Review of week 29 - 30 (17 Jul - 30 Jul)
No site lanuched in the last 2 weeks. The focus had been on increasing the performance of existing sites.
Result are mixed. Overall however, July is positive.
Revenue for July. Revenue grew by 40% in July. Doing a goal seek in OpenOffice Calc, I work out that the average revenue growth rate until the end of year must be 49% to reach my goal.
In terms of Adsense, revenue grew by 83% more than the 59% target set last month.
Looks like things are on target!
Traffic. No major improvement in traffic. How do I improve traffic? This will be my focus this month.
Stats for Jul
59ideas
Where did that spike came from?
Ken and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Can’t break through in terms of traffic.
whois.la
This site is still contributing around 70% of total revenue. Two targets
- increase traffic to this site
- at the same time increase revenue contribution from other sites.
Invest Insight
Seeking Revenue
Analytic Insight
Early fear of ban give way to some growth.
Past reviews:
- week 27-28 - Free Biz Ware
- week 25-26 - Analytic Insight
- week 23-24 - An opensource project
- week 21-22 - Invest Insight
- week 17-20 - personal break
- week 15-16 - Seeking Revenue
Popularity: 1%
Hi Ken,
I just did what you learned as being a waist of time (or focus) and read some of your websites.
Here are a few comments that might help you to increase traffic and readership:
* Sign your posts. Making it personal, and you write a personal story here) should increase reader loyalty and their tendency to recommend your blog.
* Comment more on other peoples blogs (add opinion or new thoughts about their blog entries), prefer blogs with medium readership.
* Redefine your definition of “idea”. It seems for you idea = website/blog. I think you would be better off to concentrate on one single website and try to really learn all about:
** The subject
** Your readers (why, when and how they come to your site)
** Your readers’ desire (what are they seeking on your website, what else are they interested in).
*** Why dilute your brand on the web with so many websites?
* You could continue this blog as a meta blog, calendaring your journal.
* It would be good for your SEO to clean up your old blogs and websites from broken links. I followed some links (about OpenOffice spreadsheets you posted) and they ended in 404 errors. Use your web server to redirect each single one to the correct page (use 301 redirect, so the search engines are able to adjust their index and send the “searcher” to the correct page in the first place).
Just a short list that comes to my mind.
Kind regards,
K
Thanks for taking the time to give such a detail feedback.
Do you have the link to the spreadsheet you are referring to?