As I mentioned before, I have a YouTube Channel which features videos from my first adult web site and drives a lot of referrals to the main site.
I started it in February 2007 and it hit a number of milestones between Friday and this morning:
It’s just a pity that neither the video views nor the subscriptions generate direct revenues…
I’d received some copy text and some photographs from a friend who’s asked me to do his business a web site. He’s a hands-on guy and marketing brochures aren’t his forté so there wasn’t a great deal to work with.
So I sorted out some crops, re-sizes and thumbnails, decided to use WordPress just because, added a few tweaks like a “lightbox”, put together a formmail page (with a “thanks” redirect) and Bob’s your uncle: one classy web site in just a few hours.
I am involved with a local school on a personal basis. Yesterday, we were asked to come in for a training session to go through our own log-in for committee notes and our school e-mail which we can access via a webmail interface from our “desktops”.
I logged in, changed the default password, changed the theme of the desktop and then sent myself an e-mail as they use quite an involved address. I set up some notifications for the committees and asked the IT head if it would be possible to have my school e-mails forwarded to my own e-mail address. It wasn’t.
When I got in, I downloaded the e-mail and looked in great detail at the message headers, worked out which server was the most likely candidate and then set up my mail client to poll the school e-mail server to get my e-mails that way. Not hacking though, I hasten to add.
One of my long-term clients was kind enough to send me a cheque this week for two small invoices, so that it arrived within the payment terms … which is nice.
I didn’t get a chance to pay it in yesterday, so I was planning to nip out to the bank today. Fortunately Mrs Web Man spotted that the cheque hadn’t been signed … doh!
The client has now agreed to pay by BACS this time and hopefully they’ll continue doing so in future to save time and effort. We’ll see.
Well I added some more affiliate links as I mentioned earlier and one of them has already produced a $50 referral fee, so that’s paid for the domain name a few times over.
It’s probably still early days yet in terms of search engine positioning, but the site is already producing a number of clicks if not too many actual conversions.
So this evening, I registered two new domain names pointing at the same site: sexynylonwomen.com and women-in-nylon.com. I am hoping this will eventually drive more traffic that way and I am after all only re-investing some of the affiliate income into the site.
What I wanted to do was have both new domains mirror the existing site, but I have set my WordPress installation up to serve pages as the main domain name so they actually end up being effectively redirected. This is a pity as I really wanted the content to be available (and hence listed) as being from three sites - which is a tad naughty in terms of some search engine rules. Never mind though: at least it makes them ‘legal’ in terms of those guidelines.
The alternative was to set up two new WordPress installations and syndicate the main site to the two new sites, but this would have meant syndicating syndicated feeds which could then have its own repercussions. And of course it would mean two additional sites to update when there are new WordPress software releases.