What If I Have A Site That Needs A Complete Overhaul?
Submitted by gronesy on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 20:42.
Jeremy,
I wanted to know if I could/should use a site I have that was set up without ANY of the considerations you outlined yesterday as my Black Ink Project.
I am NOT trying to cut out any work because this site is as good as a brand new site and it's been up for over 4 months. No keyword research or SEO was done. No customer discovery was done.
All I did was pick a Clickbank product with a gravity between 20 and 40 as suggested by another guru.
If you think I would learn a lot more if I started from nothing I will respect your wishes and work on the other site in my spare time using what I've learned here.
Let me know what you think.
Thank you,
Jeff
PS-I wanted to post this here in case anybody else was in this position.
If anything you should keep
If anything you should keep the domain if it's relevant for the domain age alone.
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I guess the question is....
I guess the question is it making any money and is it worth the ROI? If not, then I would say and overhaul or a fresh start might be a good first step.
I agree with Dan's comments
I agree with Dan's comments ;)
I'm Sorry But I Must Not Have Made Sense
Hello All,
What I was talking about is whether a complete overhaul of a site that was slapped up without any of the work we've been learning would be a good Black Ink Project or if I should just go through the entire process and build another site on another niche as my project.
I have no plans to take it down or scrap the original domain. Just wondering if an overhaul is as good a project for BIP as a new site would be.
The site has potential and has made some money but I know it's lacking all the necessary steps for a great site. I put it up after being in internet marketing for a month or so.
I'm getting the impression it would be best to do all the work from the ground up on another niche and fix this one on my own time using the BIP methods.
Does this sound like a plan?
Jeff
Twitter: http://twitter.com/gronesy
Like Dan and Jeremy also
Like Dan and Jeremy also say, 'it depends' ... if the site is giving a good ROI I would leave it for what it is and continue with a second site. Don't put all the eggs in one basket :).
What you might do is copy the site, put it on another domain and redo this second site according to what Jeremy is teaching us. This way you have your old site make some money while you are working on the other site. I would choose a niche, if possible, that is very close related to the old site. If the new site rocks, you copy that one, adjust is for the first niche and voila ... you have 2 rocking sites.
just my 2 cents
Richard
Jeff, Just a suggestion, why
Jeff,
Just a suggestion, why not start a complete new site for the same niche using what you learn from BIP.
Then you can compare with your current site and make improvement. Then you have two good sites tackling the same niche. :-)
CT
Hey Jeff, I Am In A Similar Situation
This is what I have been considering doing with one of my current sites.
I have a 4 year old domain that makes me some money every month in a tight niche. Playing the SEO game is sometimes frustrating and the results are not consistent. I'm on the front page of G for a lot of terms. I have been consistently making money with this site so I want to try buying traffic.
My plan is to create landing pages that don't link to any other pages of the site to see if I can generate more sales. I think this will make it easier to track traffic and do testing and then possibly use some of what I learn from the landing pages to help improve the main site.
As far as reworking the site, that's exactly what I did with this one and it made a huge difference for me. So I would say don't give up on it yet.
I'm also going to begin a new project for BIP. Of course this plan is subject to change as we move through the training.
Don
Thanks to all for your great suggestions
Hello All,
I think what I'm going to do is develop another site for the same niche, probably for the same product, and put it on another domain. I'll then use what I learn to fix it from BIP but keep the original as is. If the new one rocks, I'll copy it to the original site and continue bouncing them off each other for testing purposes.
Because I'm dedicated to the my BIP success, I'll probably also develop a new niche from the ground up as well.
Excellent ideas, everyone.
Thanks,
Jeff
I am blogging about this project at the site listed here.
http://senjomarketing.com/?s=tbip/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/gronesy