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I haven’t posted for quite a while, but I’ve been busy. My new job has been quite demanding (so have my two daughters). Anyways, this is just a little teaser to let everyone know that I’m still here. I’ll give you a complete update on all my projects over the next couple of days.
Later…I have to finish drinking my eggnog.
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
After being in Southern California for almost nine years, it’s time to move back home. My family and I will be moving to Wisconsin in less than a month. With our second daughter now a month old, California is just not meeting our needs.
Due to the current housing market in our area, we’re unable to sell our condo. We’re looking to rent out our 864 sq. ft. condo for around $1300. $1300 is also the amount of our monthly mortgage. Hopefully we’ll be able to sell it after a couple years.
The picture above is the place that we rented. We get the whole lower flat as well as the basement and a 2 car garage. It sits about a mile away from my new job and is has a small yard. I’d say it’s close to 1200 sq. ft. The basement isn’t much, but it’s the same size as the house and has a washer, dryer, and sink. We will be renting this place for $850, that should give me enough room to buy a new grill and some beer.
It also has a seperate room that we can set up our ecommerce business in. I’m told we can write off part of the rent then. If anyone knows anything about writing off business expenses, let me know. It’s a subject that I’m really going to have to start researching.
Later,
JBSlife
Google seems to like me right now, most of my sites went up in PageRank. Here is a list of what happened with my sites.
- LeotardCrazy.com - stayed at 4
- ChalkBucket.com - up from 1 to 3
- JBSlife.com - up from 0 to 4
- CountryMusicForums.net - up from 0 to 3
- NASCAR-Forums.net - up from greybar to 2
This seems like a great increase to me. If anyone knows anything about the most recent Google dance, I’d love to hear about it. I am starting to link all of my sites together to create a more cohesive portfolio. Beyond that, I didn’t really do anything to that I thought would bring such a broad PR increase accross my sites. Let me know what you think about this.
Later,
JBSlife
I’ve been thinking about this for a while. That is, where should I start adding my gymnastics content (articles and such). I have a few different options and I’m really not sure which one to choose.
- Add the content to my gymnastics forum
- This was my orignal plan and I think it is still my strongest option. My forum has an article section that I could add to very easily. It would draw people into my forum and foster new signups. My members could read, rate, and comment on the articles.
- Start a blog as part of the same site
- I am really getting into the whole concept of blogging. Adding a blog to the site would not be very hard, but my site is a forum. Forums are open discussion areas, blogs are mainly one sided. I’m not sure if combining the two would be a good idea.
- Starting a new website…a blog
- I would really love to do it this way, with a WordPress blog. In starting a new site I could create backlinks by linking the two sites together. The only problem is the extra work. Two websites is twice as much work. Also, my forum would just be a forum
On second thought, maybe I could do both 1 and 3. I can talk about gymnastics all day long…I’m a coach. I would love to hear from some of you out there in cyberland. What do you think?
Later,
JBSlife
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