10,000 Unique Visitors per Month

Just trying to guage if 10,000 unique vistors per month is a good number?

I realize conversion (sales) is what it is all about and I am doing ok at this but I was just wondering how my stats stack up.

this depend on alot of factors, like what type keywords they are looking for, knowing this we can see how targerted the keywords are. Also depends o the field you are working in, cars, templates, ect... if the convertion rate is good then you are ok but this is very important the analitics part where you can see if your keywords are realy making you money, if you got 1 million visits per sale you are not good, you can try to reduce that.. jeje

I think this goes to Website Analytics forum section

heehee... ya -- 100K/day is better than 10K/month!

Seriously though it depends more on profit margin per unit sold that gauges what level is appropriate.

3K a month is absolutely a dream for one client that generates $140K for a sale...

on another 2,740/day is absolutely a dream that generates a $10-40 for a sale... [2740 works out to a million/year ]

on another 4-5K/day isn't enough.

All revenue and gross margins aside, if you are doing 10K uniques a month and your closest competitor is doing 5K uniques... great performance. But, if the roles are reversed, you have a problem.

For site performance, it comes down to available traffic and conversion rate NOT financial results, i.e. you can be dominating the SERPs and converting almost everyone and be a SEO/SEM winner. If you are doing this and are only making $1, it is not your site performance, it is your product/service selection and business model.

You can be financially successful being in last place if your product/service is in demand and your business model is financially sound.

You can go bankrupt being #1 in the SERPs backing the wrong product/service and/or following a poor business model.

To be a success across the board requires the right product/service, a good business model, and SEO/SEM prowess.

SEO_AM thats very true.

Sometimes smaller traffic generates more sales if the keyword is more target.

why? i had test this. Lets put a example with a keyword name: cars and your website sale air conditioners for cars, well some people like to search for that word and if you try to rank this keyword it will be very difficult but i am sure that if you are on top you will get tons of trafic, but maybe the guy that is searching its trying to look for car rentals and your website is in top, i am sure you will get alot of traffic even if you dont sale the product the client had in his mind, well that will not get you any sale. But if you go for a more especific word like: air contioner for cars i know maybe the traffic is less but the people interest in that product will be more.

In the end will be like this
cars: 1 million visits = 100 sales
air contioner for cars: 100 000 = 100 sales

This way you can rank a smaller but more target keyword which is easier to rank... people had forgot some alternative marketing strategies...

How can we make all of these things happen in concert?

Interesting:

To be a success across the board requires:


Upgrading to match market needs/demands.


Upgrading to enhance productivity, reducing overhead so to positively effect the bottomline.


Upgrading to maintain pace with the changing environment.

...

You will likely never reach the ultimate "goal" but as Homer wrote... the journey's the thing...

It requries business planning that includes mid to long term time-based goals, strategies and strategy implementation projects with near-term time-based objectives against the strategic goals. The objectives are tied to specific projects that will be implemented to reach the objectives that are tied towards meeting your longer term goals. You measure your progress by measuring progress towards meeting those objectives.

If things are not going as planned, it is usually an indication that something is wrong with your business model (market demand, product/service offering, and/or market share projected using your strategies); under-resourced (lacking funding, materials, personnel, technology, and/or competencies); strategy not implemented as planned, or the planned strategy, although implemented correctly, is not yielding the expected results (this usually results in emergent strategies that compensate for unforseen events).

In following your business plan you are not guaranteed success. Good planning minimizes loses, i.e. you know when to bail out, and maximizes returns... you move forward under contol of your product/services offered, business model, and SEO/SEM projects and results.

Egol, you asked for it... I gave it to you.