Been Busy
Well, its been a very busy week end, mostly non-work related, my uncle passed away on Thursday morning, it was a bit of a surprise actually although he’s not young, we just didn’t expect it, I guess you don’t usually expect such things, god have mercy on his soul.
I haven’t had much time to do anything, I barely was able to check my emails and reply to anything urgent, I had lots of work to be done in this weekend, I should always make backup plans, you never know what could happen.
As I have mentioned earlier, myspacerush is up and running, its performing quite well actually considering that no advertising has been done yet, we still have plans me and Imad to advertise it, but we didn’t get around to do that yet. The website suffered some downtime due to an error in coding as it seems, this has damaged the search engine rankings that I’ve been able to achieve during the past weeks, it seems that the Google bot visited the site while it was down, incase you don’t know, downtime can really really damage your search engine rankings, thus the reason why you should always look for reliable web hosts and reliable coders, in our case, the website was up, but it was displaying an error the whole time, sadly I didn’t have the time to fix it myself due to the unfortunate circumstances in the family, and so I had to fwd. an email to Imad and the coder to get it fixed.
Imad is currently working on some designs for a number of new sites that we are planning to develop and sell, he showed and extra cool layout for a text messaging website, were planning to sell those sites on SP, which btw increased their prices to list websites for sale, it now costs you $19.95 to open a topic! is SP the only website with serious buyers?? ANYWAYS, SP will be one of the forums we will be selling the sites on. Have I mentioned this in my last blog post?
I’ve spent some good time thinking about the future of P4H, should I sell it? or should I grow it, selling it right now is probably the worst thing I could ever do, the website hasn’t sold advertising space for quite some time now, part of it because I haven’t been promoting the advertising space as I used to do, prices to advertise on the forums are quite low for a forum with 2300+ members and 32000+ posts, $10 header banners are a bargain I would say, and for so far I haven’t sold one spot in the past 2 months.
VPS costs tend to go higher as we get more and more applications each day, memory is running short and it seems I have to upgrade it once again, well, if I have to do that I would probably go ahead and get a full dedicated server just for P4H, which leads us to the 2nd option of growing the service, offering more free plans and offer bigger sponsored web hosting plans, I had an interesting chat with Nick the other day, he’s an admin on the forums and he helps allot in running the VPS and the forum, we discussed some cool ideas of how to grow the service, what should we offer, and what should remove, basically, you get a generous web hosting account, loaded with all the features you get from a paid host 100% free (I am already doing that) but were going to increase the disk space and bandwidth, this plan will still be free without sponsored ADs, however, you wont be able to upgrade your plan with point gathered from forum posts, you would have to either pay/donate money, or place our ADs on your site, however those ADs will not be annoying, large or take up space, its going to be 468*60 Google Ads that can very well be your own ads, you will even be able to change the color of the ADs to match your site!
Lots of work need to be done if I decide to make this change, especially the trouble of moving 200+ accounts from the VPS to the new server.
As my baby, Talkhomebusiness.com, I am planning to put in some $$ and massively advertise it, its about time I did something with this website and get something in return for the $$ and time I spent in developing it.
