Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Mizozo is Giving Away Free Beats by Dre Headphones in March


Another month, another prize. This month's freebie should please many of you, Beats by Dre Headphones. Given our slightly tighter budget for March's prize, we have gone with the Beats Tour headphones, but I'm sure that they will be more than sufficient for you audiophiles out there.

As a recap, every month in 2013 Mizozo will be giving away one prize based on the earnings from the previous month. We will take how much Mizozo earns, subtract our operating costs, then use 90% of what's left to buy a prize. January was a slow month, so we only had $75 worth of profit to work with. Thankfully, February is looking much better.

By the way, if you guys have any suggestions for prizes, please make your voices heard. It is a real pain to try and decide what to buy to make people happy, so we are experimenting each month.

Now, how do you get this free pair of Beats headphones? Easy! As we did last month, and the month before, the article with the highest traffic will win the headphones. So, what do you have to do? Well, if you haven't registered yet, that would be a good place to start. Afterwards, just post an article ... very simple.

As a piece of advice, the more articles you post, the more chances you have to win. Also, if you really want to win, you need to get some traffic to your article. To do so, I highly recommend using sites like Facebook, Reddit and the like. These sites are powerhouses when it comes to directing traffic, so if you write something interesting you really should use them if you want to win.

So, do you want a free pair of Beats Headphones? Well, you better start publishing articles!

Mizozo has Officially Moved once more

As mentioned previously, we weren't all that happy with our previous hosting provider, so we purchased new hosting with Reliable Servers. We have now finalized the move, and things are working great.

Interestingly enough, the site works substantially faster than before. This is probably due to the fact that our server is more powerful and rather than a 100 megabit connection we now have a gigabit connection.

Now that this is complete, I can get back to more important things ... like figuring out next month's prize.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Moving Servers Once More

With the site going into a somewhat auto-pilot mode, there are still a few loose ends that need to be tied up, after which things will be very routine for the rest of 2013. One of the loose ends being tackled right now is the dedicated server we use.

As a quick recap, as the new year passed we got a disturbing email from our former host provider, Bluemile. In short, they were leaving the dedicated server business and we were given one week to GTFO. Needless to say, we were incredibly surprised, not to mention in shock, but Mizozo was quickly moved to the provider Bluemile recommended, CeraNet (didn't have nearly enough time to do any good research). Well, seeing as how we were so screwed by Bluemile, their recommendation comes with negative connotations, so after moving I began looking for a better provider, one that's been around longer than a few weeks. After much prodding around, it was decided to go with Reliable Servers. They offered a much better server for a slightly more expensive rate, but they have been around for quite some time and their reviews are relatively favorable.

Now that we have secured a machine, it will slowly be setup and the site will be moved. I have a bit over two weeks to get this done, so I can take my time. The last move was completed in such a way that another move will only take a few hours, but I prefer to take my time considering we have already paid for Cera for another month.

When the move is complete, another announcement will be made. Hopefully, we can put the bad taste of Bluemile behind us, and concentrate on growing the site.

To clarify, 2013 will likely be an autonomous year for Mizozo due to lack of funds and lack of time on my part. The goal is to attract many more publishers to Mizozo, ones that will hopefully try to win some of our prizes rather than try to do some SEO work for their own ends. We'll have to wait and see how things turn out.

Friday, February 1, 2013

January's Quick Numbers

Time is definitely not on my side. With so much going on, I barely have time to breath these days. We have announced our first Prize Winner this morning, and now here are the summary numbers for January.

Summary

Visitors: 172,151
Page Views: 310,375
Pages per Visit: 1.8
Earnings: $216

Top 5 Published in January
#1 - The 2013 Hot Shots Сalendar with 35 Behind the Scenes Photos - [7,195]
#2 - Young Cameron Diaz From a 1997 Esquire Shoot - [6,413]
#3 - Worlds Coolest Steampunk Mobile Phone - [3,619]
#4 - The Amazing Katrina Bowden is Smoking Hot in Maxim Magazine - [2,301]
#5 - Who's your Favorite Victoria's Secret Model? Candice, Miranda, Erin, Karlie or Izabel? [1,952]

Top 5 All Time

#1 - Sila Sahin Nude Playboy Pictures (NSFW) - [15,201]
#2 - Homepage - [10,425]
#3 - Kelly Brook goes completely nude for Exhibition Magazine (NSFW) - [8,551]
#4 - Hayley Williams, Lead Singer of Paramore, Naked - [8,120]
#5 - The 2013 Hot Shots Сalendar with 35 Behind the Scenes Photos - [7,195]



Hopefully later in the day I will provide a more detailed look at the numbers. No promises, though.

It is likewise important to note that Mizozo no longer is serving pop-under ads. While this is hurting our earnings, I don't care much about that. This month we earned $216, but our server is now cheaper, only about $130, which leaves an operating profit of about $85. Removing 10%, next months prize will run somewhere around $75. But, for the last two months we have been padding that number with last years profit, so we may do the same nextt month.

Once again, this month's prize is none other than the iPhone of Vaporizers, the Ploom PAX. We had previously announced its purchase, and the contest page has been updated this morning as well to reflect the new competition. Good luck to all those competing.


January's Nexus Winners Are ...


January has come and gone, so its time to announce our two winners.

#1 - Hammer - The 2013 Hot Shots Сalendar with 35 Behind the Scenes Photos [7,195]
#2 - Celebuzz - Young Cameron Diaz From a 1997 Esquire Shoot [6,413]

Its interesting to note that Hammer almost one first and second place. Celebuzz's Cameron Diaz article was only published 4 days ago, and it rose very fast.

Again, the first place prize was the 16GB Nexus 10 tablet, and the second place prize was the 16GB Nexus 7 tablet.

Both publishers have already been notified, and their shipment is on its way. Congratulations!

As already mentioned, February's prize is the incredible Ploom Pax Vaporizer. This literally is the iPhone of vaporizers, very easy to use and incredibly well thought through. If you haven't registered yet, there's no better time than the present.