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Monday, 10 April 2017

I have some bad news and some good news:

Unfortunately, I found that running my website, new2worldofwarcraft.com, had become economically inviable, so, I have closed the site down. Over the years I know that thousands had visited and read the great advice, but they did not financially support the site.

The good news is I have converted the content into an ebook which can be purchased for a small cost of $2.99 (£1.80?). I will receive approximately $1 per sale. The book gives great, comprehensive and easy to follow guidance suitable for new and inexperienced players of the World of Warcraft role-playing game.

It includes chapters on levelling your WoW characters (including the fastest way), WoW professions, WoW gold, gems, farming, questing and links to the best WoW websites for all of needs. It is without doubt a great guide. It can be purchased at:

New to World of Warcraft

I also have produced a $2.99 (£1.80?) guide on how to protect your PC from viruses and other malware for free, which includes a guide on how to maintain your PC:

Protecting My PC Against Viruses and Malware for Free

Monday, 15 December 2014

Do You Want to Level-up Your WoW Characters Much Faster?

You do? Then get along to Level-up Your WoW Characters Much Faster

Scroll down the page and you come to the too long/did not read version. The article is full of good advice on how to speed-up your character's levelling progress.

My website also gives great advice on lots of other aspects of World of Warcraft:

Want to know the what the best WoW Internet sites are?
Want to know where to get the best WoW add-ons?
Want to know how to adapt your WoW user-interface?

Plus lots more. Go on have a good look at the site and learn lots about the game you didn't know.

Thursday, 23 October 2014

I got World of Warcraft for my Birthday.

And you want to learn how to play World of Warcraft? Well WoW is much more complicated than it first appears and you can waste a lot of time and money in wandering about without a clue. Blizzard have drastically improved the in-game help over the years but their on-line advice still remains very, very basic.

I became aware of this lack of information very quickly and realised that there would be lots of advice on-line, which of course there is, but there wasn't a simple comprehensive guide for new World of Warcraft players to learn the game. So, I thought I would fill the void and have produced an easy to follow guide which also points you to other very useful websites. Just pop along to Learn to Play World of Warcraft.

When you are there please could you tell all your friends about the book by using the Facebook, Twitter and other links. It will increase the book's popularity tremendously and I will be very grateful.

Sunday, 29 December 2013

I Got World of Warcraft for Christmas

Well no I didn't, but presumably you did and this is my invitation to you to look at what is probably the best guide for new World of Warcraft players... New to World of Warcraft

It is a very good guide for the WoW beginner or recent convert to the game. It starts off with the very basics and explains simply, but in depth, what you need to know to be able to play the game to a high level of competency. It explains many things that most guides tend to forget about.

It has the following World of Warcraft guides: gold, profession, levelling (or leveling if you are American), add-ons, and screen/user interface advice. You need to know all about these to be able to play the game efficiently. It tells you the fastest way to level up your WoW character.

Use my tips and I am sure you will have fun playing the game.


Friday, 21 September 2012

Well Mists of Pandaria is almost upon us.  It is released on 25 September.  So I have been busy rewriting parts of my New to World of Warcraft website to encompass the changes to the game.  There have been some fundamental changes, but incredibly this has meant relatively little had to be altered on the site.

The changes make the game much simpler for new players, meaning that you don't now need a degree in maths to understand the game mechanics ;-)  It is still very layered though and older players will still have a knowledge advantage, especially with regards to game add-ons such as Bartender4.

Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Is Clickbank a Scam?

I know all about the controversy about Clickbank not accepting Paypal payments as verification of your financial identity, but I'm wondering about the honesty of the recording of sales made through affiliate advertising.

My site has had 19,500 visitors to the home page alone, and I know adverts have been clicked on a few thousand times and yet there is no record of me having made a single sale.  This seems very odd and I would have thought the statistical odds would have produced at the very least one sale.

I have been very careful to target my ads to my readers interests, so it's not as if that would be a particular problem, and as I said these ads are being visited.  I have also been very careful to exclude sellers who are only harvesting follow up email addresses.  Of course what I cannot do is stop my viewers from recording the web addresses for later viewing, but it seems to me they are just as likely to revisit through my website.  I would love to hear from successful Clickbank affiliates so I know money can be made this way :-) 

Which brings me on to Google Adsense and a site I saw saying how much money can be made from them.  Remarkably the guy had no Google ads, only ads from companies paying him for the ad space!  Now that is the way to make money, it's just a pity he has to lie to his viewers about how he makes his site pay.  I left a comment, but I will be incredibly surprised if it gets allowed.  It was along the lines of it would take hundreds of thousands of hits, on thousands of websites, to make Adsense a significant revenue producer at a penny per click.

My site is doing OK in the search engine page ranking and can be found under a number of search phrases on either the first or second page, but I have run out of ideas of how to publicise its existence.  Social media is often quoted, with Facebook and Twitter highlighted.  But it seems to me it's the same old chicken and egg syndrome as to how I find "friends".  Once upon a time it was so easy, but nowadays requesting friends is just as likely to get you banned.  So I'm a bit baffled to how people can still get thousands.  Obviously well known people always will, but how do us normal folk achieve it? 

Thursday, 12 July 2012

What is SEO now?

With all the recent changes made by Google I wonder what search engine optimisation really means anymore?  No doubt the huge business structure that grew out of the early clamour to please the search-engine bots will try to convince us to buy their expertise and products, but do we really need them now content is King, or supposed to be?

To be perfectly honest I am more confused than ever.  I have run around like a blue-arsed fly trying to make sure my sites are in order and that the links I have built up are not over optimised, and so considered as spam.  It would be nice to report that all this effort has suddenly propelled my site, Learn to Play World of Warcraft (https://learn-to-play-wow.blogspot.com/), zooming up the page rank and sees me at the top of Google search results, but it has not :-(  In fact it seems some of my apparently spammy links are the best for traffic hits, and that the long tail is just a story.

I still cannot understand why my site name does not show up on search results.  The actual name and not the web address.  I know there is a lot of competition, but many of the search results shown are poor content sites, or sites that have not had any new content added for years.  This whole business has got me baffled and thinking it is just for insiders, and is just another big con.

What do you guys think?  Are you currently successful?  If so, what are your secrets?