Spent some time to go through the stats from some of the marketing efforts last week for the first full website I set up. Like they said if you don’t track your stats, you have no business at all.

Based on results using Google Analytics, I’ve found that the mix of things I’ve done has created some traffic so far. Only things that haven’t resulted in traffic yet are the articles posted on Ezinearticles.com, because they have not approved the articles as yet, sucks!

But that’s because I’m still in basic account mode, which takes a little while. I plan to upload more articles now so I can pass the basic stage. This means your articles get approved faster and you don’t have to wait over a week. Geesh!

Video Submission

I used tubemogul to submit a video I created to a ton of video sites. I thought I’d have to shoot a powerpoint video with slides on my computer screen, but I found a way around that. I just created stills using Photoshop with bullet points of my articles and a quick sentence below each bullet point.

The slides also had the address to the site on it and the final slide told the viewer to visit the website.

Tip: In the description of the video I added the actual link to the article page on my website. This helps with backlinks to your website.

I’ve found though that I haven’t had tons of traffic coming from the posting of the videos with tubemogul. 1 good thing though is that links from youtube are being shown as backlinks to the site.

Squidoo

I have created a squidoo lens already. It has only gotten 1 visitor to the page though, however I’m hoping that it gets picked up as a backlink to the site to help with the page rank.

I still need to work on posting comments on related blogs though using Icerocket.com. I’m figuring doing this will help bring more immediate traffic to the website.

From everything I’ve done so far, I’m realizing that it’s going to take much more effort. Basically a thing of volume volume volume. Can’t expect to get tons of results from just a few days of activities.

So I’ll be ramping up on the effort to get things going for this site. Also I won’t just stop and dwell on this one site, will be moving forward on the other sites I’m working on as well.

So more articles, external blog pages, video submissions, commenting and tracking this week.

Will report back on efforts and results!

- TRENDS