Traffic Challenge Week 9

Blimey it’s week 9 already and I’ve been really bad at missing the weekly reports. Reasons, excuses – simply very busy in my business, my life and my day job. However I’ve found time today and there are some interesting things to report but it aint all good.

Alexa Ranking has jumped up to the current 729,497 during the last 4 weeks from 1,074,10. That’s a good increase and mostly due to the work that I put in during the first month. Results aren’t always immediate and if you lay good groundwork you continue to see improvements as long as you spend some regular time on your promotions and content adding.

My Cpanels awstats aren’t as positive. In February there were 651 unique visitors and in March it dropped down to 507, but the number of visits increased and I did hit my target of getting over 100 visits in a day on the 5th of March.

My neglect has done some damage in the traffic challenge progress, but nothing that I can’t rectify with some work. Part of my neglect was due to one of my other blogs starting to make money unexpectedly. Sales were coming in from Clickbank, some ebooks I had on sale and Adsense revenue. The blog was put up for fun and when I saw what was happening I concentrated my traffic gaining efforts on that blog and who could blame me. Maybe I should have made my challenge about that blog!

On the good side the company which I use to get my articles out has finally approved them after several weeks of waiting so the effects of the article marketing should start to kick in soon. Maybe I should change companies, but despite the wait I’ve always had good results from them and I can’t argue with that.

During March I started to add the RSS feed to a list of feed directories, that I shall continue to do, but it’s very time consuming as I decided to add the feeds from all of my sites and blogs while I was on each directory rather than having to keep going back.

I continued to add fairly regular content and used this link in my signature on a handful of forums which has helped to get some targeted traffic, but not a lot because I haven’t been posting much.

During April I aim to get the Alexa ranking below 500,000 by doing more of what I’ve already been doing. Because I now have 2 months worth of statistics I also have 2 lists of search strings which will be useful in determining whether or not I should change the meta keywords for this blog.

I’ll also be reviewing some more of the free resources that I use in April and some of them are pretty darned good. I’ve also found some more WP widgets that I will be testing out on this and my other blogs.

Tagged with: Adsense • Alexa • Alexa ranking • Clickbank • RSS directories • Traffic • website traffic

Filed under: A Challenge

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