Update On My Visitors - Week 1, midweek stats
264 Unique Visitors and Counting
8 new Links and Counting
Numebr 7 Google Page Rank - keyword=good at everything
Congratulations those of you visiting the website. We have made it to 264 Unique visitors this week and we are not even 4 days into it. Also of note we made it onto Google’s Index and onto the first page of results for “good at everything”. So for those of you joining us from Google search. Welcome.
I have been busy sending out emails to friends and family members and including my web address within the closing or signiture. Make sure you’re doing this, it really helps. If you’re tracking your referring sites through your host or your counter service then pay attention to where you are getting these referrals from. If you are unable to track referring websites, ie where the visitor came from then I suggest swithcing to Netfirms as your hosting service. They track all this stuff and update many times an hour.
Lesson 2 - How to increase traffic and links the correct way
There are many ways to increase the amount of links you have to your site and thus increase the amount of traffic. For those who don’t know, increasing links is the best way to increase your google page rank. You need people to link to your site. This will in turn increase the traffic, then increase links, then increase traffic, and on and on and on and….
The way to do this I will be talking about today is by posting in forums and posting comments to others blogs. Now I am not suggesting spamming links. Spamming links, for those who don’t know, is when you just visit sites and forums and post your link with no valuable addition to the site or the content within. Google, the mother of all search engines, is said to be privy to this and will actually decrease your page rank. So I don’t suggest doing that here. They also count the content within the site you are linked from as part of their rank so it must be similar to your site or it will not effect your rank and could negatively effect your rank.
Instead what I am suggesting is doing something such as I have done. First off I have set a goal to get at least 1 link to my site a day for the next three weeks (added to the list.) To do this I decided I needed to either ask people with similar content pages to link to my site and likewise I would link to them, or to post in different forums and blogs with a link to one of my pages. What I am doing in several of these forums is asking people to become a part of my website by following my progress. I am asking them to become a fan of what I am doing. (See my section on accountability for examples of how this will help you. How to Become Good at Everything - Volume 1, Chapter 1
An example of one of my posts in these forums is at a running forum where I posted about my goal to run the 4 minute mile. Runners are notorious for encouraging everyone around them so I thought this would be a great place to start. I then included a link to my 4 minute mile category and asked them to comment there and keep track of my progress. I have been back several times to reply to posts at the forums and have seen a bit of traffic come to my site from these posts. I have also seen one new link from an outside website who came to my site through a forum post.
Try these methods out and let us know how you are doing. Tips are apreciated and can help everyone succeed at increasing traffic and help me to reach 500,000 visitors a month.