Matt’s Birthday Project

A Big Update

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A Big Update

First of all, dear reader, i want to apologise for the lack of updates this month. I was intending to keep a regular update going in the blog, but i have been so busy with other things this month. However i am still ahead of myself when it comes to site building.

Whats been happening?

In terms of sites, i had to go and rebuild my previous content. A number of reasons for this:

1. Originally i was using a somewhat laborious method to add google analytics code to the site template. I then discovered a much easier way to do it. However i lost track of the previous code and had to redo everyone.

2. I also wanted to add an extra adsense unit to the template. So i then had to rebuild the sites.

3. I also made a mistake in adding keywords to the pages which meant the link text had absolutely no relevance to the page content. More rebuilding!

However i have still managed to build new sites, encompassing lessons learned and therefore i am still ahead of target in terms of sites built.

Revenue and Traffic

The good news - i have made some adsense revenue from sites built in February and also the EPC has been high! The bad news - not as much as i hoped for. The reason is due to low traffic. So i have been experimenting with new techniques that target long tail keywords in my niches which should get the niches ranking well - and quickly - for searches on these keywords.

In May i will be providing you with some hard and fast stats from the project so far. So stay tuned!