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Old 08-26-2009, 09:54 PM  
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Originally Posted by greg80 View Post
I was watching CNN on Monday and there is this guy that talks about how to save money. They showed him few times and he was always talking about a "rent college books" website and how much he loves it. It's chegg.com and people probably didn't remember it, so they just typed in your domain.

I think that's it. Send them an email and sell them the domain.
Well here's August's full stats...prior to August it was doing only about 6 uniques a month so as you can see it did ramp up:

8/1/2009 1 $-
8/6/2009 1 $-
8/8/2009 1 $-
8/11/2009 1 $-
8/12/2009 2 $2.55
8/13/2009 2 $-
8/14/2009 4 $1.15
8/15/2009 1 $-
8/16/2009 6 $1.91
8/17/2009 11 $3.02
8/18/2009 14 $1.64
8/19/2009 3 $0.76
8/20/2009 10 $2.67
8/21/2009 10 $1.99
8/22/2009 7 $0.61
8/23/2009 8 $2.37
8/24/2009 15 $14.14
8/25/2009 12 $7.38
8/26/2009 22 $15.52 (yes, up another $3+ since this was originally posted)

The CNN story was the 17th from the looks of it, but looking at the traffic starting to go up some prior to then, I'm not sure if much of the traffic is attached to that or not. It would appear some is but college has started in more places too surely, ergo more people searching for this stuff and typing the domain in.

Looks like Chegg already has RentTextbooks.com which is a far better name searchwise. Good to know of them though - may be worthwhile doing affiliate with them.

Renting textbooks is definitely a good idea - wish that shit was around when I went to college - they cost an arm and a leg to buy and collect dust and/or reseller for shit after you're done with the classes.
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