Getting Traffic
I’ve been experimenting with web programming and site building for a few years now, but it has been on an as time permits basis. It is something I hope to be a skill I can add to my I.T. resume. All the sites I worked on before have never generated any traffic worth mentioning. Somehow the spammers always find them, but the intended audience never does. Things are changing a bit and for the better this time.
The two newest sites, Go Caching and aURL, have been getting some search engine traffic. Go Caching in particular has been getting hits several days in a row. I purposely chose the domain name because it has an appropriate name for the site, and because there is a possibility of people typing GoCaching instead of GeoCaching. The content I’m adding to the site seems to be covering some subjects people are googling. Several long tail search phrases (most weren’t that long) that I have seen in my MyBloglog stats have resulted in my site showing in the top five items returned, often ahead of sites that have been around for years. To me that’s pretty exciting considering the site is only about six weeks old. Hopefully it can only get better, and if traffic continues to build I can think about monetizing it.
Posted: May 11th, 2009 under Our Sites.