Posted on January 25, 2010 by Jim Fitzsimmons

I got this email today in the mail:

Beloved Friend,

I am writing this mail to you with heavy tears In my eyes and great sorrow in my
heart because my Doctor told me that I will die in a months time. Base on this
development I want to will my money which is deposited in a security company.
I am in search of a reliable person who will use the Money to build charity organization
for the saints and the person will take 30% of the total sum. While 70% of the money will
go to charity organization and helping the orphanage. I grew up as an Orphan here
In Sarawak Malaysia and i don’t have anybody/family member to take care of my wealth.
The total money in question is $3.5million dollars. I will provide you with other
information’s once you indicate your willingness.

Yours sincerely.
Ms Fadiza Nurideen

See?  I get 30% of 3.5 million. Problem Solved  I wonder if anybody acatually falls for these scams? Somebody must, otherwise the spammers and scammers wouldn’t send these emails.

So. It’s Monday and welcome to Day 69 of the debt freedom plan.

Today, I’ve been slowly working on my 100 sites.  (I’m at number 4 so far) I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew though. These are competitive terms I am trying to rank for in the search engines so we’ll see.  This could be a whole bunch of wasted time and effort, but at least I’ll better understand  what works and what doesn’t  I can also use these sites to link to other sites. I’m only out $87.

Heck, I can rank for “I’m woth stupid” here for this website. ( I should design a tshirt with that on it and sell it.) so hoping I can find something somebody’s searching for and help them solve a problem. Which is really

I’m finally beginning to understand that links to your site is the best payment you can be paid when building websites: Forget the money from adsense or banner ads, the biggest payment somebody can make is to pay you with a link from their site to yours. With the advent and popularity of blogs, everybody can have a website in under an hour. There really is no excuse these days not to have a website. Blogger.com even will allow you to start a website without  much effort whatsoever. fill in your name, and a few other login questions, and ta-da! You’re blogging.

I don’t use blogger.com, but I could. I use wordpress for this site as it’s all about the control. I am the master of my domain (bad joke, bob hope) and I control the content, and save for the nine bucks a year to host this site it costs me nothing to run but time.  Blogger is owned by google so you’re at the mercy of the mighty G. I don’t want to wake up one day and find all my work gone. You guys (all 3 or so) mean something to me and I want to keep on a bloggin’ without worry that it’ll  be pulled becuase I used the word stupid or some other arbitrary rule.

There’s two schools of thought to make money online: Have hundreds of small websites that cater every topic imaginable, or have one authority or larger website that caters to a specific niche or topic. It’s been said it’s easier to earn from the small ones: You toss a bunch up, see what happens and if some start to show results, you just make more and expand.

Or, the other method is to just start a big site with a major topic and work on it. The arguement here is you’re focusing on one thing rather than chasing a million different topics all at once. It could be said that ramseeker is an authority  site. It’s main topic is ram prices, but I cover ram prices for all apple computer models as well as all PC systems too. If I were to have a bunch of smaller niche sites, I would make one on just memory for the iMac, another site for just MacBooks, and so on.

So. I’ve already got the authority,or big site that the search engines trust and now I’m working on the smaller ones.  The trouble I’m finding with the smaller sites is that there’s lots of technical terms to write about and it slows me down considerably. While here,  I’m just rambling away on the end of  the couch. I can type fast, and not a whole lot of editing goes into these. I write what I think about.

On the actual trip to debt freedom, not a whole lot has changed. I’m all paid up with everybody pretty much (current, not paid off) . I’ve been good with the credit cards. No lattes, or any discretionary spending of any type, but I’ve also kindof dropped the ball on the the ebay sales. I have some stuff ready to go, I just need to find the inclination to sell it . There’s always tomorrow.

And speaking of tomrorow, I hope you’ve had a good Monday and we’ll see you then.

Jim

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