Here's an update on my new dating culture site - if you need to refresh your memory, this is the site where 300 free non-reciprocal directory listings and two or three other links helped me avoid Google's sandbox.
Anyway, at the end of our first month (well 2 days left but I can't wait) we've seen over 1,000 unique visitors. Search engine traffic is fine for such a young site (though notice how Yahoo is missing - maybe I am in the Yahoo sandbox!):
Links from an Internet Search Engine - Full list
- Google 572
- MSN 213
- Dogpile 8
- Unknown search engines 2
- MetaCrawler (Metamoteur) 2
- WebCrawler 1
- AOL 1
- Mamma 1
Clearly with this traffic I'm not on page 1 for "dating" but I do see some traffic from pretty competitive keyword phrases that involve dating and marriage. I'm still waiting for all those links from .edu sites and other culture and education related site, so still no ads on my site. I'd actually love to keep it that way forever, but once the traffic is there, I'll probably be too greedy not to try an Adsense unit, just one ad under tha navigation menu to see what happens...
That's amazing for a new site in a competitive area. I have a new personal finance site (2 months older than yours) which got good traffic from Google when it's 1~2 months old, even ranked < 100 for "personal finance", but then lost all traffic during the BigDaddy update, the new Google update ignored it somehow, it's now slowly recovering. Two possible reasons:
- The new update didn't pickup the data collected by the old datacenter in that period. Not old enough, not new enough.
Or
- Google sandboxed it when it's 2 or 3 months old.
I would like to know how your site is developing in the next a few months.
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