Ideas to improve my site - all input welcome
Quick background: I recently quit a good paying job (that I hated) in order to play online poker professionally. I understand that this might sound ludicrous to many, but I've been playing semi-professionally for over two years and have the skills to make it work as my primary source of income.
There is some uncertainty surrounding online poker legislation in the US - and there are a couple of directions that it may go in the next year or two. Because of this uncertainty I am determined to create other income sources.
I'm pretty well rounded when it comes to using a computer and I've always been intrigued by the idea of building websites that generate passive income.
My first attempt is with pokerhuds.com (not enough posts to link yet!)
Through this site I sell custom configuration files for the most widely used poker tracking software. These custom files display necessary statistics on top of an online poker table for every player seated. These statistics give users information on how to best play against a given opponent. The default configurations that come with the poker tracking software are severely limited, that's where my site comes in.
The products are solid and the competition is nearly non-existent. In fact, the lack of competition nearly made me scrap the idea before I started.
Currently my traffic is almost exclusively from search. Traffic has been steadily increasing, as well as sales.
I haven't done much of anything to drive traffic yet, other than write some blog posts and try to make my specific product pages keyword rich. I haven't worked on building back links, though I'm finding them pop up on their own (slowly).
So now I ask the experts, where do I go now? I'd be really interested in changes I should make to the site itself as well as the best way for me to increase quality traffic and maybe ideas to improve conversion.
I don't have a problem spending some money - I just don't know where to start.
-Thanks for your responses!
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