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While doing some routine maintenance on Center of Muse, I found a bunch of other code needing to be tweaked. So as inconvenient as it may have been to anyone who came looking to read some prose about biz - it was time, and I was here.

Meanwhile - I was trying to take care of all of this internally on GoDaddy - where this site is hosted for a few more days yet. I will be moving it over to AN Hosting, with my other websites. GoDaddy frustrates me, in the hosting department and internal site workings department.

The File Manager, FTP Client, MySQL area all kept timing out, so I would have to restart. Several times I was logged out of the site entirely (not my doing) while I was actively working inside GD & being quite active. And this is without getting the little warning pop up message.

Of course, I finally resorted to trusty FileZilla, but for a quick thing here or there, a host’s internal features should be able to do the trick.

After spending a few months comparing my two hosting sites, I’m MUCH happier with my switch to AN Hosting. I have not experienced down time. I have not been unduly disconnected from the control panel. I HAVE received top-notch service from customer support and tech support, and all at a price that BEATS GoDaddy.

GoDaddy will remain my Big Poppa for registrations, and domain management. But I’m happily transitioning the remaining websites I own to AN Hosting.

I couldn’t think of an “M” word that is a synonym of analysis - let me know if you come up with one!

I’ve finished the analysis of some of my marketing experiments today. With some surprising results.

Keeping in mind that the majority of my ads are “below the fold” because I’d rather readers poke around inside this site, than leave it - I can now share with you which marketing experiments have produced profit, and which are being deleted.

First of all, what hasn’t profited:

• AuctionAds - I liked the widget because it was pretty and colorful. I didn’t like the lack of control or how the ads that showed up had nothing to do with most that I write about on Center of Muse. After a three month trial - $0. It goes buh-bye.
• Agloco - I joined because I like the idea of a community based around sharing revenue for being online. And as I am online a lot, it’s a no-brainer to use the Agloco Viewbar when I’m doing non-secure surfing. I don’t use it if I’m working on anything that’s password sensitive or belonging to a client. Just-in-case. The company has not turned a profit, yet, but as I am accumulating hours and “shares” - I’m going to continue to give Agloco more time. (Think about it- Amazon didn’t make a profit at first, either!)

Stay tuned for information on what affiliate programs and advertising experiments produced enough for me to keep them & strongly recommend them to you!