The last time I wrote a note I was still in transition from my shared hosting to dedicated hosting. I am 99% done that transfer. I am still keeping my GoDaddy shared hosting account as all of my "gocurious" sites are still on it (including this one).
I did about $390 in October and am looking at more than $500 in November...who knows how well December will do? All I have to say is thank god for Christmas, some of my other sites are not performing as well as they were pre-move, but my two Christmas sites are doing fantastic. In fact, my North Pole Christmas site is really killing my bandwidth. If you search on google on christmas wallpaper, or christmas backgrounds then look at the images you'll see: http://www.north-pole-christmas has a pretty high ranking on some images. I'll discuss why in a later post, but I believe the "why" is what's draining my bandwidth (120GB so far this month).
In more new, I'm still using
SubmitEaze to do my
Directory Submisssions. I find this to be a really well written piece of software, easy to use and updated frequently. They've just added
Article Submissions to version 6...wahoo!
After taking a quick look at the article submissions portion of Submit Eaze, they still have some work to do to catch up with Article Post Robot, but it's a start and it's included with the software at no extra charge. It's certainly better than doing the article submissions by hand.
I like Article Post Robot (which I had been using), but I do wish that APR had the polish that I see in the rest of SubmitEaze, especially the automagic updates that SubmitEaze has. For the money, SubmitEaze has been my best purchase so far. If you'd like to try it out, follow the link below (or on top of the page). I believe they have a free trial.
SubmitEaze Directory Submission Software.
And yes, I am a SumitEaze affiliate, but remember I only recommend software and services that I actually use and really believe in. I recommend GoDaddy because I've been with them for more than a year and while the rest of the world will tell you horror stories, they have been better/fairer to me than "other" hosting companies. The same goes for SubmitEaze, I found it to be best of breed and after using it myself for the last 6 months decided to join their affiliate program and endorse their product here. You will note that I did not join the Article Marketer affiliate program or the Article Post Robot affiliate program. I like and currently use Article Post Robot for article submissions. I found Article Marketer to be very unprofessional (read through some of my earlier posts if you'd like to see why). Article Post Robot is a few features and a little polish away from being a real top notch product. Maybe in time I will fully endorse it (I still use it).
On other news, I am trying to get some of my sites listed in the Yahoo Directory. A tip I found on a certain web forum said it's easier to get listed regionally and since my sites have a certain Canadian Flav
our to them, I am going that route. I'll let you know if this works or not.
Still nothing in DMOZ after 9 or 10 months. I'm starting to think that you need to know an editor, be and editor or pay an editor to get listed in DMOZ.
Oh, I made some performance improvements on the sites, APC cache and MySQL query caching. I was able to get twice as many visitors in the last UFC (35,000 on fight night) with these changes. I'm thinking of installing/configuring squid in front of my web server to get even better throughput for the next fight as it still got pretty slow (and some denials) during the main event.
Don't forget to try out the
SubmitEaze Directory Submission Software. It's a free trial and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
