Training today was a waste of time for me because I have already been banned from Adsense. I’m not sure why it happened, but it did and you pretty much have no recourse, so I fast-forwarded through most of today’s training and signed up for a Kontera account so I can use it on Hubpages and some of my other blogs.
Phrase Statistics
- total visitors through Aug. 25 - 255
- total pageviews through Aug. 25 - 537
- unique visitors through Aug. 25 - 218
- product 1 link clicks - 93
- product 1 CTR - 43% (Good!)
- unique visitors since putting up product 2 - 23
- product 2 link clicks - 12
- product 2 CTR - 52% (Great!)
- sales - none
This tells me both my products are nearly equally good and my copy is slippery enough. But it seems nobody is buying this month anywhere.
SERP
- phrase matched - #70 or bottom of page 7 in Google search
- broad matched - #163 or page 17 in Google search
Even though my primary phrase fits within TDC criteria, it’s got tough competition at the top to break into. It looks like it will take more time than the month of the challenge to really benefit from SEO.
Adwords
I reevalueated using Adwords and I just can’t afford it. The notes are clear that you need to be able to put up $100/day and the usual amount is $500/day. That is way out of my budget.
Other Traffic Generation
- Continue writing content for the blog
- Continue social bookmarking new content on Digg, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Mixx, Technorati, Delicious, Reddit, Blinklist and propeller. I will start bookmarking on Blogging Zoom today.
Keywords
It’s hard to work on keywords right now since most of my traffic is coming from Web 2.0 sites and primarily StumbleUpon. There are some keywords I can work on more based on the posts visited, however.
Decision notes
I’m going to look for another phrase in the same niche first.
If I can’t find one quickly, I’ll look in another niche entirely and see what I can get up on the web before the end of the challenge.
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