On page 1 in 6 weeks using Reddit and Twitter

Hi guys, here's a simple but very interesting case study.

I am building a crypto content website and wanted to test if Twitter and Reddit can be used for traffic and organic rankings.

I purchased the domain on 2018-08-12 and took about a week to put together the website

I hired someone to add some content and share it on Reddit, Twitter and other social networks on a regular basis.

Didn't want to do any other link building methods at all.

The result?

Search for crypto news network on Google and you can see the website BloqWire on the results in the first page (or on second according to your regional google results).

• Reddit and Twitter is fantastic to build traffic if you share good content
• Twitter hashtags really send you good traffic if you time the tweet really well and get some retweets
• Google really counts the links from Reddit and twitter as backlinks
• If a content site, always use Wordpress.

I didn't do any other promos at all. No other usual bakclinks building techniques. Just twitter and Reddit and it's only 6 weeks since the site is fully built.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Also, share your thoughts and insights on making it go up further. Thank you for your time.

How much traffic?

For those wondering about the amount of traffic from reddit, I'm not talking about a few hundreds, I'm talking about tens of thousands of visitors (there are posts that got more than 5000 visitors - to single post, yes)





How much ROI?

If the site keeps building more and more traffic and better organic rankings, can definitely charge more per sponsored posts. If you're wondering how much other similar content sites are charging people to publish sponsored articles, take a look at this:




Updates, Q&A:

I spent about $200 on the website setup, and paying someone $300 per month to curate/create content on a regular basis, post on the website and then push on social media. I'm aiming at keywords that will bring better search traffic.

Currently the site gets about 30-40k visitors per month. About 70% referral/social traffic, 20% direct traffic and 10% organic search traffic.

In my experience, backlinks isn't the only thing that boosts your SE positions. If your website's keep on getting good amount of traffic, Google definitely adds that as a positive thing to boost your rankings, and this is not the first time I'm building traffic first and then ranking a website.

Wordpress is without any doubt the best CMS and easiest to build search engine friendly website. Wordpress has the most active and engaging community and it has a plugin or theme for almost anything and everything you need to make a QUICK and highly search engine friendly website. You sure can build such a website using any technology, but considering the ease and time needed, wordpress is definitely the one to go.

Google definitely gives good value to visits you acquire from social networks, just like contextual links from other relevant websites in your niche or in general.

You may disagree, but just my experience.

I'm making more than I'm spending. I intend to build traffic, rank well and make more. If you check the posts on the site you can see that some posts are promotional, sponsored posts - I charge for those. So.

You may check any (popular) crypto content websites - they all get good number of sponsored posts and blockchain projects pay nicely for posting about them on sites with traffic. So that's what I'm aiming at.

Not at all patiently waiting for someone to ask what I have to sell here. Nothing to sell.

Yes, I know that the site's ranking for keywords without much search volume. And like I mentioned earlier the whole search traffic that's coming to the site is only 10% - but that's for now.

Getting ranked for long tail low competition keywords are the first step. The main goal is to rank for better keywords for example crypto news or other keywords that bring traffic.

The site is now on page 2 for 'live crypto news' and page 4 for 'crypto news'.

It has everything to do with the traffic Reddit and Twitter sending. Google always rank sites with good traffic better than sites with no traffic. I'm just using Reddit and Twitter as a mean to build traffic - that's all.