[CASE STUDY / LOG] Building a Business and Keeping Track

[ProWebDesigner]

Your traffic stats are really good for a new business

Are you doing any paid marketing or it's all organic traffic?

 

[Notion]

STATISTICS

30-Day Traffic: 3,310 (+69)
Yesterday's Traffic: 147 (-13)
Bounce Rate: 63.56% (-.22%)
Avg Session Duration: 3:49
Twitter Followers: 32.1K
Facebook Fans: 15
External Backlinks: 59
Citation Flow: 8
Trust Flow: 0
Domain Authority: 10 (+10)
Page Authority: 23 (+23)
Spot for keyword (27,100 monthly searches): #22
Spot for keyword (135,000 monthly searches): #33 (+2)
Alexa Rank: 514,692 (-4,197)


NOTES

Finally seeing some changes in DA and PA. Hopefully we will start getting some trust flow soon. Reached out to a bunch of websites yesterday hopefully I'll get a few responses.

 

[Notion]

I'm going to catch you, bro. Better step up.

We will see.

Your traffic stats are really good for a new business

Are you doing any paid marketing or it's all organic traffic?

As of right now it's all organic. Yesterday we got our biggest surge of traffic from google thus far.

These stats are really good considering I haven't been able to do much considering how busy I have been in real estate and exams.

UPDATE ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY

Just wanted to make a quick comment about some things my partner and I are trying out.
Trello - If you've never heard of trello you should get to know it because it's awesome. All it is, is a very simple to use task manager/idea board. Before trello my partner and I were keeping to do lists in google drive and it was very complicated. Now we make tasks, then they are in progress we drag them to the right column, when there are done we put them on the done board.

Slack - I was on this for a few minutes and I can tell it will replace 90% of my Skype usage. You can create teams, different discussion and there are hundreds of apps you can add to it.

 

[Sherb]

UPDATE ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY

Just wanted to make a quick comment about some things my partner and I are trying out.
Trello - If you've never heard of trello you should get to know it because it's awesome. All it is, is a very simple to use task manager/idea board. Before trello my partner and I were keeping to do lists in google drive and it was very complicated. Now we make tasks, then they are in progress we drag them to the right column, when there are done we put them on the done board.

Slack - I was on this for a few minutes and I can tell it will replace 90% of my Skype usage. You can create teams, different discussion and there are hundreds of apps you can add to it.

I can't speak about Trello, but Slack is amazing. We have a 20-person department responsible for handling all reporting needs for a 10,000+ employee, billion-dollar financial company. We integrated Slack into our communications platform and my email inbox has been cut more than halfway, and questions can be answered ridiculously fast.

May I also suggest: Evernote, Todoist, Hootsuite, and Headspace for when things get stressful.

 

[Notion]

STATISTICS

30-Day Traffic: 3,360 (+50)
Yesterday's Traffic: 171 (+25)
Bounce Rate: 62.95% (-.61%)
Avg Session Duration: 3:49
Twitter Followers: 32.1K
Facebook Fans: 18 (+3)
External Backlinks: 59
Citation Flow: 8
Trust Flow: 0
Domain Authority: 10
Page Authority: 23
Spot for keyword (27,100 monthly searches): #22
Spot for keyword (135,000 monthly searches): #33
Alexa Rank: 506,231 (-8,461)

I can't speak about Trello, but Slack is amazing. We have a 20-person department responsible for handling all reporting needs for a 10,000+ employee, billion-dollar financial company. We integrated Slack into our communications platform and my email inbox has been cut more than halfway, and questions can be answered ridiculously fast.

May I also suggest: Evernote, Todoist, Hootsuite, and Headspace for when things get stressful.

I gave Headspace a try last night and again this morning.... good shit. I know it takes some time to make it a habit and see the benefits but I felt awesome last night and when I finally got to the gym I was still on fire.

I know Todoist has it's own app integration into slack so there's another win for Slack.

I have a Hootsuite account but my partner is more comfortable with Social Pilot because I guess they have a feature Hootsuite doesn't. I need to look into it and see what the pros and cons are of switching.

Lastly, why do you use Evernote? I have been testing between OneNote and Evernote and I I have to admit I just really suck at taking notes.

 

[Notion]

So since I copied the format of Sherbert Hoover's journey thread, and since we have a little friendly competition going on, I have decided to add some graphs from Google Tools (Webmaster and Analytics) to the thread:

Total clicks, total impressions, and average position from Google Webmaster Tools over the past 28 days. It doesn't look like we are trending at all the the stats above say otherwise. You'll see the huge did and that was due to major domain issues. SEO should help us out with our rankings. Looking into SERP Logic.

I couldn't be happier with my Geographic spread of traffic. We're hitting the nail right on the head, folks. (Past 30 Days)

We have been hitting over 100 visitors per day for the last 6 days. My goal is to have it at 250+ within the next week or two as we continue to roll out some AWESOME updates.

I wanted to post this to show you guys a difference between the two threads. Sherbert may very well surpass me in the coming weeks and the difference is that as of right now he has spent over $800+ on his site and all we spend is a few buck a month for our server and a whole lot of time. It's not all about money though and I think we are proving that.

We will start to invest all of our profit into the site over the next few days so lets see how that affects our growth.

 

[ProWebDesigner]

Good to see your progress
This will be the journey to follow for sure :thumb:

 

[Notion]

STATISTICS

30-Day Traffic: 3,303 (-57)
Yesterday's Traffic: 121 (-50)
Bounce Rate: 61.70% (-1.25%)
Avg Session Duration: 3:52 (+:03)
Twitter Followers: 32.1K
Facebook Fans: 19 (+1)
External Backlinks: 59
Citation Flow: 8
Trust Flow: 0
Domain Authority: 10
Page Authority: 23
Spot for keyword (27,100 monthly searches): #24 (+1)
Spot for keyword (135,000 monthly searches): Not in Top 500
Alexa Rank: 496,847 (-9,384)


NOTES
Need to start hitting traffic hard. Closed two real estate deals our of the four that I have been working on so now I have a lot more time to focus.

Development is going strong at our website. We are nearly done with some massive updates including a video we made for our landing page. When it comes to copywriting and landing pages, there's still a lot we can learn so if you have any experience and if you're willing to look over what we have so far, that would be greatly appreciated. I've reached out to one member specifically, but he's extremely busy with client work.

Another update is that we just invested in T0mmy's package. It's $287, but we believe it will be well worth the investment and hopefully it will give us a boost on the 5 large KW's we have hovering on pages 2-3. My partner and I were able to pay most of it using profits from the past few days, the rest we split between the two of us. Let's wait a month or two and I'll get back to you all with a review.



Once again, thanks for reading!

 

[Notion]

STATISTICS

30-Day Traffic: 3,303 (+23)
Yesterday's Traffic: 102 (-19)
Bounce Rate: 59.92% (-1.78%)
Avg Session Duration: 4:04 (+:12)
Twitter Followers: 32.1K
Facebook Fans: 19
External Backlinks: 65 (+6)
Citation Flow: 8
Trust Flow: 3 (+3)
Domain Authority: 10
Page Authority: 23
Spot for keyword (27,100 monthly searches): #26 (+2)
Spot for keyword (135,000 monthly searches): Not in Top 500
Alexa Rank: 472,533 (-24,314)


NOTES
Went away with my girlfriend to the vineyard this weekend. It was a spontaneous and well deserved break.

It was also my partners birthday weekend, he finally turned 18. Nothing really got done this weekend but we have a lot coming up especially as we get closer to Spring Break.

Aside from ordering SerpLogic last week, I ordered a nice press release from an awesome seller on Fiverr, however after waiting 5 days, I get a message requesting me to cancel my order because the seller had a death in her family. I think this is a sign that maybe it's not something I need right now. Maybe I should invest $15 somewhere else.

 

[Sherb]

^ PauloPaul here on BHW does some amazing press releases. I believe if you already have the entire thing written up and ready for submission it's $49 and gets blasted everywhere. One of the ones he did for me was ridiculously far-reaching for the money.

 

[Notion]

STATISTICS

30-Day Traffic: 3,355 (+52)
Yesterday's Traffic: 112 (+10)
Bounce Rate: 58.99% (-0.93%)
Avg Session Duration: 4:04 (-:07)
Twitter Followers: 32.1K
Facebook Fans: 19
External Backlinks: 85 (+20)
Citation Flow: 7 (-1)
Trust Flow: 3
Domain Authority: 10
Page Authority: 22 (-1)
Spot for keyword (27,100 monthly searches): #25 (-1)
Spot for keyword (135,000 monthly searches): #80 FROM NOT IN TOP 500
Alexa Rank: 465,289 (-7,244)


NOTES
Started posting up on social media and reddit again. Trying to harvest a decent account before I start talking about the site. I was stupid before and got my accounts ghosted.