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
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Sunday, May 25, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
A year has gone by
Almost a whole year has gone by since my last post. Wow, a lot of stuff has happened to me over the past year. It has been a really, really, really busy for me the past 12 months. Between work (my regular 9 to 5), family (my first priority) and taking care of other misc. issues, I basically have not had a lot of time to put into my websites.
I reached a high of OVER 1.2 MILLION UNIQUES in one moth last summer on www.PopStarsPlus.com. Then I had to take care of other business and it drifted down to about 850,000. Not bad, but a huge drop. Over the past few months I have been trying to keep up with updating my sites when I can, but it has NOT been very consistent. Right now I am really behind with a few of my partners. I hope to catch up this week.
The biggest roadblock for me now is the eBay linking debacle. eBay decided to pull out of Commission Junction, which means that the hundreds of links I have to them will no longer be good after May 31st. I understand the business reasons behind it, but I have to go through and change all of those links. Most of these links are created with key words associated for each banner for each individual page. Unfortunately, the link creation system is extremely slow (even with my high speed), and it is going to take a long, long time to get everything updated, even with the extention they gave -- they should have done something to automatically make our links go in-line with their new system. I will be out of some money as of next month due to this (as will eBay).
Even though I have been extremely busy and have not had time to spend on my main sites, I have had time to play around and create some new websites - - - have to go, I'll write about the new sites tomorrow.
I reached a high of OVER 1.2 MILLION UNIQUES in one moth last summer on www.PopStarsPlus.com. Then I had to take care of other business and it drifted down to about 850,000. Not bad, but a huge drop. Over the past few months I have been trying to keep up with updating my sites when I can, but it has NOT been very consistent. Right now I am really behind with a few of my partners. I hope to catch up this week.
The biggest roadblock for me now is the eBay linking debacle. eBay decided to pull out of Commission Junction, which means that the hundreds of links I have to them will no longer be good after May 31st. I understand the business reasons behind it, but I have to go through and change all of those links. Most of these links are created with key words associated for each banner for each individual page. Unfortunately, the link creation system is extremely slow (even with my high speed), and it is going to take a long, long time to get everything updated, even with the extention they gave -- they should have done something to automatically make our links go in-line with their new system. I will be out of some money as of next month due to this (as will eBay).
Even though I have been extremely busy and have not had time to spend on my main sites, I have had time to play around and create some new websites - - - have to go, I'll write about the new sites tomorrow.
Friday, June 22, 2007
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
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
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