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Race to 1k!

Alright, here is a recent contest I participated in this week. Check out the contest details that NickyCakes posted on his blog. Basically the rules where:

• First to earn 1k under NickyCakes referral link won an Xbox 360.

Well, let me tell you something. I have absolutely no experience in affiliate marketing, I never earned a penny before, until the day NickyCakes started the contest. I applied at Advaliant , got accepted, and started thinking of where I could make one thousand dollars…

On the 21st Nickycakes announced the winners, it was a close race between Amin and Matt . Amin was the finally crowned winner, with Matt close at his heals.

Then, out of the 100 or so contestants who participated, in 3rd place, surprisingly comes, Aaron (me). Yes! The person with absolutely no experience in Affiliate Marketing, got 3rd place out of about 100!

Nickycakes mentions me in his post announcing the winner.

“One dude (who ended up being 3rd place) was actually running his first affiliate campaign ever, is in high school, and is making close to $200 a day profit. If Cakes was making $200 a day on the intraweb in HS, he’d be rollin up to prom in the stretch escalade with spinners. “

Yes, thats me. I got the ball rolling with Cake’s contest. And am now earning more or less $150 a day. I may post up how I did it in a future post, but trust me, its much more challenging to figure out your own techniques. That way you can feel better about that cash.

Thanks for the contest Nickycakes. Maybe I will have to host a contest here on WebDevKing.com in the near future.

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Quick Landing Pages

Here is a script I made with PHP so that you can create a quick landing page, the page it creates is simple html, so all you need to do is upload the landpage.php to the directory you want the landing page to be in, run it, fill in the details and wala! A nice clean, landing page.

Here is an example landing page I created. http://webdevking.com/lab/fathealth.html

Another example:http://webdevking.com/lab/cssexample.html

This php script is very basic, but the main reason for me giving you this script is so that you can look at the code, and study it and figure out how you could plug this into a database or something, and create hundreds of pages of information quickly!

Even edit the html around so that perhaps you display ads, or some more pictures, or a side bar. The possibilities are endless.

So without further ado, I give you

Web Dev King’s Landing Page Creator

Installation

• Download it here: LandingPage.rar
  
• Place the file, landcreate.php in some directory, main index, or somewhere.
• Make sure the directory is rewritable…
• Go to http://sitename.com/something/landcreate.php
• Fill in the information required, mess around a little before using posts you will actually keep.
• Once you save the page, it will be saved at the same directory that your actual script is, so after creating your necessary pages you can go ahead and delete LandCreate.php or move it to somewhere else.

You can use just about all html tags in your post box. This is a very basic landing page, once again, but it gets the message across, people know what its about, and they know where to click if they want it.

This is such a cool script, its so much more powerful than you think. For instance, it can be completly changed around, the style and template, and that way you make styles of pages according to what you need at the moment. Such as an arbitrage feed script, or a product description. The paragraph sizes will adjust according to the amount of text and images automatically. So mess around, create some pages…

Look at the source code, don’t know how? Read this: Set Up For PHP
Use the program I describe in that post, (PSPad) to view the source code, check out whats going on, and wala! You can start creating some pages.

Check out my example here once again: http://webdevking.com/lab/fathealth.html

Another example: http://webdevking.com/lab/cssexample.html

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Lord Brar’s Domaining Tips

For a while I have been reading a blog on the net from a moderator on WickedFire. Lord Brar is his name on there, and his blog is DomainingTips.com . His blog is excellent and I can recommend it to anyone.

His posts are full of information helpful to anyone in the web development business, for beginners especially. But also those with previous knowledge can benefit as well, he has a page on his blog called: Ask Lord Brar, here you can ask him questions that you may have about domaining, check it out.

The most recently answered question is: When is the Right Time To Sell Your Website?

His post contains invaluable information. As long as all the other posts in his blog.

Here are some more information packed posts he has done:

How I “Really” Make Money From Domain Names

6 Ways Not to Go Broke Developing Domains

Be sure to take some time and read through the posts, you will gain a lot of potent knowledge. Thanks Lord Brar for the information.

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Set Up For PHP

Here is a brief guide on my recommendations as to how you should set up your computer, programs, and everything, to begin coding PHP.

Coding is very fun, but it can be stressful, especially when you get those dead end errors that take hours to solve, or some sort of hindrance in your path to the final test. But here are a few steps that you need to take so that you can avoid or solve these hindrances as much and as fast as possible.

1. First things first, if possible, set up dual monitor on your computer. Hopefully you have some old monitor sitting around that nobody is using. It doesn’t matter how small or old this monitor is, as long as it gives you more space so that you can have two things open at once with ample space.
2. You need to have a Apache Server set up on your own computer with PHP enabled so that you can test your code immediately without having to upload them to the web every small correction. The most simple way I have found, is simple, go to http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html and download the Xampp for “Your Operating System”… install it. Now, I hope you understand how websites work with indexes and stuff, because your main directory is wherever you installed Xampp/htdocs … so if you want, create a folder there such as phpstuff and put your php code in there. Now to access any scripts or php stuff on your browser, like to run something you just built. In the address bar type: localhost/phpstuff/filename.php and thats it, it should show your script.
3. For writing PHP files, all it really requires is notepad. Notepad is powerful and simple, but there are programs out there that can do the same as notepad and more. So I would recommend using another program. What I use is called PSpad. Search it on google, it really helps because it will change colors in your code so you can know if you typed something wrong or not, etc.

Alright, looks like your all set, here is what you can do now. Go to some place where you wish to start learning PHP, there are hundreds of sites out there that have begging tutorials on how to start learning. Two of these are:

•  http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/php/php.html and
  
• http://w3schools.com/php/default.asp

Now you can open up the tutorial site on your screen, and then notepad/pspad or something, on your other, that way you don’t need to switch between windows at all and you can easily view the tutorial, and type out code.

Here are some recommendations to begin learning as well. This will help you absorb the code faster and get you comfortable with PHP.

•  Don’t copy and paste code snippets or examples from sites, type them out… by typing out code of php, even if you are copying it, you are observing what it says, and that way learning it a bit faster and getting used to it.
• Instead of completly following the tutorial, decide on some projects of your own that you wish to build. That way it requires you to look at code, and use the pieces you want, not just follow a tutorial down to the hair.
• LEARN the syntax, the syntax of a code is very important, just about every symbol in PHP and in any code means something. So learn it first, because without correct syntax your code doesn’t work.

That is all I can recommend right now, stay tuned for actual hands on tutorials including scraping, posting, and website manipulation.

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Start Your Spamming!

I have officially employed my Wordpress Account Creator/Poster. Here is what I did today with it.

• Created 32 wordpress blogs, the niche for each blog was the same, just different keywords.
• I then posted to all 32 blogs, two times (I will do periodic posts). Its like having a normal blog on the niche, expect x 32!
• Screen shot it for everyone to see! This is after I have posted to a blog, the script Echos information and a link so I can verify it… Which i only verify the first and last blog to make sure.

So, I know have 32 backlinks to one of my sites… lets see how this works out, depending on how much I work with this posting, it may start getting results in a week or two.

It is so simple to use this script, I don’t even know what I would do without it. Wait, I do, I would have to hand register 32 wordpress blogs. Haha! No Thanks.

Maybe later on I will show you how simple the posting form is for this.

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Posting Up Wordpress

After about a week of learning PHP and MySQL, dodging and fixing errors left and right…. wasting hours upon hours trying to find out why nothing was happening, I finally did it…

I posted, from my script, onto a wordpress.com blog.

But not just a normal post, because I have been able to post normal posts for the last 3 days… No, this groundbreaking achievment was the posting of a Blog Post with HTML!

Here is the post that switched my mood of dejection and unhappiness to sky high joy.

As you can see, HTML in my posts works… this was about 1 entire day just dedicated to making this work.

How to make the HTML url friendly is quite hard, because you can not just put symbols into your browser url bar. And Wordpress software has its own special codes for some symbols, such as the < and >…

It was tough, but heck what can I say… here are some things that I benefited from creating this Wordpress Account Creator/Poster

• I learned a ton of PHP
• I can now create hundreds and thousands of Wordpress.com accounts, See post Why Learn To Code
• I can now post to those same hundreds and thousands of Wordpress.com accounts, in as many amounts at a time as I wish.
• I can gain backlinks with this (hundreds and thousands of them)
• I can post affiliate links
• I can do several other cool features, and at a MASSIVE scale.

PHP has its advantages to learn, I recommend you start learning immediately! Or just hold on until I get some easy to follow tutorials on WebDevKing.com

And about the Wordpress Account Creator/Poster, I may create a commercial online version, or maybe sell the script to a select few. I hope this encourages you to start investigating and creating your own scripts.  Any ideas you have for me or others, share them in the comments.

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Why Learn To Code

Here is one major reason why you and I, and everyone who wants to make money on the web, needs to learn to code. I could name hundreds of reasons why you need to code, but for now, I will list the major factor as to why you should learn to code.

The coding I am talking about mainly is Server Side coding… why server side? Because with a server side coding script, you can use it to easily create databases stored on the server, you can display information on the server, and you can control what your server does without actually being there.

Server side coding is the best as far as websites go.

Now the most popular code is PHP. That is what I will talk about most of the time. I will give you more information on the basics of PHP and MySql and all that stuff later.

Alright, with that covered, let me give the reason as to why you should learn PHP.

It is very simple to explain really. Here is the basic triangle of what your website needs to make a profit on the internet.

As you can see, for a good website, you need 3 basic things, Content, Quality, and Monetize. With out Content there is no point in Monetizing or making a quality site. Without Monetizing, why would you care to put up quality content. And without Quality, don’t expect any traffic!

Now even with a site that follows these 3 basic things, you could easily use code to develop a database, or a little feature/plugin or something. But of course, that would be a safer/white hat way of going about it.

Take a look at the reason as to why I recommend coding.

Thats right! We replace the quality, content and monetizing factors with a simple factor, QUANTITY! If you can’t see the image… it says, 1000 lame sites (automatically created site) pulling $0.10 a day each earn more than 1 good blog pulling $50 a day. How do I create the 1000 sites?

Well the answer to that question is what I have been aiming to answer this entire post. Thats the reason for this post about why to learn code.
How do I create the 1000 sites?

1. Learn PHP and MySQL
2. Learn how to create one site the normal, real user way.
3. Code a script that will do this same process of creation
4. Make the script loop x amount of times.
5. Bam! You have yourself: X amount of sites!

Of course, you need to also learn how to add basic content and some form of monetization to these sites. So this is where databases to store your usernames so that you can re use with other scripts comes in.

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Learn PhP for Automation

Automation is one of the most important features of web development.

Here are a few sites you should check out to begin learning php code etc.

Go through W3Schools.com to start understanding basic php.

Next go to Basic Script Tutorials for Scraping and Grabbing Information Oooff.com…This is a must know for web developers.

Most important parts of learning PHP for new people:

learn the syntax, operators, and what variables are! Learn the basics well before moving on to harder material.

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