Tag: DestroyRepeat

DestroyRepeat reaches 2,000 posts
Hello ladies, and gentlemen, my name is Carlos Morales, I’m the person who acquired DestroyRepeat in 2015. DestroyRepeat.com was a website that originated as a TitanFall website. I fell in love with what DestroyRepeat was, what it represented, and how it looked. I have always been a lover of First Person Shooters. Always. So, when I saw the name “Destroy Repeat.” I looked at the name, and it clicked. As a marketing guy, I thought the name was perfect. All the owners needed was someone who knew how to take the name, and turn it into a legendary name.

I actually accomplished my dream of merging a forum with a blog with the forum as the backbone. My plans hinged on this being the case. I saw xPress, and I immediately bought it upon release. Everything was fine and dandy. However, it wasn’t always a blog, it was going back and forth being a blog, a forum.

When I purchased DestroyRepeat, I was already holding onto a forum, it was a PlayStation Vita fansite. I also had a few databases available in my server. I merged them all together to make one forum to rule them all. Problem is, PSVitaForum had exploits in the backend. I had to clean up the database to ensure exploits wouldn’t break the site in the future. Because technically, the xenForo license held by the owner was a nulled instance. So, one of the mods knew the exploit, and was able to make himself administrator. In the process of importing the database, I was faced with a decision for how the board would be imported. Unfortunately, because of the way I was thinking, I opted for the one that would kill pagerank. But, I was also planning a blog at some point. So, I was like “meh, who cares.” It was painful at first, but I got over it and worked on a plan of action. I don’t know everything, I do make mistakes.

DestroyRepeat’s blog was originally a personal blog. It was popular from time to time. The most popular blog post was the theories around Mega Man Universe.

I merged a few blogs into DestroyRepeat.com to help bring more posts, and elevate the website…
Today, we’re celebrating DestroyRepeat’s 2,000 blog posts since purchasing DestroyRepeat.com – However, I’m going to use this event to bring attention to DestroyRepeat’s Social Media sites, and highlight them…
Thank you for being a reader. Have a nice day!
June 29, 2022
CallofDutyBlog.com is closed

Hello, everyone, my name is Carlos Morales. It’s time I introduced myself. I purchased CallofDutyBlog.com on April 13, 2017. I tried restoring the database/files exactly as it was, but after many unsuccessful tries, I said to myself “Screw it, let’s make a new plan.” The original plan was to leave CallofDutyBlog.com alone, with no changes whatsovever, and then when time has already passed, I’d move the posts from the site, to CODNet, which was another site that I’ve trying to build up.

While I was doing this, it was my plan to become a dominant player in the Call of Duty news market segment. There are a few Call of Duty-related websites that are well respected, and well-liked. Not even one year later, the biggest, the most influential Call of Duty blog was acquired. It’s as if people already know who the hell I am, and what I do.

So, as you can see, there was a roadmap. That’s not all, though, there were more issues for me: I’ve been trying to contact Activision since I purchased and launched Advanced Warfare Blog. It was the world’s first Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare blog delivering news to Call of Duty fans all around the world. I’m proud of that achievement, because normally, by the time the game is teased, leaked or announced, there’s usually fan sites already opened. It was pretty successful. The stats are…

38,703 Sessions (Visits)
34,876 Users (Unique Visits)
51,601 Pageviews

Compare that with CODNet, which attracted only…

30,269 Users
30,269 New Users
32,260 Sessions
41,755 Pageviews

…Since 2012. That means, AdvancedWarfareBlog was successful on its own. In one year, those were the numbers.

Now, I am sure that CallofDutyBlog attracted 30% more than what I am used to with CODNet, and AdvancedWarfareBlog. With CallofDutyBlog.com, I was able to see that it attracted 1 thousand clickthroughs a week. That would mean, that each time you clickthrough, and view a page, you’d make enough money by the end of the month. That is, if you work at it.

On top of this, the website itself has garnered enough followers on Twitter, Facebook, and other Social Media websites. In fact, with tumblr, the previous owner was able to attract quite a niche. I would love to sit down with that someday, and see what I can do to retain those users. It’s practically like a second feed for the site. But starting immediately, I am redirecting this whole site to DestroyRepeat. I’ve already migrated all the posts, some images, and most of the content over to DestroyRepeat.com already. Please put DestroyRepeat as your bookmark. Going forward, that’s where you’ll find the site, and whatnot.

See you there!

About CarlosX360 Co., Ltd.
CarlosX360 is a global gaming network of brands and products delivering content to gamers worldwide. It is an incorporated company based in Northern California that intends to be an global entertainment corporation. CarlosX360 delivers content to PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Wii, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch gamers worldwide at www.carlos360.com To learn more about CarlosX360 visit its corporate home at www.carlosx360.com

April 15, 2019
Welcome to DestroyRepeat 5.5

I’ve been working on an idea for a while now. It is time to move DestroyRepeat past this whole idea of keeping it as a forum by itself. It hasn’t been working for me for a while now. That’s on me, it’s my responsibility. It falls on my shoulders. I made this comment back in January…

Okay, so DestroyRepeat 5.0 didn’t pan out as I expected. I take full responsibility for that. When I bought PSVitaForum, my original plan was to maintain the traffic from that site, with zero changes. But I discovered a few holes the skin(s), plugins, and whatnot. I refreshed the database. What I should’ve done was maintain the content ID’s. That’s my bad, and that’s my fault. I learned from it on a different website that I acquired recently. Now that I’ve learned how to maintain the content ID’s without worrying about other factors. The original reason why I didn’t want to maintain the content ID’s is because of how it works. I thought that because it maintains the ID’s as exactly as it was, I couldn’t log in. I learned on my own that wasn’t the case. I could.

I was wrong there. It cost me the pagerank and links. I could’ve maintained the traffic from old links to new links, all I could’ve done was maintain content ID’s. Now that I learned how things works, from here on out, I will not make the same mistake again.

However, over the last 3 months, I’ve been pondering, thinking, and planning for the next year (which is right now). I have a new plan. And luck would have it my way. I’ve always wanted to integrate a forum with a blog. Xpress was revealed in 2018. At the same time, xenForo 2.1 has been in beta since September. So, as per usual, I held off on doing anything regarding DestroyRepeat until I am ready. When xenForo 2.1 is considered gold and stable, and Xpress is compatible with it, I will begin to relaunch DestroyRepeat as a blog/forum. It will be a long process, but I’m ready.

I didn’t come into this industry to fail, so failure isn’t an option. I can fail, but I can pivot, and get better. That’s always been my prerogative. ~~But first, I will need to move the network (including DestroyRepeat) to a new server, because my e-mails keep getting dropped thanks to the spammers, and trolls. Thanks, guys. Thanks!~~

‘Till then… Sit tight. This is going to be a big site
– Carlos Morales, Owner of DestroyRepeat.com

I’ve been testing that XPress for a while now through a different website that I own. When I discovered it, a lightbulb went off in my head. At that point, I was thinking; “Why don’t we condense every blog I created, and acquired over the years, into one single place?” This idea is what you see today. Bear with me while I continue to make changes, and import everything from my other blogs and get everything ready for primetime.

I am not ready to call it quits with DestroyRepeat. I intended for DestroyRepeat to become the #1 place for Tech & Gaming news. I like technology, gaming, and whatnot. So, this is what we’re doing going forward. I will invest heavily into this particular site. If I have to beg for money, so be it. IGAF.

Anyhow, this is phase one of the changes that will come in the next week or months.

March 18, 2019
CODNet will move to DestroyRepeat.com in December

I’ve been thinking, reflecting, and planning this for a long time. I bought CallofDutyBlog.com to eventually merge into this site, but as I was trying to restore the site over to my server, I went through several layers of issues. First it was very difficult to restore the skin on the site, I tried to fix it, remove something, then tried to look through files to see what was wrong. I discovered it had too many plugins that it appalled me. Instead of trying to fix it, I decided to just restore the actual posts themselves. The second thing is, somewhere along the line, I lost links. I was testing things behind the scenes. One thing led to the other, I just felt bad. I just felt this sinking feeling that there’s nothing I could do with it. I then was hit with no motivation. I wanted CODNet to become the biggest, and the most authoritative Call of Duty site on the market. At this point, there were reports that Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare didn’t sell too well, and that there were worries about how Black Ops 4 was going to pan out.

It was at this time, I decided to delay the announcement and make this announcement…

Call of Duty Blog Acquisition announcement

The original plan was to merge Call of Duty Blog into CODNet. The problem here is, and I learned this the hard way. Was that Google was putting a lot of emphasis on mobile indexing, and https preference. Over the summer, I turned on https, but it only had small benefits. There’s more stories behind the scenes, however, the short version is I am finding it costly for me to be buying domains and maintaining them all. I’ve been buying a lot of domains first hand, and second hand. By second hand, I’ve been buying domains in the thousands each one. Including CallofDutyBlog.com – it was my intention to become dominant in the niche. But I have other ideas. You see, I’ve been trying to contact Activision for a while now, and they shunned me through the PR agency that manages fansite, websites, and other influencer relations. Apparently, they don’t like blogs with “Call of Duty” on it. So, I’m thinking, “Since I own DestroyRepeat, lets merge all blogs into one place, and contact companies this way.” That idea stuck with me this entire year, so I allowed the blogs to sit where they are until the end of this year. The plan is to make the switch in December and open 2019 with a bang.

I want to take this moment to share some stats with you. Since April 2012, CODNet attracted…

30,269 Users
30,269 New Users
32,260 Sessions
41,755 Pageviews

I want to take this moment to say, THANK YOU to the readers. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for reading my articles, liking my articles, and sharing them.

About CarlosX360 Co., Ltd.
CarlosX360 is a global gaming network of brands and products delivering content to gamers worldwide. It is an incorporated company based in Northern California that intends to be an global entertainment corporation. CarlosX360 delivers content to PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Wii, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch gamers worldwide at www.carlos360.com To learn more about CarlosX360 visit its corporate home at www.carlosx360.com

November 1, 2018