Getting Traffic From External Links

Posted by Rob 'n Mo

March 16, 2008

Hi,

You’ve probably noticed a few changes to the blog today. I added a few extra columns (scroll waaaaay down to the bottom and you’ll see what I mean), plus I am working on monetizing the site.

I also added EntreCard and purchased a link over at linkzi.com. So here is some preliminary results on how much traffic both are getting me:

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Links over at Linkzi.com cost me like $0.15 plus another $1.00 to make it. I purchased business and mo. Mo redirects to http://www.mohamedbhimji.com and business redirects to http://www.oibo.org.

Granted 8 visitors isn’t a lot - but as word spread about the site, early adopters should see benefits - especially as the site increases its Google pagerank and more people learn about it.

Words are cheap $0.01 per letter. So business cost me all of $0.08 and mo cost me a pretty $0.02 — total spent $0.10 plus $2.00 to make the words featured. Not bad.

So 8 visitors at $2.10 is $.2625 per visitor - I’d say much less expensive that adwords or any other PPC campaign.

Now EntreCard was free to register and in about 1 day it’s brought in 28 more visitors to the site using text based cards not cool graphical buttons. For for doing no work and getting 28 more visitors, I’d say the trade off was pretty good.

..anyway I’m on my way over to linkzi to buy more words!

Regards,

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Comment by Luke on March 17, 2008 @ 11:21 am

Woah, cool. I got ten and smart from linkzi. Awesome price, but I have some reservations as to how useful this will be

BTW, if you want some linkback, might want to post some comments on my 10k Luke blog. I have the plugin set up so that With 5+ comments your ref becomes nofollow-free.

Comment by Mohamed on March 17, 2008 @ 4:20 pm

Hi Luke,

It really depends on the long-term marketing of the site.

If you take a lok at the Million Dollar Homepage, the site is sitting at a Google PageRank of 6 and a fairly high Alexa count around 57,000.

Problem with the million dollar page is those damn small pixels!!

…a commenting I will go!!