So the A4U competition has been underway for 2 weeks now, and while most of the entrants still havent even put their sites live, my site has been live for the full 2 weeks! Traffic has been building slowly, averaging 5-10 uniques per day from the search engines.
Other than JC making a few pence (13p if I remeber correctly) from an adsense click (which only puts him around $600 down after buying a domain names and content), nobody has made any money…until today! I just checked my AffiliateWindow account and there it is, the first sale of the competition! The order was for £175 through F Hinds, who unfortunately do now allow you to see the exact products sold, which got me a decent £21 commission!
The sites still not ranking first page for any of the main keywords, and still needs quite a bit of onsite SEO work doing to it as well, plus around 50-60 more products adding, so hopefully, especially in the run up to christmas this site could turn out to be a little gold mine (no pun intended).
A4U Gold Jewellery Competition Total Time Spent: 8.5 Hours
A4U Gold Jewellery Competition Earnings: £19.25