September 1, 2007

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/118/girl-power.html

 ”Ashley is evidence of the meritocracy on the Internet that allows even companies run by neophyte entrepreneurs to compete, regardless of funding, location, size, or experience–and she’s a reminder that ingenuity is ageless. She has taken in more than $1 million, thanks to a now-familiar Web-friendly business model. Her MySpace page layouts are available for the bargain price of…nothing. They’re free for the taking. Her only significant source of revenue so far is advertising.

According to Google Analytics, Whateverlife attracts more than 7 million individuals and 60 million page views a month. That’s a larger audience than the circulations of Seventeen, Teen Vogue, and CosmoGirl! magazines combined. Although Web-site rankings vary with the methodology, Quantcast, a popular source among advertisers, ranked Whateverlife.com a staggering No. 349 in mid-July out of more than 20 million sites. Among the sites in its rearview mirror: Britannica.com, AmericanIdol.com, FDA .gov, and CBS.com.”

In a way it’s quite depressing that a website ranked  349 in the world is only making 70k or so a month.

Go to seodigger.com and see which keywords you’re ranking well for.

 I put a few pages through for Jonk’s and a lot of the secondary pages and had some very, pleasant surprises. In most cases I have no more than one Australian website ranking above me. This means when I shift my site to an Australian site I’m gonna have a nice time in the search engines.

 Also I have just optimised my META and TITLE tags for Google - they weren’t previously - which hasn’t been indexed by Google yet but will help