Week 6 Update

Mainly this week I have been using Directory Submitter to submit Article Land to high ranking directories. Did about 50 directories this week, not that many, but traffic appears to have been rising slowly. Didn't submit any artilces this week and traffic has still risen so it must be the directory submissions that are causing it.

Spent most of the week starting up a new site called Information Booth. Similar to Article Land in as much as it's based around an article content management system.

Update on the stats:

Google PR = 3 (No change)
Alexa Rank = 693,259 (Up 5,087 points or 0.73% on 3 month average)


Link Popularity:


Google = 34 (No Change)
Yahoo = 1253 (+26.56%)
All The Web = 661 (+50.38%)
Altavista = 1450 (+38.10%)


Article Land Stats


Number of Articles =13217 (+8.93%)
Number of Authors = 2145 (+7.6%)
Average Number of Visits per day = 690 (+15.19%)
Average Adsense Revenue = $11.61 per day (+27.02%)
Web Site Value = $6,424 (+91.42%)


OK the Google rank isn't going to change until the next quarterly Google update. Even then it may stay the same. The Alexa rank is still creeping up on the 3 month average. I am expecting it to jump quite considerably as we get towards Christmas as the 3 month average contains a lot of data before I started the promotion process.

Backlinks have shot up quite considerably, especially in Yahoo, All The Web & Altavista. I have managed to generate 1060 extra backlinks this week alone!!!

The Article Land stats are increasing steadily. This is good steady progress, which will provide good long term stability.

Adsense revenue has increased by an average of $2.47 a day. Steady income from one site averaging around the $11 per day mark over the week. On 5 of the days it was over $10 and on 3 occasions was over $13.

For the website value, I used the tool at http://www.glurk.com/. Although the accuracy of this evaluation may be suspect, at least it gives a baseline to measure against in future. The increase in one week is astonishing, the value of the site has almost doubled. This is mainly due to the traffic and backlink increases.

OK this week I'm going to continue with Directory Submitter and Article Post Robot to get even more backlinks into Article Land, and hopefully increase the adsense revenue as more traffic is generated.

Enjoy your week and make lots of money.

Steve