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 . . . .

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.