Archive for the ‘Experiments’ Category

August
1

Stumble Upon Ads

Ad Campaigns, Traffic Generation, Experiments
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 I am looking for ways to increase my relevant traffic to my sites and one of the ways I’m trying is the Stumbleupon.com advertising. This advertising cost .05 cent per page view and brings up your entire site. I dropped $50.00 buck into it and added a couple of my sites to the campaign. I did start to see the increase in traffic once the site was registered but the capture rate is not really good enough for me to keep the ads running. Now the issue as I see it is that because the categories that you can list your site under are so general that when they hit your site it is very likely that it is not what they are really interested in. This causes them to just stumble on past it with out any capture. If you have a site that maps directly to a listed Categories you may do better than my sites. I am adding a different site to the campaign that fits the categories better to see if I get better results. As with any ad campaign that you do it is most important that when your visitor gets to your site that it is relevant to what they though they were clicking on.

May
27

Auto Link Requests

Experiments, Beginning SEO
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So this morning i decided to just go out and try an experiment with an auto email link generator. The one im using is in the Free version of Web CEO. I customized the first contact template so it was a little more natural in its read. I’m having it send out 73 request to barter for links ie. I get a link and in return I promote there site with a blog post or article on a relevant site.  

I’m playing with a site that I have that only gets about 25 avg hits a day and only has about 20 pages on it. It’s highest ranking on Google for a relevant keyword is 21.  

I want to find out at least 2 things: 

  1. What is the capture rate from these sites.
  2. What if any is the negative effect.

 

I did pick the sites that it is sending to and I did weed out my competitors as not to have them report me to Google. I also turned of the feature that auto sends a second and third email. I don’t like spam.  But if it’s a valid business request is it SPAM? That sounds like another subject for later. 

Stand by for the results. 

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