Earnings are like Buses
Wed, 29 November, 2006 – 11:04 pm
My earnings are like buses. No sales all month and then 3 come at once. 2 eBooks within hours (most likely the same person) and then a template via a sub affiliate's site netting as much as each eBook did! These 3 sales may have just helped us pass the $100 mark this month as AdSense blindness has dropped our income from PPC by about half and I'm still getting the product info into the database for our digital product selling site.nnIn the other news today, Mark's started up a Wikipedia experiment by using a mispelt word to see how well the content can work and rank. His post prompted me to check on the stats of a site we threw up in the early summer using a mispelt word in the domain and targetting it on the web site. Looking at the stats of the site around 40% of the visitors are coming to the site purely due to using the mispelt word alone or in a phrase. Clearly if you have a highly used misspelling it's a good idea to try and get it into your site somewhere - including the meta keywords tag as Yahoo takes note of this as proven at Seo Labs.
3 Responses to “Earnings are like Buses”
Thanks for the mention. I've always had good luck with misspellings. I'm curious to see how wikipedia content does now.nnCongrats on the sales.
By 45n5 on Nov 30, 2006
I have been thinking this very think, I seem to get bursts of income rather than a regular flow. I know there is a term for this phenomena but it evades me just now.nnYou can apply this to everything in life, for example you hear or read a strange word that never comes up then you notice it all over the place for a while.nnAnother example is traffic, you are a a junction, as you approach it there are no cars. Then there are several cars all at once.nnThings seem to happen in bunches.nnI also read about Marks idea this morning, I read elsewhere others using public domain content. At the end of the day there are generally no short cuts. Google demands unique quality content.
By Allan on Nov 30, 2006
Allan you're right, traffic appears when pulling out of a junction or at the traffic lights, strange words etc. Not sure if the burst of income is due to the end of the month, either payday or just end of the month's budget. Perhaps a case of 'if I still have some cash at the end of the month I'll buy that' type idea. Even though most of my own income comes in throughout the month I get wages from my contract job on the last Friday of the month and I know I have this mentality (but usually if I still have the money I'll put it in my ISA!).nn45n5 - I've used Wikipedia content on a site where I knew nothing about the subject and I've not found any blackmarks against me for using it (yet!). I know in MSN it's actually helped pull in visitors. Will be interesting to hear about your results
By Sarah on Nov 30, 2006