What to do with my blog.

[Chris Norman]

Much appreciated David! Your points are well taken. Thank you everyone for your encouragement, I will get after all suggestions.

Take care, Chris

[David Jackson]

Much appreciated David! Your points are well taken. Thank you everyone for your encouragement, I will get after all suggestions.

Anytime, my friend. Best of luck at whatever you decide to do!

David Jackson

[Lynn Terry]

Welcome Chris

You mentioned lots of traffic but few clicks and one conversion.

I'd love to hear more specific numbers & details. Can you share the exact number of unique visitors. Also tell us how long your blog has been up, and give us the unique visitor numbers for each full month.

I'm interested to also see the top 10 keyword phrases people use to find your site. You should also find those in your stats.

I think you're on to something here so let's brainstorm some details!

[Chris Norman]

Wow! You guys are amazing! I am encouraged to keep going for sure. Lynn, I will get those stats for you ASAP, thank you so much for your time.

Chris Norman

[Chris Norman]

Lynn and company,

Here are the stats you asked for:

1. The blog has been up since August 13 of this year. Just shy of two months.

2. Number of unique visitors: 2033
August: 170, September: 1757 and October: 106

3. Top 10 Keyword phrases: woodworking jigs, wood working jigs, homemade woodworking jigs, woodworking router jigs, easy woodworking jigs, woodworking jig systems, shop jigs, wood router jigs.

Thank you so much for your desire to help here, look forward to your replies.

Take care, Chris

[Chris Norman]

Oh, and a big thank you for the welcome!

[Lynn Terry]

That's very nice traffic for your first full month - Congrats!

You mentioned making one sale. What did you sell, and do you know which page/post they clicked & purchased from?

[KathleenGageSpeaker]

I would recommend moving the opt in box for the catalog higher on the page. Also, why not have a giveaway report. Something like, 7 things you must know to be a successful woodworker.

or

How to avoid injury while woodworking

I don't know enough about your industry to know if those titles would work but you get the idea.

Get visitors into your opt in list in order to have control of how you market to them.

[Chris Norman]

Thank you all again, Lynn the sale was a small how to book after arriving at Amazon from my ad in sidebar. They did not purchase the item I had for sale but browsed amazon I believe. That's a good idea Kathleen, I will pursue that as well!

Have a great day all! Chris

[Lynn Terry]

I agree with Kathleen - definitely get that going.

If you need help with the report idea, see http://www.clicknewz.com/writereports.htm (best $7 I ever spent online!).

I'm going to take a good look at your blog and your individual posts to study your call-to-action and specific promotions...