No updates yesterday because saadh.com will be moving to a new hosting location, along with all of our other sites this weekend. While this transition is in progress, we will also be switching over to wordpress.
blogphp is a great software though and I will be using it for a few of my other upcoming blogs, and also will be using it for the network of sites from the “SEO Experiment”.
No updates until the move 
I’ll be guest blogging at www.dorm-room-biz.com for the next week. I’ll be posting an introduction this weekend and then two SEO and entrepreneur related posts during the week.
The owner, Chris is a very cool guy and will be leaving from July 22 (today) until July 30, next Sunday.
Hopefully my blogging there can garner a bit of interest into saadh.com
I should probably create a “Category” for Vgescape alone. Anyway, sorry, I forgot to add daily earnings for the last few days. Someone actually emailed me to ask about them. It may have only been one person, but that was enough for me to never forget to change them from now on.
Went through a bit of a slump from
July 20 to July 23, averaging 5.43$ / day.
July 1 to July 25, average = 4.84$ / day.
July 14 (day new ads were implemented) to July 25, average = 7.33$ / day.
So, with this progress, it is very possible to top August’s prediction of either 250 or 300$. Vgescape should be able to accumulate the 250$ or 300$ on its own, with other sites hopefully being able to contribute another 50$. But most of the other sites are being made to begin earning money in September and October as sites take time to mature.
For the past few days I’ve been avidly reading any entrepreneur blog I can find from the Mind Petals network and through the blogrolls of those respected entrepreneurs. There is a general problem that lingers with most of these youths though.
All of these young entrepreneurs seem to not be in it for the long haul, even if they think they might be. All of them have very creative minds and think of neat ideas all the time. As much as we don’t want to admit it, most of these ideas never succeed. So, what should all of these aspiring youths do?
I think all aspiring young entrepreneurs should focus in and learn the ins and outs of internet marketing. All it takes is one to three hours a day of reading through various blogs, magazines, and forums. After a bit of time your knowledge will be varied and diverse. A good example would be someone who is in college and if he stuided internet marketing and other things related to that, what could he become an ‘expert’ in?
All of these different topics will make you a diverse businessman for the internet generation and more confident as well. All of the bullets above lead to other skills as well. Things like SEO teach you the basics of analysis because you need to follow trends of search engines. If you were to sit down and think of how all of the skills above connect to other skills, you could go on for a while.
I’ve seen many sites keep two different sites, their non-www form and their www. form. Primary example can be http://mindpetals.com/. Unlike most sites, Mind Petals seems to be indicating its links to the non-www form. They should therefore have all of their links, not just their homepage, but all subpages and subdirectory pages automatically only go to the non-www form. For an example, of this, try going to http://saadh.com/ , you can’t because it automatically redirects to the www version.
The best way to perform this is 301 redirect with a .htaccess file in your root folder. This is an Apache module, but almost every host supports it. To check to see if you are supported, you can ask your host, or just try out the mod_rewrite.
To forward domain.com to www.domain.com, use the following code:
To forward www.domain.com to domain.com, use the following code:
Where do you place the code? Go to notepad, or any text file editor. Paste the code inside and save as “.htacess”, make sure not to have any extension like .txt. Then with ftp or a similiar method, upload the document onto your root folder if you want to redirect your entire site, or any subfolder if you’d only like to redirect a portion of your site.
Income for Adsense went from 9.91$ to 5.92$. I’m not upset because I had 200 less pageviews, the same click rate%, and only six less clicks. I just got unlucky with the value of the clicks. I need to find a way to stabilize income to over 10$ a day.
What are other ways to make income from content sites? Ways that could be implemented, affilaite programs are useless to me as I arleady have enough ads.
My ideas:
- Add a link unit from adsense
- Add those text link ads, like intellitext.
For these initial first few weeks of blogging, it has been tough. Finding readers and getting visitors each day is difficult. What is saadh.com’s traffic? The stat programs say above 20 people a day, but who knows how many from that number actually read the blog. Because of this, the motivation to blog isn’t normally there.
I will try to post updates multiple times a day now. A few reasons why this would be beneficial:
1. Once you being getting lazy with a site and not updating, then that attitude begins to stick.
2. Whether or not the blog is read, blogging still helps self-pride.
3. Blogging keeps you focused. If I write about accomplishing something, then I’ll have more motiviation to accomplish even more.
4. Most of all, I am very intriguied by the Mind Petal Network of young entrepreneurs, a new, but selective network of promising entrepreneurs who blog about their journey. I think I definetly bring something different to the table than most young entrepreneurs.
Routine Plans:
- Post up daily adsense revenue on the right navigational side. This will only include recorded ad revenue from companies through CPC, CPM, or affiliate programs. That means, no one-time sales, text links sales, or other types of revenue.
- Try to provide an SEO tip or method either, every day, or every other day.
I’ll be doing a Vgescape update every week or so from now on. Major improvements from July 10, 2006 to July 17, 2006: - Added border and images on top of the horizontal adsense banners. Follows TOS becuase of border - Added images next to ads to the left, follows TOS because of border. - Border matches each console. - All the images rotate through a php scrpt thqat chooses from many different images available. All seperated for each console as well. - Added site-wide 12 affiliates. Another 5 affiliate requests in the work. INCOME Income has gone up like crazy. Affiliate links began kicking in around the 14th and the images were implemented on the 15th. Therefore, that is where the spike in revenue comes from. Don’t think that revenue is steadily dropping though. The revenue for July 17th still has 8 hours to go (they update from Pacific Time).
Hosting Improvements
I’ve been having a lovely hosting experience over at powervps.com. I’ve been on a reseller account with a few extra IP’s and extra disk space for the past few months. My dad has asked me to host him because he thought I was already on a VPS server. Therefore, I thought it might be a good idea to switch over anyway.
The cost will be an additional 22.50$ per month, but I can now order a few more IP’s, and I’m getting 100$ / year from my dad, which equates to just over 8$ / month by hosting his domains and sites, which don’t take up more than 50 mb.
With quite a few different IP’s and my SEO experiment of creating a network of 100 mini video game sites, in addition to the other 10 sites I have, this should be a nice investment, even if its /month out of my pocket.
So, starting in August 2006, current monthly payments relating to the sites:
- 20$ /month for an automated directory submission service.
- 56.50$ /month for VPS hosting.
+ 8.33$ /month for hosting dad.
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- 68.17$ /month
So, the SEO experiment of my 100 mini video game sites will begin soon. Major problem I’ve been having is that I have cash on me and some money in paypal, but alot is scattered around. Parents want nothing to do with me financially. Two days ago, I finally got my brother to allow me to use his credit card. 500 Canadian Dollar limit though.
So, when some of his money clears up from the CC, I’ll be ordering my first 62 domains. About two of those are not for the 100 mini sites. I’ll be buying the other 40 or so domains soon. I need to find more keywords and niches 
