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
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!
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
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
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.