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Case Study: Building An Audience With DataFeed Sites Part 1. I like to keep things diversified so i’m willing to try anything that can run on autopilot once it’s setup.

Case Study: Building An Audience With DataFeed Sites Part 1

I started thinking about playing with datafeed sites when Nick Mattern put out Review Plugin For WordPress. I consider him a friend of mine so I bought his software and started playing around. (Please keep in mind that even though this is the software I used for this case study, Nick no longer owns the product and I’m not sure about the quality of the newest versions). Here are the steps I used to build a datafeed site: Step 1 – Pick A Niche The first thing I chose was the niche I was going to use to build out this site. Step 2 – Buy Domain I bought a domain with the main keywords related to the niche located within the domain name. Step 3 – Setup WordPress & Datafeed Plugin Setting up wordpress is pretty self explanatory. After I cleaned up the database file that I downloaded from the affiliate network I started the import process. Step 4 – Find a Decent WordPress Theme Any Questions?

Case Study: Building An Audience With DataFeed Sites Part 2. Posted by Ad Hustler | Posted in Case Studies, Search Engines | Posted on 19-05-2010 In Part 1 of this case study I discussed what I did to setup this datafeed site.

Case Study: Building An Audience With DataFeed Sites Part 2

Part 2 is what I did to promote it. I’m going to be honest with you. I don’t have crazy blackhat methods. I just have some simple, straight forward things I do to try to get a site to rank in the search engines. The first thing I concentrated on was simple on-page SEO. Next I needed to get some links. I decided that I want to diversify the links a bit so I went over to Fiverr.com and ordered an edu link package. That’s it. Excluding the datafeed script because i’m using that on multiple sites, my total investment in this site so far would be around $32 Part 3 will discuss whether or not I got any traffic or sales. Any questions so far? Case Study: Building An Audience With DataFeed Sites Part 3. Posted by Ad Hustler | Posted in Case Studies, Search Engines | Posted on 24-05-2010 If you missed part 1 & part 2 of the Building an Audience With Datafeed Sites, make sure you go back and catch up.

Case Study: Building An Audience With DataFeed Sites Part 3

After I built the site & got some links I just let it sit around for a while and get indexed. It got indexed pretty fast. Initially a couple thousand pages were indexed. After a bit that fell down to 271 pages. I hope to see this traffic grow continually month over month going forward. Clicks Through a Product Affiliate Link: 659 Click Through Rate: 7.58% Sales: 6 Conversion Rate: 0.91% Gross Sales: $197.40 Commissions: $29.61 Total Cost: ~$27-$30 As you can see this has NOT been a super profitable venture to date. This site is getting traffic so i’m going to work on getting a better conversion rate and figuring out other ways to monetize the traffic and report back to you with what I find.

Please post your thoughts in the comments. Case Study: Building An Audience With DataFeed Sites Part 4. Posted by Ad Hustler | Posted in Case Studies | Posted on 22-12-2010 If you’ve been following AdHustler.com for a while you may remember the case study I was doing on DataFeed sites.

Case Study: Building An Audience With DataFeed Sites Part 4

Recently a blog reader asked me for an update on this case study so here it is. If you need to catch up here is part 1, part 2 & part 3 of this case study. Clicks Through a Product Affiliate Link: 5,988 Click Through Rate: 11.85% Sales: 26 Conversion Rate: 0.43% Gross Sales: $909.95 Commissions: $296.43 Ad Monies: $19Total Revenue: $315.43 Total Cost: ~$27-$30 As you can see traffic has grown significantly since January.

My overall opinion of datafeed sites like this one is that they can be profitable but they aren’t going to make you rich. What are your results with datafeed sites?