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

Out of the Google Doghouse

Ta da!!!!!

www.popstarsplus.com is finally out of the Google SERP doghouse -- at least for now. Our numbers are not up to our all time high levels, but we are coming back gradually. Hooray for us!!!! Hopefully this celebration will not be short lived.

Anyway, using Alexa.com as my guide, I went checking other celebrity websites to see if their numbers were affected as well. Although not all were affected, there were a bunch that did see some type of traffic drop in January. There were a few that actually saw their numbers rise during this time period as well. I still have no clue what triggered Google's new algos to kill my site or to restore it to health, but for now we are happy!!!!

As I have stated in the past that we really dislike exchanging links with other sites, I am going to be adding sites this weekend for recipricols for a large site that I recently communicated with and another smaller site that I have been putting off for a few weeks, most because of the issues relating to Google. Google likes relevant links to your site, so, that is what I am going to give them.

For those of you that have celbrity sites that are kid freindly, do not forget about the upcoming Nickelodeon Awards. Its the biggest awards show for the tween and teen crowd. Justin Timberlake is hosting, and a a lot of the young stars will be honored, performing and in the crowd.

Speaking about sites for young people, if you like role playing card games and animated TV shows, check out the new Chaotic game by 4Kids. We created a sister site www.ChaoticGamePlus.com specially for this game/program. The TV show is now airing, but the game is forthcoming in May.

Until next time . . . .

Ian Ripley