Oh, no. What is Subeta going to do without those 5,000 visits in the past two years. How will we survive?

Oh, right. That’s literally .001958% of the traffic we have got in the same timeframe. (Visits only counting). I guess we’ll survive.

d project to get you started with programing, look at some neat art, etc. Now, how do you find artists? You look around for people who are not already working for other pet sites.

Does this sound familiar? If you talk to me personally, it’s because it’s been kind of a running joke for the past few months. This pet site owner (Ken) runs a site called Lurapets. Ken has been sending out thousands of messages on DA for months, asking people to work for his site. He doesn’t look at their gallery (and see, hey, this person works for another site) and if he does get attacked for it, he posts a poorly spelled apology and promises to never do it again. Until a few weeks later.

Here are a few screenshots of how Ken. I told myself I would drop this last apology, but when he literally sends a message to my head artist, who has hundreds of official Subeta pieces in her gallery, it’s just… sad. Also, it looks like he might be low on cash.

For those of you who are Subetadrama members, you can find the months of lulz here.

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Here are the stats for December, for Subeta. It’s a little off, since we had a little bit of downtime in the past week due to high traffic. Here are what I would like the stats to be, by June 2009.

Views

All Visits: 3,500,00
New Visitors: 400,000
Returning Visitors: 2,500,000
Pageviews

All Visits: 250,000,000
New Visitors: 15,000,000
Returning Visitors: 200,000,000

Pages/Visit

All Visits: 300
New Visitors: 100
Returning Visitors: 200

Bounce Rate

Overall I’d like it to be less than 10%

Average time on site

I’d like it to be at least 45 minutes. Need to add features that are compelling and keep users entertained for long periods of time.

New Visits

I’d like to increase our advertising and get a large amount of new incomming users through the starting months of 2009.

Goal Completion

To complete these goals, I need to ramp up an advertising campaign that isn’t just adwords, or even advertising on sites that are similar to Subeta. I need to start making friends in the industry and start working with like minded young people in advertising our companies together.

Also, another major push will be getting Subeta more involved with Valenth — and increasing the amount of advertising used for Subeta on Valenth.

Increasing the amount of programmers that we have will be a requirement, and I hope to have applications open near the opening of 2009 with basic questions that any programmer should be able to answer. We are going to be looking for the talented pool of Subeta users because they know the site, and what the users want.

The achievement system is huge in keeping users on the site. I hope to add at least 20 new achievements a week to keep people on their toes, and running around the site working on completeing the collection.

Also, I plan to increase the social networking features on Subeta — allowing users to interact with other users. Major changes to the forums, and internal mailing system should be completed by June, including the reputation system. Also making it easier for users to communicate via profile comments, and maybe even an on-site messenger system.

Another thing will be integrating outside social networks into Subeta. I plan to have a facebook application ready to go by June 2009 at the latest, as well as integrating facebook into Subeta for importing friends, and finding out which of your friends have a facebook profile.

There are a lot of things that we can do to continue growing, and I hope that 2009 is a great year for Subeta and it’s users :]

So I told the admin in question that I couldn’t advertise on Subeta because that’d be in the same ‘market’ (pet sites) but instead I could op for an adoptable on Valenth which would be just as good (if not better) for traffic.

I wasn’t given any information about the site and the changes that would be made while it was down, just that it was being ‘reset’ (all the user accounts were being removed) and that it’d be a ‘new site’ when it was brought online.

Now, I’m very pleased that the valenth adoptable was never discussed past that point, because when creatureworld came back online, it seemed very familiar. The wardrobe feature in particular (which is layed out similarly to Subeta’s) as well as multiple other smaller things (for example, the same CSS used in user hovers, save changing the colors) around the site itself.

I understand rebranding, the old Creatureworld wasn’t working. Subeta is the second most popular virtual pet site on the internet. I understand that flattery is the sincerest form of flattery. However, when you ask for my help, knowing in the back of your mind that you’ll be bringing the site back online with obviously cloned features – that’s wrong.

I hope you enjoy your place at the bottom of the food chain, Creatureworld. This is the only advertising you’ll be getting from me.