Virtual Pets Blog

The epic tale of Jadedneo.com began during the middle of 2004.
It leads through many controversies, fans and even haters. As being one of the early Neopets related sites, it had caught the eyes of many fellow Neopians and became one of the main icons for Neopets fan sites. The site, started as a personal website, began providing graphics, generators and not long after, bits of computer related knowledge sections, and of course, not mentioning Neopets articles.

As an average number of 3000, it was the amount of visitors that came to the
site each day. It was ranked number one in many topsites and also turned out
to be the most worthwhile site to be affiliated with. The owner, Tamara,
also known as Jaded, is an average mother from Canada, with a family to look
after, but had the time and will to raise her site by spending most of her
days creating free graphics for visitors to use.

Controversies collided into the site when she was accused of ‘posting
pornography’ due to the layout for the site. It had been noted that during a
month, she had images of woman posing out sexual parts and even having a
baby coming out, but Tamara claimed it as ‘a layout to celebrate Mother’s
Day’. There had been times when she had layouts of satanic creatures such
as vampires and dragons, and created even more dilemma. Many young visitors
had been claiming it to be too scary and mature. During this time, Tamara
received most of her hate mails and even posted some on the site.

Another highlighted event happening was during late 2006, when the site
started sending out viruses. If you ever browsed the site during that time,
you will randomly get attacked by a virus and forced to leave it. Tamara had
cleared the problem up and excused herself for her site had been silently
hacked into. This caused a lot of visitors to leave and even caused many
threats in forums as a hot topic.

After a year or so, Jadedneo began having frequent reports of closing down
but then ended up with a different name. There was a time when it was known
as ‘Jaded Graphix’ but then got closed again and turned back to ‘Jadedneo’.
These little events had been going on for a while now.

During late 2007, when Jadedneo was nearly reaching its peak again, it was
closed again and maybe for the last time. It was claimed to be because of
not having enough time and money to support it so all of her graphics had
been deleted. There are not many reports of it being opened for a while now,
but if the site is searched on Whois, it notes that the site expires in
2008. so we’ll just have to wait and see!

By; Jesse Train, Jesse Neo.com

Pinkpt has some work to do…
Pinkpt has been trying for a few weeks to get back on the search engines (especially google) for the keyword “Neopets”, but they will never get on page 1 because they’re missing the biggest factor of ranking and that’s building up quality links with other fansites as well as other websites that’ll link to Pinkpt - using Neopets as its link anchor.

Not only did they try to revamp the site by redirect the main domain to /neopets for about a few weeks, they’ve now reverted the domain name back to the regular site and /neopets is still running, but the main site continues to receive updates while the neopets section doesn’t. What are they trying to do? Not only do both sections have the same content, they will also get hit by the “duplicate content” penality by the search engines.

If Pinkpt really wants to rank for “neopets”, we’d recommend that they change the following:
Their title tag from “PPT - Your #1 Neopets (Neopets.com) Fansite! Home to the Neopets l33t, battlers, guild owners and the occasional Neopets staff.” to “PPT - Your #1 Neopets (Neopets.com) fansite. Neopets cheats, neopets guides and the occasional neopets staff.” Their title just needs work and their current title sucks. Their meta description also needs work and it currently reads as “Neopets just got a whole lot better with this Neopets fan site. Providing Neopets articles, solutions, avatars, guides and free everything, you don’t know Neopets until you know PPT. This site isn’t affiliated with Neopets.”, however; it should be “Neopets has gotten a whole lot better with this neopets fansite. Providing neopets articles, neopets cheats, solutions and everything you don’t know about Neopets!”. They’re trying to tweak their description to read well to the visitors, but they should also be focused on the search engines as well - because if they can rank for the “neopets” term a lot more neopets players would be checking out PPT on a daily basis.

Marapetshq one of the oldest marapets fansites has closed down. We believe (Seraph, the owner) didn’t care much about Marapets anymore and decided the fansite wasn’t worth her time. Here’s the message that Seraph posted on the index.
“Hello all,
I would like to thank all the visitors and contributors to this site over the last 2 years, without you the site would not of been the success it had been.
Yet this site is closing, as I have other projects that I wish to pursue both online and offline. I will still be playing Marapets, should you ever wish to contact me feel free to send me a Maramail. Once again, thanks for visiting and I wish you all the best. =D”. If she has other projects, then why doesn’t she sell out?