How many of you have a personal website/blog?

[MrJLR]

Just wondering....
I have one myself. I sell my software on there and blog about my 'Cuda. I have a lot of out of state relatives that are interested in my car and how it's coming along and it's the easiest way to keep them up to date on things. I only started it a month or so ago so a lot of it is a work in process.

I also like learning about web design so I kinda use it as a tool for that as well.

So how about it? Yea or Nay?

 

[Back in Time]

I voted no because my Blog is now closed but I did one for 2 years when my wife and I were full time RVing. I found towards the end it was difficult at times to find anything to write about.

 

[YY1]

I had one in '96/'97, but that's the last I worked on it.

I did sell a car on it, though.

My Duster

Wish I hadn't.

 

[64DartGTinAZ]

I had 3 on different topics. One of them got a fair bit of traction (I was doing it to learn how things work on the interwebs - the 'how do people make money at this?' and 'how does SEO work?' and etc.), averaging close to 200 unique visitors a day.

At some point, somebody(ies) in Russia started clicking on a bunch of my google ads - google decided that was fraudulent and canceled my account (when I was actually looking like I would make a couple of hundred bucks before the fraudulent activity started - which I had nothing to do with).

I protested to google (you get one opportunity to do so) - they ignored me, so I stopped generating free content for them. Took the fun out of my experiment.

 

[MrJLR]

I had 3 on different topics. One of them got a fair bit of traction (I was doing it to learn how things work on the interwebs - the 'how do people make money at this?' and 'how does SEO work?' and etc.), averaging close to 200 unique visitors a day.

At some point, somebody(ies) in Russia started clicking on a bunch of my google ads - google decided that was fraudulent and canceled my account (when I was actually looking like I would make a couple of hundred bucks before the fraudulent activity started - which I had nothing to do with).

I protested to google (you get one opportunity to do so) - they ignored me, so I stopped generating free content for them. Took the fun out of my experiment.

That sucks.....so Google was hosting your blog?

 

[Teeth & Tires]

My restoration thread is my diary.

 

[YY1]

Ahh, the internet of circa 1995...

No google.

No ebay.

No facebook.

No popup ads.

"blog" wasn't even a word yet.

...yet curiously- plenty of ****.

 

[64DartGTinAZ]

That sucks.....so Google was hosting your blog?

One of the three was hosted on google, the other two weren't, but I had an adwords account (or whatever - it's been a while and I forgot), so people could pay google to put ads on my blog, and if someone clicked them, I got a little bit (helped offset the costs of what I was blogging about).

In addition to learning a lot about how the back side of the internet works, I learned the google is an arbitrary and capricious company, and that one had best not put their trust in building any sort of income stream where the conduit can cut you off at their discretion with little warning and no (real) appeal process.

Totally killed my interest (I hadn't gotten into it for the money, but it was an interesting stat to track, along with visitors, page views, etc., but when they cut me off, I figured I should reciprocate and quit creating content that would benefit them).

 

[GaryS]

I write a blog/journal on the build of my modified '56 Plymouth. I started it five years ago when I found the car. It had some dead time while we built a house and moved, but is kept up reasonably often now.

I write another about my thoughts on anything and everything. I've been writing it for eight years and thought it was done a couple years ago, but enough people still visited, so it was resurrected just recently.

Neither are intended to earn income.

 

[74SwingerSpe]

I voted no, but between 1995-2005 I had a Mopar related website that I created. I used it as a way to learn html and java. I created some cool java apps. One took an image of the word Mopar and randomly bounced it around inside an invisible rectangle. Think of the old pong game where the square ball would bounce off of the walls. I also created a cool slideshow with Java that showed pictures of nice Mopars I'd taken pictures of, as well as pictures I found on the internet. Now that I think about it, I'm sure that broke some sort of Copyright law, but it was cool nonetheless. When I moved, I changed to another internet provider and I didn't move the website to the new provider.
Although I don't have a personal website now, I did create a website for a local Koi and Water Garden club I belong to, and I do maintain a baseball website for a local youth baseball organization as a volunteer. I also created and maintain the website used by my oldest son's High School baseball program. I'll probably maintain that until my youngest son graduates from high school (He's currently in the 7th grade). My oldest will be a senior when he is a freshmen.

Travis

 

[ab7fh]

Yes.

I started a site for my '93 Ford Explorer in 1996. 20 years later the forum that the webpage evolved from has 295,000 members and 3 million+ posts.

I also started small pages for my Darts as well.