I have 9 million hits and 600k unique visitors each month :)

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This is the analytics screenshot of 3 of my sites together. I just moved to cloudflare so I can get better analytics as compared to google which uses javascript only. This is for past 7 days, note that one of the more sites is less than 7 days in this traffic totals. Just fyi.

I have other sites but they are not on cloudflare and they are not too big either.

Ask me anything.

I won't post any links as someone in WF always deleted my post if I include any link whatsoever. I thought i'd share.

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  • Profile picture of the author Steve B
    OK ...

    Are those hits targeted traffic?

    How are you monetizing the traffic?

    How are the hits converting?

    How much money per hit do you make?

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    • Profile picture of the author Devin X
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      lol easy sale right here. with all that traffic, it doesn't matter. he's definitely banking bills from it.

      Bing- How are you getting all that traffic? and How long have you had the sites?
      Those are REALLY impressive numbers...I think i speak for all of us when I say we'd like to see those kinds of numbers.
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      • Profile picture of the author Justin Says
        Originally Posted by TheRealDudeman View Post

        lol easy sale right here. with all that traffic, it doesn't matter. he's definitely banking bills from it.

        Bing- How are you getting all that traffic? and How long have you had the sites?
        Those are REALLY impressive numbers...I think i speak for all of us when I say we'd like to see those kinds of numbers.
        That type of traffic does not mean profits.

        There are so many different means of getting traffic that it could mean nothing if they are untargeted and his monetization isn't right.

        I had a site with 18,000 pageviews per day and 6,000 uniques per day. It was constantly growing, but my visitors were targeted.

        I've tested out other campaigns with 5,000 pageviews per day of untargeted users and didn't make a dime.
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    • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
      Hi Steve, great questions. Just what I would expect from warriors

      most of it is search engine traffic or direct traffic.
      I have paid a total of 180$ (or so) in advertising for each site when they first launched. One of the sites is 6 years old (no advertising, is dmoz listed by someone else who found it useful). others are 1 and 1.5

      monetizing:
      I don't usually monetize sites right of the bat. I see what will work for my visitors and analyse the situation. It can take over one year.

      One of the sites is paid membership site (converted from free to paid). I won't say it makes me a lot of money, but its doing well enough to keep me interested.No advertising or marketing, members refer other members and there is no referral commission. Membership isn't cheap either.

      I can make about 50 cents per CPM via networks. Direct ads could bring in $2+ per CPM.
      Right now I dont convert at all. Actually I convert them to site members, putting any other 3rd party conversion would reduce my own conversion. I need growth and staying power so I dont have to spend anything to bring visitors. Different objectives is all.

      Every 100 visitors (edit, i wrote page views) converts to a registered member on the site itself.
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    • Originally Posted by Steve B View Post

      OK ...

      Are those hits targeted traffic?
      That's what I was wondering as well? It doesn't mean anything if it's not targeted?
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    • Profile picture of the author ttdub
      Originally Posted by Steve B View Post

      OK ...

      Are those hits targeted traffic?

      How are you monetizing the traffic?

      How are the hits converting?

      How much money per hit do you make?

      Steve
      Oh ya! He's racking in the dough.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Ten
    Wow. That is massive success. Good job!
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  • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
    Thanks TheRealDudeman,
    i have answered your question above in reply to Steven. I do bank in, i'll be honest. But right now not as much as you might think. The idea is to reach 10 million visitors a month and possibly up to 1 million members within this year. Note that it also costs a lot to maintain high traffic sites. Its not just a clickbank landing page you know

    @Michael, thank you sir.
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  • Profile picture of the author Landoy
    How much do you make on them ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Then
    Few ways to monetize:
    1) Have a big red link at the top to invite advertisers. With 10 million visitors a month you can easily sell $300-$400 per month for a banner ad at the top of the website. You can refer to Digital Point's advertising rates as a reference.

    2) Adsense. It should bring in some nice moola for you.

    3) Relationship with your list. If you have such a big member list, build a good relationship with them. If the members like you, you have a higher chance to sell anything to the members.
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    • Profile picture of the author bettersocial
      Originally Posted by Joseph Then View Post

      Few ways to monetize:
      1) Have a big red link at the top to invite advertisers. With 10 million visitors a month you can easily sell $300-$400 per month for a banner ad at the top of the website. You can refer to Digital Point's advertising rates as a reference.

      2) Adsense. It should bring in some nice moola for you.

      3) Relationship with your list. If you have such a big member list, build a good relationship with them. If the members like you, you have a higher chance to sell anything to the members.
      On a well written website with a quality audience, you could charge much, much more for 10M visitors a month. In niches like technology, top sites often charge up to $25CPM (ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Mashable, etc.).

      AdSense: you can't really be sure with AdSense. In niches with a very tech savvy audience, you might find CTRs hovering below 0.10%

      The third point is what I would reiterate. The easiest thing to monetize on the internet is an existing relationship with your audience. Once they've committed to being a part of your community, it's not too difficult to turn them into paying customers
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    • Profile picture of the author PlatinumLady
      Great ideas for you to monetize and make loads of money. I wouldn't waste any time with that amount of traffic if I were you.
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  • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
    thanks Joseph for your awesome suggestions.
    1. I will definitely be adding self serve banner advertising, however this requires some development as all the sites are custom made (not wordpress etc). I am putting more effort in providing user experience first.

    2. Adsense is not a good b-plan, trust me on this. I have been through adsense phase
    it's just not worth it, not for me.

    3. I agree 100%. my paid membership site is actually a very good list, but I don't cattle prod them or insult their intelligence. Some people just come forth and ask me to provide a service/product that they are willing to pay for. I do my best.
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    • Profile picture of the author biffula
      Fascinating.
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    • Profile picture of the author Joseph Then
      Originally Posted by BingeSite View Post

      thanks Joseph for your awesome suggestions.
      1. I will definitely be adding self serve banner advertising, however this requires some development as all the sites are custom made (not wordpress etc). I am putting more effort in providing user experience first.
      I believe there are some scripts that actually help you manage the banner advertising, rotation and even payment and auto-disabling. Maybe some warriors can recommend?
      Originally Posted by BingeSite View Post

      2. Adsense is not a good b-plan, trust me on this. I have been through adsense phase
      it's just not worth it, not for me.
      Other than Adsense, there are many other advertising network. Not to forget CPA too.
      Originally Posted by BingeSite View Post

      3. I agree 100%. my paid membership site is actually a very good list, but I don't cattle prod them or insult their intelligence. Some people just come forth and ask me to provide a service/product that they are willing to pay for. I do my best.
      Do this:
      1) Email to all your list, ask them to give you 3 big questions about XYZ. 2) Collate all of them, run through the common questions asked.
      3) If there is 1-2 questions that are very similar in nature, look for an affiliate product.
      4) Don't sell the affiliate product, just say that you feel that "this product will be useful for you, based on the survey done".
      5) Put that product up in you home page also, it should sell well since there is a demand based on the questions ask.
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  • Profile picture of the author AppsFromHome
    Ohhh the possibilities.

    I can't imagine what I'd do with all of that traffic.

    Great work, especially if the costs to you was only $180 a site.
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    • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
      Originally Posted by SDotSpells View Post

      Ohhh the possibilities.

      I can't imagine what I'd do with all of that traffic.

      Great work, especially if the costs to you was only $180 a site.
      It costs a lot to run them. Each site is hosted on 2-3 servers. Uses a lot of CDN traffic.

      the $180 is my initial advertising cost, which in the end did not amount to much help.

      The way the sites became popular was actually sharing in forums and blogs where I was a regular member with good reputation. I shared my creation, took feedback and improved on it. From there on it just took off as other's recommended the site to their friends and other forums.
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  • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
    TBInternetMarketing, since 90% of traffic is either search engine or Direct, I dont understand what else could be meant by targeted , unless I am misunderstanding something. Like I said I run zero advertising.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Allard
    Hey BingeSite, great job getting that amount of traffic.

    Looking through your responses to questions I see the traffic is from search engines as well as from forums and blogs.

    Originally Posted by BingeSite View Post

    most of it is search engine traffic or direct traffic.
    Originally Posted by BingeSite View Post

    The way the sites became popular was actually sharing in forums and blogs where I was a regular member with good reputation.
    Can you provide more of a detailed traffic-generation action plan that you used?
    (i.e. post to 2 forums each day, 1 guest blog post/week, link building, etc.)
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    • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
      Originally Posted by Dennisknows View Post

      That's pretty sweet... What's the niche? Weight loss, Techy, etc?
      Thanks Dennis, Sorry I cant answer that.

      Originally Posted by bowerboy View Post

      600,000 visitors from participating in forums and blogs????? I don't believe that for one moment.

      What is the point of this post?

      I find the posts that say "whoo hoo" and "well done bro" equally pointless...have you stopped to consider the post and what it is or isnt saying?

      This is meaningless drivel all round....sorry but just saying it the way I see it.
      It's not a lame woo hoo post. I am happy to answer questions on how I got here. Believe what you will, that's your problem not mine right



      @all,

      I started with the forum/blog post, I got to announce somewhere right?, but I did not need to keep posting in several random forums or pimp the sites over and over again in my forums.
      Other found my site useful they went out and shared. Is what I found out looking at my referral stats. There were forums I did not know about or threads in unrelated forums about something related to my site. Some members are common, they just cross post it.

      SEO picked up sometime later. Initially it was bad, because my sites were slow and on shared hosting, so couldn't handle traffic at all.
      Moved to Dedicated server, then more servers and then hired additional help from contractors to fix things or develop new stuff. resolve downtime issues which lost traffic, loyalty and also search bots. Google surged in Indexing from 1000 pages a day to 80k a day very quickly once the site speed was very high. But by this time I had a lot of visitors and referral traffic as well.

      Then ran into more sophisticated direct attacks, security problems. Paid again to have those resolved.

      I just recently added clouflare because the load of attacks is very high for servers. Cloudflare helps by deflecting some attacks, spams etc and saving me server resources. Security is an ongoing thing right now.
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      • Profile picture of the author Lloyd Buchinski
        Originally Posted by BingeSite View Post

        Google surged in Indexing from 1000 pages a day to 80k a day very quickly once the site speed was very high.
        Is this a system that creates a new page each time someone does a search on the site? that's just a wild guess, but I'm curious about the details of that. Is it done with php?

        Or in other words, about how many pages do you have and how are they created?
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        • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
          Originally Posted by Lloyd Buchinski View Post

          Is this a system that creates a new page each time someone does a search on the site? that's just a wild guess, but I'm curious about the details of that. Is it done with php?

          Or in other words, about how many pages do you have and how are they created?
          I can't give away too much here. It's not a scraper or page generator or mashup ugliness. Currently I dont have the resources to index the site myself anymore. temporarily we use google site search. I dont have such a system but I think it might be a good idea if it doesn't cost a lot of CPU.

          It's a lot of user generated content. That's why it's huge.

          Initially much was done with PHP, and most of it still is. The newer systems and updates are done in Python, CYthon, Redis+reque, Memcache, some AWS services other than that there is a lot of CDN. Elasticsearch will replace the google site search soon in most sites.
          One site cannot be moved to Python. Others are pretty much on Python/Cython now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennisknows
    That's pretty sweet... What's the niche? Weight loss, Techy, etc?
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  • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
    Hey Dan, Thank you.
    You ask very good questions and ones I am more than happy to answer.

    Different sites had different approach. Forums were common. I never spammed the forums with 2 post a day or anything.

    You see, my sites are built about things I know something about. Hobbies, stuff I thought I can do better, stuff I know much about etc. As such I was already member is relevant forums where I had reputation based on my history with other members. It wasn't a senior position or anything like that, but someone everyone knew as a regular and sometimes helpful. Like you are being on WF right now. So when I posted about my site I got good a good launch as relevant people were around. They also made some good suggestions like "hey I would definitely recommend this if only you added <this>" ,"refreshing and definitely looking forward to more"" and so on.

    If the site is really useful someone will PM you to feature it on their news/blog site for free and ask you some questions (like an interview). That alone got me to DMOZ listing in less than 30 days without me doing any DMOZ submission. you could out there for years and never get DMOZ listed. Many news hounds and editors are scan relevant forums for the good stuff. End of the day if you have something useful, you have less work to do.
    It was very natural for me and since hten I have followed the same path.

    I use SEO a lot, stick to principles that I learned from my ex boss who created SEO 10 years ago and visited Google Inc several times for discussions and meetings. His methods were simple and infallible.


    Often I attend meetings, seminars related to the topic or relevance to my site. Even entrepreneur meet ups. There I bring my business card along that lists my site.

    One of the guys I passed my card to , wrote about the usefulness of my site to his blog readers a very well known blog in france for tech, and it got me 10,000s of members within a day. I had to block my website from new registrations to cope with the load.


    at this point, I get more legal threats from competitors and low lives everyday (trying to extort) masquerading behind some law firms. Comes with the territory.
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    What kind of advertising did you start with?
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    • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
      Originally Posted by natebunger View Post

      What kind of advertising did you start with?
      Initially I wasnt really sure. So I went with adwords. I tried some other networks but it seemed much worse than adwords.

      Then I just stopped adwords or advertising all together. If I paid a cent for every click from google I would be broke. I did not have much capital to spend on these projects.

      However I found that if its a new site, Adwords in any form is good to get it some exposure. But thats about it. By now I think people know how to auto censor ads when browsing. An advertising guy was telling me there is a word for it. Which is why facebook , linkedin place ads on what used to be interesting area at first.
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      • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
        Originally Posted by Tonylee93 View Post

        You motivated me with your success I had to say "thank you" That was awesome!! Thank you fellow Warrior for everything! Keep it up!
        Hi Tony,
        If this motivated you then my purpose is served. It is entirely doable, I had 5 failed sites before I started getting successful with my sites. Lame things like bad domain name choice failed the same site that is now one of the 3 sites
        It happens. I just kept on going. I also write any ideas that comes to me on a piece of paper, anything I learned or just went like a-ha. Then later in my study room I stick it up on the board so I would be sure to try it out. WF is also a great place to look for ideas.

        Originally Posted by Joseph Then View Post

        I believe there are some scripts that actually help you manage the banner advertising, rotation and even payment and auto-disabling. Maybe some warriors can recommend?

        Other than Adsense, there are many other advertising network. Not to forget CPA too.

        Do this:
        1) Email to all your list, ask them to give you 3 big questions about XYZ. 2) Collate all of them, run through the common questions asked.
        3) If there is 1-2 questions that are very similar in nature, look for an affiliate product.
        4) Don't sell the affiliate product, just say that you feel that "this product will be useful for you, based on the survey done".
        5) Put that product up in you home page also, it should sell well since there is a demand based on the questions ask.

        Joseph,
        This is cool , you are really helping already. I did add openx ad platform. That was a huge mistake. Not only did it have security flaws, it was routinely being marked as malware by Google (maybe they are being asshats, I dunno) But I had to get rid of it. Also it had no way to manage payments. There are SaaS platforms but most of them are very expensive. One of my contractors is working on a simple django based ad serving system. I will start with internally managed system and then later make it self served so advertisers can choose from the sites, pay, get approved and track. Tracking is what is taking time right now for the developers to perfect. If there is an alternative out there I could definitely use it right now.

        I am using direct CPA, it's doing ok, but without an Ad platform it's hard to to do targeted CPA, so we will loose a bulk of conversions.

        I also tried CPALEad at one point which has good API, no one else has good API right now. However CPALead did not really have returns good enough for me to use them (not worth the loss of traffic either). Was not converting well.

        For 1. What kind of questions do you think I should ask them? The thing is if you asked anyone on the road a random question like what do you want, they will have no answer. I need to be more specific. Any ideas?

        I avoid on your face advertising, spamming etc. I try to offer in a more subtle way like via my account notification (here's your discount coupon for x product/service)

        I am currently discussing with some companies who want to partner for CPA, but we have legal stuff to sort out as our TOS and privacy policy differ. Also they will vet the wording of every email about their product and when we link to them etc.

        Thank you so much for your suggestions. I really hope I can do better.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tonylee93
    You motivated me with your success I had to say "thank you" That was awesome!! Thank you fellow Warrior for everything! Keep it up!
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  • Profile picture of the author Paramvir Jakhar
    nice visitor status man..keep it up and do this work again
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  • Profile picture of the author danlew
    Good job! At least you know a system that can give you a lot of targeted traffic to your site. Don't just be contented with those numbers, you need to increase it for many months or years to come to get possible increase of revenue.

    Dan Lew
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    • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
      Originally Posted by danlew View Post

      Good job! At least you know a system that can give you a lot of targeted traffic to your site. Don't just be contented with those numbers, you need to increase it for many months or years to come to get possible increase of revenue.

      Dan Lew
      Totally agree with you. It's a lot of work and my intention too is to keep going and get as many users/members as possible. You get the big picture which is awesome
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  • Profile picture of the author chasnsx
    The point of this thread is, the OP is selling a WSO in his sig link. For $31 he will (presumably) share all his traffic secrets with you -- but there is only one left at that price.
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    • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
      Originally Posted by chasnsx View Post

      The point of this thread is, the OP is selling a WSO in his sig link. For $31 he will (presumably) share all his traffic secrets with you -- but there is only one left at that price.
      Thats very old. Thanks for pointing out. I no longer offer the course for free as that was when it was launched. But the ebook is still available and yes I follow it.

      Those who bought it may still be around WF and can tell you I definitely do not need the $31 or the trouble of doing the course.

      In fact I am going to remove my sig link if it hurts your feelings so much.
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  • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
    @Lloyd,
    Since you were smart enough to pick my numbers (which I immediately had realized I should not have posted after posting) here's more technical stuff which you might be interested in.
    Might answer some questions:

    One site runs on 3 servers of the following specs (all near about same)
    intel i7-920 or Xeon E3-1275 quadcore
    12/24GB RAM
    4TB to 6TB SATA (multiple drives in RAID 1+0)

    one Load Balancer + Anycast IP technology or Premium Advanced DNS (paid per million queries)

    Roughly I expect to run out of space within the year for this site. Might give you an idea of how much data is there.

    Google has pretty much caught up. What we did was we exclude Google from our internal stats Database and all robot requests go to a specific server. This keeps traffic smooth for human users.
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  • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
    thanks sashas, those numbers are important to me. How do you get those numbers. I am always looking for reference.
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  • Profile picture of the author YasirYar
    Those numbers are fantastic! Happy monetizing, and keep up the great work Thanks for sharing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jack Coxill
    Well done on getting this amount of traffic! You must of put in some real elbow grease when you began

    This is something we can all aspire to..!
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  • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
    he Sashas, thanks, will take a look at those. Everything is worth a shot.

    @Jack321 Thanks, yes elbow grease and then some. These are not wordpress/cms site. 2 out of 3 were built from scratch. one huge site that was built from scratch and cost a lot eventually failed after 2 years of running it , made nothing lost xxxx dollars
    Still a lot of work is ongoing. I just love seeing those numbers rise, it's all about those numbers.

    I got to thinking, if everyone has wordpress then the playing field is level, but that is not the case, we have a choice. I made most of the initial software and bought parts of it from other people. Now contractors work on the maintenance and improvements.
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    • Profile picture of the author Zack Sprague
      WoW that is some massive traffic you got there :O! IS the traffic targeted?
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Traffic is easy. It is Conversion that is the real challenge.
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    • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
      Originally Posted by tpw View Post

      Traffic is easy. It is Conversion that is the real challenge.
      I couldn't agree more. Traffic is easier, loyalty is not. Comparatively for me traffic was the easy part. I have put so much effort is just getting traffic & popularity that I put little to no effort on conversions or revenue generation. It will definitely come down the lane, it's in my plans. Right now I am happy that all costs are paid for and there is something left on the table.
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    • Profile picture of the author tpw
      Originally Posted by precious007 View Post

      The costs to handle that much traffic are quite high.

      The OP is either just trolling around or probably making a big fat 0 profit.

      Webmasters that handle that kind of traffic (TARGETED) on monthly basis don't come to forums to rant about their traffic stats :^)

      Yes, handling that kind of traffic can be expensive if you are making absolutely nothing from it.

      I am geared for that much traffic, and I pay $80 month.

      You can only operate for so long making nothing, when your self-preservation gene kicks in.

      Whether he is straight or not, I don't know. Like you, I can only assume. :p

      When this thread started, I thought he was looking for ideas on how to monetize his traffic. At this point, I just don't know.
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      • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
        Originally Posted by tpw View Post

        Yes, handling that kind of traffic can be expensive if you are making absolutely nothing from it.

        I am geared for that much traffic, and I pay $80 month.

        You can only operate for so long making nothing, when your self-preservation gene kicks in.

        Whether he is straight or not, I don't know. Like you, I can only assume. :p

        When this thread started, I thought he was looking for ideas on how to monetize his traffic. At this point, I just don't know.
        tpw,
        I have put in the details of what it costs to run, I put in the setup to be more precise. When site is slow people complain a lot. So finally now I have to pay for AWS Cloudfront. But it didnt end up costing as much as the servers.

        I am not sure if you can handle so much traffic for $80, you could but it will be slow I suppose.
        The number of requests you see in the stats is are almost absolutely page requests, all static stuff is served from cloudfront and it's not included in the stats. There is also a bug in both analytics and cloudflare stats, they don't count javascript linked pages as page views which is common in web 2.0 sites. But it is counted as request.

        As I said, I will answer any questions and at the same time if anyone has any ideas I an glad to learn something too ofcourse.

        I scan War room for utility programs, ideas on conversion that might work for me. Sometimes I just "stumbleupon"
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    • Profile picture of the author simplybeastz
      I highly doubt your making more than a few $100 a month. You say you have 600k Uniques a month. So, that around 6TB of bandwith and don't forget the server you'll need to run - I estimate that at around $2500 per month to handle that traffic. I my experience this traffic is not very targeted. I highly doubt your making much at all.

      Please provide a link to one of your sites, so we can confirm your claims. Why, open this thread? Just to you can gloat about your amazing stats. Wow! Have medal.
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    • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
      Originally Posted by precious007 View Post

      The costs to handle that much traffic are quite high.

      The OP is either just trolling around or probably making a big fat 0 profit.

      Webmasters that handle that kind of traffic (TARGETED) on monthly basis don't come to forums to rant about their traffic stats :^)
      Maybe no one does. I did anyway, having been lurking so long. For one thing I found WF is very useful. If webmasters with these kind of traffic are not looking at WF for ideas it's their loss.
      I noticed that in WF there are two types of people. One who want to convert better and ones who need more traffic. See the WSO's. There are also some Utility WSO's like manage your stuff better. I am in the former category. I have traffic and come to WF to look for ideas on conversion or adding more efficient way to do something I am already doing.

      It does not matter to me what you think about it. Several people in WF routinely share their ideas and a lot of them work!?! I am here to share mine. Someone will benefit from it.

      This is not 1998, traffic like this is not hard to get in 2012 and not a lot either. Only 2 of the 3 sites are in alexa top 100k and fluctuate in ranking a lot. I don't see why you think it's such a big deal.
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  • Profile picture of the author iwillbeontop
    Impressive......
    If/When you get some ad space for sell.... PM ME please!
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Originally Posted by bowerboy View Post

    Just interested to know who believes this:

    "One of the guys I passed my card to , wrote about the usefulness of my site to his blog readers a very well known blog in france for tech, and it got me 10,000s of members within a day. I had to block my website from new registrations to cope with the load"

    10,000 members in one day. Really? I just find that hard to believe.

    Who else believes that?

    I believe it.

    I have seen it done.

    If the person who took his card and wrote about his site was an authority blogger, then it is very possible for that to have happened.

    Some authority blogs can crash a server, just by linking to it.
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  • Profile picture of the author gojiberryman
    Hey BingeSite do you mind explaining how you get those 600k visitors a month? I would like to know.... Thanks in advance.
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    • Profile picture of the author YasirYar
      Originally Posted by gojiberryman View Post

      Hey BingeSite do you mind explaining how you get those 600k visitors a month? I would like to know.... Thanks in advance.
      Just remember Rome was not built in a day. The guy has invested over 6 years of elbow grease in his 3 sites and seen failure in 5 others. Thats how IM works. If you think that things can turn the way you want them to turn think again. There are many rules which apply and practices that need to be followed like a clockwork to achieve something. This one learns over a period of time and with several face plants on the internet highway.
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  • Profile picture of the author rabia1234
    No doubt you are doing an excellent work, i am appreciating you but i need clear concepts and need more help in this regard...
    Can You.......????
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    • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
      Originally Posted by gojiberryman View Post

      Hey BingeSite do you mind explaining how you get those 600k visitors a month? I would like to know.... Thanks in advance.
      If you read through my previous responses you will have some idea.



      Originally Posted by rabia1234 View Post

      No doubt you are doing an excellent work, i am appreciating you but i need clear concepts and need more help in this regard...
      Can You.......????
      See my response to the same questions above in reply to other warriors' similar questions. Hope that answers your question, if not ask me something more specific.


      some more info:
      Most of my projects are self made, because they are unique in some way people like to talk about it on their own sites/forums/blogs. There are some sites that list "sites for ...." I will usually make a personal email to the webmaster explaining about my site, why it is unique , what it brings to the table for his visitors and request to be listed.
      It's free and gets me a lot of traffic all year around.
      Most did not request for a linkback when I personally emailed them and communicated with them, but I put one nevertheless to thank them. It's a win-win.

      One webmaster even wrote back to me saying that amongst all the sites he is happy to see someone who has put in effort to offer something new and useful instead of off-the-shelf crap that anyone else can do and that's what he always gets. He was more than happy to put me on top of the recommended sites.

      GLHF
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  • Profile picture of the author vivi62
    well it sound like you have done everything right with a chance to improve as well,what more can you ask for.
    regards
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Huggins
    Very informative read through, thanks for keeping up with answering questions.
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  • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
    Thanks guys, some of you did read all my responses so it was worth writing it down.

    1 site is 6 years old, it only caught up in traffic 2.5 years ago. After some failed sites along the way and seeing what works, what doesn't the other two sites were a breeze. I had bad traffic too (ones that dont convert) now I don't think thats a problem.
    Once I have a lot more visitors to keep the ball rolling I will put effort into conversion.

    The thing I noticed was this, when I did anything purely for money it failed. When I did anything purely to help others...it failed. When I did something that was a win-win it worked.
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  • Profile picture of the author puneet tyagi
    its really nice ..........u get such a massive response wish u success for ur future
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  • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
    Wow.... 600K unique visitors/mo!!
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  • Profile picture of the author JC Alexandre
    What's your server specs?
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