I have a seasonal website that is mainly summer based. Last summer we had about 30 hits per day, this summer it avg. about 200 per day, and now is staying around 30-100 depending on the day of the week. Our conversion is approx. 2%, and we're not on the first page of our keywords yet. (2nd or 3rd page) Just wondering if this is poor start or ok start to an online business. Would like to know how much traffic some of your sites receive per day or month, that way I can have a goal to aim for. Any suggestions are appreciated. Here is my site since I havent been on here for 7 days yet. www.premiumpowersports.com
Hi, on average, some of my websites get 200 - 300 visitors per day. I would say that if your conversion rate is 2%, and you are getting about 1000 - 3000 visitors per month, that works out to 20 to 60 sales. Your items are priced in the range of $200 and above but I am not sure of your margins. By any standards, if you are new in online business, you are doing pretty good with this kind of figure. But I am sure you can improve your traffic. There are various ways to do so such as 1.Article marketing 2.Forum posting in related forums ie sports and so on 3.Social bookmarking 4.Directory submission You may even want to have an RSS feed for others to subscribe. I see you have a news subscription there. You can find out more about traffic driving strategies from my free report.
Your doing good. Just work on links to site and getting it listed on first page. Each page you move up will bring more traffic.
Do your customers search by name brand? I have found it to be easier and more profitable to target name brands than product types i.e.- Acme Widgets rather than just widgets. With some businesses the more general phrases bring more traffic, but that traffic may be looking for information, while the people who use brand names are buyers. of course, eventually you want it all, widgets and acme widgets.
I think you on the right track. Business sites are very difficult to market. Because lot of people spend way lot of money on marketing. Keep working on building links, you would be good.
It might be better to hire an SEO professional to rank you for some decent traffic search terms rather than paying PPC. Then you get the residual traffic. It usually takes my websites about 1 month from release to start bringing in decent search engine traffic. Day 1: try to get the pages indexed. Day 7: 10 search engine visitors per day. Day 15: 25 search engine visitors per day. Day 30: 100 search engine visitors per day. Day 45: 200 search engine visitors per day. Onwards: You can imagine . Anyway, that's my general SEO timeline with about 10 minutes of work per day. After it's all done you have the search engine visitors coming each and every day. One extra benefit of search engine visitors is that they convert great, my AdSense CTR is like 1-2% from general traffic (directories, forums etc) but the CTR is about 10-15% from search engine visitors. Hope that helped a little. Oh, you say you want to be #1, make your target page 1 rather than rank 1 - page 1 is far easier to obtain than rank 1 and both send similar traffic.
I receive approx 180 uniques per day. 60% of my visitors are from search engines, of course id like to increase my uniques, but that comes with time dont it.
SEO is very difficult unless you know it. I have had to bite my feet bringing SE traffic. Recently after some of my keywords get on the first page, I started seeing about 200+ from SE. But I am sure thats not enough, I can do much better. If you don't mind can you give me some advice on my site http://www.webcosmo.com Currently I get about 1300 visits/day in seven months. I wanna push it to 3000+/day if possible.
For my new blog Internet Babel I'm nearly 2 months in and for this month so far have had 2,030 uniques, had 1,300 some odd in the first month. For the past few days I've been getting 300 - 500 visits per day. It's just all about constant progress. As long as I keep my traffic building and improve on uniques each month I am happy. Also I don't think SEO is that hard, it's just all about following basic SEO rules to the best you can and then marketing like crazy to HUMANS to get you backlinks non-stop. And not to pander to search engines, especially with blogs. It's humans reading them, try and please them. Not Google.
I'm not sure what your current search engine traffic is but your on-page optimization could be improved a lot - 1st: Rework those URLs with .htaccess. Change /listing/search.aspx?countryId=8&gId=3&dId=66 to /United-States/Jobs/Government.php 2nd: Target the page titles and descriptions to suit the region, similar to the URLs. Change the page title from 'free goverment classified ads free jobs classified ads' to 'United States Goverment Jobs' or something like that. You're trying to pick up the long tail keywords, the more niche terms for your country specific sub-pages. 3rd: Create a dynamic sitemap. Here's an example of one of mine - http://www.narutowallpaper.biz/sitemap.xml. The sitemap is generated by PHP dynamically each time a spider views it and my robots.txt file directs the spiders to this sitemap. Having each and every page listed in a sitemap gets every page indexed nice and fast. Last: You seem to have put a lot of effort into the website itself but not the SEO and URL structure, work on this and you'll hopefully have a more successful website.
The site has been up for approx. 9 months. The hardest thing that I have trouble with is getting backlinks from relevant sites. The only way I have been able to get links is thru articles and directories.
My newest site (started in late Spring) is getting around 150-200 visitors a day currently. My goal is to get it up to 1000+ a day...
Thanks I get about 11000+ uniques monthly now. Generally its 40000+ visits/month. It improved a lot last two months since some of my keywords got on the first page of Google. Now the improvement is more like a straight line then exponential. I did change the titles as some other guy at DP helped me fixing them. And that actually improved my SERPS. I will try the url. Thanks for your help.
The titles is the most important thing to improve, make sure to do some keyword research first so you're targeting a useful set of country specific key phrases. The URLs will also be useful but the titles are most important.