Forum Project Status
 

There hasn't been much traffic about the forum project lately. Just curious if there still someone driving this, and if so what the current status is. I know that at some point there was a plan for setting up some formal link arrangements, etc.

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I didn't directly sign up for the forum project, but I do have a new site up and running. I would be interested in exchanging links with the participants, however, I have noticed that some of the forum project websites are either not developed or have, like, one post on them.

I am interested in exchanging links, but would only consider exchanging links with high quality sites with owners that are committed to their success.

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I'm going to keep going and posting with my forum project site as its something I really want to learn about -- http://makingmoneywithyourblog.blogspot.com

What's your site Frinkenstein? I'll link to you.

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Sweet. Your site looks good - and I actually learned something from it. I'll add your link.

My site is: http://www.richfromyourhome.com My plan was to let a bit of traffic build before adding adsense, although I am not certain if it even matters???

Edit: I don't know if you have this capability with a blogger template, but I suggest adding adsense inline directly into your posts - similar to http://www.johnchow.com

John Chow found that that one add box directly is by far his best performing add.

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Dunno where other people are....I just switched from Netobjects to Dreamweaver, so I'm redoing my site.

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Sweet. Your site looks good - and I actually learned something from it. I'll add your link.

My site is: http://www.richfromyourhome.com My plan was to let a bit of traffic build before adding adsense, although I am not certain if it even matters???

Edit: I don't know if you have this capability with a blogger template, but I suggest adding adsense inline directly into your posts - similar to http://www.johnchow.com

John Chow found that that one add box directly is by far his best performing add.

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You should definitely read through all of the posts at johnchow.com. Lots of useful tidbits in there.

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I've got mine up. Not ready for the public yet, but I'm still in it. I'll give a link when it's got enough content, probably another week or so.

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The project is still on. I am working on my site. Like the above posters said a lot of folks haven't been too diligent about putting a site together. It does take time, and I think a lot of folks realized that this was not an easy way to get rich,so they stopped working at it.
At least everyone who is still in it is learning something.

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Thanks for replying guys. I think the big thing was that when the project launched, there were lots of posts, there was a step by step plan, things were happening, etc. Overall I had a definite sense of urgency. It kept me motivated to be moving on stuff. And having frequent posts about what step people were on and what needed doing at that point really gave a feeling of community to the project.

I realize that the energy level can't be maintained at that initial state, and I think the last official step was "go make your site and stuff", which is a lot bigger and a lot more broad than "pick a domain name". Might be a good idea if we still want to continue it as an active forum project to try to find a medium between then and now.

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I'm still planning to participate but have admitedly not put in nearly enough time to get my site up and running. My main obstacle is that I'm in the middle of starting my own business and that's taking up a lot of my time right now.

The other main problem is I'm discovering that I don't know the first thing about web design. I've gotten a basic Joomla installation working on my site, but really don't have the faintest clue how to customize the look and feel. I will be creating a separate post shortly asking for some help on the actual technical details of getting a decent looking site up.

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I've kinda slacked off as I ended up learning so much about my niche that I just keep researching more and more things and never get to posting.

My main affiliate account that I was going to focus on never got back to me so I've submitted another application and hope to get that set up by end of the week.

The project has actually had a more profound effect on my life as it relates to retirement planning and personal finance. It's actually been a really eye opening experience in that respect. So much so that I'm going back to school to get my MBA-Finance this summer. LOL

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I agree that we should add a little more organization - at 1 point weren't we going to setup our own forum for discussion of the project? Also, aren't we suppose to be going into groups to promote sites?

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I agree that we should add a little more organization - at 1 point weren't we going to setup our own forum for discussion of the project? Also, aren't we suppose to be going into groups to promote sites?

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I think the project could do with better organisation but creating a new forum that people don't check as regularly after the first couple of visits won't help. Also, you'll miss out on growing the project via the genuine, targeted traffic that this forum already gets.

Remember, the way the project is organised you gain benefit from *every* member that joins in. Its not like a regular project where the fewer people necessary to make it work the better.