Name of your website?2knowmyself.com
Your name?
Farouk
Your Location (city, etc)
Alexandria
When did you start your website and why?
My website is online since 7 monthes yet it got 100,000 hit last month, the main purpose was providing a self help site that is wide enough to include all self help and personal development topics
Please give us a short summary of your website, business model, etc
My website contains articles covering more than 50 topics related to self understanding and personal development. my site is manitized by google adsense and lately an advertiser bought a text based link at the main page
What has been the most difficult part of creating and running your website?
providing the start up content, since its an article website, i had to put at least 200 articles for a start, and since i wrote all articles it was very hard part
What has been the easist part of operating your website?
starting getting money, with google adsens i started to get money since the first day
What was your biggest mistake?
giving so much power to my colleague who was responsible for all technical issues, backups, adminstration, following up with hosting, programming ...etc
when he decided to quit, i felt like lost without him
Who maintains your website and why?
currently am responsible for all operations concerning the website. my website is hosted at mediatemple.com and they are more than perfect. very good level of customer service.
Tell us how your business has benefitted from your website?
i have a training business that specializes in communication skills training, having my ownwebsite made it easy to make announcments of new courses and provided a good chaneel of free advertising
What are your views on ecommerce and the future of the internet?
i am sure ecommerce and web based buisness will take out many companys, for example i think of turning my training busniess into an online buisness not to get swept out by this new trend
What are your views on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
i have did everything to optimise my website, but i wonder why dont all pages get positioned in the same place in google's and yahoo search, am sure there is somthing missing
What are your views on Search Engines? Have they helped or hindered your website?
they helped me alot, more than 50% of my traffic comes from google and yahoo
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
social bookmarking websites, digg, reddit, plime, stumble upon....etc
What method has been least successful for promoting your website?
posting my website in forums
What would you like to see change with respect to the internet?
i still see inferior pages appearing in the top results in both google and yahoo , i am sure the ranking can be more fair
what future do you expect for your website?
well, it have been only six monthes but traffic went up from zero to 100,000, google's page rank from 0 to four, alexa rank from 999,999 to 319,000
so i wont rest untill this site becomes popular
What is your website address?
2knowmyself.com