Gabriel writes in and asks:
nibbledish contains around 3,000 recipes and gets around 165k uniques per month, while sparkrecipes contains nearly 170,000 recipes but only gets around 16.3k uniques per month according to quantcast. Do you have any explanation as to why this is the case? I would expect sparkrecipes to garner much more traffic since it's more established and it contains more recipes.
It's an outstanding question. Competitive intelligence is so crucial when analyzing any market, so I ... Keep reading »
Somewhere along the way, most of us get to the point where our site just isn't having the success that we want it to have. I've been there myself, and I talk to others all the time who are right in the middle of it.
There are three big things that could be holding you back.
Your Content is Forgettable
Is your site unique and/or better than other sites in the same niche? If not, you'll always be swimming upstream -- trying to ... Keep reading »
Last week, Jeremy from Wildfire Marketing Group commented on my post about local internet marketing. I had written that local business owners had no excuse for having an ugly site when great designs could be had from 99designs for less than $1,000. As a web designer, Jeremy took extreme exception to that and understandly so. I owned Unmatched Style for a long time, and the "no spec" issue is one that I became very familiar with.
Jeremy ... Keep reading »
Late last month, Scott posted a great list of 14 ways to start a web business for less than $10,000. Great, great information in a very digestible format.
I frequently see articles and even entire books on how to select a good topic for your website. I can't recall ever seeing anything on choosing what type of site to build for that topic, though, and that can be every bit as important as choosing the topic.
So if you're just getting started, I hope this list will be a good resource for helping you select what kind of site to build. If you have comments or questions, please leave ... Keep reading »
