Nurture Your Wealth

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  This is the April 2009 NYW traffic statement. The images below are taken directly from my cPanel:

Traffic for April 2009 – Compared to Best Month

• Unique Visitors: 2063 – 2041
• Number of Visits:5096 – 4294
• Page Views:15952 – 21,750
• Hits:160918 – 159,816

   This month again I took a different approach to my traffic acquisition. I did 0 paid advertising, I slowed down on social networks (except entrecard) and I published no new sources of publication (ezines or press releases). I stopped commenting on many others blogs (backlinks started to drop), and was trying to see how leaving the blogosphere, in theory, would affect traffic. In effect I throttled back all and any type of advertising.

• Now you may be wondering why did I do this? and did it affect me?
1- I wanted to see how the site would hold up with 30 days of “no advertising”
2- It affected one main area – my backlinks to NYW – I had about 1,200 backlinks at the end of March. This month my backlink number is down to 700 and continues to fall. (Yes I will be advertising this month!)

   I did not see much growth in traffic due to this, did I make a mistake? I don’t think so. I learned what I, personally, need to continue doing to assure Nurture Your Wealth’s success on the web and in the blogosphere.

My spyder mate is of course lower than last time. Last time I had a 45 score rating of 100, although many fields were empty. Currently my biggest concern to working towards my spyder mate for this site is building back up the backlinks + doing better on compete. I extended the domain name for another 2+ years which helped my score, and with the recent google page rank change I actually got a page 1 page rank.

Top 3 Areas Traffic Came from for April 2009:

#1 – Search Engines (Windows Live/MSN Search had about 55% of the queries – Google and Google images about 25% – others 20%)
#2 – Entrecard + Twitter (retweets)
#3 – Viral Marketing ( March’s articles + press releases)

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