Week 2 Update.

Ok this week I have been quite busy on the social networking sites like Yuwie & MySpace. Yuwie is a mini version of MySpace which is growing quickly in popularity as it has a revenue sharing scheme in place. Worth a look.

My aim has been to get as many friends as possible on both networks which has been made easier as I have been using a program called OpenAdder. OpenAdder does all the inviting for you so that you can go do something else. When you come back you find you have 20 - 30 new friends. Excellent for throwing bulletins out about your site.

In addition to that I have also been adding the site to directories. I have a list of over 800 directories I want to get my site into. After adding to 5 myself, I decided it was taking up too much of my time so I paid to get added to 250 directories. The service I chose was Directory Maximiser. I don't know whether it was just a co-incidence or not but 2 days after the directory submissions were completed, Article Land's Google PR rose from 2 to 3!!!

OK this weeks stats as follows:

Google PR = 3 (Up from 2 last week)
Alexa Rank = 491,742 (Up 396,877 points or 55% on 1wk average)

Link Popularity:
Google = 3 (No Change)
Yahoo = 512 (-0.58%)
All The Web = 99 (+13.79%)
Altavista = 548 (+0.18%)

Article Land Stats
Number of Articles =9281 (+11.38%)
Number of Authors = 1637 (+9.93%)
Average Number of Visits per day = 325 (+47.06%)
Average Adsense Revenue = $4.40 per day (+56.02%)
Web Site Value = Unknown - Tool seems to be broken

Some good gains all round, a few minor drops, nothing to worry about. For my main keyword Google is now ranking the site at 57, so it will be interesting to see where we are over the next few weeks. Particularly pleased with the PR improving from 2 to 3.

Adsense revenue has been consistently climbing all month, again very pleasing.

Well that's it for now. Check back next Monday for another update.

Cya
Steve

First update on stats.

Google PR = 2 (No Change)
Alexa Rank = 888,619 (Up 229,051 points or 18%)

Link Popularity

Note: this only shows links from sites that are indexed within the Search Engines (I have also changed the link checker tool to the one at http://www.searchengineoptimising.com/ as it offers additional information which can be tracked).

Google = 3 (+50%)
Yahoo = 515 (+0.19%)
All The Web = 87
Altavista = 545


Article Land Stats

Number of Articles =8332 (+20.9%)
Number of Authors = 1489 (+15.4%)
Average Number of Visits per day = 221 (+166%)
Average Adsense Revenue = $2.82 per day (+77.4%)

Web Site Value = $869 (+15.8%)

After the first week, it can be seen that massive gains have been made on the site stats. No real changes to incoming links, though. However, the Alexa Rank has boomed!!!

the value of the website as estimated from the FREE tool at http://www.cwire.org/website-value-calculator/ has also increased.

So what did I do? This week I started a blog. Pinged it after every post to let the blog directories know it's been updated. Added the blog to various social networking sites, like Del.icio.us, Digg, Yahoo, etc...

Next issue details further social networking steps I have taken.

Let's Go

Ok, I'm not going to tell you how I do things because Mike at Profit Lance would go ballistic. However, I can tell you what system I'm using.

First up, Blogs. If you want to get traffic to your site, create a blog. Something similar to this one. Once you have done that, post to it regularly, everyday if possible.

I use another site, Ping-o-matic and enter the details of my blog, like name, url, etc... Then simply press SEND PINGS.

This will ping the best blog resources telling them to spider your blog as it's just been updated.

Google loves blogs as they know the content is always changing, and it helps to get your main site into the search engines really quickly, providing you link back from your blog to your site. Google spiders will visit your blog and then follow the link to your main site. This will obviously result in your site being indexed really quickly. Notice on my blogs there are lots of links to Article Land.

In Summary:
Setup a blog
Post to it regularly
Use Pingomatic to send pings everytime you update your blog

Starting Stats

Ok first off we need a baseline. So here are the current stats for the site before I start any further work.

Google PR = 2
Alexa Rank = 1,047,699

Link Popularity (Using the Link Popularity Checker on SEOChat)

Note: this only shows links from sites that are indexed within the Search Engines

Google = 2
Yahoo = 514
MSN = 0
Teoma = 0

Article Land Stats

Number of Articles =6891
Number of Authors = 1290
Average Number of Visits per day = 83
Average Adsense Revenue = $1.59 per day

Web Site Value = $750

Using the tool at: http://www.cwire.org/website-value-calculator/

Ok onto the next post where I will start to detail the steps I'm taking.

Introduction

I have been in internet marketing for about a year or so. I run a number of websites, which can be found in the list to the right. The site that is performing best is Article Land

This is the site I am going to concentrate on from a marketing point of view. This blog is intended to detail the steps I take and the results from each of those steps.

At present Article Land has a Google page rank of 2. This has been achieved by me doing things to promote the site which I never really understood. However, I must have been doing something right otherwise Google would have told me by not ranking the site.

OK down to the nitty gritty. I recently stumbled across a website which claims to teach anybody to market on the internet successfully. So after trying many other programs I felt it worthwhile purchasing this one. Although I did do a lot of research into it beforehand. The program is Profit Lance, and is a collection of tutorials, videos, ebooks, articles and even blueprints.

After briefly scanning the contents of the site and watching a few videos I quickly became aware of the benefits this site has to offer. This program is something I cannot recommend enough.

So going forward, I will be using the tips & tricks from this site to promote Article Land and documenting the results here.

Well that's it for now, in my next post I'll be detailing the first step and reporting on progress.