Games Sells Rated Hot To Youngs

After Hours Media owner Paul M. Games has sold adult Webmaster resource site RatedHot.com to Marsha Youngs, who had joined the company as communications director in February.

Games said in a statement it was time to let Youngs bring the site "to levels I would never have imagined" while freeing him up to focus on his After Hours content sites, "which is where I belong."

"I have a lot more in store for the future of the site," said Youngs in her own statement, "so keep your eye out!"

Games praised Youngs as well-enough known go-to person for building and growing, "maintaining a world-class Webmaster resource site in our industry. She has done it again with Rated Hot since the beginning of this year, and has positioned the site to be one of the best in the industry and more and more Webmasters are coming to the site everyday."

Youngs said the deal was in the works for only a month. "It wasn't something I planned when I left xbiz.com," she said. "It just worked out that way."

RatedHot.com re-launched a month before Youngs left xbiz.com to join the staff. RatedHot.com has undergone a number of upgrades in systems and tools, including daily site updates, exclusive Webmaster tutorials, a Webmaster newsletter, a traffic banner exchange program, a who-is research feature, and a daily Webmaster events calendar, among other features.

"RatedHot.com has become my mission," said Youngs. "I have not previously owned my own resource site in the past, but I do have many years experience in growing unknown resource sites into very successful Webmaster communities. Over the past several years I have been somewhat restricted on what I could do - as I was only an employee - but now I have total creative control over the site and this is something that I am really excited about."

She praised and thanked Games for giving her the chance to join RatedHot.com, but said she intended to continue "raising the bar" for resource sites in the future.

"I am very proud of the fact that our Webmaster board, The Host Spot, has become one of the most professional and helpful boards on the Net," she continued. "I am really excited that we just passed 10,000+ posts a couple of weeks ago on such a new board, especially considering that we do not pay for our members to post. We recently added new Content Provider and Traffic Stop boards as well in order to help Webmasters that are focused on these topics to receive more targeted information.