Day Trip Media: New Releases

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

New Releases - 2 New Web Sites

The last few months have been pretty hectic. I'm still working on turning over my old sites on the Build A Niche Store platform to new domains and the latest version of the software (which is a lot better than the old version they were initially built on.) The cut off date for the old links to the new was the end of May. So, until I get the last of these sites changed over I won't see any money from them.

With that in mind, I left the least popular ones till last. So far, updating them to new domains and the new more content friendly system has seen positive results. The new sites have better URLs, and as a result are starting to rank a lot better than the old ones did. It's taken a while, but we're getting there. I've just completed two more sites, and now there is just one small site left to do. That said, I've got a shed load of work to do first following last week's visit to the 3rd Online Bingo Summit in London.

So, the first of these sites up and running is featured around those hip and trendy (and I hate 'em) Pop Art canvases and prints. The old site was on a less descriptive domain and suffered as a result, as well as being further hampered with a .info domain. There's plenty of scope to develop the site further in the future, but for now it's just leave it be and see what happens.

The second site has been a bit more complex, and typically for me, I made it that way on a whim. My old Weird Nations site was a forum for a while, then just the eBay store. I decided to combine the two elements to make Strange, Spooky And Weird - so the old forum was pulled off backups and reinstated with a new look and categorisation. The old link building quiz is there as well as some other regularly updating content. It will be interesting to see how it grows, especially as I've killed off a couple of other old weird sites I had (on similar themes) and 301ed all the traffic to the new site.

At the moment I'm really in the mood for culling some of my older sites, and with Strange, Spooky and Weird I've managed to condense 3 sites to 1. Hopefully with the age of the old domains and the new structure it will start to get some good traffic. And now I've got one final simple BANS site to complete and I can return to the projects on my todo for 2008 list.

Posted by Dio Bach at 13:37

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