Almost two weeks since my last post, and I’m missing the familiar buzz of publishing content. The commentators, the familiar faces in the avatars, the friendly emails.
It appears that web-design has the tendency to suck every available bit of time you have. Fueled by enthusiasm and good spirits I find myself designing and coding most of the time, being left with no time to blog.
I know, I should post regularly and be consistent with the quality, but the project I’m working on is quite serious, and has a potential to earn good money in the long run. I cannot rely on a free WordPress theme and had to start to completely overhaul a simple theme to fit our requirements. We’re doing everything in-house: the content, the graphics, the coding, and you can imagine what amount of energy and time this requires.
This is a blog about blogging and internet marketing (roll your eyes here), and obviously as a serious entrepreneur I’m going to undertake several projects once in a while. And a logical conclusion is that I’m going to have these sort of blogging breaks unless I outsource the time-consuming tasks. I am going to do this, but later on, when I will assemble a team of trustworthy freelancers and have a bit more money in my pocket.
Last three days we rented a bunch of movies and didn’t turn on anything with an Internet connection. This move allowed our heads to clear up and this post to see air.
Enjoy what you do, and see you around.
- Alex
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Once you set up you blog and have a bunch of niche sites running AdSense, making money maybe, you’re happy. Right? Right? Wrong!
Apparently I’m never happy, and must think of fresh new ways to improve on everything and make every small glitch dissapear.
One of those improvement-eureka moments was yesterday, when I said to myself that it’d be great to monitor my server to find what uptime it has.
Among other tools that are available on the net, I chose Basicstate.com. Why? Because it’s free and could answer my question. It runs checkups on the server every 15 minutes, sending email alerts if the server is down and allowing for basic statistics later on, for analysis.
Boy was I surprised when I got my first alert!
What?! - I said, this is impossible! This can’t be true with the top rated hosting plan I’m paying for! $7/month, mind you. Outrageous… (not sure if you’re getting the sarcasm, but yes, it’s me being sarcastic)
You can imagine how surprised I was when I got my second alert half an hour later. After that my face was longer than a horse’s and I went to sleep with heavy thoughts.
Today I received a few additional alerts to my mail. When trying to browse to my site immediately upon receiving the alert everything was Okay, except one time what I indeed couldn’t access any of my sites. I guess the outages are very brief. Basicstate doesn’t report the duration of the outage.
So I guess, as usual, this coin has two sides:
I really don’t care anymore- Every hosting has outages and that’s a fact. I’m sure every single one of them is doing everything they can to improve their stability, since competition is very strong, so If a server is down for a few minutes a day, no biggie.
Have fun.
- Alex
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Sometimes I spend so much time having something done, redesigned or recoded on this blog or on one of my other sites, just to reveal that this is not something that would have worked to begin with.
I’m sure this also happens to other bloggers too. So frustrating…
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Several days ago I noticed that Google is going through another of its PR update cycles. After checking mine and a few of my friends’ I discovered that this time Google has been kind with all of us.
My PR is PR3 now, and this means that I would start getting a little bit more organic traffic from Google. That can’t be bad, right?
Congratulations are also in order to Mirjam from Me Myself and I for her PR3, Mark from Mason World for his PR3, Abhinav from Inspirit for his PR4, Max from Sitehoppin for his PR4 and PR3 (for the blog).
On the other hand, people have been reporting an increase in PR on relatively new sites that have no backlinks. What’s that supposed to mean?
Anyways, Google wants - Google gets, that’s what big bad corporations are there for.
- Alex
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You can use Project Wonderful to know exactly how much traffic a site gets. I will explain how immediately after this:
I’ve just read a post on my old blogcatalog buddy’s blog, about how Entrecard is making good money with Project Wonderful ad spots.
Just to recap his article:
That is why.
Project Wonderful’s says in its intro that they are all about fairness and transparency.
Indeed! That same transparency is what I use to know what traffic a site that has a Project Wonderful ad spot gets.
Go to the site you are interested to spy on. If you look below the Project Wonderful ad spot, it says “Your ad here, right now: $0.00“. This is a link, and if you click through you will get to a purchase page with a monthly graph showing the site’s Unique Visitors and Page Views. It shows the stats for the page the as is place on, but basically it would reflect the sites overall traffic, because webmasters would put it on the most visited page, to get the best prices.
So now you know. Use it wisely.
- Alex
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