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Posted By: Wendy Woudstra In Response To: Hey, Wendy! (Rick K.)
Saturday, 19 March 2005, at 8:57 p.m.
> Wendy,
> Wow. That reply was quick. Don't you have anything better to do on a
> Saturday night? (grin)
I've got a two-year-old son. My idea of a good time on a Saturday night is laying back in an easy chair thinking, "wow. he's finally asleep," and relishing the peace and quiet.
> How do you tell the difference
> between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer?)
> Give up? The taste. LOL
ROTFICKY (what you get when you combine rolling on the floor laughing with the automatic "EEEEW, ICKY!" response that joke elicits)
> Anyway,
> I went to look at your software at www.conversionary.com, and got a 404
> error message. Maybe the address was a little off???
My webserver is down for upgrades or something. Best bet would be try accessing it again tomorrow.
> I've been to project Gutenberg, and they have a lot of sources. I got to
> thinking (ouch!) that government resources and publications are public
> property, paid for by our tax dollars. And, as such, we can reproduce and
> use said information.
Yep. Federal government documents are in the public domain unless they were created by a contractor who specified otherwise in the contract. Basically, if there's no copyright notice on a federal government document, it's public domain. Same goes for images.
There's also a pretty significant collection of public domain material at archive.org, including something they call the Million Book Project (I don't think they've hit that million mark, but there is lots of unique content there).
> The Link Management Assistant looks good, but I want to play around with
> it. Basically, I want to see if you can use LMA with a service like
> Revenue Pilot . The DMOZ links are good for content and such, but Revenue
> Pilot is a PPC engine similar to Google adwords, any links you place and
> gets clicked on pays you.
Your best bet is to test various systems and see which brings in the most revenue. I've found that, at least for the way I build sites, AdSense outperforms every other ppc and commission scheme. Though I make a pretty good sum each month from affiliate programs as well.
When it comes to link directories, I don't stick with one piece of software exclusively. You never know when Google will decide to penalize sites for using a particular type of directory software, so I don't put all my eggs in one basket. :)
> All in all, I'm getting a general idea of what you're talking about. I
> would like to see the Conversionary software you speak of. What does
> Conversionary do? Maybe I can find a similar product at Hotscripts.com or
> Sourceforge.
Conversionary takes large text documents and formats them into nice chapters or smaller pages into your web template. I'd point to lots of examples, but they're all on the currently dead web server.
While it looks like tonight might be bad time, why not visit http://www.huntingarea.com tomorrow for some examples of Project Gutenberg files converted into HTML with Conversionary. I hired a programmer to create the program so I could easily convert those types of files. Without it, I'd have a harder time with my 'site in a day' scheme.
> Thanks for your time and knowledge. BTW, what's your Blog address? I'd
> like to check it out.
Again, it's on a dead server, so tomorrow's your best bet:
www.surfthemind.com
> Later,
> Rick K.
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