Today, I’m posting with a pretty special offer. If you’ve been looking to start making money online, I’ve got an easy way for you to do it. The Best Classifieds Script you’ll find online is for sale right here and I’m selling cheap! Let’s call it the Kasifieds Script!

Here’s why this is the best php classifieds script (and deal) you will find…

First of all, my sites make money. December was my high month last year and I made just under $3000 in AdSense income (November was just a couple hundred away). In the last 15 months, I have made over $20,000 online from just having websites that serve ads.

But frankly, this is the best classifieds script around because.. the functionality of the script is far better than most all I’ve tried or seen and.. I’m including at least 1000 pre-populated items for any category you choose! Anyone having attempted a classifieds site online will tell you how difficult it is for the simple reason that people arrive at your new site and see no ads (or even as few as 20 or 30 that you tried to fake it with), and they’ll instantly leave.. realizing that there’s no traffic and there’s no benefit for them to place an ad. A barren site will send visitors running away every time. Without an advertising budget to keep pushing people to your site, your site will fail. I figured this out some time ago and spent days and weeks developing my own script that goes out and grabs entire listings from other popular classifieds sites, and imports them into my classifieds site. I grab pictures, create thumbnails and all (for random ads and the latest ads on the site). The sites look as professional as you could hope for. Your site will instantly have a presence!

This system works and it’s just as simple as that. Like any site, you need to start promoting it with a bit of SEO so if you’re unfamiliar with that, I’ll show you how I do that as well.

The price? Only $150 (If I know you personally.. old school friend, facebook friend, etc.. I’ll sell for $100). Trust me.. it’s a steal. The script is beautiful. It’s completely unique and created by me, so there’s not thousands of copies of the same classifieds site floating around. I can’t stress enough, the importance of a site having a unique footprint to be successful!

Features: Posters have email authentication and can edit or delete from a url that gets emailed after registration. I created my own rss script for all listings. The URLs are all SEO friendly (hugely important for search engine traffic). I’ve also added some very nice (and pricey) CodeCanyon scripts into the site. CodeCanyon sells php add-ons that work out of the box, and adding them to a site really makes it shine and enhances the functionality greatly. I’m using a dropdown menu (which connects to Amazon for extra earnings), a wonderful search tool and additional contact form from CodeCanyon. As you will see, the site is very unique and impressive looking!

It gets better. I’m not overly interested in selling these, because I don’t want to flood the web with my classifieds script. It works too well and I’ve learned that having a small footprint online is key to making a lot of money. I don’t mind selling a few because the fact is, there are too many topics for me to possibly create sites for and promote properly, but I’ll eventually pull this offer. I’m not advertising this special anywhere. It’s only for people who stop by my site and are subscribed. I don’t have the time to fill 20 orders at once. I’m just expecting the occasional interested party and I’ll create a site only after an order has been placed. I’m just rewarding those who subscribe to my website.

If $150 seems high, you are simply not understanding how well this process works. It’s automated income and all you have to do is put in a few hours every week, to promote your website. Creating these sites also requires several hours of work on my part, p/ site. The pre-populated listings are done by a script that I created (as explained above), but I still have to run this script “per city” (or locale) on the sites I build out for you, changing settings to update the database correctly, before each run. Average time for me is about 5 hours p/ site (to build out about a thousand listings). I will then zip up the database and site files and email them to you (I can host it for you even cheaper if you don’t currently have a website – see details below).

Keep in mind that I’m not selling anyone a “trick” site to fool people. The site is simply pre-populated to give your new website the feel of a very successful and popular site when people arrive. It’s what makes people stay, post ads and shop. It works. It’s not an auto-blog, in that the site isn’t continually getting updated in this manner. It’s a jump start and it gets a lot of pages indexed quickly. My experience is that you should start promoting right away and people will start coming almost instantly. This is a legitimate classifieds site that is better than any other script you’re going to find online because it’s like buying a site that’s been operating for a couple years.

If you’ve been considering starting a classifieds site, stop shopping for classifieds scripts and grab this deal. It’s far better than any other you will find. Check out my AdSense posts and see that I’m not just another marketer trying to sell you junk without showing proof. My system works and I make good money online. I don’t spend my extra time on junk forums making people promises and selling my system. I’ve never done this. I spend my time making money online and continually improving my system. My time is limited. I have a full time job that always comes first and my online time allows me a couple hours late every night after my 2 sweet babies lay down to sleep and that’s pretty much it.

And now, you likely want to see a demo? I’ll offer up one of my sites. Please check out bicyclebuysell.us. Google has more pages indexed than I have pages on the site. Search engines love these sites!

There are a couple “gotchas” you need to consider.

1) Installing this script requires connecting php files to a mysql database, but it’s not a built in, up-in-seconds script. If you don’t have experience with doing this, I will offer an install for $50. I built it out for me so it’s not the most intuitive but I’ll provide instructions (If you’re comfortable with editing php files and config files, you’ll be fine). If you don’t have mild php experience though, you may find it confusing and difficult, and should consider the install option.
2) I currently run my sites at hostgator.com. They’re a great host and they charge $9 a month. If you are looking to start creating a lot of sites, I recommend them. Whatever host you go with though, be sure that they offer the php mail function (check their documentation or ask) and that they don’t require smtp authentication. Most online hosts use php mail so this shouldn’t be an issue, but I wrote my script with this in mind, so it’s required.

Are you brand new to websites and this is your very first? If so, I’ll make you a special offer to get you up and running. I’ll host your site on my account for only $5 a month. And.. if you want to do it that way, I’ll forego the $50 install fee (since the entire technical setup will be using all administration tools I already have setup). I’ll give you ongoing technical support as well, and I’ll work with you to make sure your site is successful and getting traffic.

Whether you take me up on this deal or move on, best of luck to you online. Classifieds sites work and they work well, but they do require a bit of experience (and without being pre-populated… time) to be successful, so stick with it and the sky’s the limit!

And finally, if you’re not quite sure about moving on this deal, subscribe to my site. I’ve got exactly two more offers I’m going to make on original, unique websites in the coming months. One is very new and is targeting Amazon.

Here’s the keyword search version (without the added mysql insertion). Stick in any word you like and give it about 10 seconds…

This little script would go out and grab all the results from Google Suggest and throw it into an array (not anymore though! Google said bye):

Next step.. I wrapped the mysql code around it to save the results to a database:

This would allow me to run the first script and make sure I liked the results.. and then run the second script to insert into my database. But wait.. it gets way cooler! Now, I decided to scrape a search engine or two, for the results of those stored keywords. I used yahoo and a search engine called duck-duck go (one of my favorites for search).

Next, I created a new website to then display the keywords down the page and re-direct the search engine queries through my page, substituting a simple variable ($keyword) in the url of the search, for the keyword in my list. In this way, if you click any one of the keywords, it presents a new page with all the search results on it. Cool eh? The real value in this is that with just a few Google Suggest scrapes, I could have a new website with thousands of pages on it!

Finally, add pagination to sort the results for your visitors and publish to the web. Here’s an example site I created: Tablet Reviews — At the time of this writing, I have right at 2000 pages indexed on that website.

Anyone searching the web for tablet reviews arrives on the site due to the many long tail keywords and the occasional visitor clicks my monetization method (Amazon ads for a new tablet in this case) and I get paid.

So now, the Google Suggest API is gone but all is not lost. I can easily just login to my database, update it with a few new keywords and get several new pages of results. This isn’t nearly so effective though, as it just adds a few new pages to my site at a time, versus hundreds at a time. It’s a nice strategy for existing sites such as the one I just showed you, but it would take a long time to create a new site with thousands of new pages of content, which is the most effective way I’ve found to make money online without all the social networking crap.

So.. I’m now writing a new script which will go out and do a bit of what Google Suggest did for me. I’m very close and just have to work out a few more bugs but the new script is going to be even better than the Google Suggest API, it turns out! I’ll explain more on that when I get it finished so stay tuned for my next article.

This is quite handy, as I constantly read blogs where someone has had their site deindexed (removed from the Google search results) by Google for infractions.

Enjoy!

Google Quality Guidelines 2011

Check out my latest website at newsmonkey.net. News Monkey is an experiment in presenting the news in a different way than you’re used to. What I did was head over to the latest searches at AOL. As you’ll see, that page collects the top 50 searches every hour. That sounded like a great place to start so the NewsMonkey scrapes those terms and I save them all to a mysql database. I then present them dynamically (as soon as they get stored every hour) on the front page of NewsMonkey and I grab the related news stories at Yahoo and Google and dynamically display them as well.

In this way, a user never has to leave the page to see all the latest news. It’s easy to simply look at the list on the right, select what topic is of interest to you, click that term and see snippets of all the latest news displayed on the same page. Click the snippets and you are taken to the full news story.

The site also has an “All News” page, where I’m actually displaying all of these hourly terms that I save. Since AOL doesn’t display the historical terms anywhere, this could be a handy list for seeing a history of what’s hot on the web and using it for such things as creating relevant blog posts, or just seeing what people are continually interested in looking at. That can be important info for anyone who’s into online marketing.

NewsMonkey is an easy way to see all the latest search terms and related news stories, all in one place, on a single page. Find that somewhere else!

To monetize the website, I’m currently using InfoLinks. I’ve not tried this service before and so far, I’m not crazy about it. In just a few weeks since building this site, I am getting a lot of Google traffic and I’ve yet to even begin a marketing campaign on it. Nothing better than organic traffic when you build a site! Google already has over 11,000 pages indexed and I’m getting around 300 visitors a day and that typically equates to some decent extra income when using AdSense, as I explained in a previous post. Still, I’ll stick with InfoLinks for another month or so and see if it picks up any.

Next up is a couple new site ideas that I’ve been working on that are equally as fun so come back and visit…

I started trying to make online money just last fall (2010). With every month, I’ve made a little more. It’s been 9 months and just today, I’ve received my latest AdSense check for last month in the amount of $1,443.32.  (May was more yet again)

AdSense is Google’s program for monetizing websites. Advertisers sign up at Google’s AdWords program, pay good money to try to outbid each other for ads that are placed on millions of websites. The bidding war makes AdSense publishers (those of us with websites) profit all the more.

If you’re looking to make money, here’s a quick breakdown of the how to…

• Create a website (or websites) that target niches with buying keywords.  In other words, don’t start a personal blog about your every day life and expect to make money.  If your goal is money, ask yourself if the topic of your blog is something people will Google when searching for and spend money on?   If you are a personal loan officer, start a blog about it!  That’s a high paying niche with ads people will click on.
• Target long-tail keywords.  If you’re considering starting a website on video cameras, the competition will be fierce and you’ll likely never see many visitors.  Instead, do a Google search for a specific model camcorder with a specific option and focus on specific features.  This makes your site an “authority site” and if you have the most information on the product, in this manner, Google’s algorithm is smart enough to realize that and a lot of Google searches get sent your way.  Traffic is the key.
• The more content you can get on your site(s), the better.  I use automated methods as well as manual.  You have to have a lot of content to have a chance of getting a lot of visitors.  Check the amount of pages that any site has by going to Google and typing:  site:websitename.com (where websitename is the name of your site).  Most of my sites have a few thousand pages.  More content = more traffic.
• Backlink, backlink, backlink.  Google doesn’t give your site authority until it sees a lot of backlinks (links from other websites) linking to you.  This unfortunately is what leads to the vast amount of spam you see everywhere online.
• Don’t expect instant results.  Most of my websites take a little over three months to start bringing money in.  It’s just a few dollars in the first month or two and then they tend to jump considerably in that third or fourth month.  Keep creating backlinks and content during this time.  Unfortunately, some sites are duds and never seem to come through with more than a couple dollars a month.  I typically forget these sites after about 5 months if they still aren’t producing.
• Spin your content and submit to article directories.  Article directories are everywhere online.  You’ve probably found many while Googling for searches yourself.  The idea is to write random articles and the magic happens in that little author box.  Put the backlinks to your site(s) in that box.  The more popular article directories tend to get scraped (people copy the content to their own blogs) and your backlinks get spread around the internet a bit more quickly.

Here’s the tools I typically use:

• The AdSense sandbox – This handy site allows you to punch your new website topic in and see what kind of ads will be displayed on the site you’re thinking about creating.. thus letting you see how lucrative it has the potential to be.
• The Keyword Tool – This is Google’s tool that shows you the amount of searches for a particular keyword (p/ month).  You want to choose the ‘Exact’  match (deselect ‘broad’) and I order by Global Monthly Searches.
• The Spinner – There’s a lot of different spinners so feel free to look around if you’re considering buying.  I like this one.  The idea here is that if you are write an article and post it to an article directory, you want to post that article to a lot of different directories but… search engines tend to write off exact duplicates so using a spinner will put a thesaurus spin on your article and allow you to be credited with a lot of different articles and therefore, backlinks.
• SpyFu – This site lets you see how much a particular topic is worth.  If I’m considering starting a website on video cameras, just enter that (or a domain name) in the box and go.  I always look for a cost/click of at least .50 or more.  Some keywords generate ridiculously high clicks.  Put mesothelioma in the box and you realize that a single visitor clicking on an ad on your website can yield you $50 to $100!  This is just for a possible lead generation.
• StatCounter – I add a little code to all my websites for the main purposes of knowing exactly how many visitors are stopping by and the exact phrases they searched Google for to get there.  I have multiple spreadsheets with thousands of phrases and when I find repeat phrases, I start backlinking to those phrases through the article directories to give them even more “juice” with the search engines.

Keep in mind that the more an ad topic pays, the greater the competition.  I personally stick with the low paying niches that have less competition.  If you remember your Statistics lessons, there’s a concept known as long-tail distribution.  The “long-tail phenomenon” says that if a consumer is given unlimited choices, everything becomes available.  This is what the internet has brought about.  So as an internet marketer wants to target keywords (Google searches) that have 4 or more words (as I like to do it) and has low supply, low demand and low competition.  Even though the demand is low, the traffic is all yours.  It’s a higly targeted audience.  I even target 6 and 7 word phrases on a couple sites with success.

The tail of the curve is extremely long when compared to the head.  The head represents all of those narrow word terms that the major websites specialize in.  It’s high demand and competition with a low target audience.  Stay away.  Trying to capture traffic from the term “fat loss” is a losing battle.   There are millions of sites.  The long tail, however, is never ending.  This means that there’s no end to what you can market and be successful.

All of the money I make online is about numbers, numbers, numbers.  Having more numbers to crunch is the secret and that includes the amount of websites I put up as well.  I just hit the “100 mark” for number of websites.  Having access to 100 sites and all the phrases that have lead people to all of these sites is the key to success.  You start viewing websites in a completely different way and it becomes quite easy to see what might work and what won’t (though there are always surprises).

That’s it in a nutshell.  Outside of the above methods, I keep trying new things.  I keep creating new websites with different concepts and I keep analyzing what works.. and what doesn’t.  Overall though, I have now developed a pretty good sense of what will work before trying it.  Marketing a new website becomes second nature after doing it over and over.  It will for you too if you decide to go the road.

The last big piece of advice is to take action.  I can’t tell you the amount of conversations I still have with people who are interested in doing something (internet related or other) but never take action.  Taking action of any kind is the key.  Negative results are as important as positive results in achieving success.  ”No results” are good for nothing.

The best part of AdSense is that it’s completely passive income.  I only work on websites when I’m sitting around bored in the evening and after the money starts coming in on a particular site, I never have to touch it again or market it in any way.  It typically just keeps growing on it’s own every month thereafter.  The extra $$ provided by AdSense allowed me to get my braces this year and now I’m shooting for getting my mortgage paid within 5 years. There’s a lot of money to be made online so jump in and grab your share.  If you’re starting out and have any questions, just let me know.

Step 1: Make sure the column that your query is based on is indexed. An index is used to quickly find rows with specific column values. Without an index, MySQL must begin with the first row and then read through the entire table to find the relevant rows. The larger the table, the more this costs and the more processor your query consumes. If you’re running a large query based on a date (delete from your_table where DATE > ….), you want to index the date field. You can easily create an index in the phpMyAdmin interface (by clicking the lightning bolt icon for the specific column name) or if it’s a new field you’re adding, you can run a short MySQL command: CREATE INDEX new_index ON your_table(your_data)

Step 2: Here’s where the fun begins. I decided to divide up my long list of database inserts and deletes and break them up into 7 days. I then created a new file with the following code that I created, which I called MasterCron.php:

<?php

$today=date("w");
switch ($today)
{
case 0:
//sunday
include ‘cron0.php’;
break;
case 1:
include ‘cron1.php’;
break;
case 2:
include ‘cron2.php’;
break;
case 3:
//wednesday
include ‘cron3.php’;
break;
case 4:
include ‘cron4.php’;
break;
case 5:
//Friday
include ‘cron5.php’;
break;
case 6:
include ‘cron6.php’;
break;
}

?>
That simply calls a different php page (cron0.php, cron1.php, etc..) based on the current day of the week, with a unique set of database instructions for that day. Now you simply setup a new cron job calling MasterCron.php and let it do all the work.

The obvious alternative is to create 7 different cron jobs but if you have even 100 websites, you will likely rather see only 100 cron jobs in your list than 700. This just makes life a little easier.

The first thing I did was do a quick Google search.  I figured this would be easy to find and I’d just copy some code.  To my amazement, I simply didn’t find any good resources for this, so… time for some PHP programming.  I checked out the specs over at rssboard.org and then I began.  The script I made is about as easy as it gets and the idea is simple.  Since my RSS Feed would be a query of more than one table (as is usually the case when you’re dealing with images), I just needed to do a mysql join on the tables that held the image, the title and description, and then add a date and meet all the specs.

Start with the typical connection to the database:

<?php
$db_name = ‘your_db’; // name of the database
$db_user = ‘db_user’; // database user
$db_pass = ‘password’; // password to connect to the database
$db_host = ‘localhost’; // host the database resides on

$db = mysql_connect( $db_host, $db_user, $db_pass );
if ( ! $db ) {
print “Error connecting to database server: “.mysql_error();
exit;
}

mysql_select_db($db_name);
?>

Now it’s time for some rss header requirements:

<? header(‘Content-Type: application/rss+xml’); ?>
<rss version=”2.0″ xmlns:atom=”http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom”>

And now we build the channel. I needed my final rss feed to simply show a title, description, image and date. No coding yet. I’m still just following the specs as required:

<channel>
<atom:link href=”http://www.69camaropictures.com/feed/” rel=”self” type=”application/rss+xml” />
<title>69 Camaro Pictures</title>
<description>RSS Feed for 69 Camaro Pictures</description>
<link>http://69camaropictures.com/</link>

Now starts the coding. We’ve already connected to the database, so let’s join the tables and run our query. You’ll notice I’m just ordering by the last 15 in descending order. In this way, my rss feed always pulls the latest 15 results (the most an rss feed can pull) and there’s no need to build a loop! No need to make this hard. I’m also doing a WHERE clause to make sure there’s a title as I want a title and picture for every line item. Modify the query to your table structure and liking.

<?
$result = mysql_query(“SELECT image.imageid, image.image, image.title, image.mydate, allcategories.mycategory, allcategories.catid as catid FROM `image` LEFT JOIN `allcategories` ON `image`.`imagecatid` = `categories`.`id` WHERE title <> ” ORDER BY images.id DESC LIMIT 0 , 15″)
or die(mysql_error());

This next part is the WHILE loop. If you’re new to programming and just trying this out for the first time, you might skip the WHILE loop for now. It’s just using some php functions to clean up the contents of the exported data before it displays on the page. Get your feed working first. Then come back and clean it up. I’ll still include it, in case some need it.

while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
$mytitle = strip_tags($row['title']);
$mytitle = str_replace (‘&nbsp;’,”,$title);
$mytitle = stripslashes (str_replace (‘&quot;’,”,$mytitle));
$category = str_replace (‘ ‘,’-',$row['mycategory']);
$mydate = $row['mydate'];
$mydate = date(“r”, strtotime($mydate));
?>

Okay.. we started the channel above. Now we have to create the actual line items within that channel:

<item>
<title><? echo htmlentities($mytitle); ?></title>
<description>

Did you catch what I did there? If you’re new to php, make sure you understand that you can stick php code anywhere within html (so long as the page has a .php extension) by simply inserting a beginning php tag and an ending tag such as this:
<? this is your php code ?>

Now comes the part that I struggled mightily with. Interestingly enough, the official specs show examples of how to embed video and other objects but never mention pictures. What the heck? Turns out that it’s a pretty sloppy solution so I suspect they left that out intentionally as there’s no clear way to make it happen. I just kept trying (and failing) until I eventually figured it out. This next section will grab a large image, trim it down to 150 x 140 (or whatever size you specify) and display it perfectly in your rss feed.

&lt;IMG width=”150″ height=”140″ border=”0″ src=”http://69camaropictures.com/pics/images/pic/<?=$row['image']; ?>”
alt=”my image”/&gt;</description>

It looks like I forgot a tag or two above there and the browser rendered my html incorrectly, but that’s the actual code you need and the reason it provided a challenge to me.

The next line is how you build a link to your page. You already have the url to your picture page and if you pulled all the data you need from your database on your query above, simply substitute those values and build your url. This is my structure:

<guid isPermaLink=”true”>http://69camaropictures.com/categories/<? echo strtolower($mycategory); ?>,<?=$row['catid']; ?>/picture-<?=$row['imageid']; ?>/</guid>

Finish your item out and close the tags. I will mention that you do need to use the date code above (or your own variation) in my WHILE loop to convert the date, as the date element must be an RFC-822 date-time for a valid RSS feed. You’re likely not exporting that format from your mysql database.

<pubDate><?=$mydate; ?></pubDate>
</item>
<? } ?>
</channel>
</rss>

That’s it! You can validate the feed at w3.org to make sure there are no errors. After you get your feed built, go to feedburner.com (a Google service) and burn a new feed with their service. Now, you can use their tools for a subscription service and automatic emails to your subscribers when new content is released on your site.

The code looks even simpler when you pull the database connection information out and simply do a php include statement to connect to your database. Here’s the simplified version (using the include statement to connect). Enjoy!

<? header(‘Content-Type: application/rss+xml’); ?>
<? include ‘rssconfig.php’; ?>
<rss version=”2.0″ xmlns:atom=”http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom”>
<channel>
<atom:link href=”<?=$site_url?>/feed/” rel=”self” type=”application/rss+xml” />
<title><?=$rss_title ?></title>
<description><?=$rss_description ?></description>
<link><?=$site_url?>/</link>
<?
include ‘../include/myconfig.php’; //this line just connects to the database
$result = mysql_query(“SELECT image.title, image.description, image.id, image.mydate FROM `image` WHERE title <> ” ORDER BY image.id DESC LIMIT 0 , 15″)
or die(mysql_error());

while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
$mydate = $row['mydate'];
$mydate = date(“r”, strtotime($mydate));
?>
<item>
<title><? echo htmlentities($mytitle); ?></title>
<description>
&lt;IMG width=”150″ height=”140″ border=”0″ src=”<?=$site_url?>/pics/images/pic/<?=$row['image']; ?>”
alt=”rss image”/&gt;</description>
<guid isPermaLink=”true”><?=$site_url?>/categories/<? echo strtolower($title); ?>,<?=$row['id']; ?>/picture-<?=$row['id']; ?>/</guid>
<pubDate><?=$mydate; ?></pubDate>
</item>
<? } ?>
</channel>
</rss>

For those not quite sure of the differences and trying to figure out what might hosting option might be best, here’s a quick run-down:

Shared Hosting: This is where most people start and probably all that most will ever need.  I pay right at $5 a month at WebFaction and if you’re looking for shared hosting, I couldn’t recommend a better host for your website.  The support is top notch and they maintain their servers well, so you’re websites rarely, if ever, go down.

The disadvantage of shared hosting is that your website is hosted on a server with hundreds of other websites.  The worst of shared hosts (and I’ve had them in the past) will try to push the number of shared sites past 1000 on a single machine.  With shared hosting, you share all the RAM and CPU with every website hosted on the same server.

If you feel that you’re website is growing quickly and getting a lot of traffic the next step is likely VPS Hosting.

VPS Hosting:  This is a very scalable and flexible solution that is still very affordable, though a bit more pricey than shared hosting.  With VPS hosting, the RAM is yours and yours alone as well as disk space.  You do share the CPU with other sites, though a VPS is typically a very powerful server and processing capacity shouldn’t be a problem.  As far as pricing goes, I’m currently paying for a VS3 package, which includes 1024 RAM, 60GB of disk space and 2500GB of bandwidth.  If I can manage to outgrow this server, I’ll be making a pretty nice income.

Keep in mind that VPS hosting will require a lot more knowledge than a shared account.  With a VPS, you login to your virtual server and you control everything.  For a typical setup, you’ll use the Linux Operating System, as most online websites are Linux hosted, with a variation of a popular Linux distribution.  I’m using CentOS. Ubuntu is probably the easiest of all to manage.  Your VPS host will install the initial image and turn the machine over to you from there.  There’s also “managed” and “unmanaged” VPS Hosting.  If you’re not familiar with Linux, be sure that you buy into a Managed VPS solution.

A VPS is also typically sold with ‘Burstable RAM’ which can be used for a short period of time if needed.  It’s a peak amount that can be used if needed.  This is a great insurance policy for keeping your website running.

If you’ve outgrown a VPS, it’s time to look at Dedicated Hosting.

Dedicated Hosting: Your website is the only one on the server.  All resources, including CPU, RAM and disk space, are yours and yours alone.  A good dedicated server can cost from about $100 to $300 a month on average.  If you’re ready to move up to a dedicated server, chances are that you already know a lot about this option.

And that’s the typical options available with hosting.  I’ll be posting on how to manage the Linux CentOS VM in future posts.

Perhaps my favorite thing to do is scrape HTML pages without having to code for it. The ‘Fetch Page’ module works quite effectively. I like to grab content and RSS feeds, store it in a MySQL database, automate the process and then retrieve it for dynamic website creation.

If you haven’t checked it out yet, stop by and give a look at Yahoo Pipes. If you’re interested in how to make money using Yahoo Pipes, spend a few bucks and pickup a great guide I found here. It’s well worth the investment (a whopping $15). I got my return within the first month of the first website I built and the site has been doing better ever since.  I’m currently building several more from the same model.