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!

Studying Currency

This is my new Science Blog. When I was writing up my first blog, I remember having very specific quesions, and finding very few answers. Thus, I decided to take it upon myself to research and answer these questions.

Within this blog, you will find updates on current 'experiments' that I am running. Each of these experiments will be conducted with little or no connection to this blog, and may even be conducted anonymously via thumblogger. This is in order so that I might gain unbiased data on the experiment. As the experiment developes, I will keep you, my audience, abridged of my findings, so that you can incorporate these into your own website design and marketing principles.

With that said, I want you to know, that I will try to post, roughly, once every week for this blog. Butonce again, that is a very loose commitment, and will be dependent upon the developements of my experiments. When I have no new data to present to you, I will instead, delight you with a review, from an artistic standpoint, of some world currency. Being a member of the military, I have currency from all around the world, and hope to expand my collection soon.

Also, please note, that I will do my best to incorporate controls into my experiments. But these are only recreational experiments, and are meant to entertain you. If you use them as statistical fact or use them to modify your own statistics, is entirely up to you.

For my first experiment, I shall be conducting a one-month study as to the benefit of a well-placed backlink. The site being experimented with will be run for one week with no web-promotion, and an average gain per day recorded. For the second week, it will run with a single back-link, then giving an average of traffic increase per day. In the third and fourth week, a respective third and fourth backlink will be added, to observe for noticable geometric trends. Im hoping that this experiment will furter help us understand the nature of internet marketing. Afterwords, I will conduct marketing as usual for the website.

Anyhow, thanks for reading, and welcome to the Science of Money