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iPhone-experience.com update

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On 01/01/11 I launched my iPhone help website iPhone-experience.com
Since that date the site has had 53 articles added with 3,612 visitors making 4,724 visits to the site and reading 6,562 pages between them.

The 3 most popular posts on the site are:
1) How to use your Wifi as a Wifi Hotspot
2) How to watch BBC WebSite Videos on your iPhone
3) How to watch Flash Videos on the iPhone

The Top 4 Referring Sites sending traffic to my site are:
1) Twitter or Twitter Clients
2) Google
3) Facebook
4) Reddit.com

Over the past 30 days iPhone-experience has received 1,446 visits with 1833 page views.
These figures will provide a baseline for future tracking.

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iPhone-Experience.com recieved 983 hits in first two days

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As mentioned in this post my iPhone help site, iPhone-experience.com went live on the the 01/01/11, it’s purpose – to help iPhone users get the best out of their handsets by sharing hints and tips. Keen for the site to get off to a flying start I wanted to reach as many readers as possible.

I ‘m really keen that the site is genuinely helpful so I’m putting a lot of hard work into making sure that information on the site is of high quality and well written so that readers will want to come back. Maren Kate – a successful blogger herself, has often said that the most popular sites on the Web are those that make it  a better place.

The site went live with 5 articles live on the 01/01/11 so that there were a few articles to read and I’ve continued to add at least 1 article a day, and I chose to use Twitter to try and reach readers.

I sent a message to 2 famous technology journalists, the Gadget Show’s Poly and Kate Russell from BBC’s Click TV show, letting them know about the site and asked them to re-tweet my message to their followers, which they both did, which was very kind of them.

The results were very impressive, not only did they re-tweet my message but their followers started to re-tweet my message too.  The traffic to my site was incredible within 2 days the site had received almost 1000 hits, and as importantly I had picked up a number of new Twitter Followers, this gives me a platform to adertise new site updates. It’s still early days but I’ve very happy with the lauch of iPhone-Experience.com

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iPhone-Experience.com to launch on 01/01/11

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One of the projects I’ve been working on is iPhone-Experience.com, the natural successor to my most popular website netbook-experience.com which is now reaching the end of it’s natural life and is now just sitting online as a library of hints and tips for netbook users.

For iphone-experience I’ve chosen a slightly different approach then for my previous site launches, where the site goes live with it’s first post, this time I’m writing a number of articles which are all scheduled to be published on the 01/01/11, in affect the site will golive with several posts. This will mean that early visitors to the site will have a number of articles to read and this should set a better impression.

I’ll report back on how the launch goes here.

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Investigating methods to increase traffic

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As part of my Niche website project, I’ve been looking at ways to increase traffic to blogs, starting with Articles and Article submission.

There are many websites out there that act as a library where authors can submit articles, this provides 2 possible advantages, firstly anyone who reads and enjoys your article will be able to follow a link to your sight. Secondly by adding links to your site in the article you increase the number of banklinks to your site and the importance that Google gives to your site, the higher Google values your site the closer to the top of Googles first page you will appear on searches.

As part of my investigation I’m using a tool which will let me write an article and then will re-spin it into several variations and will then automatically submit a variation to many Article reprositories, this should provide a very efficient way of performing the routine.

I’ll test this method out and report the results back here.

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Investigating Niche Websites

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I’ve been following a series of articles on the excellent http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/ with interest recently, the articles are about a competition between some of the top bloggers to create the most successful Niche Website.

Niche Websites focus on a very specific subject, this means that there is less potential traffic for your website to catch but there is potentially less competition for that traffic, so the goal is to become a big fish in a small pond.

By using tools like Market Samurai it’s possible to identify low competition keywords which can then help you choose a niche market to create a website for.

I believe I’ve identified a potential niche and I’ve purchased a domain name to use for a niche blog so that I can experiment to see if I can get any success.

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Projects Update

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In this post I talked about my on-going projects, I’ve decided to re-prioritise and re-structure the list to allow the best use of my time.

Here is the list of projects that will occupy my time in the near future.

iphone-experience.com

iphone-experience.com will be the successor to Netbook-experience.com which was one of my biggest successes but has reached the end of it’s natural life. Launched at a time when Netbooks were starting to become popular and came with Linux, I found a niche helping people get the most out of their Netbooks.

Technology has moved on and iphone-experience seems to be the natural replacement. Currently no work has been started on this project, other then securing the Domain Name, and some early testing of the BuddyPress Social networking site building system.

Techplay-Experience.com

Techplay-Experience.com is an example of recycling a domain from a site that was going to waste, originally a Tech News blog, the site has now become the online home for my photo’s and animations.

Niche Websites

I first read about creating Niche Websites on the excellent http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/ website.

As the name suggests Niche Websites focus on specific and small scope of information websites. If you can find a niche that a few others cover you can have sucsess.

I have no experience of building Niche Websites so I’ll be starting from scratch, and I’ll document my progress on this site.

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Now Posts added to Techplay-Experience.com

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Techplay-experience.com is one of my blogs and is the online home for my photo’s and animations.

I’ve just added to new posts containing photo’s taken from a recent trip to Scotland, and demonstrate different ways of using the Powerful “You Gotta See This” iPhone app.

Check them out here and here

The magnificent St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow

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My On-Going Projects

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I’ll be using this blog to keep track the progress of my ongoing projects, of which I have a few.  My current projects are as follows:

iphone-experience.com

iphone-experience.com will be the successor to Netbook-experience.com which was one of my biggest successes but has reached the end of it’s natural life. Launched at a time when Netbooks were starting to become popular and came with Linux, I found a niche helping people get the most out of their Netbooks.

Technology has moved on and iphone-experience seems to be the natural replacement. Currently no work has been started on this project, other then securing the Domain Name.

Techplay-Experience.com

Techplay-Experience.com is an example of recycling a domain from a site that was going to waste, originally a Tech News blog, the site has now become the online home for my photo’s and animations.

An image from Techplay-experience.com

The Hero Knight Project

Hero Knight is an adventure game book that I’m writing, still in the very early stages, I’m hoping that the book will provide a solo play Role Play Game Experience. I’ve currently got the first draft of the rules drafted and have  starting writing the first few scenes.

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