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Re: Escort Finder directory launched ...
« Reply #15 on: 21 October 2015, 03:21:38 pm »
I wanted to thank those of you who provided feedback a few months ago - the site is starting to settle in and we have over 100 members already signed up.  Last month we had 250,000 hits on the site, averaging 7000 page views per day and this month looks on target to beat that.  Our search engine ranking is slowly building - and escort profiles are beginning to appear in Google and Bing searches in some cases with high click through ratios. I am also aware that a number of profiles have received bookings as a result.

This is all as a direct result of the guidance you gave us - so many thanks!

We are still offering free lifetime founder memberships (no fees EVER) for those that would like to join.

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« Reply #16 on: 21 October 2015, 06:51:05 pm »
I just tried to do a simple search on your website and got a whole page of this

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« Reply #17 on: 21 October 2015, 08:23:26 pm »
I wanted to thank those of you who provided feedback a few months ago - the site is starting to settle in and we have over 100 members already signed up.  Last month we had 250,000 hits on the site, averaging 7000 page views per day and this month looks on target to beat that.  Our search engine ranking is slowly building - and escort profiles are beginning to appear in Google and Bing searches in some cases with high click through ratios. I am also aware that a number of profiles have received bookings as a result.

This is all as a direct result of the guidance you gave us - so many thanks!

We are still offering free lifetime founder memberships (no fees EVER) for those that would like to join.

How do the punters know about your site? Where are you getting all the interest from? Just from punters doing a google search? For what?

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« Reply #18 on: 21 October 2015, 09:20:18 pm »
An unqualified talk of 'hits' is one of the most misleading statistics out there, even before you think about how many 'hits' (requests for some data from a web server) make up a 'page view' given the number of images and scripts on a page.

Real humans are a tiny fraction of most sites' 'hits' because most are bots of one sort or another, some welcome (the Google spider looking at your page) but usually not (the endless automated attempts to break in). If I wanted to vastly increase my 'hits', I'd just turn off the various protections against the latter...
'The Ian formerly known as SW5'. What they said: "Indispensable", "You are our best resource", and (hours later!) "I'm afraid that you're being made redundant..."

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Re: Escort Finder directory launched ...
« Reply #19 on: 21 October 2015, 09:56:40 pm »
Thanks for your replies ...

Midsstudent - thanks for letting us know (it was working this morning honest!!)  - our lookup reference for postcodes not included in our database seems to have crashed - I've escalated the problem to the site owner.

Shewolf - I followed advice from on here and developed some appropriate subject matter blogs which are spread over a number of social media sites all pointing to our site, plus an improved set of keywords for the search engines. Postcode searches are from all over the UK.

xw5 You are right about the hits stats of course - I won't mention them again. I monitor referrer URLs (including BOT activity), entry pages and keyword searches for next layer granularity, and of course the normal search engine clicks, impressions and CTR percentages.


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« Reply #20 on: 22 October 2015, 09:02:47 pm »

xw5 You are right about the hits stats of course - I won't mention them again. I monitor referrer URLs (including BOT activity), entry pages and keyword searches for next layer granularity, and of course the normal search engine clicks, impressions and CTR percentages.

So what are your stats without the bots etc?

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« Reply #21 on: 27 October 2015, 03:26:31 pm »
Following up on XW5 and Midsstudent comments - this months figures list approx 5% of activity directly from User Agents that are classified as bots, statistic sites like Alexa, and other search sites.  This is probably lower than it actually is as (XW5 will hopefully agree) some of the bots mimic real User Agents such as mobiles and standard browsers when accessing the site.  The remaining User Agents are primarily mobile phones and tablets (Iphone and Android devices) and Apple and MSoft PCs.

Anyway - in general, activity is building significantly every month

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« Reply #22 on: 12 January 2016, 05:17:48 pm »
We now have only 50 places left for our founder member promotion before we start to introduce fees - so if you would like to join up and get a guarantee that you will never be charged fees for the lifetime of your profile on the site - now would be a great time.

We now have registered profiles from over 140 independent mature service providers across the UK - with both Google and Bing directing town and regional specific search traffic.  Our search and messaging system is working well and the profiles are receiving plenty of daily views. We are also in the final stages of developing a mobile app which will allow service providers to quickly update the status of their profile (availability, location and contact info) without visiting the site - not a big thing I know - but a simple tool to use when touring.

Looking forward to filling those last 50 places!

Best Wishes for a prosperous 2016