John Barnett's Page

So far, 2 affiliate sales after 27 clickthroughs.

Got to sort out my publishing schedule as so far, it's been one long round of blog posting. Bought a $200 external hard drive for backups.

Also found a fantastic piece of software called Raven. Iy is better than Windows Live Writer which stopped working. Raven offers the chance to post to as many blogs as you like. Great for posting on satelite blogs. It also saves offline so I can spend a day just posting and then publish when i like. Also let… Continue

Looking at my Google analytics i find that my visitors are spending an average of almost 7 minutes on my site with an average page view of just over 3. I'm not sure what sort of figures for website stickiness are regarded as good.

50% of unique visitors are returners. Bounce rate is down to 13%

Funny how everyone and his dog are trying to copy the success of 16 Steps to Success.

An email dropped into my inbox (as if by magic) It said We'll show you how to put up a blog. here's the pre-… Continue

Just checked one of my long tail keyword phrases.

Out of the 17 results cri-fi.com has 16 of them. The only exception is number 11.

The site is now ranked Number 1 in Google beating almost 1.9 million results.for the phrase get crime novel published Brilliant news considering i didn't deliberately target the phrase.

16 steps to success. is a success. Yeah ...

Just trying some new software that searches for "Do follow" blogs in my niche. Will report on it as soon as I've tested… Continue

3 of my sites are at the top of Google.com for the keyword writing crime plots, beating 1.62 million sites. This is mainly due to the techniques I have learned in 16 steps to success. Wow.

Downloaded camStudio last night and i am going to make a short video on how to plot a crime novel.

Should be interesting.

currently I am writing 3 posts per day on cri-fi.com and today is the first step to,monetization.

I have found previously that big banner adverts don't work as well as they used to, partly because of banner blindness and partly because they get a little staid and have to be rotataed regularly to maintain interest.

In 1 post, I have placed a link to a viral e-book that helps crime fiction writers master the basics of putting together a decent plot and then ha… Continue