[hematthews]

I have been a PIPS member for 6 mths. According to PIPS stats, I've had over 4000 visits and over 33,000 hits during this period, averaging 30 visits a day.

I don't know if those stats are good or bad.

I belong to the PIPS co-op.

I have a blog on my site that is fed articles via the co-op and my own stuff.

I have submitted my own articles thru the co-op.

I've got an autoresponder, but I'm the only one who has subscribed.

I market regularly on craigslist under small biz opps mostly in 2 different cities in my state.

I have emailed my announcement of the site to everyone I know.

I have myspace and facebook pages.

Not 1 sign up or sale in 6 mths.

Will someone critique my site without bringing me to tears? Please!

Thanks,

Haven

[Kooza]

Hi Haven,

I would recommend adding Google Analytics tracking Google Analytics to your PIPS sales page. The stats that you get from WEBePanel aren't all that useful and doesn't do a good job of distinguishing between human traffic and search engine bots. I think you will find that your sales page is not getting all that much traffic which is why you aren't getting many sign ups.

I am going to create a video this weekend on how to set up tracking on your sales page. It's really important to be able to track what you are doing.

Regards,
Mike.

[hematthews]

Thanks Mike,

I get what you're saying. I have been marketing the home page not the sales page! And I have no way of seeing how many go to the sales page from the home page links. Suzanne did add a statcounter to the home page, blog and the 20 pages she added. What a eureka moment.

Please email me when the video is ready: support@mybeststuf.com

Thanks again for your insight.
Haven

[Kooza]

Will do, by the way never post your email address anywhere online unless you want a bunch of spam

If you want to type your email use "name at website dot com" instead.

Mike.

[hematthews]

Mike, when you say use "name at website dot com" ...you mean,
what exactly?

Like this- haven@mybeststuf.com ?

Can you tell I'm clueless when it comes to this stuff?!

Haven

PS-Shouldn't some of that traffic to my homepage have signed up for the newslettter? Even if they didn't use the link to the sales page?

[Kooza]

Mike, when you say use "name at website dot com" ...you mean,
what exactly?

No I mean - haven at mybeststuff dot com

That way it's not a live link which can't be picked up by spiders crawling for email addresses to spam, or at least will not be picked up by the majority of them.

PS-Shouldn't some of that traffic to my homepage have signed up for the newslettter? Even if they didn't use the link to the sales page?

Not necessarily, it depends on the quality of the traffic you are receiving. You may find people aren't staying on your site long enough to subscribe.

I think these days you need to give people more incentive to sign up to your newsletter, just having a form on your site doesn't guarantee sign ups.

In the WP-PIPS 2.0 site I am working on I have used the Dotcomology eBook as the incentive to capture emails Work at Home Ideas & Opportunities | WP-PIPS 2.0

I also think your site is hard to read and follow (too many different font types and the highlighting doesn't really work for me), it doesn't really provide me with any direction as to what I should be doing. It really is just one big page of advertisements offering me no real direction.

I have seen other PIPS members do the same thing where they simply put a whole lot of banners and affiliate likes on the page hoping that someone will click on one and buy something, unfortunately that doesn't really work. It's OK to advertise different opportunities but you should really use a separate page for each one and explain why the visitor must have this particular product. Give the user direction rather than confusing them with too many opportunities.

The home page should really just promote PIPS, just use plain text with a compelling headline and some info about PIPS. If you don't have the HTML know how then your best bet is just to send people directly to your PIPS page and let that do the selling.

Mike.

[hematthews]

Mike,

That's the most insightful commentary I've received. I hope I can get a little feedback from you as I work on it.

Thanks again,
Haven

[Suzanne Morrison]

Hi Haven,

If you login to StatCounter Free invisible Web tracker, Hit counter and Web stats you will be able to get an accurate picture of your stats.

Remember that it is not just about traffic, it is about quality of traffic. For example traffic search engines tends to be the most targeted traffic.

When you are not making money from your site it is usually for one of the following reasons or a combination:

1) You are not getting enough traffic
2) Your traffic is low quality / untargeted
3) Your site is not converting

Have a look at your stats to determine whether it is 1) or 2) that is the problem. If you are getting regular targeted visitors to your site and making no sales then you may want to make some changes to your site to try and increase sales and optins.

Cheers,
Suzanne

Originally Posted by hematthews

Thanks Mike,

I get what you're saying. I have been marketing the home page not the sales page! And I have no way of seeing how many go to the sales page from the home page links. Suzanne did add a statcounter to the home page, blog and the 20 pages she added. What a eureka moment.

Please email me when the video is ready: support@mybeststuf.com

Thanks again for your insight.
Haven

[hematthews]

Thanks Suzanne

I do refer to the stat counter but, not sure how to analyse what it's telling me, I'm trying to clean up the home page and go from there.

Wish me luck,
Haven