Losing weight, getting fit and trying to stop smoking

So it’s been about 8 months since I posted on here. So while checking on the websites I have kind of forgot about I remembered my affiliate blog and thought I better make a blog post to try and freshen it up abit. I’m not making any promises that I’m going to be updating more regularly as that will probably be a promise I will break. But I’ll make sure I post here again before I hit the 8 month mark again.

So what have I been upto the last 8 months?

Improving my Poker News website?

The main thing I have been trying to do is increase the the quility, traffic and income on PokerNewsBoy.com. If any one else runs a news site instead of a normal static bonus site they’ll be able to tell you there is alot more work involved just trying to keep it fresh and upto date, aswell as trying to break stories and gain regular readers. Thats on top of the usual stuff thats involved with running a poker website. But we have been focusing more on the other stuff as I am now happy with the amount of content going up on PNB each day aswell as extremely happy with the amount of writers we are using and they way they work. So worring about news content doesn’t take up as much time as it did in the past. Getting to this point wasn’t easy though.

However, this game me more time to focus on the things that make money. Meaning we have been tracking SERPs more and trying to rank for much harder terms than we have did before. This has been working well, and PNB is probably on track to make 6 times more this year than we did last from rev share.

Trying to lose weight.

3 months ago I made the decision that I wanted to get back playing football (Soccer for the Americans) before I got to old and the chance wouldn’t be about for to long. The biggest problem was I weighted about 4st which is about 56lb more than I did the last time I played proper football. But since I’ve been back training I have now lost about 20lbs. Not bad in 3 months. The biggest thing is the feeling from feeling fit again. I still have a long long way to go, but I’m on the right track at the minute.

Trying to Quit Smoking.

So because I am trying to get fit again I wanted to stop smoking. However, losing weight seemed to be far easier than trying to stop smoking. I have tried a few times. Tried is the wrong word as I have actually never got past the cigarette in the morning. But I did think about smoking a good few times.

But this got me thinking about quiting smoking anyway, and I thought if I was to start a blog on it that might help. So I bought the domain Quits.co. The plans to create a site with articles that will hopefully help people quit what ever they want to quit. Obviously smoking will be one of the main topics and I plan on starting a blog on my journey. Not sure how well this will work, but thats the plan.

So other than that not much really happened. Had a great summer. (Not weather wise) Enjoyment wise. Went to spain for a week on holiday. Went to Scotland twice for two short breaks (one with the kids, one without). Went to the conferance in Dublin. Which turned out to be a great few days. Never did much work related stuff, but did plenty of drinking with Kev and Jeremy. But now just the winter to look foward to and a trip to Edinburgh hopefully.