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Alright, so my experiment has been going on for about a year, and has 100 articles produced via Ezine Articles in order to come up with whatever formula I'm looking for.

So, my typical website has an age of just over 4 months (quite a few were pushed out in the last couple of months). With an average view per month of 19 per month. Of this, roughly 1 click is a result. This is statistically very close to what I had observed when I originally started this experiment.

Just counting the traffic from article views, you can expect close to 1 hit a day, if you have 30 or so articles. 10 for 300 articles, and so forth.

The test site had no other marketing support, and at around 50-100 articles, had already hit the 10-20 hits a day. Certainly, surpassing what I had expected. How did this happen?

Organic growth. People would take my articles, and reprint them on their websites, I would still get a backlink, and traffic resulted.

So, overall? Article Marketing is definitely a winner. I recommend it as the key primary strategy for anyone in a free SEO campaign. Followed closely by blog exchanges and directories.

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Experiment One, Phase Three

So finally, my experiment has come to an end. Ive concluded that every new post adds about 2.5 unique visitors, while each link bringing in about .045 visitors at this point per week. And it seems that an individual backlink increases its power of visitor aquisition by .0001 for every other backlink in the network.

Of course, I can recommend that grea content does a part, because more than a few posts brought in more than other posts. So still, content is king!

So how many visitors will 100 backlinks net you? About five visitors a day.

How many will 1000 net you? Given that the trend of increasing synergy through backlinks continues, an unreal number of 140 per day. This is to assume progression is geometric.

So, I have a final test. I will record as I post 20 backlinks every day for the next five days, and reset my counter for the site. Then I will get another 5 days to see how many hits these create, finding a nice average.

Then my goal is to build 1000 textual backlinks over the next 30 days, for the same site. I will post 30 backlinks per day for 30 days, then record the results. This will give me a combined total of 1000 backlinks.

Unfortunately, I will really have to exhaust myself to develope these links!

Science of Money: Experiment One, Phase Two

Okay, its still not going as I expected, as the nature of backlinks and how much traffic they generate has changed. I assume though, each week, as the experient continues, the figures will change. But here is what I have so far.

Currently, the average post produces 2.5 new visitors to the website upon its posting. This is a 38% change from what was reported initially, and I assume the margin of error will change but become smaller until I find a good number.

The posting of 10 backlinks produced 2 hits immedietly, making the new adjusted average .3 per backlink upon initial posting. This is a 50% change as compared to the initial number.

However, the 20 links total produces 3 new hits this week. Thats .15 hit per link in a week, which is a 50% increase. However, I do think this figure is about accurate, as I expected some geometric increase as more links are cast out into the wind. This is due because the more links that are out there, in targetted sources, it increases the blog's notoriety. If you see this link here and at another associated blog, you will definately know the blog might be something your interested in, and might be more likely to click(I might refer to this as synergistic growth). Not to mention that the more links naturally also increases the Page Rank of a page.

While it might seem unusual to claim that 20 links as opposed to 10 links might show more synergistic growth, but the blog I have is in a field which isn't heavily populated. So it maintains some status.

Experiment Update

Ah. So the first phase of the experiment is over. The typical blog, that posts once a week, will maintain traffic of 1.2 unique visitors per day. However, you must also remember, that the vast majority of these visitors came immedietely after I had posted a story.

So for further explanation, for every post on a blog, it seems with little or no notoriety, that it will produce 5 unique visitors. However, none of these visitors converted to subscribers, though they might still be thought of as readers, none of them comment. Im supposing it takes one of three things to generate comments on a blog, either a massive amount of traffic, a very specific blog, or a contest or the like which will result in audience participation.

However, once again this is no the point of this new study. So phase two will begin as I post another story on the experiment blog. I will support it with 10 backlinks in highly targetted blogs of a similiar nature. Knowing what I do now, I will subtract 5 visitors from the total produced for today (the 5th), to account for the novelty of the new post.

Anyhow, so in summation, a new post results in 5 unique visitors. However, I assume as a blog's notoriety increases, the effects of backlinks, new blog posts, and advertising in general will increase. So thanks for tuning in!