Project Adsense - New stuff

Well, this never say die attitude of mine might very well kill me. This week I've added forums to the recipe site, the travel site and the open source depot site. I've also purchased some new hosting for the articlechimp article site.



I've been trying to install ArticleDashboard on godaddy for about 2 weeks with little or no success (actually, I got close, but was never able to get it fully functional). So, I've decided to purchase a hosting account from hostgator and give them a try. ArticleDashboard did not work right out of the box there either (which surprised me, since it is their preferred hosting and they make money off referrals to hostgator).



Anyway, commenting out the php_flag line in the .htaccess file allowed it to work.



I then purchased a package from adinstalls which will put a default database of ArticleMarketer categories on my site and sign me up with ArticleMarketer to recieve articles. It's been almost 24 hours since I purchased this package and the install is not complete yet (although they did contact me to ask for my userids/passwords, which I gave them...so trusting). I guess I'm the only one who works 24 hrs a day!



Now, on to ArticleMarketer for article submissions. As you know (or maybe you don't), I've been using Article Post Robot for the past month or so to submit articles and while it's easier than submitting on my own, I've noticed a number of deficiencies in the product. The most glaring being that they need to allow two types of author resource box, html and non-html. So, to use article post robot effectively I find myself doing manual submission which takes me about 2 hours for 100 sites.



I noticed that ArticleMarketer allows two resource boxes (aha...somebody is thinking), so I signed up for it. That was 2 days ago. Now, they are supposed to send me a confirmation e-mail to confirm my e-mail address. It never arrived. I approached thier tech support with the problem and they replied that it must be my spam filter. I advised them that I do not have a spam filter installed, to which they replied "it's always the spam filter. So, being politically correct I gave them another e-mail address (which also does not have a spam filter enabled) and still no confirmation e-mail.



At this point, I am getting more than a little frustrated. #1, turn around time on e-mails seems to be almost 24 hours. It looks to me that they do their tech support between 7pm and 9pm, which means you get one shot at this every 24 hours



So, I've now given them another e-mail address (also without spam filter), completely unrelated to the first two, but I know it's not spam filtering, it's on their end...so I gave them a little background about myself. I worked two years in tech support earlier in my career, so I know that the customer is rarely right, but in some cases, the customer does know what they are talking about. C'mon now, I've created e-mail clients, written ftp programs, dealt with internet technologies since way before broadband was available for home users. I know what a spam filter is and how to enable/disable it...trust me, I get spam from every source imaginable, I've won the British lottery dozens of times and had more Nigerian bankers offer me money than you can imagine. I get new ebay scams daily and notes from banks I am not part of...there is no spam filtering on my accounts.



So, now I wait...another 24 hours and I know they'll plug in the new e-mail address and I know it won't work. Then what will I do? I'll ask for my money back. This is unfortunately, because from everything I've read, this is the article distribution service I need and I'm getting screwed because something is messed up with their sendmail daemon, or their javascript isn't working, or they've upgraded their php engine, or their database log file is full or some such nonsense.



Ok, so here is a partial site list of what I've created so far



Cruise Travel Review

Cruise Travel Review Forums

Best Ever Recipes

Best Ever Recipes Forums

Open Source Depot

Open Source Depot Forums

Free Classic Books

Online Bible

Real MMA

Ultimate Fighter MMA Forum

Christmas Wonderland

Project Adsense

Halloween Village - just started

Cottage Country Contractor -home of Philtor Contracting

Best Dental Site

My Fancy Diamond

Zippy Chimp

GoCurious.com eventually will link them all together

Uber Wisdom, not yet started



Who knows, there may be more.



Take it easy...I'm not going to BTW, grand total is a little more than $20