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What is your #1 problem or frustration when it comes to getting traffic?

by Daniel Deegan
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Hey all, I was hoping some of my fellow warriors can help me out real quick. I'm working my way through a particular course on marketing and there is an exercise where you create a profile of a hypothetical person within a market.

I want to complete the exercise using the most accurate information as possible. I've already sent out a few emails to clients I work with but I would love to get some additional insights from my fellow warriors.

If you could share your #1 problem or frustration when it comes to getting traffic it would be much appreciated.

I'll share my biggest frustration to get things rolling. I personally hate waiting for enough data to come in before I can determine if something works or not or where I should begin changing and tweaking things.

It's one of the reasons I've been a long time fan of paid traffic since you have much greater control of the how much data you get and how fast in comes in. (big budgets can gets tons of data quick)

Much love,
Daniel D.
#frustration #problem #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Anonymous Affiliate
    By far, as far a getting worthy traffic goes, the number one problem for me is always to get big affiliate's attention (the guys with the big mailing lists).
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Deegan
    Thanks AA, the feedback is much appreciated.
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  • Profile picture of the author JennSpencerIM
    Connecting with and working with blog owners in the niche...has been challenging for me to have them do anything with me except by buttons on their page which I hate doing. Would love to be able to partner with blog owners and other leaders in niches (or at least those with sites/blogs with similar audience) but most of my niches this is a new concept (JVs, affiliates, etc.) Would love to be able to get more referral traffic from these sites!
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Deegan
    Many thanks Jenn, your insights are much appreciated. I've spoken to a few people who run into the same problem. They are in niches where product launches don't really happen and the overall marketing strategies are much less aggressive. It's quite a dilemma.
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  • Profile picture of the author ~kev~
    What is your #1 problem or frustration when it comes to getting traffic?
    According to my google analytics account, traffic from google has around a 50% - 55% bounce rate. I wish google did a better job of sending targeted traffic to my sites.

    Out of all of my blogs and forums, google traffic has an outrageous bounce rate. It would be nice if the traffic was a little more targeted.
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    • Profile picture of the author abednego
      Originally Posted by ~kev~ View Post

      According to my google analytics account, traffic from google has around a 50% - 55% bounce rate. I wish google did a better job of sending targeted traffic to my sites.

      Out of all of my blogs and forums, google traffic has an outrageous bounce rate. It would be nice if the traffic was a little more targeted.
      I always thought that a ~50% bounce rate was decently targeted from a search engine. Are my expectations just too low?
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  • Profile picture of the author mainstreetcm
    Originally Posted by Daniel Deegan View Post

    I'll share my biggest frustration to get things rolling. I personally hate waiting for enough data to come in before I can determine if something works or not or where I should begin changing and tweaking things.
    This right here is why I love the project wonderful advertising platform. I can throw up $10 and find a website with high traffic and start testing how well my Adsense ads will perform.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgeKuipers
    Let me report my story on this.
    I am more a SEO guy, than PPC or SMM, when it comes to getting a traffic. So most of my 20.000 visitors a day come to my major site from the G-Y-B. And the worst thing I want to see (and still constantly seeing) is when I get absolutely irrelevant organic traffic from Google to my commercial landing pages.

    Example:
    Lots of seo effort being made to promote a landing page selling Amsterdam property.
    Started getting quite a few visitors from organic SERP to this page.
    Noticed that the conversion rate gets to 0.00%
    Checked by which keywords all these visitors coming: vuala, by one word 'Amsterdam'. I am in Top10 by this keyword.
    Amazingly enough, I have never optimized the landing page for just 'Amsterdam' (which is a good and competitive keyword in general but not highly monetizable).

    The problem is: all these visitors, I suppose, want to read about Amsterdam in general. And when they see the site on the Amsterdam propery for sale, they simply jump out.
    At the same time, for the main and seo-targeted keyword phrase 'Amsterdam property', I was far away in the same Google.

    Its quite frustrating, doing focused work (content and links) for targeted niche and getting high but useless traffic for irrelevant keywords (for each, btw, some people are fighting for years).
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel Deegan
      Many many thanks everyone. Your feedback has been quite insightful, not what I expected that's for sure.

      Much love,
      Daniel D.
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  • Profile picture of the author AndyBeard
    George I probably have quite a bit of data on why you have that problem.
    I touched on it a little here just a few minutes ago
    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...oing-down.html

    Daniel commenting might throw your data off as I am not typical and tend to answer a lot of qustions over on Experts-Exchange.com or which would be a good place for you to find more data and questions.

    I know many of the best solutions for this, and they vary depending on country, but one thing that often comes up is how to accurately track phone in leads and sales.
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Deegan
    Many thanks Andy. Wow I'm surprised I've never bumped into expert-exchange before. Very cool place from a personal and professional stand point.

    Much love,
    Daniel D.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dean Jackson
    When gurus tell you that you need to build a list, and 'build a relationship' with your list.

    I am sick of getting emails from gurus constantly telling me a part of the full story, then having to opt in to someone elses list to get the rest (and be sold 2-3 times on the way).

    That is NOT relationship building. And neither is a mass spammed email about the FIFA! (to me anyway) So where is the truth at!?
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Mine is finding traffic that consistently converts. I can bring a ton of traffic from a variety of sources. Some channels provide tons of traffic with little to no conversion. Other channels provide great conversion with small traffic numbers.

    At the end of the day, traffic for the sake of traffic is worthless... Traffic that converts is key... Finding the latter is the hardest part...
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    • Profile picture of the author Joe Benjamin
      Originally Posted by ProductCreator View Post

      Mine is the same as yours. I would like to expand on it.

      It used to be that you could write quality content and then people would come.

      But due to competition, one is now forced to join the legion of black/grey-hatters who backlink spam everywhere. I haven't been at WF much lately but I heard that these spammy backlink offerings were banned and I think that is great.

      I was actually surprised because I'd encountered a lot of hostility from those defending the art of registering at a forum and making one/zero posts and putting their backlinks there.

      So, yeah. You build something and there are million and one ways to "start off" a website. It's impossible to test them all. It takes ages to see the effects of something that you do. And even when you do, how do you know it was related to what you did or was just plain good luck?

      Case in point, I have two health websites that use the same WP theme. Both are loved by Google.

      I went out and created four new websites on the same model. All of them tanked. Was I lucky earlier or unlucky the second time round? Who knows?

      For this reason, my new SEO ventures are going one way only and that is on extremely narrow niches. Niches where Google page no. 1 has no or few big hitting websites. All pages pageranked at 0, 1 or 2.

      With these, there is no great pressure to go spammy with backlinks at all because its easy to rank. The downside is that it may require more effort to get the same traffic. This is arguable though.

      So you could say that my no.1 frustration with traffic is the same as yours, I hope my expansion helps you. For this reason, I now diversify in other areas that do not depend on my own SEO work. Instead I rely on affiliates or on branding or SEO (but only extremely low competition).
      And THAT is the reason why I never could get my head wrapped
      around anything related to google, especially SEO marketing and
      relying on that for traffic.

      Truth is, it's combination of luck AND hardwork. Is it more LUCK
      than hardwork? I won't say because I've never had success with
      SEO marketing alone. But, it SEEMS to be a general consensus
      that when people strike "gold", they often don't know what pick
      axe they used to hit it.

      I HATE those odds and, as you said...most of it IS a guessing
      game. Not only do you have to TRY out something that may or
      may not work, but you have to WAIT to see if it works or not.

      That's the nature of the internet. It's a waiting game to see re-
      sults (good or bad) from previous efforts.

      Originally Posted by tpw View Post

      Mine is finding traffic that consistently converts. I can bring a ton of traffic from a variety of sources. Some channels provide tons of traffic with little to no conversion. Other channels provide great conversion with small traffic numbers.

      At the end of the day, traffic for the sake of traffic is worthless... Traffic that converts is key... Finding the latter is the hardest part...
      It's not so hard as you think. Your perception is that it's difficult
      because you're having a hard time looking for something where
      you can have BOTH traffic AND high conversions.

      Trust me when I say...it IS possible. (the first place I would look
      if your interested is OFFLINE!).

      Marketing offline gives you access to millions of people, not mere
      thousands. The evergreen markets are unlimited, and you will have
      instant access to buyers in LARGE quantities.

      Hence high volume traffic and and conversions.
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  • Profile picture of the author JEL0221
    I would say my biggest frustration is not getting my keyword research done right. One of my big sources(attempted big sources I should) of trying to get traffic is through ezine articles, but I have never really gotten many article views from my articles.

    I am confident in my writing ability, but not in the keywords I choose.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
    I haven't found a completely reliable back link checker.

    I can go out and get 10,000 links and find Google shows 7 of them and other tools show anything from 500 to 5000.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tyson Faulkner
      The biggest problem I have with getting traffic is being consistent. I tend to have ADD or something with everything I do. I'll try something for awhile, then move to the next thing, then the next, etc.

      Focusing on one thing at a time seems to be my #1 struggle, even though it's very important it's still hard for me to do.
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      • Profile picture of the author paj_mccarthy
        As Tyson says, remaining focused and disciplined to carry out the work it takes to get traffic.

        And I tend to spread myself too thinly, trying to get traffic from 100 different places, when in reality doing a couple of things really well is what works best for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author nadavs
    My biggest problem is the time it takes for results to come. After I submit an article, I need about a week or two to know if the keyword is worth something. When I make a change to my website, it takes time until all search engines catch it, and so on.

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    • Profile picture of the author Rikki_Fawkes
      Personally - for me - it's not yet being able to find a viable way of inserting the "exact" URL of a referral into my PayPal Subscribe button. Since my Subscribe page is the second page users click after the sales page, it won't refer the original entrance page. Plus, I'm using a WordPress blog, so unless I convert everything to PHP and dump the visual editor (or create a whole new page template with some new code, which might or might not work), it's still a huge hassle.
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