Cool New Advertising Idea?

I'd hope my site was interesting enough, it was www.coolest-gadgets.com

 

WOW... that's one of my favourites and it's definitely active.

For the $5 you have put on it you have recieved 215 hits to date

 

Thanks, is there any way I can track traffic. I've not noticed UBlam in my logs (though if it's only a few hots a day I probably wouldn't spot it).

 

Only I can see the total number of hits. If you can think of a way (something that I can do) to allow people to track it, let me know.

 

Well, ultimately only the webmaster can see the number of people that actually made it to their website. That would be via their webserver logs. If it ain't in the webserver log, then there was not visit. ( grep "ublam" access_log )

 

Not to say that you are "wrong", but... Perhaps your server if different than mine

Anytime my webserver gets a request, information is stored in my log files. Regardless of how UBlam gets my webpage (as long as it is getting it from my webserver), there is a record of it.

grep "ublam" access_log

I should add - they could cache the webpage on their site (maybe that is what you were thinking), but I don't see any indication of that happening. Hey, UBlam Guy - are you caching?

 

No, there is no caching. Your sites are linked through a frame but the visitor's browser still requests the webpage from your webservers. So it should show up on your log.

 

My logs are showing 39 uniques since I started using it (see beginning of this thread) but I would expect Ashkan to know how many visitors he sent me more accurately than I do.

 

Made a new widget - the miniBLAM widget... http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/?search=miniblam

Should get everyone on UBlam's list more hits

 

Alexa is definitely not as accurate as I thought. According to my webalizer UBlam.com had 471 uniques today which is more than what it had the day before, yet on alexa it has less than halved...is alexa the best way to compare my website with others?

 

No, there are not any reasonable (as in cost effective) alternatives to Alexa. When you are talking about 100's or 1000's or people - Alexa just is not meaningful. When you get into 10,000 hits a day - then it gets more accurate (many will argue with me!).

471 uniques in a day? Sounds like it is time to pull out all the stops and start advertising. Put uBlam in your signature. Start a blog.

Any response to the PR?

 

good , i like it!

 

I just spent ages writing a reply and then it all got lost when it asked me to relogin, so here's a shorter one.

- The hits are mainly from UBlam articles on the news and miniBlams including the widget ( http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/view.php?widget=39692 ) which has got over 1000 downloads in just a day.

- No hits from search engines, I still need to learn about adwords, SEO, PR rank etc. It would be nice if UBlam came on top when people search for 'bored' or 'Blam'. Any ideas on how to do that?

- Although UBlam is getting tons of new and returned visitors everyday, there hasn't been as much sign up of people putting their Blogs and websites on there. Some people have signed up but havent added their site. Maybe I am doing something wrong (e.g. they think the payment system is not secure or they think they must have a paypal account). Again, Any ideas would help ?

- The UBlam.com background picture now alternates, if anyone can find good 'BLAM' related pictures, let me know, I would really appreciate it.

 

Someone just offered me a fair amount to buy UBlam.com off me...it is very tempting but can't let go of UBlam! Just though whether any of you have any idea what my site could be worth...? Just want to compare it with the offer I got.

 

Monthly revenue x 12 or so (yeah - that is the same as 1 year revenue, but I like to make it look more complicated). It is a trade-off - if you can flip the site and make money, then you have to consider any additional "trouble" that you will not have to "invest" back into it. On the other hand, it could be big and it will be a missed opportunity.

 

Well my monthly revenue varies... Does the number unique design of the website, widgets, toolbars, alexa ranking etc not count?

781 uniques yesterday

 

They don't count. I would rather have the ugliest website in the world making $1,000 a month vs. the coooooooolest website ever making nothing. Sorry - that is the way I see it.

 

Traffic is big factor in a sites value, if a site has no income but recieves a few thousand visitors a day it will have a value to somebody else who could monetise it.