Blog traffic

Let’s face the truth! In spite of all good free ebooks on “how to drive free traffic” literature, increasing traffic on any kind of site, requires some work and a bunch of skills.

On the other hand…

How much would you pay someone that actually drives traffic to his sites, to help you get visitors?

I asked myself lots of times this question and I found the answer extremely difficult to find… And you know why? Take a close look at the picture below. The screenshot, was taken a few minutes before starting to write this article.

The blog shown in the screenshot, is my first one. (Right-click and “Open in new tab/window” to see a full sized image) I started it way back in 2007. To be very specific, in april 2007. Almost four years ago.

The screenshot says I passed today, (12th of January 2011) over 17,000 visitors!

I set up the counter somewhere in 2008, because the internal blog counter counted all visits and it lacked options for ignoring self hits, repeated hits, so I used to have more than 300 hits daily, which, even for a beginner, seemed to me a little weird. After installing it, it proved that the real amount of traffic, was some 5% of the hits shown by the internal hit counter.

Wow! It was bad. I mean, falling down from the heavenly 300/day to 15/day… How did it feel? How do you think? How would YOU feel? Should I tell you that I had days with 1 visitor? Yes. This is the best way to speak. The truth! My average traffic, fall to some 8 visitors /day. I felt deceived, and for some time, I abandoned the idea of building an online business, based on the blogging model.

Still… How can you build a writer’s career, without writing? And what might be the best place to publish your work, other than a blog? There are so many FREE blogging platforms that ignoring this huge advantage, seems to me now an insane decision. Still, I made this mistake. I neglected my blog for months…

However, it is a legitimate question: How did I get to this amount of traffic?

Well… The year 2007, meant a real change in my life. I came to understand one simple thing: Using my talents is the only way to make a living online. A full-time job. Lucky me, I had a previous offline business experience, as a freelancer, for 14 years. And I realised that only working my talents hard enough, will lead me to unique results. And the day came! I published some parts of a novel I am still working on. And… There we are! Traffic exploded. In the next two years, you may see what happened…

This is how I learned two lessons… Actually, more than two, but here they are:

1. Quitting, means losing. Success, is a different kind of food…

2. Using my talents, is a far better and way faster path to creating quantity AND quality.

Another lesson was that the market is divided into “chunks”. In marketing, those chunks are called NICHE.

I will discuss about how I came to understasnd the concept of “niche” in another article.

And before saying good bye, I would like to ask you to leave a comment below this article. Thanks in advance! :)

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Updates — January 8, 2011

I’ve been very busy lately so I’m a little late with the news.

Since 16 December 2010, many things have happened!

A new eBook. I have developped and launched a new infoproduct for the Romanian market: “Conexiunea Minte-Inima”. I already received a good feed-back.

My main goal was to find out how much time it takes me to setup a new income stream, from “hour 0”, to “ready”.

I think that this is the core data when it comes to planning. I am happy to say that it took me 96 hours (four days) of work.

Was it hard?

Well, it depends on how you made your choice regarding the type of business you want to get involved into. It is a long story, so I will probably split it into smaller chunks.

The answer is both affirmative and negative.

From the piont of view of the hours per day, I might say yes. But if I do what I like, what I was gifted to do, things turn to be very different. Time passes away in a pleasant way, even if there is a lot of work to do.

So, the overall feeling was “happy”, “successful”.

Now I am sure that IT IS POSSIBLE. Or, otherwise, maybe more strightforward, DOABLE.

FREE Online Business Course. After this project was set on auto-pilot, I moved to a more complicated one. It took me some 16 days of hard-working to develop, but I am sure it worths every bit of a second I invested in it!

I have started an online business course. It is structured on 24 modules, it aims to help the students start their online business without spending a dime. And, best of all, it is FREE! Meaning that the money spent is 0 (zero!). Zero for attending the course, zero for setting up the core of the online business! A complete ZERO MONEY BUSINESS STARTUP!

We even expect the attendees to make their first buck online, and break this psychological bareer!

The course is now running with a team of testers and I am glat to announce that, although the official launch is on 14th of january 2011, we already have good feed-back.

So, by the launch time, we belive that first fine-tunings on the content will already be available. Actually, by the time of writing this line, 3 updates were issued for the stuff provided.

So, I belive things woll go wonderful after the official launch!

Briefly speaking, the second income stream was in position by the end of 2010.

What that means?

Simply spoken, an easy to compute result is: An average of 10 days per infoproduct, from start to launch!

Now assuming that advertising and the rest of marketing involved means some other 10 days, the sum rounds up to 15 days per product.

Why is this figure necessary?

The new year’s resolution. Well… Another thing I’ve done lately is polishing my New Year’s Resolution. Even if in Romania this habit is still something to be achieved, desirable, I belive that this is one great thing to copy from the ones that apply it.

In what’s concerning me, I had previous experiences with this type of planning so I belive it works, because it works for me. And if it works for so many others, it works for me, that means that this HAS TO work for anyone who dares to make the steps! Yeap! It is that simple!

Second eBook. After I wrote my resolution and talked with Monica, my wife about her, we agreed how to join our personal resolutions and then, I went to the next step. I had in mind something I skipped in the online business course. In the second module, I presented an equation, a formula. The Success Formula. It is a story a little too long for news with this formula, so I’ll skip over it. Basically, it is a simple mathematical formula that is able to offer you an extremely valuable information: THE SUCCESS POTENTIAL. It is based on Radiestesic measurements, and actually allows the calculation of the amount of energy that a certain project or action has accumulated by the time of the measurements.

In other words, how much potential of success has “action X”. Assuming that X means buying a car, the measurement will tell you some very useful stories about the fate of your plan. Will you succeed? Is it the best time to do it? And if this is the wrong time, why is it so?

So, simply spoken, The Success Formula eBook, tells you what you can achieve using Radiestesia in querrying your potential for success, in a certain direction. The applications of the method are limitless, since you can ask anything, from how a marriage will go on, to market research, investments, and so.

I will be probably be back with more details, when I have more significant info.

A new blog and eBook. The next infoproduct developped and released as the first this year, is a blog called “Radiestesia and Success”, also for the Romanian market. I belive it is already a success since it got listed on Google first page in 48 hours after its launch.

Now it has the first 4 positions on the first page, for the searchstring “radiestezie şi succes”. I am planning to cover all the results of the first page with this project!

We’ll see what happens in time.

Also as part of this project I wrote an eBook, a guide for people who seek answers and consulting for their various needs. I offered there all the info the interested people might need to make a well informed choice.

According to what the results on the Romanian market will be, I think I will make an English version of this project.

For now, this is all the news.

I hope that this info will be helpful for any online business beginner, especially for those aiming to create their own infoproduct, and grow their business by the means of creating infoproducts and selling them, either personally, or using affiliate distribution channels.

I would be very glad if you’d leave me a comment with your oppinions!

Sucessfull online money making!

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Special Gift No 1

I always belived that my visitors are my potential friends and business partners. As my home business skills developped, I wanted more and more to offer something to all people like YOU, that visit my sites and share their Time this fabulous resource with me.

So, instead of simply saying “Thank You for visiting”, I want to do more than that. I want you to feel that the world can be different.

So, jujst saying “thanks”, for me means only half of my job done.

That is why I invite you to listen and if you like, to download FREE, my audio album Masters Of The Light.

I am sure this album will help you grow your self-confidence in your native skills TALENTS — And I strongly belive that, because this album is the result of using my musical talent, without any other musical instruction.

It is just like that: I hit the keys, I listen and then decide how would it be? Does it sound how it does inside me?

So, if you are in doubt about developing your talents, wether because of your age, or because of any other reason you may imagine you have, forget it!

Below, is the link to the page where the full album can be FREELY downloaded. On the same page, there is a short story of the album “Masters Of The Light”. So, enjoy it!

http://bit.ly/eehqJ9

I have more other gifts to come for my visitors, so stay close to this site! You’ll be soon rewarded! ;)

Even better, you can subscribe to my NewsLetter!

You will receive the latest news, directly through your mail!

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First steps

The database creation was easy, nothing went wrong. The WP install, was even easier than other scripts I installed before. What took me lots of time comparing with DB and install procedures, was switching from one page to another, writing down account data, config data and so. Anyway, it took me somewhere around one hour to set it up, including the database and the file I store the informations related to the login data and DB data.

I made also a banner for this site so that took me also some time. Uploading it failed (I guess I have a pretty good idea where it came from…) so I had to make a workaround to be able to show it…

I made then some configurations to the WP script. Ther common ones, regarding the look & feel.

I went then to the backup phase and I backed up all, then downloaded the backup files. Just in case… Who knows what idea might cross my mind next day, or who knows when…

I hope those posts in this category will help beginners overrule some obstacles in their own quest for a CMS-based site.

OK!

One thing that is important for any site is the traffic. That is why I wanted to install the stats plugin. It’s convenient!

Plugins installation through the dashboard failed so, I had to do it “manually”. However, even “manually”, is as esay as the docs say! Just a few file ops.

The only thing that was wrong, was the way I understood the term “manually”. The “manual” installation is also very automated so I forgot about what the docs say regarding the “rights” section. This is how I came to mix the owners. Since WP was uploasded by admin, meaning webhost admin there was a difference between “WP admin” and “webhost admin”. That was what generated the upload failure. So, I chmod the right dirs and things went OK.

The other way, could have been re-installing and chmod-ing from the beginning all needed dir structure. But I left it for later installs.

Now, the other things to see would be inserting JScripts in posts. Very important for blog monetizing. Many Affiliate programs require an ID-checker script to be uploaded on site, and this is a condition for accepting you “inside”. Google AdSense for instance, or any other contextual Ad-serving application.

OK, thast’s it, for now!

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Fresh start

Today I decided to move to something more proficient. I uploaded and configured WordPress 3.0 on my site. So, it’s a fresh start.

It is more convenient to add content through a CMS than create web pages manually. I used to do it until now, but this was a time-sucking job so, I moved to something more useful and less time-consuming.

Besides, this is also something that potentially can generate a nice revenue. Knowing all the issues that might appear under those circumstances, increases knowledge and makes my offer more flexible! :)

Blogging, nowadays is widespread, but installing a script, seems to be for most of those who want their own domain and site, a difficult task. So, here I am, dealing myself with admin tasks.

All went well so far, including the backup and backup download, except some weird behaviour of WP when it came to upload something… Where does it come from? It is likely due to some webhost account admin related problems. I already guess what it is, but let’s see if this is the case…

My webhost account forbids me to chowner and I needed to add a user… If anything else goes wrong and it might, if I need to upload something from WP and if this is the only way WP accepts media in posts, there IS a problem and solving it, might need a reinstallation…

That is what I’m going to observe in the next days…

So, in what’s concerning Şerban Stănescu‘s online presence, here is a major shift!

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