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True. Uniques to that page were a little under 100 visits a week. In addition to adsense, we tried some Facebook ads, blog posts, commenting on other blogs, and emails to get traffic.

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Try a little simple SEO. It was true when I started creating websites in 1995, and it is true today. The page Title is the most important part of your page to search engines. Your <title>KartMe</title> doesn't help you at all. Keywords in a coherent phrase will treat you well. The Title is your friend. Oh, and use the meta description tag as well, while forgetting the meta keyword tag which Google ignores.

Almost as important as SERPs positioning from title enhancement is that the title and description (if you keep within the character limits) are your eye-anchors in those same SERPS, you want something to immediately make you stand out and also identify your unique proposition (just standing out will get your lots of bounces).

Plus a bonus for me is I now have an idea that I can generalise for my "lists" domain ... ;0)>

yes, i agree that meta description is very important. on pages we have of people's items, we're putting user comments in them. any other suggestions?

also, what lists domain name do you own? some people don't love the name KartMe...

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