by personal | Jun 21, 2011 | Updates
I have my job interview in 2 hours or so and I’m right now at home just doubting myself in every way. I mean this company that I have an interview for, well, is a software company.
So I was thinking just to console myself to list all the skills I do have, which I can bring up, though apparently some workers there can speak decent enough English, however, I’m not sure whether speaking Mandarin is an absolute requirement or at what level. So, I thought I’d list the skills I have and that I could probably use to benefit the company:
- I am a hard worker, I won’t be late to work. This is attributed to the fact that I did work delivering papers everyday at 6 am in the morning for 4 years.
- I can touch type and I am very fluent with how the web works with marketing. (AdSense, AdWords, Yahoo Advertising, MSN AdCenter etc etc)
- I can create websites with the use of blogs and design logos which will match those websites.
- I can speak, write and type in fluent English. Though these might already be attributes which most hold in this office where I might be working in the future.
- I can talk on the phone if I am given enough information, and I can probably sell something pretty damn well if need be it.
- I have a grasp of internet and the way it works. I can script in HTML/CSS and I’m learning Python. I’m also good at managing websites.
The horrible thing is the job description that I know so far is just “computer” according to my mother who I told to inquire about when she was talking to her friend, whose husband owns the business. I’m just terrified that I am going to walk into an office and then be questioned whether I can do this or that, with myself saying “I probably couldn’t do that…” if he is looking for specialised skills, which I may not have. I am already at an all time low with my learning Chinese, so another rejection of sorts would kind of finish me — I’m not sure what I would do in that case. I believe I have a disorder called social anxiety, which means I am constantly thinking about others and my own opinion about myself and worried about those opinions especially if they are bad.
But then again, I have had to console myself by saying, what is the worst that can happen? I get rejected, I just move on. But the thing is, this is my big break. If this is a decent job which I don’t mind doing for most of my life, then hallelujah, I have find something which I will finally enjoy and make money while doing so.
So am I scared to death? Yes I am.
In an hour and a half, I will have to ring the bosses wife as she will pick me up and take me to the office, which I’ve seen (On Google Maps) and it looks pretty decent. They have an office and a factory right next to each other. Even if I got a factory job just putting components together, I think I would be pretty much satisfied if the pay was any good.
Hopefully I can make friends with the bosses son, if I do that, I’m pretty much assured a job without any problems; I think. Whatever the case, apparently this is as a favour from the bosses wife to my mum. – As I’ve been told that when the bosses wife was younger, she was poor and like my mum, she gave money to her and took care of bosses wife and her brothers and sisters. – Which may have been the trigger somewhat to their success in making a company. So this is sort of like a “payback” if I’m allowed to describe it as that.
So hopefully it goes well. If it doesn’t, I will continue with life, learning Mandarin and trying to live life day by day and just try to gain some new experiences around this country. I really want to go to Kenting… so, who knows?
Peace out.
by Jonny | Jun 2, 2011 | Updates
After being a webmaster since 2006 I can tell you that making money online isn’t as easy as it seems. Google AdSense is the only way to make real and decent money as the alternatives cannot beat Google AdSense’ revenue sharing percentage.
You have probably reached this blog through Google and are looking for ways to make money online. As you have either lost your job, you don’t like your job or purely want a job where you can do everything from home.
The only way I know through my experience on the internet is Google AdSense. I’ve seen countless people making thousands of dollars with AdSense. – With the opening up of partnerships with YouTube people are earning thousands of dollars through videos that go viral or through gaining a subscribers list on YouTube. But you have to understand these people get views on their websites or get views on their videos for one reason only. People want to see their videos and their content otherwise they wouldn’t be there. It is that cliché of creating something which will make others like your video then spread those videos like a viral infection. That is what essentially gains views to websites and videos.
But if you don’t want to be a content creator, however purely want jobs which are easy online, where can you find trustworthy sites?
Your first stop is probably looking on Google, but you have to be extremely weary due to the fact that the scam artists around the world have access to the internet. I’m sure there are plenty of scam artists in your country, but now you face the worlds scam artists and they are more adaptive and especially so on the internet. – They can get away with things much easier without consequence. There is no real regulator out there and if you want to do anything about a scammer it would cost you a lot more money than it is worth.
Get rich quick schemes don’t exist
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by Jonny | Apr 5, 2011 | Updates
I was thinking of buying a “.co” domain name which Namecheap were offering at a special rate of around $11.00 and thereafter around $24.00.
I was thinking of possible domain names that I could purchase, but then I thought, why bother? I’ve owned so many domains in my time, I think I just have to stick to one website as opposed to a spread of websites which eventually burn me out of any project I have going.
I was thinking of starting a website about opinion on news stories and stuff like that, then perhaps making something out of it.
Just my little blurb for today!
by Jonny | Jan 29, 2011 | Updates
If my day couldn’t be made any worse, I’m currently going through hosting problems.
I believe that my hosts web server has been compromised in some way or another. Whatever the case, my websites search engine rankings have severely been disrupted because of problems which I believe are to do with my host.
So what is the problem?
Digital Point (Online web forum) has this keyword tracker for search engines which monitor your websites ranking in search engine results for particular keywords. To see updated keywords (I.e. how your keywords are doing for the current day) you have click a refresh button so the latest results can be checked in the search engines. I did this today. I found that for all if not most of my keywords I had been monitoring had been de-listed altogether from multiple search engines including Google; my main source of traffic. I then checked why, on the Google Webmaster Tool website and found that my website has been de-listed since it contained files linking to a phishing website. Naturally I thought my website had been compromised. The apparent phishing website which appeared to be under all my domain names under my shared hosting account in a particular sub directory were websites which were asking for confidential information. (Such as bank details) – Plus it was a direct copy (Design-wise) of a large legitimate website.
I looked for the files in my directories. — They weren’t there.
I then went on my hosts support desk and opened a ticket telling them of this problem. I then find a review page (A page where people had reviewed my web host) and tested to see if others were also facing a similar if not the same problem. As I couldn’t find the files from that phishing sub-directory on my website, so in my head I thought of several possibilities:
1. My DNS had be compromised. Or my files pertaining to redirects had been modified. (.htaccess)
2. My host had been compromised.
3. All my websites had been compromised. (Unlikely)
Going back to the review page (Reviews of my web host), people had posted links to their websites hosted with my host. (Which I won’t name) I used the links or peoples websites to see if they had the same problem, as I said above. Instead of my domain name in the URL, I replaced it with theirs and with the corresponding phishing directory.
i.e.: http://www.domainame/~blindsp/goss/gtwpages/
By Jove I had found out from this that my hosts server had been compromised and that it wasn’t a security flaw in any of my websites. It was in fact my web hosts fault.
I’m still waiting for them to fix this issue and then I’ll probably have a go at them as this has cost me dearly in search engine positioning rankings. I was the top 10 for some very highly used keywords and now I’ve been marked down by Google because of the phishing website which is appearing under my domain names.
This is just horrible. I hope they fix it soon and I have some real concessions if my host can’t provide me with an explanation which I find satisfactory. I may just jump ship to a more reliable provider as I do not like the idea of staying with a host whose server has been compromised with me having to report this compromise to them. This has also possibly affected thousands of other websites out there if there are that many on this server.
by Jonny | Jan 14, 2011 | Updates
If you know Google AdSense it is a ad program which allows webmasters to publish advertisements on their website. There are probably millions of AdSense publishers who have websites which to some degree are making money. But it always seems depressing when you see these 'success stories' saying, "Oh I've just $200 in one day with AdSense" or just recently someone on DigitalPoint posted a thread saying they had made $20,000 ($USD) in one year; with Google AdSense. It is astonishing that you can earn so much by doing this. Google AdSense in 2010 made a staggering $8.16 billion ($USD).
Why I'm depressed?
I started on the web originally as a webmaster (I created my first site) in 2005, I had created previous websites which weren't exactly websites, they were just web pages on sites which let you play around with some type of crude editor. Anyways, I created my first blog in 2005 which really got me interested in making money, as it was then I found out about Google AdSense. I didn't want a day job, I wanted to do something I love and sitting in an office wasn't it! Since 2005 I've tried to make enough money to get out of my day job. I mean wouldn't that be great? You have your own freedom essentially and you are required to do this or that. I guess I like being my own boss, I mean who wouldn't want that.
I'm depressed because I've been trying for over 5 years to do something. I've started countless forums first on free sites, then I started my own free and paid web host which didn't go too well as I had personal issues and had to pay a staggering mortgage which required me not to be on the web; but for my ass to be out there and working. I've had 5 years to come up with something and I've likely spent many thousands of pounds (UK Currency) on the web; yet what have I produced? I feel I haven't done anything. I have my 2 blogs (This one and my webmaster website) a military site and and astronomy website. My most popular is my military site at the moment. But with earnings a bit jumpy, it makes me wonder a bit. I mean I used to do this kind of stuff for the love it, I loved creating websites and trying to make them popular. But my only motivation is for my websites to make money. It is not money though that is driving me only… I really do want my sites to succeed, but in order to do that I need a reward or a break! I think I'm coming a little burnt out over it all.
I'm just going to keep trying though. 5 years in my opinion is a long time, but you aren't going to get anywhere if you stop. I just need to keep going and keep doing what I love best… which is running my military website. – I don't know why but I've always been interested in armoured vehicles or anything military related.
But c'mon
It just upsets me that I can't say that I've made this amount of money. Because in reality I haven't made much for myself. A name is usually backed up by something of purpose. I have nothing to back me up to say that I've done SOMETHING. Sure I've created websites, but are they successful? No. They may get traffic, but money is what makes the world go round seemingly. If you aren't making those pieces of paper then you aren't successful. You can measure success in several ways but money is the primary and everything else is secondary.
I mean I love the fact people are making money through AdSense … and I'm freaking jealous, I want to be in that position to be able to proudly say, through my ups and downs I've finally made it! But it has been 5 years and I haven't produced much. I wish I my military website back in 2005, my god would my website be popular.
I've made a goal
I'm not going to worry about making money any more. I've set a goal… the goal is: I will need to make 100 quality articles for my military website this year. Currently it only has 58 articles, which have taken me a long time to write up. I set the site up in 2008, but I left the site up and running without any updates for a couple years; then I started writing again as I was inspired and enthusiastic. My other goal is to gain traffic. Currently I'm looking at around 10,000 absolute unique visits (According to Google Analytics) this month. Which is a step up from previous months, as previous months in 2010 I was averaging around 3 to 4,000 unique visits per month. By the end of this year, my goal is to at least get 20,000 unique visits in 1 month. It might come at the end of the year or perhaps my website will pick up in the search engine rankings, who knows; it is my new goal now.