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Niche Site Update - Getting Some Traffic

Filed Under Niche Sites 

I an starting to get a little bit more traffic on one of my niche sites. I mentioned in my last post that I had one visitor who came to my site through “mykeyword” as their search phrase. I now have had 2 additonal visitors using mykeyword in their search as well as two other visitors with different searches.

I haven’t checked on my position on Google when searching for my keyword as I do not want to inflate the search numbers for that keyword. Maybe that is silly, but I am weird that way. I wish there was a way to search for your keyword position in Google without Google actually logging that search.

My other niche site that hadn’t been indexed is still not indexed, but the Googlebot did visit after I posted the second article 2 days ago. I expect it to be indexed soon. My other niche sites are all indexed but are sitting quiet. That’s expected since I haven’t been posting on them any further.

I am really hoping to make some progress this weekend writing articles. I am tempted to hire someone to write a few articles for my first nich since I am getting some traffic, but I am just not sure the investment is worth it. I am trying to do all of this with minimal investment as there is no guarantee I would ever make my money back.

In the meantime, I did some more niche research and picked out a few domains. That part is a bit addicting so I need to be careful not to end up with too many domains that I’ll never have time for, but I also hate to not move on a domain when I can. Still thinking about that one.

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3 Responses to “Niche Site Update - Getting Some Traffic”

  1. Mrs S on October 11th, 2008 1:19 pm

    Have you registered with Google Webmaster Tools? It has a search screen where you can see:

    Impressions
    The top 20 queries in which your site appeared, and the percentage of the top 20 queries represented by each search.

    Traffic
    The top 20 queries from which users reached your site, and the percentage of the top 20 queries represented by each click.

    It lists the position against each of the keywords - so you can see how you are ranking without searching.

    Thanks to your previous post about PLR articles I managed to track down some free ones for my niche and have spent the afternoon re-writing some. I’m only focusing on two niches at the moment but need to put some more time and effort in. I’ve made a few cents in adsense so far and an affiliate sale so hopefully I’m heading in the right direction.

  2. Carrie on October 11th, 2008 4:38 pm

    I use GWT on my old site but haven’t added my niches yet. It’s on my to do list.

    I’m not sure if I am familar with the screens you are talking about as I haven’t spent too much time playing with it. My old site is a static html - each page would have to track separately which would be a big pain. With a WP theme site I am hoping all pages are tracked through the main site addition to GWT.

    Glad the PLR post helped you out. Be careful, there is alot of junk out there but as long as you re-write you should be good.

  3. Max@Viliat-Blog on October 16th, 2008 1:04 am

    I suggest to concentrate on getting quality back links to your niche sites. One strategy is to publish articles on ezinearticles.com and insert your niche url in Author bio. Will get you a good link from high PR site.

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