Extending the Site

The Celtnet site has been maturing of late as I've been adding new products and services. In the end, the problem is always one of adding content; of getting sufficient people to visit the website in enough numbers that you can make a decent income from the proceeds. One great way of getting more content is to put-up various forums. As a result I now have the following forums available for participation:

Celtnet Celtic Forums
Celtnet Recipes Discussion Forum
Celtnet Information Forum


Why not join the communities today?

I have also been adding a review section to the site at Celtnet Reviews Site. Here you can both read reviews of eBooks, internet products, websites, print books and a whole host of topics. You can also join and sign-up free at Join Celtnet Reviews. After you sign-up then you can post your own reviews. There is also a special section for site advertisement-style reviews.

Remember that reviews are now the internet's advertising phenomenon. They provide good content, which Google loves to index. They are also a sales pitch and you get yur URLs linked from text that remains live on the internet for a very long time. So, if you're interested in publicising your website, why not join the Celtnet Reviews Site today.

Also remember that my One Dollar SEO links system is still available. For $1 you can add your site to an SEO-friendly catalogue of links that guarantees your site's URL will be indexed. Just remember that all proceeds from any sign-ups goes to the Help Stefan campaign.

If you are interested in information about internet marketing, with hints, tips and a personal voice then the Celtnet Information eZine is for you. Internet marketing is a hard slog and you need all the advantages you can get. My aim is to bring you the tools and strategies you need to make the most of your internet business. The tools are available, so why not use them?

Trying to Make Money

As I've had little enough response to my Help Stefan Campaign I'm having to consider alternate means of getting more money.

The condition of her father in Liberia has deteriorated considerably and next week Stefan is talking of taking the bus from Dakar to Guinea, from there she will change to Freetown in Sierra Leone and from there she has to work-out a way of getting to Liberia. If only I could afford the airfare, then things would be so much easier.

I've tried putting-up pages for eBooks including:

Celtent Guide to Spices and Spice recipes

Pictorial Guide to Building and Upgrading your PC

'Memories of Myth and Man' Poetry eBook

Each of which goes to helping the Help Stefan Campaign. I also have the One Dollar SEO links where webmasters can purchase non-reciprocal links for $1 which are guaranteed to be valid and remain live for the life of the website and which will never exceed 100 links in length so that all links on a given page will be indexed. Again, take-up is extremely slow with only a few links having been taken-up thus far.


So, this weekend, in desperation I'm trying every trick I can to make some money for this campaign. The latest approach is to try the 'Hubpages' site both to generate additional income and to drive more traffic to my main Celtnet site


Hay Fever Information

Celtnet Site Description

Information about Acne

Improve your Google Rankings with In-bound Links

Introduction to How Mobile Phones Work

In desperation I've even resorted to buying an internet course: Profit Lance which is reviewed in the site given here. Reviews are good and the course definitely looks comprehensive so I'm going ahead with it at the moment I'll report back at a later date so say whether it's worthwhile or not.

Amongst the various on-going projects I've also resurrected my Celtnet Information eZine and have begun posting to this weekly rather than fortnightly. I'll see if this starts to bring-in any more sign-ups.

Well, that's today's view from the trenches. I now need to go back to doing some serious marketing.

If you have been reading or visiting my Help Stefan page then you will know what this campaign is all about. But if you haven't visited that page yet then the aims of the campaign are as follows:

1. To allow Stefan's father to have a life-saving operation so that the surviving members of her family can be re-united
2. To allow Stefan to visit her father in Freetown, Sierra Leone and to make the journey there as safe for her as it can be.
3. To allow me to travel to Senegal to look after Stefan's son, Zogo whilst his mother is away.
4. To give Stefan the orthodontic work she needs to repair her upper jaw.
5. To give Stefan a wedding to remember in December so that we can live together in the UK as a family; thus ensuring the new future I promised her.
6. To set-up a fund so that the remaining Liberian refugees in Dakar can have an English-language school for their children to repace the UN school that has just closed.

I am hoping that the fund, once started can continue to help other Liberiand and Sierra Leonian refugees in Dakar. But I have an immediate need to aid one single person to turn her life around. Please help me make 2007 the year of recovery for her.

I am not even asking for charity here in that you will get something for all your donations. If you are a webmaster then a $1 donation will get your site listed on my One Dollar Links pages. A $10 donation gets you a permanent link on the campaign's Home Page. Even if you're not a webmaster, a $1 donation gets your name on the web page as a 'Friend of Stefan'. A $5 donation gets you a copy of my Poetry eBook, even better a $10 donation gets you a copy of my Guide to Cooking with Spices recipe eBook.

A small donation on your part will help completely transform the life of a woman and child who have suffered so much. Remember, if you want to help please link to This Page or publish the letter below in your blog, ezine or website:

Today's Total: $187 A letter from the Webmaster: I would like to introduce to you Stefan and her son Zogo. They are true survivors who escaped the civil wars of Liberia and Sierra Leone in the early 200s to make their way on foot through Guinea (where both developed malaria) to Senegal, The Gambia and now Dakar, Senegal. There they are refugees and have no legal status. As such they cannot earn any money and are eking-out a hand to mouth existence. Though that's not how they would put it. However, Stefan believed her entire family to have been massacred. But now, with my aid she has discovered her father to be alive but in very bad health with a heart condition. He needs $10 000 for hospital bills and for the operation that may save his life. Stefan herself has recently been very ill with malaria and has been hospitalized herself at a cost of $3000. I love this woman very much, but with her hospitalization I have now spent my last penny so I'm turning to the internet in the hope of gaining donations to help Stefan's father Alfred. I am also looking for the airfare to send Stefan to her father's side. I would also be like to take several months off work so that I can travel to Senegal to look after the boy, Zogo. The total cost of all this will come to more than $20 000, so I'm imploring for your help. The home page for the campaign is at http://www.celtnet.org.uk/info/help-stefan.php where you can make your donation securely via PayPal. If you are interested in recipes then, if you donate $10 you will get a copy of my eBook 'Guide to Spices' at http://www.celtnet.org.uk/info/spice-book.php. A $5 donation gets you a copy of my poetry eBook 'Memories of Myth and Man'. If you are a webmaster then your $1 donation will get you a permanent link to your site on http://www.celtnet.org.uk/info/one-dollar-links.php Please help me to re-build the life of a woman who has lost so much. Thank you for your aid. Yours Dyfed Lloyd Evans PS you can help this campaign by copying the email letter above and sending it to all your friends. Thank you for your help.