Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Sunshine after the rain

Not a bad day considering I didn't get much done. This afternoon (GMT) I went for an interview at a IT training center and got accepted for training. In a nutshell this means I should be able to fix my own computer when the damn thing crashes. :-)

To my family this means that I will end up with MCSA, MCSE and a IT Security qualification. It also means that I will be in a position where I can get a much better job and leave that WHSh*t newpaper job. The very tiny downside is that It will take best part of 8 months to complete my training and I'll have to keep the night job in the meantime. Given the good news I didn't mind too much about getting lost on the way home and sitting in traffic in the pouring rain for nearly 2 hours.

On the Adsense front I did manage to play around with the traffic estimator and this has given me a good indication of where I'm heading.


More tomorrow.

And Now to Get Started.

Having read and viewedloads of ebooks and videos from Joel Comm's Adsense Templates I now must get started on putting up a web site. All the 'Guru's' recommend starting with something that you are interested in so with 150 subjects to choose from there must be something that sounds good or at least I might know something about.

I find that with all this information overload you can get a great many ideas but finding the time to put them into practice is something else. Her Ladyship is none too happy with the amount of time I spend in front of the computer and after the last batch of templates from another source which failed to impress anybody, she is very wary. Still the money is spent and it would be silly not to let me try and at least recoup the outlay. I've no doubt that any more would be most welcome though.

It seems the next step is to start researching a few keywords to see what might give me the best chance of success. Google Traffic estimator here we come....

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