So, after a few months off I'm finally back to the website game. A few things have been going on in the last few months since I last updated. Most importantly for web work is the fact that my web design group has been reduced to two.
The fun thing is that the current project that I'll be working on is a big one. I'll be giving updates as things progress but right now the plan is for a six month long experiment. This will be by far the biggest project I've worked on so hopefully things will be profitable.
The other thing that has kept me from staying up to date is that the doctor found I had a hernia. I spent one month before surgery afraid to do anything that would aggravate it and another month on the couch recovering from surgery. Lots of tv, little work. But that's all in the past now.
One other thing that I'm currently working on/promoting is SEO product reviews. I posted my a Build My Rank review last night. In short, it's probably my most recommended product at the moment.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Going Fish
So, what are we up to this month? We have moved from the highly technical area of thermal imagers to the fairly low tech field of fishing. But we haven't gone completely away from technology. In fact, we're bringing as much technology to fishing as possible by creating a site to sell fish finders.
I was pretty surprised to discover the size of the market for fish finders. It was really just a random thing where we were going through products that we were considering selling and we ran across them. A little bit of research showed tens of thousands of searched for fish finders each month. Now I have no clue how many actual sales there are for fish finders but it seems like the market is a lot larger than I would have ever imagined.
The other pleasant surprise with our fish finder research deals with specific models. Many of the individual models have relatively low competition. What I mean is this: we know that there are a lot of searches for a product like cars on the internet. But there are also searches for specific models like say Ford Explorer. While there may be only 500 searches a month for a specific model of fish finder, most should be relatively easy to land on the first page of search results. This isn't a big deal for one product but if you can do it with 20 products, then you're getting somewhere.
It's looking like we may spend the month of June promoting our existing sites. It's not a very exciting thing to do but it's important. It doesn't matter how many sites you have if you don't get traffic on any of them. I'll be sure to update everyone on how to promotion goes and if it goes to plan.
I was pretty surprised to discover the size of the market for fish finders. It was really just a random thing where we were going through products that we were considering selling and we ran across them. A little bit of research showed tens of thousands of searched for fish finders each month. Now I have no clue how many actual sales there are for fish finders but it seems like the market is a lot larger than I would have ever imagined.
The other pleasant surprise with our fish finder research deals with specific models. Many of the individual models have relatively low competition. What I mean is this: we know that there are a lot of searches for a product like cars on the internet. But there are also searches for specific models like say Ford Explorer. While there may be only 500 searches a month for a specific model of fish finder, most should be relatively easy to land on the first page of search results. This isn't a big deal for one product but if you can do it with 20 products, then you're getting somewhere.
It's looking like we may spend the month of June promoting our existing sites. It's not a very exciting thing to do but it's important. It doesn't matter how many sites you have if you don't get traffic on any of them. I'll be sure to update everyone on how to promotion goes and if it goes to plan.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Seeing (infra)red
I haven't posted too much lately because of a crazy month of April with Easter and spring and planting flowers and all of that stuff. But I thought I'd share how our latest project has been going. In March we worked on creating a site to sell lock picks. I mentioned before how that didn't work out as planned. We've actually seen some success with this site and we've made some sales but we learned that lock picks aren't that expensive so you don't make much in affiliate income.
So, April's plan was to find a product that was expensive and would earn a considerably higher amount of affiliate income for each sale. We considered a big ticket item like televisions but decided that the competition was too high for that. What we finally settled on was thermal imaging equipment. This equipment isn't cheap (actually it's more expensive than an HD tv) but there are a number of uses for it and there are many different kinds of thermal equipment.
Because we all fell behind in April, we're just finishing up our work for April so there's really no telling how successful this venture will be. But we are bringing in traffic right now which is a good thing. In time this will hopefully translate into sales but for now it's just eyeballs. The first sale will be exciting because it will be worth our investment in time and money and provide proof that we're moving in the right direction.
So, April's plan was to find a product that was expensive and would earn a considerably higher amount of affiliate income for each sale. We considered a big ticket item like televisions but decided that the competition was too high for that. What we finally settled on was thermal imaging equipment. This equipment isn't cheap (actually it's more expensive than an HD tv) but there are a number of uses for it and there are many different kinds of thermal equipment.
Because we all fell behind in April, we're just finishing up our work for April so there's really no telling how successful this venture will be. But we are bringing in traffic right now which is a good thing. In time this will hopefully translate into sales but for now it's just eyeballs. The first sale will be exciting because it will be worth our investment in time and money and provide proof that we're moving in the right direction.
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