Stargate

[kemjika11]

Hello,

my domain name, theaquaria.net gets many hits/day, but a relatively low CTR on namedrive. Under user searches, find words like "stargate" and "stargate music" being at the top of the searches. Quite popular on the user searches actually. I am seeking advice on how to convert that traffic(which hopefully can be useful traffic) into income maybe through more efficient PPC, or an affiliate site. All suggestions are welcome. thanks

 

[harkster]

Check out a possible relationship to the Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis science fiction shows.

 

[kemjika11]

thanks for the feedback.

i visited a forum were someone had posted a link of my domain name, so i think the domain name used to host a site related to sci fi movies. If i could make an affiliate page or something relating o sci fi films, this domain could do well.

 

[Varon]

I was just checking your website, theaquaria.net. As a first time visitor, I would first focus on the main body in the center. On the mainbody center, I find nothing related to my search query "stargate". All a visitor views is the different popular categories. Yes, the keywords do show up on the left panel in related searches, but the background color of that table is too light to notice. So not many visitors would be actually even looking at the left side related searches and just leavaing your site.

I feel that your visitors are coming based on the keyword "Lene Fansite". Your site shows up on yahoo search as a lene fansite. Is there any way you can change your meta description to a stargate related keyword? I feel that you could try the keyword "stargate atlantis 3d stargate". Right now it looks like the visitors are looking for guitar or band groups rather than stargate in particular.

These sites link to you. So these could be your visitor sources besides yahoo.
cooking.erp-volga.com/music/Lene_Grawford_Nystrm.html
hotguitarist.com/bands/A/aqua.htm

Btw,the site greets visitors with a popup. You could look into that too.

Got it. I just checked archive.org and found that this was a Lene Nystrom fansite. Check http://web.archive.org/web/20040830130122/http://www.theaquaria.net/

Maybe you could focus on Lene Nystrom, bands, music etc? I think that would be a better strategy. Target the music related traffic, rather than a stargate focus.

 

[kemjika11]

thanks very much for your input Varon. I agree with alot of your suggestions and points, but i am a little more worried by the fact that i won't be able to improve the functionality of this domain as much.

 

[Varon]

kemjika, is this site parked somewhere?


Edited....sorry I hadn't read the part where you mentioned it was parked at ND.

 

[kemjika11]

well the domain has been forwarding to sedo's parking for the whole of the day, with the keywords 'stargate sheet music".

stats for today:

23 uniques
3 clicks
9.09% CTR
income today: $0.21

 

[Varon]

I feel, the Sedo Calm Blue template looks very appealing. The ads have more visibility. Have you tried keywords related to guitar and amplifiers, record companies etc?

Anyway, is the change to Sedo an improvement over ND? I mean your revenue.

 

[kemjika11]

thanks for the input Varon. Its performance on sedo today is much better than ND. EPC for ND was about 4c, while on sedo its about 7c. I'm more happy about the CTR, because the domain made a few dollars over some months @ ND, but it was a low CTR, therefore underachieving performance in my view. THe average CTR on ND for the domain was about 2 or 3%. Just today on sedo, it was 9%. i hope it stays a bit higher than the ND CTR while at sedo.