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traffic done, what do i do now?

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brightstar

brightstar

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hey all,
i got 250,000 hits last month. from 2000 sites.
i made 70p in links and referrals. admittedly the front end of the site looks crap... but even if i tart it up and make it look pretty, i cant imagine it'll do that much better.

so where do i go from here? anyone wanna buy it off me???
any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.

links in my signature:

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bit of both. i mean, 250,000 hits seems like a lot to me, but is it really?
i mean i think with 250,000 hits i should be making loads of money off the site. but so far ive made 70p.

so if you have any ideas on how to capitalise on this... or if you think 70p is about right for that amount of hits then please tell me cos i aint got a clue!

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How were you expecting to make money out of this site? You've got four adverts on the front page that most visitors will click straight past. That's the only opportunity you seem to have taken to make any money, so it's hardly surprising that you haven't made very much.

You might make a little more if you put a banner ad on every page, especially if you could target them more closely to the subject of the site/forum. Alternatively, for a less intrusive look, use Google text ads like the one at the top of this page.

More work, but more money, can be had from affiliate schemes - if you pick them carefully. For example, you could review a selection of self-help books (or anything else you think your visitors will be interested in) and sell them through Amazon.

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Well, 250,000 hits does seem like a lot to me (for a site owned by one person), but I don't see how you got that many with a PR of 2...and no backwards links....Are you sure someone didn't submit your site to one of those sites that puts the url everywhere for a couple hours to be distributed on member sites and then dropped from the list of sites to display?

I got over 21,000 pages pulled and 2,000 visitors last month at one of my sites, and I was shocked (thrilled ;)), but by far the majority of the urls linking to me were Google search results....So if those clicks were all real people visiting on purpose, I'd say that 250,000 is totally awesome, especially, like I said, since your site has a PR of 2 and no backwards links...I just don't see how it would be possible, though.

Rick

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yup googles my buddy.
i submitted my site by hand to everywhere i could think of a couple of months running. i got about 3rd in the search results when you type in agony aunt or online agony aunt... but what really did it for me was the google paid inclusion. i spend £30 a month... and since i did that my hits have been going up and up and up. for a period of around 3 or months they doubled from 15,000 to 30,000 to 60 then to 100 then 150 now 250... i dont understand it myself, but the stats dont lie... i ca see every url, every visitor and everywhere theyve come from.... nearly half are direct (typing it in or from favourites) and the rest are google or google based search engines.
im thinking about selling it actually, i dont think i have the time, the resources, the knowledge or anything else i need to really be able to make money out of it.
anyone know a good place to seel an internt business??????

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Try selling it on Ebay or
If the site's really good and you can get someone to believe that, you might make some money off of it...just wondering...how much are you considering selling it for? I'm not interested in it for myself--I already have too many--but just curious.

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erm... no idea.. i mean, do you sell it based on its hits, or what its made so far? or the amount of registered users? the server cost £75, plud 2 years domain registration for agonyonline.co.uk + com. plus he time i spent setting it up.. plus over 1000 registered users plus febs average of 9,000 hits a day.... all in for a grand i guess? what do you think?

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You have to take Alexa's stats with a lorry-load of salt. Firstly because they only count the behaviour of Alexa toolbar users - dunno how many of them there are, but clearly they're only a subset of the internet population.

More importantly, though, Alexa gets horribly confused by any kind of co-hosting operation. If you have your website hosted, with it's own domain name, on an ISP's machine - i.e. a bog standard hosting set-up - Alexa has difficulty distinguishing between your site, the ISP's and other clients on the same server.

Look at what it says about one of my sites: - the screen-shot is from my ISP's site, not mine. If that's not right, how reliable is the rest of the information? It's better than it used to be - that URL would once have taken you to stats about a totally different site hosted by my ISP (until I emailled to complain!).

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sorry pal... but all you gotta do is type "agony aunt" into google and you'll see why i get the hits that i do. that gets fed around all the sites and search engines that use google too.

but i do agree with eso.. even if i was BS this would still be a useful thread for other peopel in the same situation... jees.

I'll admit though, i've been using this forum for nearly 2 years and thats the first time ive ever received a completely useless reply.

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ChrisHunt said:
Look at what it says about one of my sites: - the screen-shot is from my ISP's site, not mine. If that's not right, how reliable is the rest of the information? It's better than it used to be - that URL would once have taken you to stats about a totally different site hosted by my ISP (until I emailled to complain!).
Click to expand...

Chris, have you seen a lot of this happening? I have never seen this before. Even checking some of the sites on my servers, all the ones with screenshots show the correct site.


I thought it might be to do with shared IP addresses, but even the shared sites on my server still show correctly.

I totally agree though about the Alexa rankings, they mean very little.

Hope this helps

Wullie


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Sure Alexa's stats aren't going to be nearly as high as the real figures, because only a percentage of users have the Alexa toolbar installed. It's the comparison feature between your site and other sites that's slightly helpful, since at least those are all on the same scale. But it's true people with Alexa might very well be biased for and against lots of things, so the stats for those types of sites would be a lot higher or a lot lower than they should be. But still, it's better than nothing, and better than the other programs I've been able to find. It would be a lot better if there were a way to know which way the stats were slanted.

Most of my sites don't seem to rank high enough to have screenshots yet, but these sites are all on the same shared ip address, and the numbers are certainly unique per site:


Rick

 
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