I am talking about a single site (non-forums) that gets 10,000 or more human impressions a day gained only from search engines (not advertising and email promotion, etc). How long did it take to get to this stage from the point it first went live. Also, how erratic is the traffic. Is it constantly over 10,000 a day or does it vary a lot? Also, how much are you guys making from 1) adsense 2) affiliates (we are talking about popular sites here). I just want a rough idea for something to aim at and the time frame. There is no need to state what area your site is in to avoid attracting any further competition or anything else you might be worried about.
No. Its just that some guys here claim they were getting thousands of impressions after a couple of weeks. That I really can't believe, unless some type of spam is involved. There is no area on the internet is devoid of at least some competiton that would allow someone to be raking in thousands of impressions after a week or two.
Averaging about 8k a day on one site after 3 months. Lots of work getting there for little money. No PPC either.
On top of that we are talking about impressions. It could be one person looking at 10k pages a day or it could be 10k uniques looking at one.
One of my tattoo sites was started about 4 years ago, it's around 150,000 impressions a day but does not rely on the engines too much, it still gets a load of traffic from them but to have a large site that relies on free SERPS is no long term game plan IMO. If its a good site though then the result of good serps is then loads of direct requests from type ins and bookmarks. One thing that google does like to see is your business name being typed in for a search, if people are looking for you by name it another good indication of your worth/value for the terms that you cover. My earnings are irrelevant to you unless the site is in the same genre and does exactly the same thing. If/when you get good traffic levels it is another skill to monetise that in such a way that you can get the best return and involves a lot of trial/error, well it did for me.
Yea I was talking about impressions. The site I was referring to (non-forum) gets about 500 uniques / day.
Yea, i know. I was just telling qwestcommunications that its doable and impressions/visitors are different things.
I've been lurking here for a while but just had to say in my first post, "wow". From everything I've ever read that seems nearly impossible. What would you say is the primary reason you were able to do that?
Without giving away my main trick its picking the right keywords. Try going for a niche with competition of less than 10 million.
Overall that makes sense. Not sure I get exactly what you mean by less than 10 million. Anyway, it sounds like you get off the ground quick but by focusing on a niche won't get real huge on any one site. BTW, thanks for the reply.
Well, my site has a forum, but more than 10,000 impressions a day go to the rest of the site. Won't get into income statistics but I use adsene, a couple affiliates, and sell ads directly. I do fairly well, and will begin selling some actual products/services on site this year.