Christian iPhone App

I recently made a christian iPhone app for my wife's site, Daily Devotions.  I used a app making service online from appmakr.com.  I added Google Ads so I could better track impressions and use, and hopefully make a dollar or two to support the site.

Appmakr don't provide any reporting stats but the reports from both Feedburner and Google Adsense indicate between 700-1000 impressions a day and a reach (Feedburners term) of approximately 300-500 users per day.  Also we have seen a massive jump in listeners to the podcast.  The most recent sermon in the podcast section of the app has had over 500 downloads according to Feedburner.  This is a massive jump from the 10-25 downloads the files used to receive.

Later blogs I will provide statistics as I have today begun a SEO campaign to try and rank for the phrase Christian iPhone App, I will keep you posted.

Rule Number one when building and paying for an adwords campaign, ensure that your site works!!

I often like to look at the people paying to place their ads on my site.  I realise they havent specifically chosen me but I am aware that should someone click on their ad I do get paid a small amount of money.  I run Adsense on this site for that reason only.  The income is too small to be worth it but the Adwords response can be interesting.  I wrote a few blog posts about "video conversions melbourne" based watching my adsense campaign.

Today I saw a few ads for SEO related services as I have changed my menu strcuture and added the menu "SEO" prominently in the code.  Google have picked this up and have started serving more SEO related ads.This was the top of the site a few moments ago.



My eye was drawn to the ad for "afforadable seo" and I went to the website (No I didn't click on it).  Their URL is http://www.websitesearchengineoptimisation.com.au/ if you too would like to check it out.

I mentioned in my post of less than a week ago that I felt some companies were missing their opportunities with organic search.  I wrote about the search phrase Video Conversions Melbourne, and I said I would update you on the response in google to my articles.

Well today when I checked this site ranked third for that phrase despite the fact that I do not offer any video conversion services (well actually I can reccomend a few companies but thats not the point).  The company All Type Video Conversions still has the most prominant entry due to their free listing on Google Maps despite the fact they dont have a website that I can find.  Black Dog Enterprises are still paying for ads, interestingly this company doesnt even rank for the phrase "black dog" so they are almost invisble to google search  for these two key phrases related to their business.  I am sure google adwords dont mind being paid by them though.

I saw this ad in my adsense box at the top of my page today (remember if you like the article and see something you like click on the ads and help me pay the bills;-0) and I though, my mate Jim at Stewart Media would be appalled.  A phrase like this should be easy to optimise for therefore not paying for advertising.  http://www.blackdogenterprises.com.au pay attention, I might be able to save you some money!!