While moving my blog posts over from Blogger to WordPress, I came face to face with a few old posts where I declared grand plans for my web sites. What became immediately obvious was how far off my predictions were. Everything was off. Although I exceeded my goals with DeepFitness, I [...]
Just a few days ago I was doing cartwheels over how much traffic had increased to my web sites as a result of adding sitemaps.
From The Importance of Search Engine Sitemaps:
Google referrals - DeepFitness
6/14/07: 71
6/21/07: 152
6/28/07: 755
Google referrals - INeedCoffee
6/14/07: 1,658
6/21/07: 1,509
6/28/07: 3,056
Google referrals - Digital Colony
6/14/07: 172
6/21/07: 168
6/28/07: 296
Looks like the page referrals were [...]
For the last two months I’ve been coding the new version of my fitness site DeepFitness. For the user it looks very similar. However, the entire site was rewritten. Every page, the entire middle-tier and every database object was recoded. Over the next few months another 1000 articles will be released and tags will be [...]
Using the Amazon E-Commerce API and a Cloud Control, I developed a product search feature for DeepFitness.
This weekend I coded a video player for DeepFitness using the YouTube API, C# and ASP.NET.
Version 3 of DeepFitness is now live. The ugly Version 2 is gone forever. Things will only get better from here. The site currently has around 800 articles on fitness or nutrition. We should have over 2,000 by spring.
The newest version of DeepFitness is almost ready for release. This will be the 3rd vision of our fitness/nutrition web site. Version 1 was modeled after the content based INeedCoffee and the directory based ASPIN. Because fitness/nutrition is such a wider topic than coffee, the site was a lot of work to maintain and our [...]
Last Saturday an older man thanked me for racking my weights. I said no problem and mentioned most people in this gym seemed considerate. Then he said something odd. He said:
For someone that lifts as much weight as you, I’d think you’d be more built.
By my count that could be taken three different ways.
He recognizes [...]
A few years ago Matt Pitcher and I created a fitness site called DeepFitness.com. The site hosted fitness and health articles and links. It never really developed the audience we had hoped for and it took too much time to maintain.
This year we struck out with a new vision. Instead of hunting for content, we’d [...]
