Sunday, December 13, 2009

Long time, No post

I've been completely swamped lately. The holidays are upon us. All three of my children have birthdays around Christmas. I've also had some home improvement projects going on. I'm also still working on my BS degree, and I'm working on a huge new software project which I hope to release sometime in January. I was hoping to get it ready before Christmas, but I don't see that happening now.

The new project is top secret, but I will say that it's the best work I've ever put into coding. It is going to be very useful for online entrepreneurs. It will be a great tool to have at your disposal for making money on the internet.

Many of you are taking full advantage of the "most searched for" feature at Whats-hot-weekly.com. It provides valuable information for marketers and sellers. Thanks for your patronage. I was looking through the list and as always "ipod" is the top searched for term on eBay at the moment. Everyone is looking for an ipod. In fact, the top three positions are related to the iPod and iPhone. This has been the case for nearly a year. There are some new players on the block, however.

You may notice that one of the main keywords now is "Zhu Zhu Pets". I've never seen a Zhu Zhu Pet but apparently they are very popular this holiday season. That would be a great niche to focus on. In fact, I know some marketers that have been doing quite well with Zhu Zhu pets in the last few months. There are other great niche ideas on that page.

As for Whats-hot-weekly.com itself, I do apologize that there haven't been many changes lately. I have a complete remake in mind. At the moment, there are a few things that I really don't like about the interface, even though I can use it very easily. There are some quirks. One major quirk is something that comes along with using javascript extensively on one's pages. The back button doesn't work as expected. There is a way to fix this but I haven't implemented it, and my other project has been eating at my time.

I will probably rewrite whats-hot-weekly.com with the next few months to provide a better user experience. Hopefully, everyone can live with the quirks until then. Feel free to email me or leave your comments here. I like to hear from users. Suggestions are always welcome, though I'm not sure how fast I can act on them.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Randy, just found your site, "What's Hot Weekly". Kudos, I like it very much and I'll be checking it out often. As a suggestion, it would be great if there was a heading that displayed "What's Hot for Week of: {mm/dd/date} so visitor knows they're looking at 'current' data.

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