Damn it’s been so busy lately! Sorry for the lack of post guys.

Anyway, I’ve found out that it’s a lot more difficult than it looks to post coupon codes on a regular basis! Damn! I’m already running 3 other blogs (that’s a total of four with CouponCodesVault.com) and it sucks a lot of my time considering that I’m still working full time.

So What have I been up to? Well sometime ago I started developing a tracking script in PHP and I decided to put that back on the work table.

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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!