Most people think this is nothing, but any forum owner knows what it’s like to log into your new forum and find an active user online. Today was the first day that I actually found a user on my site at the same time as myself (actually there were 2 members plus me). Even better, I don’t know either of these users (they were just random people that found my site and registered). I know, I know…yipee. Well, they both also posted on the site more than one time. Not much, I know…but it’s still a major milestone for the site.
Check out County Music Forums, the newest country music forum on the net.
I read a post at TylerCruz.com titled “You’re Not a Rock Star“. In the post Tyler sites reasons why someone with little traffic (myself) should remove the ads from their blog. I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while, now it’s time.
I originally started this site because I was inspired by John Chow. Of course that means that I started this site to make money. My plan was to share my secrets with the world and make a good amount of money doing it. It’s been a couple of months and I’ve only made a couple of dollars, time to refocus.
The content of the blog will still be exactly the same, “eCommerce, Forums, Blogs, BBQ & Beer”. My main goal will now be building content. If enough people find me interesting, then I’ll start adding some of the ads back in. As they always say, “Content is King”.
I logged into my Google Analytics account tonight to find a surprise, a completely redesigned layout. It’s too late for me to really look into it right now, but it looks good at first glance.
For the time being, check out this post about the update at the Google Analytics Blog.
I did notice a AdSense tool that I really liked. It shows how many times your ads displayed at certain positions. This could certainly come in handy for people that count on AdSense for traffic and sales.
I’ll see if I can do a little better review of it tomorrow after I’ve had some sleep.
Later,
JBSlife
Revver is one of the smaller video sharing services. I was searching through it today and I found this great Spiderman 3, Megablock video. I have been trying to integrate Revver into my sites for a while without any success.
EDIT: I’ve had a problem finding a use for the service. Integrating it into the sites is easy. Sorry for the confusion.
Why not just use YouTube?
YouTube is obviously the video giant, but they don’t pay you to publish the videos on your site. Revver ads an advertisement at the end of each video, if the ad is clicked you get money. The ad money is split 40% to the video creator, 40% to Revver, and 20% to YOU (the publisher).
The Revver Issue
The only problem with Revver is the amount of videos in there network. At The Chalk Bucket, my gymnastics forum, we post videos all the time. YouTube is a virtual gold mine of gymnastics videos. If we could somehow make money off of all these videos, we would be golden. I would love to start using Revver a bit more, but there are only a few gymnastics videos on Revver.
At the time of this post, 83 videos were tagged with “gymnastics” on Revver. Compare this with the 27,500 on YouTube. To make matters worse, over 50% of the “gymnastics” tagged Revver videos are uploaded by 2 members. Both of these members videos are completely useless.
This post is really just an excuse for me to give Revver a shot. Let me know what you think. Does anyone make any money with Revver on their sites?
Later,
JBSlife
Yesterday I posted about a new style for Country Music Forums. I didn’t expect to get it completed so quickly, but it’s finished. It’s more of a western style using black and grey as the main colors and red and yellow as highlights. I added some custom status icons and fixed up all the other images with the proper background.
Now I just have to go through it add some of my key modules back in. Hopefully I can finish that up over the next couple of weeks like I had originally said. Beyond that, the forum is ready to go. Join today and help me start adding some content. Don’t forget to tell your friends.
I originally opened Country Music Forums using phpBB and a theme that I really liked. It was a black, grey, red, and yellow based wild west theme. When I upgraded to vBulletin, I went with a theme I got somewhere for free. The original theme had an edge that I think the guests and members really liked. I’m finally going to have a little time to get it back to the way I want it. Let me know what you think.
Blah…Country Theme
A Little Taste of the New Style
The new skin is not ready yet, but I should have the main portion of it completed in a week or so. The new skin is a little more my style.
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