Struggling with my website

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by thorie, Dec 25, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hey guys,

    I made a website a few months ago http://www.free-guitar-lessons.thorie.com and added some content. It took me several weeks to create the content because I wrote some complex quizzing tools and audio manipulation scripts that run on the backend.

    I marketed the site by submitting it to search engines, blog listings, and a few social bookmarking sites like digg. I only got 3 diggs I think.

    I get about 3 unique visitors a day. Maybe 100 a month.

    So far in the last few months, I've been updating the content more and more, but the numbers are still dismal. I'm in the middle of converting the site to a community system like Jooma.

    I have earned $0.00 from my site so far. I have google ads on my site, and I have gotten 1 or 2 clicks but no revenue. My goal was to earn one dollar per month, but I'm very far from it.

    Can someone help me suggest some ways to improve the profitability of my site?

    Thanks!
    Tim
     
    thorie, Dec 25, 2007 IP
  2. bouclier

    bouclier Peon

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    You can try to put a store on site. Try the amazon affiliate program. Here is the link: http://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join Good luck!
     
    bouclier, Dec 25, 2007 IP
  3. askbryanmiller

    askbryanmiller Active Member

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    Hey Tim,

    I took a look at your site. It's kind of difficult to follow,
    really. Have you looked to see what your competition looks
    like?

    What keywords are you trying to shoot for? Free Guitar
    Lessons? What I might suggest you do is first focus on the
    "free guitar lessons" end of it (offer the lessons first and
    foremost to your visitors - make that your focus).

    Optimize your site well for the visitors you're working for,
    and then secondary to the search engines. This will
    promote your site itself because if you can get high honors
    with your visitors (because the market is more visitor
    based, and not purchase based) you're going to do very
    well.

    So know your market. "Free" markets tend to have people
    who don't want to purchase, so your best bet is probably to
    keep the quality high so that your have healthy, recurring
    traffic to the site. And if that's the case, since this is a
    lesson by lesson basis, build up the rapport with your
    visitors and then monetize through something like a store
    as bouclier said, and maybe some pay-per-impression ads.

    But first and foremost, before monetization; with a market
    like this: quality to the visitor is absolutely key. Don't focus
    on Adsense just yet (if at all), focus on unique visitors as
    your goal. Maybe shoot for 60 uniques a day. And then
    begin monetizing.

    Hope this helped.
    Bryan
     
    askbryanmiller, Dec 25, 2007 IP
  4. medaa25

    medaa25 Active Member

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    Hey mate,


    Good idea for a website.

    I think you need to make the navigation clearer and re-write your site's introduction. Try to explain you site and its unique selling point in one line!

    If you can also change the blue header to something more in tune ;) with your site it would make a good first impression.

    Other than that, there are millions of music forums and zillions of people wanting to learn guitar out there so it could be very easy to plug your site and see numbers increasing... By the way, did you try Youtube? Don't be shy and make a tutorial video pointing toward your site... it will work!

    Good luck
     
    medaa25, Dec 25, 2007 IP
  5. Hierarchy

    Hierarchy Guest

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    i would suggest targeting long tail keywords that are searched between 50+ times a month and keep building on your list while providing genuine content for those keywords. Do some research on your own or find a good keyword suggestion tool to help.
     
    Hierarchy, Dec 25, 2007 IP