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Explosion in social media traffic, then nothing.

by Mantup
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I spent about a week coding a novel website, put some amazon affiliate links up, and then right after thinking I got everything working I put a link to the site on reddit asking for opinions on the website this past weekend. I expected only a few hundred visitors, but it exploded to the front page and I got over 80,000 unique visitors two days after my domain name was registered. I'm still getting a few hundred visitors each day, maybe only a fifth of them are unique. However, I've gotten in total under twenty visitors from organic search. Does it take that long for a website to be indexed and ranked by Google? My Alexa rank is around 250,000 (40,000 US) yet only 0.9% of my traffic is organic. Should I be finding blogs and forums that relate to my topic and post my link?

I also earned around $160 in the past week through Amazon, should I reinvest this money in promoting? I don't have any physical items to sell and I'm not sure if I would be spending dollars to make cents.
#explosion #google #media #social #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author NeedBucksNow
    Sounds like your website must be pretty good to get that many visitors in a short amount of time. Getting ranked in Google will depend on the amount of content that you create for the website as well as getting quality backlinks, the amount of social media shares etc. It can actually take about 1-2 years to really get much traffic from them but this also gives you plenty of time to keep working on it and to keep increasing your content and traffic month after month. I would reinvest part of the money into Facebook ads but it can also take some time to build up brand recognition too
    Originally Posted by Mantup View Post

    I spent about a week coding a novel website, put some amazon affiliate links up, and then right after thinking I got everything working I put a link to the site on reddit asking for opinions on the website this past weekend. I expected only a few hundred visitors, but it exploded to the front page and I got over 80,000 unique visitors two days after my domain name was registered. I'm still getting a few hundred visitors each day, maybe only a fifth of them are unique. However, I've gotten in total under twenty visitors from organic search. Does it take that long for a website to be indexed and ranked by Google? My Alexa rank is around 250,000 (40,000 US) yet only 0.9% of my traffic is organic. Should I be finding blogs and forums that relate to my topic and post my link?

    I also earned around $160 in the past week through Amazon, should I reinvest this money in promoting? I don't have any physical items to sell and I'm not sure if I would be spending dollars to make cents.
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    • Profile picture of the author VerifiedProxies
      Social Media exposure !== Great Search Engine position.

      Just because redditors loved your website doesn't mean that the google search indexing bot will.

      Like the other poster said, good google rankings take time.

      The good thing is that you know people enjoy your website.

      If redditors enjoyed it that much, I would consider paying for some reddit ads. They're like $1/1000 impressions.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mantup
        That makes sense, I guess I thought since I'm in a fairly high volume niche with few competitors with a link on the front page of reddit that search engines would have noticed. I suppose they have, none of the blogs I started before would get even 100 organic search visitors per month. The items my website revolves around are pretty cheap, would you recommend that I do something like a giveaway with the Amazon earnings I've gotten? Should I use a competition to grow social media presence, or grow social media presence first? I put up a subscription box at the very tail end of all the traffic and got around 20 subscribers. I suppose I should create social media pages and tell them about it.
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        • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
          Originally Posted by Mantup View Post

          That makes sense, I guess I thought since I'm in a fairly high volume niche with few competitors with a link on the front page of reddit that search engines would have noticed.
          I'm sure the search engines noticed, but that nofollow link you got from Reddit isn't helping your Google rankings. That's the issue.

          Hopefully you got some new fans out of this, and they're going to link back to you from their blogs.
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          Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
          Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

          What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    80,000 visitors and you only made $160? WTF happened?
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    • Profile picture of the author hipeopo02
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      80,000 visitors and you only made $160? WTF happened?
      My thoughts exactly.

      0.002 cents a visitor? Even porn puts your traffic value to shame...
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      A crappy product or service by people that disappear from the forum for a long period of time to make it look like they were working on something so when they come back you will want to click on their crappy product or service link

      CLICK HERE! LOL
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      • Profile picture of the author Mantup
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        80,000 visitors and you only made $160? WTF happened?
        Originally Posted by hipeopo02 View Post

        My thoughts exactly.

        0.002 cents a visitor? Even porn puts your traffic value to shame...
        I know, but I didn't expect that much traffic. About 60,000 of those visitors saw blank ad spaces as I was querying the Amazon API too fast and not caching results. The next day I ended up with a 0.8% conversion rate (3% click-through, 20% conversion).
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