Before we get into Day 10 – A quick recap.
I continue on my quest to grow RoundValleyFishing.com to 100,000+ monthly pageviews with the goal of becoming the best fishing blog on the internet.
I started a meetup.com group – Round Valley Fishing Meetup Group and have scheduled the first event for August 6th. I’m excited about the offline opportunity here and even seen a little bump in traffic from the promo. (I’ve been tweeting the group and upcoming event on facebook, twitter, the website and meetup.com promotes it for me whenever someone in the are is looking for fishing.) The cost of the service is $79 for 6 months so I’ll need to defray my costs with a sale of something or take it out of my monthly Google adsense revenue.
Although I’m on day 10 now i technically started on July 1st so 22 days have elapsed. Here are my GA stats for July 1st to 22nd VS the same time period prior:
As you can see everything expcept visits is up, but i’m not worried about that because the green blip you see is from an awesome fishing article that went viral on reddit and brought in lots of new readers.
My organic traffic and referral traffic continues to grow. As does my monthly eNewsletter list which grown by 10% in the last few weeks.
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Day 10 – ok, day 10 is all about setting up alerts to monitor what’s happening in your niche and then using that info to react. I’ve been using google alerts to do this for a few years now so nothing new here. I will say that this is a MUST for any serious blogger or corporate communications officer. You’d be amazed at what google can fined.
How I use Google Alerts:
- Breaking News
- as inspiration for articles if they are really suited for that
- if it’s just a one-off story I’ll just mention it in my news section and link to it.
- if round valley is mentioned in a news article or forum I’ll be sure to go in and leave a comment and link back to my site OR more likely a link back to my site in my profile page (less spammy, less likely to get banned.)
That’s it, see you next time.