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Originally Posted by SEO_Mike
Great update Aequitas!
I was thinking earlier that this thread has been going for about a month or so, the halfway point theoretically based on my initial post, and I was wondering what people have learned so far. How much have you made? Did you find a new way of doing something that you had already been doing?
In short, what have you gained from participating in this thread?
To start things off, I learned a shit-ton about gaining backlinks fast. Made about $8 off the autoblogs. Learned how to create a XML driven MP3 player, and a Flash video player. Found out that video blogs can be profitable, and fun. And have really enjoyed the comments and information from all of you.
Your turn.
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Where to start well first off I started a little later then most but overall the site has been up and running for about a month now, I took the first day actually setting up and designing the website (One solid day), after which I spent the next week doing a few tweaks with the type of affiliate products I want on the site and deciding how much and where to put them on the site, testing the overall look and feel of it.
During the first week of the site my average visitors was 10 unique per day, which was killer traffic I mean shit I wish all my sites were getting 10 unique per day (Joke).
During the second week I placed 3 videos with my embeded URL on YouTube, Veoh, Dailymotion, and Live Video and I spent that entire week adding posts like crazy I think I added close to 100 posts that week. (Yes all 100% unique content) and after that week my average daily unique visitors wen't up to 49.
Then on week 3 well I really didn't do fuck all with the site I didn't do any additional advertising and I added maybe 10 to 20 more unique posts and spent the entire time learning how to create the flash player for the site, then made a ton of tweaks then at the end of that week my unique visitor count went up to an average of 82 per day.
And finally this last week I've looked a lot into putting my vids on mobile devices like the cell phones, PDAs, and Ipods, I also began to do a bit of PPC and added some more posts which brings up my daily average of unique visitors to 217.
Total profit so far is at $82 dollars but missed out on another $35 bucks because I started off promoting paid for free sign ups which I get $1.50 each and then it turns out a lot of my visitors were actually paying out which earns me $35 so I switched everything back so I get paid when my visitors sign up for the service and not just for the free account.
At this point I learned a lot about flash and a lot about expanding the reach of my video sites all around, I did a ton of thinking and work since I started up this challenge so it definately was a good one. My conversion ratios are pretty good right now as well.
For instance right now one out of every 16 people who click through on the ads sign up for a free account and one out of every 8 of those so 50% are signing up for the paid service which makes me $35 bucks each and the amount of people clicking through to the ads from my site stands at about 47%.
So to break that down 47% of visitors to my site click through to my affiliate offers, then about 58% of those are signing up for a free account and 50% of those free accounts are becoming paid accounts which are making me $35 each so I'm averaging a solid 50% CTR and actions around the board but when you do the math I make about $35 bucks for every 200 people I send to my site right now.
Once I start sending serious traffic to it I'll be curious to see if those numbers increase, hold, or fall but nonetheless by taking part in this thread I found myself to get a lot more done in terms of production and I also learned a lot so this has definately been a good thread to take part in.