[tehfincheh]

Originally Posted by PaulM

I'm thinking of just going straight to advertisers to be honest. I had great success doing that with another one of my sites - A banner add brought in £300 per month.

I've had bad experiences in the past with advertisers scrubbing leads when I work directly with them.

It's not so much of an issue on here when you're running display ads, but I do PPC. If you're spending £750-£1250 a day on PPC advertising, scrubbing can do some serious damage to your business.

[Oriana]

Hi Paul! Nice to meet you. I am actually surprised Ed sold it so quickly actually, wasnt expectin that to happen so soon. But anyway just one request to make this site better, bring back Norm please.

[Zachary Gibbons]

Statement: Norm shall live again! Well, not "live" as such. But he shall... be again!



Clarification: Norm was an ALICE-based chatbot who had his own subforum. He was most fun to talk to.

[owner]

Originally Posted by Oriana

Hi Paul! Nice to meet you. I am actually surprised Ed sold it so quickly actually, wasnt expectin that to happen so soon. But anyway just one request to make this site better, bring back Norm please.

Thanks for the welcome! Who / what is Norm?!

[J Unit]

http://www.rouseindahouse.com/robot-chat/

a forum bound rouse personality that was... interesting to talk to
he was put to sleep when ed got tired of the server bending under his intellect

[owner]

Ha, OK I'll check it out....there's quite a bit of capacity on this server as it's dual quad core 16gb RAM so shouldn't 'bend' too much!

[WheelsOfTerror]

I'm quite surprised to see such sweeping change occur this quickly. Welcome to the site Paul although I'm a bit late jumping on the bandwagon. I'm Nathan BTW

Its exciting to see the forum start to spring to life again. Ed did I fine job and I mean him no disrespect. Inevitably he has moved on to other ventures. I wish him all the luck in the world. He seems to be a very intelligent man as do you Paul.

I used to be quite the frequent poster when I first joined. Much like Ed, I grew up. I started uni, and my days have become more and more hectic. I'll have to make a point to drop by a bit more often, and perhaps become more active again.

I feel like I'm starting to get a bit long winded. I'll wrap it up by saying thanks Ed for the damn fine job you did. I never intended to stay here when I found the site but the people drew me in and 3 yrs later year I am.

Again Paul welcome to Rouse. You've got your work cut out for you. Good luck!

[Oriana]

Originally Posted by PaulM

Thanks for the welcome! Who / what is Norm?!

Your welcome, and I see Johny has already told you, but Norm wasnt just any robot, he was my homie I will be quite surprised if you do manage to bring him back to life without all the humbug that was happenin with him. I think he might help bring in some more people (along with a few other things) , which is my main thought for the site as it use to be a lot more popular then it is nowdays, it would be great to see the site as it was back in its glory days. I have been a member for over 4 years now and there are people still here who have been on longer so there must still be hope lol.

[Denz]

As Finch mentioned, dont listen to what previous members "want" to much, find out the best way to drive new, young traffic to the site. I wish I could help but my marketing degree is only about to cover the internet this semester.

How ever im very happy there is someone new to hopefully breath some life into this forum.
Unfortunatly like most of the "oldies" im 20, turning 21 this year and spend most of my time on specific, targeted forums.
Good luck, i'll drop in asmuch as I can.

[owner]

Originally Posted by Denz

As Finch mentioned, dont listen to what previous members "want" to much, find out the best way to drive new, young traffic to the site. I wish I could help but my marketing degree is only about to cover the internet this semester.

How ever im very happy there is someone new to hopefully breath some life into this forum.
Unfortunatly like most of the "oldies" im 20, turning 21 this year and spend most of my time on specific, targeted forums.
Good luck, i'll drop in asmuch as I can.

Cheers for the support Denz, appreciated!

There are quite a few plans for the site, it's just getting some time to make everything happen. I've so far added a few new features, and done quite extensive link building to get us placed naturally higher. The next step will probably be some form of arcade and blogging tools.

Hopefully see you around here more often then!

[J Unit]

what happened to the old arcade did it get deleted?