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Tired of no traffic! How much should each unique post generate?

by MarkUSA
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I recently started a new site (in my signature).
I have 10 good, unique articles on my site, but I am just not getting any significant traffic to my site (~10 visitors per day), which translates to 1 visitor per day per article.
I have done proper keyword research and my keywords appear in the URL, Title, Description and Head.

Is there any market data on how much traffic each good, unique article should generate? I could build that site to 100 articles, but I really think that 1 visitor per day per article is too low. Any suggestions?
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  • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
    If you have more time, you can add backlinks to each article page to increase search engine ranking position of each page at Google.
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    • Profile picture of the author rhinocl
      Content does not generate views by itself. You have to go where your potential audience hangs out and find a way to send them to your site or build your rankings in the search engines. With option 2 it still won't do you any good unless your keywords have search traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Devin X
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    Network with others in your niche. The self improvement niche is highly saturated so get out there and join their conversation. People like chris guillebeau or tyler tervooren or Jon Mead all are in that niche. And to help you reach out to them you can even tell them that devon dudeman referred you to them. They shouldremember who i am and that would help you break the ice with them.

    Remember, it's WHO you know not what you know.
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  • Profile picture of the author David Sneen
    I find that I get 50% more visitors than usual on the day that I post, and a very few the next day. The only advertising I do is a shoutout in my social media networks. I would get more if I bookmarked in directories or did other forms of advertising.

    Quality new posts are essential for reasons besides immediate traffic. Several quality posts are necessary to have a quality blog. They also are a key factor in getting the all-important search engine ranking. I have noticed that my keyword rankings go down if I do not make at least one post a week.
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  • Profile picture of the author marketwarrior06
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    Its your Irony of fate
    Don't worry. There is another way to get good amount of visitors. Just make a good Face book page and regularly post there.
    I have gathered manually 600 fans in one of my camera related blog. and i regularly both the blog and the Fan page. believe it or not i get a good amount of visitors in my blog.
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  • Profile picture of the author steven Clayden
    More content = More traffic. keeping adding content on a regular basis, google will crawl your site more regularly and start indexing your content higher up the rankings, you will also start to get residual traffic from long tail keywords which soon adds up.
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    • Profile picture of the author MarkUSA
      Originally Posted by steven Clayden View Post

      More content = More traffic. keeping adding content on a regular basis, google will crawl your site more regularly and start indexing your content higher up the rankings, you will also start to get residual traffic from long tail keywords which soon adds up.
      Originally Posted by rhinocl

      Content does not generate views by itself. You have to go where your potential audience hangs out and find a way to send them to your site or build your rankings in the search engines. With option 2 it still won't do you any good unless your keywords have search traffic.
      So which is true? To me, these almost seem like the opposite things
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        • Profile picture of the author JamesCx
          Originally Posted by mrultra View Post

          The second one. You can have thousands of pages of content, and still get little to no traffic if you don't promote your site in any way. On the other hand, you can have only 10 pages and generate lot's of traffic if you're promoting your site properly.

          The bottom line is you're not going to get any significant traffic to your site if you aren't promoting it, whether it's a 10 page site or a 1,000 page site.
          Agree completely with this. Even if there is a high quality and quantity of content, it will do next to nothing if you aren't promoting the content or website that it's hosted on.
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          • Profile picture of the author RSMarketing
            I agree with Marx Vergel Melencio here you have to know where your visitors came from, then you will know what you need to do more of. Track everything!

            you might spend all your time writing articles and pinging, and then find out those 10 visitors your getting a day are actually coming from 1 squidoo lense you made a month ago and forgot about.

            Track Track Track Track! at least google analytics

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  • Profile picture of the author Marx Vergel Melencio
    Hi MarkUSA,

    Where did those 10 visitors come from? What did you do to promote each of your 10 articles? What did those 10 visitors do on your site? You need to monitor, track and analyze these things, so you can gather enough details, to use those details for further analysis and further comparative analysis and so on, until you have enough details to formulate campaigns which, based on your data, analysis and projections, could most likely improve your results...
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    • Profile picture of the author fin
      Instead of writing articles and hoping for traffic, take those articles and force traffic.
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      • Profile picture of the author celente
        Originally Posted by fin View Post

        Instead of writing articles and hoping for traffic, take those articles and force traffic.
        That is a good statement, but You left out the instructions. :p

        Let me fill OP in, its called article syndication, and its working great for us.

        What you do is make sure you have a highly targeted article high quality 800 - 1000 words works best for us, and try to syndicate this on other high traffic blogs, guest posts, niche journals, niche publications, forums, magazines, offline resources, even smaller targeted communities that revolve around your niche.

        This works very very well, and the results are outstanding.
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  • Profile picture of the author steven Clayden
    google likes content, they like sites that update with unique content, they reward sites with updated unique content by moving them higher up the serps. That is why when some people add a new article, its indexed in minutes and ranks high.
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    • Profile picture of the author celente
      Originally Posted by steven Clayden View Post

      google likes content, they like sites that update with unique content, they reward sites with updated unique content by moving them higher up the serps. That is why when some people add a new article, its indexed in minutes and ranks high.
      We find that SEO'd articles of length 800 - 1000 words work best. Lots of people / idiots are still spinning articles, that is why google panda came in. Just spend time writing something high quality. If you cannot do that hire someone else to do this for you, and post that on your blog or syndicate it. This is giving us tremendous results.
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  • Profile picture of the author AmandaT
    You need to start generating traffic. Someone already mentioned article syndication but you can also do social bookmarking, blog commenting, guest blogging, forum posting, submit documents to document sharing sites, and all kinds of other things like that!

    You need to help people find you by directing them to your site. THAT is how you will build traffic!
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  • Profile picture of the author WittyT
    Just checked your website... If I were you, I would install Akismet asap! Unless you want scrapebox scavengers polluting your pages with hundreds of bs comments
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  • Profile picture of the author James9vs
    Originally Posted by MarkUSA View Post

    I recently started a new site (in my signature).
    I have 10 good, unique articles on my site, but I am just not getting any significant traffic to my site (~10 visitors per day), which translates to 1 visitor per day per article.
    I have done proper keyword research and my keywords appear in the URL, Title, Description and Head.

    Is there any market data on how much traffic each good, unique article should generate? I could build that site to 100 articles, but I really think that 1 visitor per day per article is too low. Any suggestions?
    I see, you know why your site not getting traffic, only one reason you have many spam comments, you can just removed all comments and update your site daily write one unique article you will get large number of visitors.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike101
    I think you are not the only one having this problem. Many new newbie face this problem including me.
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  • Profile picture of the author eventbin
    Great suggestions here.
    Keep up the posts on your blog, it takes time build a reputation. Also provide a RSS feed so you get noticed by people searching for keywords relevant to your posts on google alerts.
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