The Poor Man’s BANS Is Performing Well (Update)
With the mild success of a half ass attempt at setting up an eBay affiliate site, I decided to put some real effort into an ever better site. Google’s index was reporting some very unusual variations during the first week or so, but now, RollaParts.com has over 350 pages indexed in Google. This means traffic, and good traffic at that (organic traffic can provide amazing results compared to other types of traffic). Here’s a screen shot showing how many visitors came from Google as of 3-4PM est, today.
Those are some pretty decent stats for such a new site if you ask me. Not only that, but the Pages/Visit column shows people actually using the site to shop around. This proves the page offers value to visitors. People like my mom are easily overwhelmed, and sometimes eBay’s home page is covered in useless shit - not very effective, but what do I know?
The site is performing well and showing up for highly targeted keywords. Those are buying words - no, “tutorial” or “how-to” or “picture.” Just the product, “let me check out and go.” I wonder how these stats would look if this were a make-up site instead of a car parts site. Would the search terms be any different?
Whatever, I’m burnt out from this weekend, but a lot was accomplished. Until next time…
Update v2.
Ok, so it’s not quite next time, but I decided to check analytics again before finally getting some sleep. Here’s an update:
Ok, seriously. I’m done for the day. Hey, I’ll bet you can’t laugh without smiling.
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Hi Guy,
Congrats! After reading your article yesterday, I manage to put one up after an hour or so. Things is, how do I categorise the feed into different categories. Do I do it edit it one by one by assigning them different categories or is there a less tedious way?
Yesterday it was a hundred post, today another hundred so now I have 200 posts. To do that manually for 100 posts each day will be terribly time consuming won’t it?
Thanks!
In the syndication tab, click edit next to the feed. On the right hand side you should have the ability to choose categories there. The way you explained it sounds as if you’re adding each individual post to it’s own category. Instead, add each feed to a category, or categories.
On RollaParts.com, each category has its own feed.
nice stats. I am still waiting for $$ on my site. I finally got the clicks to register with CJ, though, so we are making some progress.