Internet marketing is a lot of work when you are just starting out and/or don’t have the money for outsourcing yet. Hell, I need to learn how to outsource.
At this stage, I’m trying to think of this as the training part of my internet marketing career- not unlike being in college. Study, do the exercises, apply the knowledge. You keep plugging away, no sign-ups, trickles of traffic or maybe a few coins from AdSense. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. And since this is about making money, sometimes I get a little discouraged.
I just got off call and was thinking about what another marketer had said about not seeing any results. It worried them; then it started to worry me.
And then I recall the words of my favorite philospher from childhood, Alfred E Neumann-”What, me worry?”
So rather than worry, I started surfing the web; then, the law of attraction kicked in and brought me to a site that did website evaluations.
First, I looked at a site that I built back in June 2009, when I considered trying my hand at monetizing my blog. I wanted to be a professional blogger. I wanted to get paid to blog. I had no clue. So, I started to gather knowledge-a writing class and books on blogging. I remember this guy in class came out and said, “I’m not here to make friends. I just want to learn how to blog.” Still a little puzzled by that one but I just thought I’d bring it up.
This blog was created a year ago and according to this evaluation taken just 2 days ago is worth zero.
The site below is about 6 months old. I bought the domain ‘xyinzer.com to write about my experiences in New York and Pittsburgh but somehow wound up promoting youth baseball. I haven’t done anything to this site for months and it still has value. The figure is $96.35
I’ve taken this site down and I am going to blog about New York and Pittsburgh as originally planned.
Next, is a valuation of a site I created 2 weeks ago. $632.91!
Ah, progress. The bits and pieces of what I’ve learned is paying off-sort of.
You can’t get this kind of feedback in college. “Julie, you did very well this semester. That paper you did on Newton’s Third Law was moving*. Here’s $100.”
The name of the site is Cubestat.
It’s pretty simple: type in your URL, hit CHECK and wait for your results.
Some call web evaluation sites a waste of time and have entertainment value only. I ran this site through another site and there is was worth a little over $1,000. Really doesn’t matter.
I use the site as an ego booster, physical evidence to remind me I am creating something of worth. I hope you find it as helpful as I do.
Virtual Real Estate, a 21st century oxymoron if there ever was one.
(*Sorry, couldn’t resist)
Leave a comment. Let me know what you think.
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Julie:
Thanks for the website. I did go and check out the value of my website and I was pleasantly surprised.
It can be frustrating at times but we have to stick with it and use the leverage of the MWA community to help each other.
Thanks again.
- Rick
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jules Reply:
June 6th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
Hi Rick:
I found another site you could look at: websiteoutlook.com.
I came across a great article that compares several of these website tools at
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/w.....ion-tools/
Also learned that is a good idea to submit your blog to these sites as it helps with your blogs indexing.
Happy Trails.
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it was very interesting to read.
I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?
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jules Reply:
July 17th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Hi Sergesgal,
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
You can re-tweet this post from the post itself or tweet me @imjuliewatson
If you haven’t gotten it already, check your inbox, I sent you an e-mail.
Jules
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