How I think I screwed myself - newbie experience

Lemmy · 2005-09-04, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by CalModels

surprisingly enough, with 250 visitors a day I am still getting atleast one sale a day (all different sponsors there is no consistency) and from reading the other threads, that really good apparently for the amount of traffic I have?

Obviously you're doing something right!

If you can figure out exactly what the formula is and add some volume to it you've got a gold mine. Good luck!

CalModels · 2005-09-04, 02:49 PM

Lemmy, thats part of my problem... there seems to be absolutely no consistency which is what is stumping me... give you an example, when I forst started this I already had an affiliate account with CJ and an insurance company was one of the sponsors I was promoting on another message board site for new immigrants, and when I was still working on the CalgaryModels.com framework, as a place holder I put up that insurance company banner and people actually signed up there as well... but you are right... I need to rethink two things (from reading the feedback you guys are giving and form other threads I have been reading)... first get targeted traffic (which is another problem... do I go after amateur traffic or do I specifically go after lingerie traffic... amateur traffic seems to convert better form what I have been reading at the sponsors) and second, work on the promotion keywords and put in text links (or maybe even menu links? I just added an iFriends link on my main menu lets see if that gets people to click and convert)... am I about in the ballpark or anything else you guys could think of?

Halfdeck · 2005-09-04, 05:02 PM

5 pages from your domain indexed in yahoo. Kinda hard to believe you're pulling 250 uniques from Yahoo a day from 5 pages. What keyword phrase(s) is your site ranked for?

Anyway, if you're really making 1 sale/day off that index.php page, then I'd just build more pages or create more sites and link back to this domain.

BTW, having 1445 char long keyword meta should penalize your page in Google. I would reduce that to 4 keywords.

CalModels · 2005-09-04, 05:29 PM

Thanks Halfdeck, got rid of the meta keywords...

I run awstats on that domain, and according to awstats I get an average of 240 or so unique visitors a day, out of which anywhere between 180-220 are from Yahoo, and the actual banners are served by phpAdsNew and have placeholders on the CMS framework regardless of which page the visitor is on so the clicks are coming from pages under the index page (one convert came from the Terms of Use page if you can believe that... when I put that there I was positive noone was going to read it)... thats what I mean by there being no logical rhyme or reasoning behind any of this...

Although, come to think of it I'm getting about 10 new users registering on the site a day...

EDIT: Yahoo search for lingerie modelling puts me at rank 6... even though modelling is a typo, apparently 220 people a day make that typo

I really appreciate all the help and advice you guys are giving me.. THANKS!!

2005-09-04, 05:02 PM	#3
Halfdeck You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Haven, CT Posts: 985	5 pages from your domain indexed in yahoo. Kinda hard to believe you're pulling 250 uniques from Yahoo a day from 5 pages. What keyword phrase(s) is your site ranked for? Anyway, if you're really making 1 sale/day off that index.php page, then I'd just build more pages or create more sites and link back to this domain. BTW, having 1445 char long keyword meta should penalize your page in Google. I would reduce that to 4 keywords. __________________ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

2005-09-04, 02:49 PM	#2
CalModels Trying is the first step towards failure Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 122	Lemmy, thats part of my problem... there seems to be absolutely no consistency which is what is stumping me... give you an example, when I forst started this I already had an affiliate account with CJ and an insurance company was one of the sponsors I was promoting on another message board site for new immigrants, and when I was still working on the CalgaryModels.com framework, as a place holder I put up that insurance company banner and people actually signed up there as well... but you are right... I need to rethink two things (from reading the feedback you guys are giving and form other threads I have been reading)... first get targeted traffic (which is another problem... do I go after amateur traffic or do I specifically go after lingerie traffic... amateur traffic seems to convert better form what I have been reading at the sponsors) and second, work on the promotion keywords and put in text links (or maybe even menu links? I just added an iFriends link on my main menu lets see if that gets people to click and convert)... am I about in the ballpark or anything else you guys could think of?

2005-09-04, 05:29 PM	#4
CalModels Trying is the first step towards failure Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 122	Thanks Halfdeck, got rid of the meta keywords... I run awstats on that domain, and according to awstats I get an average of 240 or so unique visitors a day, out of which anywhere between 180-220 are from Yahoo, and the actual banners are served by phpAdsNew and have placeholders on the CMS framework regardless of which page the visitor is on so the clicks are coming from pages under the index page (one convert came from the Terms of Use page if you can believe that... when I put that there I was positive noone was going to read it)... thats what I mean by there being no logical rhyme or reasoning behind any of this... Although, come to think of it I'm getting about 10 new users registering on the site a day... EDIT: Yahoo search for lingerie modelling puts me at rank 6... even though modelling is a typo, apparently 220 people a day make that typo I really appreciate all the help and advice you guys are giving me.. THANKS!!