Brian Vaughan

Importance of Social Bookmarking

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Over the past few days I have done a few very small scale [tag-tec]social bookmarking[/tag-tec] tests. Mainly using StumbleUpon, and so far they have worked ..well wonders. I can honestly say the results have blown me away, and that is just using one site out of the many that are out there to use and only on a small scale. I wasn’t expecting much, maybe a few visitors here or there, but was shocked when each site I submitted received hundreds of visitors in a short period of time.

Needless to say now that more tests are needed, and if the results are just as good as my first results it truly is a goldmine or free traffic for your websites. Maybe I am slow at realizing this and maybe others have known this for a long time, but I still think it is still under utilized form of traffic for websites. Most websites I visit I know do not implement any forms of social bookmarking, just think of the hundreds, if not thousands of users they are missing out on because of this reason. Over the next few days I will be doing further tests and will post back again on my findings, hopefully the tests will prove impressive results.

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Few More Sites to Speak Of

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Well in my last post I made an annoucement about PurePimps, in this post I am annoucing a few others. First of all I have had a directory site for a long time at http://dictyo.com now I have one more to add to the list http://dacoo.com.

Dacoo.com is going strong for its 2nd day being a website, just over 460 submissions and already one feature linked purchased. I consider that pretty good for just getting going. I plan on looking after Dacoo.com better than I did of Dictyo.com when I first created it. Hopefully the site will grow and start to bring me in a small revenue stream in featured links for a while, and hey maybe even a few bucks in Adsense a month.

Another site that I am in the process of launching is a mini info site Cold Remedies. Now this is not the usual type of site that I would normally be launching, but I have had the domain sitting around for a while after a purchased it in a bulk lot from a NamePros charity auction a while ago. It expires in December so I figured I would let it try to make a few bucks before then, hopefully it will and I will renew it for another year. If it doesn’t bring me in at least the registration cost though it will be going into the nether of the internet as yet another .info dropping domain.

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Starting Again

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Why did I start this blog? Well several reason I guess.. I wanted a place to document my success and my failures with MTF, ArcadeDog, and my other websites that I have yet to announce on this site. But there are other reasons as well, I thought this would be a way for me to stay motivated with the sites as well if I made a habit of posting once every few days (or every day would be great as well). I want my sites to be successful I am just afraid that I can’t get them to the level I want them to get to by myself. Do I care if people read this? No, not really if people do great they can come along for the ride, and maybe learn something along the way once I learn some stuff.

I need to once again start promoting MTF, I still have great hopes for the site. I just need to show it the love that it deserves. I think it can and will do great, it was doing wonderful before especially for a site that just started up. I need to get it back up to that level once again, and then beyond. When I first started MTF I was very excited and couldn’t wait to work on it, post on it, promote it. But now.. I just don’t know why I don’t have that same fire. I love the topic, very interested in the topic but just haven’t had the fire in me to go out and do those things lately. I need to get it back, and I need to get it back fast.

In other news, there is a new site of mine, well not really new, but new for me to be sole owner. PurePimps a site that I was one of the original members, then eventually became an admin on, is now mine. I was given the domain earlier today, and he is looking for the files now for me. I loved that site, and I want to get it set back up and going strong again for the hundreds (at one time thousands) of people that loved playing on that site. Just hope I haven’t bit off more than I can chew taking on yet another project at this time, when I can’t even give my current ones the attention that they need.

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Slacking

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I have really seemed to be slacking off past few months. I will blame it mostly on myself moving, but it does go deeper than that, the fact is I have just been lazy. I need to get back to work on my sites, and get them back up in top notch shape.

The summer should give me plenty of time to get my arcade site back up in good working order, since traffic almost dies once school is out on it. So hopefully I will use this time to get it set up better. I am hesitant to change the script it is using because of my rankings in the SERPS but I know that deep down it will be better to get a fresh script in there with some better looking URL’s. Right now I’m thinking about using AVArcade its a great free script, has all the features of the paid ones.

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