Another G… May 22, 2007
Posted by Evil Green in : News, Forums , add a commentJust a quick update…
Another G… as in $1000.00
The growth of my forums has brought in its first two sponsors. One at $600.00 for a year (a 115×60 image on all pages) and one at $350.00 for six months (same ad size).
Exciting times 
PR What? May 22, 2007
Posted by Evil Green in : Domain Names, Forums , add a commentI had been working on adding a blog to one of my sites - the forums. My goal with the blog is two fold, it will give me a spot to post how to articles and I believe I am more likely to get links to the blog as I think web masters are hesitant to link to forums (not sure why, but I really feel that way).
It has backfired a little so far as there is a little less action in the forums as the user is not ending up in the forum off the bat. However I think Google will index the forum home page and things will level out.
At the same time I switched my domain from “.net” to “.com” as I snapped up the “.com” when its previous owner had let it expire.
I placed a 301 on http://www.xxxxxx.net/ and xxxxxxx.net and xxxxxxx.com to http://www.xxxxxx.com/ and immediatly my homepage PR went from PR2 to PR4. The .com had sat parked at godaddy for at least 6 months and had no PR rating so I was surprised and thrilled to see it jump (even though it doesn’t really matter).
As far as a stats goes:
Progress - Growth and a little rebound March 26, 2007
Posted by Evil Green in : Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Affiliate Marketing, Forums , add a commentJust a little bit of a status update.
My forums which I have spoken about a few times and offered up stats here have continued to grow, with March being a big traffic month. I get huge volume spikes when other related forums link to me but nearly 5000 visits about 60-something-thousand page view makes March an exciting month for me. I am not monetizing this site yet, I am going to allow in to continue growing before I start throwing ads up.
Meanwhile the one site that I a monetizing had a great run in terms of Google placement, was earning nicely, then it dropped a little, now it seems to be crawling back up for some relevant search phrases. I posted about the Christmas Rush here.
Here is a screen shots of my earning since - you’ll see it had been doing quite well until March but it looks like it may be on it’s way back up.
So there you have it, as requested, and update on my sites growth. I am satisfied with their growth considering they have been a little neglected as of late.
Encouraging Stats January 19, 2007
Posted by Evil Green in : Forums , add a commentJust though I’d show you some screen shots that illustrate the recent growth of the forums I spoke of yesterday.
Month to Month in 2006:
January 2007:
Now the question is can I sustain/increase traffic and growth?