More Spammers...

Today's been one of my busiest days since that surge of 100 visitors to my site a couple of weeks ago. I achieved 36 visitors. Only 14 under my target! I might still make my target if I really push some articles on digg and reddit. Once I hit the 50 visitors a day mark i have to make sure that I start getting a minimum of 50 visitors everyday. Then I can build my way up to 100 a day!

Over the last 7 days I have delivered just under 2k ad impressions and been rewarded with $.25 which doesn't seem like much but it is growing. I should hopefully start earning a dollar a week really soon. As I just put ads up on my forums I am expecting to more than double that $0.25 this week. But today has been pretty good as far as things go. I got another 4 members on my forums, bringing me up to 18. Although 3 were spammers and 1 I am unsure about. Hopefully that 1 guy will start posting. That would be really encouraging. My first true poster apart from my friends.

But I am going to continually add 10 posts a day until my forums start picking up momentum! Hopefully I will start to receive some more members from January's prospected increase in internet traffic which a couple of people have mentioned to me.

But with the new year just around the corner I want to start setting out some plans for my website that I will have hoped to achieve by the end of 2010.

1. get to around 1000 visitors a day
2. Gain several hundred active posters on forums.
3. earn up to $10 a day
4. Find a way of getting back into favor with adsense!
5. Start gaining subscribers on youtube so that I can start a small revenue stream from that!

If I want to achieve 1000 visitors a day then I will have to continue to build backlinks and post on my forums and add quality, original content to my website. Hopefully then I will start to reap the benefits of a lot of hard work!

Anyway its late so I better get to bed. I have a whole day of work to do tomorrow!

A competition to attract new users!

So guys I have decided to host a little competition to try and encourage more and more members to register on the forums. The prize is that of a video game of the winners choice! You might be thinking that this is quite a lot of money to be putting into this but if it gets my forums up and going then its worth it.

Now I am not expecting miracles from this competition, but if it gets me 10-20 active users then it will be more than worth it! The forums after all will more than bring my money back if I get them started. I mean, if I place 1 ad group so that it is always visible then I will be earning lots of page impressions from 1 person alone. So then if I get 100 active users on the site then I will hopefully be starting to make some of my goals that I have laid out. For instance - 100 visitors a day and the $1/day goal.

I have been looking at other peoples success with forums and they seem to just grow and grow and grow once they are started. This could essentially mean big things for my website!

I am also planning more competitions. But the prizes wont cost me anything at the moment. It will be like a higher ranking on the forum system etc..

Anyway I need to get back to work!