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Name some of the surprising places your site has brought visitors from

by MikeyDreamboat
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I have a blog I do for fun, and to let off a little creative steam when not doing assignments for others. I've never put much thought into monetizing it. I had the adsense stuff there originally, and recently added some Amazon stuff, but it's mostly just a site I can write about stuff that I like.

While looking at the stats today I noticed that there was a huge increase of traffic originating from a link on some forum. I clicked on the forum to see who was linking me and at first I wasn't sure what language I was looking at.

Turns out that it was a Finnish website about Game Of Thrones, and someone had linked to a page I did on my site with the upcoming Season 2 cast with pictures of who they would be playing.

I thought this was kind of neat. Where are some of the surprising places that have turned up visitors to your sites, without any previous marketing efforts to that audience?
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  • Profile picture of the author MN Warrior
    For one of my blogspot blogs, I once checked the stats and one of the sources came from a link shortener , which I never put one in. So I clicked the shortened link in my stats and it took me to some product which gives you a bunch of backlinks. I couldn't figure out what that was all about.
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    My site's primary source of traffic used to be the two search terms "boring website" and "fat asian photoshop." I don't know why either of those ever brought anyone to my site. I also don't look at what search terms bring people to my website anymore.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeyDreamboat
      Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

      My site's primary source of traffic used to be the two search terms "boring website" and "fat asian photoshop." I don't know why either of those ever brought anyone to my site. I also don't look at what search terms bring people to my website anymore.
      LOL. What's that all about?
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    • Profile picture of the author mag2906
      Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

      My site's primary source of traffic used to be the two search terms "boring website" and "fat asian photoshop." I don't know why either of those ever brought anyone to my site. I also don't look at what search terms bring people to my website anymore.
      LOL at that.

      MikeyDreamboat: what you described in here is exactly what Google wants from us... Write interesting stuff, people link to you because they like and in return you get more traffic.

      Zero self promotion - sadly, I think it will be hard to make living from just that.
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      • Profile picture of the author bobcarlsjr
        from a forum in a niche totally not related to mine.. too bad awstats and ganalytics only show me www.xxxxxx.com/forum/showthread.php and not the actual thread.. so i don't know which thread it is......

        when i click on the referring link, it shows page "invalid link followed"
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        • Profile picture of the author Iriss
          pinterest.com

          They don't really bring traffic to my websites, but for one of my client's.

          I saw a spike of 140 visitors in just one day to one page.

          I do know that my client is clueless about internet marketing.

          So this makes you wonder, if you really spend time on this, what kind of traffic you can get.

          How targeted is it? I don't know, but they have this concept of "boards", where you can try and define the subject/niche yourself and match it with your website's theme.

          They are invitation only; I strongly suggest to apply now.

          They also have do follow links! However, speculations are that this will not last for a long time. But this could be a good temporary opportunity.

          My observation so far is that this may be good for list building.
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