Through the course of my bobbing and weaving with my sites, I’ve decided that I really do need a gameplan. I’ve been doing this for over a year. I’ve been moaning and groaning that things aren’t doing well one minute, and then saying Whoo hoo look at me the next. Never have I taken the time to see what isn’t working and building on what has been working for me.
So now I’m going to do that.
Yes it will be a lot of freakin’ work. Yes, yes it will. I am prepared for it. No matter how much it sucks butt. I will do it.
So anyhoo…
I’m going to write everything down - about one of my more successful sites.
1. How old is my site? (is it out of the sandbox)
2. What products am I selling?
3. Is it HTML or a Blog?
4. What Products seem to sell well so far - write them down!
5. Look at the competition - what are they doing?
- Keywords, MetaTags, Content, How the site is designed… more like that.
6. What shows up in search engine results for my niche keywords.
- Learn from it - to develop a comprehensive site. What’s eye-catching… good writing…
7. What template am I using for my site? How can I make it better.
8. Add relevant content and try to use unique content as often as I can
9. Use good images - not to overwhelm, but to provide buyer with a visual.
10. Take a look at the site from the Consumer’s point of view and not the Webmaster.
- What sucks about the layout? Content? Does the site load fast? etc.
So those are the 10 points I’ve come up with so far. I’m sure I’ll come up with more as this plan comes into effect. But I have to look at this as more of a system - rather than a hap-hazard splattering of sites on the Internet. Plans for all aspects - datafeeds, HTML, blogs, etc. Each has a plan… what works - what doesn’t and get it down - then I can extrapolate from that and build sites with less hassle… more flow.
[Thanks to 45n5 for setting this thought pattern in motion with his commentary on Small Success and Confidence. - There is a really good link there to a SitePoint forum piece on the success of Mook-Jon and CJ].
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June 27th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
When you’ve finished, I’ll buy the e-book!
June 27th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
LOL… ummm yeah
June 27th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
thanks for the mention empress. It was a real interesting read.
One other thing I see mentioned that I don’t do is mine my log files and write more about what people are arriving at a site for. Not my idea though.
June 27th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
Out of curiousity: What in the world is the “baby stuff” link? lol
I’ve been thinking into dabbling with selling text links myself, are you doing that? If so, do share…
June 27th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
You proabably know about this already but if not download Dr Andy Williams creating fat affiliate sites it’s well worth a read
June 28th, 2006 at 8:17 am
45n5 - LOL. The “baby stuff” link was brought to you by text-link-ads.com I signed up this site because it performs so terribly with adsense and I thought text ads (if they worked) would be the direction I went in putting anything on this site. So far I’ve had 2 offers to place up to 8 ads on this site. One of them was the baby stuff - which I think ends at the end of the month. It has nothing to do with this site, but I think they’re looking to move some clicks for that advertiser… so here they be. I think if the text link ads do take off - then I can be more selective of what I want on the site. Seriously didn’t know why they would put that link on this site… but I took it.
Mark - Hi! I haven’t read the Dr. Andy Williams article, so I’m going to scope that out. Thanks for the tip!
June 28th, 2006 at 9:04 am
thanks empress,I might give them a whirl if nothing else pans out.