Marketing - How to make money on the web
Work less, earn more: how to make your internet business a success
The marketing stuff is not online yet - yes, it exists, but there are still some corrections to be made. Maybe I'll be able to put everything online ... someday (I won't write down any date here anymore).
A real world experiment
Okay, most of you will now say "hey, this guy is crazy, he knows a damn shit about marketing..." and so on. So I'm going to start a little experiment using this website you're just surfin' on. Let me explain (consider this to be some kind of a log):
What is the experiment about? Well, it's quite simple - I'll try to get more targeted traffic on this website and I'll tell you about the progress from time to time. It's that easy: I'll use my own site to do the same things I recommend to other webmasters, and we'll see what happens. If everything goes fine, traffic will increase and maybe I'll even make some money with this site (read the "Work less, earn more" stuff above to learn how this can be done). If I fail then a) my recommendations are total crap OR/AND b) I'm too stupid to make them work - you decide!
June 2007 We're June 18th 2007 now, I just redesigned my private website www.kirps.com and I get around 50 unique visitors a week, that's about 200 unique visitors a month. Yeah, you're right, these numbers are HORRIBLE! Some years ago I had over 1000 visitors a month (not that much better), in 2003 I closed my site as I didn't have the time to update it anymore (huge mistake!), I relaunched it in 2006 without doing any real marketing for it, just writing some blog entries on a non-regular basis. But it seems that Google liked what I was doing as I got Pagerank 3, which is not SO BAD if we consider the circumstances. First changes: website updated - new design, template HTML code somewhat optimized, added a sitemap (HTML and XML), re-submitted to several search engines. So let's see what happens... June 26th: As expected (see the marketing articles on this site) the design changes didn't have any notable influence on visitor numbers or their behaviour. The large majority of clicks still come from www.cornelios.org, so this site currently fully depends on the popularity of the CorneliOS project - that's what has to be changed. The resources area on my site will go online within the next few days, sitemap has been re-submitted, and I expect the next pagerank update to come in mid July, so stay tuned!
August, September 2007 During the past few weeks Google updated my site in their index, so that everything's a bit more transparent now. But we're still waiting for the new PageRank update. For the moment I still have only about 5 unique visitors a day, so nothing really changed, as I didn't have the time to do any marketing...
October 2007 Still no marketing done, about 450 visiors this month which means about 15 visitors a day. That's better than before, and caused by the fact that some pages of my site got mentioned on a social networking site. Late October: Google updates parts of its visible Pagerank, and my site goes up from 3 to 4 - I think this must be due to the HTML code optimizing, as backlinks still remain low.
November 2007 I finally decided to post some interesting stuff in my blog and to publish some more content on my site, to make it a bit more interesting for visitors, along with some marketing. The visitor stats went up from around 5-15 to over 400 a day in November (that's more than 12000 visitors this month).
 | Here is a small SEO stat tool that you can use to monitor the progress of this site. Let's explain the abbreviations:
Rank: Google pagerank, updated about every 3 months or so GIP: pages indexed by Google GBL: pages that link to my site (Google index) YIP: pages indexed by Yahoo YBL: pages that link to my site (Yahoo index) MIP: pages indexed by MSN MBL: pages that link to my site (MSN index) ALR: Alexa rank ABL: Alexa backlinks ?UV: T = today's unique visitos, Y = yesterday, A = all time ?PV: T = today's page views, Y = yesterday, A = all time |
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