Work

iwantideas.com has been live now for over a year and consistently rakes in about 600 visits per month. High quality, all organic traffic. It’s not much but i’ve done nothing with the site since i set it up. The ‘problem’ with it for me, is that it’s using pligg. In short, the site has been spammed so much it’s forced me in to switching platform completely.

Hundreds of fake users, spam comment, spam submissions. I’ve tried various different plugins and settings but there’s still too much of it for my liking. Maybe that highlights my lack of experience and patience with pligg, maybe it’s normal, maybe i’m spoiled by a bullet proof spam system on wordpress, but i’m not prepared to waste any more time simply keeping the site free from spam.

So i’ve taken the drastic step of moving to wordpress. I can make it work with wordpress, and probably make it work much better but up until now i’ve always viewed it as being too much hassle. All content has been manually imported in to wordpress (there wasn’t enough to warrant coming up with a fancy database queries), and i’m now just working on a new theme and testing some features.

It might seem like i’m hopping all over the place with projects – i’ve probably mentioned 4 or 5 in the past week alone, but 3 are pretty much good to go. A hotelsrevealed.com revamp, a new project and now this iwantideas.com revamp. All 3 should be live by the end of the week or certainly early next week.

It will be interesting to monitor traffic on iwantideas.com once it switches over to wordpress. WordPress is familiar territory for me so i’ll be able to maximize search engine traffic. It just makes more sense.