Daily Visitors

[entertaintoday]

On average how many visitors do you get to your site on a daily basis? My old site (EntertainToday.co.uk) used to get about 60 per day, but my new site is only getting about 12.

[Mike]

Hi Dave

What method(s) do you employ for attracting visitors?

As a new company we use Adwords quite a bit but it's expensive. However as our subscriber database builds we hope that this coupled with some good offers will increase the traffic.

I am involved in a printing business and as such see quite a bit of Direct Mail. I do know that although adwords is expensive it can work out considerably cheaper than a non targeted DM campaign because you are only attracting people who are interested in your product.

I'd be interested to know how some of the longer standing companies have developed their marketing.

[Mike]

PS I think it's worth pointing that although everyone can see the results of the poll you can't actually identify who is (or has) voted.

I'm sure some people are sitting there thinking "I don't want to give that information out about my business". :):)

** Disregard this - See Pete's note below**

[petad]

PS I think it's worth pointing that although everyone can see the results of the poll you can't actually identify who is (or has) voted.

I'm sure some people are sitting there thinking "I don't want to give that information out about my business". :):):)
Hi Mike

You can see who left the votes if you click on the number of votes to the right (sorry...)

We have seen a fall off of hits since Christmas, but that's to be expected. Our average before this was just in excess of 100 hits, and most of this has come from Adwords, which as you say is a bit expensive. We turned off Adwords last week because someone was abusing them and using up our budget by repeat clicking on our syndicated ads (b*stards!). We found our hits dropped off dramatically when Adwords was off, so they are worthwhile.

I have today been contacted by the SEO company itscoldoutside, who have already been mentioned in these forums. Tempting to get more backlinks, but I can't believe this is a good long-term strategy, so I have turned them down.

If anyone here wants to do a link exchange, please let me know. Thanks to those already linking!

Pete

[Mike]

Oops!

You're right Pete. Sorry to mislead. I didn't click that one.

Mike

[Mike]

We turned off Adwords last week because someone was abusing them and using up our budget by repeat clicking on our syndicated ads (b*stards!). We found our hits dropped off dramatically when Adwords was off, so they are worthwhile.


Pete


On this adword abuse matter. As we can actually monitor the IP addresses of visitors on Bluepark is it not possible to report this to Google and possibly get a refund? Perhaps take a screen shot and send it to them?

I found you can get a location for the ip address from www.ip-adress.com (http://www.ip-adress.com) if you are interested in seeing where your traffic is coming from. This is no good for AOL as all their's seem to go through the USA. But it gives a general location based on where the IP servers are I think.

Mike

[john]

The problem with AOL users is that they use an ever changing Ip Address, all you will see is that the first part is the same, with different endings, this also applies to other services providers.
All your competitor has to do is log on and off his/her connection, clicking first on your adword each time and use up your budget without being traceable, Google doesn't give a s**t, they get the money for very click!

[petad]

On this adword abuse matter. As we can actually monitor the IP addresses of visitors on Bluepark is it not possible to report this to Google and possibly get a refund? Perhaps take a screen shot and send it to them?

Hi Mike

I did in fact put the addresses into a spreadsheet and submit it to Google. Surprisingly I have had no response yet...:asleep:

I'll post back if they do respond.

Pete

[petad]

Hi Mike

I did in fact put the addresses into a spreadsheet and submit it to Google. Surprisingly I have had no response yet...:asleep:

I'll post back if they do respond.

Pete
I did get a response from Google. It was just a stock reply "we have several proactive measures in place to automatically detect invalid activity on the content network." which told me nothing, of course.