Comments on: Happy 50,000th Birthday Lingerie Brands!

By: James

James — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:50:39 +0000

Congratulations Kirsty. That’s a nice site you have there with lots of content. You deserve to do well from it after putting in all those hours. Ian’s idea is very good and if you manage to implement it, I would be interested in hearing how you did it.

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:47:57 +0000

@hamish – I probably spent about 300 to 400 hours of time over 2 years working on content for the site alone . Duncan has also contributed a good 200 hours tinkering about and posting some of the content. Beyond that I’m not sure as I’ve spent lots of time it’s hard to account for on PPC, reasearch etc.

@ian, that’s a good idea. I do know how to add thumbnails to the related posts already on the page, it’s just not been implemented on the site. In some ways that may work better as it helps cross linkage of posts. However, that is an interesting idea and one I’ll bear in mind… there my be something else I could do with that in terms of improving the current shopping resource.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:18:03 +0000

I’m very impressed! It certainly proves what some hard work and sticking to the plan can achieve. I just hope I can show the same perseverance. I bet it won’t be long before we see your own line of branded underwear on the site!

Just a throwaway idea:
I’m not sure if you have a product-db in mysql (from various feeds). If you did, could you display 3 x ‘related products’ thumbnails that most closely match the post’s title?

I was just wondering (mainly for a project i’m working one)… if people had a few alternatives to see from a range of merchants, do you think that would that help with conversions when people hit the landing pages?

By: StevenM

StevenM — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:08:11 +0000

Brilliant work Kirsty, delighted to hear it!

By: Hamish

Hamish — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:27:02 +0000

Hi Kirsty,

Well done on a fab result – I just hope the celebratory measure of wine is an appropriate Scottish big yin!!

Very motivational as always, thanks for sharing. If possible, would you be willing to share roughly how many hours a week/month you dedicated to achieve that great result?

Finally, with regards to Andy Murray, I am afraid there are times that as hard as it maybe, you just have to say they were too good. Personally, I think it will do Andy more good than harm – just like failures in affiliate marketing!!

Ta ta the noo,

Hamish

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:34:05 +0000

@Simon – The January sales have had some effect re: increased demand but the site’s been hovering close to the 50k mark for 2 or 3 months now. I think it’s down to long term consistent content addition combined with the link building. PPC makes up very little of my traffic these days.

@Dan – I know, that game was tragic! 8k visitors sure does sound like a lot, but it can be surprising how quickly you can build this with a concerted push.

@Scott – About 7% arrive on the home page, a number that increases all the time as my more generic rankings improve.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:49:56 +0000

Well done Kirsty. What percentage of those visitors do you reckon land on your homepage vs internal pages?

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:08:26 +0000

Well you’ve just answered a question I’ve had lingering as I try and work out whether or not my next project would be able to work or not. I worked out I need 8000 (targetted) visitors to make a good return, and there’s me thinking that was a hell of a lot…..I know, how naive of me

Congrats on the milestone! This just proves the notion that having targets and goals is a good way work as it serves as a boost of motivation when you hit your specified targets. Take note everyone…

Ahh good, I’m not the only one bummed about Murray, poor guy

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:59:08 +0000

What do you attribute that large number to Kirsty? (1612+ per day)

Was it the January sales, the link building or PPC?