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!

Before I go any further, I must say I am very pleased with GoDaddy’s support so far! I’ve had a DNS problem which Lauren (from GoDaddy) helped my solve within a few minutes. Wait time on the phone was approximately 6 minutes. I just wished they had a toll free number though.

GoDaddy even got a step further by calling me back the day after to make sure I was satisfied with their service and support. I think that they’ve had some negative feedback about their support in the past and now they’re making up for it.

That said, for only $4.29 a month, it just doesn’t get any better than GoDaddy.

Ok so Week #1 has gone by much too fast and I didn’t spend has much time as I would’ve like to on this case study.

We are now going to add some useful Wordpress plugins and we’re also gonna add a nice customized theme to our website.

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