Drought-Order.com: New reader-built site
Haven't done this in a while, but today I'm pleased to announce another new site from a reader of Make Easy Money with Google. Drought-order.com is a resource for UK homeowners looking to find out more about drought orders. A drought order is the British term for what we North Americans would call a watering ban. It's a very simple site, but there's lots of useful information about saving water, how to keep your garden alive during a drought, and so on.
One thing that's interesting for me about this site is being exposed to new British terminology. Terms like hosepipe instead of garden hose, water butt for water tank, and so on.
The owner of the site had this to say about my book: “Thanks for writing such an informative book on the subject. It greatly helped in constructing my fledgling site.” I love to hear from happy readers. I'm no Joel Comm, but it's good to know that what I write is helping others succeed in their own online ventures.
One piece of advice for the site owner: you need to settle on which form of the domain you want to use as your website address. Is it “drought-order.com” or “www.drought-order.com”? They both provide the same content, but one should redirect the visitor to the other. You can follow the advice in The AdSense-ready WordPress Blog (Part 1) in the section Prefixed With “www” Or Not? to fix this, assuming of course that the site is using an Apache web server.
Beyond that, you might consider branching out and building a more generic site about water conservation that would appeal to North Americans. But one step at a time!
P.S.: Part 4 of my blog series is coming shortly. It just takes time to write those posts because they're full of screenshots.
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Eric Giguere is the contextual advertising expert who wrote Make Easy Money with Google and Uncommon AdSense. You can read this blog by mail if it's more convenient for you, just send a blank email to memwg-blog@aweber.com to subscribe.
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