Almost a Month

Wow, its been quite a few days since I've posted here. Mostly this is so that I can collect data about my current experiment. It is currently exactly 50% complete. However, if you want to keep track of what I'm doing, check my main blogs:

Liberal Soldier

Crimson Star Entertainment

I will update this blog as the experiment avails itself, hopefully, it will make for some good reading.

However, I have decided upon my next experiment. Currently, my company is putting together a small documentary, and we plan to use it to bring traffic to the website. Some Im going to compare the cost of making the movie with the amount of traffic it produces.

Hopefully, it produces quite a bit.

Marketing Experiment Update December

Hey people! Im still doing my best to conduct this experiment, but saying that I will build 100 effective backlinks is much easier said than done! But, Im about 25% complete so far, a couple of weeks, and I should be done.

For those of you not familiar with my experiment, my goal is to measure and provide statistics for some internet marketing strategies. Specifically, my first experiment is to determine how much traffic an individual backlink provides to a website. This will help internet companies and existing companies qualify and validate the hiring of specific internet marketers, which will be a great secondary source of income for many Americans, in a time which we need them the most.

What other marketing strategies do I investigate? Believe it or not, I'm actually reversing a decision of mine in October 2009. I had come to the conclusion that Traffic Swarm, as a system for generating hits, was almost useless. However, after dealing with the program for two months, I've reconsidered and changed my stance.

Traffic Swarm, despite the incentive to click, actually does deliver some moderately good traffic. While yes, the clicker gets compensation for clicking, he actually has an unlimited number of options to click. So ther is some element of targetted traffic to this, as the surfer can still choose to bypass a site he doesnt want to read.

The vast majority of those websites that advertise through Traffic Swarm are business opportunities, so believe it or not, I've found my blogs and my company website does very well. When a surfer has clicked through 15 sites, each of them offering a get rich quick scheme, coming upon a blog talking about Ghost Stories, it seems they are more likely to stop and read, comment, and participate.

If your interested, click below. Its a basic traffic exchange, you click to earn hits, however the traffic exchange is cleaner than most. Its very automated, and easy to use. I find it preferable to alot.


Click Here for Traffic Swarm

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!

Experiment Update Nov 2nd

Okay, the first thing yo have to realize, if you haven't caught up via my previous post, is that Im crrently measuring the capability of a website with no marketing support. In truth, this blog has very little marketing support, and will be dependent upon viral marketing and content for some time. However despite this, I have a few backlinks and articles to support this blog.

However, the experiment itself, has no marketing support. And no, I can't tell you what blog that is, as it will delude its experimental validity, and its already hard enough to maintain controls on the internet.

Well, just an update. I posted a new update on the blog, of very creative, good content. The content is based on something that you can find here in my home city. It did quite well drawing in a few new uniques, I imagine, from it being listed on the host's website roll of newly updated blogs. Thats how I imagine these new uniques came about. The site is submitted to the major search engines, but it's back links are so low, that it is doubtful that it even shows within the first 1000 listings.

What I was impressed with, whas that my click-through ratio is incredibly high. Upwards of 20%. However, I attribute this to a seasonal bit, as the blog does deal with something that is viable for Halloween. I imagine other blogs with similiar content probably have their CTR go up during the Halloween season.

Given its lack of notoriety; only 5 unique visitors for a post, so far. I expect maybe three or four more visitors.

So, please stay tuned. I've got more to update about this experiment, and future experiments in the future.