well, i'm fairly clueless about what adam has to say. i did try to comment on blogs simply to get visitors on my site. it's worked.. well like he said, once in a blue moon. but it's worth my effort.

as far as the amazon store and why it is necessary. well, cus he's right. it's doing about 5x as well as accessorybug.com.

but the thing about the 15k revenue is not a lie. why would i need to lie about infos like that? the purpose of this post is to get some pagerank on my site. and so far it hasnt worked.

Plin, if you want I can pm you some info to get a pr 4 or so pretty quick. All correct SEO techniques!

Originally Posted by plin924

but the thing about the 15k revenue is not a lie. why would i need to lie about infos like that? the purpose of this post is to get some pagerank on my site. and so far it hasnt worked.

These things take time. Your thread has been here for less than a week, right? PR, the kind we can see and know about, is updated every three months. Real PR is constantly updated, and you can sort of infer how you're doing there, but it takes time and effort.

As we said earlier, PR is nothing but a measure of links. Even the one you put in your original message will have some effect, albeit a small one. But it takes time to see. If you want to raise your PR ( which might or might not have any effect on your business or even traffic ) you need ultimately to collect as many links to your site as possible, and generally all to the same URL. It's page rank, not site rank.

Learning Newbie knows of what he speaks

takes time.. i guess. alright thanks guys. i really really appreciate the help. and i understand the situation is what it is... thanks.

peter

plin924: If you want to get to that goal, and competitors are already there (although I find it hard to believe that you'd know that too...competitors tend to be anything but upfront when it comes to their revenues and profits) it's pretty easy if you fix a lot of the issues with your site listed earlier.

The reason I'm still suspicious contains the same logic as I used to raise suspicion over your competitor claims. People cite figures all the time, and the evidence rarely supports it.

In your case, the very claim of revenue vs. traffic seems contradictory. You claim that your site generates $15 K/month in revenue off of 300-500 uniques per day. Assuming the max (500 K uniques per day), and no overlap among uniques (in other words 15,000 visitors per month), you'd have to make $1.00 per visitor to your site off of a product with an average sale value of $50.00 (rough estimate). That means you need a 2% conversion rate minimum (not sure what your overlap or monthly uniques are, or how many people order multiple product, but it's got to be significantly higher) to reach that number, and your site just isn't built to do that.

To be fair, I'm not totally sure one way or the other, so I'll give you one piece of advice that, if you're serious, will get you way more than $30 K per month in revenue: look at your ten best competitors. Build your site and business so that it can clearly be distinguished that it's head and shoulders above those competitors. Look, feel, functionality, copy, product, the whole nine yards. In other words, become competitively obsessive. Take what they do...and do one better.

If you can do that, you'll be fine.

adam,

ok believe me or not. im glad you're still winning to help.

now you've brought up a critical point in regards to my competitors. i guess i am a moron for revealing my numbers. i wont let that happen again. that being said. i know who my competitors are. they seemed to have few or very little links going into them. (i assume they are quality links). i think around the industry the great sites have a page rank of about... 4? around there...

that being said, at first i thought i'm lacking the number of products, but there are sites that has fewer than 100 products and they are getting PR of 4 with not much showing when u type in link:URL..

what the heck is going on? I don't understand that at all. also, another thing i dont understand is:

i have list myself in... hm.. i'd say 30-50 (i lost count) business directories. but when i try to find out the amount of links coming into my site. it either says zero or 1. i dont get that at all... that's what's been puzzleing me the most.

For goodness sake;

Turn off the stupid pointless toolbar PR display and stop caring about it.

Stop checking link counts in Google, it will tell you nothing

Get some DECENT links rather than the go hard way of getting thousands of crappy useless ones from "link exchanges"

Improve your site so people will naturally link to it

I do agree that page ranking doesn't mean you will get business or traffic to your web site. I used to have one online store with page ranking 7. So what?

I got pretty good traffic, but I got no business. Because of the bad design? Well I guess so, but I will never know. The store is closed a long time ago.

I agree that backlinks are more important than PR. Well. If I can make $15K/m, I will be very happy.