Garden Gnome Wars

The miniature wargaming blog once again listed my site because of games I have written. This time it was Garden Gnome Wars. I got a nice rise in traffic. It just goes to show that if you want to increase traffic to your site just keep adding unique content.

Increasing popularity

My hobby website once again was listed on the miniature wargaming blog and I got lots of traffic. I have been submitting my site and the free games I have on it to various online directories. Hopefully this will lead to steady traffic flow over time. Right now every time I'm listed it results in a short term spike in traffic for about three days.

Miniature wargaming

My hobby website got listed on www.miniaturewargaming.com and almost instantly I got a bunch of visitors. Interestingly google only lists 2 pages of my hobby website in its index, my home page and the page that was listed on the miniature wargaming site.

Another traffic spike

I got another traffic surge yesterday on my hobby website. It was for the same reason as last time. Every time www.freewargamesrules.co.uk posts another of my free games I get a surge of website visitors. I guess that's incentive to keep posting my game designs.

Google Update

Google now lists most of my website's pages in its index. None of my links show up however. I'm still in the dreaded google sandbox. Not much else is going on. I'm waiting to get out of the google sandbox before I do much else, otherwise I won't know what effect changes will make.

No Results, No Money

I gave isubmit the boot a couple of days ago. Their online marketing had no effect on the bottom line so they are history. The same goes for ExactSeek and Yahoo marketing. They won't be renewed once they run out. If they don't produce results, they don't get any more of my money. My most effective marketing so far seems to be word of mouth and linksmaster.

I'm not sure what to do now

I'm about ready to fire all the advertising and SEO companies I'm currently doing business with. Nothing they are doing is having an impact on the bottom line. I'm paying much more than I'm getting in return. Being that my website is new and is probably in the google sandbox, nothing seems to work. I really don't know what to do next.

AdSense Earnings

Ok, I have had google adsense on my various websites and blogs for a little over a month now. I have had over 1000 page impressions, 2 click throughs and earned $0.46 total so far. That is not so good. On the other hand the number of page views has really gone up in the past 7 days. The click throughs have all been in the past 3 days. All of the increased traffic and clicks have been on my hobby website. I really hope this continues.

Traffic surge

I found out what was behind the surge of traffic yesterday. My hobby site got listed on www.freewargamesrules.co.uk and everyone decided to check out my site for free games.

Google AdSense

I have had a record number of google adsense impressions today. I'm not sure exactly why. Once I get the day end reports I might be able to determine where they are coming from. The daily impressions have been slowly rising but it really spiked today. I hope this is a trend.