There are three main reasons why I go with static HTML:

• Speed
• Security
• Webhosting Problems

Speed

I think speed is by far the most important aspect of selling anything on the internet. This has nothing to do with Google or search engine optimization. Google has announced that they’re looking to speed now and have it in the algorithm, but it doesn’t make up anything substantial, YET.

A website needs to open fast. SNAP! (I just snapped my fingers) I don’t want one second of lag when it comes to potential visitors that will buy. It’s as simple as that for me.

Basically there are three types of things that a website can possess for the loading of a page: HTML code, Service Side Operations and Server Side Operations with a Database.

HTML: This is the fastest because you already have all the work done. You made the page in HTML and the web server just has to send the data to the visitor.

Server Side: This means that there is programming code in with your webpage and that the server’s CPU actually has to process the code before HTML is created and can be sent to the visitor.

Server Side With a Database: This is where you have information stored in a database. The database is on a separate server and needs to be connected locally. The programming code is processed. And when information needs to be pulled out of the database, the server has to connect to the database server and pull the information. Once this is all done, HTML data is sent to the visitor.

Guess which one takes longer. WordPress (which this blog is running on) does the Server Side with a Database. You may notice that a blog like this may have a 2 – 5 second pause as you connect and then everything loads. WordPress runs on PHP Server Side Language and accesses a mySQL database. If you’re running a Server Side Language (PHP, PERL, SSI), it is for the most part normal. The time it takes a computer to process language doesn’t take that long and visitors will never even know. But there is a reason why I brought it up, which I will go into on the webhosting problems section.

Security

HTML can’t be hacked. It can’t be cracked. It can’t be exploited. Your webhost could get hacked, but it is completely regardless of the HTML. Exploited servers happen typically because they can somehow manipulate the server side operations of the code to open up the server. That is really all there is to it.

This is why you have WordPress updates because they find holes and they need to be fixed. This is why it is important to update WordPress immediately after an update. If you miss the update, you risk getting hacked. And remember people are typically hacked before a fix is created and an update is released.

I’m not trying to scare you or anything like that. I just can’t imagine having 100 websites all running WordPress and forgetting to update just one of them.

Webhosting Problems

My biggest pet peeve with webhosts is that they offer “unlimited” everything. I think all of us recognize that nothing is unlimited and in reality they’ll shit can your account if you get anywhere close to it.

If I was on a dedicated server (on a server all by myself) I wouldn’t have a problem with it. But I’m not really interested in paying $200/mth for a dedicated server. A shared server is what most of us are on and it’s shared. There are other people on the same computer and they all have the same “unlimited” plan.

The most common webhosting problem you run into is the mySQL database server lagging. There’s always some asshole that thinks they can have “unlimited” mySQL databases (1 per WordPress site). So they setup 1000 WordPress sites in an hour and lag down the entire database server. This causes anyone on the same computer to have a lag with any site that needs the database (like this WordPress site).

Guess what? My static HTML sites load fast. SNAP! When the database server is lagging or down.

Sometimes the processing of Server Side operations actually crashes too. It’s not quite that common, but it does sometimes happen. Any site that has PHP or any other type of server side language will experience a 500 internal error, which is what people will see when they go to your site.

Guess what? My static HTML sites load fast. SNAP! They don’t need any server side operations done, so it’s not an issue.

The only way that HTML goes down is if there is an internet load problem, CPU overload or the web server just goes down. And in those cases no website setup will work for you.

This is why I use static HTML for the vast majority of my sites. I do use PHP without the database. I just use it for include() commands, so that I can do site wide editing of footers, headers and shit. So that is really the big secret for why I use static HTML. I told you there was a method to my madness lol.

Let me give you a good example. I was reading through a tread the other day on some success story. This guy talked about his “blah blah” method and what he was doing. After I got through the post I thought that it sounded pretty cool and I that I would give it a try. Guess what I see? Right in their signature it has a link to buy the “blah blah” method. I’m serious. I see this all the time.

I remember a while ago there was a thread on anti-article marketing by a person. It was several pages long and the OP mentioned something about making static RSS feeds. At the time, I wasn’t sure how to do those, so I asked a question about it in the thread. For whatever reason the OP missed the thread and it pushed onto the second page. I PMed this person and just asked them about it. Guess what the reply was? Buy my WSO on it.

Everyone on the Warrior Forum is selling. Everyone has an agenda and you need to aware of the information being fed to you. With that said, I’m not against making cash for your own methods. Do what you need to do to make money and stuff, but I know there is an agenda and it pisses me off.

Don’t get me wrong though, there are some good people there (few and far between), but you can usually tell the difference. The first is obviously these long drawn out posts that have no value. I can only describe them as Steve Pavlina posts. Just complete fluff that sounds nice, but contains absolutely no value.

This is the kind of stuff you have to watch out for. I just made a post called How to Make Cash Online Copywriting. Even though these forum posts appear to be regular posts, it fits into the elements of a sales letter. There is always some big explosive title like “How I made $100/day with one month of work” or something like that. You read it and the benefits are focused on. “It’s easy”, “saves time”, “get in the top 10 fast”, “get loads of traffic”, but the substance is missing. There really isn’t much about the method. Just how fuckin’ “uber elite” it works. And it is all topped off with a sig link.

You will also see the Warrior Forum flyer that just pops into threads related to their topic and basically talk about their method. Now, I know that I’m describing this in a way that makes it appear like this is blatant spam and that’s not what I’m talking about. They’re premium long time members of the forum and people that you would probably trust. They’ll just make long “fluff” posts that add no value, but sound nice. And it becomes even more difficult to think about what is right when every shit brain member praises them for the “amazing post”.

I’m a member of the War Room at the Warrior Forum and it isn’t too bad. There are some interesting things in that forum, but there is another aspect of it. It’s basically list building up sell central. Don’t get me wrong, there are a few things listed in there that are cool, but for the most part you’re getting teaser information or methods that are a bit old.

Oh I just got a PM about something. I guess I’ll talk about the topic. It was about Article Spinners and I was curious about how you can write articles with a 70% uniqueness. Well, of course someone highly promoting the idea of it is someone that is plugging their own program. The traditional spinners use {} syntax. It works like this:

I {like|enjoy} to {walk|drive|hitchhike} to the {mall|store}.

Essentially it randomizes the entire sequence of words, so the sentences are different. Well this guy says that the {} syntax is shit and he give me a promo video for his product to watch how he does it. He has a system that is just like it, except it doesn’t use {} syntax. It just has some other syntax and made in such a way that it actually slows you down when you’re writing.

But this guy has a kicker, he just uses paragraphs and spins entire paragraphs around.  It’s ridiculous and just stupid. You only get so many variations of the article (which are essentially unique because you wrote them) and then you’re just using copied paragraphs which I’m sure Google sees.

I’m more interested in recursive {} syntax and do it at a much more micro level, so that it is spun and you get that 70% unique rate. I’m probably going to do a post on this later though.

I just found this funny. Absolute joke on this guys part. His product is nothing more than the {} syntax he called “crap” and it is built in a less efficient way. Plus his method is all about swapping (not spinning) paragraphs. Which you can do on your own and don’t need to purchase this asshole’s product. But this is a prime example of how people are biased and lying to make cash on the forum. They’re not going to tell you the truth. They’re just trying to sell you crap. And they’re hoping you’re too dumb to fall for it.

This is just so ridiculous. I’m literally laughing at the stupidity of this video and this moron on the Warrior Forum. While I was dicking around with the crappy {} syntax I have an article up to around 70% uniqueness. I’ll be able to produce 50 copies of it at that rate and Google probably won’t even be able to tell the difference.

What a fuckwad. Stay away from the warrior forum if you want to make cash online. It is something that is going to full you with bitch work and bitch ideas that are really people selling your some bullshit.

I have a product that I was selling on PDC for almost a year now. I’ve gotten a lot of consistent sales with it over time. I’ve been making maybe $100-200/mth on the site for the last few months, but I’ve really tried to bump up it’s rankings to help increase traffic.

Anyway, I logged into my PDC account the other day and saw that I had an inbox message from the product owner stating he was giving all his affiliates a week to change their links. He was ending the affiliate program. The date has passed for removing the links, but his site is still up. He still accepts payments through the PDC link. In fact I got credited for a sale yesterday.

I know what you’re thinking. “It sucks dude, but it’s just part of the game. You only lost out on a few hundred.” I know. That isn’t really what has me bummed out. A few months earlier I contacted the owner and asked if I could have access to the product so that I could sell it better. It wasn’t like I was just asking him for it like I was a leech or something. I’ve sold this product a lot at this point and he said no. He had some bullshit excuse “I have 2000 affiliates and I can’t give them all access.”

First, this is PDC. You do not have 2000 affiliates. This is a nice little niche we’re in and it is big enough to make money, but not big enough for 100 active affiliates. I bet there was probably around 5 active affiliates making sales for him.

Basically, he is one of those publishers that hates affiliates. There are a good publishers out there that know affiliates are how you make money, but than there are other publishers that resent the fact that they have to pay affiliates. I think this guy falls under that category. He’s still running his site, he just doesn’t want affiliates, which tells me he doesn’t want to make more money he just has a resenting problem.

I know what you’re thinking though, “just replace it with another affiliate product and move on.” If I could do this than I would of already done it and wouldn’t of even posted this. The fact is that there aren’t any other products. Or at least products that are worth my time. It’s hard to go from an affiliate commission of $25 per sale to an amazon book that costs $11 (that’s a $0.44 commission).

The thing that is getting me down is that I either have to dump the site with some shitty affiliate commission or build my own product and compete against him. It is going to be a pain in the ass to build such a product, but than again I want to literally beat this guy for fuckin’ over affiliates.

I was clipping at his heels on the front page of Google for the niche keyword (not long tails, actual niche name), but I just recently got slapped to somewhere in the 100 positions. Coincidentally, I was slapped down there the same time he announced he was ending the affiliate program. Maybe he was upset that I was getting close to dethroning him. I’m at least hoping my major drop in Google is just a temporary thing that will come back.

It’s just annoying when you’re doing business with someone you think is looking to make more money, but they really aren’t. They have some agenda where they resent affiliates. It’s lame. Fuck’em. Fuck’em in the ass.

Basically, I’ve been experimenting a little bit with cheap $7 ebooks that I set up and sell. I know selling these cheap is not smart. I use these cheap ebooks to test out niches that I want to dive into. I want to see that I can get some sales with some crappy little ebook before I make a more comprehensive and more expensive product to sell.

As an affiliate, you don’t have to put up with all the shit. Even if you’re a publisher at Clickbank, you don’t have to put up with a lot of the shit from customers. You’re going to get shit from people no matter what, but for $7 (minus 50 cent fee from Paypal) it’s not worth it.

It’s been about 5 days now since someone bought this $7 ebook. I do it independently through Paypal, so after they make the purchase they’re supposed to get redirected to a page to download. Of course, some people don’t get forwarded to the download page. This is probably a problem on their side and not with Paypal.

Well, this person pays at 4:03pm. I get an email at 4:06pm telling me that they didn’t get the report and that it was supposed to be instant. At 4:25pm (when I first saw the email), I replied back with the link for them to get it with an apology. A few minutes later I get an email from Paypal saying that they opened a dispute. It hasn’t been 30 minutes since they purchased and they opened a dispute.

Here is what they wrote in the dispute: “Ordered your report, which was supposed to be delivered electronically right away. No link, no response after email sent. Send me the report NOW or I’ll continue to pursue getting my money back through paypal.”

They haven’t responded to my email since. Hasn’t closed the dispute or anything.

I suppose the point of this rant is that you’re going to have to put up with shitty customers no matter what. There is nothing that you can do about shit brains like that, but I think it is important to make it worth your wild. $6.50( $7 after fees) just isn’t worth it. E-Junkie can help with this sort of mess since it will email them the file.

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On another rant side note, EzineArticles had a 100 articles in 100 days event. I didn’t know about it at the time until I got an email telling me that I qualified. Basically they told me that I could get a free mug. Not that big of a deal, but a free mug is a free mug.

Well they eventually sent it to me, but I have to pick up the parcel at the post office. It requires me to present photo ID and a signiture to get it. That wouldn’t be a problem, but they addressed it to one of my pen names. Dumbasses.