15 Apr
After spending almost 2 hours first thing yesterday morning customising the theme, I couldn't believe my eyes this morning when WP Stats told me that yesterday this site only received 2 visitors!Thankfully, it took me all of 10 seconds to realise that I had not done 1 very important customisation to the theme - adding a call to wp_footer to the footer of the theme.
This is annoying, as I went into the footer to do it and added Google Analytics in, and I must have forgotten before saving and moving on.
Maybe it was taking me so long to get the job done that I was becoming frustrated. Well, I did start at 7:30 in the morning.
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14 Apr
Welcome to the new look RealWebTraffic.co.uk website!We are still carrying the same content, ideas, thoughts and inspirations as we have done previously, but it has been niggling me for a while that I was no longer happy using the theme that was installed.
Yes, it was a lovely theme, but I felt it had grown old and tired. Over recent weeks I had chopped bits out and reduced the advertising carried to make it more readable, but I had never been totally satisfied that it was doing exactly what I now wanted it to look like.
The heavy emphasis on advertising has been dropped - just one block over on the right to earn some commissions and clicks. This leaves more space in the content for actual writing, and a few pictures along the way!
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1 Mar
I've built plenty of new sites for customers and I've built sites for my own purposes with the intention of the site earning me a good income, but I've never really built a new site and set myself a realistic, but challenging, target of getting it building some decent traffic. I've usually relied on the search engines picking up the site and a trickle of visitors. But this usually leaves me disappointed.
To put in a new site and get it tons of traffic takes time and effort. There's no doubt about that. But I tend to have so many sites on the go at any one point that I can't dedicate the time to working on just one site, when I'm juggling several other sites that are actually earning a little bit of an income.
I've been asked to work with a customer to promote his business on a percentage share scheme. Effectively, it's a small affiliate marketing scheme between us. To do this I need to produce a website, without too much effort but plenty of content, and send to him a good number of leads.
It's a broad theme so I can see that adding Google Adsense and a few affiliate schemes could lead to potentially good earnings.
So I've set myself a little challenge. Today is the 1st March. By 30th April - 2 months down the line, I will have gone from a tentative idea in the back of my mind to a website listed in search engines and generating around 500 page hits per day.
That's quite some ask. This challenge is part time, not a full time work. I'm going to be doing everything in evenings after a full day's work, around everything else that needs to be done in the evenings. It will need a site building, registering and hosting. Plenty of unique content putting up and loads of good links into the site.
That alone will not get me the traffic I need. Maybe a small amount, but not enough to supply traffic in the quantities that I want to generate sufficient leads to make the project worth while. There are tricks such as local advertising, but I don't want to spend any money advertising the site - that's the second part of the challenge. The only cost will be getting the website off the ground.
So I will also need to try something that I've not done before properly - posting on forums, blogs and so on. All of the tricks and tips I tell my customers they should be doing.
It will be a great way of testing what I teach my customers to do. The first thing to do tonight is some decent keyword research. What keywords look easy enough to tackle at first, but have enough traffic? Also, what URLs are available relevant to those keywords? Follow the full story - it's success or failure - in the
pages of the blog.
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