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.

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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.

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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 [...]

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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.

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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.

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As recently as a few years ago (eons in web time) many of the web’s most prolific gurus were recommending huge amounts of dynamic content as the way to create traffic. Flypaper, as it was called. And mostly duplicate content. I did a lot of that business and business was good. After all, you pretty much needed a programmer for any of that.

Content management systems always help some promise but who could have known it would be like this. Now, some of the most popular sites on the web scarcely need a webmaster or even be professionally hosted for that matter. Just upload Wordpress and  you are good to go.

Now those who churn out word rule the day. And those [...]

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Here is a quick and dirty polling system that requires no database.

Create a text file named “polldata.txt” with a question and answers in the following format.

What is your favorite color?
red:0
green:0
blue:0
yellow:0
orange:0
black:0
white:0

Then create a PHP page with the following code.

<?php

$pollQuestion = ”;
$answers = ”;

function readData(){
global $pollQuestion,$answers;
// Read configuration
$rawdata = file(’polldata.txt’);
// Get the question for polling
$pollQuestion = $rawdata[0];

// Get number of answers – The foirs row is the question
$numberOfAnswers = sizeof($rawdata)-1;
$count = 0;
for ($i=1; $i <= $numberOfAnswers; $i++){
$answerData = explode(’:’,$rawdata[$i]);
// If tha actual row is not empty than add to the answers array
if (strlen(trim($answerData[0]))>0){
$answers[$count]['text']  = $answerData[0];
$answers[$count]['count'] = $answerData[1];
++$count;
}
}
}

function writeData(){
global $pollQuestion,$answers;
$file = fopen(’polldata.txt’,’w’);
fwrite($file,$pollQuestion.”\r\n”,strlen($pollQuestion));
foreach ($answers as $value) {
$row = $value['text'].’:’.$value['count'].”\r\n”;
fwrite($file,$row,strlen($row));
}
fclose($file);
}

readData();
?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html>
<head>
<title>Micro Polling System</title>
<link href=”style/style.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” />
</head>
<body>
<div id=”main”>
<?php if [...]

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