Last week I had said that the traffic on my website had been going a little bit slower than what I was currently use to and as of right now it has actually been going pretty fast. my website has bee getting some more attention which is very good. what I started to do was post less often in the Facebook groups, which is where most of my traffic comes from and it has helped tremendously.
this is currently the last blog post and to be completely honest this came up so much quicker than what I was expecting. the second half of the genius hour project went so quickly that it felt like just one week had gone by. It felt like the beginning of school and how the first 9 weeks feel like it went by within two weeks. So far I have a crazy amount of articles on my word press website, all of which are related to the Houston Texans and I think it is so cool seeing my growth on that website. I was very fortunate that this project started whenever the regular season of the NFL started because if it didn't I think the outcome of my Word press website would have been the same. I think my website probably would not have had as many views and not nearly as many reads. This week the Houston Texans played the Baltimore Ravens in a Monday Night game. The Texans as of right now are on a terrible losing streak which is of course bad but fortunately this means we will be getting a high draft pick in the 2018 NFL draft. we were at the beginning of the season predicted to go around 10-6 to around 12-4 and I think that was a pretty good record because with that record you are almost guaranteed a playoff spot and on top of that a first round bye. in the last few years we've won our division but this year it looks to be that we will either come in last or second to last. fortunately we have tremendous upside in the upcoming years because we have many young players that will develop over the off season and hopefully NOT GET INJURED!!!
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This week has been one of the more slower weeks for the website that I have created. usually I can get a good amount of people to at least go onto my website by sharing the website through different Facebook pages/groups and through other social media platforms but this week that hasn't been the case. I have been sharing my website and new articles that I have posted every other day through social media platforms but for some reason I haven't gotten many people to look at my website or even go onto the front page where I have all my articles at.
I think that the problem isn't that people aren't looking at my page, its that whenever I share my new articles through a Facebook group everyone in that group can see it. People have started to notice that I post in those groups a lot and decide whether or not to click on my new article. people see that I have already posted once or twice in a day and they think that they shouldn't need to click on the link to see my new article. the only thing I can do differently is not post in those groups as much so then when they see I've posted something new they will look at it or I just need to find a brand new place to source my traffic through. enough talk about the website and lets talk about the Houston Texans. So right now the Texans are 4-8 which is definitely not a very reliable record considering we were definitely a playoff team this season until our entire team got injured. right now Tom savage, who is our current starting Quarterback isn't doing the best I think he could do. our offensive playbook only works if we have a Quarterback with mobility and pocket presence and those two things are two things Tom Savage doesn't poses in his arsenal. Those two things were the reason why Deshaun Watson did so well withing the first six games of his career. see our offensive line isn't the best in the world and what I am getting at is that a high school offensive line could play better than the Texans offensive line, that is why our quarterback has to have good pocket presence so then he knows when he needs to get out of the pocket and scramble. In this weeks blog post I did the regular routine withing the website that I have created with WordPress. I think that this project has been very successful and what I mean is that I believe that I hit all of my goals or at least most of the one's I had previously set for my self at the beginning of the genius hour project. when I look back at some of the goals that I had in mind I didn't really think I would go through with most of them. I thought that this would be more casual then hardcore.
So what I usually do for most of the weeks is put in all the the players stats on the website and that is on a different tab then the articles that I post. As of right now the Texans still have a lot of players on the IR (injury reserved) and I still think that is the reason that we aren't as good as what we were projected to be at the beginning of the year. Right now the Texans record is under .500 which isn't that good obviously but then again we don't really have a offense anymore because everyone is hurt. our defense on the other hand has been playing decently but our secondary does needs improvements which I believe the organization will be addressing in the upcoming year. I think that the position that we are in is actually very good even thought this season isn't going to plan. The only downside to the upcoming off season is that we don't have many draft picks which is unfortunate because that is where a lot of teams find some good young talent. Now of course there is also a lot of players in the draft that are not ready for the pro level and with that case it's kind of the same for all sports that go from college level to pro level. The draft for the NFL is like gambling though because its kind of 50/50 chance type of thing. take Deshaun Watson for example, not many people thought Deshaun Watson was going to be this good in his first year, but the Texans picked him anyways and he ended up being really good. The other way to acquire players over the off season is through free agency. Once again this is kind of a hit and miss situation because before hand you don't really know many of the players that are gong to be in free agency. once free agency starts the good thing is that you all ready know how well those players play at a pro level because they were once on a professional team and now you will get the opportunity to pick them up. I think this is where the Texans will make some upgrades in their secondary and maybe even the offensive line. This week I will be talking about the Houston Texans and their organization. as of right now the Texans are 4-6 which isn't the best record in the NFL. the Texans went 9-7 last year and were hoping to do much better next this year which has not gone to plan. they're star rookie quarterback Deshaun Watson did very good in the first few weeks he played. he had very good statistics and was leading the NFL in touchdowns going into week 6. Deshaun Watson had more than 15 touchdowns and 3 rushing touchdowns which was the most for any rookie quarterback ever to have going halfway into the season. he also had accumulated over 1000 yards which put him in the top 5 for passing yards. Things were looking up for the Texans because over the last 3 to 4 years they've had very bad trouble at the quarterback position. The Texans defense was carrying them for the last two or so years. Unfortunately Watson went down during practice with a torn ACL and is now out for the season. A few weeks before this injury, J.J. Watt, Whitney Mercilus, and Dylan Cole all went down with injuries. Watt and Mercilus are both out for the season and both of them are two of the best defensive players in Football.
J.J. Watt is one of the most iconic defensive ends in football history and will more than likely be going into the hall of fame once he retires, you might have heard of him because he is the one that ha helped raise over 30 million dollars for hurricane Harvey. He is an amazing player on and off the field. Whitney Mercilus is o middle linebacker for the Texans. we had just picked him up to be a third string backup player but after a few twist a turns he has ended up seeing some playing time. He has even gotten 2 interceptions and one of them he took into the end zone for 6. we have had a lot of injuries this year and a lot of them being on the defense. the Texans are a Superbowl caliber team but unfortunately you cant run from injuries This week I have looked to making my website that I have created on word press look a little bit differently. I have changed up some of the style of my website so that it is easier to get onto and so it makes more sense when you get onto it. I still have it set up the same with my articles being in the front of the website and statistics and such being on other pages that you have to click through to get to. I have been getting on the website pretty consistently but I have still ran into a few problems that I should address. for the most part I have been doing pretty good with getting onto the website but there has been a few days where I've slacked. on weekends I have done a very good job of getting onto the website which may be a surprise to some. the reason why i'm on the website so much on the weekends is because that is when NFL football is played (besides the Thursday night game and Monday night game). Most teams play their games on the weekends (Sundays) so therefore I am most likely going to be more interested in getting onto my website to make updates. I have the most trouble on getting onto my website whenever its Tuesday or Wednesday because I have lots of stuff going on those days so it makes it difficult. The good thing is that I can make changes to my website whenever I want to and I could make the changes all at once so me getting onto my website only twice or three times a week is okay.
Now that I have gotten into the flow of working on my other website, I am just sort of doing the same routine every week. I am still working on making my website look better and making it look more appealing to different types of people. Most visitors that come by on my website are obviously people who like the same thing as me which is NFL football and specifically the Houston Texans. I am still working on the front page and that is where I have all my articles that are Houston Texans related. on my other parts of the website I have other information on the team.
some difficulties that I have ran into is getting more views on my website to get more exposure. I think I could possibly do better with sharing because that is a big part of my project that I am starting to slack on. when I usually share a new article I go to multiple different locations on the internet and most of those places are social media websites. this is of course because almost everybody uses social media to share there thoughts, opinions, videos and much more. This is the half way point which means everybody including me should be around there half way mark when it comes to finishing or creating their project. I think that I have done very well considering I've had to kinda switch my project a couple of weeks ago.
When I switched my project up and went from making YouTube videos to doing more of a website kind of look I thought I would have a lot more difficulties, but when I got going I realized that it is not much different. I have definitely ran into a few problems with creating the website and making different parts of my website. I have also noticed that it is much easier to get viewers making a website than making YouTube videos but on YouTube you have that chance of getting lucky, having a website is the complete opposite. you have probably no chance of making your website gets tons of views in a day, rather your website gets constant views and a constant growth but its a much slower process. So far I think I have done extremely well with my project and I believe I am around half way done with it. I really don't have any set goals so it can be tough to judge where I am art in my project but I think as long as I am growing exponentially I think I am doing well on my project. this weeks progress has gone very well with organizing and getting my very own website up (not weebly website). I have set it up and ill be posting articles and updates on my favorite NFL team, the Houston Texans.
when you first go into my website the first and front page of the website is mostly articles I only write very few of these articles because that would take up a lot of time and I would not be able to write 3 to 5 articles a day. Instead I have a few sources that I go to, to find different articles that are new and current that are about the Houston Texans. I have mostly gotten my articles and information from BleacherReport. This website shows up to date news about literally any professional sports team. my second page on my new website is for any media content. what I mean by this is that I have pictures and videos on this part of my website. these pictures/videos will be from either practices or games that they have played in. these pictures/videos will be up to date and will usually be posted about a day after the pictures were literally taken. the final part of my website is for all recorded statistics by the team during games. for example under the Quarterbacks tab I have ¨completion¨, ¨TD/INT¨ and other statistics. Over the past week I have decided to try to focus more on not making the videos. What I mean by this is that the highlight videos probably wont work out because the only way for me to post videos without getting copyrighted is I would have to spend hours at a time finding clips of highlights online and I do not have that time to do so. So I have focused my attention on making a website instead. I am making a website that is completely different from this weebly blog post website. What I am doing is setting up a website which I have already done and I'm posting different articles about my favorite NFL team, the Houston Texans. I will keep up to date article's on the Texans and i'll be posting about any trades they make any injuries on the team and outcomes of games. I don't necessarily think I'm completely changing my project but I not be doing that much on YouTube anymore. This is also a much easier way of making money. Since this is my own website as long as I pay money to get my own domain I can start making money back by putting ads on my website. I'm probably not going to put ads on my website just yet though because as of right now I would probably be losing money, it would cost more per month to pay the website I'm using to make my own website than what I would be bring money in. OK, so this last week has been my first week where I have ran into some trouble with my YouTube channel. I have hit ten thousand views total on the entire channel and I was feeling very good about where my progress has been going.
once you hit ten thousand views on YouTube you can officially sign up for a ad-sense account and what the ad-sense account does is officially let you place ads on your videos. Once you can get ads put on your videos you can start making money from those ads. Now obviously I wont be making a whole lot of money from the ads because only around one tenth of my views will be seeing an ad pop up. so what this means is every one thousand views I get, only around 100 of them get to see a ad. this isn't awful but for someone just starting off like myself, I will not be making a lot of money. At most I might be able to make twenty dollars a month which obviously isn't a lot. Now on to the troubles I had this past week with YouTube. Around last Thursday or Friday I hit the ten thousand view mark which is a very good achievement. when I went to sign up for a ad-sense account it said that I was invalid and that I wouldn't be able to make a account. so basically I would never be able to make money from my videos which was kinda the whole goal that was surrounding this whole project. Since my YouTube channel cant make any money I had to delete it and basically start all over from the beginning. I guess this isn't all that bad though because my first run at it thought me a few good lessons that i can take a long ways through this project. |
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