Comments on: $100K Site History – Quarter One 2006

By: Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » April 2006 - first Digg front page

Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » April 2006 - first Digg front page — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:13:35 +0000

[...] a pretty slow start to 2006, April was the month were Coolest Gadgets really started to take off. With the slowness of the [...]

By: Great Things I’ve Read — April 27 » Ask Shane.org

Great Things I’ve Read — April 27 » Ask Shane.org — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:05:31 +0000

[...] $100K Site History – Quarter One 2006 [...]

By: shashank4u

shashank4u — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:56:26 +0000

also i want to suggest you to add comment acknowledgment so that it will notify the commentors that your comment has been submitted and is waiting to be reviewed..

By: shashank4u

shashank4u — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:51:49 +0000

just jummped over here from my google reader to comment here..great and valuable information u r providing here selfmademinds has sticked to my mind..
eagarly waiting for your next post…
-Regards

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:45:11 +0000

Another good post, thanks Al.

So the message stick with it, trust in your site / skills rings true??

I can almost hear the cliff hanger ending music ringing in my ears.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:20:41 +0000

That is something I am going to look in to now. Right now the site is averaging close to 290 visitors per day and steadily rising. It tends to jump up each Monday to another step on the stats.

Time to work on retention I think. Thanks for the tip

By: Al

Al — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:57:25 +0000

I’ve just checked now and we’re running at 21% returning visitors, I reckon the drop is due to more search engine traffic and also the fact ads are a lot more optimized now for visitors to leave us.

If you’re getting 90% new visitors everyday think were your traffic would be if you could just make 10% of those repeat visitors or subscribers, certainly worth at least a thought.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:43:18 +0000

I forgot to mention that it’s interesting to see the visits by new and returning. Mine is a fair bit different over the last 3 months showing about 90% new (something I need to work on). It seems you had a fairly loyal following early 2006.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:40:15 +0000

Very interesting to see how the site grew. Starting a site can be hard and even the slightest drop in the beginning can make discouragement. Sticking with it is key here.