Be a Go Getter and 1800 Plus Visitors A Day
So the Blogtown Press blog network isn’t quite where I had hoped it would be 6 months after it’s launch back in November. But it has taught me a lot.
One of the main things it has taught me is that you have to be a go getter when it comes to the world of building a network of sites. You can’t sit around and wait for advertisers to come to you, wait for Google to make you rise in the ranks or make visitors visit your blogs. You have to do the steps to get them.
The steps that you read every single day from every other entrepreneurial blog regurgitating the same rhetoric, “link exchange, mind your PR, post regularly, stick to one niche.” You’d think I would have learned by now. But it’s taken me a year of learning from experience.
I know spend most of my free time at night and in the morning paging through Digital Point Forums looking for exchanges and deals to sell links on all the blogs in the network. It’s a lot of work and now I’m working at streamlining that process so people can find all the information at once.
In doing this I started to realize that I haven’t done that bad. I could have done worse. In my last earnings report I reported that Blogtown Press, including this blog, made roughly $350.00, showing that we’re making progress!
Also I began to work on a network page for advertisers to go to that makes it easier for them to see all the important stats about the blog network. Things like, PR, indexed pages, backlinks, uniques, RSS, etc. It’s all over at out new Blogtown Press Blog Network Advertising Page. Most of it is automated and as I work along I’ll figure out a way to automate everything.
But it gives advertisers a great snap shot of the network to see where they’d best fit their brands or products.
As I was doing this I noticed that the network now gets over 1800 unique visitors per day, has over 340 RSS subscribers (OK this is really low) and has over 1200 posts!