My plan is that I will work on several streams to my business, the most obvious being the WordPress Plugin Development, with more time to dedicate to this work, I will be able to not only develop the plugins I have further, but also finish off some of the plugns I have 90% developed and put time into coding up some more of the ideas I have for plugins that will help affiliate marketers and bloggers.

I also hope that I will be able to bring my affiliate marketing business back to where it once was. With time and effort I will be able to get all my sites, that are still down from a server failure 12 months ago, back up and running, and start to build their reputation once again.

I am starting out with a great deal more knowledge than I had before, I have read a great deal, and hopefully, picked up some useful hints and tips from the best in the business.

Over the last few days I have been looking back over the last 7-8 years that I have been doing affiliate marketing, and analysing what has worked and what has not. As a result I have decided to keep my affiliate marketing to about three niches, these are niches that I am interested in, knowledgeable about as I work in those sectors day-to-day, and are also sectors where I was successful in the past.

I did have a great spread of sites in many niches, I will become (at least in the first instance), more focused. I will then branch out into other areas. It was notable that the niches I was successful in were those I am interested and knowledgeable about, but there were also some strange exceptions, my greathampers site was very successful, so although this is outside my chosen niches I wil get that sit eback up and running and populated with content. I will not however, spend a great deal of time promoting that site, if it is successful I will re-consider, but I will leave it to tick over for now.

I also have several other business interests, including consulting on building your businesses online presence, but I hope that the mainstay of Digitalquill will be WordPress and online software development ad Affiliate marketing.

Keep checking back both here on Matthouldsworth.com and on my other Blog Earning From Affiliates to keep up-to-date with my activities.

I intend that I will work smarter, not harder and hopefully work a Three day week, meaning I can also spend more time with the family, take more holidays to the places we love, like here in the Yorkshire Dales and who knows, eventually, if we are not tied to a location for work, re-locate to where we belong, here in the Yorkshire dales.

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I can of course find out the disk usage quite easily logging into the Ubuntu box via SSH and running a ‘df -h’ which will show the disk space free on each disk:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                 251M     0  251M   0% /lib/init/rw
varrun                251M  5.8M  246M   3% /var/run
varlock               251M     0  251M   0% /var/lock
udev                  251M  152K  251M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 251M     0  251M   0% /dev/shm
rootfs                  7.4G  3.0G  4.1G  42% /
/dev/sda1             917G  627G  244G  72% /mnt/Disk1
/dev/sdb1             917G  640G  232G  74% /mnt/Disk2
/dev/sdd1             917G  415G   22G  96% /mnt/Disk3
/dev/sde1             917G  601G  316G  69% /mnt/Disk4

New media is being recorded to these disks all the time, recorded TV in HD, New photos added, music added and DVDs added all the time so I wanted a method that would alert me via email when a disk became critically full so that I could take action to add more disk space (looking at those stats above it does not look like long before I will need to add another drive or two to the system!

Following a Google search I found the following script on this site

#!/bin/sh
df -H | grep -vE '^Filesystem|tmpfs|cdrom' | awk '{ print $5 " " $1 ' | while read output;
do
  echo $output
  usep=$(echo $output | awk '{ print $1' | cut -d'%' -f1  )
  partition=$(echo $output | awk '{ print $2 ' )
  if [ $usep -ge 90 ]; then
    echo "Running out of space \"$partition ($usep%)\" on $(hostname) as on $(date)" |
     mail -s "Alert: Almost out of disk space $usep%" you@somewhere.com
  fi
done

This was the exact solution I was looking for. I then created a crontab to run hourly and run the script:

# m h  dom mon dow   command
0 * * * * /root/diskMonitor

The only problem with this is, if i do not sort out the disk space it will keep sending the emails, perhaps not a bad thing if it keeps nagging me.

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Aardvark is a piece of free software that allows you to create a website listing and popularity ranking website like DailyProxy List.

The software is great as it stands, it manages all the sign ups of sites, approval processes, link backs and the ranking of those sites based upon their popularity. However, it is missing on key ingredient, that is a way to simply and easily make money from your website.

Until now many sell advertising slots or place affiliate banners on their sites to try and generate some income, however, this is a very slow burn method of generating income.

The premium mod for Aardvark that I have designed allows you to sell premium listings on your Aardvark topsite, which will always appear at the top of the listings.

This mod links into both the site owners need to generate income, and also the subscribers need to be at the top of the rankings, rather than several pages back in the results table.

The mod is very simple to use, you simply create your price plans and enter your paypal email address and the system does the rest. When a user subscribes they are then presented with the premium options, payment is via paypal subscriptions, and when subscribed the system monitors that subscription for the regular payments, if a payment is not made then the site will be down graded to a standard listing.

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The plugin is fully automated, it will cloak all the links and add no-follow to those links for your automatically, you can globally exclude domains from this system or use the two tick boxes that the plugin adds to the WordPress create link pop-up window to exclude a specific link from the cloaking or to allow follow for a link.

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The WordPress plugin is targeted at people who use Affiliate links within their blogs but it is also useful from an SEO point of view for anyone who works with deep links. This plugin is flexible as it allows the user to control the cloaking and the follow tag on the links.

I will post more here when I have fully tested the plugin and I am ready to release it. I hope that it will be ready to go by the end of the month, when I will add it to my growing collection of WordPress Plugins.

UPDATE: the plugin has now been released – see the Link Cloaker and no-follow controller plugin for wordpress website for more details

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I have developed this with a network of systems that periodically re-check those domain names for their availability and update the database.

It also does other functions to categories those domain names, but I will keep that under my hat for now.

The real reason for this post is that the database now contains 100,000 domain names, 35,000 of those are known to be available. These domain names have various extensions, co.uk, org.uk, com, and net.

With the absence of Zone files for the UK domains I wonder if this data is at all valuable to others? I do plan to publish some of this data on my Quill Internet Domain site, some lists of 3 letter uk domains that are available and other keyword domains that are available.

If you are interested in this database please do contact me or post a comment on this post and we will take it from there.

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Error: An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request.

Fix:

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If you are interested in more information about the plugin please go to the Datafeed Import Plugins website.

I have learnt one lesson from this release, that is never do a release when it is late in the day and you are tired. I accidentally uploaded the wrong file to the server and invited thousands of users to come and download it! Soon realised and rectified the mistake but still lesson learned!

You may also be interested to know that I am about to launch a new version of the Amazon Import Plugin for WordPress, this has been a major re-write of the plugin which is now packed with features and functionality.

I am also putting out another call for beta testers for my WordPress Advertiser plugin, if you feel that you can help please do contact me either by email or post a comment on this blog.

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I have also created a basic site for the new software and bought two domain names selldownloads.co.uk which will be the main one and selldigitaldownloads.co.uk which points to the main site. I am in the process of creating a site on there to demo the software and show what it does. Time is very limited at present due to some DIY work at home, but I hope to be able to sit down for a few hours this weekend to get some testing done and some content written for the website.

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During the time that i have been selling the datafeed import and amazon import plugins for WordPress I have been using some software that I bought to manage the sale of those digital download products. Although good, this did not do exactly what I wanted.

The main problem with the software I use is that it only managed digital downloads automatically via Paypal, I wanted software that would use both Paypal and Google checkout. In addition the interface for this software was not ideal, and managing updates to products was a little tricky.

I have therefore designed a product that does everything I require. It is currently in development and following that I will be testing it myself for my own products, however, I hope to get it launched as a product soon after that.

What will the new product do?

In simple terms it will manage the process of selling digital downloads via paypal or google checkout. It will allow you to create a product, upload the digital download and automatically create buy now buttons for paypal and google checkout.

When someone buys your product it will automatically check that the sale has been completed before emailing the buyer login details to download the digital download that they have purchased.

It will ensure that the correct downloads are given tot he correct people and that they have paid the correct amount for that product.

It will also give you statistics on the sales of your products so that you can monitor their performance.

When you update a product, rather than having to FTP that file to your server like the software that I use, all you need to do is upload a new file via the interface.

Also if you change a product price or description, rather than having the manually change the code for the buy now buttons like you do with the software I use, which becomes a real pain when you have buy now buttons on many different pages on your site, all you need to do is change the details in the interface and the software will update the buttons automatically its self.

There is still allot of work that I need to do on the software, and indeed there is allot of testing that I need to do. I will also be looking for some other people to test it, so if you are involved with selling digital downloads please do contact me telling me what you do and what software you currently use, in return for your testing I will give you a free copy of my software including free updates to new features when I create them.

I hope that I will be launching the new software within the next month, but I will keep you updated on its progress.

As a little side, if you have any ideas for a name for the product please do post a comment, if I choose your name for my product I will give you a free copy of either this software or one of my plugins.

I also intend to change my Digitalquill site to reflect more the work I am doing now which is more Internet software rather than websites and multimedia. Not that I will not do that work but the website has not been updated for over 5 years and as such it really does need an overhaul and quite possibly a website redesign.

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As you will be aware I do affiliate marketing in my ‘spare’ time, one of the main issues with affiliate marketing and really the holy grail of affiliate marketing is the ability to rapidly create sites for your to be able to market other peoples products.

Until recently, I have been hand coding sites, and making custom designs for each, this took a great deal of time, time which I did not have, and time which I tended to get bogged down with making my affiliate projects stall before they were really launched.

I decided that there must be a solution so I employed my programming skills into developing a solution for wordpress whcih I could then use as a framework for all my affiliate sites.

The first plugin that I created was the Datafeed import plugin. Initially it was very basic, the ability to have oneaffiliate  datafeed and one template, the plugin then created a post in wordpress for each row in the affiliate datafeed.  Perfect, it allowed me to rapidly create sites in a matter of minutes rather than days.

I could also use other WordPress plugins such as the All in one SEO plugin and use the WordPress themes to make the sites suitable for the products which they contained. They were also fully search-able, menus and categories automatically created, functionality given by WordPress.

I then gave the plugin to another affiliate marketer friend who also found that it was a very useful tool so I decided to put the plugin out on to the open market or people to buy.

Since then I have made the plugin far more advanced, it can handle many datafeeds, each with their own templates, custom fields, advanced filters and automatic updates.

I have created a website for the datafeed import plugin where you can find more details

I then wanted to be able to easily import Amazon products as they are always very high converting affiliate products, so I have created a similar plugin that allows you to import and create posts from Amazon products based on a search term. This works very well and again as with the datafeed plugin I am working on more and more advanced versions of the plugin, the next of which is due to be released in the coming weeks.

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