How You Can Get Traffic Without Backlinking

[FraserC]

@Alphawarrior - It's about 50/50. So I get half of my visitors from the search engines, and half from social traffic and repeat visitors. But this is a recent thing. I've focused on my SEO in the last 3 years, boosting the traffic from 1,500 visitors a day to 100,000 a day.

The trick is to be both things: a hobby site and a reference for searchers. So, most of the people who come to the site have never been here before, and they're looking for a specific thing and leaving. But the hobby side helps build my authority and relevance in the industry, which feeds my rankings in the search engines.

@FBGuy - I think you're exactly right. I know people who are killing it with Twitter or Facebook, or paid search. I just went after SEO. You find a model that works, and then you grind away until you're enjoying some success. It's all about scale.

[aygabtu]

What happens with a brand new URL? No one would find your site without link building or adwords PPC.

[seolearner09]

OP

Sorry to burst the bubble (or whatever you call it), you have Adsense on your Privacy policy pages. I think that is against Adsense TOS, unless I am mistaken.

[James P]

I hear what your saying Fraser, especially with all the Panda activity out there. However I think that it is now becoming more obvious that quality traffic on it's own is no guarentee of a 'put down' by the mighty G. On a new site that needs to get some traffic quickly I would personally mix your advice with some ppc, backlinks and good old on-page SEO, all mixed in with hard graft
There's no getting away with sloppy work these days ...sadly!

[FraserC]

@aygabtu - Even with a brand new website, you can build up longtail traffic. I've tested this out several times now, and it works.

@James P - I think it's a mixture of quality content and the social signals that define your site as a useful resource.

[Fraggler]

Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose

Wow! You have just proved every business that pays for advertising wrong.

You can be successful off free traffic as well. How much advertising does this forum pay for?

Not all business models are based on direct sales. Many focus on traffic generation so they can sell advertising space (or create a community marketplace - classifieds) to other businesses who do get a measurable return on their investment. The traffic based models focus on creating quality free content to get the visitors coming back time and time again. The quality content can spread like wildfire which also leads to a strong search engine presence.

Sure, you could use paid traffic to capture email addresses and the like BUT it is not the only way and not the best way for everyone.

Fraser said pretty clearly that he couldn't make a positive ROI using paid traffic so he relies on free traffic. Paying for 200,000 visitors/day is super expensive if it costs more than what he makes from them. That's common sense. It doesn't matter if he only starts at $30/day if he only makes $5 off the spend. His business model doesn't support the costs of PPC or CPM advertising. That doesn't mean there is a flaw in the business model.

[ahmedb]

Dear can you provide as with some exemple of your sites ? also is wordpress good for doing authentic content ?

[FraserC]

@ahmebd - Universe Today is the site. Universe Today

[Targeted Traffic]

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