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Marketers generating more than 5000 visitors a month

by guptara
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Hey guys,

If you are generating more than 5000 visitors a month to your website, if you don't mind me asking can you tell me which is your traffic source?

Thanks
#generating #marketers #month #visitors
  • Profile picture of the author andynathan
    Social Media, SEO, Return Visitors, RSS feed, and third party websites. I think that order is right.
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    SEO and Social Media!
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    I was doing that for a time, but then things changed. I was primarily getting search engine traffic.

    I need to diversify and evolve my strategy.
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    SEO, Facebook, YouTube, article marketing.
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    CPA is all about testing, tracking, determining.
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  • Profile picture of the author entrepreneurjay
    seo, blogging, social networking, email marketing, forum posting, classifieds, press releases, blog commenting, etc...

    My traffic is very well rounded that is why they call us internet marketers

    Just keep your nose to the grindstone my grandpas old saying :p and you will get there.
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  • Profile picture of the author kolbywhite28
    My IP. I visit my website compulsively to check if eveything's alrite.
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  • Profile picture of the author icoachu
    SEO, social media, branding/direct traffic

    Never underestimate the power of establishing in the mind of your readers that your site should be their "go to" site for a particular subject matter.
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  • Profile picture of the author elexmedia
    Forum Marketing, Media Buying, and return visitors.

    Because of some reason, SEO don't do well for my website.
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    Find it on:
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    under 'Make Money Online WSOs' Topic at 9 July
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    • Profile picture of the author guptara
      Thanks elex..can you share details about media buying?

      Originally Posted by elexmedia View Post

      Forum Marketing, Media Buying, and return visitors.

      Because of some reason, SEO don't do well for my website.
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  • Profile picture of the author Val Wilson
    Yahoo Answers - great for targeted traffic, and because answers rank well in the search engines, the traffic really builds up over time.
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    • Profile picture of the author WarGasm
      Originally Posted by Val Wilson View Post

      Yahoo Answers - great for targeted traffic, and because answers rank well in the search engines, the traffic really builds up over time.
      They let you leave links ?
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  • Profile picture of the author pdrs
    Social media is killing it for me these days once I figured out how to actually tap into it, I still get quite a bit of traffic from the engines but nowhere near as much as I used to.
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  • Profile picture of the author guptara
    Thanks guys..Looks like most of you are using social media. By social media do you mean twitter, facebook, youtube tec.?

    I am lookin in PPC and that sort of paid traffic (media buying etc.). SEO per me has some learning curve and may take 1-2 months, if not more, to get good traffic. Also, google is changing their ranking system regularly.

    But, keep sharing your traffic sources. Always great to know whats working.
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  • Profile picture of the author nasuryono
    About 80% of my traffic sources come from SEO and Social Media. I have noticed quite a bit of jump from Web 2.0 networks as well recently though.
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  • Profile picture of the author xxxJamesxxx
    SEO
    Adwaps
    banner/P.S. swaps
    Facebook
    Forums
    Blogging
    Video marketing
    Affiliates

    It's all free traffic (my favourite!) but the problem with free traffic is it takes ages to build up.

    James Scholes
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    • Profile picture of the author fluffythewondercat
      Search engines
      Forum posting
      Blog commenting
      Social media
      Paid blog placements

      I've said this a number of times but nobody seems to pick up on it. If you want other people to promote your site for free, write about people. If you use their social networks, you don't have to build one of your own, plus the reference has more authority if it comes from someone other than you.

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      • Profile picture of the author guptara
        Thanks Fluff..can you share some details around paid blog placements?

        Originally Posted by fluffythewondercat View Post

        Search engines
        Forum posting
        Blog commenting
        Social media
        Paid blog placements

        I've said this a number of times but nobody seems to pick up on it. If you want other people to promote your site for free, write about people. If you use their social networks, you don't have to build one of your own, plus the reference has more authority if it comes from someone other than you.

        fLufF
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  • Profile picture of the author Aussie_Al
    banner ads, linked in, twitter and facebook plus a lot of traffic from stumbleupon too
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  • Profile picture of the author TheBizHelp
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    SEO and AdWords brings in the greatest traffic ever.
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  • Profile picture of the author zoomsixx
    I have a gaming site that gets more hits than that a day and it doesn't make a dime.

    I haven't figured out how to monetize the traffic. I'm really thinking about CPA and maybe a content locker.
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  • Profile picture of the author davegarcia939
    Maximum traffic come from Google, then Social Media like Facebook, Twitter and G+. Also I get traffic from yahoo answer but it is not much.

    Blog Commenting and Forums also bring good amount of traffic for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author MaxPowers
    SEO has been my busiest source of traffic over the past 14 years, but email marketing has had the greatest conversion rates. AdWords helps to run split tests quickly, but is the most expensive and most short-lived method of promotion I use.

    AdWords or Email if I need results _NOW_ (then nothing after). SEO if I need results 'forever' (but I can wait a couple of weeks/months to get there).

    Without SEO or AdWords, I wouldn't have an email list nearly as large as I do.
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  • Profile picture of the author guptara
    Interesting responses to be honest..Very few people in paid traffic. And equally surprising to hear that so many people are finding social media to be their main source of traffic.

    I tried social media in the past, but found effort to traffic ratio was very less.

    Does anyone of you generate paid traffic by any chance?
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