Comments on: Lewis Hamilton site – update 3 weeks later

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Custom Wordpress and CMS design » Blog Archive » Lewis Hamilton Blog — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:43:18 +0000

[...] first encounter with WordPress,this is a simple design completed for UK Offer Media in a SEO experiment. Kieron�grabbed the domain name and got us to set up the site before Lewis had even had his first [...]

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Net Frontier Marketing » Six Degrees of Suck — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:18:19 +0000

[...] weeks ago, Kieron registered a domain to run a quick experiment determining how easy it would be to start a niche [...]

By: Keith Scott

Keith Scott — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:06:15 +0000

Kieron, Here’s hoping, it’ll be even better if he ends up winning the title! It has been the best F1 season in years though.

It’ll be interesting to compare how the sites perform over time. The blog is more “organic” than mine with the content regularly updated, mine is optimised then left to do it’s thing. As I said I’ve not got much experience-still learning every day! This is the last static one I created and I have been experimenting with WP blog sites more recently. I think they have a lot more long-term potential but they do take more time to maintain and update. I have 2 flagship sites that receive good traffic with several others in the wings. I found your revamp of UKOffer to WordPress v. interesting. Do you use an automated system to update the content?

By: Kieron

Kieron — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:51:49 +0000

Keith, all sounds so good so far to me. What will be interesting is how many repeat visitors you get, given that your site is heavily monetised. I guess time will tell. And yes the money you have earned so far, while like mine is small will continue to grow as long as you add unique fresh content regularly.

And you’re welcome for the link!

P.S. Lets hope Lewis gets a podium next weekend!

By: Keith Scott

Keith Scott — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:41:06 +0000

Hi Kieron

Thought I’d give you an update on my site. It has been live for just over 3 weeks. I monetised mine heavily from the off using Adsense, Auction Ads (a lot of outages recently) and Grand Prix Legends Aff programme. I submitted a couple of unique articles which I used in the site and optimised for several key search terms.

The site was indexed quickly by Google and it ranks no.2 behind Lewis’s own site for a UK search on my targetted keyword. I haven’t managed to get a PR6 back link, but the link from Kieron’s previous post has got me some good traffic (Thanks again!), I have other backlinks generated from social networks and through my article submissions.

To date I have made $2.89 on Adsense, $4.18 on Auction Ads and �8.10 from GPL. The site has received 497 unique visitors and 1500 page views. The traffic is steadily increasing but I have seen significant spikes on GP weekends.

I am new to this so I’m not sure how these figures stack up. It is one of my best performing sites though (I’ve produced a few duds up to now!). What do you think Kieron? I plan to write some more articles as the F1 season progresses and develop a better link-building strategy.

By: David Fiske

David Fiske — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:30:59 +0000

Looks broken in Firefox on Win XP too.

By: Jamie Carruthers

Jamie Carruthers — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:11:12 +0000

thanks for the insight in to the growth of this site… it is fascinating to see how others do it.

I am impressed by the BBC backlink and the level of traffic you are seeing already!

When I was looking at the site in FF on OSX it looks broken however.