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Usfreeads is a site that allows it’s members to get free classified ads, and has been around for 9 years now, and  i have seen tremendous buzz about it around the web since i started blogging, which was over a year now.

The buzz about usfreeads is how it will help a common user to make money placing classified ads. It seems that thousands of users are taking advantage of the supposed benevolent way google looks towards usfreeads pages. It seems, that a well written ad  will most likely to perform well on google search ranking. You can look around and you will see that many “praise the gods” and “worship” the service provided by them.

Well to me, all that is a bunch of crap even if it is true (don’t take me wrong :p). The only thing the reviews made me do is to try it out for myself. Check the results of my experiences (yes another experience) and see if a common guy, with no special skills like me can make something positive out of this. So about 3 months ago a registered for a free account to give it a try round.

Ok, the first obstacle i found was the free account. It totally sucked. You were only allowed to make 2 ads, with no html, images or links to the product you want to sell!!! Point being: They want you to buy a premium membership. So free ads my ass (pardon my french lol).

I even bother to try and write an ad with this circunstances. Total waste of time, it wouldn’t bring me nothing extraordinary and in the end it was rejected. So i left my account getting dust until i could get some time to experiment. So today i subscribed the premium membership with one week free trial. After that, it will be $9.99/month.There is also a gold membership for only $10/year but to say the truth, if you see what premium gives and what gold gives, you will choose premium.

Ok, the tools are set, and i just need to choose some products and write some ads. I think my experiment will last a month, probably more and the success or failure will depend on the amount of ads i write, the quality of them and off course on how good usfreeads perfoms on delivering targeted traffic.

So the experiment will involve two types of money making programs:

1- My newest Bans Store. One that i have put more time to develop and the first one that i can call a real store. The other one were just “experiments” lol;

2- Affiliate programs from several CPA ad networks.

Now, do you want to try for yourself? Then just join Usfreeads and get a premium membership and i invite you to share your experiense here. (yes is is an affiliate link, im weak lol)

IF you want to see where this goes then subscribe my rss feed to keep easier to track the evolution process.

Wow, almost 6 days without publishing anything here at the blog! I don’t like to do this but my situation demands it.

It is the final week of my internship at the health centre and a project that i am doing for the internship is taking longer than i expected, although i am at the final steps of it, but still i need a couple more days to have it at the necessary stage.

Sadly this is making me fall behind on some jobs i have pending such as new bans stores, mini sites and reviews…. :\

So while i don’t post a decent topic here i will let you read some posts of blogs that i read:

How to find a niche for your bans store - Flimjo

Speed up your blog - The Net Fool

Bill from TheBlogentrepeneur says that you should treat your niche sites like Business.

And finally, Building A Famous Blog Is Like Writing A Hit Song is brought to you by Tom from Standoutblogger.

Have fun reading these posts and ill see you in the next post!

If you have been following me for some time now, then you should have noticed that i am a guy that likes to experiment and commit mistakes.

It is how we learn right? At least that’s what i hope. lol

Well, i have a forum with over 1000 members and a very decent traffic count each day.

I am using Simple Machines to power the forum and i was using the version 1.1.4 with a great looking template with ads very well placed, specially the adsense link units.

The forum database was getting too much garbage because i installed many modifications for the forum, i try and then delete some of them. But the deletion usually doesn’t erase the database data inserted when installing the mod, so along these years the garbage was accumulating. And lately, i was receiving to much database errors for my taste. Fortunately only i could see them, but that was pissing me off so i decided it was time to get ride of the crap…

What have i done?

well, i could easily have just upgraded to the newest stable version of SMF (1.1.5), but i had a little itch compelling me to install SMF 2.0 Beta 3.1 Public.

Ok, now you can say “What was this guy smoking? Pot!?!” lol

It’s a risk to install a beta release on a production site (production meaning fully launched and active site), but as i am very comfortable installing, updating and modifying SMF and i had backups to help me in case of despair, and considering this i installed the beta version after doing the proper tables deletions to clean the junk.

Did a full install of SMF because the majority of the modifications weren’t compatible, template included!!! That is why my revenue from adsense was screwed.

I have to stick with the default template, because no one is making templates compatible with version 2.0 due to the fact that the template structure will be completely rewritten for the final release.

With the old template, i was getting around 15-20 clicks a day making me a nice revenue in the end of the day, but now, with the default template with the ads in the exact same place, my clicks fell to 1!!!

The SEO structure was also changed, and this can potentially have some impact on revenue because google is still crawling the new addresses and i have seen a decrease in traffic coming  from the big G.

This could be a concerning problem, but to say the truth, i don’t really care. Yes it is money that im not winning anymore, but i can use my forum to help develop an excellent piece of software by reporting any bugs found, and i was really looking forward to try the new options available in version 2.0, and it was well worth the risk i took.

So, if you are performing very well with your smf forum don’t upgrade to version 2.0, unless you are still using the default template and you are comfortable as i am with SMF management.

Im in the middle of my work, but things are a bit quiet for the moment and i decided to take a moment and write a review that is due for some time now.

Today’s post will be a review about thewwwblog, which was a prize i recently sponsored at thenetfool’s outrageous contest.

Thewwwblog is run by Chetan Bhawani a dental student in India. He has a series of well established sites that go from dental and health issues to SEO and money making.

Thewwwblog is half year age. It was created on December 25, 2007. Christmas time! Nice date to start a blog. Maybe to work as a talisman? Judging by his feed count (152) i would say things are going great for him!

This blog covers several issues like SEO, social bookmarking, blogging tips and has some interesting posts in the case studies category, like Digitalpoint forums - A money maker for webmasters

The blog is well organized and has interesting posts, easy to read, which is very important, up to date and regular posts.

As you can see for yourself this is an active blog, not because of what i have mention in the previous paragraph, but because of the number of comments in each post, although this is a nofollow blog (Which i don«’t consider a negative aspect).

Recently, Chetan changed to blog template, that im not very fond of… It is better than the previous one, but to gray for my taste. There are better options around.

Other thing i would change is the banner at the top of the blog, probably an ad would be a better idea. Also, the in text ads color from Kontera make the readability poor in some places. Dark blue with a dark gray background don’t match.

Visit thewwwblog

Yesterday i visited a site that shocked me a bit for a few seconds, but then i remember i have already seen more crazy ideas than this one. All of them lead to the wealth of the seller…

Ian Usher is simply selling his entire life! Ian says he had enough of his life and he doesn’t want it anymore!

This guy had a great life, but due to certain circumstances (his wife broke his heart) he decided to sell his house, his belongings, his friends and job! on Ebay!!!

This seem a bit drastic and crazy, but, oK, i agree with him. LIving in a house that was built to live a life with our love, and see that love go away would be most unbearable to keep living there…

This auction is gathering a lot of attention, and believe it or not there are currently 37 bids, with the top bid reaching the AU $315,100. The auction will last 4 days more, but im sure that this value can double, making Ian an original millionaire!

This is a case where a crazy idea could bring unexpected wealth, even if you tell it to your friends and they laugh until they cant breath. The most difficult part is to put it in practice, if we don’t try it, how will we know it doesn’t work?

Read more about ian or check is auction page.

Off Topic: IM very tired these days… The work is acumulating on the health center. I never stop, lots of treatments to do for the patients, and then when i arrive at home i have to work on photoshop…. im on zombie mode….