Posted on 27 September 2009
Written by Sohaib
Its been a while since I did any affiliate marketing, close to 2 years actually, I’ve recently decided to get back to it and see what I can achieve in this field, I haven’t been a big affiliate marketer to be honest, which is another reason why I want to get back to it and see what I can do.
The other reason is that I like to diversify my income, right now most of my income comes from the online gaming business, which is great but its always better to add other income streams, thats why I also reactivated u4media and I’ve been pushing it strongly in the past weeks, I will be announcing the launch of the network real soon, but I honestly don’t expect much revenue from it, especially at the beginning, in the contrary I will need to spend lots of money marketing it, the more the reason why I need to increase my revenue sources.
I’ve decided to use some products at Clickbank to begin with, I ill be creating small websites (1-4) pages each for each product, I’ve selected one product so far, my plan is to create at least 5 websites during the upcoming 4 weeks, do some link building for each and probably some PPC advertising and test conversions and take it from there. I will probably be using products from Azgooleads as well, its been a very long time since I contacted my Azoogle AM, my AM was changed numerous times and I remember recieving emails about it each time, I just searched my gmail and emailed the most recent one asking for product suggestions.
A big reason why I deiced to try it out was the cloud living ebook that Glen wrote and which I bought a couple of weeks ago, I am very excited about this new test and I will be posting details about one of the websites and how its going.
Posted on 22 September 2009
Written by Sohaib
The updated home page for Hitmanslife went online 2 days ago, it was around 3 weeks ago that we launched the new home page but what we agreed on doing is updating it with flash animations, the home page now looks way more attractive and will hopefully lead to more conversions in terms of registrations.
A new profile page for members and a new inventory page went live with the new home page, the inventory page is a total revamp of the older one with way more features and drag and drop features of the weapons in your inventory. Below is a preview of the new profiles:
Posted on 17 September 2009
Written by Sohaib
Been busy the past couple of days with a number of things including the new WizardsProductions website which is the gaming company setup in Jordan, the website is still missing some pages but they are not important ones, all the main pages are up there, the content was written by one of the partners in the company and he did a pretty good job in my opinion.
Keep in mind that this is a corporate website and not a gaming site, we were wondering for quite some time which approach should we take with the website, should we keep it corporate? or add some a gaming touch to it? we finally decided to go corporate and save the gaming portal look for another project.
I’ve went through a number of stages that ended up with these theme:
1- The 1st thing I did was a wordpress blog using a paid gaming template, you can check it out here.
2- The egamer theme we used didnt have all the functionality we did, so we went custom and got a custom design made, html’d it and used it for a couple of months, however the design didnt meet what we wanted (not sure why we didnt decide on that sooner before going through the trouble of creating the whole website)
3- Bought the paid template you see now on the website which looks very good in my opinion, I did go through allot of templatemonsters as well but we didnt like any of them, they all the same!!
During my 6 years of working online and launching websites, I’ve learned that going custom is usually the best thing to do, this also depends on many variables mainly your budget and the project itself, however using a template that delivers the end result is also a smart choice.
Btw, what do you think of the Wizards logo below? this was custom made by a Jordanian designer we hired locally, he did quite a good job in my opinion!
Posted on 12 September 2009
Written by Sohaib
Great news today, Arabcrunch one of the biggest blogs covering Arabic related tech news has reviewed WizardsProductions the company I co-founded 8 months ago, the review covers a breif history about the company as well the current project of the company, I am very excited about this review as it wil definitely help the company get more exposure.
Arabcrunch recently broke the news of Yahoo’s acquisition of Maktoob.com and was mentioned in Reuters for breaking it, the blog also had a video interview with Yahoo’s VP for emerging markets and Samit Toukan Maktoob’s co-founder.
You can find our review here!
Posted on 11 September 2009
Written by Sohaib
I received the preview of the new design that my partner is working on today, and boy was I impressed, the new theme is going to be an excellent move towards the revamp I talked about earlier, this theme is way fresher and I just love it. Check out the below low quality preview!
Of course the network home revamp isnt just a pretty design, lots of new updates are going in the design such as member profiles and a social networking system.
On another note, I currently have 87 followers on twitter, which isnt bad in my opinion considering for being there for 5 days, twitter is a great marketing tool so far with lots of potential however its filled with spam, which brings me Twitblock, you can learn more about their service on this Rev2 review, basically it helps allot with clearing spam profiles in your twitter follower list. Hope it helps you get rid of the spam in your twitter account!
Posted on 10 September 2009
Written by Sohaib
u4media has been a delayed project for a while and something I wanted to launch a long time ago, U4media is going to be the home of all my non-gaming properties, sadly though most of my non-gaming websites are not active any more besides two websites which are going to be the two properties under u4media for now.
So! I’ve been browsing Digital Point and Flippa in the past couple of days looking for quality websites for sale, and when I say quality i don’t necessarily mean traffic, so if you have any quality websites that have unique features, content or ideas please do let me know!
Until i get the u4media website done, I’ve placed a pretty cool coming soon page over, below is the preview!
This page was bought from themeforest which is btw an awesome website, I’ve spent an hour yesterday looking through the awesome themes that the website includes at incredibly low prices, in my opinion these guys will displace Template Monster in no time!
Posted on 09 September 2009
Written by Sohaib
I picked up Extremewildvideos a while ago from IQ69, the website was for sale for a very good price considering that its all custom coded ans has some pretty good features, the plan was to revamp the website and relaunch it. However due to the fact that I am extremely busy with the gaming side of my business I didnt have the time to effictevly do what I had in mind for it.
I am currently planning to finalize any pending issues in the website, find someone to add content to the website (contact me if your interested) and advertise the website.
The design you see now is the new one I got designed a couple of months ago and was integrated recently. I plan to heavily advertise the website once I find someone to add content to the website regularly.
I also had the idea of selling the script powering the website later on and maybe start a website for that purpose only, I’ve tried a fair few of gaming and humor/video scripts and the script powering that site is absolutely awesome and it has many of the features i was missing in scripts like Humor Software which later became VideoCore back when I was using it Funnyvideohub (now dead).
I tried to get a screenshot through archive.org of how the older design looked but I only got what seems to be like the original design of the website which isnt how i bought it 
Anyways I will keep you guys posted on how well the marketing goes and blog about the best method I find to be best for marketing such websites, I am not thinking of monetizing it at this point until it gets a good amount of traffic, below is a preview of how the website looks now.
Posted on 08 September 2009
Written by Sohaib
Its been a LONG time since i posted a speed linking post, so here it goes, the top list of this week’s favorite posts:
On another note, you can check out a preview of one of the new buildings were adding to MedievilWars on this post. This is one of two new buildings that will be added to the game on both servers.
Posted on 07 September 2009
Written by Sohaib
Anyone that has dealt with hackers know how frustrating it is, especially when you talk to them, I’ve dealt with a couple of I talked to one guy once, this morning we’ve been dealing with a hacker on one of the Arabic games under WizardsProductions, I think we’ve pinned down the issue, anyways here are some stuff anyone with an active website should do:
1- Setup a daily backup system for your files and database, if you have a really active website I would recommend you setup hourly backups for your databases at least, its never a bad idea to backup the database on two locations, for example make one copy on your hard disk and another copy to a remote server.
2- Enable mysql logs on your server, its a good idea to have it enabled to catch any foul play, in one hacking issue, the only way we caught the hacker was through reading the logs and finding the query he was running.
Here are a some online backup services that I quickly researched:
1- http://www.bqbackup.com
A service I used previously, very good and fast, good prices as well, they provide simple FTP backup space, nothing fancy but gets the job done.
2- http://mozy.com
They have a number of backup plans, they offer both server backup solutions as well as desktop backup solutions so you can also backup your PC’s files.
3- http://www.drivehq.com/
These guys have a bigger number of offerings although its a bit distracting…
Posted on 06 September 2009
Written by Sohaib
I’ve decided to give twitter another try today, despite my previous comments about twitter, I’ve signed up in a new account and added the link to my new profile under the Find me online section.
The reasons why I deiced to give twitter another try are allot, one was suggestions from my online friends that own blogs that I have to try it, the 2nd was all the news twitter is getting these days, it cant be out of nothing, thirdly is the potential it has to make money, and since I am in the business of making money online, I have to join it and make the best out of it!
Speaking of money making opportunities, I’ve been seeing an increasing number of twitter related websites for sale on Digital Point and Flippa, usually i dont even check such listings, however i found myself checking one today, you can see it here, what do you think?
On another note, I’ve just upgraded my wordpress installation to the latest version, I’ve been ignoring the notice in the WordPress admin panel for a while now, but after after reading the warning and the incident that happened on Arabcrunch I decided to upgrade immediately, and you should too, I guess an exploit similar to this was behind the malware warning that Google was showing when visiting my blog months ago.
