This post in the sixth in a series where I am recording the SEO efforts of my site wiiifit.com. If you’ve missed the previous posts, you should view these first.
So apparently I lied about updating this series every 2 weeks. Every two months would have been more accurate. There isn’t anything else I want to add to the site and so bi-weekly content updates are about all that is different. Plus the earnings are nothing impressive so I didn’t want to keep posting each week how I make 5 cents and bore you.
Here’s the final recap on how the site did.
Google Keyword Rankings
Went down in ranking for all the keywords. Perhaps not posting as frequently caused the site to lose credibility or either so many other Wii Fit sites created content and flooded the search terms, diluting my efforts.
Adsense Earnings
Remainder of May
Month of June
So Far in July
The last half of May did well most likely because the game had just recently come out and people were researching it. The first week of June also did well because of the same reason. It drops off pretty quickly from there on out. I would expect the same for the rest of the year with slight pickup around Christmas.
Analytics
Analytics show exactly what was to be expected. A steady decline from the game’s release. The weird spike on July 2nd is from when my post What I Hate About Becoming a Designer made the front page of Digg and some of the visitors continued to explore this blog and found the Wiii Fit site through it.
Final Thoughts
If you are one of the few that stuck with this projects thanks for reading. It was enjoyable to track although at times a bit dull. The main problem with the site was that I could never get the traffic going.
The site converted extremely well.
But without the traffic, the earnings were dismal. If I could have gotten the traffic to be 10,000 impressions a week (not outrageous traffic numbers) the site would have made upwards of $250.
If I could go back one thing I might try to get more traffic would be to create some form of linkbait and get the content to go viral through some social networks. Although the visitors from the social networks wouldn’t make the site money the links would help boost the site’s ranking for it’s keywords.
Site’s Summary
Adsense: $25.63
Analytics: 1,169 visitors. 3,451 pageviews, 40% bounce rate
What’s next
I have another similar site idea that I would like to try out. It will still have a niche but it won’t be as narrow as this one was. Meaning it will have a wider range of possible visitors, but also more content to add.
Thanks for sticking around.
found it.