- Oct 3rd, 2010
- Me
- 14 Comments
The Challenge: Week #3 Update
This post is part of a series. You can read the others here.
It’s been another week and I didn’t manage to do very much, though my traffic and subscribers have increased, fortunately. I’ve sent a few guests posts, though none of then has been published yet. With a bit of luck, many will be published next week. I am also planning to do some really helpful things in the upcoming weeks and they should increase my traffic really well.
At the end of this week I’ve had some downtime because I had to move to another dedicated server. Unfortunately the last one wasn’t powerful enough, as my traffic on all blogs is getting up and the support team wasn’t very good. Now I’ve got a really powerful server. Here you have the specs:
- 2 x Intel Xeon E5620 (2.40GHZ 12MB Cache – HT)
- 12GB DDR3 ECC Registered
- 4x73GB 15k RPM SAS 16MB Cache in RAID 10 with a Adaptec 5405 PCIe – 1.2GHZ Dual Core – 256MB Cache RAID Controller
- 500GB 7.2k RPM SATAII 16MB Cache for Backups
- 100 Mbps network speed
- The server runs on LiteSpeed web server instead of Apache, which is way faster
Unfortunately the server is quite expensive ( $620 / month ), though I’ve been having a lot of downtimes and I hate it when my websites are down.
I didn’t manage to achieve the goals for this week, so I won’t set some very high ones for next week.
So here you have the stats and what I want to achieve until next week:
This week
- 700 visits / day
- 120 RSS subscribers
- 25 Aweber subscribers
Next week
- 1000 visits / day
- 150 RSS subscribers
- 100 Aweber subscribers
Alex, guests posts is probably the best way of increasing the relevant traffic to your site, only relevant traffic will become RSS subscribers and return visitors,
Marios
I will definitely have some guest posts up this week.
Hey! Is it OK if I go a bit off topic? I’m trying to view your post on my Macbook but it doesn’t display properly, any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Daryl
I agree that guest blog posts will definitely increase the backlinks of any website or blog (only if the post is in good quality). I have one guest blog post on FamousBloggers.net and waiting for the second to come out. Maybe few guest blog posts is not yet enough, coz’ I need to do some more on high reputation blogs. We’ll, nobody’s perfect Alex. But I hope there will be some improvements on your number of visitors. Good luck!
You can write a guest post here too, if you want
Alex, maybe I’ll write up a guest post for you. Do you want the topic on anything in particular?
I’d be very glad and I would prefer to write it on your area of expertise, though I would want it to be related to blogging or make money online.
My area of expertise is somewhere in the area of paid traffic (Facebook, MySpace, Plenty of Fish, CPV) and how to make money using that traffic.
However, I do have knowledge in most areas of Internet marketing and can write very well about it.
I’ll see what I can do!
I have only done a few guest posts but have not received much exposure. Maybe I need to target higher traffic blogs?
I think it depends on more factors, like the traffic of the blog, the post and how does the blog’s owner place your bio in the post.
Right. Have you noticed if you get more exposure having the bio at the beginning or end of the post?
700 uv/daily sounds pretty nice in only 3 weeks.
Let’s hope for better
I admit I’m new to the game, so this might be a dumb question, but is it cheaper to pay for hosting in the cloud via Rackspace or Amazon Webservices ?