Archive for June, 2008

Movie Review: Wanted

James McAvoy as Wesley
I am no movie critic, but this movie was bad ass!

James McAvoy stars in the film as Wesley. He is a nobody working in a cube as a account manager. He is approached by Fox, played by Angelina Jolie, who trains him to become one of the top assassins in a cult group called ‘The Fraternity’. The fraternity is a 1000 year old group with a goal to keep order in the world by “killing 1, save 1000.”

The movie was very entertaining packed with light humor, action and special effects. I would see this movie again in theaters it was that good. The story was awesome and it’s worth seeing. I am sure when the box office scores come out the movie will have made close to 100 million in its opening weekend.

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Diablo 3 gameplay videos released by Blizzard

Blizzard released an in game, 2 part video highlighting some of the new features and graphics for Diablo 3. Check out the two videos.

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MoneyAnswerTree hit a highpoint. 111 Visits

MoneyAnswerTree is a site I started focused on personal finance for young professionals. The site has been slowly getting recognition and more and more hits each day. It’s been quite a bit of a roller coaster as far as hits go, but yesterday it reached a high of 111. That was the first day the site reached over 100 hits in a day. 93 of those visits were Absolute Unique hits. That is impressive for us and we are really happy about it.

We’ve recently added the feedburner counter on the site which displays the number of readers subscribed to our news feed. We currently have 27 readers, and it’s nice to know when we post something that we are actually talking to someone other than ourselves and our friends.

Revenue from the site has seen a large increase the past 2 months due to a post about the IRS rebate check. This post alone is responsible for 43% of all the page views on the site.

Smalps.com is a PR3

I just found out what this means. PR3 is a google page rank of 3 out of 10. Google.com, funny enough, has a page rank of 10. I looked up my other sites and they all have a page rank of 1. funny4me.com, moneyanswertree.com, and turboawds.com. I want to make these pages have a higher page rank. My most dominant site is moneyanswertree.com. To get this page rank up I need to get other web sites to link to me. For this to happen I need to be posting more quality post for people to track back and link back to me. The majority of the posts are a little off focus and are links to other posts. My one article that has been getting the most hits is one I posted about the IRS rebate check When I first published that post it didn’t seem to get lots of hits right away, but over the past few months its been climbing in hits. I’ve tried to used this entrance page as a way to get users to stay and signup. We’ve got a couple more users, and a couple new comments on that link. The sites also made an average of $80 per month in commissions.

In an effort to provide better content and increase my page rank, I will have to go around the net and start getting other sites in my niche and social networking sites to link back to me. I’ll have to do a little more research on this to find out the best ways to do this.