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266 Unique Visitors Per Day from Google... Barely Any SEO!

by Tony Wells
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I started a pet blog a few months ago and decided to try a little experiment.

Instead of writing articles myself... or worse, buying cheap articles... I decided to hire an expert in my niche to write them. Found someone on Craigstlist.

The articles weren't cheap. I think I paid like $40 per article, each around 1,500 words. But the writer knew her shit. In fact, she used to write for for popular pet magazines like Cat Fancy.

So I got 4 of these REALLY QUALITY articles and posted them on my site.

Then, I did 1 guest blog post on a PR3 pet blog. And uploaded 3 YouTube videos. That's it.

I got distracted with copywriting stuff and let the site sit there for a few months.

I open my Clicky account the other day and noticed that it's getting 250-300 uniques per day, the vast majority from search engines!

I'm no SEO expert... but I think that's pretty damn impressive considering small amount of work I put into this.

I think it just goes to show that content is still king. And content written for the VISITOR is always better than content for search engines.

What are your thoughts on this?

Also, if anyone else is doing well in the pet niche, I'm open to hearing about your monetization strategies. Cheers!
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  • Profile picture of the author StingGB
    I think Google has become sophisticated enough to ascertain what a website is about without the need for keyword manipulation. I just write what I write about, and my site stats are about the same as yours after 5 months.
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  • Profile picture of the author garveyonweb
    Originally Posted by Tony Wells View Post

    Also, if anyone else is doing well in the pet niche, I'm open to hearing about your monetization strategies. Cheers!

    I here you tony. Agree fully. I have a couple of sites in the pet niche. I outsourced articles which were worse than useless; expensive had they been for nothing!! Anyway, I know a little about this niche but hadn't the time to do it myself. I will focus a little on it now in light of your inspiration. however the monetisation seems challenging; I think possibly adsence suits best. I'm open to other thoughts also.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Ten
    Nice job! It looks like investing in quality really will pay off for you!
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  • Profile picture of the author kaposzta
    I'm 100% sure that content is the most important factor for Google. I have a Squidoo lens that is at the 2nd position of the first page (out of 40-50 million webpages), and it has practically zero backlinks. Okay, the 1st site has about 4000 backlinks, but it must have been very expensive to create so many of them. I paid nothing for backlinks, and I haven't done any SEO thing, but I'm very pleased with the number of visitors from Google
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  • Profile picture of the author Patho
    Google got smarter every year i guess....Keyword manipulation was too easy in the beginning. Content brings out a lot of value and luckily Google appreciates that. Congrats with the traffic though
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  • Profile picture of the author 247acheiver
    Nothing beats quality, unique, well written articles as far as Google is concerned.. I say keep what your doing and turn it up a notch...

    Start a few more blogs and begin looking and testing different copywriters and you may find a just as good if not better writer who charges less than $40.
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