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1) Go to http://www.18dvds.com/OpenYourOwnAdultStore.htm and fill in your details.
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4) Download and edit the index document (http://www.makewickedmoney.com/downloads/index.htm) and follow the instructions included in the comment sections.
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There you go! Your own free adult online store

I’ve got a Google Adwords voucher for £30 up for grabs. It’s valid until 31 March 2008.

The first person to contact me gets the voucher code

I don’t know about you but I think this Million Dollar Wiki idea is a novel idea. It’s a clever innovation on the Million Dollar Homepage. However, I wouldn’t recommend buying a page.

Most newbies will probably make the assumption that just because it’s a wiki that it’ll automatically be given some Google love. The reasons that Google ranks Wikipedia so highly are because it’s a collaboration of worldwide editors and because EVERYONE links to Wikipedia when they want to reference something.

But Million Dollar Wiki is a PAID wiki. Only you’re not paying for a “review” like on a paid directory. You’re paying for a page with links. And when Google finds a few newbie webmasters start selling some for their links on their paid wiki pages, those unlucky enough to have bought a page will likely find that their $100 will have been wasted. What’s more, they’ll likely find the websites that they’ve linked out to have been penalised.

This wouldn’t apply however to something like the Million Dollar homepage. This is because they’re selling pixels; not links.

Nevertheless, it is a novel idea….though I don’t think it has any longevity. Just my 2 cents (or 1 pence).

For the past year, most of my sites have been mini-sites. Cheap to build or buy and fairly easy to market (mainly through SEO and posting on forums). This is especially good when you’ve got limited resources (translation: little money!).

Now is the time to go to the next stage. Building flagship websites.

My next site is going to be based on Pligg, which is the open source version of digg. I’m not sure how well it’s going to go but hopefully it’ll be something different to digg and its competitors. Unlike the rest of them, the site is going to be targeted towards a different audience….kind of like Sphinn

Hopefully it’ll be stirring up some controversy and maybe even get a mention on sites like Mashable and Techcrunch.

Here’s to the next stage…

Myspace is one of the most visited social networking sites in the world. In fact it’s pretty much consistently in the top 10 of Alexa’s charts. And with over 100 million accounts and about 230,000 new sign-ups everyday, there are definitely opportunities for some easy traffic to your site.

This is a simplified blueprint to marketing on Myspace…

Pimping out your myspace profile
The first step is to customize and pimp your MySpace profile to differentiate it from the other crappy default profiles. You need to present your profile in a way that best represents you. It’s a pretty good guess that a majority of the users aren’t HTML and CSS experts and never thought they would ever need to be.
Do a Google search for “myspace layouts” and you’ll find a whole list of myspace resource sites. Have a browse around for the layout that’ll suit your site. Grab the code and paste it into your “about me” section of your profile. Play around with it some more to personalize it to your target market.

Also its a good idea to store your images and graphics on either your own site or on a free image hosting site like Photobucket. You can then reference them through the HTML code.

You need friends…the more, the merrier!
If it is friends you want to add in a relatively short time, there are various software packages available out like Friend Blaster Pro and Friend Adder that simplify this task. What they generally do is send requests just as you would per doing each one by hand. The main advantage with this software is that you can target profiles according to demographics and keywords. Also, this obviously will save you a lot of time! You’re still limited to Myspace’s rules and restrictions though but now you don’t need to invest hundreds of hours adding profiles.

Groups
This is purely optional but can be VERY effective. If you want to make sure that you’ve got a good presence on myspace, the best way is to create a group. This can be a general one dedicated to your chosen market or, if you’re bold enough, you can create a group specifically dedicated to your site.