128th day: We added Matched Content Ad Units.

We have good news.

Our numbers have increased again these last 7 days.

• Not very much, but they have improved.

We know what you may be thinking:

• “You shouldn’t be worried about your numbers that much. This is a long distance race“.

It is not that simple:

If you’re dedicated 24/7 to building a Good Site, and you see your traffic “flat”… You start to worry.

The last thing you want is to feel like you’ve wasted your time.

• That is completely normal.

Psychologically, it is much more difficult to build a Site that we initially imagined.

• Perhaps, we relied too much on certain predictions of  false SEO “experts”.
  • Be careful with all the expectations you’ll find in YouTube.
    • Practically all of them are absolutely false.

That is why we started this Diary. To share our Real experience.

Anyway… We’ll talk more about it in our 2-Year anniversary Special Post (we’ll post it in early May).

Remember:

In this Diary we talk about How we are building this Website: our SEO strategy, Plugins we use, our Traffic Results…

• You’ll find all our Posts sorted by Topic here: “Website building and SEO Diary“.

Now, let’s talk about what’s new.

This short Post will be divided into 2 different sections:

1. We added Matched Content Ad Units to our Site.

2. Our Google Analytics report for today: Users and Pageviews we have.

Let’s begin:

1. We added Matched Content Ad Units to our Site.

Finally, our Site became Eligible for Matched Content Ad Units.

What is a Matched Content Ad Unit?

These Ads you can find in the Footers of many Sites.

• Now, ours included.

Allegedly, they increase Engagement, Pageviews and Monetization.

Do Matched Content Ads Work?

We Still don’t know.

• We added them last week.

In 1/2 month we will analyze the results obtained and we will obtain a Conclusion.

How can you be Eligible? What do you need?

Last Friday, we published a Page where we shared our experience.

• What our Site needed to be Eligible.
• How we configured our Ad Units.
• etc.

If you are interested, we recommend you to visit it:

• Matched Content Ads.

2. Our Google Analytics report for today: Users and Pageviews we have.

As we have said, our numbers look better:

Users:

As you can see in the Post’s top Image, we now receive 4,900 users per week.

• Our record so far.

Pageviews:

We currently have 27,922 Pageviews per month.

• It has taken us almost 2 years to reach these numbers.

That’s why we told you that this is not as easy as many “gurus” say…

As always:

• Thanks for being there.