Sohaib Thiab – The Story of an Internet Entrepreneur

Check it out, custom made! logo is still being fixed so that the url of the site is clearer, its also linked to the main site.

Yes, I am dropping PPC ads on most of my sites and I am switching to CPM ads, I’ve worked yesterday on doing this transition on most of my sites, at least on the ones that get some decent traffic since most CPM ad networks require a min. amount of traffic on a certain site to accept you.

Since were talking about CPM ad networks, and if your thinking of trying any out, here is a list for some of the larger ones:

• Right Media, large network, owned by Yahoo, good payouts, http://www.rightmedia.com
• Value Click Media, heard their payouts have decreased allot, easier to get into than other networks, but dont take it for granted! http://valueclickmedia.com
• Tribal Fusion, good payouts, very hard to get into, http://tribalfusion.com/
• Casale Media, hard to get into, good payouts http://www.casalemedia.com/
• Burst Media, http://www.burstmedia.com

There are lots of other CPM networks which are smaller and easier to get accepted into, I am not a member in all of those networks so please excuse me for the lack of more in depth information.

I mentioned in my last quick post that I am going, along with Imad, to start marketing WH-D, well, we got a 728*90 banner designed from 20dollarbanners.com (best value for money banner design service so far) and placed it on a bunch of sites (webmaster related) and traffic started flowing right away, currently WH-D is getting around 700 uniques per day! and its growing, not many people are submitting listings/news though, which might be an issue with the design (feedback appreciated) which is something we’ll have to look into. Below are the recent stats for WH-D.

Speaking of website usability, I’ve been testing out an online heat map service which helps you visualize your traffic, where they are clicking etc. which has been very helpfull in finding some design flaws, I’ll be adding WH-D to the service in the upcoming couple of days, incase your interested in such a service, http://crazyegg.com is the website, it is a paid service, but you can test it out for free (limited number of visits) , there are also a free script that you can install which will produce a simple heat map for your page, but if your looking for advanced stats, crazyegg is the way to go.

Sorry guys, its been a while since I last updated the blog, I haven’t gone on vacation or anything, just busy with my projects, faye3.com has been taking most of the time especially after the partnership with Maktoob.com, were working on a complete revamp of the website and the addition of some pretty cool features.

I’ve launched a couple of new websites, small ones, nothing major, ill post updates about them in my next (hopefully soon) update, I am also planning for a couple of new projects that will hopefully see the light soon, they are still in planning so I am not releasing any more details about them at this stage.

Everything else has been going pretty well, myself and Imad are planning a new marketing push for WH-D which has been well over due, we havent had the chance to properly market the website as we initially planned, both of s gfot tangled in their own projects and havent had the chance to carry out those plans.

Thats all for this quick update, thanks for all of you have visited the blog and waited for updates during the past month! I will post another update soon!