The Billion Dollar Quest

I haven’t felt this capable and productve in years.  After feeling like I was falling impossibly behind with things, I now feel more or less caught up and at long last, ready to move foward.  My site traffic is increasing again.  So is my revenue.  I’ve released 3 new games in the past week I am pleased with, and I have new ideas popping into my head all the time.  I just distributed a press release which will help me in the search engines standings and hopefully bring direct traffic as well.  I’ve made some new industry contacts which should help me, and am eager to make some more.

So I am going to spend another week doing some promoting and random development before settling down and focusing on HighQ, BrainBall & Facebook.

I’ve been incredibly productive the past week and am feeling really good about things.  After my forced remake of playwithyourmind.com I decided to undertake a planned redesign of freeonlinetypinggames.com in preparation for the new school year (much of my traffic for that site is school-related), which I have more-or-less completed.  The site pretty much uses the same theme as playwithyourmind.com which allows me to reuse much of the code and will allow me me to maintain them both more easily in the future.  Anyway my efforts had an immediate effect as my ad revenue from both sites has gone up considerably in the past few days – it’s always nice when my work pays dividends so quickly.  I will continue to make updates and additions to The Keyboard Playground in the coming weeks as I attempt to further ascend the search engine standings (view my latest rankings).  At this point, so close to the top, each rung I can climb that latter should make a significant difference in my profits.

Meanwhile, I have also released two new games, Broken Mouse and Spaztik.  Broken Mouse is a ressurection of an old game that wasn’t working so well and Spaztik is a variation on one of the levels in BM.  The first time around BM received some good reviews and attention so I am hoping for more of the same this time through.  As soon as I finish this post I will be working on a new typing game which I  hope to release on both sites tomorrow.

Lastly, I initiated a new series on playwithyourmind.com on ‘Brain Fitness Tips’.  Hopefully, this will be a valuable resource for my readers and will also gain me some respect from Google for brain fitness search terms. I’ve been making some good progress on my playwithyourmind.com SEO (see rankings) and plan to build on that momentum.

These past two weeks have been rather harrowing, as my sites were completely gone for awhile during a transitions from webhosts and a domain registrar transfer.. and then down again for a day as I tried to diagnosis the cause of the heavy server load… and then in a state of disrepair as I had to rebuild playwithyourmind.com in order to eliminate the problems behind all these server problems.  They were many moments of despair and hopelessness, and my hair is a bit more grey thanks to this whole process…. BUT now everything seems to be working great and playwithyourmind.com is better than ever and ready for a period of growth and promotion.  Just yesterday, in spite of all the recent turmoil, I had my highest-traffic and highest-profit day in the past 4 months, so that’s encouraging.  So far, it looks like today might eclipse those numbers from yesterday, and that’s definitely a pattern I can live with.

Yeah so apparently I have a little problem keeping up with this blog.  The thing is, I get a little behind and then it becomes even harder to give you the updates as I have fallen so far behind.  So in order to get me back into the swing of this, I’m just going to forego that duty and pretend like I have been doing this regularly all along.  So, you’re going to be missing out on a few details at the moment but hopefully I can shed some light on them in time, piece by piece.

For now, let’s just talk about where I’m at now and where I am going instead of where I have been.  I am currently in the midst of a highly productive and motivated phase of things; it’s high-tide in my mind.  My focus and determination have ebbed and flowed over the past two years and that has certainly hindered me in my quest but nonetheless I am feeling really good and excited about things right now and once again feel like I can make anything happen if I only put my mind to it.

My primary focus at the moment is social networking (me and everyone else it seems).  While I was away (well, not away, but not paying enough attention) Facebook , Twitter and the like have emerged as these extremely powerful and highly-used networking and marketing channels.  Had I been on this from the beginning, who knows where I might be now, but alas no point in dwelling on that.  The point is I am ready for them now, hopefully I’m not too late.

This is part of the larger goal of getting more traffic and exposure for playwithyourmind.com and other projects.  I have a lot of interesting ideas of how to use these massive networks of people, but the success of these ideas is contigent on having a large following of people to work with, so I am setting out to find them.  So in addition to developing a presence in the world of social media I am also writing articles, distributing press releases, and actively looking to network with other websites.  I’ll give you more details on these things in future posts, but for now I’ll just share my two articles and then leave you be for the time-being.

An interview with Dr Breznitz of CogniFit

Build a Better Brain: Brain Fitness Tips