No matter what I tried to do .. the result was the same. When you upload images in either visual or non-visual mode .. and then click the INSERT button, the flash screen would turn white - freeze - not close at all, and no image would be uploaded.

Not Good!

I can imagine how frustrating it must be for the writers .. not being able to insert images. There is a feature where you can insert images from other sources .. but, this is useful when sites are already online say, on Flickr or PhotoBucket etc. But it’s much better to store the images on my dedicated server - at least, I like it better. I don’t have to worry about sites disappearing, or images being removed, or even sites going broke and shutting down. And, my job is to make sure that my writers just have to focus on their talent and skills - writing. It’s just not right for me to say .. “Well, it worked for me on my site~!”

So .. I looked and looked and looked .. and - I FINALLY FOUND AN ANSWER THAT SOLVED MY PROBLEM.

Here it is in a nutshell

If you jump to the website, or “view site” from within the dashboard of my blogs .. the bottom taskbar of the browser window was displaying battlingforhealth.com

If I go into my dashboard, option/settings .. my WordPress address (URL) and Blog address (URL) both was displaying this address BattlingForHealth.com

You see .. I like to capitalize the first letter of each word of these type of domains, like AndYouWill.com and even worse on HARTmarket.com sites!

All I did was change the options from BattlingForHealth.com to battlingforhealth.com and everything worked perfectly after that!

Found at Wordpress Support by N8uri

* Everyone: I’ve got the fix:

Hope this finally puts this huge issue to rest!

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* Pre Wordpress versions 2.0

> WORKED LIKE A CHARM

* Wordpress version 2.1+

> Worked, if you used Firefox and in Visual Mode

* Wordpress version 2.2-2.3+

> Worked after an initial delay, by rigging a fix found in the support group
> I documented the needed changes in my previous post back in November

* Wordpress version 2.5+

> BROKEN AGAIN

But .. Have No Fear Fellow Wordpress 2.5+’ers!

Nick Ohrn has saved us all and created a NEW AND IMPROVED Amazon plugin that works on wordpress version 2.5.1 (the latest wordpress version at the time of writing this post)

Download it at Wordpress
“AMAZON RELOADED FOR WORDPRESS” Plugin

* Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet

The nice thing about this new plugin, is that it works with BOTH Firefox (FF3) and Internet Explorer (IE7) that I have tested it on - in BOTH Visual-Editor mode and non-Visual-Editor mode. Although, I should mention that in Internet Explorer, in both modes .. I was only able to insert the small image into the post.

Highly Recommended

… by HART!

Thanks Nick!

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Here is the link: HART-Empire Network Earnings Spreadsheet Document

The earnings are on an “Accrual” basis, where I’m documenting what I’ve earned, but monies will usually come in the following month, or (if ever) when I reach the minimum threshold for release of my earnings for payment. The expenditures are on a “Cash” basis, as I pay something related to my online earnings, I just load up the spreadsheet and modify it.

Summary of Gross Earnings 2007/2008

* January 2007 - $344.61
* February 2007 - $372.37
* March 2007 - $492.41
* April 2007 - $491.85
* May 2007 - $620.99
* June 2007 - $632.47
* July 2007 - $672.66
* August 2007 - $701.78
* September 2007 - $706.09
* October 2007 - $801.12
* November 2007 - $859.20
* December 2007 - $863.36

** Year-To-Date Gross Earnings (Jan-Dec/2007) - $7,558.91
* Average (YTD) $20.71 per day or, $629.91 per month

* January 2008 - $981.88
* February 2008 - $1,076.12
* March 2008 - $1,596.30
* April 2008 - $1,872.57
* May 2008 - $1,767.04

** Year-To-Date Gross Earnings (Jan-May/2008) - $7,297.08
* Average (YTD) $48.01 per day ($57.00 in May/2008) and Average (YTD) $1,459.42 per month in 2008

Reflection

May 2008 declined in gross revenues over what April 2008 accomplished. In my release of the April 2008 figures, I hypothetically wondered outloud if I could maintain a 15% growth each month .. and if I could, May 2008 would have been more than $2,100. But, although that I did fall short - I believe I know what the reasons were:

* Meltdown and After-Tax Season Burn-out during the first week of May/2008
* I put a call for, and hired 5 new writers for the PetLvr and “LVR” series of blogs last half of May/2008

Both of the above events took up my time away from production of posting content and the promotion of same during the month. Despite that, if you look at the chart below - I have almosted DOUBLED revenues from 2006 and almost exceeded entire 2007 earnings just in these past 5 months.

Regarding expenses, it’s hard to believe I still had a net PROFIT - because in May 2008 I purchased a network-wide site license to have Ansuman’s 32-Language Translator “Gold” version plugin for $400 USD. It’s expensive but, at the beginning of 2008 I had in mind to upgrade most of the important existing blogs - 1 at a time - with the “PRO” version translator plugin at $30/pop … and one new blog a month. This just made financial sense in the long run, that I can have this available for all my blogs - existing and future blogs.

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Here is the link: HART-Empire Network Earnings Spreadsheet Document

The earnings are on an “Accrual” basis, where I’m documenting what I’ve earned, but monies will usually come in the following month, or (if ever) when I reach the minimum threshold for release of my earnings for payment. The expenditures are on a “Cash” basis, as I pay something related to my online earnings, I just load up the spreadsheet and modify it.

Summary of Gross Earnings 2007/2008

* January 2007 - $344.61
* February 2007 - $372.37
* March 2007 - $492.41
* April 2007 - $491.85
* May 2007 - $620.99
* June 2007 - $632.47
* July 2007 - $672.66
* August 2007 - $701.78
* September 2007 - $706.09
* October 2007 - $801.12
* November 2007 - $859.20
* December 2007 - $863.36

** Year-To-Date Gross Earnings (Jan-Dec/2007) - $7,558.91
* Average (YTD) $20.71 per day or, $629.91 per month

* January 2008 - $981.88
* February 2008 - $1,076.12
* March 2008 - $1,596.30
* April 2008 - $1,872.57

** Year-To-Date Gross Earnings (Jan-Apr/2008) - $5,530.04
* Average (YTD) $45.70 per day ($62.42 in April/2008) and Average (YTD) $1,382.51 per month in 2008

Reflection

April 2008 was another positive growth month, earnings-wise .. despite that the traffic growth was a negative for April 2008. According to the statistics, April 2008 was 190.13% of January 2008 earnings, and 117.3% of March 2008 earnings. I am not unrealistic and think that each month the earnings can grow by a similar percentage, if I put my mind to it .. but I wonder what would happen if I could maintain a 15% monthly growth rate… Then, my monthly earnings could look like this:

April $1,872
May $2,153
June $2,476
July $2,847
August $3,274
September $3,765
October $4,330
November $4,980
December $5,726

Now .. I like that $5,726 figure in December x 12 could be = $68,718/year! Realistically, however .. I need new structure and planning to achieve this growth .. better content, new writing staff, more traffic and promotion, and higher priced ad spots that I have been getting.

I still think this is possible, and being hooked into the Adify network and CPM sponsorship has opened my eyes a little to this possibility. I need the HART-Empire Network to grow. I have yet to be paid from them, and still don’t expect to start receiving payments until June or July… but, at least I accrue.

Regarding expenses, although it looks positive net income, cash flow is different from net income. I will be expanding and hiring more writers starting June 1st though, and despite my adversity to the automatic renewing of domains by my registrar .. I have a lot going through this month - and I think I will renew them one final year .. just to be sure I don’t need them, and to protect the domain. Maybe I’ll just park them this time

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February - I do most of my client’s T4/T4A/T5/WCB reporting
April 30th - Deadline for personal income tax
June 15th - Deadline for Self-Employed personal income tax
June 30th - Final Deadline for Corporations with December 31 year ends.

Although you don’t have to file until 6 months after the corporate fiscal year end, most covenants by banks and lenders request to receive their financial statements within 90-120 days after the year end. Also, sometime before I can complete the T4’s and file personal tax returns, I need to actually complete company’s year ends first .. so, you can imagine how busy it can get!

Well .. this year was one of my busiest. However, for blogging purposes - I think I survived. Thankfully, I have a great team of bloggers in the Battling For Health series of blogs (which I hope to expand upon over the next couple of months) and help with my PetLvr blog this past week by Ruth .. and April 2008 was only a slight set-back.

Surprisingly, when I look back at the same period, February 2007 to May 2007 .. the traffic didn’t really slow down as much as I remember it did - although, the numbers is much less At least I can say that after a year later.

Meanwhile …work-ethics-wise .. I’m still beat, and finding it tough to get back into the ‘blogging’ arena again. I averaged about 2.5 hour sleep per day for April, and that includes getting the odd 6 hours once every 3 days ..

I am burnt out. I still have lots of work that should have been finished April 30th. I still have lots of work planned and scheduled for post-April 30th.

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Yes .. that is apparently true … 5300 MySQL daily backups is the limit! (in case you were curious)

I’ve used up 6.666 GIGS of Google space allotted on one of my gmail accounts that I use strictly for my daily backups. Thanks goodness that I have never really had the need to actually restore any of these backups, but it’s nice to know that if I needed it - they were here. Normally, when I do major wordpress upgrades, I keep an EXTRA copy of my MySQL database on my own Harddrive - where I know where it is and can view the file and see if it is a good backup - in addition to the gmail backups.

You can click on the image below to see that it took me approx. 5300 daily MySQL database backups to use up the 6,660 MB of space, and it prevented me from sending any new backups.

As of this day, except for the last week .. I have now deleted all of these backups and will start again.

So, What Exactly Am I Doing?

I’ve got a lot of blogs and have installed the Wordpress Database Backup Plugin in each of them. I have scheduled daily automatic backups of all of my blogs to be emailed directly to one of my gmail accounts, dedicated for just the backups.

On certain of my blogs that have a MySQL database too large for emailing, it backs up the database and stores it in a backup folder on the server under the wp-content folder, and periodically I have to go in and FTP it to my local computer and delete it on the server, to free the space. For instance, the MySQL database for my PetLvr blog is about 40 MB’s and after a few weeks .. it starts to add up! It’s my largest database, but I have a lot of plugins and database tables included .. for a variety of statistics - not to mention the actual content, which is almost reaching close to 4000 posts soon.

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The New Wordpress Picture Gallery

There is a new Flash Uploader now with wordpress 2.5. In the WRITE screen, there is a little icon where you can upload images, and other media. When you click it, a flash window pops up.

Click the button to browse files on your computer

The nice thing about this, is that if all your pictures are sorted in the same folder on your computer, just hold down the CTRL button and click various files to upload multiple files at once.

Now, after I uploaded all of the pictures, there seemed to be a whole lot of error messages received. I think one of them is directly related to my Pmetrics plugin and I haven’t figured out why I get the others - yet. I just know that the pictures are there. Feel free to add any description to the picture. If you notice the one shown above, I added a description - and it appears on the original site as a caption beneath the picture.

Once you have added all of your descriptions and comments - don’t forget to save all changes! This adds the description permanently and associated with the picture in wordpress.

In the Flash Uploader screen .. click the “Gallery” tab. All the picture thumbnails are there now - and all you have to do is scroll down to the bottom and click “Insert Gallery Into Post” button.

What happens, is that it inserts a one-word code into your wordpress post - (excluding the quotations and space) - looks like above .. (so when I upgrade to the 2.5 version it won’t disappear in this post). The image is from my PetLvr blog - before publishing.

“[” gallery “]”

And Voila!

See this in action over at PetLvr Blog

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Here is the link: HART-Empire Network Earnings Spreadsheet Document

The earnings are on an “Accrual” basis, where I’m documenting what I’ve earned, but monies will usually come in the following month, or (if ever) when I reach the minimum threshold for release of my earnings for payment. The expenditures are on a “Cash” basis, as I pay something related to my online earnings, I just load up the spreadsheet and modify it.

Summary of Gross Earnings 2007/2008

* January 2007 - $344.61
* February 2007 - $372.37
* March 2007 - $492.41
* April 2007 - $491.85
* May 2007 - $620.99
* June 2007 - $632.47
* July 2007 - $672.66
* August 2007 - $701.78
* September 2007 - $706.09
* October 2007 - $801.12
* November 2007 - $859.20
* December 2007 - $863.36

** Year-To-Date Gross Earnings (Jan-Dec/2007) - $7,558.91
* Average (YTD) $20.71 per day or, $629.91 per month

* January 2008 - $981.88
* February 2008 - $1,076.12
* March 2008 - $1,596.30

** Year-To-Date Gross Earnings (Jan-Mar/2008) - $3,657.47
* Average (YTD) $40.19 per day or, $1,219.16 per month

Reflection

March 2008 was a good month for me .. I think I might finally have extra cash left over in my Paypal account after paying all of the bill! Not bad - up 48% over last month!

* This is cool. If you look at the table below, I am $7.53 SHORT of how much I made two years ago for 2006 .. That’s right! I’ve grossed in 3 months this year what I had grossed in 12 months of revenues online in 2006! And, it’s also about half of what I earned for entire year of 2007! That’s pretty amazing to me. So far - my estimates for April may not be 48% growth again, but I see it being a little higher!! Revenues are growing. I just have to keep up the traffic flow as well.

* I picked up a new media sponsor, but will not be getting paid until 100 days (3-1/2 months) later. I am still looking for something/someone new to sponsor the Battling For Health blogs.

* Sitemeter traffic still shows growth in March 2008 over February 2008.

* I did note one thing though - I was prepared to let about 12 domains lapse this month and did NOT renew them when they because do. Unfortunately, my domain registrar certifies guaranteed renewals and I signed up to do that all last winter - and this month about 9 domains automatically renewed themselves.

I am pleased again that March traffic is still on the rise, overall - in the HART-Empire Network.

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You see .. if you recall, last September/October I consolidated a lot of my network. I had two hosting ISP’s and consolidated them down to just 1 ISP … and I consolidated two of my “series” of blogs and domains to subdomains … where I had 26 domains before, I now have 2 domains with at least 13 subdomains on each (BattlingForHealth.com and the AndYouWill.com sites)

Now - that’s a lot of domains, and I took shortcuts in creating most of them over a Sunday Afternoon. I will give you a real-live example I fixed today.

And You Will Travel

The current URL for this blog is … travel.AndYouWill.com ..
The old URL for this blog was … AndYouWillTravel.com

the MySQL database was created under the AndYouWillTravel domain (I’ll call it “travel”) and associated with the “AndYouWillTravel.com” domain. However, it can be used with any of my accounts, and that’s what I did. I created a new blog in a subdomain of AndYouWill.com (I’ll call it “andyou”) and just linked the config.php file of “andyou” to the “travel” mysql database. Because that database had lots of references to the “AndYouWillTravel.com” domain and URL, I had setup a 301 redirect .. and nobody would know the difference. You would go on the “AndYou” domain and access the blog which referred to “travel” URL domain, but the 301 would send people back to the “AndYou” domain without them even knowing it.

But - there was a catch. You see, this “travel” MySQL database is associated with that “travel” account which is associated with the domain. If I were to let go of this domain, the association with the MySQL database would be broken, and I would never be able to access that database again on the current configuration blog!

What I had to do, was take a proper backup of the existing blog at this point in time on the old MySQL database associated with the old domain, then create a new database and restore the database and associate it with the new domain/subdomain.

So - I did this yesterday, and it took me about 15 minutes .. as I also had to rename all the source content that linked to the old domain URL. I have the instructions all documented in THIS POST. And, I believe 5 of those 8 domains that were due today has lapsed. No regrets.

My OnLine ToDo List

Well .. Speaking of above .. I have about 15 more blogs to convert .. Most of these blogs relate to the “AndYouWill.com” series .. and I do not want to keep the old domains. I will let them expire. I know for the “BattlingForHealth.com” series of blogs, I have decided that (for now anyway) I am keeping them and not letting them expire. The old domains are too similar to the name of the blog (e.g. Battling-Cancer.com for the Battling Cancer blog) and I think I want to keep that ‘in the family’ … so-to-speak. At least for now.

* #1 - Catch Up And Make Sure All MySQL Databases are Local To Each Domain/Subdomain (takes about 15 minutes each blog, plus checking time)

UPDATE #1 - (Assessment) - After review of all my configurations, it appears that I have 13 MySQL databases to convert still .. 7 on the BattlingForHealth domain and 6 on the AndYouWill domain

The rest of my todo list is something that I’ve been working on for months, over time - but it seems that time is getting scarcer and scarcer and hardly any advancement has been made on my next few tasks ..

* #2 - Finish upgrading all the remaining blogs from Wordpress v2.2 to v2.3+ (takes about an hour each blog with proper backups)

* #3 - Finish installing network template on remaining blogs (takes about 2-3 hours per blog, with all right codes and setup e.g. analytics, social sites, google adsense channels, etc)

My goal is to complete this all by March 31st. I have many domains coming up for renewal in April and, that is quite a busy month for me.

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Here is the link: HART-Empire Network Earnings Spreadsheet Document

The earnings are on an “Accrual” basis, where I’m documenting what I’ve earned, but monies will usually come in the following month, or (if ever) when I reach the minimum threshold for release of my earnings for payment. The expenditures are on a “Cash” basis, as I pay something related to my online earnings, I just load up the spreadsheet and modify it.

Summary of Gross Earnings 2007/2008

* January 2007 - $344.61
* February 2007 - $372.37
* March 2007 - $492.41
* April 2007 - $491.85
* May 2007 - $620.99
* June 2007 - $632.47
* July 2007 - $672.66
* August 2007 - $701.78
* September 2007 - $706.09
* October 2007 - $801.12
* November 2007 - $859.20
* December 2007 - $863.36

** Year-To-Date Gross Earnings (Jan-Dec/2007) - $7,558.91
* Average (YTD) $20.71 per day or, $629.91 per month

* January 2008 - $981.88
* February 2008 - $1,076.12

** Year-To-Date Gross Earnings (Jan-Feb/2008) - $2,058.01
* Average (YTD) $34.30 per day or, $1,029.01 per month

Reflection

February 2008 will be remembered doubly for me

* The first month I broke $1,000 gross revenues. Adsense revenues have only picked up slightly although traffic has been increasing each month.

* The first month my sitemeter overall statistics exceeded 100,000 page views traffic. 100k! WooHoo!

I am pleased again that February traffic is still on the rise, overall - in the HART-Empire Network. There are a few sites that I still am neglecting, as my busy “offline” work is starting to interfere with my time availability. My pre-posting sheets help me visually watch out for things that gets too far out of hand, however .. and - YES - I’m aware that these 100k statistics represents traffic on about 30-50 blog or however many I have currently~ So, it’s not great when you look at the individual stats. I do look at them by the way.

Analysis Of Revenues

I thought I would keep up the side-by-side comparison to see how many months it takes me to exceed 2007 year-to-date revenues

As I have been saying each and every month so far .. Where is the money?

Analysis of Expenditures

I will not be publicly analyzing my expenditures in 2008, although if you look at the public google document you will be able to see where my profits are shrinking to .. And, in February 2008 a little had to do with me catching up and paying my EVDO (laptop PC card hi-speed internet access) 4 months at once. Me bad.

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