Traffic plan...not really working too well?

11 years ago

Are you targeting certain keywords for your niche? Have you done any keyword research?
It seems the niche is social anxiety. Here are some keywords to consider. These are exact match search.
Use in articles, videos and anchor text. Or wherever you think.

[how to cure social anxiety] 390
[social anxiety cure] 320
[how to cure anxiety] 1900
[cure social anxiety] 170
[overcoming social anxiety] 1300
[how to overcome social anxiety] 1300
[overcome social anxiety] 480
[how to overcome anxiety] 3600
[overcoming social anxiety step by step] 320
[how to overcome social anxiety disorder] 110
[overcome anxiety] 720
[overcoming anxiety] 3600
[overcoming fear] 3600
[social anxiety help] 320
[help with social anxiety] 110
[social anxiety self help] 140
[how to treat social anxiety] 210
[how to treat anxiety] 1900
[treating anxiety] 1300
[social anxiety disorder treatment] 1000
[anxiety disorder treatment] 1900
[panic disorder treatment] 1300
[generalized anxiety disorder treatment] 1000

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j hogan

11 years ago

Are you adding more content to your site? One article a week will keep it growing at a nice steady pace and encourage natural traffic if you use keyword based, reader friendly articles. Also add videos to your own site based on those keywords.

You could also have other 'free' sites linking back to it like squidoo, hubpages, blogger etc

I've found socialadr is an easy fast way to get sites bookmarked in a natural way and send traffic.

Are you building a list from the site? That way you can market to you visitors.
Just a few ideas, good luck!

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Magnatolia 11 years ago

@tz6119 - thanks, yeah I've been using multiple keyword phrases. Have recently changed my style of writing to incorporate the secondary keyword phrases as H2 headings within the article. I also try and include them once or so within a paragraph of the article.

@j hogan - About one a week or one every two weeks. Yeah I was using socialadr for each articles page, kept it a 100 bookmark max. I do have a list but nobody has signed up to it as yet.

The site is www.treatmentformentalillness.com - I found social anxiety to be a little easier to write about which is why my current strategy is around that topic. Although I am getting the occasional google visitor from my other keywords.
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11 years ago

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SimonJBell

11 years ago

Hey Magnatolia

Sounds like you're putting a lot of hard work into your site, well done

What sort of strategy do you have for interacting with your target market? You say you're submitting articles, tweeting, posting in forums etc. I'm just wondering if you could focus more effort on building relationships with your target market.

Do you have a Facebook fan page? You could interact with your Facebook fans daily to build trust, then drop in a few links back to your website.

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Stuart Walker

11 years ago

Traffic is as simple as pinpointing where your target audience already hangs out then getting your content or adverts in front of them. So hunt down the blogs, forum and social media groups where people already are and get your content / ads on them whether that be in the form of guest blogging / article syndication, posting on forums (every day not twice a week), blog commenting (use Google Alerts to find blogs and be first to comment), banner ads on blogs & forums can work well too etc.

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jpsween88

11 years ago

Your niche has a lot of room for growth, all those free methods you have been working on do work but I'll be the first to admit it takes forever.

I would personally suggest trying PPC to drive traffic. This allows you to be in control of your business. You know that you will work 1 hour for 50 clicks (if thats what your bidding is set up) where as you could spend an hour of work writing articles for your site and Ezines but may never see anything from it.

PPC will allow you to keep targeting those specific keywords and as you optimize your campaign I am positive you can become very successful.

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RyanLima

11 years ago

Have you considered adding more than 1 article per week?? Try adding 3 - 4 articles per week if you can.

Also, be sure your keyword research is excelent or you may be wasting your time on keywords that arent going to bring you traffic.

Use images in all your articles and possibly video above the fold. This will help improve your bounce rate.

Personally I have had amazing results with Blogger, Squidoo and Youtube Videos for free fast traffic. Its pretty steady too.

Important thing to do is consistently add NEW content.

Bookamark and build a few backlinks for every post.

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Stuart Walker

11 years ago

Originally Posted by RyanLima

Have you considered adding more than 1 article per week?? Try adding 3 - 4 articles per week if you can.

Also, be sure your keyword research is excelent or you may be wasting your time on keywords that arent going to bring you traffic.

Use images in all your articles and possibly video above the fold. This will help improve your bounce rate.

Personally I have had amazing results with Blogger, Squidoo and Youtube Videos for free fast traffic. Its pretty steady too.

Important thing to do is consistently add NEW content.

Bookamark and build a few backlinks for every post.

How is adding 3 to 4 articles per week going to get traffic?

It won't really do anything. Posting articles to your blog doesn't make visitors come because they don't know those articles exist.

You have to get that content in front of them first.

When you have no traffic you are wasting your content by posting so often.

Bookmarking doesn't really tend to do much either.

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Magnatolia

11 years ago

Originally Posted by RockingLastsForever

How is adding 3 to 4 articles per week going to get traffic?

It won't really do anything. Posting articles to your blog doesn't make visitors come because they don't know those articles exist.

You have to get that content in front of them first.

When you have no traffic you are wasting your content by posting so often.

Bookmarking doesn't really tend to do much either.

This is true, however the more well-researched keyword rich content you have the more fingers you'll have in Googles pie. If you have 3 articles covering 5 keywords, assuming 1000 searches monthly is 5000 potential. If you cover 20 keywords with 800 monthly searches you then have 16000 potential.

This also allows the use of keywords with less monthly searches.

Obviously these are numbers I made up. I got one google visitor from a 5 keyword broad phrase that placed me in #14.

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John Romaine

11 years ago

Forget about traffic.

What are you trying to do?

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Magnatolia

11 years ago

Simon - I do post to individual tweeters that use relevant keywords. That's the main thing I do, as well as forum posting.

Atfless - thanks will check out the videos.

Jpsween88 - I did run a google adword campaign and it felt like the bounce rate was too high.

RyanLima - Thanks. I'll look at writing more articles and make sure I research them well. I always look for 4-5 keywords with +1000 searches per month.

I will look at embedding some youtube videos into the articles and have currently included about 2 images per article.

Could you explain what you mean by squidoo and blogger? I understand these are Web 2.0's but I thought this was frowned upon by Google.

And what is the best way of gaining backlinks? Is something like socialadr useful?

John Romaine - I want to monetize the site with a passive income.

Thanks guys!

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John Romaine

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Magnatolia

John Romaine - I want to monetize the site with a passive income.

Monetize it with what?????

There's nothing there??????

You have one ad block up the top. That's it.

Forget about driving traffic until you work out how you're going to monetize it properly.

Offer first, THEN traffic.

Question - how much do you really know about mental health? Are you qualified or at least, experienced in the subject matter?????

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Magnatolia

11 years ago

Originally Posted by John Romaine

Monetize it with what?????

There's nothing there??????

You have one ad block up the top. That's it.

Forget about driving traffic until you work out how you're going to monetize it properly.

Offer first, THEN traffic.

Question - how much do you really know about mental health? Are you qualified or at least, experienced in the subject matter?????

I thought it would be better to have traffic then monetize the site, although I was thinking Adsense would be enough to begin with. But thanks, I'll look into other ways. I am thinking of setting up affiliate links throughout the content as well. I use a plugin that adds three per post max.

And I was also planning, once traffic was higher, to offer ad space on the site. Plus if my mailing list gets up this is another possible advertising space. But my mailing list doesn't seem to be well-received ie. No signups...

I'm not qualified, have personal experience in social anxiety from a long time ago which is why I'm focusing on that aspect. I've had friends with disorders so can also understand it from their perspective. This is why I always recommend they see their doctor first and never provide information about medication as I don't have that knowledge.

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John Romaine

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Magnatolia

John Romaine - I want to monetize the site with a passive income.

Originally Posted by Magnatolia

I thought it would be better to have traffic then monetize the site

You're contradicting yourself. You either want traffic, or you want to monetize.

Which one is it?

Obviously you want both, but to me it seems you're totally confused with what you should/need to be doing.

Why not just be honest with yourself and say "I have no idea what I'm doing, and I need help", and invest towards educating yourself.

Instead of just slapping stuff up, and dibble dabbling here and there, hoping something might work.

Because I can tell you right away, this isn't going to.

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Magnatolia

11 years ago

Originally Posted by John Romaine

You're contradicting yourself. You either want traffic, or you want to monetize.

Which one is it?

Obviously you want both, but to me it seems you're totally confused with what you should/need to be doing.

Why not just be honest with yourself and say "I have no idea what I'm doing, and I need help", and invest towards educating yourself.

Instead of just slapping stuff up, and dibble dabbling here and there, hoping something might work.

Because I can tell you right away, this isn't going to.

I want traffic that converts. Traffic = money. I do have some idea, I am testing each traffic strategy I use. For example I paid for StumbleUpon traffic and got a total bounce.

In saying that education is an ongoing endeavour and if you have a suggestion I'm all ears.

Also not sure what you mean by slaping content up. Every post is tailored to a particular need. Keyword researched deeply.

I have decided to bite the bullet and create a product on overcoming social anxiety. This will require me to research marketing and how to write effective for marketing. I can offer related PLR products as a bonus within the ebook. At some point I'm interested in creating another package so I can offer a sample for free within the ebook.

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John Romaine 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Magnatolia

I want traffic that converts.

Converts what though?

As said, you've got no offers, no products, no services. You have a few ads on there. You're not about to be quitting your job anytime soon.

Originally Posted by Magnatolia

Traffic = money.

No.

You can have all the traffic in the world. That means nothing if you have no saleable offers.

Originally Posted by Magnatolia

I am testing each traffic strategy I use.

How?

Originally Posted by Magnatolia

For example I paid for StumbleUpon traffic and got a total bounce.

A total bounce? What do you mean? It was worthless? Show us the data that proves this.

Originally Posted by Magnatolia

In saying that education is an ongoing endeavour and if you have a suggestion I'm all ears.

There are plenty of people worth learning from. Chris Farell, James Schramko, (Me) - I'm sure other members here could name a lot more.

Originally Posted by Magnatolia

I have decided to bite the bullet and create a product on overcoming social anxiety..

I sure hope you're truly passionate about the subject matter. This is why I asked you earlier if you were experienced or knowledgeable on it.

It's going to be one hell of a long, boring and painful experience otherwise.
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  Magnatolia.
  
  I appreciate your struggle. It's a big learning curve. I have had some success in Internet Marketing and work part time from home. But I work hard.
  
  My first internet marketing site...where I started just about where you have right now...ended up taking about 13 months to produce income. It now pushes about $1000.00 to $2500.00 per month.
  
  Here is what I recommend and I have to echo John Romaine a bit.
  
  1. What are you attempting to sell? You must have a good product or service to sell. Or sell someone else's product or service. I sell Nutritional Products from a well respected company in the Network Marketing world. All I have to do is get the traffic to my site...where they can click one link to go buy the product. I create a strong call to action on every product page and post.
  
  2. Do your OnPage SEO well. It's critical. Keyword in Heading 1, 2, 3, Bold, Italic, Alt Text Image, and include an internal link on your page to another part of your site.
  
  3. Do your keyword research well. I use Market Samurai. It costs $97.00 one time. You can use it for free for 12 days...and then get another email and resign up for it...and get another 12 days...if money is an issue. THat's what I did until I could afford it.
  
  4. Related to Keyword Research you need to study your competition for your niche. Market Samurai allows you to see what you are up against with your competition. It shows you the top 10. Domain age, Google Page Rank, Citation Flow, Trust Flow, Indexed Content, Number of backlinks to the domain, backlinks to an individual page, total number of backlinks to all pages on a site, EDU or GOV links, DMOZ Directory Links, Yahoo Directory Links, and did they put the keyword in the Title, URL, Description, and Headings. Once you know what you are up against...you have a mark to hit for ranking on the first page of Google. You must rank on the first page of Google...or just give up...cause money is made on the first page of Google, Bing, Yahoo...etc.
  
  5. Once you know how many backlinks your competition has on the individual keyword page, and their entire domain...you can start realistically deciding if you have the ability to beat that page any time in this decade. Find niches that are not impossible to beat.
  
  6. How do you get backlinks? The old ways of spamming comments with backlinks, and forums...etc...are dead. Google will string you up if you do this. You need to create quality content in large quantities (which contain contextual links in the body of the article) and distribute unique versions of your articles all over the web. This presents a problem...you don't have enough time to create that much content. What you need to know is you should spend a little money on obtaining "ultra spinnable" articles...but then you need to know where and how to distribute those articles.
  
  7. I recommend a software called Magic Submitter. It will take some work to do all of the distribution, but it's so much easier than manual linking and takes less time. What you have done so far is admirable, but you are just getting started. The software allows you to create link campaigns that backlink your money site, and backlink your backlinks. It's a big learning curve but the training is free. The software is a monthly fee software...but worth every penny. If you are serious.
  
  Your article content does not have to be perfect...it just needs to make sense. I use a service called theleadingarticles.com to get ultra spinnable 12000 word articles that spin out to articles of 400 to 1000 words each. Hundreds of permutations...unique content. This integrates with Magic Submitter.
  
  You need to build backlinks to your content pages...and specifically to your money site/pages. So we come back to...what are you trying to sell? Is it worth what you plan to charge? If you have nothing to sell...then find something worth promoting and selling that will fulfill a need.
  
  To do all the stuff that Magic Submitter does you will have to manually:
  Create Profiles with email, name, address, phone, website, etc...
  
  Create accounts on different kinds of websites with those profiles.
  
  Fill out Captchas to do so.
  
  Confirm accounts on those websites by responding to emails.
  
  Create unique content (with and without links) to submit to each site.
  
  Submit that unique content to each site.
  
  Record the links that you have tried to create.
  
  Ping those links.
  
  Index those links.
  
  Verify those links.
  
  Once that is done you need to track your backlinks with your competition to see how you are doing. I use Market Samurai for that.
  
  8. Social Marketing/Networking is a daily marketing chore. It gets old. I recommend using Facebook to join several GROUPS in your niche. Engage REAL people with REAL conversation...and they will start friending you. Share your link to your site, when appropriate, and don't spam Facebook Groups, Pages, or your own wall, or friend's walls with business links. Social has to remain personal...or it becomes business, and no one likes to be sold.
  
  9. Build an audience with Twitter using Tweet Adder. A one time cost for the license. Use it over time...don't hurry. They will penalize you for abusing the system too quickly.
  
  10. Did I mention, don't hurry? Are you serious about internet marketing? Treat it like a business with a 5 year plan. Expect to learn alot, fail alot, grow alot, share alot, and eventually create your own success...AND....
  
  NEVER GIVE UP...or you will fail. PERIOD.
  
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Stuart Walker

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Magnatolia

This is true, however the more well-researched keyword rich content you have the more fingers you'll have in Googles pie. If you have 3 articles covering 5 keywords, assuming 1000 searches monthly is 5000 potential. If you cover 20 keywords with 800 monthly searches you then have 16000 potential.

This also allows the use of keywords with less monthly searches.

Obviously these are numbers I made up. I got one google visitor from a 5 keyword broad phrase that placed me in #14.

This is a really rubbish way to try and get traffic. Forget about writing articles on low volume long tail keywords that you hope one day might rank and bring in some traffic....slow, unpredictable, unreliable and might never happen.

This is 2013, get with the program.

Write EPIC content that people will love to read, share, comment, like, link to and tweet. Get that content in front of your target audience. Find out where they already hang out and work out a strategy to get your content in front of them, it could be from guest blogging / content marketing / article syndication, banner ads, forum posting, blog commenting, social media.

People are talking about bookmarking and article directories which at most are only going to bring in small trickles of visitors.

You go where your target audience already is and you get their eyes on your content and watch them flow.

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PerformanceMan

11 years ago

Originally Posted by RockingLastsForever

This is a really rubbish way to try and get traffic. Forget about writing articles on low volume long tail keywords that you hope one day might rank and bring in some traffic....slow, unpredictable, unreliable and might never happen.

This is 2013, get with the program.

Write EPIC content that people will love to read, share, comment, like, link to and tweet. Get that content in front of your target audience. Find out where they already hang out and work out a strategy to get your content in front of them, it could be from guest blogging / content marketing / article syndication, banner ads, forum posting, blog commenting, social media.

People are talking about bookmarking and article directories which at most are only going to bring in small trickles of visitors.

You go where your target audience already is and you get their eyes on your content and watch them flow.

This pretty much sums it up. The worst part for me is the whole 'lack of problem solving' in this whole equation by the OP.

The only problem he is trying to solve is 'how can I get some money?' This sounds like the typical soulless website that litters the online landscape.

Take some 'keyword articles,' back them up with 'backlink building' and then you have 'traffic' which equals 'money.'

The only problem with this Profit Cake Recipe is that it doesn't work any more.

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James Clark 11 years ago

To the OP. Everything that you spoke about does not tell me what you are trying do. You need to find people with a problem and market to them. People don't hang out in Google. The search engines like Google are facilitators (make progress easier) I would use Google to find out where the people who have a problem in your Niche. (people like to talk about their problems)

It doesn't mean they are ready to fix it... that will be the next step.

Example: Lets say you are in the dog training niche. You are not looking to sell every dog owner in the world. You are looking for the dog owners who are having problem with their dog. If the dog is pissing on the couch instead of the grass, they have a problem. Maybe the dog is fighting other dogs when you take him or her for a walk. YOU NEED TO FIND OUT WHERE PEOPLE WITH DOGS HANG OUT FIRST!
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drewdrew

11 years ago

Originally Posted by RockingLastsForever

This is a really rubbish way to try and get traffic. Forget about writing articles on low volume long tail keywords that you hope one day might rank and bring in some traffic....slow, unpredictable, unreliable and might never happen.

This is 2013, get with the program.

Write EPIC content that people will love to read, share, comment, like, link to and tweet. Get that content in front of your target audience. Find out where they already hang out and work out a strategy to get your content in front of them, it could be from guest blogging / content marketing / article syndication, banner ads, forum posting, blog commenting, social media.

People are talking about bookmarking and article directories which at most are only going to bring in small trickles of visitors.

You go where your target audience already is and you get their eyes on your content and watch them flow.

This is a really rubbish way to try and get traffic. Forget about writing articles on low volume long tail keywords that you hope one day might rank and bring in some traffic....slow, unpredictable, unreliable and might never happen.

This seems to go totally against the core strategy you mention in your ebook, FAST AND PROFITABLE MINI SITES (2013 EDITION). I just read all about how you target low competition long tail keywords because no one else is targeting those.

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CyberAlien

11 years ago

Originally Posted by drewdrew

This seems to go totally against the core strategy you mention in your ebook, FAST AND PROFITABLE MINI SITES (2013 EDITION). I just read all about how you target low competition long tail keywords because no one else is targeting those.

Looks like someone did their homework lol

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drewdrew 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Chase Watts

Looks like someone did their homework lol

His ebook was quite good IMO (read it in 1 hour) and was interested in seeing more of the author's posts on Warrior Forum. (I read many of his recent posts yesterday as well as his other ebooks - which are also quite good). Was surprised to see many contradictions which could be easily pointed out when you reference the written material with the posts on Warrior Forum. For instance he talks about creating "Epic" content now which seems noble and great but in the ebooks he advises you to hire article writers for 2 bucks on odesk and outsource the other elements on fiverr. I'm not saying that's a bad idea or a good idea but he seems to say one thing on Warrior Forum and another in the ebooks is all. I'm not trying to hate on anybody or call anybody's integrity into question. Its just that finding truly quality strategy amidst all the white noise and hype is truly 'a needle in the haystack' undertaking, and I don't like to be duped either.
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Benjamin Ehinger

11 years ago

[quote=Magnatolia;8091773]Hi guys,

So, I set my site up about 1-2 months ago, around 10-12 articles. Have had people from both this forum and another IM forum advise me that my articles are high quality and very well written. Added extra pictures to them as they were too wordy.

I have an Adsense banner under my menu and one small one on the right.

Yahoo news feed on the right but am going to consider the recent suggestion of curating this into an article so I can add navigation to that spot.

But I'm getting small dribbles of traffic. 5-10 uniques a day, about 60-80% bounce rate. Admittedly the ones that aren't bouncing are generally spending anywhere from 3-10 minutes on the site.

Google is still bouncing me like a yo-yo. Anywhere from 21-80, but I seem to be settled in the 20's range more now.

My traffic plan:

Originally Posted by Magnatolia

1. Submitted my articles, once indexed by Google, to Ezine Articles. 5 articles nets me about 2 uniques a day.

I'd add in submitting them to about 5 to 10 more article directories, but don't count on any of this for huge traffic. If this is a way you plan to get a large amount of your traffic, you're going to need far more than 5 articles.

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2. Tweet once every two days, around 80 followers. I was using an automated adder so that I was adding people with particular keywords in their profile. That way I'm targeting people who have an interest rather than someone who randomly posts a keyword in one tweet. Been tweeting for about 1 month and had one person click on a link. Have had four mentions.

If you plan to use twitter, I'd look into having others tweet your link to their followers for a fee, but this isn't a great traffic method by any means.

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3. Post every two days or so on a social anxiety support forum that has thousands of members online at any one time. I've had people thank me for the advice and the occasional positive quote. My posts are always 2-3 paragraphs in link with a recommendation on looking at a particular strategy via my signature. Get about 3-5 visitors from this but this seems like a hell of a lot of work. Posting for 20-30 minutes for 3-5 visitors as it's not recurring.

Continue doing this and respond to other posts, as well. If you're using a signature, you will see more traffic the more you post, but make sure it's all quality. I'd also consider adding another forum or two into the rotation. This won't yield much for the first few months, but look at it as a long term strategy as it can be very powerful.

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4. Posted a press release via prlogs free service

The free service doesn't do much for you. If you want big results from press releases, you have to pay to get them out there.

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5. Posted 2 videos to youtube. One moved to about the second page but only has 880 visitors (mostly paid but I am turning up in the odd search and suggested viewing)

Takes more than two videos and doesn't matter if the videos are not quality information.

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6. Post to 3-5 reddit's in the relevant sub-reddit every 1-2 days. This gets me an influx of 1-2 visitors per day but I don't think they stay long.

There's some benefit in reddit, but you should consider using a service that gets you more social bookmarks, such as onlywire or some of the people willing to post for you from fiverr (choose the ones offering 20 to one site and 10 to another not the ones offering hundreds).

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7. Used Google AdSense - got me a few visitors but nothing that seemed to stick.

I am assuming you mean Google Adwords, as that's the paid advertising. This is something you want to really understand before you invest a large amount of cash. It can drain you quick if you're not careful.

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8. I did post on blog comments a while back but that seemed to be a waste of time traffic wise. I did get the occasional blog owner view my site, one in particular I think read every single page. I post quality, I relate my response to their content and recommend a particular technique that can either add to their post or something I feel is beneficial to their readers. For example if they were saying don't use a particular technique I wouldn't recommend my article on that technique.

This can help, but is more of a good SEO benefit than anything else. I would keep doing this.

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9. Haven't looked into Guest Blogging yet.

Probably the most powerful of all the strategies you've added to your plan. I HIGHLY recommend you check it out and SOON. Not only do you get a good backlink, when done correctly, but also direct traffic. This is the new article marketing.

Originally Posted by Magnatolia

I use the FireFox extension that shows the alexa ranking of Google search results when I'm looking for websites to post comments or for a guest post opportunity.

I've also installed a welcome bar at the top of my site which shows a different message and call to action based on five social networks. So, if you are directed from a link I've posted at reddit it will have a button to share the page via reddit. Same for facebook, twitter, etc. I can add as many as I want so I go through my referrals and relevant referrals will then be added to the list of options.

However, I can also show a message for new and returning visitors. So I'm thinking new visitors will get a link to my squeeze page which offers them a free meditation download. And returning visitors will get something along the lines of 'Thanks for returning, we'd love to get your feedback and suggestions' with a button to an online survey.

As you can see I'm putting a lot of effort into this site, but it feels like I'm spinning my wheels. I have had a highly respected member of this forum actually commend me on the quality of my site.

Just not sure what I'm doing wrong visitor wise. My first step is to seek assistance from members of this forum. And the second is to set up that new and returning visitors option so I can hopefully get some survey feedback. And the third is to chuck this project in, wave the flag, etc but I don't really want to do that.

Oh, and just to clarify, most of those traffic steps, unless specified, I have been doing consistently for quite a while. It's not like I've tweeted 2 or 3 times then wondered why I'm not getting an influx of visitors.

Thanks heaps!

I'd link every article going to the directories to your squeeze page. I would do the same thing with the forum and most other traffic methods. You will do far better building a list from your traffic and selling to them once they're on your list than trying to direct sell to them. The money is in the list.

Benjamin Ehinger

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alvinchua91

11 years ago

I don't know what you mean by Adsense getting you traffic. Anyway, SEO(relevant backlinks) the hell out of your individual pages, use SMM for each of the pages too. If the competition level is not ridiculously high, you should be able to see results in weeks.

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Randall Magwood

11 years ago

Seems like you're doing no paid advertising. You can get an instant surge of traffic with paid advertising, especially if you're (at least) breaking even on each sale. But at the current rate that you're going with free marketing, your numbers seem typical. I would beef up the free marketing campaign by 300%, then measure your stats at the end of the month. And in the meantime, find some inexpensive places to advertise online. 2 great ones are Google Adwords and Bing Ads.

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webbuilder

11 years ago

Find keywords that are relevant to your niche. I have had had major frustration with larger ad ppc networks and sick of the high prices to compete for top words. Would encourage people to check out advertisers.pro as I'm encouraging small advertisers an affordable platform to work together on.

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webology 11 years ago

Also, about 80 Twitter followers that you mentioned, this is way too few to get any noticeable traffic. 8000 would be more appropriate and this is not so difficult as it sounds (especially because you mentioned using specialized software). Normally, it should take about a month or two to get to this number, but it requires daily involvement.
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Gary Ning Lo

11 years ago

Don't bother about free traffic...Unless you can outsource it..

If you want tons of targeted traffic go for paid methods...

And most importantly have an offer that converts.

Cheers,

Gary

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Traffic plan...not really working too well?

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