Some Stuff Seems to Work This Week

Launching a webzine is one thing. Making it payoff is quite another. My budget for promoting and building a readership is zero. Not that I'm not willing to put cash into it. I just don't have any to spare right now.

I did register with a whole pile of search engines. At this point I can't see any significant increase in my page views that can be attributed to that. There might be a longer term payoff but right now I don't see it. Mostly what I get from them is ads that invite me to spend money on traffic directly or improving my SEO content. I believe I can improve my SEO writing without spending any money.

One thing I did that is making an impact on my page views is spending time talking to other cyclists on www.bikeforums.net. I have added my cycling website to my signature there. This way it is added to every single one of my posts there. I also wrote a post specifically flogging my webzine. I am getting traffic from there.

Another thing that came up through that website is a place to list my webzine on someone else's related webzine. I'm surprised to note that I am getting noticeable traffic from that site as well. I will have to pursue that further. There are a lot of people writing about cycling on that forum who have their own sites. Back links from them might do me a lot of good.

I continue to scour google for information on building my readership with my cycling webzine in mind. I hope to continue growing that product. During the week I did do some work on the layout of the site. I'm a little bit happier with it than I was. Some of those changes are reflected on this site as well.

A bigger project looming on the horizon for me is advertising. I think I've laid the ground work for better advertising on all my sites. I will be working on improving that over the coming weeks as well. I'm not real happy with the 23 cents earned so far on my current advertising. Granted in their defense I don't have very high volumes of traffic at this point. Still my traffic is better than double last month on both new sites and my blog is doing better as well.

I will keep updating all my progress here each week. Maybe one of these weeks I'll have discovered something that will make a big difference. Right now we keep plugging away.