Best/Fastest Way To Go From Zero to Consistent 1000 Vistors a Day

[KateD]

Hi...


Getting your blog/website to get 1000 unique visitors per day seems to be the holy grail for Imers (well, at least the newer ones). With 1000 visitors a day, you will still be making money even if your conversions suck (well, unless you are doing Adsense).

My question: what actions do I need to take in order to generate an average of 1000 unique visitors each day to my blog/site?

Here's my list so far:

1. Do keyword research, and come up with the 10 best (ie. high demand/low competition) keyword phrases for my blog/site (I'm big into keyword research, if you haven't guessed).

I'm all about grabbing the low hang fruit and if you do a little digging, you can find giant watermelons hanging on those low branches.

2. Write up one page of content for each of the ten keyword phrases. This 100% unique material will be the content for my blog/site.

3. Using the same 10 keyword phrases, write up an article for each of the keyword phrases and submit to Ezinearticles.com (linking to blog/site)

4. Using same 10 keyword phrases, create a lense on Squidoo for each one. (linking to blog/site)

5. Using the same 10 keyword phrases, create a hub on Hubpages for each one. (linking to blog/site)

6. Using the same 10 keyword phrases, create a post for one on a Blogger blog. (linking to blog/site)

7. Take 40 articles, posts, lenses, and hubs, and have them re-written. Submit to several other article directories.

8. Be a guest author on three related blogs.

9. Join the top three forums in the blog/site niche, and be sure to start one valuable thread each week.

10. Make a comment on 5 related blogs.

11. Write a free report and distribute it from the blog/site. Instead of giving resell rights, I want people to only be able to download it by going to my blog/site.


Well, that's all I have so far. I'm not sure doing all of this will get me to 1000 visitors a day. Maybe this would be good as a monthly plan. Let me know what you think.

What other activities should I be doing to reach my goal of 1000 visitors a day in the quickest amount of time?

Thanks for your help.

KateD

[freudianslip27]

KateD,

You have a nice list there, I think the biggest stumbling block is that people don't follow through. Just keep plugging forward!

I'd also suggest submitting a press release or two, and checking out additional social sites like myspace and wikianswers.

Matt

[Solidsnake]

Give me 3 to 5 months and I can give a result like that or more... from search engine..

You can have it fast but you need to work hard and maintain your daily activity...

I am spending around 5 hours in forums daily and having 500 visitors from them... after 3 months I am sure the number will double...

[Jared Alberghini]

KateD,

In addition to your great tips :

Here's how I have generated exponential traffic that lasts for years...

Put together some free themes for different CMS systems, Blog systems, joomla, drupal, wordpress, phpnuke, postnuke, oscommerce, etc, Forum systems, phpbb, vbulletin, smf, etc. (make sure they are high quality graphics, etc... somthing of value that people will be willing to share and tell their friends about... if you don't have the skills, hire somebody!)

Within these free themes that you distribute, include a "Theme Designed By :" linkback to your site in the footer.

Seriously, this works like magic, I still have constant traffic coming in for themes that I released 4-5yrs ago. Not to mention the high backlink count/pr that it produces with all these sites using your free themes that are automatically linking back to your main authority site.

Try it, test it, and you won't be sorry.

It's a very simple technique, & very effective.

- Jared

[James Schramko]

Originally Posted by Jared Alberghini

KateD,

In addition to your great tips :

Here's how I have generated exponential traffic that lasts for years...

Put together some free themes for different CMS systems, Blog systems, joomla, drupal, wordpress, phpnuke, postnuke, oscommerce, etc, Forum systems, phpbb, vbulletin, smf, etc. (make sure they are high quality graphics, etc... somthing of value that people will be willing to share and tell their friends about... if you don't have the skills, hire somebody!)

Within these free themes that you distribute, include a "Theme Designed By :" linkback to your site in the footer.

Seriously, this works like magic, I still have constant traffic coming in for themes that I released 4-5yrs ago. Not to mention the high backlink count/pr that it produces with all these sites using your free themes that are automatically linking back to your main authority site.

Try it, test it, and you won't be sorry.

It's a very simple technique, & very effective.

- Jared

Nice one Jared,

That is an oustanding tip.

[spressnell]

Wow, fantastic tips. I love the one about being a guest author on other people's blogs. I belong to a group where that would definitely work.

Shirley

[WinsonYeung]

hey, thanks for sharing, yours is mainly rely on article marketing i guess

[jjpmarketing]

I second the wordpress theme suggestion. Invest a good amount of money into a really good theme, and your theme could go completely viral, creating thousands of backlinks for you, possibly in some high pr blogs if the theme is good enough functionally and aesthetically.

[Michael Taylor]

Originally Posted by KateD

I'm all about grabbing the low hang fruit and if you do a little digging, you can find giant watermelons hanging on those low branches.

Um...ALL watermelons are low hanging fruit, since they grow on the ground!

Either that, or you've discovered a watermelon tree. ;-)

Excellent plan of action, btw.

[KateD]

Originally Posted by WinsonYeung

hey, thanks for sharing, yours is mainly rely on article marketing i guess

Well, article marketing is a strategy that I know and use. That's why I threw the question out to the forum.

Article marketing is great, but there may be other strategies that I should be doing.

If I could create a video, I'd definitely include Youtube. Even if I knew how to make a Camtasia video, I'd try.

KateD

[KateD]

Originally Posted by Michael Taylor

Um...ALL watermelons are low hanging fruit, since they grow on the ground!

Either that, or you've discovered a watermelon tree. ;-)

Excellent plan of action, btw.

You know what I mean, right? Some people assume that "low hanging fruit" are small amounts of traffic/sales. But if you look hard enough, you can find easy fruit to pick that are massive (in terms of traffic).

Thanks for the compliment. I'm still working on the plan.

KateD

[KateD]

Ok, my plan is ok. But will it result in 1000 unique visitors each day? And if so, how long wil it take to get there?

KateD

[digitalproductreporter]

1. Do keyword research, and come up with the 10 best (ie. high demand/low competition) keyword phrases for my blog/site

what is the point in finding these keywords if you need to then do just as much work as if you picked the keywords randomly?

if you really can find "high demand/low competition" keywords shouldn't you be telling us how long it takes to get to 1,000 visitors per day?

my guess is the premise of your entire plan is wrong, and just because some tool or goofy equation gives you "high demand/low competition" that they aren't really that or this thread wouldn't exist

[BIG Mike]

Originally Posted by digitalproductreporter

what is the point in finding these keywords if you need to then do just as much work as if you picked the keywords randomly?

if you really can find "high demand/low competition" keywords shouldn't you be telling us how long it takes to get to 1,000 visitors per day?

my guess is the premise of your entire plan is wrong, and just because some tool or goofy equation gives you "high demand/low competition" that they aren't really that or this thread wouldn't exist

Just go ask all those BUM Marketers out there if the entire premise is wrong.

Regardless of what keywords you're targeting, the back-end work still needs to be done to drive traffic to your site organically. It just happens to work best for keywords that have decent monthly search volumes and lower numbers of competing web pages.

In other words, it's called marketing - identifying a demographic to target through research.

Say you're targeting something related to the Internet, right? The keyword internet has a monthly search volume of around 25 million. The top competitors are Wikipedia, Microsoft and so forth, with nearly 2 billion competing pages.

There's just no way a beginner is going to be able to easily target that specific keyword and rank well in SERPS. And even if they got lucky, they wouldn't rank well for long.

On the other hand, targeting a phrase like, "How does the Internet work", only has around 15K pages of competition. And the monthly search volume is around 3K, which makes it a damn good keyword phrase to target.

This method has been used for years - long before there were phrases like R/S, KEI, Long Tail Keywords, BUM Marketing and so on. It's what allows a new site to pull organic traffic from a competitive market by drilling down into smaller market segments.

[KateD]

Originally Posted by digitalproductreporter

what is the point in finding these keywords if you need to then do just as much work as if you picked the keywords randomly?

if you really can find "high demand/low competition" keywords shouldn't you be telling us how long it takes to get to 1,000 visitors per day?

my guess is the premise of your entire plan is wrong, and just because some tool or goofy equation gives you "high demand/low competition" that they aren't really that or this thread wouldn't exist

What's the point in finding high demand/low competition keyword phrses? Really?

Well, if I'm going to do the work anyway, wouldn't it make sense to pick keyword phrases that I have a better chance of ranking higher on Google?

The reason for this thread was to get ADDITIONAL ways to generate 1000 daily visitors. Yes, article marketing works, but it does have some drawbacks. ANd again, there may be other methods that I'm simply not seeing.

But thanks anyway for adding value to the thread.

KateD

[KateD]

Originally Posted by BIG Mike

Just go ask all those BUM Marketers out there if the entire premise is wrong.

Regardless of what keywords you're targeting, the back-end work still needs to be done to drive traffic to your site organically. It just happens to work best for keywords that have decent monthly search volumes and lower numbers of competing web pages.

In other words, it's called marketing - identifying a demographic to target through research.

Say you're targeting something related to the Internet, right? The keyword internet has a monthly search volume of around 25 million. The top competitors are Wikipedia, Microsoft and so forth, with nearly 2 billion competing pages.

There's just no way a beginner is going to be able to easily target that specific keyword and rank well in SERPS. And even if they got lucky, they wouldn't rank well for long.

On the other hand, targeting a phrase like, "How does the Internet work", only has around 15K pages of competition. And the monthly search volume is around 3K, which makes it a damn good keyword phrase to target.

This method has been used for years - long before there were phrases like R/S, KEI, Long Tail Keywords, BUM Marketing and so on. It's what allows a new site to pull organic traffic from a competitive market by drilling down into smaller market segments.

Thanks, Big Mike. Exactly my point.

KateD

[digitalproductreporter]

Regardless of what keywords you're targeting, the back-end work still needs to be done to drive traffic to your site organically. It just happens to work best for keywords that have decent monthly search volumes and lower numbers of competing web pages.

We are in this for profit, not just ranking for the sake of ranking. I can rank #1 and get 250 visitors per day for a keyword and make $5 from the traffic or I can rank #5 and get 20 visitors for a keyword and make $40 per day. and see my point 2 below.

Ask bum marketers? The BUM marketers that are doing this full time are hard to find (unless you mean people selling the bum marketing techniques).

Originally Posted by BIG Mike

This method has been used for years - long before there were phrases like R/S, KEI, Long Tail Keywords, BUM Marketing and so on. It's what allows a new site to pull organic traffic from a competitive market by drilling down into smaller market segments.

personally I think it's all snake oil.

exactly how are you determining competition again? by total google results, lol that's a good one. except the top500 can all be cnet/cnn type sites or they can all be garbage

[BIG Mike]

Originally Posted by digitalproductreporter

We are in this for profit, not just ranking for the sake of ranking. I can rank #1 and get 250 visitors per day for a keyword and make $5 from the traffic or I can rank #5 and get 20 visitors for a keyword and make $40 per day. and see my point 2 below.

Ask bum marketers? The BUM marketers that are doing this full time are hard to find (unless you mean people selling the bum marketing techniques).



personally I think it's all snake oil.

exactly how are you determining competition again? by total google results, lol that's a good one. except the top500 can all be cnet/cnn type sites or they can all be garbage

Then there's really no point in your participating in the discussion, is there? You're skewing comments and making broad generalizations, without providing any empirical data to support it all being snake oil.

I say skewing because this discussion is not about rankiing number 1 or number 5, but ranking at all. And how much you profit from any ranking has nothing to do with the rank at that point, but how well you're converting the traffic it brings with your offer.

[digitalproductreporter]

Originally Posted by BIG Mike

Then there's really no point in your participating in the discussion, is there? You're skewing comments and making broad generalizations, without providing any empirical data to support it all being snake oil.

I say skewing because this discussion is not about rankiing number 1 or number 5, but ranking at all. And how much you profit from any ranking has nothing to do with the rank at that point, but how well you're converting the traffic it brings with your offer.

the thread asked for advice on the plan above, I gave my advice that point 1 is wrong, that's why I stopped by.

geez, this would be a boring place if everyone agreed or listened to people like you who say they don't belong for expressing an unfavorable opinion to their own

[BIG Mike]

Originally Posted by digitalproductreporter

the thread asked for advice on the plan above, I gave my advice that point 1 is wrong, that's why I stopped by.

geez, this would be a boring place if everyone agreed or listened to people like you who say they don't belong for expressing an unfavorable opinion to their own

<sigh> Another Troll....

[Melody]

Originally Posted by digitalproductreporter

the thread asked for advice on the plan above, I gave my advice that point 1 is wrong, that's why I stopped by.

Geez, this would be a boring place if everyone agreed or listened to people like you who say they don't belong for expressing an unfavorable opinion to their own

Have you actually TRIED this method? Are you speaking from experience or...?

Personally, I HAVE used this method to get rankings....and YES! Wow - those rankings actually produced PROFIT! And lots of it!

It doesn't happen over night - and honestly, depending on the niche you pick - you might never actually hit a 1000 visitors a day - but it IS a solid plan for hitting large enough numbers to see a profit.

Personally, I also combine it with PPC since long tail keywords combined with a well optimized page can give you traffic at some ridiculously low costs - this is an especially good tactic if you are building community sites, since you are giving the visitors a reason to return.

Melody

[biz_online]

I have to say that from my own experience, nothing works better than article marketing for targeted traffic. There's probably about 5 article directories that show up in google and the rest are good (maybe) for backlinks.

[Simon_Sezs]

Hey Kate, I will chime in here.

Everyone talks about long tail keywords like they are the focal point that all imers should look at. In reality, if you are going after long tail keywords, then you are likely to be spending way too much time on creating site after site trying to get it ranked.

The problem is that these long tail niches are a lot of time misrepresented as far as traffic estimates go so it turns into a mixed bag of failures and successes.

Why not build an authority site in a market that is proven? Regardless of what people say here, competition is a good thing and I would personally rather go after markets that get a ton of traffic.

1. Build a site. Make the primary keyword one that get 1000's or ten's of 1000's of traffic per month. This keyword should be competitive (millions of competitors) Write one page for your primary keyword.
2. Now, look at secondary keywords that get less traffic. These keyword could be verticals but within the same niche. These will be less competitive than your main keyword but more competitive than the traditional long tail traffic most imer's consider.
3. Under the secondary keywords, you will create a series of articles. The articles won't link to your other articles (if you do for visitor experience), nofollow them. They can and should link to your hubs or your main keyword pages.
4. Now, the articles under these hubs is where you focus on your longtails. Start writing them.
5. Add squidoo pages, EZA, blogspot blogs..whatever. Target your long tail keyword pages though. This will get them indexed quickly.

So, in other words, let's say that you are targetting the keyword dog training.

Your main keyword (the whole kahuna) would be dog obedience training.
You would be ranking on several different levels:

• Dog (which isn't targeted)
• Dog obedience
• Obedience training
• Dog obedience training
• Dog training

The silos could be:

• dog agility training

• guard dog training

• dog training equipment

• deaf dog training

Under each silo, the appropriate articles would be placed in each niche. Once again, the articles won't link to other article but to the hubs and the home page (where the main keyword is optimized)

Your anchored keywords would be a mixture of your primary keyword with modifiers. Do NOT link up using the same anchored text over and over. Semantic terms are good.

Does it take longer? Sure. But you are going to go for the big kahuna eventually while you will be ranking for all the short tail ones pretty quickly, all the while, your site will become more trusted in the eyes of google.


This is the cliff's notes version of siloing sites and it is far more effective, long term than to just simply go after a long tail, hope it gets ranked and repeat.

Why does this work? Google loves content rich sites. You are giving it to them. Rather than being all over the place, you are creating silos so that google can categorize your site better. Because you are linking only to your main hubs, those pages (which have links to your articles) are getting more authority than your long tail articles.

Finally, because you are linking your EZA and squidoo pages to your long tail articles, you have a chance at gettign ranked with them PLUS you are directing all your authority to your main hubs because your articles on your site are redirecting juice via anchored links..

Like I said, that is the short version. If you are interested in things like this, just google it and get more information.

Why siloing sites works is for another discussion but it does (google is nothing more than a series of silos)

here is an image showing how it works for those interested. (it is a photoshack image)

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Originally Posted by KateD

Hi...


Getting your blog/website to get 1000 unique visitors per day seems to be the holy grail for Imers (well, at least the newer ones). With 1000 visitors a day, you will still be making money even if your conversions suck (well, unless you are doing Adsense).

My question: what actions do I need to take in order to generate an average of 1000 unique visitors each day to my blog/site?

Here's my list so far:

1. Do keyword research, and come up with the 10 best (ie. high demand/low competition) keyword phrases for my blog/site (I'm big into keyword research, if you haven't guessed).

I'm all about grabbing the low hang fruit and if you do a little digging, you can find giant watermelons hanging on those low branches.

2. Write up one page of content for each of the ten keyword phrases. This 100% unique material will be the content for my blog/site.

3. Using the same 10 keyword phrases, write up an article for each of the keyword phrases and submit to Ezinearticles.com (linking to blog/site)

4. Using same 10 keyword phrases, create a lense on Squidoo for each one. (linking to blog/site)

5. Using the same 10 keyword phrases, create a hub on Hubpages for each one. (linking to blog/site)

6. Using the same 10 keyword phrases, create a post for one on a Blogger blog. (linking to blog/site)

7. Take 40 articles, posts, lenses, and hubs, and have them re-written. Submit to several other article directories.

8. Be a guest author on three related blogs.

9. Join the top three forums in the blog/site niche, and be sure to start one valuable thread each week.

10. Make a comment on 5 related blogs.

11. Write a free report and distribute it from the blog/site. Instead of giving resell rights, I want people to only be able to download it by going to my blog/site.


Well, that's all I have so far. I'm not sure doing all of this will get me to 1000 visitors a day. Maybe this would be good as a monthly plan. Let me know what you think.

What other activities should I be doing to reach my goal of 1000 visitors a day in the quickest amount of time?

Thanks for your help.

KateD

[KateD]

Simon,

I'm not familiar with the "silo" strategy that you went over. Thank you for sharing the concept with me, and I will be sure to look into it further.

Currently, I am creating blogs/sites around 1-2 keyword phrases.

Although my daily traffic is building, I fear that I could be speeding up the process. Are there certain activities that will get me to 1000 daily visitors faster?

KateD