Where Has The Time Gone?

My first post in almost four years. Yes, years.

My main website, PopStarsPlus.com has gone from consistently over 1 million Unique users a months to only 100,000 in that time span. Sad, I know. However, because of the good content and well-designed site (I know the aesthetics were never much to look at), I am lucky that I am still getting so many visitors even after almost no updates during the past one and a half, almost two years.

Two months ago, the number of uniques slipped to under 100,000 (according to my Traffic Facts), and that got me worried. Also doing a little research, looks like the Panda updates by Google really killed me (I still had almost 300,000 uniques in January 2011). Last week I have begun to update the site, and it needs a lot of TLC between updating info on old celebrities, adding new ones, and dealing with the destruction of FrontPage extensions by the latest browsers (you can go to a page, but not see any content there).

So, a lot of work ahead of me, but I am up for the task. I will try to keep you abreast of how I am doing, and give some hints to those of you that read this blog (I doubt that any of you are still there -- unless you happen to come to this page through a search for something else.

So, until next time . . . .

Some of the latest websites

I have been helping out my partner a little bit with some extra websites. I think I have been getting burned out on the sites I have been working on. To relieve this feeling I and my partner begin to create new websites to have fun with (that is how www.PopStarsPlus.com began). Some of these websites include:

www.SignaturesForCharity.com - A website promoting athletes that sing autographs through the mail - but donate (all or part) of their signing fees towards charities. It is a cool idea and I am glad I am helping out with it (although I have only been more of a consultant on it).

www.FrankThomasTheOriginalOne.com - My buddy became freindly with Frank Thomas, the 3x All-Star that played in the 1950s and 1960s (and on the original 1962 Mets team). I helped him design the website, but he can take most of the credit for it.

Celebrity T&A - This is my adult website. Although not really pornographic, it does link to many adult websites. It is starting to gain some steam, but still needs a bunch of work.

www.BusinessForMyself.com - Not really a new website, but I have been spending some making a few additions to it lately.

Now I need to get my head back into the game and help out my partner with Pop Stars Plus -- I know he is falling behind (he is just as busy as me in his non-web life), but needs my help.

Until next time . . . Ian

Diversification of your websites

June is almost over, so I think it is time for me to make at least one post on this blog. It has been a very busy month for me, however, I have not been spending much time on web work. My partner is really upset at me, but since he is such a nice guy, really has bothered me very much about it -- YET.

Anyway -- Things are going good with www.PopStarsPlus.com. We had way over 1.1 MILLION UNIQUE visitors for two months straight. This month looks like we may hit 1.25 million, but it is going to be close. However, the eCPM for our Google banners is still way down from last year (less than half), which means that we need to increase our traffic about 110% in order to make the revenues we should be doing. Some of the updates to the site are also going a bit slow because I am not there and unfortunately, he has had to cut out on most of the celebrity news updates. If anyone reading this wants to send us celebrity news summaries, email us at info@popstarsplus.com. Sorry, but we are not paying for submissions.

I have not had much of a chance to update www.BiographyPlus.com, but hope to have some time this summer. It just takes so much time to get things right.

My partner, although he is wearing himself thin doing his updating and mine has also decided to diversify a little bit. He has created a website for a new trading card game coming out called Chaotic. To visit the site, go to www.ChaoticGamePlus.com. I do not think he is going to be making much money from it, but he is enjoying it, and that is the reason why we got into making these websites in the first place.

In total contrast to that, I have also been consulting on an adult site called Celebrity T & A [*for mature viewers only*. Please do not mock me, but a freind of mine wants to try his hand at website development, so I am helping him out. This is the topic he picked since he thinks he can make a lot of money and I think he likes doing it just a little too much.

Celebrity sites - Remember to update your sites for the award ceremonies this month (which we have to do on Pop Stars Plus).

If no one reads this blog, then did I really write it?

Until next time . . . .

Ian Ripley