Just giving a quick update on SpudMud . A few weeks ago me Eric submitted 2 games to HeavyGames.com and 3 days ago they were approved and SpudMud’s traffic shot up. Previously we were getting around 150 - 200 unique hits a day and after they were submitted we got 4,000 - 6,000 hits a day for the past 3 days but the traffic has gradually been going down since yesterday.

Now we are about to submit as many games as possible and see what traffic it brings us.

Ad wise we got $12.34 the first day, $18.54 the second day and $14.12 the third day and so far today we have got $4.67. So overall I am very pleased considering normally we get around $0.75 - $2.50 a day . So I highly recommend  submitting your  games to there if you need some traffic.

Well I’ve just finished my 1 week holiday to Tenneriefe which was great fun, got a nice tan etc, so im quite happy. Might post some pics later.
I did decide to after my exams start on SpudMud.com but that didnt quite work as planned because I was a bit too lazy but now that ive been lazy for 2 weeks I better get started. I have decided to add the following features:

• Pictures section
• Animations section
• Changing the layouts so they flow more
• Adding more features behind the scenes to the admin panel
• Possibly changing the entire layout round a bit

The only problem is in a few weeks im going to Switzerland for a week so I better get started soon because there is quite a lot of work to do still and I better get it done while im young

I think that SpudMud.com is a bit of an anomalie, because me and my brother have done zero marketing for SpudMud and it seems to be booming. We started out with a few visits a day during the late Alpha stages which I was quite pleased with but now half way through the Beta stages me VPS is starting to struggle with all of the hits (and also my bad coding ) During on day 28/06/2007 - 29/06/2007 we had a massive spike in traffic of almost 1,600 unique visitors with a total of about 6,000 page views which was absolutely astonishing, this was all due to BowMan Battlefield being submitted to StumbleUpon and all this traffic seems to come at once at about 1PM GMT on both days.
Also over the past week (while I was on holiday) SpudMud has been getting 3000+ pageviews a day which is just amazing considering I have done zero marketing/advertising. I just hope that we can keep this going.

Also all of these stats are not the actual figures because I havent put any stats on the open in new window pages but will soon.

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