200 uniques/day? Help!!!

[caskofdregs]

So I have a 2 month old Amazon review site getting an average of 70 uniques a day. It gives me about a sale a day, which is about $5 a day.

I have 9 reviews there, with some miscellaneous articles.

I want to hit 200 uniques a day! Should I add more content? Or should I focus on getting traffic?

Help needed :S

[xnice]

I think you need to get more traffic. With 9 reviews this is enough for a mini site. Get it rank higher on SE and get more sales.

[caskofdregs]

So, you think 9 reviews is enough to drive 200 uniques a day? Does that mean I should just work on SEO now? I have made $40 so far this month. I am pretty happy with that, but I want to shoot for $10 a day before working on a new site.

[Richard Groom]

I would look to bring in more traffic to your page. More traffic equals more business and more money!!

[eljeffe77]

Start driving up the rankings for the SUB pages as well as the main product

Get ranked for these
main review type
product a review
product b review
product c review

etc

Get all 9 reviews to #1, as well as your domain name and that might help a bit....

[caskofdregs]

Originally Posted by eljeffe77

Start driving up the rankings for the SUB pages as well as the main product

Get ranked for these
main review type
product a review
product b review
product c review

etc

Get all 9 reviews to #1, as well as your domain name and that might help a bit....

That's what I've been doing; though it's a lot harder ranking multiple keywords.. oh well. I'm thinking of adding more reviews!

[ajwilliams]

I just finished posting a reply on another post that sums up what you are doing. My friend, you are successful already and you are finding the information right here to help you grow that success.

Your next success will be that $10 a day you are targeting and then because you are doing the work and seeking the knowledge, you will compound your success until you become a millionaire or damm close to it.

I have read the other posts and I believe they are leading you right. The only thing I would advise you to do is to create new sites on a regular interval regardless of how much money you are making on the one site you have now.

Logically speaking, if you created one site and have it making money, there is no reason why you can't create a new one every week while you are tweaking the first one. You already know how to get a site making money. And, once you tweak them all as you go along, they will all make more money continue to grow.

You have success by the tail. Hang on!!

A J

[Dan Allard]

Is your traffic coming from search engines? If so, what are your positions for your targeted keywords? Seems like you have a couple options here (well you have millions, here's the two most logical I see)

1) Add more reviews
2) Get your current reviews to rank higher

I'd focus on both right now. Spend half of your time writing and the other half on SEO. Unless of course your traffic strategy is different.

[FaBiz]

You definetely need to get more UV.

Focus on promotion and only once you get more traffic move on to the new site.

I would add some reviews and do some backlinking.

Don't rush but do the work properly on this site and you will benefit for a long time.

Fab

[yukon]

Originally Posted by caskofdregs

So I have a 2 month old Amazon review site getting an average of 70 uniques a day. It gives me about a sale a day, which is about $5 a day.

I have 9 reviews there, with some miscellaneous articles.

I want to hit 200 uniques a day! Should I add more content? Or should I focus on getting traffic?

Help needed :S

What?

Content is how you get more traffic.

Every single page you create can be a new keyword used to pick up related traffic.

[imdomination]

Yeah, I agree with the post by Dan, do both. If you've got 9 reviews making you $5 a day, then 18 reviews could make you $10/day. Then if you get the rankings up so every 9 reviews makes you $10/day, you would be making $20/day in total with 18 reviews that are ranked better. Then rinse and repeat until you're making hundreds, or even thousands each day.

[athenistic]

A sale on 70 uniques a day in two months? That's definitely a great start!

Keep adding content, but pay more attention to building your traffic. Adding content is easy and totally under your control. Traffic takes a lot of elbow grease and anything you do now doesn't always pay off until later.

But when it does...

[Ben Gordon]

I'd suggest creating more reviews and ranking better in search engines.

More reviews means less bounce rate which could lead to more sales.

Also, have you thought about adsense? It's a great way to earn some extra cash. It can definitely double even triple your income if you use it properly.

Ben

[Carl Fridsjö]

Originally Posted by yukon

Content is how you get more traffic.

Um actually, no not really. Content without proper SEO isn't going to do much these days. He might have more then enough content to get 500 uniques/day, we don't know that. Although writing content without working on SEO is just a waste of time.

[josoave]

I would bring more traffic in the following manner:

rewrite the reviews that you already have and post in places like Ezine with 2 links pointing back to your website on each rewrite. Make sure the article is still relevant. Do 3 rewrites for each review in three different sites.

That way you will start bringing more traffic to your website and more backlinks which will increase your ranking in Google and bring you even more traffic!!!

Good luck, I hope this helps.

[Ben Armstrong]

It really depends on where you rank with your targeted keywords.

If you're outside the top 3 positions in google for your main couple of keywords then keep working those.

And if some of your secondary keywords (product x review etc) aren't ranking on page 1 yet then keep backlinking until you get them there (providing the estimated traffic is worth it)

It should be a lot easier to get to 200 UV's a day this way than just by creating more content.

[bizopp71]

You need more traffic for sure.

[xnice]

Originally Posted by Dan Allard

Is your traffic coming from search engines? If so, what are your positions for your targeted keywords? Seems like you have a couple options here (well you have millions, here's the two most logical I see)

1) Add more reviews
2) Get your current reviews to rank higher

I'd focus on both right now. Spend half of your time writing and the other half on SEO. Unless of course your traffic strategy is different.

I agree both, get your current reviews to rank higher, you will see the results immediately. Add more reviews, and each focus on each keywords, this may have you get more traffic from long tail keyword.
And remember, if you get your page on top 3 of your main keyword, you will have a lot of traffic.

[caskofdregs]

Thanks for all the replies!

All of my 9 reviews are 1000 word reviews written by me.. and yes, it's not getting the traffic they should be getting.

They aren't ranking at the the top for their respective keywords - wow, that's a lot of SEO to do to rank each individual page! But they are getting traffic from long tail keywords most of the time.

You guys are right. I will keep adding reviews while doing off-page SEO for each individual page. I'm not good with off-page SEO at all, but I have my fingers crossed..

[Justin Stowe]

Definitely keep adding reviews, and consider driving traffic from other sources besides SEO (videos or document sharing sites like Scribd, for example).

Good luck!

[techexpert]

Originally Posted by Ben Armstrong

It really depends on where you rank with your targeted keywords.

If you're outside the top 3 positions in google for your main couple of keywords then keep working those.

And if some of your secondary keywords (product x review etc) aren't ranking on page 1 yet then keep backlinking until you get them there (providing the estimated traffic is worth it)

It should be a lot easier to get to 200 UV's a day this way than just by creating more content.

hmmm .. nice info..

[medlence]

You definitely need more reviews and more traffic

[Murlu]

I would add about 6 more reviews to fill out the site nicely, create a table that gives people easy access to compare everything but then also start adding a lot of content that will be linking to the reviews both on site and off site (guest posts, article marketing, etc).

In a few months, go back and check to see how each page is ranking and then start working on building up those ranks for the pages that are doing well.

[wgempire]

one thing to look at first, the products you are promoting for amazon, does that company have an affiliate program through idk say commission junction, if so check it out they may pay alot more per sale on there. I was promoting a product that I got like 4 to 6% per sale from amazon and found that same product on cj, paying 12% per sale. I just got a 100% raise, yay me

I would work on the content of your reviews first, you are only getting 1 sale out of 70 uv, less than 1.5% conversion rate. Either your content doesn't inspire the visitor to buy or all you are getting in info seekers, either way hard to make money that way.

my advice
work on back-links to boost your se rankings, instead of creating more reviews at first focus on what you already have, create a few articles on high pr web 2.0 sites and anchor link them to your review site and link all them together, yes the old link wheel still works great. I see your not using a link to your review site in your signature here, that would be a great link.
if your not good at off-page stuff, head over to fiverr and let someone who is take care of this on the cheap.

good luck

[realnetworker]

Originally Posted by athenistic

A sale on 70 uniques a day in two months? That's definitely a great start!

Keep adding content, but pay more attention to building your traffic. Adding content is easy and totally under your control. Traffic takes a lot of elbow grease and anything you do now doesn't always pay off until later.

But when it does...

That is what I was thinking! Not bad at all, for a two month old site! I am still working on getting to that point! And yes, building traffic takes work!

[vliddico]

Originally Posted by caskofdregs

So I have a 2 month old Amazon review site getting an average of 70 uniques a day. It gives me about a sale a day, which is about $5 a day.

I have 9 reviews there, with some miscellaneous articles.

I want to hit 200 uniques a day! Should I add more content? Or should I focus on getting traffic?

Help needed :S

One tactic I used to increase my traffic to about 100 per day in a short period (so far over 20,000 visitors) was simply using YouTube videos to drive free traffic, it was for a site I just play with occasionally to test things.
Perhaps create 10-30 30-60sec quick videos that hit the "who, what where how" of what your site is, or perhaps a certain reivew and upload them to your youtube channel, link with appropriate keywords (youtube keyword tool here...And then keep replicating the process.
Let me know how you go!

[simonbuzz]

The best thing to increase website traffic is to use YouTube videos...

[belgianguy]

That is truly a great result for such a young site. Like people above me said, get those 9 articles to #1 and then add new reviews and rank them.

[richard3i]

Great advice here, I would recommend adding more reviews (higher potential of long phrase matches) and then hammer the 9 existing.

[kpnoor]

#Select More product review and write it your self to the site.
#Now Backlink each post with product name+Model number or ID
#Post related Product review Video to Youtube and add the Link Page in description

if you do it right and atlist 7x7 each week your target will be on top ... like 3k a month form amazon 100%

its easy i did it in my past i hope this will help

regards
KAZi

[JSProjects]

Originally Posted by caskofdregs

So I have a 2 month old Amazon review site getting an average of 70 uniques a day. It gives me about a sale a day, which is about $5 a day.

I have 9 reviews there, with some miscellaneous articles.

I want to hit 200 uniques a day! Should I add more content? Or should I focus on getting traffic?

Help needed :S

Start optimizing additional pages for different terms. I'd take a look at the search terms that are bringing traffic to your site. You'll probably see some terms you would never have thought of. Analyze them and see if you have a chance of ranking high and if they're worth your time. If you're getting traffic for them, then chances are, the competition is pretty weak. So it shouldn't take much effort.

[morc3x]

I say do both. Write some more content and also focus on getting the one you have ranking better (:

more content = more longtail keywords you don't even target.

[BlakeM]

Originally Posted by caskofdregs

So, you think 9 reviews is enough to drive 200 uniques a day? Does that mean I should just work on SEO now? I have made $40 so far this month. I am pretty happy with that, but I want to shoot for $10 a day before working on a new site.

Easily, so long as you targeted popular products (or at least semi-popular).

[caskofdregs]

I'm now at $10/day for my one site! I have started another and have another niche idea on the way.. thank you for your help guys!

[cooler1]

Originally Posted by caskofdregs

I'm now at $10/day for my one site! I have started another and have another niche idea on the way.. thank you for your help guys!

Congrats. Which backlinking method did you focus on to up it to $10/day?

[cctvinstallers]

Sounds like a great start, Amazon reviews sounds like a good idea.

[xylement]

9 for now should be alright. Perhaps you should start increasing some traffic then only consider maybe adding up to 20 reviews then you can see traffics are starting to come in =D

[caskofdregs]

UPDATE: I now average about $15-$25 a day with this one site.

I get a little more than 100 uniques a day. Yesterday I had 144 uniques.

I make about 4-5 sales on average with this much traffic. Many of my reviews are on the first page for their keywords!

What I did was I used a variety of backlinking methods. I used article submissions on my own (I provide the exact same service now to fund my other sites, check out my sig) and a few services here and there.

Hope that helps, if anyone wants to drive more traffic!

[BXPS]

Drive traffic via additional keywords.