What my Site Build It! site achieved
The aim of my site was to make some money through affiliate programs.
When I started I had never built an affiliate site before and I was frankly skeptical that it would work.
However, it seems that if you get enough people coming to your site who are interested in your topic then you are bound to make sales like I did.
People who are interested in learning about DJing are also interested in buying DJ equipment.
Take a look at how my traffic has grown since January. Remember my site was registered in Yahoo! in March. Look what a difference that made to my monthly traffic average.
Date | Average Number of Unique Visitors |
Jan 2002 | 11 |
Feb 2002 | 39 |
Mar 2002 | 1299 |
Apr 2002 | 2450 |
May 2002 | 4991 |
Jun 2002 | 6764 |
Jul 2002 | 9939 |
Aug 2002 | 10163 |
Sep 2002 | 10728 |
Oct 2002 | 11073 |
Site Build It! gives you some very useful traffic statistics. Take a look at the table below to see the list of top 25 keywords people used to find my site. Looking at a table like this, you can see what keywords get me traffic.
I found that I was getting traffic for keywords that I had not even optimized a page for. One example was “Cubase tutorial”. So I later optimized a page for this keyword and received even more traffic for it.
Top 25 of 2423 Total Keywords | |||
# | Page Views | Keywords | |
1 | 1122 | 13.31% | dj equipment |
2 | 386 | 4.58% | dj tips |
3 | 237 | 2.81% | cubase tutorial |
4 | 162 | 1.92% | dj |
5 | 161 | 1.91% | technics turntables |
6 | 160 | 1.90% | gemini turntables |
7 | 157 | 1.86% | turntables |
8 | 142 | 1.69% | dj mixers |
9 | 124 | 1.47% | technics 1200 |
10 | 106 | 1.26% | numark turntables |
11 | 99 | 1.17% | dj software |
12 | 98 | 1.16% | mp3 dj |
13 | 94 | 1.12% | dj turntables |
14 | 92 | 1.09% | technics turntable |
15 | 89 | 1.06% | mp3 dj software |
16 | 76 | 0.90% | dj tips and tricks |
17 | 73 | 0.87% | beat mixing |
18 | 61 | 0.72% | mp3 dj mixer |
19 | 58 | 0.69% | dj turntable |
20 | 57 | 0.68% | dj mixer |
21 | 56 | 0.66% | how to dj |
22 | 56 | 0.66% | how to use turntables |
23 | 56 | 0.66% | numark tt100 |
24 | 51 | 0.61% | dj tricks |
25 | 46 | 0.55% | traktor mp3 |
As you can see, Site Build It! tells you what keywords are working for you. You can also find out what pages are your most popular. It makes tweaking your site fun!
One of the major keywords for my site is DJ equipment. This was identified in the Site Build It! research and brainstorm tool as very profitable and as you can see it is my top keyword. This means that Site Build It! has clearly demonstrated to me its ability to find profitable keywords and help you optimize your site for top search engine rankings for them. To put it simply, Site Build It! search engine optimization really works!
If you look at the percentage you can see that I get traffic for lots of different keywords with my major keyword giving me only 13% of my traffic.
My site has many different pages that cover a wide range of topics. Having lots of articles means that you have many different doors into your site.
Here’s a list of the most profitable keywords that I optimized my site for:
Keyword | Google Rank (11.6.2002) |
DJ equipment | 5 |
Technics turntables | 5 |
Gemini turntables | 5 |
Cubase tutorial | 2 |
Audio cd production | 4 |
DJ tips | 1 |
DJ mixers | 3 |
Mp3 DJ software | 6 |
DJ mixer | 3 |
Mp3 DJ | 9 |
As you can see, Site Build It! allows you to obtain good search engine rankings for a wide range of keywords. This makes the traffic to your site more robust because you are not relying on one specific search phrase.
You can check these rankings for yourself in Google. Site Build It! is very good at helping you optimize your pages for high rankings. Since you’ll know what keywords you should be optimizing for, this basically guarantees you traffic.
This traffic is also the best kind. The people you attract are actively searching for information on this topic and will be interested in related products. The sheer volume of sales generated by my site proves that fact.
Site Build It! provides you with all the information you need to maximize the traffic you get to your site. Take a look at this screenshot from the Site Build It! traffic stats page.
Here you can see the top 28 web sites that are referring traffic to my site. Look at how important Google is. This list is comprehensive and you can immediately see when new links to your site are put up.
DJ Tips and Tricks monthly earnings
After taking into account delays in shipping items and waiting for possible returns, the site generates on average $350 USD a month (the average since affiliate links were put up in May 2002). I am very pleased with what I have achieved. Now I just occasionally add new articles and handle the email.
I receive a lot of emails from people who want to talk about DJing. I now know lots of DJs all over the world and I enjoy that.
[The true test of affiliate success is actual checks received. Here are the first four checks we received from MusiciansFriend:$208.56
$233.40
$272.92
$455.83
That’s a nice increase, isn’t it! – Allan.]
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