Very high CPC keyword, how to generate traffic without Google?

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Hello

I am pretty new to Adsense sites, I have built two which make around £400 a month between them so far, which is some nice additional income!

I was just doing some keyword research with Niche Finder and I have found a UK keyword with a CPC of £36 (that's £ not $) with very high competition and 1000 local searches a month.

Here's the obvious thing though - competition for Google UK rankings for this keyword is pretty high (45 on Niche Finder) and I can tell by looking at the search results, it's going to be a lot of hard work to get into the top ten and I am not confident of ever getting top 3.

This has got me thinking of other ways of getting regular traffic to the site, I mean one or two clicks a day would do me...

I am old-school SEO and not too sure of the best ways to get traffic to a site if you discount Google etc, and how much work/time is involved in setting these up.

If anyone can offer any info on alternative sources of traffic that would work for this, together with money/work required to get results I would be gratefully received.

Is there anyone else targeting very high CPC, and making money with sites that they can't rank on Google due to competition?

Cheers guys!
#cpc #generate #google #high #keyword #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author pcpreview
    Tweet adder unlimited accounts, tweet, tweet tweet, all day long,,,,,and you will get at least 10 visitors 10 per day, hopefully one or two clicks on your ads,,,,
    There are also the cheap cpc networks to think of. Some provide a uniform ,05 clicks for all words,,,,,,,think of this as a product that sells at 63 and you could calculate the odds,,,
    Cheap cpc are like eleavers, studads, breezads, etc,,,,,,,
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    • Profile picture of the author PhoenixWS
      Originally Posted by pcpreview View Post

      Tweet adder unlimited accounts, tweet, tweet tweet, all day long,,,,,and you will get at least 10 visitors 10 per day, hopefully one or two clicks on your ads,,,,
      There are also the cheap cpc networks to think of. Some provide a uniform ,05 clicks for all words,,,,,,,think of this as a product that sells at 63 and you could calculate the odds,,,
      Cheap cpc are like eleavers, studads, breezads, etc,,,,,,,
      Low cost CPC networks could work! I have had mixed success with Twitter but as you say, I may only need a small number of visitors.

      I was thinking about StumbleUpon but I am not sure you to proceed here. I have spent so many years just focusing on SEO that I have neglected all the other ways to generating targeted traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author jerrywhyte
    Can you share how you are doing 400 pounds monthly on adsense which niche are you targetting?
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    • Profile picture of the author happili
      Try to promote your site by uploading videos to Youtube and other similar sites for traffic...
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      • Profile picture of the author PhoenixWS
        Originally Posted by happili View Post

        Try to promote your site by uploading videos to Youtube and other similar sites for traffic...
        Thanks, I know nothing about leveraging Youtube for visitors/income, it's on my todo list of things to read up on!
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    • Profile picture of the author PhoenixWS
      Originally Posted by jerrywhyte View Post

      Can you share how you are doing 400 pounds monthly on adsense which niche are you targetting?
      One is medical/health and the other is pest control.
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  • Profile picture of the author illianafrazer
    What ever alternate sources are there.... they are not going to be cheap. Only if an innovative and less known way is found out. It will help.
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  • Profile picture of the author Affiguy
    make money with instagram


    The key is watermarks. This is far less easy that Pinterest but it is the best way to get traffic. You should watermark all of your images with some sort of short url. It can be a short domain or a url shortener but it should be memorable because a viewer is going to have to type it in. If you aren't watermarking your pictures, then give up on Instagram.
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  • Profile picture of the author JoshuaG
    If you've got the dosh, hire some charismatic people to do an entertaining yet informative bi-weekly podcast on the topic. Put that shit on itunes, get some bloggers to talk about it, and then mention your site often in the podcast. That would get some good traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nelapsi
    While a few have brought up parts of it but if your entire idea or desire is to try to do this without Google then why not completely embrace the social networking side of things. I use Follow Like myself but there are many others. I like this one because the people behind it at least make an effect to keep the code up to date and spans across many of the different networks. Just an idea.

    Based on what you have said, why just use twitter or one other.. hit them all and use the share/retweet/group featurs that can be found in them. This way others are doing the work for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeannie Crabtree
    @Nelapsi Followlike affiliate link is not allowed. You might want to change to change that.
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