Ok,

Part 3:

It's now been 5 days since my launch and let's see what I've achieved.

Google : 146 pages indexed in main site.
Google Base : 1960 items indexed. Not all are reachable from the main site yet, but are from Google Base.
Yahoo : Now indexed in yahoo and getting traffic from them.
MSN : Not indexed yet....

I have 1 .org domain pointing to my site on djangosites.org as my site was programmed in django, I qualify to have my site listed from them. I have getting 25 hits per day from them too.

I have many other sites (Yahoo Answers, Linkreferral, Stumble, Delicious etc,..) all with linkbacks.

Traffic is increasing day on day and now we are having steady sales, but still a long way from the 25 sales a day target.

The visitors that have bought have bought landing directly on the product pages and typically bought with only 1 pageview. In other words they found the product they were looking for and found it easy to buy straight away, which is a very good sign. We have also had some very good feedback on the site which will go on as testimonials very soon.

Google has been the most profitable medium which seems to reflect what I've found on all my other sites. Trafic from AOL tends to be a close second with Yahoo third.

By the way, FFA sites tend to bring in no useful traffic, except for loads of spam, so I wouldn't bother, however relevant directory listings are useful and I've submitted the site using a tool to various directories but have changed the Anchor text to four different versions to ensure that all the links don't appear identical.

One very important thing still to do on the site is to take care of the grid view meta description text which is blank at this moment in time as Google is flagging this up as duplicates / too little text. Meta keywords are in there, but the descriptions need attention. This will be done later today and we can check google in a month to see it the problem is cleared. Although this won't affect Google rankings, it will affect other search rankings and also help to gain clickthroughs when a proper description is displayed.

More tomorrow.....