I bought www.travelitaly24.com domain 3 years ago from a webmaster forum. It’s dmoz listed. This year I decided to monetize and redevelop.

Firstly I adapt theme to navigate easily. Menus are listed using ajax and some sub categories are listed using custom wp tags. For backend I use wordpress and its plugins.

Plugins used and their purpose:

• Author Advertising: I used it to manage adsense ads. Adsense codes are located on top and the bottom of all pages in single post style. Author advertising has a feature to share ad impressions with writers ( future phase)
• Clean Options: To reduce db size
• Dagon Design Sitemap Generator: To be listed fastly in search engines
• Enhanced WP-ContactForm : To get link exchange and ad requests
• Google XML Sitemaps : Of course for google
• iWPhone: For mobile accesses. But not finished theme customization.
• Link Exchange Manager: Main aim is getting back links. I adepted to site design
• MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer: Hey, I’m not a blog spammer
• Psychic Search: Track user searches. Not used now because of low traffic
• Register Plus: Advenced user registration system
• Sociable: For social bookmarks and possible traffic gain. Print and email icons added
• WP-Affiliate: To hide sponsor and hotel links.
• WP-DBManager: Database optimization and backup
• wpSEO: SEO tool
• WP Super Cache: I will use it when the content become stable

What I did? :

• wp-login.php integrated with current theme
• Comments closed
• General content about Italy finished
• accordion ajax menu added to sidebar
• Started to add category images on posts.
• Started selling text link ads.

In future:

• I’ll create custom category pages with full images. Destination categories will have current weather, map and image search link
• Hotels will be added
• RevShare system will be activated for guest writers
• Will start link trades
• Directory submissions ( first target is pr4)