A Year In The Life of TDW: A Cautionary Tale

virgohippy · 2006-08-28, 03:57 PM

I mean this as no offense to you Preacher, because I know how intellegent and capable you are, but I'm not surprised.

Thanks for sharing.

I think a lot of people confuse SE traffic with profit. Quality traffic is great, but traffic does not always = sales. When I look at my stats, unique hits per sale, it's my freesites which do most of the selling.

And anyway, my entire network of freesites all together bring in more SE traffic than all the pages on my LL, though their pretty close.

Preacher · 2006-08-28, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by virgohippy

I mean this as no offense to you Preacher, because I know how intellegent and capable you are, but I'm not surprised.

You might have been surprised a year ago though. When I first set up the linklist the general opinion being thrown around at the time was that it would take at least a year for a linklist to become profitable. So I took on this project with that knowledge and general assumption.

Maybe a month or two in, it seemed as if the general opinion suddenly shifted to three or four years.

Would I have put the majority of my efforts into building a linklist if I had heard about that time-frame at the beginning...I just don't know. But now that I'm in and I'm emotionally committed, I plan to stay in.

2006-08-28, 03:57 PM	#1
virgohippy Madness is like gravity. All it takes is a little... push. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: California Posts: 1,679	I mean this as no offense to you Preacher, because I know how intellegent and capable you are, but I'm not surprised. Thanks for sharing. I think a lot of people confuse SE traffic with profit. Quality traffic is great, but traffic does not always = sales. When I look at my stats, unique hits per sale, it's my freesites which do most of the selling. And anyway, my entire network of freesites all together bring in more SE traffic than all the pages on my LL, though their pretty close. __________________ ~Warm and Fuzzy.