How I increased traffic by +105% in a week

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Ever since I've joined I was thinking of a way to give back to this community in order to say thank you for all of your advice on this forum in general. So yeah, I increased my SE traffic by about 105% in one week, read on to see stats and to find out how I did it.

Since I started on this particular niche (my only one btw) a few months ago I always focused on certain keywords theme, very exact keywords, for example if my niche were selling cars my keywords in comparison would be everything about BUYING cars.

Seeing my traffic slowly go down I one day came up with an idea to focus more on long tailed BROAD keyword, basically ANYTHING that has to do with the niche.

So instead of going for "buy cars" and "best priced cars" I focused on "car wallpapers" "best looking cars"; "best color for a car" etc like I said basically anything that had to do with cars.

I found one keyword which people were searching for in the niche but it had ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with buying the product, or anything that would say those searches could be valuable traffic.

I added a page to my site titled to match the keyword exactly, I wrote a 1600 word article on it and I only spoke my opinion, nothing else.

A week later, traffic started increasing, I didn't even look at incoming search terms, thought it was a one day fluke but, the increase doubled tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, especially on the weekends when I broke the record of most visitors on site in 24h.

Then I noticed the incoming search terms were now mostly related to the new page, that's where the visitors were going, thing is, after checking out that page, they headed to the main landing page and started completing offers like crazy, conversion has never been higher with these offers, I used to get 7-10% now its constantly over 10% and today for example, currently at 14%.

These are CPA offers, nothing huge, about $2 per completed offer on average, but the main point is that unrelated traffic which seemed useless completed more than those who are looking for literally what I offered originally.

Here's a screenshot of the stats:



This "advice" may seem useless to some, but I myself wish I was aware of this earlier, so if there are others out there like me, I really hope you'll try this out and hopefully it'll increase your traffic like it has with me.

One other thing, a nice chunk of the new traffic is coming in from my facebook page, I made this page long time ago only to "have one" with no particular reason, it got about 150 likes in the course of 3 months and now I'm getting about 50 visitors (5-10/day before the new page) from the page each day, for the last two weeks, on average.

Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author Justin012
    Congrats, I always found long tail keywords with low long monthly searches rank better in the searches engines and get a good amount of traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Markets
    I am wondering, after you started using these long-tail keywords, did you build backlinks or do any SEO to the pages? I don't see it being possible to get ranked on top with no backlinks / online presence, even with a long-tail.
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  • Profile picture of the author creat1veone
    I have one backlink I added a few weeks before the new page, the backlink comes from my other blog of an old niche which used to get nice traffic. The other blog itself has no backlinks, free blog with a .wordpress.com domain.

    I optimized my current niche website to the best of my knowledge, and I blogged about the niche constantly adding 2 or sometimes 3 posts per week.

    The new page it self contains only text I wrote my self, it is a long post but I have no idea does that have anything to do with the ranking. I also can't explain why the sudden large increase of Facebook traffic.

    The weirdest thing for me was discovering that people who search for "cheap tires for cars" end up buying the whole car. It's an example of how the new page stuff is related to my niche. It's a small part of it and almost kind of meaningless, that's the reason I didn't add it before.

    Oh and the long-tail new keyword has almost double the monthly searches (~12,000) than my main keyword.

    EDIT: Forgot to mention that all my blog posts get liked and shared a lot, just saying in case it'd mean something to someone. The meaning of a lot for me here is maybe 10-15 shares per 500 visitors.. (no plugins so share buttons are very easily overlooked).
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  • Profile picture of the author AlyseS
    That's awesome advice. It's easy to get so focused on SEO, that you get tunnel vision on a few keywords. No keyword tool is ever going to accurately predict the future or give you the real numbers on every possible keyword phrase that people use.
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  • Profile picture of the author enterprisemind
    Nice! Great advice. It appears that you have a good SEO formula that you use to get ranked for pretty much whatever you want. That may have the largest impact of all.

    Thanks for sharing.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnkoko
    Congrats, I usually observed lengthy end keywords and phrases with small lengthy month-to-month researches rank far better inside the researches engines and obtain enough targeted traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author creat1veone
    Glad to help guys
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  • Profile picture of the author creat1veone
    I'm really glad you guys are enjoying what I shared. Feel free to ask any questions I'd be glad to talk about any step of the way I took while ranking my blog.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sahadat Rousho
    Long tail keyword works really great.
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  • Profile picture of the author patco
    Looks good. Congrats and keep up the good work! As always the CONTENT is the king!
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  • Profile picture of the author inlinecom
    Long tail keywords always helpful in SERP ranking and traffic of your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author aadi14
    Long tail keywords rank soon as they are less competitive, and searches are less if you see them in keyword planer. But, I was thinking that if the searches are less then how can traffic be increased for that keyword?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ashwaniseo
    By Using White Hat SEO Techniques,We can Increase websites traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author WebOutGateway
    Thanks for sharing.
    I agree, based on hat you have said, it is really about keyword research specifically to the semantic keyword and most of all... content. most of the traffic might be one of the effects of your OPINIONATED posts that readers found so useful.

    great observation...keep it up!
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  • Profile picture of the author martworld
    Target long tail keywords and create authority and high PR links. A simple strategy to earn loads of $$$.
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  • Profile picture of the author creat1veone
    No problem guys! And girls. I've enjoyed sharing. As I said I've got no backlinks except the one from my own site which has none itself.

    I've been trying to build more but that has proven to be harder than I initially thought. Hopefully I'll find some in the future and gain even more traffic.

    I'm glad to report that the traffic increase is still steady and ongoing, althought FB traffic has decreased, I see even more users coming from search engines - 90% from Google.

    Will report in a week again!
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  • Profile picture of the author upontynes
    Impressive, thanks for the give back attitude.
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  • Profile picture of the author Aircellent
    3 months ago, I had a similar lab test experience on one of my test sites. I took one keyword off my list that I have not targeted before and I hired someone to write a 1500 words about it sprinkled with many related LSI terms and longtail KWs (mixture of buyer and non-buyer terms) that have almost zero monthly searches. 2 days after I hit the publish button, traffic started to flow in and this test site have had consistent traffic coming to it since then.

    I did not build a single backlink or social signal to it. One thing I have noted from this lab test is that the blog posts (unique content written by ppl from Fiverr) on this site has about 500 to 600 words on average before I added in the 1.5k blog post. 2 weeks later I added another 2.3k blog post and similar thing happened with no backlinks.

    From what I can see, these 2 blog posts with skyscraper content have been attracting lots and lots of longtail searches from both Google and Bing. And I also do notice a small traffic spike from Bing recently. It may be worth getting into Bing's good book in 2015.

    No intention to steal the thunder from OP but to share my similar experience here.
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    • Profile picture of the author creat1veone
      Originally Posted by Aircellent View Post

      3 months ago, I had a similar lab test experience on one of my test sites. I took one keyword off my list that I have not targeted before and I hired someone to write a 1500 words about it sprinkled with many related LSI terms and longtail KWs (mixture of buyer and non-buyer terms) that have almost zero monthly searches. 2 days after I hit the publish button, traffic started to flow in and this test site have had consistent traffic coming to it since then.

      I did not build a single backlink or social signal to it. One thing I have noted from this lab test is that the blog posts (unique content written by ppl from Fiverr) on this site has about 500 to 600 words on average before I added in the 1.5k blog post. 2 weeks later I added another 2.3k blog post and similar thing happened with no backlinks.

      From what I can see, these 2 blog posts with skyscraper content have been attracting lots and lots of longtail searches from both Google and Bing. And I also do notice a small traffic spike from Bing recently. It may be worth getting into Bing's good book in 2015.

      No intention to steal the thunder from OP but to share my similar experience here.
      Not at all, I'm actually glad you shared your experience. The 1.6k post I wrote for my site also seems to be the source of the traffic, which is amazing, and better yet, it motivated me to write even better posts. I work on Fiverr as a content writer and sometimes people who hire me ask for specific "SEO article" based writing. I usually turn these buyers away because I know stuffing keywords into their generic content won't do them any good.

      People also sometimes demand 50% human and 50% SEO content, and I totally refuse these orders as well, unless they accept my conversational writing style as my way of writing for them.

      You know how my own post boosted my site, and I have no "expert" knowledge when ti comes to creating content, I just speak my opinion, sure I go the extra mile to make stuff interesting to read etc. but that's just normal writing criteria I guess.
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  • Yes, I agree that long tail keywords perform well and start showing result in short span of time comparatively to generic keywords. Also. long tails keywords has good chances of conversion as people who are using long tail keywords are mostly convert due to pattern of their keyword.
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  • Profile picture of the author creat1veone
    I've noticed a small traffic decrease, tho the traffic is still higher than before I implemented the new page. Weekends have always brought in the most traffic for me, but the last one was a bit slower. Check out the stats below:



    Probably (obviously?) because of the holidays, anyone else experiencing traffic changes during these days (especially the weekends)?
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    • Profile picture of the author Aircellent
      Yes, traffic has always been particularly slow in most niches during the holidays except for those health related sites. People do fall sick during festive seasons.
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