Once i got the domain, I set up an ecommerce site selling turnkey scripts, I set up a primary email address for the new domain and added it to the sites payment section, but what i forgot to do until it was too late was to add it to my paypal account.

I made a couple sales overnight last night (my first sales) and received the paypal email notifications, it was only when i logged into my paypal account that i found the payments weren’t there, ok i thought i just need to add the extra email address to my paypal account, i tried to add the email address and i get an error “the email you are trying to add is already registered to another paypal account”

OMG, this is now where i realise what has gone wrong, the previous owner of the site had already registered the email address to his account and when the site expired from his/her ownership they did not removed the email address in there paypal account.

What can i do now? the only thing i could do, i corrected the sites payment email address to one that i do own and email paypal so they can hopefully rectify the problem, in the mean time i have asked the two customers to try and get paypal to reverse the payments and i must honour the transaction and set up the clients scripts, after all it was my mistake and not thiers.

Please learn from my mistake, if you buy an existing site or pick up an expired domain and you wish to do sales through the site, always check the payment email address you are going to use and add it to you paypal account before you make any sales.

Doh!

AdSense is easy to set up and if your getting traffic to your site then that should convert nicely into a bit of extra pocket money for you.

If your site is in a common niche you may only get a couple of cents per click, but with enough traffic even the poorest of niches can still make you a few extra $’s a day.

So what if you are getting traffic but not getting any clicks throughs?

Well this was my case with my Dream Interpretation site. i was getting hundreds of visitors a day, about two thousand page views a day and making less than $1 a day

I decided to create a new template for the site more geared up for displaying AdSense ads, I now have a text ad unit near the top and 2 large vertical columns one for a banner and one for text ads.

So far this is working much better and i am now getting around 5x the revenue each day.

It seemed like a lot of work at first but its worth it long term, if you have a wordpress blog its a lot easier you can just upload a new theme, if you are running a 2.3.x wordpress blog and above i recommend having a look at this site as the have links to all compatible 2.3.x themes that are free.

Good luck and happy earning