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New CounterStrike Website Is Now Transferred
By Max | July 4, 2007
Today I got the details to the new server I ordered for the Counter Strike site that I bought last week. The previous owner performed the transfer for me which is awesome. I always ask. It can’t hurt, and they will usually have a better idea at what needs to be done than you will. He even taught me a new trick. There is a program called rsync that will make an exact copy over ssh for you. Try this on your next transfer.
rsync -avz -e --delete ./ counter@YOURIP:/home/counter/public_html/
You have to be ssh logged into the source server and in the directory that you want to transfer. “counter” is the username/sitename, and YOURIP is your IP. This appears to be a much better option than ftp for large sites.
You will still have to transfer the DBs by exporting them as I mentioned before.
Enough technical mumbo jumbo for now… Lets get down to business.
The first change I made was to replace the old 468×60 adsense ad with one of those whopping 336×280 blocks. I hope this will increase the CTR and earnings. I have noticed a CPM increase by using the big block ads. The last four days I have made $27, $22, $18, and $21 from adsense. Thats not really much data to go on, but I do have some of his screen captures I can compare against as well. Hopefully in a week I should be able to tell what the performance increase is.
The next change I made because I noticed that there were 4 Adsense units on one page. I don’t believe this is allowed under the Google TOS. One was a link ad unit instead of the standard ad unit. I wonder if that matters? If any of you are intimately familiar with the TOS let me know. Anyway, just to be on the safe side I replaced the sidebar skyscraper with an AuctionAds block. This will ad some advertising diversity and I probably would have done it anyway. I have already gotten some clicks on this ad unit, so thats a good sign. Lets see if they buy anything. It will take a few days before I know. Someone mentioned in the comments below that AuctionAds performs well on gaming sites, so I have got high hopes.
Topics: Website Flipping Experiment |
July 4th, 2007 at 3:12 am
Hi,
It is fine to have 3 ads unit and 3 link unit on one page. It is allowed under recent Google TOS.
Good luck with your new site.
July 4th, 2007 at 3:12 am
From memory I *think* you’re allowed upto 3 adsense units and then upto 3 additional link units, not 100% sure on that though.
July 4th, 2007 at 3:45 am
Ok, Thanks. I think I’ll give the AuctionAds a shot anyway since I increased the size of the one google ad. It will take some experimenting.
July 4th, 2007 at 3:56 am
What about CPM networks like Tribal Fusion?
July 4th, 2007 at 10:16 am
I had no idea there was a distinction between link units and adsense blocks. They all look about the same to me. I wonder why google is so picky
July 4th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Mike,
I am glad you asked. That is my main revenue plan for this site. I think just by adding TF ads to the site, revenues will double. That should bump me up to $1200-$1500/mon. Hopefully they accept me. I think they will. I already have two sites running Tribal Fusion, and this one has a clean design with good traffic.
I plan to contact them tomorrow, after the holiday.
July 4th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
It sounds like you have things moving along. For me if it weren’t for Auction Ads I wouldn’t have gotten paid anything yet. But I am still new.
July 4th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
I really appreciate AuctionAds payout schedule. They pay you on the first based on the previous month’s earnings. Thats awesome. They also have low minimum payouts. Compared to TribalFusion thats a dream. I think TF pays out 45 days after.
Are your AuctionAds revenues coming from squeezplaycards? I would think a baseball card related site would do well on AA.
July 4th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Cheers for the rysnc tip. Good to hear you got everything transfered ok.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
What do you use to backup your sites? I’d like something to do file and mysql backups several times a day.