A couple of days ago, I started developing a new website that’s covering a topic where there’s plenty of money being spent and lots of interest. It’s a popular industry, but this particular segment of the market isn’t too saturated with existing competition. I’m thinking it’ll be relatively easy to obtain good search engine rankings for as this type of site is always popular and very linkable.
If you have a need to execute some server-side code at regular intervals then cron is an ideal solution. If, rather than execute code at regular intervals, you want to execute code at random intervals then cron on its own won’t do.
Combined with some PHP, cron can be used to execute code or call a script at random intervals.
Back in February of this year, I launched a keyword tool that I’d developed to help save me time setting up Google AdWords campaigns. Rather than some of the grand launches you can see from a mile off, Keyword Permutator (KP) trickled onto the Internet with little promotional effort on my part.
Recently, I mentioned a significant life event that was taking much of my focus. Well, that event was my wedding!
My wife and I (!) got married at Rowton Castle and we’re just back from our honeymoon in the Maldives. The past few weeks have been an absolutely amazing experience. The kind of experience that makes all of the hard work worthwhile.
If you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to or why posts have been a little sparse recently now you know! I did have good intentions to either line-up some scheduled posts using the built-in WordPress functionality and/or use the email blogging functionality to provide updates whilst on honeymoon. However, my good intentions were overridden by even better intentions to take a break from computers.
Our water villa had free Internet access via a LAN, but I’d promised not to take a laptop even though it would have also been useful for storing photos and video. The most I got around to doing with a computer was to send some emails.
I did spend a little time thinking about putting together a website that contains the information about the resort we stayed at, more specifically, the type of information that we would have liked to have seen before going. I don’t imagine it would be too difficult to get such a site ranking well since there’s not much detailed, first-hand information available already. I even took some generic video clips that can be used to help promote an informational website.
I was pleased to see that during the time when I was eating fabulous food, enjoying beautiful surroundings and swimming with a giant turtle amongst the coral I’d still managed to sell some TLA ads, refer some sales as an affiliate and sell an ebook.
