Traffic?

by Master IM

Posted: 11 years ago 21 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

hello, i'm looking for the best ways to drive traffic to a gaming site.
Can you suggest a few traffic sources, or just the methods working best for you.

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#traffic

John Campbell 11 years ago

Are you willing to pay for the traffic? Otherwise it's good old fashioned SEO and backlinks!
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- Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by John Campbell
  
  Are you willing to pay for the traffic? Otherwise it's good old fashioned SEO and backlinks!
  
  Why?!
  
  What's wrong with all the other, unpaid, non-SEO traffic-generation methods of which the forum's so full of discussions? Don't you think, given this niche's traffic demographics, that they might actually be the best ones?
  
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sprice 11 years ago

Faceboom and twitter are great places to drive free traffic.

Build a social presence and you can drive traffic from these sites daily.
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- jwmann2 11 years ago
  
  Try promoting your website on other gaming websites/forums. You want to first link to websites in your own niche, that's very important. You might also try a Google Adwords campaign which is basically just paid advertising.
  
  On Twitter, start following twitter users that follow or are followed by poker players, casinos, hotels, etc. Build a following and start interacting. Put your website's link in the profile and make it a business Twitter account, not YOUR account. Retweet often news in the gaming world.
  
  On facebook, post your links to like pages that are related to your website. Maybe post your links to the Bellagio's like page if they allow posts.
  
  On Linkedin, join 50 gaming related groups. Then, post your links to those groups to help drive traffic.
  Finally, focus on your SEO both on page and off page - this is the key to getting free organic traffic from Google. Gaming websites are competitive but it's a billion dollar industry, there should be plenty to go around for you.
  
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himanuzo 11 years ago

Why not promoting your site on game forums? You can search forums on Google.
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BripTech 11 years ago

Driving good (targeted) traffic on a website is probably the most important piece of the puzzle.

Without traffic it is quite useless to have a website, because you may write the best content out there that would remain unread.

Basically, there are two type of traffic: paid / organic.

If you are just beginning out there, I would start with organic traffic: it means Social Media Traffic and SEO Optimization.

Browse the forum in the proper sections, and start trying to drive traffic by capturing visitors with long tail keyword optimization on your site.

Hope this helps
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Friedmett 11 years ago

Where does your main target market hang out online?

What keywords are they using?

Advertize where they are and be a known face.

SEO is great but results does not come instantly like Google adwords. It can take months and then you have look at the conversion.
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Alex P Abraham 11 years ago

twitter can drive targeted traffic to your website. Choose proper hashtags and share the links to twitter.
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Moneymaker2012 11 years ago

The best thing would be to go with facebook ads, it can target the right age and group of people who likes gaming ect.
You can get real quick traffic to your gaming site.
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Fazal Mayar 11 years ago

FB ads ,seo, backlinking, ppc (costly though), forum posting
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shafee219 11 years ago

The most effective and permanent way to drive traffic is through on page and off page optimization. And these are the parts of SEO. So, learn SEO and try it on your website. Without SEO, you couldn't get any permanent visitors.
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Tim3 11 years ago

Is that PC gaming or gambling gaming?

If it's PC gaming I would hit the numerous forums and Social sites first.
That will leave SE traffic in the dust

Tip 17b: The German's are nuts on PC gaming
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carlamae 11 years ago

I'd start with gaming forums if you want free traffic. I'm also having some great success in another niche with content syndication, but it works for any niche and builds you some huge backlinks.
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HeadStartSEO 11 years ago

Start with brand building on forums. Be helpful, answer questions and get a feel for what people are talking about and what kind of news info is missing for the gaming fans you'll be targeting.

I love starting with the forums. They a GOLD mine for content ideas.

Your traffic will come via links in your sig.
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Randall Magwood 11 years ago

1) Blogs

2) PPC

3) Forums

4) SEO

5) Joint ventures

6) Facebook
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JamesBorg 11 years ago

I'd expect a YouTube channel to work great for this.
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Sheila Ross 11 years ago

You should target some gaming forum, Gaming section of yahoo answers and write some guest post at some gaming blogs. This will definitely bring laser targeted traffic to your site.
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kazoone2 11 years ago

funklicks.com and projectwonderful.com are 2 paid traffic sources suited for gaming websites. There are tons of them out there if you search around.
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AlexGeorge 11 years ago

There are loads of ways.

1. Article Marketing
2. Forum Marketing
3. Adwords
4. Facebook Ads
5. Guest Posting
6. Twitter & Facebook
7. SEO
8. Video Marketing (YouTube)
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VanChappell 11 years ago

To drive traffic for your website you can adopt following points :
.Optimize your site for search engine
. Frequently update your content
. Use viral content
. Use offline promotion
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