Need conversion recording software

I realized that traffic to sites is not consistant. Perhaps instead of concentrating on getting more we b traffic perhaps I should concentrate on improving more conversions.

To know if my conversions are improving or not appears easy. Just look at how many people bought divided by the number of unique visits. If only there was software that would record and display this just as easily as web traffic is displayed.

Perhaps there is conversion recording and analysis software - I just have not found it yet.

Adsense is back

Looks like the changes I made the last time worked. I am once again earning money from adsense. Its not much but sufficient to host the websites. Also I do not have to physically do anything but just keep the regular traffic visiting.

I guess I really should put some more effort in getting the sites do better. There is whole lot I can do and know about all the things I need to do. However I just cannot create a large enough time slot to do all the activity. The flip side is I can do all this work and know that it is not sufficient to cover my labour costs. However there is the slight possibility that my efforts will pay off to bigger amounts of lucre.

Ofcourse I do not do adsense for the money at this time. My websites are a simple distraction from the day to day work. A hobby you may say that keeps me curious, interested and learning new things that will help me out when I need that next job or contract.

Where is my Adsense

I am posting after a very very long time. Have been really busy.

Did not bother updating my sites because the income from them appeared
steady until this month., April 2006.

Google Adsense began to decline rapidly. When I looked it appeared google was not placing Adsense on my sites - but - when I looked again it does seem that it depends on which IP I use to browse my website.

I do think for the most part google is not serving Adsense. Perhaps I need to look at some other source of Income or get google to serve Adsense once more.

August - Back on the Saddle

July was one of the lowest traffic months I have ever had. I thought that affiliate marketing had lost its charm, but I was wrong.

Success in affiliate marketing depends a lot on your product and the search engine that likes you.

The first week of August, Yahoo loved me. I had more unique traffic from yahoo than MSN. In fact I had no (zero) traffic from MSN for a month. But in the last week MSN has begun rubbing against my web sites. I made a few changes this weekend and - have shot up in MSN traffic.

Why am I excited about MSN ?

It is no secret that I am selling Apple mini ipods And in August I have averaged about five you heard right 5 unique visitors from MSN every day, and every day someone has bought something ! It just so happens the items are priced decently and every sale gives me a nice little income.

So what changes did I make to my apple mini ipods websites to make MSN like me - I am not telling :-) But, I will tell you that for my products, a SERP position at first postition on Yahoo is not as valuable as Tenth position on MSN !!

If I move up higher in the SERPs, perhaps I will get more iPod traffic from MSN and perhaps I would begin selling iPods Accessories. And I could care less about my SERP position in Yahoo, there simply is not money in that demographic for my product.

Mid July Review

The traffic is the lowest I have every had. MSN and Yahoo have moved buy 24 hour shopping to the second page and my Best Buy 24 hour shopping to the bottom of first page.

Also figured out that Blogs do not have the anticipated effect of improving search ranks. But I guess some links to my sites are better than none, So I will keep doing this.

Also found out that some forums that appear to be providing signature links to search engine, do not do this. So I will only look for search engine friendly forums.

Learned a new technique to calculate CTR of the keywords. This should impact the way I select keywords for my sites. I should revise my existing keywords and drop the unprofitable ones - it would also give me a chance to see if this algorithm works.

Just need to find more time to do work on my sites. Working on other stuff elsewhere and should be busy for a few months before I can look at my sites again.

Waiting for PR update

A lot of things have kept me busy and away from blogging.

My sites have low traffic and I have dropped in the SERPs, primarily due to more competition in the keywords that I have targetted. So, I made some small optimizations and lets see if they will help me regain my ranking.

Naturally the income has dropped because I am not using PPC to drive traffic. My concentration at the moment is on two domain names that I am trying to increase the PR. I understand there is a PR update around July 9th, 2005 so I hope that once the PR of these two domains kick in I can use their weight to boost my SERP position for the current domains and hopefully I will not need to use PPC at all.

More after the PR update.

Web Hosting compare and review site

Web Hosting Compare is a web hosting comparision and review site that I just build. Still need to populate the web site with hosting information.

I really like the way the database search and locate is going to work. I think it will be a lot more useful that the hosting directories you find on the internet.

This is a very competitive market and I will have my work cut out for me to build links and unique content for this website. I already have some knowledge and experience in web hosting and it would have a lot of my personal experiences and also useful resource links that I frequently use.

How will this site be different from other web hosting sites ? It will be different because it will focus on software support by web hosts rather than simply price and uptime comparisions.