I thought I’d make a personal post for a change.

So far in 2010 I have 3 concerts planned:

22nd March – Delain – I absolutely love Delain’s music! They’re probably my second favourite band (After Nightwish, obviously) and I’m really looking forward to seeing them.

1st May – Kiss – My dad wanted to see Kiss so I thought I’d go with him. They aren’t my favourite band but oh well, they’re still good.

10th May – Kiss – Yep it’s Kiss again. I hope they’re good the first time or this one could be quite boring!

Unfortunately I have to wait until 2011 for Nightwish to tour again, I don’t think I can wait any longer. I’ve seen them once so far in London on the 11th March, I had to travel for around 8 hours in total for that show and it was definitely worth it.

On another note, I really, really hope Nightwish release The Heart Asks Pleasure First soon. I think it would be a good idea to release it in 2010 to give Nightwish fans something to “put them on” until the next album in 2011. I absolutely love that song and all I have is pretty bad versions of it.

Welcome to the release of my JR Memberlist WordPress Plugin.

Description
This plugin allows you to display a list of users on your blog, using a simple shortcode.

It’s very simple to use. Simply enable the plugin and then enter [jrmemberlist] in any post or page you make on your blog. The memberlist will automatically replace it!

That’s all you need to do.

Installation
1. Upload `jr-memberlist.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
4. Use the shortcode [jrmemberlist] to show the memberlist.

FAQ
=Does this work?=
Yes.

Changelog
= 1.0.0 =
* Initial Release

Download
New Link: JR Memberlist

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me via the contact form on this website, or by leaving a comment on this post.

The Micro Niche Adsense Method is a way of earning lots of money through Google Adsense – By making lots of different websites in micro niches. For example, you find a keyword that has less than 100,000 competitors, has a few thousand searches a month and has a high value per click. Then, you make a site just about that one keyword, put adsense on it and then make it rank. You’re aiming to make $1 – $3 per day on each site which doesn’t sound much, but when you have 300 of these sites, then that’s $300 – $900 per day. Not a bad amount.

Now I’m sure you’re interested in how to make this work. I’ll tell you the exact steps I do to minimalise costs and make the process of setting up a site easier.

The first step in the micro niche adsense method is to find a keyword. For this, I use GimmeaNiche.com. It simply gives you keywords to make sites on at the click of a button. Sometimes, you may have to click it a few times until you find a good keyword to use, because not all keywords it gives will be suitable. The best keywords to use are ones which are products. This is because people are searching these keywords to BUY the goods, so you should gain more clicks on your adsense advertisements. Once you’ve found a good keyword (Preferrably multiple words), then move onto the next step.

The second step I do is double check the actual number of searches the keyword gets. For this, I use Google’s Keyword Tool. You should be able to find it with a simple search on Google. You simply enter the keyword into the box, enter the CAPTCHA code and it should give you back some information on the number of searches the keyword gets. You should be looking at the “Global Monthly Search Volume” because this is the amount of searches the keyword gets globally, not just in your country. If it has above a few thousand searches, then this is great. Move on to the next step. If it doesn’t have many searches, go back and find a new keyword.

The third step of the method is to find what advertisers are paying for the keyword. Again, I use another tool for this, which you can find on SpyFu.com. Simply enter your key term into the box and it’ll give you interesting information. You should be looking for keywords which are, at the lowest, $0.40. Of course, you cannot expect to receive $0.40 for the click since Google does take money from it. The higher the value, the more you’re likely to earn per click. If you’re happy with the value it gives, then you can move onto the next step.

The next step is to register a domain. To save money, I normally use GoDaddy and register a .info domain. You can get these currently for just over $1, which certainly isn’t bad. I try to register the exact keyword in the domain, with the words separated by hyphons. For example, if your keyword is “nightwish music shop”, then the domain you would register would be “nightwish-music-shop.info”. It is very important to get the keyword in your domain name. Once you’ve registered the domain name, you need to find hosting. The best thing to do when you’re starting off is to find some cheap hosting. Hostgator would be a good choice. Then, once you’ve reached a lot of sites (100+), then you may need to think about upgrading to a dedicated server.

After this, you’re obviously going to make the site for the key term. What I do is find some previous articles written on Ezine Articles and then rewrite them. This seems like the best idea. What you should be aiming for is a 4 page website – I normally have the homepage, two article pages and then a privacy policy. Make the articles around 300 – 500 words long each. Now for the design of the page. I personally made my own HTML theme using a program called Artisteer. You need to find a design which is very basic – And put adsense advertisements in. The adsense should be placed above the content so the first thing users see is the advertisements. I generally use two 300 * 250 advertisements and then a 160 * 600 advertisement in the sidebar. I’m having quite a lot of success with this. Once you’ve setup the website, you need to upload it to your web hosting and get the website online. Once your site is online, move onto the next step.

The final step of the micro niche adsense method is getting your website indexed and ranking on Google, which is the key determinant of your website’s success. To get your website indexed quickly, it really isn’t difficult. To start with, just submit your website to Digg.com. This normally gets your website indexed quickly. After that, you can use another tool I use, located at Verifiedfile.com/seo/. It will make lots of popups show up on your computer, just leave them until it’s finished. After your website is indexed, you need to get the website ranking for your keyword. Since you’re targetting micro niches, it makes it much easier to rank well on Google. The best thing to do is to submit articles to some article directories, build some social media links (Such as from pligg websites), maybe a few web directories too. The best way is probably finding some high pagerank pages and making relevant comments on these pages in order to gain high quality links.

If you’ve done everything correctly, move on and start a new website. Do not spend all of your time building links to one site – Build lots of links and then move on to a new site. You probably shouldn’t expect an instant ranking, you should expect to start making some money from the website after around 30 – 60 days of it being online. You should aim for 1 site being built a day. This won’t be much work each day, and after a long time of doing it, you’ll reap the rewards with a nice big paycheck from Adsense every month. Good luck with your micro niche websites!