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.
Just as I was going to remove John Chow from my blogroll, I figured out why I like it. It’s the networking. So many people read that site and order ReviewMe’s, I get more from the ReviewMe’s and comments than I do from his actual content now.
A site called Community Spark ordered a ReviewMe from John Chow. Here is how the site is described:
Community Spark is a community building blog. I aim to keep this blog updated with advice on how to build successful online communities whether they are forums, blogs, chat sites or social networks.
Looks like a great site to me, so as I was going to remove John Chow from my blogroll, instead I’m going to add Community Spark. Hopefully Community Spark will be able to help me out with my forums. I read a couple of posts…great advice.
Later,
JBSlife
A while back a posted about my advertising for Country Music Forums (you can see that post here). I had said that I secured two adds. One of them was with Text Link Ads and the other was with BlogAds. I really like both services, but my Text Link Ad converted on a higher rate. Let’s take a look at both ads and see why?
Text Link Ad on the9513.com
The 9513 is a country music blog that I purched an ad on through Text Link Ads. This was my ad that converted rather well. My ad is just a link that says “CountryMusicForums.net” inside the blue oval in the picture above. I is right below the header of the site and looks like part of the sites navigation. The graphics of the site also show that it is definately in the same niche as my site.
I will be running this ad for at least a couple more months. At $20 a month, I can’t go wrong. I am going to try some different text. I thing “Country Music Forums” or “Country Music Message Boards” would be better.
BlogAd on Twangville.com
My ad on Twangville.com is through BlogAds. The cost was $60 per month as this is a larger site. It didn’t bring me too much, but their are a couple of reasons for this. First of all, it is in the premium sponsor section (it looks like an ad). The second reason is my own fault. BlogAds recommends changing the ad image so the ad does not get stale. I didn’t do this and I really think it would have helped. I will continue with the ad and see what I can do with it.
Overall, I am very pleased with both of the ads. It is very hard to get a start up forum going, so every member I get is important to me. Forums are started by a few dedicated people. I have a couple, a few more and this forum could get going.
Stay tuned for updates…and if you like country music, JOIN!
Later,
JBSlife
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