Graham Head

Squidoo
These pages at squidoo have become something of a test bed for social bookmarking, I had extreme success with reddit and one of my lens's no money just larger traffic spike.
Verdict: Very slow and not converting
Weekly visitors: 1000 (+965)
Weekly revenue: $0
Updated: 07/03/2009

Mortgage Blog
1 post per day
Adsense and Commission Junction running with posts.
Stumble and Digg 1 post per day.
Housekeeping and "inter post linking" every day.
Post in at least one forum or comment on a blog each day. (i have not done this, bad me)
Verdict: We are up to around 20 organic visitors per day
Weekly visitors: 100 (+80)
Weekly revenue: $2
Updated: 07/03/2009

Web Revenue Experiment
One post per day describing in detail what is happening.
Link older posts to "lenses".
Verdict: Not planned for revenue generation (but who knows eh?)
Weekly visitors: 20 (+15)
Weekly revenue: $0
Updated: 07/03/2009

Summary
Updated: 22/01/2009
Things are off to a slow but steady start. I am dedicated to the cause and will continue to drive through the pain barrier. I am currently putting in around 2 hours per day in effort and have a cost base of 0. I am planning to tinker with the idea of using google adwords to increase traffic to one of these areas but I am not sure yet.

Update: 29/01/2009
Still no real news but the traffic is growing and we find our pages in more SERP's. Interesting theory from my friend is that the larger the net the big the rewards. I disagree. I am targeting very specific niches. Therefore if I drive unrelated traffic to it, I am not going to be any better off....... Although an expansion to this idea is to create more blogs at very targeted niches and hope to catch many small fish but at a higher price :)

Update: 07/03/2009
Its been a while since I updated this page so it was nice to read my comments one month on and update my progress. So I am moving forward but at a slow pace. I have ventured into a new style of blog and have have been tinkering with layouts to absolutely no change!! Squidoo just seems to be a nice place to hang out now, not really revenue generating nor does it bring the all important traffic. Perhaps I am doing something wrong. Anyway, revenue is up on the mortgage blog, visitors are up across my web empire and I know how to crack reddit for the future. Promise to update this page more often.

Updated: 22/01/2009
Woo hoo, I guess no news is good news in this section. However it could just be that today is the first day!