Can't Get Traction on New Site - Any Suggestions?

I don't want to speculate on what your problems are. Are you willing to post or PM your link? Or, at least answer these questions (I'm assuming when you say you're not gaining traction, you mean you're not getting traffic):

1. Your last post in your previous thread was in mid-April. When did you actually start driving traffic to your site?
2. How are you driving traffic to your site?
3. What are your traffic stats over that time?
4. Is your month-to-month traffic increasing, decreasing or stagnant?

To make any business successful, there are essentially five dots that need to be connected:

1. Target market
2. Platform to connect with your target market (website, forum, FB group, etc)
3. At least one way to get your target market to your platform
4. At least one product or service to offer (that your target market wants or needs)
5. Sell your product/service at a profit

A few hundred visitors a week isn't bad for a site that's only been active for around 2 months. The question is can you scale that traffic and ultimately, can you make a profit from that traffic?

I obviously don't know your business so I don't know those answers. There are a few metrics I'd be curious about if I were you - such as length of time those visitors stay on your site and what pages they land on and spend time on. Also, have you captured any of these visitors contact info (email) and recontacted them?

You have a target market, which is obviously a market where money is spent (I'm in your target market). Have you made any sales?

I'm curious as to how your site is set up. Are you 'reviewing' different products and posting those in a review section. Or collecting emails and sending product offers to a list? Or both? Or something else?

If it were me - without seeing it - I would want to use the curated content to drive traffic to a shop where I sold branded products.

One method for this . . . post every website post to your FaceBook Page, (and pay to get visitors to the Page to them if you are not getting many), then for the best-performing posts on the FB Page, do FB Ads for those but keep them the same . . . i.e. interesting content that people like, NOT something that looks like an Ad.

FB and other social-media likes content, because their audience prefers looking at interesting content rather than Ads, so they will give you much better rates and your Ads will convert better if your Ads look like interesting content.

Also, try Pinterest . . . create a new account just for fishing (or whatever your exact niche is), and create at least 10 Boards with at least 10 rePins in each. Get some Followers (Follow others in your niche, and Pin your own content every day as well as rePinning other people's content), then join the biggest Group Boards you can on your subject (find them on BoardGroupie). One big advantage of Pinterest is that it's half-life is over 2 months, compared to a few days for FB, or a few minutes for Twitter, so your content (which is links, so it helps with SEO too) lasts a lot longer on Pinterest.

When you are getting good results on Pinterest (make sure your account is "business" so you get all the stats), you can pay to promote your best-performing Pins.

Chris

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