Day’s 4 and 5 since I put the site up have been exciting – We’re seeing the first traces of Organic traffic! Wow – Ranking for words in 5 days.
Only about 15 people have found me through search – but that’s only going to go up, and quickly. 3 of the keywords that people found me with I added more content to the site to optimize further for those words. I did this because it’s a product - a $400 product (it’s the collectors/top of the line addition+better steel knife of the same brand/type) – I had to make a new affiliate and sign up on ShareASale so I could have this product featured. Nice.
Before I added the extra content for this product I was ranking 30-40th position for the words because I didn’t even think to try and optimize for them – Today I have 2 page one listings for similar searches (9th and 5th) so I should start to see some more traffic for these.
I have never really been an affiliate so I’m playing it all by ear, but it just seemed like the right thing to do – Go for the low hanging fruit first.
No sales yet as of the time of this writing – but my traffic has leveled out at 50 visits a day (heh, “leveled out” for the last 3 days) but that’s just the run-off from StumbleUpon mostly well, 1/3 of it anyway.