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State of the Union 2008 Part II
Yesterday, I gave updates on three of my websites. Today, I’ll continue with my State of the Union Address and give you updates on a few more websites. I’ll talk a little about their history, current state, and future goals.
This is a relatively new website/blog that was actually created by accident. I bought this domain for a different project. I canceled that project and wanted to do something with the domain instead of letting it sit there. History Facts 101 is a general history blog that I update 1-3 times a week depending on how busy I am. After three weeks, the site was getting 50 uniques/day. I thought I was on to something. However, since then, traffic has fallen to like 15 uniques/day. I’m not sure if it’s because school is out or what? It makes some money via adsense every now and then, but nothing great. My goals for this site are to continue to add new posts every couple of days (maybe daily eventually) and to generate 100 uniques/day and 100 RSS subscribers by the end of 2008.
This website is one of my absolute favorites. I really enjoy posting on it and interacting with the commentators. Tim Tebow is my favorite college football player so keeping up with him and posting daily is very easy. I consider Tebow Zone a huge success. It didn’t take long after launch for this site to climb up the rankings in Google. And because Tim Tebow was such a big draw and was always in the news (Heisman) I was getting a ton of traffic. I’m talking 2,000 uniques/day when I was ranked #1 in Google. Now there is more competition with other Tebow fan sites, but I still think this one is the best. I’m the only one that provides real blog posts. Tebow Zone makes good money from Adsense, especially during football season, and even makes money from Ringtone sales. My goals are to maintain a top 5 Google Ranking and keep posting everyday. I plan on keeping this site forever, even when Tebow is in the NFL.
This website is almost an exact replica of Tebow Zone, only for a different player. I have good rankings for this site too, although the search volume isn’t half of what Tebow’s is. Nonetheless, it does well during football season and will get a 100-200 uniques/day. I don’t plan on changing anything with this site. I’m just going to keep on posting and doing what I do. The only way I could increase revenue is to directly sell merchandise instead of just slapping up a link to the affiliates store.
I purchased this website a few months ago for the sole purpose of driving traffic to Mass Effect Forums. It has worked… to an extent. This blog still gets 200 uniques/day even though there hasn’t been much game news coming out. I’m very glad I purchased this site, because I’ve already made my money back in just a few months. I’m going to keep this blog as long as Mass Effect is alive. It’s got good rankings and a solid readership base. I don’t really have any plans or goals for it at this time.
Well that’s it for State of the Union 2008 Part II. Please check back again tomorrow for the final update.
