Week 3 Update

Hello All

Had a strange week this week. Spent 3 days wondering why the traffic to the site had dropped off by 50%, then realised that I had not posted any articles for a week. As soon as I started posting articles the traffic doubled.

Adsense earnings for the first 3 days since last update was $0.74, once I started to post articles linking back to my site it rose to an average of $7.90.

So despite all the extra stuff I've been doing like social bookmarking, blogging, etc... it's the article marketing that has shown immediate profits. Don't get me wrong though, I believe the other avenues of generating traffic will work on a long term basis, but article marketing is great for short term gains.

Incidently, I use Article Post Robot to post articles to over 500 sites at a time. A major time saver, couldn't imagine internet marketing without it.

Update on the stats:

Google PR = 3 (No change)
Alexa Rank = 516,209 (Down 24467 points or 4.98% on 1wk average)

Link Popularity:
Google = 34 (+1033%) Massive increase, this, I believe, is due to sorting the sitemap out on Google webmaster tools
Yahoo = 531 (+3.71%)
All The Web = 132 (+33%)
Altavista = 584 (+3.84%)

Article Land Stats
Number of Articles =10188 (+9.77%)
Number of Authors = 1756 (+7.27%)
Average Number of Visits per day = 296 (-1.08%)
Average Adsense Revenue = $4.62 per day (+5%)
Web Site Value = Unknown - Tool still seems to be broken, will have to search for an alternative.

In general the stats have improved. I am particularly happy with the Google Link Popularity. I knew the figures being produced by the link checker tool were scewed as Google Webmaster Tools were showing higher. However they seem to be pretty close now.

Taking my eye off the ball has probably cost me $20 - $30 dollars in adsense earnings but I'm not going to worry about that too much, it just throws a curve ball into this analysis which is the most annoying thing.

Next week I'll ensure that posting the articles is no.1 on the list followed by the other types of marketing.

I've also been working on another site based on the directions found in Profit Lance which hopefully will be published over the next couple of days. I'll post the link to that blog here once it is live.

That's all for now, enjoy your week and make lots of money.

Steve