Joe and Jamie's Blog

I decided to come up with a name to place all the sites under. If I ever start to make some profit off of these websites I will actually register the company, but for now it’s fun to just pretend I am one. I’ll eventually get my butt down to the proper place to officially make it a registered business.

I started to create a simple site to just put links to all my other sites on as well as explain a bit about the company and why I started all this, as well as some contact info. I need a good logo made, but I don’t want to ask Jay because he will probably charge me $100 a pixel, and that’s the friend price! =P

www.hanniganwebcompany.com

I had some free time really late last night while Jamie was studying. Rather than surfing the web or watching boring TV I decided to deploy five more sites.

I finished my series of what I call “everything” markets where you can search and buy everything and anything. Pretty soon I will start the more direct sites, like pets or sports, but that takes more time with filtering the categories correctly.

Check them out and support some good sites.

Hover over the links to see a site preview, courtesy of the Snapr Wordpress Plugin.

www.Bargain-Market.US

www.Overstock-Market.US

www.Sale-Market.US

www.Web-Market.US

www.Your-Market.US

and of course the first one, www.My-Market.US

The sites were just created, so any comments on things I should change at this point will help!

Over the past few days I have edited the site and added the last few touches. It is 99.9% complete at this time. I am sure I will be anal this weekend and tweak a few little things that no one else would notice.

Check it out!!! Now I have a complete working site that I can use as the template for the rest. Thanks to the helpful hits of Paul at the Homeowner’s blog.

VISIT www.my-market.us

In the past month I have purchased over 100 domain names.

I now step back and take a look at the ever-growing list and think it’s time I needed to kick these sites into gear before I continue.

Let me put this in $$ terms. That’s $1,000 next Feb/March that I need to spend to keep these sites active, and right now I only made $20 off of them…..

Time is my biggest enemy right now. Between work and school I have no time to develop all the sites. Check out the Websites page for a list of all the sites I am hoping to get going. They are mainly Amazon store fronts. It is going to take several months to get traffic to all these sites so I can start making money. Maybe I will hire someone to help with advertising and getting me high up on search results, but thats another added cost with little to no money coming it. But hey, that’s the business I guess and I can’t cop-out now, this is something I have always wanted to do, and I have never gave up on any project before.

Once I get the first site (my-market.us) up and running, I will be able to easily create the other sites off that template, just customize each one with different colors, images and categories. My goal is that before school starts in August I have all these sites up and running.

So for now I will have to slow down on grabbing every name I can think of and stop buying the less used extensions like .info and .biz to keep costs down.

I swear it’s like a crack addiction. I searched GoDaddy for a name that popped into my head and if it was available, I purchased it 30 seconds later.

It’s been a very busy week for me, haven’t had much time to post and further develop any of the other sites. I did notice I finally got my first comment, so at least 1 person is reading this every so often!

I just got a 40″ plasma TV for free…with one hitch; I have to repair it first. I was given all the necessary parts, but these things are like computers now. I have a box full of new circuit cards and chips that need replacing. I hope this isn’t too difficult, would be nice to have a 40″ TV for free.

Over the weekend I will be configuring a few more sites and getting them up and running. Hoping to have overstock-market.us and electronics-market.us at least configured and maybe even formatted correctly.

I added a few blog pages today. I am going to post a lot of computer/network troubleshooting tips to the Network Admin page. I will be useful for people searching google to maybe hit my blog and find the answer to some common problems I have come across in my line of work. I also have a websites page that lists all the sites I own and operate. Maybe I will get some hits off of that, and if not, at least its one place on the web that contains links to my sites.

Went a little crazy with more domain names, but it’s a hobby of mine. I bought out the rest of the personal ones that I own under the .info, .us, .org domains. Bought toy-market.us, beauty-market.us, and networkadmin.info. I am planning on turning networkadmin.info into a help forum with answers to error codes and tech questions I have dealt with in the past. Hopefully that will bring some people to the site, pretty easy name that explains it all…info for network admins…ain’t I just clever!?!? If I don’t wind up doing a forum I will look into pooling other tech help sites and just displaying their information. We’ll see how it goes, have to find some forum templates first.

My-Market.US is almost complete.

I was able to incorporate my Google Ads into the pages nicely.

Last night I also purchased an XML sitesmaps program from XML-sitemaps.com. It is a very useful tool and creates great xml, php, and html sitemaps to notify search engines. Thanks to Hostmonster for being such a good host, I was also able to create daily script jobs to run these each night to keep everything up to date. Not bad for $7 a month hosting package.

Using associate-o-matic.com, I was able to create My-Market.US tonight. It is in its beginning stages, I only had about 45 minutes to work on it, so it isn’t pretty at all. I’m working on squeezing some information out of Jay on how to get it set up without looking like crap.

Keep checking the site, I will be doing mass changes over the weekend.

I plan on deploying a whole series of [item]-market.us. Eventually you will be able to access them all by going to your-market.us which will give you a listing of them all.

I really like how the blog is coming along. I added more plugins today and added myself to feedburner. I found out easier ways to get the sidebar the way I want it, all thanks to Paul over at the Homeowner’s Blog. Paul showed me very cool and useful plugins plus how to use them. It’s all thanks to him that I am still up tonight playing around with them!

As for the websites that I still dream of creating, I was given some helpful hints by Paul and Jay over at the Gaulard Blog. I bought some domain names a few weeks ago in hopes to start some affiliate sites using Amazon and Newegg. I always put this off since I thought it would cost too much to get into and run, as well as take many hours to configure and maintain. Paul and Jay gave me a site where I can just purchase the code for a year and make as many Amazon affiliate sites as I want, making it very simple to set up. Now all I have to do is find time to put everything together.

Once again, THANKS Paul and Jay, great advice today.