How much content does it take to see 200 people a day?

Yeah. ROTFLMAO! What, you're not used to these kind of responses yet?

I don't think it's the number of articles, but what's in them.

Do a check on your medical site to see where the majority of traffic
is going to. That would be a better indicator of how many articles
equals a set number of visitors. Then, expand those articles for
a bigger footprint. That's what google is sending people to
your site for.

Having 1,000 articles "just because" will not mean much if only 20
get traffic.

Paul

Are you talking going viral?

Thanks

It doesn't have to rank #1 to know If traffic exist for a keyword. Example, If I have a page ranked #4 & I'm getting half way decent traffic, I'm pretty sure the #1 SERP position will double the traffic (chances are really good that will happen).












Only when I want proof that traffic exist for a new keyword phrase.

Example, say I have 5 similar keywords/phrases, I'll build links to a single page & use that page for testing only. This way I'm only building a few links for a single page, but still targeting 5 keyword/phrases (example). Simply swap out the keywords on the single page.

You have to give Google time to index the page & then re-index the page for each keyword/phrase (example 5 keywords/weeks). I can usually get my test page re-indexed at least once a week, just add a site wide internal link pointing at the test page, when Google finds the new text on the test page they'll update the SERPs for the new relevant keyword/phrase.

The key is relevancy when swapping out keywords on the test page, you don't want your keyword to be "mini skirts" one week & the next week be "tractor tires" (lol). You want your keyword phrases to be similar like the way nest28 had on his example list:

• sexy black and white off the shoulder tops for plus size
• black off shoulder long sleeve dress
• black off shoulder tops with short sleeve on sale
• black off the shoulder blouses for plus size women
• fun off the shoulder tops

I also edit the page title so I don't have to guess If Google has re-indexed the test page, example page titles:

• keyword phrase 1
• keyword phrase 2
• keyword phrase 3
• keyword phrase 4
• keyword phrase 5

Notice the numbers at the the end of each page title. You don't have to use numbers, just make it something that is extremely easy for you to spot in the SERPs to help speed things up while checking the SERPs.

Going by the example above, at week number three, I would be looking for "keyword phrase 3" in Google SERPs & also checking my analytics for traffic numbers. I'm low tech on checking SERP traffic numbers, I use SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2 (STT2) on the Wordpress Admin., I don't allow any of that data to show on live web pages, only on the WP Admin. so I have some traffic numbers to look at in real time directly on the site.

That STT2 plugin will only track Google traffic If they're not logged into a Google account, it's still a good indicator of how much traffic exist per keyword considering everyone in the world doesn't have a Google account, those people still search on Google SERPs.

Well I can't give you an experienced answer because I have never done it like that but......IF I were going to do it this is how I would go about it.

I'd do keyword research on that niche - to keep it simple using something like Keywordmapro then run that through the adwords tool suggestions and compile them all together and then look at the traffic. Then i would eliminate all but the very long tail (which I think is what you were getting at and people don't understand). On those I would think my chances are good I would rank for a few of those terms being really long tail

Lets say I did rank in one in 20 cases so 5% if its really long tail probably better but that seems reasonable based on the very long long tail I see you referencing. So I would look at the traffic projected for all the long tails I compiled and divide by 20 - then of course since even ranking number one doesn't give you all the searches then divide that by percentages ranking positions usually get (don't have them at my finger tip but they are widely available but like number one gets 70% of clicks etc )

thats REALLY REALLY rough and bound to be off by magnitudes but at least you are then dealing with real numbers, reasonable goals and most importantly a system of really getting at accurate numbers going forward. If you are doing really long tail I would think by the time you get to a hundred or two articles that you would be getting a really good idea in your niche of how to increase that traffic.

SO I agree to an extent with some of the others that you can't be really scientific with it but as a strategy I don't see an issue with it and I do think that with keyword research and numbers its not a ridiculous way of going at it. I might in fact try it myself since I pledged to myself to put more into my own sites in the coming year.

Anyway that doesn't provide you with a number as you asked but I think it begins to hint at a system that might end up giving you an even more niche specific answers than anyone can give without looking at those numbers .

Don't take it personally. A few good warriors IMHO did not look at who
posed the question. Then they forgot to actually put it in context to
the ending of your question.

If they had looked close, I'm sure a more thoughtful answer would have
come out.

What I'm hinting at, is that I will give a sarcastic answer to a new person
who looks like they are spamming. I would also give a sarcastic or brash
answer to an oldie who has now taken it upon themselves to spam
a stupid thread after more stupid threads because they ran out of original
material.

I posted a thread yesterday that would have been ripe for sarcasm. I
asked how much time making a new level of money needs to go by
before you consider that your new normal. Of course anyone could
just chime in stuff like: you never know, it goes up and down, 1 to 500 years,
etc. I was just looking for what may be considered a good indicator.

Paul

@GGpaul --

Oohrah! Glad to be an inspiration.

BTW, it isn't "200 views + a day" you can reach; but 200 unique visitors a day. So "views" will likely be more.

Also, banging out a 100 - 150 page (or more) site isn't difficult if you know what to do.

My formula is something along the lines of the following:

- About 50 to 75 unique articles on the topic. These can be PLR, but they should be re-written.
- About 50 related product pages. The bigger the niche, the more products can be found. Product "blurbs" or descriptions should be re-written too. This is actually the hardest thing to do because you have to search for and select related products for your site.
- About 25 to 50 product-review or "resource" pages.

Building a site like that can run you a few hundred bucks because of all the re-writing. Also, planning and automation is key as you don't want to spend an eternity building one either.

I remember one site I built that had 300+ pages of quality content in a fairly competitive niche. I found an outsourcer who was willing to do all the content building for a measly $125. I felt that was such a low offer that I gave him another $125 as a bonus for a job well-done.

Then I found another guy to create custom templates and graphics for another $50.

While I was waiting for my outsourcers to complete their respective projects, I started finding and organizing the related products.

Everything took about 1 month to complete. When all was done, I just launched the site. Less than a couple of months later the site was ranking with an instant PR3.

Disclaimer: The above was done Pre-Penguin/Panda. So, don't expect the same ranking or PR results

Are you an affiliate for anything? How are you monetizing?

Not really, I actually had times where some sites didn't earn anything for 2 weeks and turn around and earn 150 in the next 2 weeks, it's weird but it happens. I use to get paranoid all time thinking that when I wasn't earning something was wrong with my adsense account or my site lol.

I foolishly deleted all of my sites data (I don't know what I was thinking) but I remember most of it , ctr was 3% percent for most of them if I remember correctly. The cost per click in the medical niche is high, which accounts for my earnings. I've said before that if I were in a low paying niche my sites what have never made any real money.

Picking the right niche can mean the difference between you seeing 5 clicks that equaled 17.00 or 5 clicks that equal 2.56 . I had a make up site a very long time ago and received 30 or 40 cent clicks, so I would need thousands of visitors a day to make any real money.

Damn Paul, I don't know what's wrong with your site, maybe you should let Yukon have a look at it. Also maybe having other types of content on your site besides just review articles might help.

For example if you reviewed a Panasonic 40 inch tv, have a article showing how to hook up a xbox 360 to it or something. It's strange that you say people only get to your site by using the keywords your trying to rank for and not a bunch of long tail queries.

With all the content you have you should be seeing people get to your site by using all kinds of search terms which you could than turn into content, in some cases anyways.

I really hope things get better and I appreciate your honesty, so many marketers say they make this or that and it can never be confirmed.

You messaged me in the past. I thought we established that I use wolfs strategy. It's the niche. The niche that EVERYONE wants to get into because EVERYONE knows that PEOPLE will buy those items.