A Blog To Watch
Website + Mobile Website + Daily RSS Emails + Social Media
What was a small WordPress blog pulling in a few hits a week in 2009, I built into, along with the Founder, Ariel Adams, what it is today: the world’s most popular watch media source, with watch reviews, industry news and buying guides, garnering millions of hits a month.
- Ariel Adams / ABTW
- Blogging / Luxury Brands
- WordPress Development, Design, UI/UX, Copywriting, SEO, Editing, Biz Dev, Social Media, Ad Ops
- 2009 - 2018
Watch Porn.
The thinking man’s watch porn.
I met Ariel Adams in 2009 when he had a small WordPress blog with no design or traffic to speak of, but it did have a daily stream of watch articles he had written himself. He had little to no access to watch brands to do fresh reviews, and advertisers were few and far between.
I renamed the blog, we hired writers, and I worked with various designers on redesigns to accommodate growth. I set up an admin area for the writers which allowed for the dynamic content to automatically populate on the front end. I used Double-Click for Publishers to set up ads as they started to come in. I set up every social media channel available – including Weibo – and traffic started to gradually get better and better. My SEO work really made our traffic soar… For the last few years I was working with A Blog To Watch, if you searched for “Omega watches,” for example, A Blog To Watch was second only to Omega’s own site in Google search results.
Once established as a major influencer, watch brands like Rolex not only wanted to advertise with us, but allowed us first look at major watch shows like Baselworld in Switzerland. Traffic was around 4 million hits a month at my exit, blowing away the competition.
Watch enthusiasts worldwide now have a unique place to watch porn.