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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.

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.

I’m half way done with my content and webmaster portion of Vgescape, so I began working on marketing Vgescape again as well.

I added the Alexa toolbar to IE and decided that whenever I update my site I’ll keep the toolbar open to raise my rank. The site was already at an impressive 250,000 for its low amount of visitors. Hah, by about 100 more visitors than usual (because of updates) and my own 100-200 pageviews per day:

Traffic Rank for vgescape.com (what’s this)

Today	1 wk. Avg.	3 mos. Avg.	3 mos. Change
38,808	47,944	245,306	77,895

At first I wasn’t going to do this because I can never follow up on what I plan, but I thought it would be a better idea to write out what I want to accomplish each day so I stay focused:

• Read up on 301 redirecting
• Change address of all /nintendo-revolution pages of vgescape to /nintendo-wii
• 301 Redirect all the old revolution pages to wii pages.
• Pray my search engine rankings for wii don’t go down the drain.
• Create a 3×3 table and interlink all themed pages of Vgescape for better user navigation (meaning repeat the same process over 50 times)
• Add new news and updates to Vgescape to make it look as if its always been updated!
• Fix up all five consoles specs, faqs, release dates, and controllers pages

Okay, so yesterday’s to-do list didn’t work out so well. Repetitive work takes A LONG time to do, so I didn’t end up finishing as much as I intended to.

So what I want to accomplish today (overlapping from yesterday):

• I’ve created all the 3×3 tables, but now I need to add links toward all the related pages (this will take a LONG time and be VERY boring).
• Add a bunch of updates to all your new pages in the recent news, then add 2-5 new video game news articles to make the site look up to date.
• Add 15 new big splash images to the main console pages of Vgescape.
• Already fixed up specs, faqs. Need to fix up/finish release dates, controllers, prices, and pictures pages for all five consoles.

I am trying to go through my work on a day-by-day basis, but my initial plans for July are few:

- Spend a ton of time on Vgescape to make it my flagship site for the next year. Need Vgescape to finance my other work after summer is over.
- Finish up the numerous amounts of cheap gaming sites and blogs, as well game cheat sites as well. All of the work for those sites combined won’t even equal the work that will be put into Vgescape.
- Try to not go broke while hiring a friend of mine, Manan. He is going to be a sophmore in high school. I’m going to be paying him nearly a week to help out with all the sites that I’ll be spitting out. Also will soon be paying someone else a month for writing work. Only problem? I don’t make enough to pay that much.

If I can accomplish those goals above, then my plans for August and Septemeber are going to be quite ambitious, but completely possible.

Wow. Weird how your attitude of life changes so easily, from simple occurrences. Although school let out on the 21st, it seems as if my own summer will really be starting on a more special day, July 4th, America’s independence day (I proudly live there). At this point, it’s clear to me that I’ve spent too much “talking the talk, but not walking the walk”. This past weekend, a few minor events coming together have provided the best time to begin considering my ‘web entrepreneurial’ work to go into full-time swing.

What happened? To start things off light, my cousins just went back home after sleeping over for quite a few days. That meant a whole week of total slobby-ness and unproductive-ness. On a more serious note, one of my (recent) best friends is moving away before our final high school senior year :/. On Friday, final grades came in. After a difficult school year, final grades were good. I spent the actual weekend attending a conference for young Muslims (although I’m not religious at all), giving me good motivation. Also, I’ve accepted parental and home life problems. And finally, I think I’m over something that has been causing me problems for a while.

One of the most important lessons I learned at the conference was to not waste my time planning weeks or months ahead, but instead focus in a day-by-day consistency. I always sit around dreaming and talking about the success of my web businesses in a year from now, but never look even two days ahead. Then, two days later…no work is done.

I also was reminded of how many youths these days have become very spoiled and are not using their time wisely. This linked directly to me as I’ve been quite pampered through my life, and only recently have I had to start thinking about my future and independence — hence why this site is here.

Starting with this entry, I hope to gain a sense of independence, responsibility, and confidence with my web adventures and begin (financially) supporting myself as my college years approach as well.

I plan to write out many of my organizational thoughts and go through my plans for my work as well.