Well currently I have my A Level exams which are the last of the high-school/college exams so that is why I haven’t posted for so long. So, on the 25th June I am finished with High School for the rest of my life, sound great doesnt it . And the even better thing is that after the exams I have 4 months of nothing until University (if I get the grades). So I can do whatever I want for that time.

My plans for the holidays are:

1. Work more on my current main project www.SpudMud.com and finish it properly and see how much I can get out of it
2. Go up to the lake district for a week or so and go camping/hiking etc with a few friends
3. Maybe start a new web project, I have quite a few ideas so I might just give them a go considering im gonna have all this time
4. Earn some money working at the Pool (Life-Guarding) for university and for marketing my sites more.

Finally the Google PageRank Update have begun! Only about 12 days after everyone was expecting.

I quite pleased with this sites jump. I started this blog just over a month ago and its already now a PR4!

Evdence if you dont believe me:

Check for yourself!

My other sites have all had their own jumps:

www.pichostonline.com went from 2 to 3 Check

www.spudmud.com went from 0 to 3 Check

www.rankandlinks.com went from 0 to 1 Check

I haven’t updated the blog in ages due to too much time being spent on Eve Online, yes im hooked… Its quite sad actually, because my final exams start in 2 months and here I am playing Eve all the time which I should be spending revising because I know that once the exams are over I have 3 months of holiday until University.

I haven’t spent much time on my sites as I should which is kinda annoying, Im thinking of selling PicHostOnline.com after the holidays so I really need to get some proper marketing started so that I can get a good price for it. At the current rate that im going im gonna get my $150 back in under a year which Im quite pleased with but I know that I can do a lot more if I just don’t waste my time on this stupid MMORPG.

Luckily my subscription for Eve is expiring on the 6th May, just after a 30 hour EVE LAN party (sad I know…) , So I should be able to get back on track with my revision and web-mastering soon after that.

The name SpudMud was thought of by my little brother while we were talking about plans the entertainment site that I was going to make for my computing project. The name started off my be thinking out aloud while driving and for some reason I said Spud and then my brother said SpudMud, it stuck from then on …

I decided to do an entertainment site for my computing project because me and my brother had thought of doing to for a hobby a long time ago but I didn’t have the motivation to get it done. But when I was asked what am I going to do for my project for my second year of Computing I decided to finally get started on the site because it seemed like a “fun” project not a boring one like some of the other people in my class.

Currently the site, SpudMud.com , is still heavily under development with new features coming out almost daily. At the moment of this post the site is in full working order with no bugs but there are quite a few features that are still needed to be added to get a finished product that will get a good mark. i.e. :

• A category system because currently its all just one list
• A more advanced admin panel
• Get the site XHTML valid
• Tidy up my PHP code and add comments
• Possibly start on the pictures section unless it takes too long

My plans are to add a few of the games to Digg, Stumble and other community sites like that because its a good way to get quality traffic to my site because my brother submitted one game to Stumble and it site went from getting about 10 visits a day to over 100 unique visits a day.

A few games and videos that I recommend:

• Kick Boxer Breaks Leg (Ouch!) (Video)
• N the Ninja (Game)
• Random Funny Clips of Life (Video)

I really don’t know what Google is doing with their Back Links update but my site PicHostOnline has gone down from 99 backlinks to a mere 3 backlinks . I know that Google doesn’t show all of the backlinks because in Google WebMaster tools it says that there are 4000+ pages linking to my site and yahoo and the other search engines show 1000+ links so im not sure what Google is upto and all I hope is that it doesnt effect my Page Rank..

Well all I can say is, thats life. And I still love Google the same even though they cannot count .