After going back and forth between wheat, we recently decided to drop it again after my husband brought home a red tortilla wrap sandwich which gave me a medium gut attack (I consider severe to be when I moan, grimace, or writhe).

I get brain-fog with some of the attacks; it’s a combination of a mild headache with some sinus pressure, and a serious case of the stupids (my ‘killing’ my Money Making Experiment blog wasn’t due to the stupids, it was some kind of theme incompatibility due to my host’s settings).

I clicked through my main PTC sites, and did a little work on my IBS Nurse blog I’m setting up, and worked on my Squidoo Lens (not published yet). Mostly I wrote my About Me, then figured out how to place ads, and added some Links, and Amazon RSS modules to the Squidoo Lens.

I’m almost back to normal (not quite, I just noticed I put in the wrong title to my new blog, argh, it’s fixed now), and am sticking with rice and potatoes for my soluble fiber foods.

I used to have to make changes to my old WP blog manually through text editors and FTP programs. But now everything is automated, and I’m having more problems with the new automated way than I did doing it the old-fashioned manual way. I’m getting the same feeling as when my friend would ask me to help her with her site that she’d made with M$FrontPage back when I used to hand-code/tweak.

The last time I bought a new vehicle, I got strange looks from the dealer because I refused automatic windows — I drive over a lot of bridges, depending on where I’m working. I can’t stand drive over bridges with automatic windows unless I lower them enough to crawl out of before getting on the bridge. Weird, I know. I don’t think I could kick out a window, but I know I could manually open one if I ended up in water somehow.

Back to my Money Making Experiment blog; here’s my comment on the theme maker’s blog:

Hi, I had a new blog with a different theme I liked, but after trying to monetize with ads, I checked how it looked in IE, OMG!

So I keyworded ‘wordpress themes monetized ads’ and after clicking around through 4 blogs with monetized wp themes, AND checking live demos in IE, I decide on this theme.

I DL and unzip, then unzipped the required plugins and uploaded those into my hosts plugins directory.

Then I activated the 3 new plugins in WP admin.

And the theme is being uploaded into the themes directory during this time.

So after activating plugins, and seeing that the theme upload is finished, I go though admin to DESIGNS, and activate this theme.

I have no site, nor do I have an Admin area!!

To make sure the above is very clear:
After successfully activating the required plugins, and FTP’ing the theme to the themes directory — I activated this theme in the designs section of admin panel, and that was the last I saw of my site — both the actual site, as well as the admin panel.

I had not made the code changes from this post yet, because I was hoping to make those after activating the theme. I don’t know if that’s what caused my blog to ‘disappear’ or not 8^)

Everything appears normal through FTP, and I did NOT change any permissions anywhere, just in case you’re wondering =D

Please advise what I did wrong, and how to correct it, thanks so much.
Shreela

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Since I can’t get into my account, I don’t recall if you have a cheat link, but I try very hard to watch out for those, even to the point of enlarging my text size so I can read the links easier.

Please let me know if it’s a problem with the site, or if it’s something I inadvertently did (I’m somewhat new to PTC’ing, but I’ve learned my lesson about paying close attention to PTC links before clicking them, since I’m guessing that’s what happened to one of my other accounts my first week into PTC’ing).

Thanks,
Shreela

Amber wondered if I might have clicked a cheat link by mistake. I suppose it’s likely, since this was my first week PTC’ing. But darn, I wish I could just be penalized or warned for a mistake like that, instead of losing my whole account. I’m going to ask if I can have my account back if I pay closer attention to the links (I have enlarged my text across most sites for this very reason).

Here’s what I wrote to my blog, along with a copy of my email to PPCPayDay, when my account was first deleted:

I checked PPCPayDay’s Terms, and I do not believe I’ve violated any of them.

I’ve pasted them below, and will address each one:

Multiple Joins
You are not allowed to create any more than 1 account. << I have ONE account

False Representing
We do not tollerate anyone who uses false information to get referrals. << I have NO referrals; I’m still new to PTC’ing

Cheating
With our tough anti-cheat system, it is extremely difficult to cheat. If someone is caught cheating or simply attempting to cheat, we have the right to forfeit all earnings and possibly even ban the user from our network. Cheating would include any of the following:

Interfering with our system to prevent optimum security and/or reliability.<< I log in, and click

Creating any type of emulator, or a program to automate the process of clicking.<< I click manually

Any malicious act that may, in any way, interfeire with our system.<< I clicked a lot over a few days, then requested payout

Spam
We do not beleive in spam, and we are very strict on the handling of your information. The only emails you will receive are periodic emails with information about updates and issues with the site.

Inactive Accounts
If your account has been inactive for more than 45 days, it will be deleted. I’ve not been a member for 45 days yet

Advertising Terms<< I have no webpages, so none of these apply
– The website must not contain pornographic, racist, discriminating, vulgar, illegal, or other adult materials of any kind.
– The website must not contain any frame breakers.
– The website must be english.
– The website must not contain or promote any viruses
– The website must not conatin ANY promts such as download dialogs or confirmation alerts.
– The website must not exceed the 1 popup/popunder limit
– The website’s single popup/popunder must not open any new windows.
– The website’s single popup/popunder must not break any of the above terms.

Subject to change<< I have not received ANY emails from them since joining; I checked before writing this. I always look at my Yahoo account’s junk folder before deleting. So it can’t be because of agreement changes, because I never received a notice from them to accept or deny the changes to the agreement.
This agreement can change. Although we have the right to change this agreement without any prior notice to our members, we will send out a notice to all of our members the new terms and/or terms that have changed changed. If for any reason you do not accept the changes, you will need to contact us, and your account will be removed.

I’ve just emailed their contact email address with the following:

Hi,

I joined the other day, and clicked through numerous ads for a few days, and noticed I had enough for payout. So requested a payout on August 3, 2008 for the $5.01875 that was listed under my balance.

I try to log in today, and find that my account has been deleted. I checked your Terms page, and do not believe I’ve violated any of your terms.

Please explain which term you believe I’ve violated so we can discuss it.

Thanks,
Shreela

I’ve documented this the best I know how, considering I’m new to PTC’ing. I’ll follow up when I receive an explanation email from them, or I hear nothing.

I was assigned a 206 area code — yea, I’d rather have a local, but it’s free, but I was able to make my own greeting (unlike j2). And I can collect my voicemails as wav files at the site, via email, or both.

I’ve already tested it, and so far it works great.

I found a survey site that’s considerably easier to navigate that some of the survey sites I’ve seen this last week (mostly it’s the combination sites that confuse me). But Review1′s prizes are easier to find, and their forum is very populated and active, which tells me people are getting their prizes!

The sub-forum Tips From The Pros was very helpful; I was able to make 3.25 points in a very short time — I’m not sure exactly how long since I was doing other things in between, like dinner, dishes, finding and setting up a new voicemail service (I’ll give it it’s own post). But I used to do those kinds of surveys to make Linden$ when I played around in Second Life a while, and I never could do them properly until this forum taught me exactly how to do each kind of survey.

But if you’re not the forum-reading kind of person, contact me for help — it’s the least I can do if you’re using my referral link 8^)

I’ve enabled the read emails option in many of the PTC sites that have them, but there doesn’t seem to be very many available for non-paying members. But I have done a few; some of them even let you read the emails from the internal email system at the site (I like that!)

I’m signed up with a few sites that do offers now too. I’m not sure I’m doing them correctly though — they’re very specific. I skip the ones requiring a credit card number or social security number though.

I’ve been looking at some survey sites too, but haven’t finished setting up accounts at the few I’ve signed up for (waiting for the confirmation email).

I’ll just have to wait and see.

One of my regular gaming site (turn-based, I get nervous playing live LOL) offered points for free-members if they joined Bux.to (a PaidToClick site) and AlertPay.com (a payment site similar to PayPal). The gaming points were enough to enter a tournament that rewarded even more points for winning — enough to win a paid membership, which would allow me to play more than one tournament — then I wouldn’t have to hang out on the game invitation list to find people to play with.

He also offered another way to win a paid membership: If we clicked through Bux.to enough times to earn $5 USD, he’d award us a free ‘paid’ membership, because he gets referral money every time one of his referrals clicks. So if a handful of people are clicking under his name, then he’s making money without doing much at all.

Rather Ponzi, huh?

But I’ve seen many people actually receiving payments, so who cares if it’s Ponzi’esque, as long as it works. Plus I’ll get a paid membership at the game site after about a month of clicking, plus I get to keep the money from my clicks.

After reading through the Bux.to site about how much they pay per click, and seeing how many ads they provide per day, I figured I needed to sign up to a few more PTC sites if I wanted more than a few dollars, so I searched and found so many dreadful $$$, Click Me, flashing ads sites, I almost changed my mind.

Until I got lucky and came across a real person type blog (I’m aware that there’s a real person behind every PTC/Make-Money site, but it seems like they’re marketing school drop-outs with all that junk going on). Amber’s PTC blog has a stay-at-home-mom feel to it, and it’s much easier to understand her PTC posts than other sites I found through search engines. She even has nice spelling, grammar, and white spacing — and no glaring colors (that I can see using Firefox).

So I’m signing up to whatever sites I haven’t already signed up for through Amber’s referral links, just out of appreciation of having a real person to follow, who knows which sites pay, and which sites are scams so she doesn’t link them (keep in mind that she’s probably not psychic, so if one goes bust further down the line, she posted it in good faith at the time it was a paying site — that’s one thing I noticed at all the other PTC sites I surfed; they’re very good about posting about scam sites. So if you’re going to try out PTC’ing yourself, follow someone who posts regularly so you’ll get the heads up from them!)

I’ll post about what system I’ve come up with so far in a later post, since this one’s getting pretty long.