Can’t Get Rich

About three and a half months ago, I had this really nice landing page made for me and used it in a PPC campaign.  I ran that one for about a month, and then turned everything off and pretty much forgot about it.

Fast-forward to last week: I received a commission from that offer.  Turns out that my little abandoned LP was receiving a trickle of organic traffic.  Boy, am I glad I added Google analytics to that page.  I checked the page’s statistics to see what keywords were bringing the most people, did a little SEO with that data, and waited.

Two days later, my page was (and still is) ranking #1 on Yahoo for its primary keyword.  That’s with 0 backlinks too (page titles can make a world of difference).  That site proceeded to make me over $200 over the next few days, and I’ve decided to try and capitalize on it a bit more with some additional link building (directory subs, etc).

What can you learn from this?  Always put Google analytics code on your sites, even if you’re only going to use them for paid traffic.  I never expected to start ranking in that particular niche (it’s incredibly competitive), but now I’m holding the #1 spot for some pretty decent keywords.

Organic traffic is free traffic, and free money is always nice.

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