Like I said traffic is something we want to keep to ourselves which is why it wasn't mentioned in the blog article. There are some things our $400 investment gave us we want to keep confidential. As you can see from our response though we are very happy with it and it has worked out well.
Ok, I got ya. But just out of curiosity, why would you want to keep that to yourself? If one is an affiliate, I can understand not revealing how much he makes from sources, and which ones are his biggest money makers, but number of visitors???
We just prefer to that's all. We did pay good money for the review and some details like visitors are just something we don't feel everyone need to know. I will say it WAS WORTH the investment!
This could be possible. Email me what you have in mind. I will do a post about it I understand you. But now, I'm looking to increase revenue to make even more publicity. At least my traffic is increasing everyday. If I get more blogs in my site(more traffic), I would get more advertisers buying direct paid reviews and thus more money for bloggers. Use Blogging Zoom(blog only and free) instead of Digg(it's better for bloggers) because you can submit your own blog post. I had great success with them and I' sure your post would hit the roof.
Ill give Blogging Zoom a go, thanks! Ill PM you soon. Im a little busy at the moment finishing our new affiliate program.
I am trying to submit the blog entry on Blogging Zoom but it keeps saying "Incomplete title or text". :/
350 characters is for better SEO result from Google. You are not the first to comment about it but I understand the why of it. Your post will be index within hours in some instances. I wanted to Zoomed it but could not find it. Did you use the same title?
I didn't add it, 350 characters is way too long. The post is only about 500 characters. It should be a short description.... what am I supposed to do? Copy my whole blog entry there. I DONT THINK SO. Sorry but that's just stupid.
I find spending bits a pieces all over the place has little impact whereas investing a good amount into something like this has far greater impact.
OK I added the blog entry to BloggingZoom Ill see how it goes... I just padded the description out with information on alexa.... pretty pointless. http://bloggingzoom.com/Blogging/The_John_Chow_Effect_On_AdToll/
You know what's funny.... we had about 130 click-throughs to this blog entry yesterday and we have only had a small handful of people DIGG the post. Just proves my point no one DIGGs anyones articles unless there is something in it for them. We have had a lot of good feedback and response from the article I was hoping for a few more DIGGs than we we have received. Maybe I should put it up in the FREEBIE forum for a DIGG exchange? lol It doesn't even matter what people write anymore it's what you can pay other people to DIGG your article.
Ruby could you give a little feedback about the review AdToll bought on Blogging Fingers (blog I author). Here is the link to the review for those interested - http://bloggingfingers.com/blog-reviews/adtoll-your-tollgate-to-web-traffic/ I'm not expecting a "john Chow" effect but was it worth the money? To expensive? To cheap? (if there is such a thing!). It's still oh the Home page so you are probably still getting a trickle of traffic from it.
Just looking at my analytics we have had 20 direct visits from bloggingfingers.com with a 25% bounce rate, 80% were new visits. It's hard to tell exactly because we would have got some from RSS readers and email subscribers etc...