Any income and also, can you give a break down on stats, how many page pages there are, how many members?
Hi,
Currently user's are not required to sign up before posting reviews, but at the moment there are 2715 members. Most people post reviews under guest names.
I can say that a large chunk of the unique traffic is through the women's interest section of the site. All traffic to verdicts is free, organic traffic coming from Google mostly, with some traffic coming from other SE's like yahoo, MSN and ask (as well as some others which utilise google).
It's worth mentioning that Verdicts comes up on page 1 of google for many, many good search terms, but generically "consumer reviews" and "product reviews".
Income comes almost entirely from some google adsense tucked away in the right columns of each section, though I do have some affiliate banners/button links in select places on the site, which to be honest don't return much.
There are over 3k reviews in the database. Number of pages is much higher, mainly on the new "lifestyle" section of Verdicts, which has each county listed, with the navigation structure repeated in each section, so it would be wrong to say that there is over 50k pages, because they don't all have unique content on them, they are purely there so people can come and add their reviews when they want to. Having said that, the lifestyle site gets a fair amount of traffic from people finding pages in google, despite the lack of content. Increasing/adding content to these pages would show even better results.
Finally, the domain has had a very good history in the search engines, with no penalties for bad SEO practices or anything.
Hope that clears up any questions you have.
Regards,
Mat
