My New Theme

This is a new theme that I started from scratch, Buy Tools Online. This domain name was an expired domain that I bought almost a month ago and it was rated PR2. I am really liking the way the theme is turning out. The theme has a options page that I can turn things on and off like the [...]

Who Needs a Search Function?

I guess I thought I didn’t! I was trying to find a post I wrote a few months ago and man was it ever difficult without a search option. What was I thinking not putting a search form on this blog? One will never know… but it is here now!

Dec 2009 MPLX MarkDown MakeGood

I just went into my EPN account and looked at payment history and then clicked on my outstanding balance and it displayed this: Dec 2009 MPLX MarkDown makegood. That is the other make-good that eBay owes us from December. Mine came in at $15.40. That is the only thing showing in my outstanding balance. Decembers [...]

WordPress Affiliate Themes

Since I am doing pretty well this month with my income I have been taking it somewhat easy. I was in search of a new WordPress theme to use for a few more niche sites and thought I should just design my own. So that is what I am setting off to do. I started out [...]

Back on Track

Well my EPN earnings are back on track after my little host problem. They are not like they where in December but that is to be expected. Yesterday was my best day so far this month coming in at $82.79. Most days so far this month have been in the $60 dollar range. With the [...]

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity

Looks like I will be lucky today if I can get to 150 clicks. I am having an issue with my API calls with eBay and Amazon. I feel sure that this is a host problem with HostGator.com. I have not had any issues like this before. I opened a ticket about an hour ago [...]

WordPress CPU Load Issues

I am still experiencing WordPress CPU load issues. My hosts says that wp-cron is the culprit and that plugins are to blame. I am not sold on this 100%. I did not start seeing these slow downs on my sites until I started using Cron jobs to automatically create posts. I think the cron jobs [...]

December 2009 EPN Challenge

Well here it is about an hour into 2010. I did not get my 31 sites in for this month like I wanted. Instead I got 24 finished. I am going to let it at that. I got some great ideas for some upgrades to my current sites. So I am going to take the [...]