Am I happy with that? Of course I am! That’s around £1800. What will I do with the money? Well what I might do is put it into any future projects I might work on, this sale has made me realise what’s to stop from me trying different niches, getting them good page ranks, high in google, 28k backlinks and then selling them off?

All in all I think the sale of Talk Playstation was fair and I’m very happy with the result.

I’ve had some private offers of $3000 and currently negotiating an offer of $3800. To be honest, I’m not really that fussed on how much the website goes for, I just want it out of my hair.

So far more than 600 people have viewed the auction and 28 people are keeping an eye on it.

I’ll keep you updated.

It’s gaining quite alot of interest, I’ve had a few private offers, one being $3,000 (around £2k?) but I think i’m going to let the auction run. I’ve also been looking at past sites sold on a similar scale to Talk Playstation and they have gone for $4k.

The auction is currently sitting at $600 and I only put the listing on last night, it runs out next Monday/Tuesday night, we’ll see where we are at then.

I’m quite happy with what I’ve achieved and learnt from running the site, the stats are excellent. Here’s some of the highlights:-

• Page Rank 4
• 28k backlinks
• 66.72% of the 45k monthly visits come from Google
• Had a steady income via Adsense

Anyway, we’ll see where we are at next week. I did mention just before Xmas that Talk Playstation is worth around $3.5 to $9.5k.

I’ve been looking at a number of ‘we give an estimate on your site’ websites and a few have come back with some legit looking results and others have come back with some unrealistic results. I got an estimate of around $800,000 once!

Anyway, the three sites I’ve properly looked at are:-

• mywebsiteworth.com
• peekstats.com
• yourwebsitevalue.com

MyWebsiteWorth gave $4,078, Peekstats gave $9,536.36 and YourWebsiteValue gave $3,587. I’m pretty impressed with these results but what is it really worth? No one knows unless I put it up for sale which I’m not prepared to do.

Here are some stats that these evluations go off…

• Alexa Traffic Rank: 245,218
• Compete Rank: 362,353
• QuantCast Rank: 564,615
• Indexed Pages: 6,359
• Backlinks: 32,410

I’ve been look at websites that have been sold for those estimated values above and they have pretty much the same stats. I’ll say it again, it’s not going up for sale. I just found it interesting to know. Try your website.

This is what it looked like:

As you can see there are quite a lot of errors to take care of. I’ve taken care of them all and i’m just waiting for Google to crawl my site again and i’ll take a look at it again when it has.

I think its important to keep an eye in Google Webmaster Tools because it lets you know if there are any conflicting errors with your site and if you iron out all the errors, chances are you could rank a lot higher than you do now.

From 1st July 2008 until 31sth July 2008:

Visitors

• 2,914 Visits (2,716 Absolute Unique Visitors)
• 5,162 Page Views

Subscribers (in accordance to Feedburner and as of today)

• 10 (June average: 12)

Bandwidth Transfered: 911.2 Meg

talkplaystation.com

Visitors

• 125,597 (94,808 Absolute Unique Visitors)
• 184,678 Page Views

Subscribers (in accordance to Feedburner and as of today)

• 192 (June average: 168)

Bandwidth Transfered: 161.06 Gig

Summary

Daparky.com has pretty much stayed the same with slight increase in visitors not much though. Talk playstation on the other hand has gone up once again from 102,786 visits to 125,597 visits. This time last month the subscriber count was 151, it is now 192. Transfer bandwidth stayed the same.

Lets see what August brings us.

Basically when i show my stats for July they probably won’t have met the goals i set, but who knows. I will have to take this into account.

On the other hand, i didn’t have time to implement that plugin i found (Content Gallery). I’ll try and get it in this weekend if i’m not busy.

I had a play with wordpress 2.6 today and have to say its pretty good, it feels a lot faster for some reason and the new features are top notch.

If your wondering what plugins i’m currently using, i’ll make a new post during the week so make sure you check back!

I was looking at a few themes, free ones of course, i like them but i feel if i ever need a re-design it will have to be custom made and built to my requirements. I have a few plans for the blog including new features and such. Traffic is still on the up and so is the subscriber count.

I think the next update is to display the feedburner widget where it displays how many subscribers you currently have.

Anyway, its late here, i’m going to bed.

I plan on setting more goals for next month and i’ll mention that later on in the week.

Set Your Goals

Set yourself a goal and see if you can achieve it, try and get so many visitors or feed subscribers, it might do you good at the end of the day.

If you don’t set your goals, your not pushing yourself and you won’t achieve what you most want.

My next goal in life is to become a PHP expert

So what were the goals?

For talk playstation they were:-

• To reach 150 RSS Subscribers (currently around the 80 mark)
• 20 of which must be subscribed via e-mail
• Last month the blog received 61,053 Visits. July 1 will see 70k

First of all lets talk about the subscribers.

The goal was to reach 150 subscribers and i reached it on July 1 2008 – the day the goal was meant to be met. As you can see from the chart above, its up and down everyday but overall the subscriber count is going up.

The next goal i set was to get 20 subscribers subscribed via email. I can tell you that today 28 people are subscribed, the number was 24 on July 1.

Now here’s the big jump. I wanted to see 70k unique visitors. I saw 84,376 unique visitors, a massive 14k above my target.

I hope to raise this even more this month and running a competition might do the trick.

From 1st June 2008 until 30th June 2008:

Visitors

• 2,912 Visits (2,747 Absolute Unique Visitors)
• 4,840 Page Views

Subscribers (in accordance to Feedburner and as of today)

• 13 (June average: 10)

Bandwidth Transfered: 1004.75 Meg

talkplaystation.com

Visitors

• 102,786 Visits (84,376 Absolute Unique Visitors)
• 147,434 Page Views

Subscribers (in accordance to Feedburner and as of today)

• 151 (June average: 87)

Bandwidth Transfered: 161.77 Gig

The stats went up for both sites especially talk playstation with the stats doubling up. The bandwidth talk playstation uses is quite large and my server never went down at all, 100% uptime.

Lets see if we can keep it up for next month.

First thing i did was implement the top bar with the ‘recent posts’, ‘popular post’ and ‘recent comments’ areas.

The second update i applied was ‘make subscribe to RSS more visible rather than e-mail’. In this update i put in a ‘subscribe to talk playstation’ section in the sidebar to make it more visible to users and easier to access.

The third update was to write a better ‘about me’ page because it was very basic and still is but its better than it was.

The fourth update was to make the 404 pages more ‘informative’ because they were pretty basic and just said ‘couldnt find this’. Now it displays the top 15 posts, theres a search facility and other information packed in.

The more recent updates are the gallery section and poll. I mentioned that the gallery plugin i found is the best plugin i used because it organises all your pictures etc. This plugin is called ‘Next Gen Gallery‘. I’ve also added a poll in the side bar that i plan to change every weekend to keep users coming back and entertained.

Special thanks goes to my brother who keeps putting a lot of work into Talk Playstation… so thanks bro!

It will probably go down today though because the keywords were for an update to the playstation network.

At least this will help close down on that souce split i spoke about a month ago. In a months time i will post what the source split currently is but i can say at the moment that the traffic source split is fair and is just what i wanted.

I have set myself some goals for talk playstation and will reveal on July 1 if i’ve met them. I can reveal though that 2 of the 3 goals are ALMOST met.

So i guess you’ll have to check back in on July 1.

So the goals are:-

• To reach 150 RSS Subscribers (currently around the 80 mark)
• 20 of which must be subscribed via e-mail
• Last month the blog received 61,053 Visits. July 1 will see 70k

So there we are. How am i going to reach them targets? I will use social media sites and promote the blog using social media.

If i don’t reach my goals… well what can i say but try again the month after, it is afterall quite a hard task because the blog did so well last month and hasn’t performed as well this month and if i don’t set targets they won’t be met again.

Other than working hard at my job, i haven’t been up to much apart from playing Metal Gear Solid 4 on the Playstation 3 and watching the European Cup.

There has been a huge inactivity on this blog and thats due to time constraints. I said i would sit back and have a look at where all this time is going and re-adjust it so i can spend a bit of time on this blog.