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Sitehoppin is a cross between a paid-for Wiki, like the Million Dollar Wiki, StumbleUpon and Entrecard all rolled into one. BeerstockAnd does it deliver. I bought a couple of pages from Max, the founder of Sitehoppin.com, and I am not disappointed in the least. I got 2,916 unique page views to our two sites in the last week. Max has also offered the viewers of the Unconventional Marketing Blog a 25% discount on all purchases using the affiliate link I have provided, here.

Getting Started

First, I signed up for a login to the site and got to know the layout. Being one of the first people to join in purchasing beer shares from the site, I had the pick of any word(s), letters or numbers I wanted. I picked a small handful of numbers and relevant words for my site (1-10, MLM, Marketing, Dogs, so on). I believe that some of the alphabet is still available, otherwise double numbers and letters are easy. I think first picking up a couple of good keywords for your blog would be the best. The pricing breaks down like this.

Price

I spent about $40 on different shares that I listed above. Spending $40 for the 3,000 page views comes out to about $.013 per page view, and every day that drops. Each Beer Share that you purchase is equal to one page. That page can then be left alone and content will be provided for it, or you can have it redirect to a page on your site. I picked about 10 different high quality articles to be linked to. After you purchase your share(s) on Sitehoppin and set up your page by linking it to whatever site you chose, that site and page will start receiving traffic to it. How does that work?

HopDriving traffic

Driving traffic to your site is really simple. Your page can receive two different types of traffic from Sitehoppin. The first is by people randomly landing on your page when they hit the Site Hoppin button shown in the picture. The second way is to purchase Beer Shares.

What’s the difference between randomly hopping your page and buying Beer Shares?

Beer Share pages on Sitehoppin will receive 30% of the total traffic. This means your page and the others like it that have been purchased will receive about 1/3 of the traffic on Sitehoppin. That might not seem like a lot, but there are 95,000 pages submitted to Sitehoppin (at the time of writing). Currently, 80 Beer Shares have been bought from Sitehoppin. These 80 pages are getting 1/3 of the traffic from the whole site. Every time I log in to the site I see at least 40 registered users logged in and about 2,000 non-registered. With an Alexa rank of 17K, I know Sitehoppin is getting the traffic it boasts. I have had 3,000 page views to our sites from Sitehoppin in the last week. I don’t think there is another place that you can by a few $1 pages (Beer Shares) and get that kind of return. The fact that the traffic keeps coming in and I have invested nothing more also means that it is consistent. It is easy to see that as more people start Sitehoppin, good steady traffic will be generated.

Other benefits

•    You can site hop on your iPod Touch or iPhone.
•    You can submit each article you create, like StumbleUpon without the backlash.
•    Watch the creator of the site with all of his funny video posts.
•    Sell Beer Shares for real money, Buy Low, Sell High.
•    Set Sitehoppin on “slideshow mode,” in order to surf the web in fixed intervals. It is real easy and fun
•    Drop Entrecards while gaining traffic for your own site with “Tag Hoppin.”
•    Gain free traffic from your own “Beer Widget.”

Results

I have gotten far more traffic from Sitehoppin when compared to Entrecard. The bounce rate between the two sites is comparable. The major advantage Sitehoppin has over Entrecard is the amount of time invested. I probably spend 1/4 the time on Sitehoppin for the same number of visitors. The Ability to Tag Hop on Sitehoppin allows you to collect Entrecredits and gain extra traffic by collecting beer credits (very cool, two birds one stone). Hurry, while it lasts, because this site is giving away a lot of traffic to be kept hidden.

Just like dating, one month and counting

Yesterday marked the 1-month anniversary of my blog. Much like dating, for the first few months you keep track of everything, that first kiss, movies, music and of course the one-month anniversary. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, The Unconventional Marketing Blog is one month old. I have to say, it has been quite a month for both this blog and my girlfriend’s blog, ThatMutt.com. Before I start sounding like a beauty queen giving a speech, I thought I would point out some of the stats and what the future holds.

1st Month stats for JoshWhitford.com:

  • Day: 31 of blogging
  • Posts: 41
  • Comments: 161
  • Alexa: 205,705
  • Technorati Favs: 25
  • Technorati Authority: 41
  • Technorati Rank: 194,258
  • RSS subscribers: 75 (just 25 short of my March goal)
  • Unique Visitors: 31,739
  • Page Views: 76,017

Wow, just wow, is all I can say. My unique-visitor goal for the month of March was 30,000, and I am currently 3,000 short of that goal. Since I have been averaging over 1,500 visitors for the last few days, I have a feeling I will be reaching this goal much sooner than later. If you combine both my blog and ThatMutt.com for unique visitors, we get a total of 78,509. I am considering bumping my March goal up to 45,000 unique visitors.

Note: I have only spent $20 on advertising in the last month.

Each day so far has been quite a new experience and a lot of fun. This truly beats my old job by leaps and bounds. I actually look forward to getting up in the morning and starting to work. I started with Google Adsense, which I quickly removed due to the inability to control the ads. Project Wonderful (enough said there). Then I moved onto the Amazon.com version of Kontera text-linked ads as a test between our two sites. Kontera won out, but I am choosing to keep the ads off of my site. The only ads I am currently running are the ad strips at the top of the page and the Never Blue Ads referral banner on the left sidebar. I want to keep the focus of my site on the content of the site and not the ads. In time, ads will probably find their correct place on my site, but for now I want everyone to enjoy the blog as clutter free as possible.

What is my long-term goal for myself and this blog? I haven’t spelled out exactly what I have been planning to do with my blog on purpose. My long-term goal is to help other bloggers reach whatever goal it is that they seek. I have always been a good problem solver and enjoy taking on new tasks and challenges. In the near future, I want to establish myself as a person who is able to help you solve any marketing issues you might be having. I am building up a network of like-minded bloggers in order to benefit each other and help others. I have extremely high hopes and expectations for this blog over the next month as well as for ThatMutt.com.

I also have a few things in the works, including a free ebook, podcasts and vlogs. I am ironing out the wrinkles in a few of the processes and am eagerly waiting to share them with you. If you want to stay up to date on the happenings of The Unconventional Marketing Blog, I recommend subscribing to my RSS feed. Please leave any questions or comments you might have.

Sunday’s Random Rants 3-16

With another Sunday already here, that puts a cap on another week on the Unconventional Marketing Blog. I have to say the there has been some great progress in the stats over the last week. We jumped up almost 280k in alexa, 8k in unique visitors (meaning we averaged over 1,000 a day), RSS subscriptions went up by 20 and some gains with Technorati were pretty favorable.

March stats for JoshWhitford.com:

  • Day: 26 of blogging
  • Posts: 38
  • Comments: 151
  • Alexa: 232,510
  • Technorati Favs: 14
  • Technorati Authority: 29
  • RSS subscribers: 71 (just 29 short of my March goal)
  • Visitors: 18,907
  • Page Views: 45,061

Blogger Help Bloggers

As some might have noticed, I have a new widget on my side bar that randomly shows an image like Spottt. The major difference between the widget here and Spottt are the blogs being shown. Each blog that is displayed is in some way related to the others. The overall idea is to build a network of blogs that are willing to help and work with each other from time to time. Some of the blogs do guest posts for each other or simple promotions to give a little link love. The goal is to get the most mileage out of visiting traffic as possible. Anybody can ad the widget to their site by clicking the “get widget” and posting the code. If you are interested in being a part of the BHB, send my a message. Note: this is a participatory thing. If you are not a participator, you will not be included.

Random

On a nonblog related topic, my cat Beamer is 5 years old this month. I actually don’t know for sure, since I got him at thebeamer.jpg Humane Society in 2004. According to them, he was about 1 year old when I adopted him. I grew up with cats for the majority of my life and view them as a great addition to a house, unless you are allergic. So, happy birthday Beamer.

P.S. If anyone is in the market for a noisy orange cat I might know of one available.

Increase your network quick and easily

Well, the fine people at The SEOtree have done it again. They just released some new tools for you to increase your networking capability. If you don’t know about The SEOtree, you can find my post on it here.

The whole notion of The SEOtree is to build a network around you in one spot. On the site, you can post your articles and add your page to its directory (your site’s stats will be updated automatically). Then for all of your SEO (search engine optimization) needs, you can click on the forum and ask questions. The site is really starting to grow some legs and start walking. It won’t be long before it will be flooded with traffic.

The reason this up-and-coming site is so successful is due to the creativity of the originator. He saw a need for a one-stop-shop site for SEO enthusiasts and newcomers. In order to help promote the activity on his site, he made it even easier to use by creating buttons, Wordpress plugins and a FireFox toolbar. I have installed both the Wordpress plugin and toolbar.

The secret to building a good network and associated traffic from it is directly related to how much you interact within Internet communities. Everyone knows Stumbleupon, Digg, del.icio.us, reddit and the like are great networking tools. The idea is to accomplish as much networking as possible in the shortest amount of time. The same goes with income sites like Social Poster and all of the FireFox extensions and toolbars. When a site comes out in the first couple weeks with add-onsseotree1.JPG like FireFox extensions and Wordpress plugins, you can be sure its creator means business and is doing anything possible to encourage the site’s growth.

I said it once and I will say it again, we are going to see some great things come from The SEOtree in the future. I love using the plugins for easy submissions of articles. Don’t forget you can also get a paid link in the directory for Entrecredits. I have seen my authority on Technorati jump to 25 in 3 weeks of blogging, not to mention the Alexa jump to 276,530 in the same time. Building your network is building your road to online success. I wish you all well.

Sunday’s Random Rants

Hello all and yet another week has passed on the Unconventional Marketing Blog. There are a few things to touch on. I have a new contest running on the Contest page called “guess my next alexa ranking.” It is really simple. All you have to do is guess and be the closest to the next updated number to win.I will also be a guest post on the Entrecard blog. I will primarily be focusing on Entrecard contests and innovations. So if you are running any kind of contest and feel like telling me, I would love to help spread the word. On a side note, I will not spam the Entrecard blog with contests that are not genuine or realistic.

I am half way to my goal of 100 RSS subscribers thanks to the last contest. I am planning on running another contest this week probably involving more Entrecredits. If you are interested, you should subscribe now so you don’ t forget. If you already are subscribed, I thank you and will continue to include all subscribing members in upcoming contests.

This week I would like to have a guest poster talk about Unconventional Marketing. If you would like to do that send me an email to: josh@joshwhitford.com Of course all guest posts will have a link and plug for their blog.

Stats for JoshWhitford.com:

  • Day:18 of blogging
  • Posts : 30
  • Comments: 116
  • Alexa: 579,143
  • Technorati Favs: 14
  • Technorati Authority: 22
  • RSS subscribers: 51
  • Visitors: 10,761
  • Page Views: 24,201

It is not easy to say yet if I am going to pass the 30,000 visitor goal for the month of March with the first week pulling in roughly 5,000 unique visitors.

P.S. It’s still winter in Fargo, ND which entails below 0 weather and snow, spring is coming soon I can feel it.