Category Archives: My Sites

Making a Popular Game Site

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 27, 2010
Back in late Octo­ber 2009 I cre­ated a new Flash game arcade site called Rhyta. A month in, it was barely mak­ing any money and traf­fic was dis­mal. Now, a few months later, I’m get­ting steady search engine traf­fic and I’m con­sis­tently mak­ing about $2 per day (around $750 per year). That may not sound [...]
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Ridiculous Ad Networks

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 13, 2010
I have had the most frus­trat­ing prob­lems with ad net­works lately. First, Chi­tika. This is one of the harder net­works to get into, and, accord­ing to every­one who is in it, can pay very very well. If it works. I was approved lit­er­ally 1 1/2 years ago and have never been able to get it to work. [...]
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New Traffic Goals

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 12, 2010
To help keep me moti­vated, I have a block of code on this web­site that com­pares a few of my web­sites’ traf­fic to another website’s traf­fic. For a long time, I’ve had the Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor and Fake Mail Gen­er­a­tor on that list. They’ve been con­sis­tently at 2x-20x the traf­fic goal for so long that [...]
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Unexpected Traffic

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 11, 2010
I woke up this morn­ing to find a nice lit­tle sur­prise wait­ing for me in my Google Ana­lyt­ics account: Woah! Where did all that traf­fic come from? After look­ing at the refer­rers, I dis­cov­ered that the Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor was fea­tured on Existenz.se (sort of a Swedish ver­sion of I Am Bored, I think..). So how [...]
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Mobile Money

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 10, 2010
I’ve been want­ing to make an iPhone app for the Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor for months. The prob­lem is, I don’t own a Mac, an iPhone, and the half dozen devel­op­ers that have promised to make me an app haven’t actu­ally done so. To make it worse, the Android has come out, cre­at­ing yet another plat­form [...]
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