How is your success with traffic without backlinks?

Indeed, you can get a decent bit of traffic without doing backlinking. I get an average of 200 uniques a day across a few of my autoblogs and those just do one thing: gobble up internet.

You are right you can get traffic without back links. The question is - how much more traffic can you get when you do have back links from social sites, forums, press releases, videos etc.

You can get plenty of traffic without backlinks. If you have an article syndicated to a major, high-circulation newspaper or magazine, giving your url at the end, you can get huge numbers of visitors from it, all of whom are "type-in traffic". You don't need a backlink at all, to do that. (You need an unusually good, well written and interesting article, though).

Or you can do the same online in a high-circulation ezine, sent by email to its targeted subscribers (in which case they won't be type-in traffic, of course: they'll be link-clicking traffic, but you still don't need a backlink).

You don't even need any on-page SEO, to get any of that traffic. And it's often really targeted, responsive, buying traffic, too.

If you truly have quality content, a nice design, and of course good on-page SEO, than theoretically you'll never have to build a single link (other than social media). That's easier said than done, but it is absolutely possible. You'll have to do a little social media networking, but it will take off from there.

If you're relying on traffic from Google, then backlinks are a must. But as Alexa said, there's many other ways to get traffic, namely through article syndication. Personally, I wouldn't dream of never building backlinks, as I rely on Google for traffic.

I believe that despite what many marketers say, you need backlinks. If you don't have them you will eventually get organic traffic but it will take a long time. I should say though that it also depends on your niche.

I have several sites in several different niches and I don't build backlinks at all to none of them. All I focus on doing is writing unique high quality content and interacting on popular forums and blogs related to my niche. If you can do that, write unique high quality content, interact with social media, and stay consistent, them you will never have to build a single backlink.

Great, social media is good to me.

You can get some traffic from just doing the basic on page but if you need more traffic eventually you'll have to start building back links but you can work on them slowly

I have few sites that i didnt build backlinks to them.I used youtube videos to get traffic and solo ads.

I've read that most people need exactly 76 "backlinks".
Really, despite what many marketers say, these organic links are important.

No I'm afraid you're introducing something I never considered I love backlinks, I use them in video sharing as well as social media posts, but this was interesting and does provide quite a bit of food for thought.

Thanks for sharing

I have a website that I started a while ago targeting a physical product niche, monetized via AdSense and Amazon. I am focusing only on adding content and improving the site as much as possible, always asking this question to myself:

"Would I stay on this site or visit it again if I was looking for information about these products?"

I didn't build any backlinks or such, the site's traffic is increasing each month as I keep adding content. The income is negligible but as long as the traffic keeps increasing, the income will also increase eventually. This is a long term process and I definitely prefer adding content and improving the site over wasting all my precious time on backlinks which will sooner or later lose their effect.

Create good websites and good content and let your visitors build your backlinks naturally.

It depends on the niche. In a not too competitive niche with many keywords, where people use all kinds of search phrases (weight loss, health etc.) your site can be on top of many (unique) search terms. Even without or only minimal backlinking.

If you're going to go for competitive terms, with no intent on using any other traffic methods, then yes, there's no other way around it.

If they are low-competitive terms with lower search engine traffic, good content and optimization is sufficient.

Alternatively there's paid traffic, syndication, forums, blog comments (for clickthroughs not backlinks), solo ads, blog carnivals, video, podcasts, how-to's, social media, paid reviews and more...

Take your pick, or do them all one by one

What about paid traffic? The fastest way to get traffic is to pay for it - Solo Ads, Banner Ads, PPC etc..

Use your budget carefully and start off somewhere easy - Bing/BuySellAds and you'll be fine.

I mean do SEO and have natural organic rankings etc. but for me it always starts off with testing the keywords and that means paying for the ranking.

I think you should take a look over Matthew Woodwards website.

The site is a blog, that is based upon an experiment, to see how well he can rank the website, without any backlinking.

It is ironic, because Matts sites content is pure SEO, and SEO tools, but he has had some startling results.

If you click around the top nav bar, you will see income reports, this is a very novel idea, where Matt openly posts his traffic, social, posting, and income stats.

Also, it appears that future rankings will be shaped by your Google+ efforts. This is still in its infancy, but I think people should revisit their profiles, and get things up to date, at least.

Any help for my website pls, it has also facing the same problem

It really depends. I do a mix of traffic generation. For some sites I do limited link building to web pages that convert and earn money from search engine traffic.

For other sites, I've built up email subscribers and loyal readers who link to the site and visit on their own accord. I don't bother building links to those sites.

I have one Adsense-focused site (I wanted to see if I could create an Adsense site that earns $50 + per day ... only at $8+/- per day at this point) where I don't do any link building and instead publish interesting content. I think I've built 5 to 10 links over many months, but it's not a focus at all. I'm happy with long tail at this point.

If you're going for the search engine traffic to a review or another article/video designed to convert targeting a buyer keyword, you'll likely need to build some links.

I also do some local marketing where I do some link building because the sites are built strictly to promote my clients and make the sale from search engine traffic.

I'm by no means an SEO expert. I do some guest posting, infographic syndication (which is working very, very well ... just started this a few weeks ago), press releases and commenting for links just to get things rolling.

thanks for sharing all these helpful tips. When i don't build backlinks, I rely heavily on onpage SEO and social bookmarking

Traffic without backlinking?

Sure - with direct referrals (e.g. when someone types in your URL into the browser, etc)
Another option: paid traffic

Apart from that, it's like asking if you can get traffic with only on-page SEO. And the answer is: "yes - but WHY?"

You can indeed drive TONS of traffic with SEO - but it's a PROCESS. And you won't be able to do it overnight by any means.

SEO involves an on-page and off-page combination. Both NEED to be there.

Quality content targeting low or no competition long tail keyword
phrases (one page of content for each phrase) will usually rank high
very quickly.

Just creating a ton of quality content...tens even hundreds of page...
each targeting a low competition keyword phrase is going to get
your site seen as a resource of information.

Then you'll find it much easier to get ranked for keyword phrases
that have more competition.

Also you don't have to worry about the next "google slap".

All the search engines love quality content...the people using
search engines love quality content.

When you give the search engines what they want...a quality
experience for the people using their service...you don't have
to worry about getting "slapped" in the future.

No funny tricks, no black hat...just dominating the search engines
for a pile of keyword phrases for years to come.

I have some pages that have been at or near the top of google for 6 years
or longer with no more effort than putting them up.


Incidentally once you've mastered this one simple strategy it's quite
easy to sell the service to brick and mortar businesses as a way to
get them traffic and sales.

If you start targeting long tail keyword phrases that target products
or services they sell where they get a high net profit or the sales are
huge you can be making businesses some serious money and charging
some serious fees for the service.

It's amazing how the value of your skills can increase dramatically
if you just provide them to a business that is already doing
substantial turnover and has an infrastructure that makes it very
easy to create more sales (staff, a physical location, skilled sales
people, stock, machinery etc.)

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

Of course you can get traffic without backlinks, backlinks just makes the process 10x easier. You can get short and long term stream of traffic if you have enough of them.

Backlinks are the way to go!

Yes, I see that happening on some of my sites too.

But remember, Google is still on the testing phase of their algorithm, things can change again.

If I were you, I'd build my list right now so that I don't have to rely on Google in the future.

My favorite way to get NON google traffic is to just

1. Write a "HOW TO" blog post.

2. Set up a Facebook and Twitter filter for "anybody know how to do _______"

3. Send them my blog link.

if anyone wants to see my video about how I do that: http://sparkah.com/guerrilla-marketi...ll-get-banned/

There are thousands of people per hour all over the world asking questions that your website answers. Make filters that pull them up for you.

Exact Match Domain + Good SEO + Low Competition (Long Tail) Keyword should equal good rankings.

I have 1000's of uniques to a few websites where I have not explicitly focused on backlinks, but rather have produced content and shared with social networks as part of overall social networking strategy.

Of course there are now backlinks - some of these come from the those who have linked back to me after finding us from the social networks, others have come to us asking to syndicate our content (which we often allow given they link back), other links come from affiliates, etc...

All part of producing good content and sharing/participating with your marketplace...link building does not have to be painful.

Jeff