Niche Site Case Study Week 4
It's been one month since I first started this niche site case study. Week four was a good week, to be sure. The site is building nicely, growing in traffic from Google and rising in revenue.
Let's take a look at the overall traffic figures:
As you can see, the site has had a significant increase in unique visitors, with a total of 575 unique visitors in four weeks. More and more of that increase is beginning to come from Google, as can be seen in the next screen shots:
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Compare that to the traffic from the articles at EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com:
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September
Last week's results showed 28 visitors from Google and 62 from EzineArticles.com. This week the site received about 1.4 times as many visitors from EzineArticles.com as last week, but 2.75 times as much traffic from Google as last week. So the traffic growth from Google is starting to improve. As I said in last week's update, it usually takes two to three months for all of the linking power of 3WayLinks.net to really take effect, so I expect to see that growth continue in the coming weeks.
EzineArticles.com has really proven itself as a source of initial traffic, as can be seen from my member stats screen above. 1,194 views of the articles in less than a month, and 335 visitors from those views. The articles are spreading around the web, getting posted on a variety of sites, which is helping to build authority in Google's eyes (since more than just the home page have in-bound links).
Revenue is up, too. Week one showed a total of $0.91, week two $2.30, week three $8.27. This week, week four, we're up to $18.64 in AdSense revenue by itself. In absolute dollars it's not much, but it's a 225% increase from last week, which shows promise going forward.
This morning I added AuctionAds.com to the site as well, to see about earning some additional affiliate income from the site. It's now showing super-targeted eBay ads next to the AdSense ads now, so we'll see how that works as time goes by.
So there you have it. One month and the site is growing quickly in all respects. For the details regarding how I chose the niche and created the site, see the original case study post.
I am going to wait for two weeks before posting the next update, so look for it on the 27th.
Please post your questions and comments below.
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