As another post in my series about my Google Ranking Monitoring Software. Over the last week or so I have extended this to include Alexa Ranking, Yahoo Back Links and Google Back links, I will be posting a new version very soon. However this work has got me thinking about how you monitor and judge the success of your site.
I guess the simple answer is the success of the site is reflected in how much it earns, however I like to look deeper than this. There is of course the age old methods of number of unique visitors, page views and how long each user was on your site, however I think that there are now other was in which, if not judge the success of a site, monitor its performance especially in the success of SEO.
As indicated above my software now monitors Google Page Rank and back links, Alexa rank and Yahoo Rank. I plan to add other search engine rank monitoring into the software such as MSN, Altavista and others, but also something that is of critical importance these days rankings and link backs on social networking sites.
This may present too much information at too finer a detail, however this is proving to be a little experiment for me. With this level of detail I am hoping to see effort I am putting in to a site on building its social networking presence for example. I am hoping that these efforts will be reflected in the results of my SEO monitoring software.
Eventually I would like to see if there is indeed a correlation between increases in these various results and the sites performance in its number of visitors and income. I would like to get to the situation where I can graph these results and prove either way if the efforts are worthwhile. My instinct tells me that yes, the effort will pay off right through the chain, in terms of increasing rankings right through to increased revenue.
2 comments
David Fiske says:
August 19, 2008 at 9:49 am (UTC 1)
Am I right in saying you sell your photos via all the sites listed at http://www.makedoshonline.com/photography/ ?
Digitalquill says:
August 19, 2008 at 3:15 pm (UTC 1)
David
I think this comment is on the wrong post but never mind…
Yes I sell with all those on the site and more. The site I was referring to was one which to be honest I had forgotten about until I got a newsletter from them, so it was a pleasant surprise. There are literally hundreds of stock photo sites that allow you to sell your pictures. I do quite well out of selling them. Not enough for that to be my only income but still it all helps.