Beside the income statistic

Signs to be recognized as a valuable information source

[jetteroheller]

Shure, the main statistic is ad revenues.

But does anybody make other statistics to see how his sites are recognized?

Contacts from press offices of companies, to publish about their new products.

Contacts from readers, that the site had helped to solve problems, purchase decisions.

This spring, I visited fairs and companies as a nobody. Next year, I think all the companies where I wrote articles about new products will welcome me enthusiastic to tell me all the details of all their new prodcuts.

My contact formular statistic, which sends an email to me and an email to the company, I wrote about, tells me this.

[21_blue]

Unsolicited inbound links from quality sites.

[trillianjedi]

Contacts from press offices of companies, to publish about their new products.

Contacts from readers, that the site had helped to solve problems, purchase decisions.

Two good ones that I often get a feelgood factor over.

The other good one is when companies start to send you their widgets for a review, unsolicited, or on one community site I have, actually request a "widget manufacturers" forum to get member feedback on products.

TJ

[bts111]

I would have to say inbound links from sites that are bigger and stronger than your own.

[DamonHD]

Hi,

I get a warm glow inside when someone writes to say they used something from my site... Twice today! B^>

Does that count?

Rgds

Damon

[europeforvisitors]

- "Best" or "Editor's Choice" awards from respected media.

- Links or URL citations from major reference sites, newspaper and magazine articles, books, and bigwigs in your field.

- Invitations, requests for coverage, etc. from PR agencies and organizations that wouldn't have given you the time of day when your site was new.

Mind you, I don't think any of this is directly related to AdSense.

[moneyraker]

An offer from Microsoft to buy your site so they can use it in their battle against G? :)

[21_blue]

Or an offer from Microsoft to buy Google in their battle against your site

[DamonHD]

21_Blue: difficult to top that! B^>

Maybe US Justice Dept offering to buy your site in its new battle against G and M$!

Rgds

Damon

[21_blue]

ROFLMAO. But how about...

George Bush ordering the US to invade the country you live in because it is 'harbouring people that threaten the fabric of American society'.

Hmmm... that actually sounds quite plausible, so long as your website becomes more valuable than oil :-).

[fischermx]

Get inbound links from Universities, *.edu websites.

[ronburk]

Analyzing 1-hop queries (visitor arrived via Google, looked at only the landing page, and left), finding clusters of terms that the landing page simply could not have satisfied well, building content to address those queries, redesigning the original page to link conveniently and naturally to the new content, and then letting the stats tell me whether I successfully created a bunch of 2-hop queries or not.

If I can analyze the logs to arrive at a per-page theory about incoming visitor needs, and then prove that theory by building content and confirming revised visitor behavior, then I'm pretty sure I'm building a valuable information source -- even if it's only recognized by individual visitors going after specific queries.

[spaceylacie]

ronburk, that reminds me of something... I did a search for the history behind a topic that my site addresses... the results pointed me to my own site. So, I continued researching the subject and then posted information about it. My info is well researched and covers the topic history more accurately then anything I've seen online. K, what else are my visitors looking for?

[danny]

Subscriptions to my mailing lists.

The number of people who bookmark pages (counting favicon fetches by unique hosts displaying as IE agents - ignorning Firefox etc. since they fetch favicon for display even without bookmarking).

[guitaristinus]

When someone searches for something and they find it on my site; which happens to be the only site that has it. Makes me feel good even though I made zilch with adsense that day.

[whizkiddo]

how does this post belong in this forum? <scratches his head & goes back to work>

[Never_again]

Calls from the media seeking comment for a story dealing with the prime topic of our site. Do two per week on average. About 40% of the stories mention the site. A nice benefit.

[david_uk]

Feelgood factors for me are when students email asking for help in their projects, and when people writing articles and stories ask me for help in getting the factual information on the topic correct.

[europeforvisitors]

how does this post belong in this forum? <scratches his head & goes back to work>

Probably because a lot of new members join Webmaster World for the AdSense Forum and never venture beyond its borders.

This forum does seem to be a Mini-Me version of Webmaster World at times. :-)

[bts111]

I had a company contact me a few months back and ask if they could put one of my sites in a text book publication as a case study.

I was wrapped!