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Originally Posted by __w__
What's everyone's plans for 2013?
I only have two sites that are actually viable entities right now, a racing forum that is hosted for free through a friend and brought in $65 from Adsense this year, and my MFA site which brought in $47 from Adsense, and another $13 from Amazon.
For 2013, I want to get the MFA site off of Godaddy and on to a decent hosting site, and then optimize the crap out of it. 2,484 page views from 1,327 unique visitors and only 51 Adsense clicks for a 2.05% CTR. Pretty craptastic CTR no? I have pulled another 283 clicks for Amazon, but my conversion rate once clicked is super crappy, and the product that I refer doesn't pay well at all. Still, I think I can do some things with layouts and design to up my numbers significantly.
Anyone else here wanna share their 2012 numbers and plans for 2013?
What I done in 2012 was a waste of time and money. I learned a few things I guess but I spent a bunch on MFA sites which actually used to be decent money when you made a lot of them but it was bad timing considering as I was just getting mine set up and building backlings Penguin, Panda, EDM updates and so on came out.
It's a hard thing to learn and 90% of what you read don't work. The IM forums are full of newbs like myself and people full of **** that in some way is trying to sell them/us something and if they are not trying to directly, then they are posting to build their repuation for when they try and sell at a later date.
I've decided this year I'm just going to focus on building 2 authority sites, high quality content, nice looking, get some keywords ranked, promote it on social media sites and so on and post on other forums in that niche and try to make something from affiliate links. I have one in mind that I think should do well. The other one may be a little harder to get going but could be nice long term.
I'd be happy to get to $500 a month to go towards rent and make life a little easier and I'd be fine.