So far the project is going great in my estimation. As of today we’ve had 2,405 unique visitors which obviously surpassed our initial goal of 2,000. Adsense seems to have picked up today and our Adsense total is about $7. Not much, but good for a site 8 days old. I know you may think that with 2400 uniques $7 is pitiful and I agree. Most of the visitors were from social sites like Stumbleupon and Digg and those visitors typically show a VERY low CTR, but they link up which makes it all worth it.
Google is beginning to index more of the site, still slowly. So far we have 31 posts published. 15 from me and 16 from Andrew. 31 posts in 8 days averages out to 3.875 per day which is well above the 2.5 we need to hit our 150 posts total goal. That includes me being sick yesterday and not doing anything.
Tomorrow I’ll be working on brainstorming for a good piece of linkbait so we can get some links. Without an influx of links, we’ll be fighting till the end to get our Adsense earnings up.
That’s all for this update. Please let me know if you’d like more or less info on this project. I assume people like this series since my FeedBurner subscribers, but I’d like to hear it from you. Obviously I’m trying to be transparent by giving out the URL and disclosing earnings and traffic. If you’d like to see different stats, let me know in the comments!
Keep up the good work! Very intresting to read how is your new website doing.