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The food blog is awesome! http://www.theyummylife.com/Refrigerator_Oatmeal http://www.theyummylife.com/Refrigerator_Oatmeal

by noirman 14y ago

tedmiston 14y ago
The detail and personal experience make it feel more adventurous than a normal cookbook or recipe blog. I have a few questions: * Are you building on top of a blog platform, or is this mostly custom? (The BuiltWith page makes this site appear full of tech [1]). * What % of the revenue comes from Amazon referral links? * Are there other revenue sources? * Can you discuss your visitor distribution (first time vs. repeat), and traffic sources? 1: http://builtwith.com/?http%3a%2f%2fwww.theyummylife.com%2fRefrigerator_Oatmeal http://builtwith.com/?http%3a%2f%2fwww.theyummylife.com%2fRe...
- the_bear 14y ago
  The blog is entirely custom. Several years ago I made my own blogging software just as a fun side-project, and I decided to use that code as the base for The Yummy Life. It sucks missing out on all the great WordPress plugins, but it's really nice having absolute control over the entire experience. I know you technically have control with WordPress, but it's much harder to edit someone else's code than your own (for me, anyway). Until recently, Amazon made up almost all of our revenue. Now that we're doing slightly better with advertising, Amazon makes up about 60-70%. We also sell a $1 eBook, but we only sell about one per day, so that revenue isn't significant. This information isn't up-to-date, but you can read a blog post about our monetization: http://www.lessannoyingcrm.com/articles/259/How_I_monetized_a_blog_in_30_days%3A_what_worked_and_what_didnt http://www.lessannoyingcrm.com/articles/259/How_I_monetized_... Visitor information: -65% new, 35% returning -1.7 pages per visit -1.2 million page views last month -Most traffic comes from Pinterest or direct. We get ~3000 visitors from search each day. My mom (understandably) hates link building, so we don't have many inbound links meaning there's not much referral traffic, and we also have weak SEO relative to other blogs our size. -Almost all traffic comes from the U.S.
  - tedmiston 14y ago
    Thanks for sharing!
  - verganileonardo 14y ago
    Have you ever tried selling the book for $30+? Probably the user do not see enough value in a $1 ebook to justify the effort to make the purchase...
001sky 14y ago
Awesome! also: w/steel cut oats cook 1 min+chill =>AM bingo

The food blog is awesome! http://www.theyummylife.com/Refrigerator_Oatmeal http://www.theyummylife.com/Refrigerator_Oatmeal

by noirman 14y ago

The food blog is awesome! http://www.theyummylife.com/Refrigerator_Oatmeal http://www.theyummylife.com/Refrigerator_Oatmeal

tedmiston 14y ago

The detail and personal experience make it feel more adventurous than a normal cookbook or recipe blog. I have a few questions: * Are you building on top of a blog platform, or is this mostly custom? (The BuiltWith page makes this site appear full of tech [1]). * What % of the revenue comes from Amazon referral links? * Are there other revenue sources? * Can you discuss your visitor distribution (first time vs. repeat), and traffic sources? 1: http://builtwith.com/?http%3a%2f%2fwww.theyummylife.com%2fRefrigerator_Oatmeal http://builtwith.com/?http%3a%2f%2fwww.theyummylife.com%2fRe...

the_bear 14y ago
The blog is entirely custom. Several years ago I made my own blogging software just as a fun side-project, and I decided to use that code as the base for The Yummy Life. It sucks missing out on all the great WordPress plugins, but it's really nice having absolute control over the entire experience. I know you technically have control with WordPress, but it's much harder to edit someone else's code than your own (for me, anyway). Until recently, Amazon made up almost all of our revenue. Now that we're doing slightly better with advertising, Amazon makes up about 60-70%. We also sell a $1 eBook, but we only sell about one per day, so that revenue isn't significant. This information isn't up-to-date, but you can read a blog post about our monetization: http://www.lessannoyingcrm.com/articles/259/How_I_monetized_a_blog_in_30_days%3A_what_worked_and_what_didnt http://www.lessannoyingcrm.com/articles/259/How_I_monetized_... Visitor information: -65% new, 35% returning -1.7 pages per visit -1.2 million page views last month -Most traffic comes from Pinterest or direct. We get ~3000 visitors from search each day. My mom (understandably) hates link building, so we don't have many inbound links meaning there's not much referral traffic, and we also have weak SEO relative to other blogs our size. -Almost all traffic comes from the U.S.
- tedmiston 14y ago
  Thanks for sharing!
- verganileonardo 14y ago
  Have you ever tried selling the book for $30+? Probably the user do not see enough value in a $1 ebook to justify the effort to make the purchase...

001sky 14y ago

Awesome! also: w/steel cut oats cook 1 min+chill =>AM bingo