Today I'd like to drop a short note and brag about the traffic that a certain lens of mine is getting. The number of visitors that it receives has been growing steadily for quite some time, but only yesterday it hit the 7,000 a week and 150,000 total mark - hence this post. The screenshot of the weekly Lens Traffic statistics is attached below:
As you can see, it gets nearly 5 thousand visitors from Google alone, and about a thousand from Yahoo. Surprisingly it also gets about 870 direct visitors a week; if that means that people are bookmarking it and actually checking for updates, I couldn't be happier.
To be fair, I also have to say that this lens hasn't made any Amazon sales whatsoever (despite numerous Amazon modules on it), and has delivered a single third-party affiliate sale which gave me $1.91 comissions (LOL!). This can be either because the visitors are not really looking to buy anything, or because I have no idea how to monetize the traffic. I'm not sure which case I'd prefer, since if it's the second one, that means I can actually learn to make more money with it.
3 comments:
As a relative Squidoo Newbie, I would very much like to know which lens you are talking about so I could learn from observing it. I was feeling pretty good about getting google traffic on my wooden kitchen lens, but I'm not even into the hundreds yet, let alone thousands.
That said, hearty congratulations on your accomplishment! You must be doing something right SEO-wise to be getting that much traffic. I hope that you do figure out how to monetize it AND that you will teach what you learn.
wow that's great. Did you simply find a keyword with high search volume and low competition, or have you done a lot of link building to get the search engine placement for this kind of traffic?
Very impressive, the best I've done so far is 1500 a week. Nice going.
Jackie
Thank you for the comments!
There's nothing special about that lens to learn, it's all standard stuff; keywords in title and description and all that. I think low competition is the answer since apparently visitors don't "convert" well. I guess no one bothers to compete for search terms that don't make them money :)
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