Who’s Responsible For A Spike In My Domain Traffic?
So who is responsible for my domain name’s traffic? What domain am I talking about? I am talking about curlers.org and yesterday I noticed a huge spike in traffic. It didn’t dawn on me at the time that this could be due to one of the search engines listing me high in the search results but that is exactly what happened.
Since I didn’t notice anything with Google or Yahoo I kind of just categorized this as a rare occurrence. Boy was I wrong! I decided to look further into the analytic data for curlers.org and noticed that Bing has decided to show me a little love. No forget that, they have decided to show me a LOT of love. This is the most impressive optimization yet.
I am ranked on the first page of Bing for the following terms:
curlers
steam curlers
best hair curler
curlers for hair
I am ranked on the second page of Bing for the following terms:
hair curlers
Now I am not sure how long the results will stick, but I was pleasantly surprised to see Bing stepping in to index me before both Google and Yahoo. I have to deem this a successful deployment of a static mini site. Although I don’t like the term mini site I will stick to using it for now, until I think of something different.
So what are the next steps? Good question and I am glad that I asked it! Since I am on the first page of Bing I need to offer some products on the site. I plan on integrating a few affiliate based products on the site via the Amazon affiliate program. I will also start to approach companies who either manufacture, distribute or sale curlers for direct advertising on the site. As long as I place high in the search engine results, this domain is worth its weight in GOLD! You are going to hear me utilize this term a great deal because I feel if you build a domain name out the right way you not only rank well but you CONVERT! Then your domain name becomes an automatic monkey making machine.
That’s what I am shooting for! For those of you who want the pure statistics my traffic jumped 1,900% according to Google Analytics. The stats don’t lie. 
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March 17, 2010 8:39 pm
Just one more example of why Bing will hardly be a player eventually, they will rank an adsense site like that on the front page. If I was using bing and got to your site I think I would reconsider what search engine to use. No offense to you, I have similar sites but we all know that sites like that really don’t contribute much to the internet and should not rank high in the serps.
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March 17, 2010 11:14 pm
Jason,
AWESOME news! Thanks for sharing and congrats! I have been following curlers.org and really like the domain name and site. Some even better news for you: Under the upcoming Yahoo/Microsoft deal, Bing is slated to power not only Microsoft’s results, but Yahoo’s too (both paid and organic). This means that if you stick, you will automatically be on the 1st page of Yahoo too when the deal closes. However, given the way things are going, you’ll probably be on the 1st page of Yahoo anyway by then, but nice to know of this added perk of success on Bing. FYI – I’m a HUGE Bing fan.
Best,
Ian
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March 17, 2010 11:59 pm
@Troy I see your point, but I am not sure if I completely agree with you. My objective is to rank high in the search engines regardless of what the name is. If you spend a bit of time reading the curlers site you would see there is some informative information on the site.
This is one of the reasons why it is ranking well. I have content writers who write great content. This is one of many sites that I have which rank well. I have several sites which rank on the top page of google for specific terms, I don’t think that you are completely seeing what is being done here. There is a process I have developed for myself. In this process I am doing what needs to be done to rank, but I am am also adding value to a site with original content.
This is content that will not be found anywhere else. Once I rank fairly high for a specific keyword or phrase then I proceed forward with affiliate programs. If I can help a person select a specific product or service then my job is complete. That is my goal, create a website which ranks well then monetize it through ads and affiliate programs. Also include informative content for people to read.
The site performs the way its supposed to perform.
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March 18, 2010 12:02 am
@PPC Ian thanks for the positive comments. When a website starts to hit its like winning the jackpot.
After this experience I have to say I like Bing as well. This is the first site I have optimized which has been ranked in Bing before Yahoo and Google!
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March 18, 2010 6:27 am
It twas me
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March 18, 2010 8:02 am
Jason,
How is CTR on that design?
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