”.

Do you think there could be at lest a few poor shmucks on the outside lloking in who might just be looking to sell a few nice regular toys who don’t have a seat on the stock exchange.

I want to see those listings.

Just put a few simple links at the top that allow users to “show all” or “reverse”. Any Google programmer could add that type of functionality in around 30 seconds. I know I could. Maybe some of us would enjoy clicking “next” for an entire day.  Would that be so bad?

They should be transparent and include those options clearly at the beginning of search results. Not hidden at the end.

Until then you better get your long tail keywords ready. The longer the better. That’s reality.

I’m just talking about letting users think for themselves.

How about my old Google black idea. A version that does not censor any listings. Of course Google has given a whole new meaning to censorship. To be censored on Google just means you do not deserve to be seen.

According to Google, that is.