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Lately, instead of building slowly, it seems that the more income I made, the larger my income jumps upward. It took a lot longer to go from $5/day to $8/day than it did from $15/day to $20/day.
I don't know if this is due to the fact that your site grows exponentially because the more people that view it, the more people that share it/return etc... or if it has to do with the fact that I've been working on it more and learning more.
Has anyone else had this experience?
Don't forget the search engines are probably picking up more pages as you work on your site and depending on what your site is about seasonal ups and downs may happen.
Keep up the good work
Derek
lots of people state that it is hardest to go from $1 - $20 a day, but then going from $20 to $100 is actually easier.
Add me to the list, at least for the first part. It's talking me forever to past $20 on a regular basis.
I don't know if this is due to the fact that your site grows exponentially because the more people that view it,
Most sites do not grow exponentially simply because the majority of sites, probably every site, does not appeal to everyone therefore this type of growth is impossible.
Having said that growth patterns are very strange. For most of 2005, despite my main directory sites having been on-line for 10+ years, their traffic growth was minimal, so why is it that since the 1st January 2006 am I seeing a 20% increase in traffic and earnings?
I have absolutely no idea!
I have no new referring backlinks, I have had no new press reviews, nothing is showing itself in my logs as being anywhere near significant except for the fact that in Google my sites are ranking #1 for some very strange query strings for which Google is using me as the closest answer simply because there is no answer to that enquiry.
The other thing I have noticed is that MSN are spidering very fast, much faster than Google, and their results in my niche are pretty good however, having written that the volume of MSN referrers are very low to all my sites except one where it is actually the biggest.
One of these days I'll suss what's actually going on.
Having said that growth patterns are very strange. For most of 2005, despite my main directory sites having been on-line for 10+ years, their traffic growth was minimal, so why is it that since the 1st January 2006 am I seeing a 20% increase in traffic and earnings?
OptiRex, I always see a big jump in January, but this year my January looks like 2005's July. And I'm just as confused as to the "why" as you are about your sudden increases. Looking at referrer reports doesn't show any obvious answers. Maybe a lot of people got new computers and broadband connections for Christmas. :-)
My EPC is actually about the same.
In the past couple of weeks I've had a big spike in traffic due to some new pages I've added that are really popular.
I think that is the biggest part of your growth right there - you added some new, popular content, and it probably got linked to a few sites (it only takes linking from a few big sites to drive traffic up sharply).
Unless you continue to add such content, you will probably see a slowdown in a few weeks.
Most of what I have read here, it's the $0 - $10 that's the hardest, and I think it's partly because in that range you are seeing few visitors, probably because you are not fully indexed, and don't have many inbound links, but once you get extensively indexed, traffic will go up sharply (depending on your topic).
You are right though when you talk about lots of traffic coming in, and people sharing your site with others - that's a more long-term growth pattern, and some people say it doesn't necessarily lead to much, but if people mention your site on their's, it does help.
Maybe a lot of people got new computers and broadband connections for Christmas. :-)
Believe it or not I jokingly said that last week to an Adsense buddy and he actually said not to discount the idea!
I certainly wish I knew.
I have a one of a kind directory that has had steady growth in traffic ever since BD started rolling out.
