Category: Site News

That time of the year again to celebrate (by myself) the anniversary of this little collection of websites! My websites have been online for 19 years. Now they are old enough to purchase alcohol in most US states. The only notable update this year is adding some background images to this blog by using Gen AI which is all the rage these days. Google Adsense basically pays nothing these days, even after I updated the ad script code. Many people have ad blockers, so online display ads are a bit outdated.

Anyways, onwards to Year 20!!!

My humble little collection of websites is 18 years old! If they were a person, they would be old enough to buy alcohol in several Canadian provinces lol. My websites still exist and as with the last few years, there aren’t many updates. I did fix up some CSS issue with the crabbing guide, and running into various issues with my WordPress sites while moving to a newer PHP version at my webhost. So a bit more than the usual nothing to report. No significant plans other than to maintain the sites and make the odd blog post here. Traffic and Adsense aren’t even worth mentioning anymore at this point, although I did realize that ads weren’t showing up on crabbing guide and Smash Bros. guide because the ad code was too old, so will be fixing that. Onwards to year 19 and a brighter future!

Another year at TJ Online has passed. I’m supposed to make this anniversary celebration post in August, but forgot until now, like in several of the previous years. My websites are still alive. I make the odd post on this blog here and there, but no plans to do anything more. Maybe instead of drawing the background images myself, I’ll get GenAI to do it. I’ll write my own posts instead of using ChatGPT. I don’t really even check the traffic to my websites anymore, and Google Adsense revenues are non-existent for the most part. Onwards to Year 18!

TonyJiang.com hits its sweet 16! Don’t really have any celebration planned other than this post, but happy that I’m still keeping my websites alive. As usual, not much in terms of updates. Mostly I just write some travel posts or the occasional gadget post here on my personal blog. The Google Adsense revenue has declined to a point that it no longer covers the hosting and domain name costs, but that’s not a problem since my personal income has grown a lot more during these years than the decrease in ad revenue. Anyways, onto Year 17!

15 long years! That’s how long this domain has been on the world wide web. As usual, I write a post every year celebrating the occasion without actually having done much on my websites in the past year. Ad revenue and traffic is abysmal as usual. I keep telling myself to create some artwork or something to spruce up the place, but never quite get along to it. The biggest news is that I fixed up the PHP in the crabbing log, and also started recording my crabbing tallies from the Puget Sound. Anyways, 15 years is a pretty good chunk of time. See you in a year for the 16th anniversary post.

That’s right. My little domain TonyJiang.com is 14 years old! Can’t say I have done much work on my websites in the past few years, but they are still online and I write blog posts here once a while. Not going to check how many visitors or how little money I made off of Google Adsense, since I’m sure those have been down year-over-year over the last few years. It’s a good thing that my employment income trended in the opposite direction as my web advertising income hahaha. As I grew older, my interests and priorities shifted from tinkering with websites, but I still plan on keeping my websites running as long as I can. 2020 has been a strange year to say the least, and hopefully we’ll still be around for this anniversary post next year.

It’s that time of the year again! No, it’s not Christmas yet. It’s the anniversary of my domain woo hoo!!! 13 years and still chugging along.

In recent years, I haven’t focused too much on my websites, and so not much to report. No major changes in terms of the look and content, and of course ad revenue and traffic are trending down every year. There were some big changes in my life as I moved all the way across the country back to the Pacific Northwest. I’m definitely happier than I was a year ago, so maybe that’ll translate into me putting some work into these websites…? Or at least I’ll try to update this blog more often lol.

August has rolled around past us already, and that means TonyJiang.com is another year older. This website you are reading right now has been online for a dozen years :!: :!: :!: Isn’t that amazing :?: Ok, maybe not that amazing, but 12 years is not too shabby.

Just like the last few years, I don’t have much to update on the website, since I didn’t work on it very much. I’ve been busy with work and other things. Hopefully I’ll find some time at least to paint the backgrounds for this blog. As with the last few years, the traffic and ad revenue are still on the downward trend. If I learned anything from my anime/manga blogging days, it’s that you have to keep creating relevant content to get readership, and I certainly haven’t been doing that. My little travel and gadget blog posts are mostly for my own amusement, after all. Still, thanks to everyone who visited during the past year, and onwards to another year of TJ Online.

TonyJiang.com has been online for 11 years! Woohoo!! Break out the champagne :lol: . I actually remembered to post in August this year, which is when actually anniversary is. In previous years I would forget until September or even October to post this message.

Regarding my collection of websites, I don’t have much to report on in the past year. Didn’t do any major revamp or additions. Work has kept me busy, and on the weekends I try to do something outside of my home. I should probably at least go back to drawing and produce some artwork for this website. The crabbing guide is still the most popular out of them all, but traffic is slipping like the last few years, probably because I haven’t crabbed in Vancouver for a while, and there are new competition. Ad revenue is of course down, due to the lower traffic and the prevalence of ad blockers. Oh well, it’s not like I’m going to make a living out of these websites haha.