Short, Sharp and Sweet

A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.

See you all next year and let's make 09 even better than 08.

Thanks

Thanks to all

First of all I would like to thank all of you for the comments on the blog and the emails received for young David.

By all accounts David is doing fine and will soon be back on the slopes, probably driving his mum and dad crazy.

Good on you David and lets hope Santa is in a generous mood this Christmas (Mark, hint - hint).

Once again, thanks to all. It's nice to be reminded that the internet isn't just for guru types, but for members of a community to show their support in difficult times.

David, this one's for you

Our group member, Mark needs our messages of support.

His 7 year old son David, is due for open heart surgery today. I'm sure Mark and his family could use some comforting in this trying time, so let's all try to leave them a message of support on the blog.

I've had the pleasure of communicating with Mark on several occasions and would like to take this opportunity to offer my heart felt best wishes for the success of young David's operation.

David, my prayers are with you. For Mark and his family, I'm sure things will go well and young David will come out of this like a champ.

David, This one's for you.

Shotgun Marketing Update

Pretty good. Pretty good indeed....

Results for my keyword phrase have now gone up to 405,000 (thought this would be a good one, but this is rising faster then I had hoped for).

Current Top 10 in Google results is as follows:

1. My Ezine Article
2. My Free site
3. My Free site indented
4. My other Free site
5. My other Free site indented
6. My blogger blog
7. My GoArticles
8. My wordpress,com blog

First 8 out of the Top 10, with 2 indented listings (Viva title variations !!!)

Plus another 6 listings on page 2 and 4 listings on page 3

So over all, I'm sitting on the Top 8 and a total of 18 of the Top 30 results.

My money site is sitting at 11, BUT this is rising fast as I get more and more back-links to the site and traffic is increasing. The site stats are rising fast. Quick Alexa screen shot below:

As you can see from the Alexa screen shot above, my money site is getting increasing traffic and reach in a niche which is growing in popularity.

I haven't even done any video submissions yet, so when those get done, I expect some more listings. I'll let these grow naturally as I don't want the video urls to go over the site urls.

Not only listings, but sales as well. Averaging 6 free trials a day, which is the thick end of $150 plus some actual purchases, for a total around $270 a day from this niche, which is growing in popularity very fast.

When I got into this niche, results were 334,000 on November 17th. Two weeks later and results are at 405,000 which is around a 20% increase. More people targeting = more people searching, so I'm sitting pretty.

November 17th AdWords estimate was $0.15. Today that is at $0.25, so more and more people are bidding on the keyword phrase. Happy days !!!