Are these the effects of Global Warming? February has been the driest February on record for Denver. Temperatures are also way above normal and it is actually so dry that we did start watering trees and bushes to keep them alive. Trees are already 4-6 weeks ahead of spring schedule and buds are showing up or even opening up. I am sure we will get a snow storm sometime in March and April (those are the months with the most snow fall for us here) and if the trees will carry leafs by then it will be ugly. Trees will break as spring snow is usually wet an heavy. The increase in water usage is also not that pleasant as it means a higher water bill way before we reach summer.
What am I working on? I bought a site off Sitepoint.com that was supposed to be a solid contender in a specific niche with PPC traffic. The deal was supposed to contain Adwords related keyword data and ad data. The seller is extremely slow to respond and I have received the site and the PPC related stuff, but things are a little fishy. I do not want to say yet that I have been scammed, but at least so far this purchase has left a bitter taste. I still see the potential for the site and PPC traffic, but the shortcut I wanted to take might turn into a long road. The good thing is that I did not pay a huge amount of money and the potential loss is bad, but not significant.
I also bought another forums website and will merge that forum with another that I already have. The topic/niche is not a 100% match, but I would say it comes close and I am willing to take a hit on some of the traffic and members, but see huge potential for my actual main niche. I will merge the 2 forums, then do a 301 redirect to the existing site of mine and just have to wait for the “new” old content to be indexed properly. Website traffic should then increase by (currently) 150-200 visitors per day. Even if only 10-20% of the visitors are a match for my niche, it would provide a significant boost in forums activity and the more activity a forum has, the better it’ll be. The 301 redirect should also have a good impact long term. The acquired website carries a PR2 and over 2000 back links. My existing site is PR0 and has only ~1000 back links, but boosts much higher traffic volume. I do not care about the PR, but the traffic and how targeted the traffic is.
I also opened another web hosting account – with Hostgator. I got to say that I am very impressed with them at this point. Very fast ticket response times and best of all – my custom software that has specific requirements to a host works right out of the box (did not work at JaguarPC and another web host). So, if you need a solid web host, I recommend Hostgator Web Hosting. Consider this part of the posting a hostgator review. 
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