How many hits per day to make your web page profitable?

SexyGreyFox

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Just found a stat tool that comes with our website and for some unknown reason we get an average of 500 hits a day.
The most downloaded video is Rock And Roll which has been downloaded 676 times this year.
Is 500 hits a day worth investing in for somebody and how would I go about finding somebody?
 
Adz said:
I don't think adsense will generate much revenue here. You're much better off making a high quality studio DVD or CD of your music (rather than the crappy recordings you have now) and selling that either as a physical product or pay-download.
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We have an average age of 48 so we can't be bothered.
Amazingly over 1000 people have bought that DVD and I offered everyone their money back before they bought it.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Redesign the website as it looks like it was made in the 90's and doesn't look professional.

Get a pay pal account,

and a printer that prints on to cd's.

Then offer albums and digital downloads.

Got any budding photographers. which you could chuck some free drinks to and get to come along to the gigs to take decent photos?
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1 - Funny how people like our site because its so easy and uncluttered

2 - I've had one for years

3 - I have 3

4 - Can't be arsed

5 - Can't be arsed part 2 :)

Thanks for all your info.
I just thought with 500 hits a day (not bad for a 90's retro site with crap images/videos) that there was an easy way to make money.
Back in 1996 I ran the biggest MIDI backing track site on the internet and had over 2 million hits.
I could have earned a fortune if it wasn't for the fact it was illegal.
 
OvertoneBliss said:
dmpoole, I'd be happy to invest my time and knowledge in building a better site for you. One that's modern, standards compliant, etc. If you're interested, let me know.

I understand that people say they like it, but they could like it a whole lot more. I'm confident enough to make all concerned say 'wow'. ;)
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Its up to you and I'd gladly look at anything you want to put forward.
Don't spend too much time in case I have to let you down :)
Its also got to be editable in Frontpage (yes, I know you've just vomited in your mouth).
Also be aware that typing disturbin the peace in Google gets the top 4 hits.
 
Sinque said:
But I'd take OvertoneBliss's offer of a new website. :)
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I have done but I don't want him to spend too long.
Perhaps if he can give a URL to what it might look like.

Yesterday I went around some rock websites such as Metallica, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest and I honestly thought they were awful.
I must admit the Led Zeppelin official site looks good.
Last night I asked about 200 fans who used our website and about 3/4 put their hands up.
I then asked them to be honest and asked who thought the site was crap and 2 put their hands up.
I asked them after and they said it was old fashioned.

Of course this begs the question -
What do others think is an excellent website (especially band website)?
 
I love honesty but lets also look at reality.
I may be naive but the average age of our audience is 'of age' and they would think MySpace is excellent.
The funny thing is the 2 guys who shouted 'crap' were the youngest in there.

Overtonebliss - I'm willing to take any ideas you have but I don't want you wasting your time either.
I'm sure you'll come up with something good though.

Which program will you use?
 
OvertoneBliss said:
I'll be using Photoshop for a logo, just to see what I can come up with. But I need to know, are you willing to completely sway from what you have now, or would you like the same but more modern?

That lion/tiger/roar'ing thing in the logo now, what is it and where did you find it? :)
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Just go for it, I'm getting excited now.

Heres the pic - Devil but I remember about 3 years ago on here when I did the last web page design (the one I've got now) that people were slagging the logo off because it looks too heavy for old men.
I don't think the band are too happy with it either but 3 of them aren't on the internet anyway.
Once again go with the force.

Jambo -
I don't want ads messing up the site.
 
izzy eckerslike said:
People often mistake hits for the number of visitors to the site but this is not so, a hit is registered each time something is clicked on the webpages & downloaded so one visitor could register quite a lot if the pages are full of stuff,

http://www.opentracker.net/en/articles/hit-web-page-counter.jsp
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I've found the bit on my MatrixStats page that tells me how many individual users and even the web browsers they use.
eg On Dec 8th there was 642 hits but there were 154 individual users.
67 were from Great Britain and 54 were from North America etc etc.
Powerful stuff.
 
RandomTom said:
problem with that though dmpoole is that the stretching out of it makes it look 'less modern' again, get overtone bliss to make the image the right size first, people haven't stretched images on the web for a while now, i can see where this is going to go though, should be good.
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It was stretched in Photoshop.
 
OvertoneBliss said:
See, this is why you're not doing it yourself. I dunno what happens when a man gets old, but his tastes sure fail, get punched in the ovaries or sent back to 'muslim world', it seems. :p

The very fact you like the strethed one more, just doesn't compute in my mind. But ok, and no problem. :)
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You've done a cracking job but the tiny one just looks little.
I suppose as you get older you need to compensate more.

Hate said:
Might be worth turning off scrollbars or similar, as I have to vertically scroll on both the side and main panel.
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Weird, the scroll bars don't show in Firefox but do in IE.

Fixed.
 
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