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[Systreg]

I've been working hard for the last few nights trying to get some sort of site made, and finally got it finished tonight, well some frames, bikes and forks are on there for now anyway, might add some other bike stuff as I go along.

It was mind numbingly boring doing each aff product link one at a time, my hands, neck and shoulders are killing me from the repetitiveness of it.

Anyway, a short while ago I went to put the site online at the free hosts I use, except it wont let me in to my file manager, says I need to renew my virtual host name first, so I paid that, still locked out, so I stuck it on another free host for now until that's sorted out, now I'm still waiting for the dns to update as I'm getting a network ewrror at the moment from where I added it to the first free host, this is the site that I eventually made, what do you reckon?: MountainBikeFrame.co.uk - Mountain Bike Frames - Mountain Bikes - Mountain Bike Forks

 

[retired_member16]

Your site is down

"Network Error (tcp_error)


A communication error occurred: "Operation timed out"
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.

For assistance, contact your network support team.
"

 

[retired_member16]

Your site is down

"Network Error (tcp_error)


A communication error occurred: "Operation timed out"
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.

For assistance, contact your network support team.
"

 

[Systreg]

@ Firestars, yes, I can see the site if I go through a proxy site like hidemyass, then I found this topic on the second free hosts forum where I have had to temporarily host it, it appears that UK ISP's have banned the IP of the box that my domain is hosted on, which is box 17, apparently some asshole posted under age porn on that IP : [info] Box17 is listed by the IWF (again!)

Hopefully 50webs will sort my account problem some time today and I can upload it there with my other sites.

 

[Systreg]

My bike site appears to be working now even though it's still on box 17 where the IP is supposed to be banned , anyway, here it is: MountainBikeFrame.co.uk - Mountain Bike Frames - Mountain Bikes - Mountain Bike Forks

 

[aZooZa]

My bike site appears to be working now even though it's still on box 17 where the IP is supposed to be banned , anyway, here it is: MountainBikeFrame.co.uk - Mountain Bike Frames - Mountain Bikes - Mountain Bike Forks

I see the usual load of idiots posting their old rubbish and useless comments.

Anyway, nice site. It seems to be crying out for EPN! Take a look at this one:

second-hand-saddles .co.uk

Not mine, but I know it makes money

 

[Systreg]

It seems to be crying out for EPN!

Hi Dale, I did Google it, but it didn't tell me much, so what's an EPN?

 

[aZooZa]

Hi Dale, I did Google it, but it didn't tell me much, so what's an EPN?

Soz matey - eBay Partner Network.

Take a look at the site I mentioned about saddles, then scroll down and see the live eBay auctions.

If there are bike frames on eBay, you can earn good money.

 

[Systreg]

I see, not sure I would have ebay on my site, I did apply for an ebay affiliate account about 6 months ago, but they turned me down, mind you, that could be because I had a single page with hardly anything on it apart 2 lines of text, a search box and a Google ad, plus I didn't know what to put on part of the registration form for one of the questions, didn't know what most of the answer options meant.

[edit]

And my site is down again GRRRRRRR

 

[doodlebug]

Kev, seems your having website nightmares like me, i spent 50 hours building an internet directory and published it this morning, just checked it on Mozilla and it's all over the show and looks crap not checked it in IE yet ?

Looks like i have lots of editing to do :x

Has for stuff like deep linking, i noticed on Affiliate future you have to contact the affilite manager for some merchants in order to deep link ?

On Paid on results they have a deep link creater and it works fine, take a look Paid on results

Good luck

 

[dashu1]

I've been working hard for the last few nights trying to get some sort of site made, and finally got it finished tonight, well some frames, bikes and forks are on there for now anyway, might add some other bike stuff as I go along.

It was mind numbingly boring doing each aff product link one at a time, my hands, neck and shoulders are killing me from the repetitiveness of it.

Anyway, a short while ago I went to put the site online at the free hosts I use, except it wont let me in to my file manager, says I need to renew my virtual host name first, so I paid that, still locked out, so I stuck it on another free host for now until that's sorted out, now I'm still waiting for the dns to update as I'm getting a network ewrror at the moment from where I added it to the first free host, this is the site that I eventually made, what do you reckon?: MountainBikeFrame.co.uk - Mountain Bike Frames - Mountain Bikes - Mountain Bike Forks

Didn't see this thread. My hd-tv.uk.com (horrible extension) is a pure affiliate site based around wordpress. Very easy to use, but more importantly I've developed a product uploader for it.

You simply download all of the affiliate feed data as a csv (from eg affiliate window), trim & edit the spreadsheet, then upload it to the website.

It takes about 30 secs to upload & hey presto all of your product pages are created for you, with affiliate links, images, description, etc, etc added.

 

[Skinner]

You really need to look at paying for a host to avoid all the hosting issues bud, its money out your body either way

 

[Systreg]

@ Dashu, I can't stand the look of WordPress, no idea why people rave about them, I would never use them, plus, you say it involves csv's and spreadsheets, those are things I have not seen or used before, so I wouldn't have a clue how to trim and edit them, I would be totally lost after downloading them, and I ain't about to start trying to learn how to use them, I would get wound up inside 2 minutes and delete the programs from my computer, as I tend to do with a lot of stuff.

@ Skinner, I know mate, I keep looking at hosting sites, but on Evohosting for example, it's £25 for the starter package, but that only hosts one domain, the next one up is £50 and you can host 10 domains, the problem is, I would want to have more domains than that hosted, which of course increases the price as I would need the unlimted hosted domains package, that gives you loads of bandwidth, but it would be a complete waste of money from my point of view, as I use nowhere near 1 gigabyte per month, so I can't see the point in getting a big hosting plan that I wouldn't use much of.

 

[retired_member4]

Try looking at hostgator. $10 a month for unlimited sites. Search google for a coupon code and you get the first month for 1 cent or something. If you find them no good just cancel. I've used them for the past couple of years with no problems, but the drawback is the servers are located in the US.

 

[retired_member16]

Forget Wordpress, its a waste of time for mini sites, you may as well use a clear HTML site.

Joomla is click and press, piece of piddle to use for your bigger sites.

Oh, and you really need to use some proper hosting.

 

[denchomsky]

Forget Wordpress, its a waste of time for mini sites,

Wow! someone agrees with me about wordpress, total overkill for a minisite, most people think it's the holy bloody grail.

 

[dashu1]

I would disagree about wordpress for minisites if you're going to have a lot of affiliate products.

When I say trim a spreadsheet I mean delete row & columns and rename columns, it'd take you all of 5 minutes to grasp, which if you didn't dislike wordpress would be a more productive use of your time than adding each product one at a time.

I can load up 1000+ products in under an hour from start to finish, each one having its own page, with seo friendly page web addresses, etc.

 

[denchomsky]

My point is that wordpress is an application, and quite a weighty one, a pure HTML /CSS, minisite would be much lighter and less bandwidth thirsty.

I am not saying it isn't good as it is, but for a minisite it is overkill, you install this application on your server then only use a fraction of it's capabilities for your site.

Put it this way, you could probably run 100 minisites on some shared hosting with unlimited addon domains, but to run 100 worpress sites you would probably need a dedicated server, because, forgive me if I am wrong, you would need to install 100 versions of wordpress.

 

[dashu1]

Fair points, & I think you're right, you'd need to install 100 versions of wordpress.

However, I think that maybe I'm coming at this from a different perspective.

If I create an affiliate site I want something that I can put up quickly, can put a lot of products on, can amend/add/change products quickly & easily, and that doesn't take a lot of time to make those changes.

With wordpress I can wipe the entire list of affiliate products and upload a few thousand more in a couple of hours. I just couldn't get that from a static site.

For me it's all about time - I'd rather be able to put the site up & add the products in an hour or so, rather than spend days on it.

I use an unlimited hosting package that costs around £250 per year, so number of sites isn't a problem.

I also have static sites where theres a small number of pages, wordpress would be overkill for those.

 

[Systreg]

Finally, after changing the hosting/dns 3 times, MountainBikeFrame.co.uk - Mountain Bike Frames - Mountain Bikes - Mountain Bike Forks is now working

I also used the 123-reg non framed web forwarding to redirect mountainbikeframes / co / uk and carbonbikes / co / uk to the main site, maybe I should really have those as single sites of their own, but I can't be bothered doing those 2 at the moment.