Need some advice from the veterans

You've explained the mechanics of what you've done, but you haven't mentioned what your business is.

What's your product or service? Who are your intended customers or readers? How do you propose to reach them? And why should they visit your site?

Your list of 8 things above (which I took in, and I think I kind of understand what you're doing, as much as one can without knowing what the niche is or anything) doesn't appear to mention a traffic-generation plan, though? Where were you expecting to get traffic from?

LOL, I hear you. I think that if you're expecting what you've mentioned above to bring quick traffic, you're probably being very impatient, yes. All that can ever bring is a little bit of eventual search engine traffic (which surely isn't what you want to depend on, for this business?).

Personally, I tend to advise people not to put much time, effort and energy into trying to attract "organic SERP's" traffic, for two main reasons: first, it's very precarious and makes your business Google-dependent, and any business that's Google-dependent is no more than one algorithm-change away from a potential accident (or even a potential disaster), as so many Warriors have been finding out over the last year or two, some of them to their very great cost; secondly, for me, search engine traffic has been uniformly the worst-converting traffic out of everything I've ever tried in 8 entirely different niches over the whole of the last 4 years - search engine visitors to all my websites typically stay the least time, view the fewest pages, opt in the least often and actually buy anything by far the least often. I admit I do get tons of search engine traffic to all my main sites (just because of all the high rankings I've got, incidentally, from article syndication to relevant sites) but I'd certainly hate to have to make a living from that traffic! Google rankings, in short, are usually not really much of a "traffic-generating plan" at all: that traffic's very poor quality and often temporary, too. Just reading this forum regularly will convince anyone of that.

Yes ... but an answerable one, in time. Start from the Forum's search function, and do a search in the Main Marketing Forum only for threads with the word "traffic" in their titles. That will give you a lot of reading material, much of it directly applicable and helpful.

Stay out of the SEO folder, though. :p

I can't answer this one. Others will. I'm an article marketer, myself, so I pay for my traffic with time, effort, energy, writing skills, syndication skills, and so on (i.e. not with money, at the moment!).

I appreciate that you may not want to say what your niche is (I don't disclose mine, either), but at the same time note that it may be a little difficult for people here to give you specific traffic generation advice without knowing that!

I can't help you with that, either, I'm afraid (I'm mentioning that purely in an attempt to stop my father from laughing at me, when he reads my post, over my identifying myself as a "veteran"! ).

I'll answer your questions with a couple of questions..

Have you researched your target market and can you define
one person who is most representative of that market?

Where does that person and, therefore, your target customer,
hang out?

When you have the answers to those two questions, you will
know where you should be looking for traffic.

John

Looking at what you have done so far, you have automated both the twitter and the Facebook.

How many times have you visited a blog from and automated twitter account?
Also the same with Facebook.
Have you tried to join any groups in the same niche on Facebook or had any interaction at all on twitter or Facebook?

Have you visited other blogs in your niche and left comments so that not only may the blog owner visit your own site but others that visit that site may come to yours if your comment is a good one?

It is also a great way to get to know a lot of other people in your niche that you can then send to your Facebook page and so on..

1. had a professional website built with blog, forum, product landing page, and free product for registering page.

Which one are you trying to get the traffic for first?
your blog your product or your free page?
Where are your product page and free page are they just on your blog?

Unless you are targeting a very specific long tail keyword then just writing blog posts is going to take a while.


I hope you understand I am certainly not trying to put down your efforts in fact you have already done a lot more than many ever will, just trying to give you a few things to think on and do.