Up to this day, I worked part time as a webmaster and part time as a system administrator for a government branch. Well this is gonna change as I got the news today that we’ve got a new “client” who will require more of our web services which in return will make me a full time webmaster.

I am very happy about this since web development and web hosting are my passion. I’ll be managing Linux and Windows web servers. I’ll also be going through PHP and ASP development.

I guess those 14 years in this business are finally paying off!

Errata: I have made a small error in the video tutorial. The CRON command to schedule the OpenX maintenance should’ve been:

/web/cgi-bin/php5
/home/content/c/o/u/couponsvault/html/ox/maintenance/maintenance.php
www.couponcodesvault.com

 

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The second week is almost over, I wish I had more time to work on this case study lately! I have now installed OpenX on my GoDaddy shared hosting account. OpenX (aka OpenAds) is a free ad server developed in PHP. It’s very useful to track clicks, geotargeting and lots more.

I’ve made a video tutorial to show you how to install OpenX on your GoDaddy account:

Can’t see this video? Watch it on YouTube.com!

Unfortunately the original video lasted longer than allowed by YouTube so I’m gonna have to make another one to show you how to display ads using OpenX.

Stay tuned, I’ll be posting this by tomorrow!

It’s now time to select some merchants for my make money online case study. The couponcodesvault.com blog is coming together nicely and I’m almost ready to add some content.

To start this off I will stick with merchants from CommissionJunction.com to make things easier. The only exception will be Amazon’s Associate Program.

Here are the merchants I’ve selected so far:

• Amazon
• All Web Hosting companies available on CJ;
• Buy.com
• Shop.com
• Aperion Audio
• Apple Store
• 123InkJets.com
• Carrot Ink
• StubHub
• Hewlett Packard
• ShoppersChoice.com

I don’t know how these merchants will perform yet so I might add or remove some of them through the course.

I wanted to display some ads from TTZMedia but their service is always down! So I’ve decided to apply for a Chikita.com publisher account. I am waiting for approval and I’ll let you know how it goes.

Next step: install OpenX and to display some ads on the blog and then I’m ready to start adding content!

Stay tuned!