Forum Project I Update

[wmspringer]

Show of hands...how many people from the original forum project are still in? I went out looking for appropriate sites to put in my links section, but I could only find three relevant project sites that appeared to be still updating.

Anyway, here's where I am on mine: I now have my site looking pretty much the way I want it to, with my forum up and running (although I don't know if I have any real users in it yet) I still have very little traffic and very low adsense earnings, but I've just started some advertising that I hope will improve that.

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[maxtower]

I am still in.

www.howtobuywebsites.net

I actually have a couple regular readers now that I am posting regularly. Maybe a few more months of this and I'll have enough traffic to monetize.

[lgas]

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I am still in.

www.howtobuywebsites.net

I actually have a couple regular readers now that I am posting regularly. Maybe a few more months of this and I'll have enough traffic to monetize.

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I think you meant "not $50k nice" in your post about movie vault.

Edited to add: I like your site. I subscribed. I use NetNewsWire which puts a big subscribe button in the bottom of the window. I took a second to look for the RSS subscribe link before remembering I could just click the button in NetNetsWire... I eventually noticed them at the bottom of the page, but I think you'd be better off making them more prominent. Or at least adding one of those orange RSS buttons at the top of the nav part of the page as well.

[maxtower]

Yeah, I want to ad feedburner, but I want to make sure I have a couple of subscribers first. I am going to switch themes(skins) on the page soon anyway. I don't like red too much. It makes my head hurt.
Thanks for correcting my post. I'll go in an edit it now.

wmspringer, I guess its just you and me carrying the torch. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[lgas]

I was never officially a participant in the original forum project but FWIW, it inspired me to get off my ass and do some of the projects I wanted to do anyway, so I consider myself an honorary particpant.

I've put up a couple of sites that are tangentially related to the forum project:

The Residualist - My blog about passive income. I haven't attempted to monetize this yet other than to sign up for AGLOCO and include my affiliate link in a post about it. My plan is to wait until I have lots of good content then try to attract a large audience before implementing AdSense, text link ads, etc. etc.

RubyRoll - This is a blog aggregator for the ruby programming language. It's monetized with AdSense. So far it's been up for a couple of months and I've made $11.03. Not exactly a huge win, but I learned a lot of valuable lessons when creating it and I now have the software ready to turn around and apply to a different (more profitable) niche in the future. (For what it's worth, the Ruby programming language is probably the least monetizable thing on the planet, at least in terms of internet marketing tactics). This site did also land me a couple of inqueries about hiring my consulting company (which I promote in the About page) for various gigs. I didn't close any of the deals though because none of them were worth it.

As mentioned in another post I've also tried some direct AdWords->ClickBank arbitrage which so far I have spent about $80 to make about $20... but again it's been a great learning experience.

[wmspringer]

howtobuywebsites I'm already linked to; I'll have to check out that passive income blog.

Igas, did I ever tell you your avatar makes my head hurt? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[troyBoy]

I was involved with the first project, but kind of fell away and was working on a few other things, i made a couple of hundred bucks but not heaps.

The other day I decided to start a fresh again im going to blog everything I do
if anyone is interested in following on check it out.

http://making-troy-richer.blogspot.com

Cheers guys.

Troy