I took a few days off to enjoy the sunshine - it’s been lacking the past few weeks out on the west coast and I’ve got to admit that I was really wondering where summer was hiding.  This past weekend, sun = beach.  That was where I was hanging out.  I stepped away from the computer mostly.  Meaning - not so much work, just checking the email once in a while.  It was really nice to come back a little more rejuvenated… a little less battle-worn.

So now I’m back and I’m thinking, thinking, thinking.

1. I’ve got to pull my head out of my butt and start more keyword research.
2. I’ve got to check my stats to see what people are looking for when they hit the fan site.  Start to focus more topics/articles on those searches.
3. Look into contest promotion

I thought of having a contest with my Fan Site #1.  I’m just not too sure how I should go about the prize(s).  I could purchase some items and offer them - but I’m more interested in getting possible prizes for free from merchandisers.  But I’m not sure how I’m going to do that - or how I could do it.  It would be great promotion for them - but maybe it’s still early days - the site isn’t all that old.  They may not see it as benefiting them - yet.

But that’s in the future… have any of you run a contest with  prizes?  How did you get the prizes to offer - did you pay or find a way for merchandisers to send you things to offer out (for a link or something else?).

I would like to run a promotion/contest… I’m just not sure where to start.

So anyhoo - my fan site #2 just got a few more articles - but damn I’ve got to start researching my keywords for it if I’m looking to get things going in the same fashion I did for fan site #1.  So far - things aren’t too bad for Adsense - but it could use a bit more love. Maybe next week I’ll be doing some ad position switching to see if it makes any difference.  Then maybe some colour changes to the ads… we’ll see.  Test, test, test.

Back to the ol’ grind.

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