We finally finished and launched the new Clearview Education website. Before I was dealing with a static template website I purchased 2 years ago and had a very hard time customizing. We have now switched to run through WordPress and the site is both dynamic and scalable. This is the same website some offered me $32,160 for the old piece of junk. This new website will make this site 100 times more valuable.
Why is it that much better you ask?
Well having a dynamic website (information is called from a database instead of on the actual html page) allows you to have thousands of relationships between information in the site which creates thousands of pages. The bigger a website looks to a search engine the more authoritative it looks. In other words, with these changes I plan on taking this site from making about $2k a month to making about $2.5k a day.
I’m a little worried because of all of the 301 redirects we had to do and I don’t want to lose any of the search engine rankings (currently #4 for “online college degree” on Google) but I know that over long term it will be beneficial. This will allow the website to rank for thousands of long tail search terms as well as rank even higher for the big terms.
Here is a snapshot of the old website:
Here is a snapshot of the new website that we literally launched 30 minutes ago:
Let me know what you think of the new site. We spent a couple of months getting this thing ready and we are really excited about the possibilities. I mean who wouldn’t be excited about making $75k a month from one website right?
Today was a great day. My family and I spent the day at a beautiful beach in North Shore here in Oahu. We watched sea turtles, ate fresh pineapple and did some snorkeling as well. I saw an eel in the water which freaked me out a bit but it was about 10 feet down at the bottom of the ocean. It was just a great family bonding time.
I came home tonight and checked the stats for today. I was pleasantly greeted with the following revenue stats for the day:
LawnCareDirectory – $99.95
ClearviewEducation – $384.96
Health Industry Site – $1082.52
Health Industry Site #2 – $94.52
That’s a grand total of $1661.75 that I made in one day while I was in Hawaii at the beach with my family. That is as good of an example of the Prosperly Way that I can possibly show you.
Well I just got back from the bank where I deposited a big fat check (Actually it was two checks but a big fat sum of $24,671.80). This was payment from one of the websites I run. I’m sure your curious about the website but because of the industry I can’t give you the url. I know that is a cop out and hypocritical since I preach having no “website secrets”. All I can do is tell you that is in the health industry and the site gets about 1800 – 2000 visitors a day.
I provide reviews of products in a specific niche of the health industry and then have affiliate links set up for visitors to go purchase the products. I can’t mention the name of this website like I do with others because of the nature of the industry. These business owners can be ruthless and I don’t want the backlash because I give someone a poor review. For some reason they don’t take it very well even if the product is garbage.
Anyway, it seems like the popular thing to do to show a picture of the check so people don’t think I am making up the whole thing. Here it is (click on the image to see it full size)
For further proof, here is a snapshot of the bank transaction through Wells Fargo.
I am showing you this because I want you to know that the stuff I am telling you is legitimate and can really help you make money online. I’m not the type of person trying to make money online by talking about making money online. I actually run websites that do make money online and now I want you to be able to do the same thing too.
If I could help one other person be able to have the freedom I have that would be very satisfying for me. But why stop there. Why shouldn’t I help 1000 other people get to live this way. Even 100,000. This is how life should be lived and I want to help you get there.
8/21/08 – This is for all you doubters out there (Davy) here is a snapshot after the check cleared.
I love the fact that Google has started showing search volume on their free keyword tool. A couple of things you need to be careful of.
- Make sure you change the “Match Type” to exact in their drop down menu. – Google defaults to show you the broad match for key phrases which is helpful for PPC but not for SEO. In order to get an accurate gauge of search volume for a specific keyword you need to see the Exact match type.
- The keyword tool is not completely accurate. – I did a key phrase search for the term “landscape contractors” and it showed that the key phrase gets about 2,600 searches a month. LawnCareDirectory.com ranks on Google #2 for that term. In the last 30 days I have received 50 visitors from Google users searching that term.This immediately raised a red flag for me so I did another search for “landscaping companies” and the keyword showed 1,900 searches a month. My site ranks #1 on Google for “landscaping companies”, so I checked the stats for the last 30 days and the site received 262 visitors for that term.Lesson learned: Use those numbers to learn which key phrases are more popular but don’t count on anywhere close to that amount of visitors if you rank #1 for the term.
- The tool seems to time out alot. Maybe it’s just me, or maybe it is the overwhelming demand for the tool now that it has those new features but Probably half of the times I used Googles keyword tool today it didn’t work.
Sorry about the lame rhyming title. I couldn’t come up with anything more clever. Lately I have been running a split test on LawnCareDirectory’s sales page to see if I could increase conversions on the page. I have run many tests before testing headlines, page layout testimonials etc.
This time I was testing the header of the page. I have a header on the sales page that has a picture of the business kit I sell and then a button to order the kit and one to sign up for the email list I have. I wanted to know if having those two buttons there was taking away from sales. So I tested taking that header out.
Here is the original header:
And here is the test page where I took out the header:
As you can see the look of the page is significantly different without the header. Personally, I don’t like it as much. It seems less attractive without the header.
The visitors to my website didn’t care either way. I have been running this test for 2 months and sales are almost identical with both versions of the sales page.
Lesson learned: This particular header isn’t a deciding factor when people are making the decision to buy my lawn care business package.
Some people will want to say that this test was a waste of time. Even if the test page would have resulted in much lower sales it still wouldn’t have been a waste of time. No matter what the result of a split test is, I am always more knowledgeable after.
