Grill Auctions Update 11/02/07

Hi All - 

First and foremost, thanks to everyone for the kinds words of encouragement and prayers in regard to my fathers health! It is truly appreciated! Even though it has been a challenge to find the time to write each day, I am still deeply involved in the Grill Auction site and spend quite a bit of my free time working on making sure the contest winner has a good product and something I can be proud to award!

The site is still in the indexing process, but now shows more than 34 indexed pages, almost double that of just a couple days ago! In addition, a total of 12 of the targeted phrases now show in the top 20 SERP’s… I expect almost ALL of the category targets to be strong runners within 2 weeks.

The site has already produced both Google AdSense (4 clicks) and a CJ sale for a total revenue of $3.56. Not much I know… but in less than 2 weeks of very much part time and slow development, it is earning money! If I had pushed this site out in 1-2 days after registering the domain, it would be 1 month ahead of where it is now… The winner for this contest will not be disappointed!

I am still waiting for one of my boys to get my Grill Features article in my hands, but I think it is an issue of emails being crossed more than it not being done (Hint… Hint, Ryan)

I have had the combined contest results in my hands since yesterday morning, but have not had a chance to put it onto the screen – Here goes, results are through the end of day, October 31st.

• Ed Akehurst still holds the lead with 377 direct referrals
• Rochelle in second, is gaining significantly with 261 referrals!
• Otis still holds third with 94.

There have been two periods that the videos I uploaded have just killed my bandwidth limit and temporarily shut the site down for a few minutes… a few days, it has exceeded 5 gigs per day! That’s a big chunk of data… but I have made the proper increases to assure it does not happen again!

In case you all didn’t see, I also had a winner of my first official Build a Niche Store Review! Once each month, a new subscriber is chosen to have me go up and down their site and offer tips and suggestions for immediate improvement! In addition to the review, I provide detailed keyword and phrase reports on how they should focus their efforts in category building! At some point, I will have a chance to offer this as a paid service to anyone interested in getting it done… I just have not had the time to code the back-end stuff yet.

Happy Reading – Mark

Previously Published Articles You May Like to Read:

• Grill Auctions Update
• … and the Winner of the Charcoal Grill Website Is
• Creating Grill Auction Category Tree
• Update a BANS search query sitewide with phpMyAdmin
• Build a Niche Store with a Blog Update!
• Update on Rochelle’s Sites
• Google PR Update and Niche Stores

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