{url=http://www.***************.com/2005/03/build-it-and-they-will-come.html]Build it and they will come.[/url] It was very interesting and other than the figures at conversion very true.
But traffic I find is the easy part.
The key is converting it. I can go out and buy traffic, do a few auto submits, partner submits, adwords, etc and traffic will flow into the site. This is without opening and promoting a serious affiliate program, not ready yet.
From the figures I see on the webserver stats we are doing well.
496k uniques to allwww.paulmarkhamteens.com sites.
10588 uniques to
the front page
134 new joins, half of which seem to be staying at least two months.
We burned $60 gig of BW in totla so no problems there.
We definitely need to know more about where how and what the traffic is doing. But it seems fine so far.