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Keys2kids.com

Way back in 1998 or 1999 I started to play with making my own website. I built a very crude looking website and my domain name was keys2kids.com I was writing for the newspaper and had my own column writing parenting articles. My column was called Life with all these kids! I enjoyed writing and started to post some of my writings on my new website, keys2kids.com

Pretty soon I was getting emails and all sorts of activity on my site. My articles were showing up all over the web and I really wasn’t sure what I had done to deserve such attention. One thing I knew was I did like it! Now for the bad news. I had a site analyst look at my site and he said I had 64,000 UNIQUE visitors a DAY. Yes, you read that right! I didn’t know what that meant at the time and now I would give my eyeteeth for that kind of traffic. I asked him what this meant…he said, are you kidding me? The average time on your site is nearly 15 minutes! He told me a site was called sticky if someone stayed on it longer than 30 SECONDS. I wasn’t really sure what all this meant but he sure was excited. He wanted to know everything I was doing and how I was doing it.

The thing was, I didn’t really know what I was doing and this hurt me in the end. One day I was going to post a new article on my site and …ut oh. There was no site. I didn’t know what was going on and I called my hosting guy. His wife had recently found out she had cancer and he was pretty consumed with that…understandably so. A few days later I get an email from a gentleman (using this word generously), offering to sell me my domain for $8,000. dollars.

What? I didn’t have $8,000. dollars. I was a stay at home mom with a bunch of kids. How did he come to get my domain in the first place?

Well, it turns out my guy was very consumed with his wife and her illness, he didn’t renew the domain and it expired. I was too green to know what to do or even realize it would expire. And there you have it.

Now for the good news. Recently I went into godaddy and guess what? I took a peek for my old domain name and there it was so I snagged it up!

The next time you are looking for parenting tips and advice, simply type in www.keys2kids.com and come read some of my articles. The kids are bigger and I am sharing results.

Happy parenting!