Anniversary BTCsec.com
Exactly a year ago, 31.07.2011 was a website devoted to Bitcoin-themed — BTCsec.com. The website was made in one evening on the knee, even laid out tables for speed, and was a few HTML pages. It was the beginning. For details on the history of its creation, support and development, ask a cat.
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How it all began:
It all started with the notes on the blog of overclocking website that described a way of earning on the cards. My conservative inner voice "is-divorce-Scam -!" memory that defended the diploma on metacomputing computing, and anything is possible there, the note was read. Then read two more times until complete absorption, because the material is a little beaten out from the slender ranks of the it articles, to which I am accustomed.
The first attempt to engage in mining on this statement showed that it works, BTC dropped and, not without dancing, but are converted in the usual rubles and dollars. Further — more, the system is very interested in me, but the more I plunged, the more questions arise. The bookmark list in the browser on the subjects developped quickly, links to forums, articles, wiki appeared subfolders with exchanges and exchange offices, services monitoring, prediction of income, complexity and many more things. So the idea of Bitcoin quickly became more interesting than mining, I became interested in General financial issues, to understand why one Satoshi invented it at the time, and moreover, managed to accomplish its political and cost considerations in the code.
When to navigate my own bookmarks was difficult, and the forums had to answer the same questions, the idea was born to make your website and to systematize the knowledge on bitcoin, make a directory of services, and very low presence of articles in the Russian language fueled this desire even stronger.
By that time I already had the experience of "startersite" when the planned site was discussed at the meetings were drawn billet of the design, then it months was done was applied to CMS, my friends, with whom he was conceived, then I have not had time, in the end the project was delayed and was never implemented. Given this experience, I made the first right decision – no wait to sit down and make, if not a lot, but it's a little already had someone useful. So one night the domain was registered btcsec.com in hc.ru(don't ask why there, don't remember), and was formatted in Notepad tables several pages with useful, as I thought, content and links, after which they were posted online.
The website looked at the time:
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Growth
The website began to grow. Was translated and supplemented with a large FAQ on bitcoin, began to give articles and updated topics links to helpful resources. One good man helped perversity website. At some point, it became clear that I want to have a forum to discuss issues, then I added the PHPBB, and the site was moved to hosting infobox.ru because I didn't want the main site and forum were on the same hosting until everything is configured normally, for security reasons(Yes, paranoid).
After some time of use. PHPBB was tired, and was bought IPB, to work with him was in many aspects more enjoyable. Later, it was bolted blogs, because I wanted users to share with each other experiences, wrote manuals and actively involved in the life of the resource. After hc.ru started constantly beeping about excess load on CPU (with 5-7 active users), the forum was thrown into dev from hetzner after the first disconnection of the hosting, by the way, the dev cost for the price shared from hc.ru.
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Promotion
After opening almost any website faced with the fact that no one knows it, and its attendance is zero. So the first thing that was done, it posts in all the thematic branches that such a resource has appeared, it is possible to find such useful things. After the publication of a large FAQ, and the answers from the English wiki and my experience, it has become much easier. It was possible to users to give answers with links to what they are interested in, and on the other resources link for this FAQ is placed in the hats, nice. I advise you to pay attention to this seemingly simple but effective way to promote and help people, give them what they are looking for. Search for their questions on search engines, register on other forums, answer. Commonplace, but it gives good results not only target users, but also the attitude of people you helped, and who themselves then share it with this link.
The next thing I tried, it's placement in the directory. Allocated a 2K tickets of Bank of Russia and ordered one of the companies on promotion. As a result we can say that a little puzomerka it gave, but do not expect that these links will go live users, there was virtually no.
Competitions and promotions. Quite a useful thing, motivates users to be more active. After running forum did a great encouragement for the informative posts, and after the introduction of blogs — 1BTC per post in them, the offer is still valid, by the way.
And don't forget about the primary content while opening websites with forums and blogs, no empty resource will not write, so that all primary materials are yours, and it is desirable that they were useful and exclusive.
At the same time I started to communicate with owners of other resources, like stock exchanges, exchanges, services. We exchanged references, sometimes experiences and news of the community, and it was always interesting and positive people, it pleases in such work.
Most of the material on the website was written by me, but some articles and translations I have ordered, in agreement with other authors. After dialing a certain critical mass of texts, the proportion of visits from search engines at first equal, and then outgrew the proportion of referrals from other sites that will be seen in the charts below.
I tried contextual advertising from search engines, but in this sense was not special, too narrow topics. Seeking it, all the same finds the necessary materials.
I tried to write themes on gaming forums, because there are a lot of people with powerful graphics cards and a small amount of pocket money. The calculation was simple: students and Teens can use their computer idle time to recoup their games or Internet access, it will clearly be interesting to them. But the cruel reality put everything in its place: after writing the content on about a dozen forums, and for each I did an individual post, a little earlier or a little later, the subject was cut by the moderators for "Scam". Where else had not banned the moderators wrote, provide links to Wikipedia, but all was in vain, "Scam" or "here you can't." Sorry, but this option didn't work at all.
For fun I created a group in the social. networks began to publish news online. Since the promotion of the groups and accounts are not engaged, then it's more self-indulgence than a source of traffic, and a field for experiments.
Of course, as anyone who opened the site, I almost every day watched for changes puzomerok. If Alexa has changed by more than fast, the PARTICLES first became 10 instead of 0 only a few months later, and 20 recently. Google Page Rank showed in 3 out of 10 and hung at this point. But I must say that Google navigation is still significantly more than with Yandex.
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Statistics
Go mostly graphics, not requiring the explanations, but something to comment on.
The annual chart shows the major steps when it appeared on the website, you can sit to get nostalgic.
See the red pic? So look around something, like gebrettert. That is a sharp increase in attendance for a couple days and decline. As you can see, after almost no residual lift, i.e. those who hope 1-2 times PR the major resource, consider this point. The actual attendance seeking in very different ways and ongoing work on the resource.
Google and Yandex are doing all the search traffic, the rest can almost be ignored.
Not surprising, given the Russian focus of the resource.
Yes, Windows is the leader by a large margin.
For special interests — Yes, IE6 too, its share is 0.2 percent, i.e., 392 sunset. By the way, he is ahead of IE 10.0, which has 58 hits.
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Advertising
Until recently advertising did not exist. That is, of course, appealed, tourism banners to hang, or something else. But this is me not needed on the website, and in the future it also will not. And if a theme resource should be accommodated — so please, free of charge, in the appropriate directory. I just want to collect all useful resources so that users can quickly find them.
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What next?
To develop, to improve, to grow. Especially that seen where, you only need time. Over time, of course, is difficult, because this project is a hobby, it was made on the enthusiasm and it is supported financially, it is only one expenses. But complaining here is not appropriate, this project is for me still more than I invested in it — a lot of positive emotions, meeting with many interesting people, the broader vision of financial systems, experience of supporting more or less serious site in the end. Learned on the subject of bitcoin, I too much more trying to share information than just if something were looking for.
Briefly about the plans — is to increase the number of useful materials, in particular, on the development. For example, classes in PHP, and maybe even other languages, to work with Bitcoin. Further expansion and updating resource references in catalogs. All things change in this industry very quickly, new sites appear, disappear old. A few links, which not long ago was placed in the section for statistics and monitoring are already on non-existent sites, and only in the last couple of days I found on the net some very interesting projects, which previously did not know. So work to do here obviously.
Thanks to those who all this time supported me, helped, or just endured.
Thanks to everyone who read to the end, hope you found something interesting for yourself in this "mnogabukav". If you have any questions, criticism, suggestions and other stream of consciousness — write, I'm really interested to get any feedback.
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