Fabulous results as well. I've never been that great at niche marketing like this. I have a very hard time with attention spans to be able to put the time into writing the content.
I did no keyword research and used no Wordtracker type tools when I was first coming up with the site. I researched the niche for a while to find out exactly how many people are into this topic which ended up being more than 10mil people with no solid site to all go to. I knew all those 10mil people were all looking for 2-3 things and just made solid content with multiple keywords in different orders. As a design-oriented person, I believe it's important to make a site that I myself would think looks "clean" and isn't a "SEO template" for tricking people into clicking ads. I focused on providing something people had to have, rather than conversions and click through rates.
Traffic has smoothed out to about 5,500 absolute uniques a day for the last 5 days. Revenue from Paypal has however risen consistently over the last 20 days or so. This has caused my 30Day NET to become quite nice.
As you can see Evilaleem, about 60% from Search Engines. Of that 60% about 95% is Google, I am barely indexed outside of google because of my site authority being so low from a brand new domain. Hopefully I will start seeing more traffic from Yahoo/Msn etc? Can anyone lend an insight as to if this is normal to barely show-up on yahoo,aol, and msn after about 3 months? Thanks!
Congratulations, it is really great to see that you have done very well. I am just curious whats the current PR of the site and do you still do forums, articles submission etc?
Wow. I am amazed but I find a hard time believing this post. How do you do that kind of numbers without spending money for marketing??
Just took time spent writing quality original content that people honestly really wanted to read. A Little Update per Request The sites are doing well still and I am just working full-time on trying to diversify in other related niche's to make sure I have a backup plan, should any of these original sites fail completely. I now have some content blocked off with an incentive-required gateway. This gateway is now bringing in over $120/day alone. There are more clone sites everyday and I continue to battle them off through social bookmarking, and supreme authority. Thanks for showing the support guys. Forum Members I required registration in order to access certain "premium" sections of my forums as well and now have 26,000 PHPBB registered users between 2 sites. This has been a great way to build more unique content for free pointing to my domain. Community is King
wow, would be nice if you wrote a guide on how you did it, but then again you probably don't wont to give away your secrets.
Sure, I am planning on writing a detailed write-up of my exact processes. Nothing "secret" going on here, would be a good example of good ol' fashion white-hat processes, working.
Thanks for the feedback and responses. How did you figure out 10 million people were interested in your specific niche? You mentioned that you didn't use adwords suggestion tool, wordtracker, etc...just wondering how you figured this number out? Also, for statistical reasoning...does your google analytics for keyword based searches match google adwords suggestion tool for the same keywords? Is the google tool accurate based on your actual results? eg: analytics is showing foosball tips 1000 searches a mth, yet your actually receiving 25,000/mth for foosball tips from your analytics stats. Thanks
ddzc Sorry for the confusion, but I was simply stating that "foosball tips" could be an example of what my niche could translate to, but has nothing to do with foosball. Although I was not using keyword suggestion tools to help find a niche with so much traffic, I did however keep my eyes open for a few years until this opportunity arose. It was basically something that some co-workers were interested in that I realized was not very saturated. speedyj A Site service in this case is basically like access to "VIP" tools on my site similar to how someone would pay for a PRO subscription to SEOmoz.
Yes, I was also using foosball as an example as well. So it was basically your knowledge and predication where you got your results. I'm wondering how accurate the google adword suggestion tool is along with wordtracker. Based on your actual traffic stats your receiving for specific keyworks...are the above tools showing the same results if you query your keyword in the tools? Thanks
Cleared $330 yesterday in 24 hours. Fully organic traffic, thanks to about 60 days of sleepless nights and CPA offer testing. Will update with further details.