I have been posting around the week of the 10th of each month a “THANK-YOU” post, like this one, to all the advertisers from the previous month listed as at month end. That’s a permanent link in this blog, under the category heading which I call .. “Sponsor Appreciation”. I know it’s hard out there trying to figure out where to spend your advertising dollars .. and well .. THANKS for considering the HART-Empire Network.

You may advertise on this site in the form of Text Link Ads. I should note that the link in the previous sentence is an affiliate link, and if you do sign up for the first time through this link, I may earn a small commission. I should also note that if you are a new client, you can receive $100.00 worth of FREE Text Link Ads by entering “starting kit” into the promotion code at their checkout. That means you can basically spend maybe $125 worth of advertising this month – and only pay $25! (You don’t have to spend it here – don’t worry!)

But if you do want to spend it here .. I am currently offering ten (10) spots for text link ads per month, and they will appear on every page in our sidebar, under the SPONSORS section. At this moment, all ten (10) spots are available.

Our site is currently available at Text-Link-Ads at this URL ..

Please Support Our Sponsor From November 2006

~~ There were no advertisers on record as at last Month-End~~

Thank-You future Sponsors!

www.veroniquemoisan.com/photoblog/

One of today’s 9rules “New Additions 12-06-06”

INTERNET EXPLORER VIEW

FIREFOX VIEW

* Geesh .. are people still doing this out there in 2006? It’s almost 2007! Talk about ignorance .. or arrogance .. or something .. I personally HATE people who do this, and hope to SHAME YOU and OTHER PEOPLE who do this too. What’s worse .. it’s not like there is anything programmed to even penalize the majority of browsers out there who use Internet Explorer .. the site looks the bloody same in both browsers! Well, except for the annoying header:

This blog’s design looks better to people
who do themselves a favor and browse happy

I browse happy the way I want to .. thank-you-very-much.

* 1 – 8 0 0 – H A R T

The RSS Feed has not been working since Sunday .. since I’ve upgraded wordpress from version 1.5.2 to the later version 2.0.5 .. but I’m please to say that I have finally figured out why … Conflicting Plugins..

* What’s up with the RSS on this site? It’s backwards!

This is odd .. Check it out? www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/rss.xml

This is one of those sites on that FoxNews article mentioned by Mark of b5media today

I discovered this, because everytime I come across a new health and fitness and nutrition blog .. I click the orange RSS button on my IE7 browser and add it to my Bloglines … This is what it looked like:

LizStrauss.com

* When you look at the archives by category, down the front page .. I am getting used to something like the above .. just the title in big bold letters. I think I would also add the date, author and alternate categories .. and I would have as many as 10 or 20 of these (instead of just 4) because I have a lot of crap in my sidebars!

Currently, when you click any category from my sites .. say even THIS CATEGORY that I’m posting this entry in .. it will list all posts in the category. Some sites suppress pictures, or have the Evermore (“more”) and/or excerpt as a teaser. But, in retrospect .. if I’m searching for articles by browsing the categories in the sidebars – I don’t need to see that much detail. That’s what SEARCH fields are for!

Yup. Just a list of the articles in a category is something that I would find useful in other sites around the ‘www.

* Snap Preview Anywhere

I have added a plugin ? hmm.. actually, it’s not a plugin .. it’s a script you can add before the [/head] statement in your header.php file that gives the reader a preview of a site as they mouse over a URL

The URL to get this: www.snap.com/about/spa1.php

* Go ahead! Try it!

HART-Network.com
1800HART.com/blog/
PetLvr.com/blog/

Psssst .. it works the same as when you are Upgrading WordPress 1.5.2 from WordPress 2.0.4 in Ten Easy Steps

Today I have just upgraded 1800HART.com/blog/ … with one casualty however .. I lost my Democracy data without thinking – I think it was a plugin update issue – not a wordpress update issue …

The nice thing about having the latest version too .. I can now Feedvertise on that site .. that is if there are any takers.
🙂

UPDATE: PS .. this is good to know, because THIS blog is still at version 1.5.2 as well .. I’m quite lazy sometimes. But, I will upgrade this next weekend.

In case you weren’t aware of these .. here’s the Wikipedia blurb about them ..

Domain parking is an advertising practice used primarily by domain name registrars and internet advertising publishers to monetize type-in traffic visiting an under-developed domain name. The domain name will usually resolve to a page containing relevant advertising listings and links. These links will be targeted to the predicted interests of the visitor and may change dynamically based on the results that visitors click on. Usually the domain owner is paid based on how many links have been visited (e.g. pay per click) and on how beneficial those visits have been. The keywords for any given domain name provide clues as to the intent of the visitor before arriving.

Another use of domain parking is to be a placeholder of an existing web site. A company might choose to use this method to redirect its website traffic to another web site it owns.

On domains with a ‘one-click’ implementation, a click on a keyword is not necessary to generate ads. The ads are targeted based on the domain name.

Domains with ‘two-click’ implementations require a click on a keyword or a keyword search to generate ads.

Domain parking can be classified as monetised and non-monetised. In the former, ads are shown to visitors and the domain is ‘monetised’. In the latter, an “Under Construction” or a “Coming Soon” message is put up on the domain. This a single page web site that people see when they type your domain name in a web browser. This is one quick way for getting an Internet presence. You can temporarily park your domain names before your web site is ready for launching.

So .. this is the scoop. I’ve got many domains .. but 8 of them were not doing anything except sitting in my account where I manage all of my domains. Last month in November 2006 I noticed an entry from one of my Bloglines feeds (I think it was on Erik Vossman‘s blog) .. about domain parking and monetization of parked domains. I decided to check this option out.

So.. I opened up two accounts .. one at NameDrive.com and the other at Sedo.com .. and redirected my name servers to these places – giving each four sites each to see how it goes. Basically, you can select a template out of a variety of templates, concentrate on certain keywords and categories .. and even allow enquiries for resale of the domain.

On NameDrive.com …. I have the following four sites added:

1-800-HART.com
1800-HART.com
PapillonLover.com
PetMedicineCanada.com

On Sedo.com .. I am not listing my 4 sites here… in case a link from this blog influences anything.

I don’t think I have any serious domain names that would make it worthwhile to earn revenues, nor do I have enough domains to make it worthwhile .. but I have decided that I will see what happens – with absolutely no referrals or advertising on these 8 sites (except the four above in this post). Well, at least not this year 2006.

Since November 21, 2006 when I started this experiment – I’ve earned nothing .. of course! But, better parked this way, than parked in storage giving people 404 error messages if visited .. right?

Are you parking any domains? How are you making out? Got any tips? Please add them in the comments below if you like! I know I’d like to hear other people’s strategies.

* HART-Empire Network Code

I’ve added links to both of the HART-Empire Network II sites and their RSS Feeds on this site above (under the header) – but it just occurred to me .. that I should also place some links directly on the code to let people know that there is one generalized RSS feed for each network category.

And .. I just did that! See the sidebar, for the last entry in each section starting with ….

+RSS (channel name)

Coolest-Gadgets.com

If you didn’t know, I have a few ‘shopping’ sites (as I like to call them) …

* 1-800-HART’s Picks
* Medieval Site
* The Furniture Site

But … This COOLEST-GADGETS.com Blog – in my opinion – is the cleanest “shopping-style” blog out there .. without actually having an online store. It starts with the large google ad block, and periodically has the chitika mall blocks .. and each blends in to be like a posting entry. And after all that .. there really are some really cool gadgets in this blog. I hope the owner is making commissions (besides advertising revenue monetization) .. because it almost makes you want to click products and buy them.