A Great Weekend & A New Business

I spent the weekend visiting my grandchildren Harrison and Isabella and had a great time. They have moved to a new 4 bedroomed house about 30 miles away. The 4th bedroom is for me when I go to stay, but 2 year old Isabella decided in the early hours that she was sleeping in there too. It was lovely waking up in the morning seeing her smiling face on the pillow next to me.

Harrison decided to give me a belated birthday party and chose a My Little Pony Cake. His gift to me was a set of 3 small spades for my ex overgrown garden. What he doesn't know is that the overgrown garden that he knows has been landscaped recently. He is going to grow up believing that his spades have worked miracles!

I have a week off work and am using that for the business. On Monday I set up a new site using memberspeed software at http://eprofitscentre.com. There are other similar membership sites but I will try my best to make it different. I set this site up because I wanted to use and test all of the software's features before developing a new JV in January with a totally different idea to what I've been doing so far. All of my new membership sites will have article directories and all will have lots of features for members to use.

With eprofitscentre.com I'm setting up my first internet affiliate programme. It looks quite easy to set up and use with this software but they could be famous last words!

BB Articles has now got an Alexa ranking of 410,990 and still rising. I'm really pleased with it's progress and the steadily rising traffic. The search strings show a healthy amount of people searching for article directories and various information - some of them are hilarious!

A Busy Autumn

It's been far too long since I updated this blog and a lot has been happening. At the beginning of this month BB Articles was given a Google page rank of 2. I thought that was quite good for a 4 month old site.

Traffic has been continuously rising and already the November figures up to present are higher than all of Octobers traffic figures. Search strings for anything to do with article directories are starting to heavily feature, which is probably a result of the rank.

Unfortunately I am declining more articles than ever. It isn't a matter of me changing the guidelines. The only guideline that I have changed is that I no longer accept articles with gambling links. It's more a matter of me being more thorough in sticking to them myself when approving articles. Many article submitters do not read guidelines, or if they do they ignore them. The guidelines are there to set standards and maintain a high quality which benefits authors as well as myself.

This week I set up a new niche travel article directory/membership site at www.articlesabroad.com Using memberspeed software. At least I can start as I mean to go on with quality articles.