Amazon Affiliate Website Update
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Hi,
A few weeks back, I had taken part in a discussion in which I had discussed about my site's performance, and had several views. Well, I thought its high time I update about my website's performance.
Ok, so I had ordered a product review site from Tom in January.
Like I had mentioned, my site wasn't generating good traffic, and the picture wasn't rosy. This was until the first week of April. But in the 2nd week of April my website's traffic suddenly surged. From 12, 16 clicks a day, it rose to 35 and then to 50 clicks (visitors) a day (according to Google webmaster). While I know that is not a very encouraging number in the SEO world, where people are getting 500 unique visitors, the fact is that my site is just 3 months old, and 50 unique visitors a day is pretty good. (Though my Statpress show higher visitors ~ 130+). Don't know what is right!
Anyways, with visitors, my earnings increased, and I have earned ~ $100 this month from 2nd week onwards. The screenshot is attached! Overall, my site has earned ~$160 from January.
So this is what I did -
1. I have been adding content regularly. There's not a day when I go without it (minus Sundays
). Fresh content keeps getting the bots to my site. I have to add here that Wolfiimii's sites are very search engine friendly. My site has been crawled by all the spiders that exist in the world! - Baidu, Googlebot, msnbot, Yandex, Yahoo, whatever! And I am getting search queries from Google (of course), Yahoo, Bing, AOL and even Ask! Currently my site has over 130 reviews. Plus I am adding a few articles as "Shopping Guides".
2. I got a little bit of link building done way back in mid-march. I don't know if that has helped or not. I am wondering if I should get anymore link building done... I haven't created any Web 2.0 sites for this website. Should I?
3. Once most of the products that I have reviewed started showing on the first page of Google, I targeted one product with high competition. Well, I was happy to see that review in the 6th position after 4 days of reviewing it. Currently it bounces between 6th - 10th position. So I was thinking whether the time is ripe to go for high competition products.
This is what is happening -
1. Search results are not always for the products I have reviewed. I get search queries for the kws I haven't targeted. But I am satisfied as that means more traffic.
2. While most of the traffic is from the US, I am getting lots of traffic from UK, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Canada. I really want to convert that...!
Well, I don't know where my site will go from here - whether it will go north or south - but there's excitement and anticipation everyday.
In the meanwhile I have started working on my other website that I had bought from Tom. Its in nascent stages and has traffic from Yahoo! Lol.
I am also planning to follow Yukon's advice for posting on niche forums, as that will bring in niche traffic.
Finally, I want to thank Tom and several other warriors here who have posted useful information, which has really helped me a lot.
A few weeks back, I had taken part in a discussion in which I had discussed about my site's performance, and had several views. Well, I thought its high time I update about my website's performance.
Ok, so I had ordered a product review site from Tom in January.
Like I had mentioned, my site wasn't generating good traffic, and the picture wasn't rosy. This was until the first week of April. But in the 2nd week of April my website's traffic suddenly surged. From 12, 16 clicks a day, it rose to 35 and then to 50 clicks (visitors) a day (according to Google webmaster). While I know that is not a very encouraging number in the SEO world, where people are getting 500 unique visitors, the fact is that my site is just 3 months old, and 50 unique visitors a day is pretty good. (Though my Statpress show higher visitors ~ 130+). Don't know what is right!
Anyways, with visitors, my earnings increased, and I have earned ~ $100 this month from 2nd week onwards. The screenshot is attached! Overall, my site has earned ~$160 from January.
So this is what I did -
1. I have been adding content regularly. There's not a day when I go without it (minus Sundays
). Fresh content keeps getting the bots to my site. I have to add here that Wolfiimii's sites are very search engine friendly. My site has been crawled by all the spiders that exist in the world! - Baidu, Googlebot, msnbot, Yandex, Yahoo, whatever! And I am getting search queries from Google (of course), Yahoo, Bing, AOL and even Ask! Currently my site has over 130 reviews. Plus I am adding a few articles as "Shopping Guides". 2. I got a little bit of link building done way back in mid-march. I don't know if that has helped or not. I am wondering if I should get anymore link building done... I haven't created any Web 2.0 sites for this website. Should I?
3. Once most of the products that I have reviewed started showing on the first page of Google, I targeted one product with high competition. Well, I was happy to see that review in the 6th position after 4 days of reviewing it. Currently it bounces between 6th - 10th position. So I was thinking whether the time is ripe to go for high competition products.
This is what is happening -
1. Search results are not always for the products I have reviewed. I get search queries for the kws I haven't targeted. But I am satisfied as that means more traffic.
2. While most of the traffic is from the US, I am getting lots of traffic from UK, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Canada. I really want to convert that...!
Well, I don't know where my site will go from here - whether it will go north or south - but there's excitement and anticipation everyday.
In the meanwhile I have started working on my other website that I had bought from Tom. Its in nascent stages and has traffic from Yahoo! Lol.
I am also planning to follow Yukon's advice for posting on niche forums, as that will bring in niche traffic.
Finally, I want to thank Tom and several other warriors here who have posted useful information, which has really helped me a lot.
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