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.
I say “launched”, but it’s really more of a case of it quietly being made publicly available. After the amount of hype surrounding the launches of some of the more well-known Internet marketing products, this is positively spider footsteps territory. That’s not to say I haven’t got a few ideas for promotion lined up, but more on that some other time.
So what is it? To sum it up, it’s a handy desktop keyword tool for creating permutations of input keywords. It’s especially useful for pay per click advertisers and those using website generation tools.
What makes it different from any other keyword permutation tool? Well, for a start it’s very easy to use and then there’s a little twist that I hinted at previously. No, I’m not ready to tell yet, but it’s a fantastic proposition for owners of mailing lists. Again, more on that when the time is right.
I’d actually developing the application a couple of months ago, but it’s really been the last 20% of the project that’s taken 80% of the time. To be honest, as a PHP developer, developing a desktop application on my own was always going to be a challenge and there were moments when my thoughts thrashed about trying to produce the killer application. It certainly wasn’t easy avoiding the overdevelopment that leads to a later and later launch.
I’d originally developed the website payment system to be PayPal based as I prefer instant payments (who doesn’t 
), but then the issue of affiliates cropped up and whilst I had thought about integrating my own affiliate system I knew that I was at risk of scope creep (continually adding additional functionality for a better product). So, at the last minute I replaced the PayPal payment route with ClickBank. Sure, there’s the disadvantages of delayed payments, currency exchange charges and the $49.99 initial charge, but with it comes the benefits of an established referral system with plenty of affiliates.
The project so far has been quite a learning experience. There were certainly a few steps along the way that could have been made easier with the proper guidance so maybe you’ll see in a future $7 guide!
Anyway, do check out Keyword Permutator, laugh at my video, buy a copy and promote it to your lists for a 40% share! 
A special thanks to all of the beta testers for your valuable feedback.
Technorati Tags: Keyword Permutator, keyword tools, pay per click, website generators
Perhaps you weren’t gifted with an eye for design or you know what looks good, but you just don’t know how to make something look good?
If you like the colourful design of websites such as Blinksale then you’ll be pleased to know that the people who created it are kindly giving away free icons every month and a free colour palette every day.
Go make your web a prettier place!
Technorati Tags: Free Stuff, icons, colour palette
A couple of months ago, I wrote about NuSphere’s PhpDock; a deployment platform that allowed PHP developers to package up their scripts and have them run as desktop applications. For PHP developers like me, this seemed to be the key that could open up a whole host of new possibilities. Unfortunately, any source code deployed would have been easily accessible unless some form of code obfuscation was employed e.g. CodeLock.
