Niche Site Case Study Week 1
Well it's been 9 days since my niche site case study site was officially launched, and I wanted to give you the first update on how things are going. The site is plugging along well, with a few pleasant surprises.
Here's the overall traffic screenshot for week 1:
I'm up from 5 unique visitors (which were all me) to 47. I've only visited the site 2 or 3 times since it first launched, so maybe 7 or 8 of those visitors were actually me. That means I've gotten a good 40 visitors from other traffic sources. Those sources are shown a little further down in this update.
My EzineArticles.com submissions were not approved until two days ago. That's within their time frame of 2 - 7 days, though, so I really can't complain. Both GoArticles and EzineArticles have already generated some traffic, as you can see in the screenshot below (the link which is blacked out is from the 3WayLinks.net network, and is blacked out for security purposes):
According to the statistics that EzineArticles itself gives you, the article has been viewed 147 times. Not too shabby for the first two days:
My site was partially indexed by Google within three days of being live, and it now has 5 indexed pages listed. So far neither Yahoo! nor MSN have indexed any pages. However, the site itself has been fully spidered by all of the big 3 (Google, Yahoo! and MSN), as seen below.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that Google has actually started sending a little bit of traffic to the site despite its newness:
What has all of this resulted in financially? AdSense reports that the site has gotten 115 page views and 3 clicks, which have resulted in a total of $0.91. So I'm averaging 10 cents a day, though of course at this point I'm not expecting any real revenue at all. It's kind of cool that it's already gotten some clicks, though.
Well, that's it for week one. I'll post a further update next week. I'll try to keep my updates coming on Thursdays, though it may vary somewhat.
You can read about exactly what I did to build the site on the original case study post.
Please leave your thoughts and questions about this case study in a comment below.
