Site Explosion - Traffic on Crack

[Tony Rogan]

Well, It's been a LONG LONG time since I have posted here at the wonderful wf.com. A lot has happened. After about 2 years of gathering information, building the site and trying to NOT be lazy, I got off my ass and made an affiliate site. I promoted 2-3 products, and only advertised with maybe 2-3 articles, 1 full day of craiglist spam (<-- noob move there..) and general forum posts.

After about a week, the site made around $100.00 USD through clickbank. Now, understand, I had only had 1 previous job to this and that was at McDonalds, so this was my very first Affiliate site. So, I was all psyched about my $100.00, got my check cashed it and never touched affilating or advertised again. I got lazy, and I got a 6-3PM job...

So after 2 years of sitting in an office punching data into a computer for $11.95 an hour, I decided to get back onto the old train and see if I could make this happen FULL TIME.

For the past few weeks now, I have been just trying a few things to see how well I can market a site online. I did this using :

1. Articles through various Article Sites
2. Twitter
3. Squido
4. Forum Singatures
5. Word of mouth and Hype


The site isnt even up. I believe it's against some TOS here to post the link, so I wont. But with the site only displaying a "coming soon" page, I have had right around 4,000 visitors a day. I am going for MOSTLY PPC on this site, but it's in a niche that is VERY marketable, and it would not be hard at all for me to throw up a post to a product I give a review on and get quite a few sells.

That being said, and the fact that the site is based around Free, Financial information/Advice.. what does the warrior forum think? I got a chance and once the site comes out my traffic will continue to floor in, or... I got a shot in hell my website will suck i'll throw it up it will look like sh!t and ultimately drive by traffic down to 0.

[TLTheLiberator]

The financial niche is a timely niche

Become a master of traffic generation and you can't go wrong.

TL

[Tony Rogan]

Originally Posted by TLTheLiberator

The financial niche is a timely niche

Become a master of traffic generation and you can't go wrong.

TL

pretty much what i have been hoping to see. Actually to be honest the day that Bush gave his little speech on the financial market, i saw this SOB jump nearly 70%. I started it the day Lehmans brothers went down..

[Tony Rogan]

Originally Posted by money2spare

What 4,000 visitors a day-- What are you waiting for.. Slap some adsense on there! At least.

It's gonna be 100% professional and i would HATE to monetize before I have any content lol.

[Ben Roy]

Originally Posted by Tony Rogan

The site isnt even up..."coming soon" page...around 4,000 visitors a day

Internet Marketers everywhere are rolling in their graves. Sit down tonight, right now, and write a free report. Put up a capture form and build a list. Or write a couple pages of content and throw them up. Or something. Wasting traffic is a really bad thing.

Keep this in mind. Unless you are looking at stats that tell you that you are getting a high percentage of repeat visitors, it doesn't matter that much what kind of impression you make. Traffic is like a stream. If you're standing in the middle of it, it's only the upstream water you're really worried about. Someone that saw your not-so-professional page yesterday doesn't really matter - they weren't coming back to the 'coming soon' page any more than to a not-so-professional page. 95% of that traffic you only get ONE shot at, so letting it slide by is just a waste.

At least, that's my experience...

[Colin Evans]

Nothing screams amateur louder than a "coming soon" page...

If nothing else, put up an optin form so you can let your visitors know when launch day arrives...