http://www.forumvirus.com

We acquired Forumvirus.com about three years ago for $500.00 USD through an online auction site. It was an easy transfer, there wasn’t much to the website at the time. The transaction was completed quickly and we were excited to get workgin on the project.

We were looking to getting into the website flipping business and though jumping head first would be the best approach at the time. The market was hot and we didn’t want to miss out on it. In hind site, I think we paid too much for the website since there was little to no income that wasn’t due to the advertisement that the previous owner was running and there was no organic traffic. The design of the website needed some definite work also.

If you are looking for a good project, those flaws are actually exactly what you would looking for to buy. You want to have identified the flaws and have a strategy to fix them before you buy else your investment will most likely not be worth it in the end.

We have done a lot of SEO work on the site and over time we got into the top five position for forum directory related searches on Google. We have not done any advertisement short of some link building in the beginning. When we sold the site, all traffic was organic which is worth a lot since it is continuous and free. We have also updated the look of the website and made it more appealing and easier to use for visitors and forum owners looking to advertise.

Over all, it has been a fun project and it was fun to see it grow into a recognizned name on teh internet when it came to forum directories. I am happy it has found a good new home.

http:///www.duelingninjas.com

DuelingNinjas is a massively multiplayer online role playing game for people who like ninjas. We wanted to build a website that is a fun community based around a game. The game is simple yet addicting and it offers a fun interactive way to meet people and take social networking to a different level. In this online social game you are able to create a ninja representation of yourself and meet other ninjas from around the world. It aims to bring like minded, ninja loving people together and to do what ninjas do best. Fight!

DuelingNinjas was created because of the need for a simple, and fun free online ninja game. The rules are easy and the general idea is to just have fun and waste some time. This free ninja fighting game is meant for people of all ages and all nationalities. It is meant to be a place where ninjas can come together and meet other people who are enthusiastic about ninjas. It is not meant to compete with other social networking sites, it is meant to be a game with some social features.

This is our experimental site for breaking into the social networking scene.  We will see what it takes to promote this site and what it takes to make the site popular enough to promote it self. We will be starting off with out standard promotion strategies and will move on from there as necessary. We will be posting updates on the project as needed. We hope this will be a good learning experience for us and others who are interested in getting a website / online business started.

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If you are using CakePHP for your web development you may find this view helper useful.
Since CakePHP 1.2 does not care beyond your needed function variables you can just add this onto all your urls.

class SeourlHelper extends Helper {
 
/**
 * SEO url a text string passed
 *
 * This function will perform some Search engine Optimization on a strign passed
 *
 * @param text string that we need to make a url out of
 * @return the SEOd url
 */
	function get_url($url) {
		$badchars = array('/','&amp;','(',')',"'",'"','!','?','.','@','%','*','<','>','|','$',',');
		$url = str_replace($badchars,'',$url);
		$url = str_replace(" ","_",$url);
		return $url;
    }
}

http://www.rewardchamp.com

Reward champ was created by and is hosted by SoliTech GmbH. Careful attention was paid to was paid to the interface and usability. The site uses many AJAX features for refreshing points and lists and is Search Enigin Optimized for capturing traffic. The site has exprienced healthy growth since it started and continues to do so.

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http://www.gyuropia.com

This blog has been created by and hosted by SoliTech GmbH. It is based on the popular blogging software called WordPress and has been customized to meet our specific needs. It has had extensive Search Engine Optimization done and is now drawing a good number of visitors each day looking for tutorials and miscellaneous other content.

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