Here’s a quickie little post for the day – I somehow recently came across a new site AllDroppingDomains.com that has potential for internet marketers.
The site shows tons of domains that are about to expire, and you can easily rank them according to PageRank, Alexa, links; whatever you want.
You can also do keyword searches to find domains in your niche.
How would you use this? Well, if you’re trying to enter the fly fishing market, why not check out the tool see if there is a domain that’s dropping with your keyword in it, evaluate it by PR, Alexa and inbound links and if it’s worth it, scoop it up!
Getting an established domain can really help kickstart your site; especially if it already has traffic that is relevant to your niche.
I just realized I was halfway through February and I’d forgotten to mention January’s traffic. Probably because it’s not much to speak of. Nevertheless, I did decide I was going to do it every month, so here goes.
Popularity Indicators
Alexa: 796,652 (down from 752,548)
Google PR: 3
Technorati Authority: 10, Fans 1
RSS Subscribers: 20 (up from 18)
The Golden Rule
January 2008 Absolute Unique Visitors: 882 (Dec was 1044)
Pageviews: 1069 (1.24 per visit)
Inbound Links
Google: 14
Yahoo: 658 (up from 597 last month)
So there you have it. I checked and that’s the 12th traffic post. I started this blog at the beginning of February last year. 9497 people have read stuff on this site, so I guess that’s kind of cool. I’ve been in some sort of contact with nearly 10,000 people through this site in one year. I think I’ve made a buck or two on Adsense, though I’ve only put it on a couple of posts, and for only a little while. To be quite honest, I’ve been focusing mostly on other stuff – this isn’t a money making venture.
What’s Next?
Going forward, I might keep on doing this traffic thing, but probably only every three months, possibly six.
I’m gradually working on redoing the site. New theme with a more helpful layout. I’ve decided to start offering updates via Aweber, and you can see the sign up form on the right. We’ll see, that might replace my feedburner.
I think I’m also going to try to identify a topic that will be useful to visitors here and create a short report on that.
So that’s basically the scoop as we stand here at 1 year. Cheers.
As an internet marketer living in Canada, probably 90% of my efforts go into marketing in other countries. However, as I’m sure you’re aware, Google likes to serve up local search results based on where you are located. This can sometimes make things tricky, like if I’m trying to analyze my PPC competition in Australia, or the US.
Quite a while ago I came across a site called AdwordsAnywhere, and it let you do a search, then choose which country you wanted to search from. It would then return the results inside a frame.
This was very helpful, if a little cumbersome, but recently I went back to the site and found it didn’t exist any more. I still don’t know what happened to those guys, but it seems as though they’ve disappeared.
Thankfully, that led me on a quest for a replacement, and that replacement is the Google Global Firefox Extension.
It works seamlessly in Firefox, so when you’re searching for something, in the space of about two clicks you can repeat your search in any area of the world. It’s pretty cool.
This is super helpful for any localized SEO work, as well as localized PPC and the like.
Go check it out. It’s free.
It seems ironic that I appear to post more often about how much traffic this blog is getting than about much else. However, it was a promise I made to myself back when I started, so I’ve kept it up. Here goes for December:
Popularity Indicators
Alexa: 752,548 (up from 816,630)
Google PR: 3 (increased from 2)
Technorati Authority: 9 (down from 10), Fans 1
RSS Subscribers: 18 (up from 14)
The Golden Rule
December 2008 Absolute Unique Visitors: 1044 (Nov. was 1029)
Pageviews: 1293 (1.24 per visit)
Inbound Links
Google: 14 (up from 12)
Yahoo: 597 (down from 742 last month)
Okay, so what to make of this? Well, page rank is up a bit, which is cool. RSS is also up a bit, percentage wise, which is cool. Regarding the links, I’ve started noticing that what they catch varies on a daily basis. On top of that, if I’ve got a link coming from a particular blog from a comment I’ve made, and they’ve got a plugin that displays recent comments on all pages of the blog, within a couple days I could shoot up dozens of links, only to have them drop off once the comment isn’t current anymore.
Well about the only thing I’ve done consistently around this place lately is chart the traffic.
It’s pathetic. I’ve made I think two meaningful posts here in November, and even those weren’t great. If you’re following my blog, I sincerely thank you. I should mention that I’ve started blogging on small business marketing issues on my other site – www.smartfusion.ca. Might want to check in there as well.
Here goes:
Popularity Indicators
Alexa: 816,630 (down from 567,990)
Google PR: 2 (same as last month)
Technorati Authority: 10 (down from 11), Fans 1
RSS Subscribers: 14 (up from 12)
The Golden Rule
November 2008 Absolute Unique Visitors: 1029 (last month I had 1024)
Pageviews: 1321 (1.23 per visit)
Inbound Links
Google: 12 (down from 20)
Yahoo: 742 (Up from 557 last month)
Well, traffic was almost identical to the previous month. I mean, we’re talking like 5 visits off. Strange. Guess that happens. About the only thing that I’ve worked on recently was building links to the site, and wonder of wonders, that has shown some major improvement.
I picked up Angela’s amazing link package over at the Warrior Forum (it’s like $5 a month and you get 30 amazing links – ridiculously cheap). So I’ve been following through on a bunch of her link suggestions and I guess that is making an impact in the link department. It will be interesting to see how much of an effect that has on page rank, because many of those links come from PR5 and up sources.
