My goals for July 1

I have set myself some goals and i have to reach them by the July 1 2008. Since my brother has been doing some stuff on talk playstation its grown into something kinda big. 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...

New themes i’ve been looking at

I mentioned a couple of days ago that i’ve been looking for a new design for talk playstation. Although the current design isn’t bad at all but i can’t keep it forever. A friend of mine has designed me a mock up of what he think the blog should look like and this is what he came up with: I must say it is a really nice, clean design and will most likely go with that. Other themes...

Why im not putting adverts on talk playstation

A few of you have e-mailed me telling me that i’m stupid for not putting adverts on talk playstation. I thought i would answer this in a blog post. It’s quite simple, i don’t want to. What i’m doing is building up a community and readership. Whats the point in pointing adverts on a blog that isn’t ‘very’ busy in traffic. Sure 61,053 Visits in a month is good but...

Blog Stats: May 2008

The idea of this is to post the blog stats at the beginning of every month to share some information with you and how well i’m doing. All these stats are in accordance to Google Analytics. So without further ado here are the stats. daparky.com From 1st May 2008 until 31st May 2008: Visitors 2,615 Visits (2,381 Absolute Unique Visitors) 4,268 Page Views Subscribers (in accordance to Feedburner and...

I might run a contest

No not on this blog! But on talk playstation. Why might i do this? Well for one it can be entertaining and the main thing is that it could draw some attention and gain more visitors/subscribers. So what might i use as a prize? I was looking at my Playstation 3 games collection and thought to myself; which games do i not play anymore and won’t play again. I was going to list them on eBay but i had the...

I almost forgot one thing

You know i did the custom 404 page for talk playstation yesterday? A user e-mailed me saying that the ‘search did not find anything’ page wasn’t very good as it just displayed ‘Not Found’. So what i simply did was put the content from the 404 page into the search page and modified it a little. I’ve also added in a random post section underneath the RSS subscribe...

Closing down on that traffic source split

Around 2 months ago i spoke about how i wanted a good split of traffic sources heading to talk playstation. I mentioned that having a good split is very good and talk playstation wasn’t doing that for me, back then the split was mainly from refferals and direct traffic. I wanted to build upon search engine traffic. Well 2 months later i’m starting to see a lot more traffic come from search...