The Saturday theme here at CourtneyTuttle.com is a ‘make money online’ case study of a HowToMobile.com, which was started on June 6th of this year. The site is brand new this month! I basically work on the site during the week, and update you on its progress every Saturday.

If you haven’t read my Saturday posts before, here are the archives by week: 1, 2, 3.

This week I planned on adding quite a bit of content - I was able to add some, but I didn’t get it added until this morning. The new content obviously didn’t attract a lot of visitors to the site.

Statistical Recap

This week the stats were pretty strong, especially in the beginning of the week. The statistical week this time was from 6/22 to 6/28. The site received 2,471 page loads from 1,135 unique visitors. During the previous week, which was from 6/15 to 6/21 the site got 1,451 page loads from 817 unique visitors.

Google Adsense Revenue

I thought that the revenue would at least triple this week, and it did. The site made a total of $16.36 from Adsense. Over 80% of the clicks were from the 300×250 medium rectangle that I placed in the posts. If you missed the post on how to insert Adsense into posts, you should probably check it out.

Traffic Strategy

This week I really wanted to add a lot of material to HowToMobile, but the time wasn’t there. I did get a few simple lessons added, but they were added too late to make a difference. I guess they’ll help for this next week. I’m finding that splitting time between a few different projects is pretty difficult. I’m going to have to take my organizational skills to the next level in order to make this work. Luckily I don’t really have anything to lose since HowToMobile is already making a small profit.

The site needs a lot more material. So far I’ve only added lessons for one phone, and there are obviously hundreds of phones out there. I’m going to use at least 10 hours of my time this next week to write content for HowToMobile - it will be worth the time.

So far, I’ve only added a handful of links to HowToMobile. That makes me pretty excited because it’s already getting traffic with a very limited amount of authority. Once the site gets a lot more content and authority (links) it will be getting loads of traffic.

Solution To A Problem

Last week I brought up a potential problem for HowToMobile, which was organizing all of the pages so that users could easily find what they were looking for. I spent a lot of time working on possible solutions this week, and have decided that it needs to be organized like a traditional site. I’m going to make a page for Motorola, which will show all of the Motorola phones that I have lessons for. I will then make separate pages for each additional manufacturer, listing the phones of each. Each phone will also have its own page, which will show all of the lessons available for the perspective phone.

This kind of organization will take extra time, but will add to the usability of the site. It should make a pretty big difference for search engine optimization as well.

Overall Thoughts At This Point

I’m pretty excited about the site. I feel like the traffic is outstanding considering how ‘young’ the site is. Here in 2 months or so I think it will be doing really, really well.