Here's wishing everyone a really happy, honest Christmas and a very prosperous New Year from The Honest Way!
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Monday 24 December 2007
Saturday 22 December 2007
Another New Blog
The Honest Way announces another new blog in the family of money info blogs. This one's called Money Hints (link removed as I no longer own this website), and the domain is the first of the expired domains that I have been looking at and buying.
This first one was my first mistake, actually in that I liked the name as it lends itself nicely to a make money blog, but after I bought it I found out that you can buy expired domains that come with some PR.
So since this purchase, I have bought 3 more domains all with PR6.
I'll post when I take ownership of them and get new blogs up and running on them as well
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
This first one was my first mistake, actually in that I liked the name as it lends itself nicely to a make money blog, but after I bought it I found out that you can buy expired domains that come with some PR.
So since this purchase, I have bought 3 more domains all with PR6.
I'll post when I take ownership of them and get new blogs up and running on them as well
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Friday 30 November 2007
The Honest Way to Blag a Blog
The Honest Way to blag a blog is to use an almost unused blog to promote another blog!
Well if that sounds strange, it's not and it's perfectly honest!
So this blog was used more often in the past to push some link juice to it's big brother, my main Honest Way site and blog by simply mentioning it in posts and linking to it - like this one is doing right now.
Another use it to give a little something to some of my other free blogs that need a link or two to get them going. So here's some link juice to my other free blogs:
PayDay Loans Page
My Designer Bag
Bob Marley Music Page
Jennifer Lopez Music Page
Cheap Digital eBooks
Celebrity Gossip Page
And here's some for my other self hosted blogs:
Make Money
Make Money Blog
Alternative Cures
For Dogs
Natural and Organic Food
Hypnosis
It makes it worth while keeping this one going after all, because none of these free blogs that I have in here are just sitting idly by gathering cyber-dust. They all have a purpose.
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Well if that sounds strange, it's not and it's perfectly honest!
So this blog was used more often in the past to push some link juice to it's big brother, my main Honest Way site and blog by simply mentioning it in posts and linking to it - like this one is doing right now.
Another use it to give a little something to some of my other free blogs that need a link or two to get them going. So here's some link juice to my other free blogs:
PayDay Loans Page
My Designer Bag
Bob Marley Music Page
Jennifer Lopez Music Page
Cheap Digital eBooks
Celebrity Gossip Page
And here's some for my other self hosted blogs:
Make Money
Make Money Blog
Alternative Cures
For Dogs
Natural and Organic Food
Hypnosis
It makes it worth while keeping this one going after all, because none of these free blogs that I have in here are just sitting idly by gathering cyber-dust. They all have a purpose.
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Friday 26 October 2007
Beware Plagiarism!
Watch out, watch out, there's a thief about!
Content thieving sites are out there stealing your content. They then use it on their own crappy sites that are full of adsense ads. But you can hit back and turn this into your advantage.
In every blog post, make sure you place a few anchor links back to your own blog, like this one to The Honest Way Blog. So that when these low-lives steal your content, they inadvertently give you a free backlink! Even if they delete your signature at the end of each blog post (where you should always include a link to your blog), by placing the links throughout your post, you stand a very good chance of getting a backlink.
And duplicate content?
The search engines accredit your blog with the original post thanks to the time and date stamp of the article, so the plagiarizing sites get hit for having the duplicate content, not you.
So it's one of those things that you can fight fire with fire and have the last laugh.
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Content thieving sites are out there stealing your content. They then use it on their own crappy sites that are full of adsense ads. But you can hit back and turn this into your advantage.
In every blog post, make sure you place a few anchor links back to your own blog, like this one to The Honest Way Blog. So that when these low-lives steal your content, they inadvertently give you a free backlink! Even if they delete your signature at the end of each blog post (where you should always include a link to your blog), by placing the links throughout your post, you stand a very good chance of getting a backlink.
And duplicate content?
The search engines accredit your blog with the original post thanks to the time and date stamp of the article, so the plagiarizing sites get hit for having the duplicate content, not you.
So it's one of those things that you can fight fire with fire and have the last laugh.
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Sunday 21 October 2007
Honest Way to Make Money
The Honest way to make money is a difficult path to go down.
Why?
Because while people respect honesty and integrity, they don't throw money at it. I've found this to be true since getting involved with internet marketing almost a year ago. While I've made money, it hasn't been a great deal. At the same time, I see others who resort to less than honest tactics to make money do so in much greater amounts than my honest methods.
What does that tell me?
I need to work harder at what I'm doing. The search engines don't help you when you're honest - at least that's the way it seems.
I've been trying to gain a decent page rank for The Honest Way blog so that I can use it to make money the honest way by writing paid reviews and by attracting text ads. But despite attracting a good regular readership, lots of good backlinks and a decent Alexa ranking, Google hasn't lifted that blog off the PR0 floor, so my potential earnings from honest sources is still very limited.
I'm the eternal optimist, however.
I'll simply keep slogging away, writing my ass off to keep the content fresh and interesting over there and call in here every so often to let off steam!
So if you're here reading this and you want to learn how to make money the honest way, then please head over to my main blog The Honest Way (or the two satellite blogs I also set up called Make Money and Make Money Blog) where you'll find between them an absolute ton of free information!
Here's to your success
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Why?
Because while people respect honesty and integrity, they don't throw money at it. I've found this to be true since getting involved with internet marketing almost a year ago. While I've made money, it hasn't been a great deal. At the same time, I see others who resort to less than honest tactics to make money do so in much greater amounts than my honest methods.
What does that tell me?
I need to work harder at what I'm doing. The search engines don't help you when you're honest - at least that's the way it seems.
I've been trying to gain a decent page rank for The Honest Way blog so that I can use it to make money the honest way by writing paid reviews and by attracting text ads. But despite attracting a good regular readership, lots of good backlinks and a decent Alexa ranking, Google hasn't lifted that blog off the PR0 floor, so my potential earnings from honest sources is still very limited.
I'm the eternal optimist, however.
I'll simply keep slogging away, writing my ass off to keep the content fresh and interesting over there and call in here every so often to let off steam!
So if you're here reading this and you want to learn how to make money the honest way, then please head over to my main blog The Honest Way (or the two satellite blogs I also set up called Make Money and Make Money Blog) where you'll find between them an absolute ton of free information!
Here's to your success
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Monday 15 October 2007
WidgetBucks
I just read in my travels that self-styled top blogger John Chow has unveiled yet another fantastic way to make money online with your blog. It's called WidgetBucks.
I was well impressed by what I read at first, so I went straight over there and signed up! It looks like it could be a desperately needed replacement for either Auction Ads or more importantly Adsense, especially if you are a blogger outside the US.
I just blogged about it on my Make Money blog, so if you want to read the full post with what it's all about, head over there now by clicking HERE
Note: This service was taken down and is no longer in existence. Don't bother going to look for it, you won't find it!
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
I was well impressed by what I read at first, so I went straight over there and signed up! It looks like it could be a desperately needed replacement for either Auction Ads or more importantly Adsense, especially if you are a blogger outside the US.
I just blogged about it on my Make Money blog, so if you want to read the full post with what it's all about, head over there now by clicking HERE
Note: This service was taken down and is no longer in existence. Don't bother going to look for it, you won't find it!
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Sunday 7 October 2007
Articles and Content Are the New Kings
Over at The Honest Way I'm still posting regular updates on the blog to keep the momentum going and to try to get Google to see what a great, content packed site it is, so they'll graciously give me some PR.
After all, the word on the street is that Google are still tweaking their algorithm in favour of good quality, content packed sites that offer lots of information and entertainment for their readers.
This means that content is indeed king!
So I've got my finger crossed that all that hard work and writing tons of informational articles into the wee hours of the night will eventually pay off and The Honest Way and it's post-packed blog will get the PR they deserve!
Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY
After all, the word on the street is that Google are still tweaking their algorithm in favour of good quality, content packed sites that offer lots of information and entertainment for their readers.
This means that content is indeed king!
So I've got my finger crossed that all that hard work and writing tons of informational articles into the wee hours of the night will eventually pay off and The Honest Way and it's post-packed blog will get the PR they deserve!
Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY
Thursday 4 October 2007
Don't Waste $100 on This Rip Off!
Over at my main blog, The Honest Way, I expose a new rip off that's spreading across the internet marketing world in the form of a "Buy a page on the million dollar wiki site for $100".
The promise is that once you have your page, you will have a ton of traffic flooding to it's doors courtesy of the main high profile site the page is attached to.
Unfortunately, all that will happen is that any traffic your page generates will go to increasing the rank of the hosting site. You will have to generate that traffic yourself - it won't just come to you without any work.
So you might as well create a free blog and do the same thing.
The difference?
$100!
Read the full account over at The Honest Way Blog
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
The promise is that once you have your page, you will have a ton of traffic flooding to it's doors courtesy of the main high profile site the page is attached to.
Unfortunately, all that will happen is that any traffic your page generates will go to increasing the rank of the hosting site. You will have to generate that traffic yourself - it won't just come to you without any work.
So you might as well create a free blog and do the same thing.
The difference?
$100!
Read the full account over at The Honest Way Blog
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Sunday 30 September 2007
Don't Buy Me A Beer Either!
I've already blogged about this growing trend amongst bloggers who have a small icon with a beer mug or a coffee cup saying something like:
If you like this blog, please donate so I can keep drinking coffee to keep me awake so I can keep writing... or some such nonsense.
Really!
Buy me a beer? Buy me a cafe latte? More like "Got change for a cuppa, guv?" as the tramp standing outside the greasy spoon with his hand out might say to the passing businessman in a suit.
Yep - it's begging. No other word for it.
If you don't want to encourage tramps, you don't give them money, right?
So that's why you'll never see me on any of my blogs asking for handouts - I'm not a beggar, I'm an online businessman who would much prefer to sell you something rather than take money from you for nothing.
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
If you like this blog, please donate so I can keep drinking coffee to keep me awake so I can keep writing... or some such nonsense.
Really!
Buy me a beer? Buy me a cafe latte? More like "Got change for a cuppa, guv?" as the tramp standing outside the greasy spoon with his hand out might say to the passing businessman in a suit.
Yep - it's begging. No other word for it.
If you don't want to encourage tramps, you don't give them money, right?
So that's why you'll never see me on any of my blogs asking for handouts - I'm not a beggar, I'm an online businessman who would much prefer to sell you something rather than take money from you for nothing.
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Tuesday 25 September 2007
Private Advertising The Honest Way
Over at my main blog, I just posted about a great opportunity to invest in some private advertising with the site at a greatly discounted price.
So if you are looking to use a blog to get the word out, whether you want to use text ads, banner ads or have a review written especially for your site or blog, head over to The Honest Way Blog and check out the new "Advertise Here" page on the menu bar.
Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY
So if you are looking to use a blog to get the word out, whether you want to use text ads, banner ads or have a review written especially for your site or blog, head over to The Honest Way Blog and check out the new "Advertise Here" page on the menu bar.
Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY
Saturday 22 September 2007
More Posts at the Other Place!
This just a short post as time is a little short!
I'm keeping the other Honest Way blog well stocked and up-to-date with lots of great posts full of plenty of useful information. So if you found yourself here and wondered where all the good stuff is, then click HERE to get yourself over to there and see what it's all about!
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
I'm keeping the other Honest Way blog well stocked and up-to-date with lots of great posts full of plenty of useful information. So if you found yourself here and wondered where all the good stuff is, then click HERE to get yourself over to there and see what it's all about!
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Thursday 13 September 2007
An Online Version of QVC?
You are among the first to hear about and potentially profit from this.
Now most of you will have heard of QVC, the cable TV show that advertises stuff and sells it all at bargain prices every day! This show attracts an incredible number of viewers.
Well, imagine a similar thing in the online world.
I just heard about this and was impressed enough to jump right on it.
DealDotCom have what looks like a killer affiliate program to go with their new site that will sell one item per day at a huge discount! I signed up as an affiliate and would love to extend the offer to you too. You can click on one of the links and be nice to me by signing up with my link - then start promoting it yourself and get people to sign up with yours!
The best bit is: It’s free to sign up!
Just like QVC, they sell consumer goods at bargain basement prices. As an affiliate, for every customer that you send there who buys, you get paid! The site is in pre-launch at the moment but is about to go live any day now.
So what are you waiting for?
You can click here: DealDotCom to go to their site. Note: No you can't, I removed the link.
Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY
Now most of you will have heard of QVC, the cable TV show that advertises stuff and sells it all at bargain prices every day! This show attracts an incredible number of viewers.
Well, imagine a similar thing in the online world.
I just heard about this and was impressed enough to jump right on it.
DealDotCom have what looks like a killer affiliate program to go with their new site that will sell one item per day at a huge discount! I signed up as an affiliate and would love to extend the offer to you too. You can click on one of the links and be nice to me by signing up with my link - then start promoting it yourself and get people to sign up with yours!
The best bit is: It’s free to sign up!
Just like QVC, they sell consumer goods at bargain basement prices. As an affiliate, for every customer that you send there who buys, you get paid! The site is in pre-launch at the moment but is about to go live any day now.
So what are you waiting for?
You can click here: DealDotCom to go to their site. Note: No you can't, I removed the link.
Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY
Saturday 8 September 2007
Blogging With Intent
The whole reason this blog was put up in the first place was to hopefully drive lots of curious visitors to the main website.
Once there, they will be able to see what's going on in terms of new free to read articles, resources and information to help anyone coming into the business of Internet Marketing to get started and do things the right way and at least stand a chance of succeeding in this cut-throat business!
Well it wasn't long before I realised that it made more sense from a traffic and popularity point of view to set up this blog on the main host, which I did. But I didn't delete this one, because I came to the conclusion back then that it would still have some value in terms of helping the main site and its new blog with its traffic flow.
To some extent it has, but I made the mistake of leaving this to stew for a few months with no new entries and that was a shame, because had I kept up with this, it would now be a useful additional source of income from advertising.
Why, well as I mentioned in a previous post, this blog managed to get a PR1 from Google, which, while not a massive accolade was at least better than the blog on the main host ever got. Which meant that any links from here to the main site carried a little more weight and could help with the rating over there.
Well, maybe it will be enough to tip the balance in the right direction - we'll see.
For now, it's still worth keeping this blog fed with new posts because people do read it and will be curious to see the other blogs I author and hopefully learn a whole lot of stuff from my main The Honest Way site!
So if you haven't already been over to see what's new, so there now - you'll be pleasantly surprised!
Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY
Once there, they will be able to see what's going on in terms of new free to read articles, resources and information to help anyone coming into the business of Internet Marketing to get started and do things the right way and at least stand a chance of succeeding in this cut-throat business!
Well it wasn't long before I realised that it made more sense from a traffic and popularity point of view to set up this blog on the main host, which I did. But I didn't delete this one, because I came to the conclusion back then that it would still have some value in terms of helping the main site and its new blog with its traffic flow.
To some extent it has, but I made the mistake of leaving this to stew for a few months with no new entries and that was a shame, because had I kept up with this, it would now be a useful additional source of income from advertising.
Why, well as I mentioned in a previous post, this blog managed to get a PR1 from Google, which, while not a massive accolade was at least better than the blog on the main host ever got. Which meant that any links from here to the main site carried a little more weight and could help with the rating over there.
Well, maybe it will be enough to tip the balance in the right direction - we'll see.
For now, it's still worth keeping this blog fed with new posts because people do read it and will be curious to see the other blogs I author and hopefully learn a whole lot of stuff from my main The Honest Way site!
So if you haven't already been over to see what's new, so there now - you'll be pleasantly surprised!
Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY
Thursday 30 August 2007
A Little Honest Info
A short post to mention the recent success of the main site and its blog (and forum).
The Honest Way is getting over 200 visits a day now and most of that is attributed to the blog. The stats have been increasing every month since its inception, so I must be doing something right!
The Alexa rank for the whole site is around 113,000 and falling (lower is good), so that's also good news.
Still haven't picked up a page rank for the blog yet. How this one managed to even get a PR1 baffles me - hardly anything links to it! The Honest Way blog has been collecting back-links from all over the place in the last month or so. Hopefully, when Google next take a good hard look at it, they might give it some PR love!
Terry
The Honest Way is getting over 200 visits a day now and most of that is attributed to the blog. The stats have been increasing every month since its inception, so I must be doing something right!
The Alexa rank for the whole site is around 113,000 and falling (lower is good), so that's also good news.
Still haven't picked up a page rank for the blog yet. How this one managed to even get a PR1 baffles me - hardly anything links to it! The Honest Way blog has been collecting back-links from all over the place in the last month or so. Hopefully, when Google next take a good hard look at it, they might give it some PR love!
Terry
Wednesday 22 August 2007
First of the New Make Money Blogs
I've been busy just lately with the creation of some new blogs and websites. I'll concentrate on the first of my new "Make Money" blogs, called unsurprisingly, Make Money!
I built it as a subdomain of my Honest Way site to prove an SEO theory that I have, that having your main keywords in your domain name count plenty in your favour when fighting the "Battle of the Search Engines". So it was originally put together as a new website with an articles page, a resource page, sitemap etc, but while all the work to create it was going on, I made a further discovery that changed everything.
It was nothing really new or unknown, just something I hadn't really thought about or put into practice, but that blogs were the new thing with Google et al and they love them because they are a natural source of constantly updated and relevant content.
Add to that the business of Page Rank (or PR).
Take any website, and in the webmaster's efforts to gain a decent page rank, he will do a lot of off-site SEO as well as on-site SEO. The off-site SEO consists of gaining popularity through links from other relevant sites. But the thing about this is, that most sites, when they put up a link to your site, will naturally point those links to your homepage. All well and good, and in good time the page rank of that homepage will increase as Google sees fit.
But what about your blog? It is common with websites to have a corresponding blog - often hosted on a sub-page of the main site, like all the other sub-pages. These are generally not linked to from other websites, so their PR remains low or non-existent.
So if you want a decent page rank for your blog, you either have to do all that off-site SEO again for the blog page, or make the blog the homepage of the website in the first place. That way, visitors to your site hit the blog first and read all your new and constantly updated content. Then they can browse through your site's other pages as well if they want.
What has happened is that visitors to your site have made a mental note that the blog is of interest and will bookmark it or make a point of returning often to see what is new. Better for your site's traffic stats and better for your site's readers, as they are getting new content every time they visit. You get the page rank your blog deserves.
Win-win!
Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY
I built it as a subdomain of my Honest Way site to prove an SEO theory that I have, that having your main keywords in your domain name count plenty in your favour when fighting the "Battle of the Search Engines". So it was originally put together as a new website with an articles page, a resource page, sitemap etc, but while all the work to create it was going on, I made a further discovery that changed everything.
It was nothing really new or unknown, just something I hadn't really thought about or put into practice, but that blogs were the new thing with Google et al and they love them because they are a natural source of constantly updated and relevant content.
Add to that the business of Page Rank (or PR).
Take any website, and in the webmaster's efforts to gain a decent page rank, he will do a lot of off-site SEO as well as on-site SEO. The off-site SEO consists of gaining popularity through links from other relevant sites. But the thing about this is, that most sites, when they put up a link to your site, will naturally point those links to your homepage. All well and good, and in good time the page rank of that homepage will increase as Google sees fit.
But what about your blog? It is common with websites to have a corresponding blog - often hosted on a sub-page of the main site, like all the other sub-pages. These are generally not linked to from other websites, so their PR remains low or non-existent.
So if you want a decent page rank for your blog, you either have to do all that off-site SEO again for the blog page, or make the blog the homepage of the website in the first place. That way, visitors to your site hit the blog first and read all your new and constantly updated content. Then they can browse through your site's other pages as well if they want.
What has happened is that visitors to your site have made a mental note that the blog is of interest and will bookmark it or make a point of returning often to see what is new. Better for your site's traffic stats and better for your site's readers, as they are getting new content every time they visit. You get the page rank your blog deserves.
Win-win!
Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY
Tuesday 14 August 2007
The Resurrection...
Ok, this blog sort of died for a while as I was concentrating on my other websites and blogs. But now I think it's time to do a bit of a resurrection on it and breathe some new life back into the old dog!
I have a few more sites dotted about the place now so I'll be updating the link list here as well as adding some bits and pieces of interest to rekindle the popularity this once had. I'll link back here from my sites as well because although it has a close sister over at the main Honest Way website, the posts here will be different. That's mainly to avoid duplicate content, but also to widen the scope of my readership.
So watch out - here I come again!!!!
Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY
I have a few more sites dotted about the place now so I'll be updating the link list here as well as adding some bits and pieces of interest to rekindle the popularity this once had. I'll link back here from my sites as well because although it has a close sister over at the main Honest Way website, the posts here will be different. That's mainly to avoid duplicate content, but also to widen the scope of my readership.
So watch out - here I come again!!!!
Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY
Tuesday 24 April 2007
The Honest Way Blog
Hi all,
The Honest Way Blog at the main website has been updated a few times since my last post here. My apologies, but time has been a little tight recently as I have a lot of things going on now.
I was pondering the idea of shutting down this blog to concentrate on the website's hosted blog. Not too sure that's a good idea, as this one's been up and running much longer and still has a big readership. So for the present time at lease, I'll keep this one going in parallel with the website blog.
The updates are there for you to see, so if you want to know what's been happening oiver there, click the link below and check it out!
Terry Didcott
THE (OTHER) HONEST WAY BLOG
The Honest Way Blog at the main website has been updated a few times since my last post here. My apologies, but time has been a little tight recently as I have a lot of things going on now.
I was pondering the idea of shutting down this blog to concentrate on the website's hosted blog. Not too sure that's a good idea, as this one's been up and running much longer and still has a big readership. So for the present time at lease, I'll keep this one going in parallel with the website blog.
The updates are there for you to see, so if you want to know what's been happening oiver there, click the link below and check it out!
Terry Didcott
THE (OTHER) HONEST WAY BLOG
Friday 13 April 2007
Article Writing and Constant Content
I've put together quite a comprehensive blog report on the article submission site, Constant Content over at the home site's blog.
I don't want to duplicate that post here (because I don't like duplicated content), so if you are interested in writing articles to make an income online, it's is something that you should read.
Follow this link to go straight there: The Honest Way Blog, or go to The Honest Way website and click on "BLOG" in the menu bar.
Take some time to read it. It could change your life!
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
I don't want to duplicate that post here (because I don't like duplicated content), so if you are interested in writing articles to make an income online, it's is something that you should read.
Follow this link to go straight there: The Honest Way Blog, or go to The Honest Way website and click on "BLOG" in the menu bar.
Take some time to read it. It could change your life!
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Thursday 5 April 2007
AWeber?
Welcome back! I've just finished setting up a free trial promo that those masters of the autoresponder, AWeber are pushing on their site's affiliate page. They give you the code to create a small opt-in box that goes straight to them (it doesn't count towards you list) but they then promote themselves to whoever fills in the form which gives you a better chance at an affiliate sign-up.
And there should be plenty of takers as all internet marketers need an autoresponder and AWeber are the best in the business! If you haven't set one up yet, take a look at AWeber and see for yourself.
Now, having given them the benefit of a nice plug, I'm going to give them a bit of a rollicking.
I'm picky when it comes to code and as I've built what I belive is a damn nice site in The Honest Way and I've spent time and effort to ensure all my code is xhtml 1.0 compliant. So I don't really appreciate third party code messing it up with things like nested tables. Yep, for all their high profile in the online world, AWeber are still giving out prehistoric html code for their opt-in forms that contain nested tables, repeating <font> tags and other nasties. Ugh!
So I had to spend time modifying their code to work with a <div> tag using css to create the style. But it's worth it as it looks better and the w3c people prefer clean html/xhtml.
End of rant.
The Honest Way News
The "other" Honest Way Blog is coming along nicely with it's second post pinged to all and sundry yesterday. The Honest Way Forum is also enjoying a good start in life as we now have 20 members at the last count and I predict that number to double by the end of the week. So if you haven't registered yet, now's the time if you still want to get in early.
That's all for today. Thanks for dropping by and having a look at what's happening here.
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
And there should be plenty of takers as all internet marketers need an autoresponder and AWeber are the best in the business! If you haven't set one up yet, take a look at AWeber and see for yourself.
Now, having given them the benefit of a nice plug, I'm going to give them a bit of a rollicking.
I'm picky when it comes to code and as I've built what I belive is a damn nice site in The Honest Way and I've spent time and effort to ensure all my code is xhtml 1.0 compliant. So I don't really appreciate third party code messing it up with things like nested tables. Yep, for all their high profile in the online world, AWeber are still giving out prehistoric html code for their opt-in forms that contain nested tables, repeating <font> tags and other nasties. Ugh!
So I had to spend time modifying their code to work with a <div> tag using css to create the style. But it's worth it as it looks better and the w3c people prefer clean html/xhtml.
End of rant.
The Honest Way News
The "other" Honest Way Blog is coming along nicely with it's second post pinged to all and sundry yesterday. The Honest Way Forum is also enjoying a good start in life as we now have 20 members at the last count and I predict that number to double by the end of the week. So if you haven't registered yet, now's the time if you still want to get in early.
That's all for today. Thanks for dropping by and having a look at what's happening here.
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Monday 2 April 2007
The Scaling Down
This new post is actually an announcement of the arrival of the all new Honest Way Blog.
It can be found living on The Honest Way server at http//www.thehonestway.com/blog/. I've posted its first instalment and will be making all the major posts regarding the website there instead of here.
Having said that, I haven't gone to all the trouble of promoting this blog only to let it fall by the wayside. Oh no.
I'll be posting here too in tandem with the live blog so as to keep up the link structure that I have been slowly building over the past few weeks. How I shall use this blog from now on will be more of a pointer to things happening over at The Honest Way and elaborating in more detail on the new blog.
So keep looking in here, because the content will be different to that on the new blog and I'll probably keep things separate and distinct, so there will be two different sources of information and content pertaining to the day to day life of The Honest Way.
Thanks for calling in and keeping up with events
Call back again soon, won't you!
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
It can be found living on The Honest Way server at http//www.thehonestway.com/blog/. I've posted its first instalment and will be making all the major posts regarding the website there instead of here.
Having said that, I haven't gone to all the trouble of promoting this blog only to let it fall by the wayside. Oh no.
I'll be posting here too in tandem with the live blog so as to keep up the link structure that I have been slowly building over the past few weeks. How I shall use this blog from now on will be more of a pointer to things happening over at The Honest Way and elaborating in more detail on the new blog.
So keep looking in here, because the content will be different to that on the new blog and I'll probably keep things separate and distinct, so there will be two different sources of information and content pertaining to the day to day life of The Honest Way.
Thanks for calling in and keeping up with events
Call back again soon, won't you!
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Sunday 25 March 2007
Now you can opt-in!
It's taken longer than I expected - and this was supoosed to be ready last Sunday when the site went live - but today saw the implementation of the sacred opt-in form on my homepage! I've been preaching this in my eighth article about the several ways in which your business can fail. One of them is failure to build a list.
Oh well, ho hum, stammer, mumble... Not good enough, is it?
That glaring omission has at last been put right and I now have the required opt-in box especially for the purpose. Well, now I can sleep at night.
Another change to the site has been the big move of the member's forum from the freehosting server over to my own at HostGator. The reasons for this are few but important.
1. My own server guarantees better uptime.
2. By occupying a page on the website, site traffic will increase.
3. Content will continuously be added and changed. Search engines like that!
4. More people will get to know about my site through word of mouth (or post!)
All in all a very good move, methinks! Now at the moment, there are, of course no members on the forum as it hasn't been advertised yet. That is about to change. My next awsome task is to visit every forum and message board I know and welcome all comers to my forum.
They'll come.
In dribs and drabs at first, granted, but come they will. Why? Because I have created a forum thread purely for blatant ads to be posted - the only proviso being you have to register first. Plenty of marketers will do that purely because it is another place to advertise for free and we all do it. But some will stop and post meaningful topics too and the serious side of the forum will gradually grow.
As traffic to the forum grows, content will increase and change more rapidly, the search engines will like it even more and the site's rating will also improve. Good theory, no?
So that's about all for today's post. Lots of exciting things happening and more looming on the horizon for The Honest Way.
Thanks for looking in, see you again soon!
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
http://www.thehonestway.com
Oh well, ho hum, stammer, mumble... Not good enough, is it?
That glaring omission has at last been put right and I now have the required opt-in box especially for the purpose. Well, now I can sleep at night.
Another change to the site has been the big move of the member's forum from the freehosting server over to my own at HostGator. The reasons for this are few but important.
1. My own server guarantees better uptime.
2. By occupying a page on the website, site traffic will increase.
3. Content will continuously be added and changed. Search engines like that!
4. More people will get to know about my site through word of mouth (or post!)
All in all a very good move, methinks! Now at the moment, there are, of course no members on the forum as it hasn't been advertised yet. That is about to change. My next awsome task is to visit every forum and message board I know and welcome all comers to my forum.
They'll come.
In dribs and drabs at first, granted, but come they will. Why? Because I have created a forum thread purely for blatant ads to be posted - the only proviso being you have to register first. Plenty of marketers will do that purely because it is another place to advertise for free and we all do it. But some will stop and post meaningful topics too and the serious side of the forum will gradually grow.
As traffic to the forum grows, content will increase and change more rapidly, the search engines will like it even more and the site's rating will also improve. Good theory, no?
So that's about all for today's post. Lots of exciting things happening and more looming on the horizon for The Honest Way.
Thanks for looking in, see you again soon!
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
http://www.thehonestway.com
Thursday 22 March 2007
Article Writing
As part of the promotion of THE HONEST WAY, I submit articles to Ezine Articles on a regular basis.
The reason for this is that lots of people read through the list of articles posted there and will come across my informative articles. These articles contain a link back to The Honest Way. Should the reader be sufficiently impressed with the content of the article they just read (and I'm sure they will), they will click the link and head over to The Honest Way to see what it's all about out of curiosity.
That visitor might already be thinking about purchasing a product or service to help them with their online business in some way, be it getting started, boosting sales, attracting visitors to their website etc. So when they see the list of great products and services on offer at The Honest Way, they'll be tempted to click on the one that most suits their needs to get more information from the owner of that product or service. Should they go on to purchase the product or service, The Honest Way benefits with affiliate commission from the sale, the owner of the product makes another sale and the buyer has a great product to help them with their online business.
That sounds like a win-win-win situation!
Isn't that what an internet business should be achieving all the time?
Thanks for calling in and reading my concise post on submitting articles. Please come back again soon for more instalments and updates. And if you do happen to be looking for a certain product to help either starting up, or boosting the effectiveness of your online business, please take a look at The Honest Way and see which product best suits your needs.
You might just find the one thing that will boost your online business to the next level of success!
Terry Didcott
The reason for this is that lots of people read through the list of articles posted there and will come across my informative articles. These articles contain a link back to The Honest Way. Should the reader be sufficiently impressed with the content of the article they just read (and I'm sure they will), they will click the link and head over to The Honest Way to see what it's all about out of curiosity.
That visitor might already be thinking about purchasing a product or service to help them with their online business in some way, be it getting started, boosting sales, attracting visitors to their website etc. So when they see the list of great products and services on offer at The Honest Way, they'll be tempted to click on the one that most suits their needs to get more information from the owner of that product or service. Should they go on to purchase the product or service, The Honest Way benefits with affiliate commission from the sale, the owner of the product makes another sale and the buyer has a great product to help them with their online business.
That sounds like a win-win-win situation!
Isn't that what an internet business should be achieving all the time?
Thanks for calling in and reading my concise post on submitting articles. Please come back again soon for more instalments and updates. And if you do happen to be looking for a certain product to help either starting up, or boosting the effectiveness of your online business, please take a look at The Honest Way and see which product best suits your needs.
You might just find the one thing that will boost your online business to the next level of success!
Terry Didcott
Monday 19 March 2007
Now There's a Forum!
Forums are great places to meet people and get acquainted with new friends online. Forums that concentrate on how to make money online are springing up all over the place so I thought it wouldn't hurt to add another one to the growing army of member's forums hatching out all over cyberspace.
I added a forum to the main Honest Way site late last night to give visitors the chance to meet each other in a friendly and hopefully informative meeting place. The link to the forum can be found on the homepage of the website in the top righthand corner below the navigation bar.
But for the lazy ones amongst you, here is the direct link to the Honest Way Forum.
So why not have a look in and see for yourself. The site continues to grow and grow!
THE HONEST WAY
Terry Didcott
I added a forum to the main Honest Way site late last night to give visitors the chance to meet each other in a friendly and hopefully informative meeting place. The link to the forum can be found on the homepage of the website in the top righthand corner below the navigation bar.
But for the lazy ones amongst you, here is the direct link to the Honest Way Forum.
So why not have a look in and see for yourself. The site continues to grow and grow!
THE HONEST WAY
Terry Didcott
Sunday 18 March 2007
THE HONEST WAY IS ALIVE AND WELL!!!
Yes, that's right. THE HONEST WAY is truly alive and well today.
The article database continues to grow, as it will steadily over the life of this website. New affiliate products will contine to be added to the Products page too.
The whole concept of the site is to bring the information on how to earn a successful and honest living online together with the best products, packages and strategies so that a whole business approach can be achieved from this one site.
A note about the products that we promote. There's no need to go searching for good products to help you build your online business - you'll find what you need right here at THE HONEST WAY.
So click this link and hop over there. Have a good look around and if you see what you like, click the link to go to the affiliate page for more info. It's that simple!
Thanks for your visit - I wish you success with your online business!
Terry Didcott
The article database continues to grow, as it will steadily over the life of this website. New affiliate products will contine to be added to the Products page too.
The whole concept of the site is to bring the information on how to earn a successful and honest living online together with the best products, packages and strategies so that a whole business approach can be achieved from this one site.
A note about the products that we promote. There's no need to go searching for good products to help you build your online business - you'll find what you need right here at THE HONEST WAY.
So click this link and hop over there. Have a good look around and if you see what you like, click the link to go to the affiliate page for more info. It's that simple!
Thanks for your visit - I wish you success with your online business!
Terry Didcott
Saturday 17 March 2007
One More Day...
It's almost there. The site's article base has now grown to 6 and I'm looking at a few more products to put on too. The splash page is just about ready to unleash on the traffic exchanges and an opt-in form is about there for the homepage.
That will all be unveiled tomorrow, but you can see the page in it's pre-launch layout right now.
THE HONEST WAY
See you there...
Terry Didcott
That will all be unveiled tomorrow, but you can see the page in it's pre-launch layout right now.
THE HONEST WAY
See you there...
Terry Didcott
Wednesday 14 March 2007
Please Don't All Rush At Once...
No stampedes, please. There's another great product added to the list on the Products page, which will help you in the arduous task of article submission to directories. This long winded and time consuming task can be alleviated by this simple, yet powerful piece of must-have software.
Want to know what it is?
You'll have to get over to The Honest Way and take a look for yourself!
See you there...
Terry Didcott
Want to know what it is?
You'll have to get over to The Honest Way and take a look for yourself!
See you there...
Terry Didcott
Tuesday 13 March 2007
Just Five Days To Go...
Yep, it's just five days to go until THE HONEST WAY website goes live. There are now three articles posted to the articles page with a new one per day to follow until 18th March.
After the site is officially LIVE, I will continue to add articles and submit more articles to e-zine articles in order to boost the site's online presence. I am also lining up more honest products to promote on the products page. I'm very excited about this website and have high hopes for its success in the coming weeks, months and years.
If you haven't looked in yet, why not go over there now and see what's happening:
www.THEHONESTWAY.com
Terry Didcott
After the site is officially LIVE, I will continue to add articles and submit more articles to e-zine articles in order to boost the site's online presence. I am also lining up more honest products to promote on the products page. I'm very excited about this website and have high hopes for its success in the coming weeks, months and years.
If you haven't looked in yet, why not go over there now and see what's happening:
www.THEHONESTWAY.com
Terry Didcott
Monday 12 March 2007
Next Article Posted
Hi everybody! We're into day two of the pre-launch phase of our super new internet marketing experience... THE HONEST WAY website.
Today's blog instalment is to let you all know that I have posted the second article in the series to the website and it's entitled "Finding Your Online Business".
The article makes you want to put your thinking cap on and get your brain juices flowing! It starts you thinking about what you want your online business to be. A rather important step, would you not agree?
I'm also in a bit of a thinking rut myself at the moment. I need to add some good, honest products to my affiliate list, but I'm having a bit of a struggle to find the most suitable ones. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears! But please don't bombard me with stuff that is not 100% honest - after all, if it doesn't pass the honesty grade, it won't get into the site!
With day two almost gone already, I'm getting prepared for tomorrow's additions to the website. There will be the next article in the series, plus another product added to the list.
You can check out www.thehonestway.com by clicking on it's link and a having a sneak preview of the site before it goes fully live on Sunday 18th March.
Thanks for looking in, see you all tomorrow
Terry Didcott
Today's blog instalment is to let you all know that I have posted the second article in the series to the website and it's entitled "Finding Your Online Business".
The article makes you want to put your thinking cap on and get your brain juices flowing! It starts you thinking about what you want your online business to be. A rather important step, would you not agree?
I'm also in a bit of a thinking rut myself at the moment. I need to add some good, honest products to my affiliate list, but I'm having a bit of a struggle to find the most suitable ones. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears! But please don't bombard me with stuff that is not 100% honest - after all, if it doesn't pass the honesty grade, it won't get into the site!
With day two almost gone already, I'm getting prepared for tomorrow's additions to the website. There will be the next article in the series, plus another product added to the list.
You can check out www.thehonestway.com by clicking on it's link and a having a sneak preview of the site before it goes fully live on Sunday 18th March.
Thanks for looking in, see you all tomorrow
Terry Didcott
Sunday 11 March 2007
Its Pre-Launch Open Day
It's time to officially open the site to it's week long pre-launch.
The main page along with products, articles, links, contact and site map pages are online now and can be viewed. I've added the first article (entitled "Where Do You Start") and also a contact email address should anyone want to email me with any suggestions or improvements to the site.
It begins...
The main page along with products, articles, links, contact and site map pages are online now and can be viewed. I've added the first article (entitled "Where Do You Start") and also a contact email address should anyone want to email me with any suggestions or improvements to the site.
It begins...
Saturday 10 March 2007
New Website
Here's announcing the imminent arrival of a brand new website of the same name. Release Date is expected to be Sunday 18th March 2007, although there will be a limited access pre-release on Sunday 11th March.
Hi, I'm Terry Didcott and I'm the author and creator of TheHonestWay.com. The website will highlight honest ways to make a living online. There will be an extensive article section covering the many products, strategies, plans and pitfalls associated with setting up and running an honest online business.
By honest, I mean an online business that is free of scams, rip-offs and underhand tricks to get people to part with their hard-earned money. An honest online business means selling useful products or ebooks for reasonable prices and delivering what you say you'll deliver!
Too many websites abound that are simply put up with a bit of useless content in order to earn revenue from advertising. They don't offer anything to the browser in terms of real value but still try to push products and services that are second-rate and expensive just to try to scam the newcomers to the internet marketing scheme.
The website sets out from the start to provide plenty of good, useful and free information about setting up an online business THE RIGHT WAY as well as promoting only those products that are useful to online entrepeneurs be they from anywhere in the scale from seasoned professionals right down to absolute beginners.
There is something there for everyone, so starting Sunday March 11, you can get your first sneak preview of this fascinating new site and watch it grow over the week into a powerful tool for the online business person until its scheduled Go Live! date on Sunday March 18th 2007.
CLICK HERE to go there. Hope to see you all there!
Terry Didcott
Hi, I'm Terry Didcott and I'm the author and creator of TheHonestWay.com. The website will highlight honest ways to make a living online. There will be an extensive article section covering the many products, strategies, plans and pitfalls associated with setting up and running an honest online business.
By honest, I mean an online business that is free of scams, rip-offs and underhand tricks to get people to part with their hard-earned money. An honest online business means selling useful products or ebooks for reasonable prices and delivering what you say you'll deliver!
Too many websites abound that are simply put up with a bit of useless content in order to earn revenue from advertising. They don't offer anything to the browser in terms of real value but still try to push products and services that are second-rate and expensive just to try to scam the newcomers to the internet marketing scheme.
The website sets out from the start to provide plenty of good, useful and free information about setting up an online business THE RIGHT WAY as well as promoting only those products that are useful to online entrepeneurs be they from anywhere in the scale from seasoned professionals right down to absolute beginners.
There is something there for everyone, so starting Sunday March 11, you can get your first sneak preview of this fascinating new site and watch it grow over the week into a powerful tool for the online business person until its scheduled Go Live! date on Sunday March 18th 2007.
CLICK HERE to go there. Hope to see you all there!
Terry Didcott
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