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So...i just got a HUGE spike in traffic...idk how O_o

by Gclunis
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Alright so a few months back (prolly about 6 now) I purchased the domain easy-profits-online.com

the purpose was to build a list in the IM niche and market to it.

THis was my first time doing any list building so i quickly became discouraged and stopped.

I then tried using the site for an offline venture my cousin and I were trying. Still to no avail.

3 months ago I tried getting into the whole facebook fan page thing and i tried the farmville niche.

Now, I don't remember ever linking this domain name to that campaign but after it failed I stopped all promotion and invites.

I logged into my analytics today and say that my domain name easy-profits-online.com has gotten a HUGE spike in the past 10 days...by huge I mean...

on july 12th it got 4000+ visitors and has been getting 1000+ every single day since then.

After checking the info it seems that all of the traffic is from referring sites related to the farmville niche. THe problem? I have no idea how this happened. I have made no effort to promote this site since the offline venture and I don't remember ever using it for my farmville niche.

After seeing this jump I am a little disappointed that I didn't catch it earlier because the content on the site is not related to farmville at all.

What I am going to do is set up a squeeze page and try to capture some opt-ins and then find a farmville related affiliate product to promote. This way I can at least see what the quality of this traffic is like.

This is honestly very weird for me because i'm a guy that has honestly been struggling to generate any type of traffic to any of my sites..and I have no idea how this happened. If only I knew then I could recreate it with future campaigns.

Anyway just wanted to see what you guys thought of all of this..it's honestly left me baffled.
#huge #soi #spike #trafficidk
  • Profile picture of the author GR Marketing
    Maybe you did link the domain to that campaign a few months ago, and some autoblogging software somewhere picked up your link, which then got syndicated out.

    A lot of peoples blogs and sites pull content from RSS, and in a lot of non-IM niches like Farmville, there are really only a handful of people producing high quality unique content on a regular basis. The rest of the sites mainly put up by IM'ers just leech RSS from them. Maybe your link got thrown in an article somewhere down the line and you got a surge of traffic.

    If I were you, I'd put up a squeeze page and blog about Farmville on that domain and start posting a driving in more traffic and building a list up. I'd even make it a "how to make Farmville coins" theme due to the domain name. This could be a blessing in disguise, those Farmville players are totally obsessed.

    Or if you're lazy and the traffic is still coming in, just do a 301 redirect to your affiliate link for a Farmville product on Clickbank. Maybe you can garnish a sale or two that way.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gclunis
    thanks for the advice man. I am definitely gonna try and milk this as much as i can. Farmville is a very lucrative niche (proven by my cousin). I am still getting stead traffic so hopefully I can get something out of it. I'm going to set up a squeeze page and try and get some opt-ins. This way if the traffic dies out I can still get some stuff out of it. And maybe even build a farmville blog later on and direct that traffic there. Idk the possibilities are there haha.

    word of advice to everyone here that doesnt already know this.

    something I just learned

    Check your analytics account often! You never know when you could be getting huge spikes and you need to position yourself in a place to take full advantage of it.
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    Cheers,
    Gregg

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