Over the last few weeks I have been building a new blog. The Really Useful Engine Blog. It’s for the Thomas the Tank Engine fans, who don’t appear to have any decent websites out there dedicated to the little blue engine. It’s built predominently using WordPress and I have heavily configured the CSS and added the content. There are sections to cover all the areas I want to promote and announce. There are two Amazon stores, one for the UK and one for the US. There are news items about the ‘Day Out with Thomas’ tours that occur around the countries all over the world. Product reviews too.
The Really Useful Engine Blog
It was sparked into life by a series of events which started with Facebook banning my Thomas the Tank Engine page. With over 22,000 fans currently registered to it, this is a great loss of readership and I will endeavour to be get un-banned and start promote fans to my site. In the meantime, it will allow me to populate the site with relevant information about Thomas and find news, reviews and products to shout about.
I have also embarked on a new area for me, affiliation. Adding advertising banner to my website will allow visitors to click the links and view the deals available. It’s quite hard to realise who my demographic is, and in-turn decide which banners to add. But, I think the toy shop banners can’t be too out of place on this website.
I contacted the Hit Entertainment, the owners of the Thomas the Tank Engine brand and said, “it’s fabulous!!”. Which good to hear.