10,597 visitors with one post and for free, the secret on social media nobody is talking about.

Thank you I will give this a try for a few of my websites and see what happens!

Why do you say that?

If it's a real person it can't be junk.

maybe what you are putting in front of them is junk but a person is a person.

So Traffic from Facebook and Twitter is junk then? reddit is a social site with real people, it's not exactly junk. Traffic is traffic, all has the potential to be converted into leads and sales as long as it isn't from bots.

I agree. Over 25K visitor and visited pages 1.67 and less than 1 min. duration It clearly shows that visitors didn't find what they expected on your site.

I mostly generate this traffic to send signs to Google that will eventually increase the position on the site for the search engines, nevertheless I always put an email capture to build a list and market via email.

Rubbish, I used Reddit to sell over 1,100 units of a free movie coupon CPA a year are so ago. The offer paid $1.60. I got the traffic from one post like he said. You just have to have the right offer.
The whole deal took less than 45 min to write a quality article and post it. $39.11 a minute for my time is not junk traffic. You of course have to write an article that gets attention and converts to clicks.

See my sentence above.

Patrick

This is definitely something interesting to me sine I am a newcomer and am looking for more ways to generate traffic.


By the way: what exactly do you mean: "write an article in point form"

Thanks for sharing.

3 Secrets About Reddit You Did Not Know (And The Big Corporations Are Already Cahsing On)

• Reddit gets more than a billion page views per week.
• There are as many sub reddits as you can imagine, each one with a specific set of people and rules starving for new information.
• You need to intereact with the community and add value so you can start getting traffic.

See the example above, that is what I call a point form article, in my experience those are the ones that work the best.



What you need to understand is that Reddit is a social network, that has its own rules and benefits, you need to comply with them and add value, each sub reddit has their own regulations, so you need to understand them, you cant just go and spam them.

Now it is very important that you interpret in the right way the effect that reddit is giving to your site and the benefits that will bring, this is as close as you would be to create a "viral effect" on a viral effect you create a tsunami of visitors, not all of them will stay for longer, they just want to know what is the great buzz, want to satisfy their curiosity... so they see whatever you give them and leave..... many people share the content in Facebook, Email, the URL, etc... then you are attracting more people that will stay longer...... are they all going to convert in the first visit, probably not, the first wave of traffic may not be the best (even I have data proving that sometimes people stay longer, this depends on many factors that I will explain later), you can get some emails, some adsense money, and some sales, but that is not the important part, the important part is the long term effect that this spikes have over your site, because Google start realizing something is going on on your site, people is getting by the thousands from social networks (just like it would happen in any viral effect), people keep comming, you create backlinks, traffic from several sources and they stay longer... over time you will get more Google traffic, I have tested and I will post the examples in a momment.

I read your post and I can clearly see that you have not understand the basic principle of content creation, this principle is: Give to the people something they find useful, funny, enjoyable, ti seems that you are just using Reddit to promote, yes reddit users are way more sofisticate than other, more tech savy, very skeptical and cynical, please read the specific rules of the sub reddit you are trying to intereact follow them and create content they enjoy, specifically content they can debate about.

It is as simple as I explained, the main problem is that people just want to go to REddit to spam, with bad content, without understanding the community rules, interactions or anything and yes, I have data backing up how reddit helps you on your SEO efforts, please read the above post where I am explaining the "viral effect".

i aree with this for the most part from my personal experience as well

I don't even know where to begin. Those images don't provide any type of proof of the SEO benefits of Reddit.... In order to show real cause and effect, you would have to provide a legitimate case study. That would included showing the actual keywords used to search, the change in rankings for keywords, exactly what you did in terms of link building etc. If Reddit was truly responsible for a boost in your keyword rankings, you would have seen a lot more growth in February, even if it was just keywords dancing around a bit. It's very evident that something else took place from January-March.

Your numbers show exactly what I was talking about. Look how quickly your site's traffic declined after the initial posting on Reddit. Reddit simply provides a quick boost to your traffic and it it goes away.

Anyways, if you believe Reddit works for you then stick with it. I could go far more in depth about this topic but it would require a lot of time lol. I have used Reddit before and gotten spikes in traffic but like I said, it doesn't last (just like the pics you posted show).

Thanks for your post Amanda, I will post more updates, and strategies to use reddit, it is a great source of traffic and as I explained above sends the right "social signals" to Google.

When I talk about National Enquire headlines I am talking about headlines that grab your attention, 90% of your traffic battle in Reddit is win or lose in the headline.

Some good headlines are:

a) How Can This be Possible? 5 simple tricks to loose weight.

b) Secret about weight loss your doctor doesn't want you to know.

c) Are you eating these 10 foods that will make you gain weight no matter what diet you are on?

You are sharing your entire link on reddit, and there is here the traffic starts flowing, reddit it is not an article directory is a news feeder, people there share the content for other to make comments.

Do you think they send me 10k visitors with no quality?, most of people cant make Reddit work for them.

And you wonder they flag you as spammer? Talk about basement soldiers...

Just because they didn't like being spammed? LOL!

What if I post a link to an article or blog post? Its original content, and useful to my niche... but its still a link to my site. Will I still get ghosted?

This is what many people that comments on this thread are not understanding, you are getting real visitors, from a very trusted and relevant site, this gives to Google the right signals, saying that your page is trusted and relevant to the content you are trying to rank, among other benefits.

It is not necessarily at all that you have many accounts, when your account is ghosted it means that you were sending links just from one domain and you were not interacting with the community, pay attention to those details.

Watermarking your content may help, but you wont get such a huge amount of traffic, what you need to do is to give them content they are interested about, a sales page, a squeeze page or an eCommerce page wont get any traffic and will get immediately blocked, follow the recommendations I made in the OP and you will be fine.

Many people don't understand this, thanks for pointing it out.

You are raising some fair and interesting points, reddit may be a hit or miss, but I have been doing several tests and the best way to be able to get good traffic is as I explained in the OP.

Thanks for your comment, I don't think they are trolling, they are just showing different points of view, thanks for your recommendation any way.

the issues for reddit is that over 50% of its users are 18-24 - which is poorest converting segment online unless its a tech gadget. FB & Pinterest are far better converters to sales because its more mature audience (who have money and are just looking for inspiration to buy).

Many ppl know about Reddit, I just don't think they capitalize on it though. You have to find the right subreddits to submit too, most ppl mark your site as spam if its not a popular site its a few problems but well worth it. Most I've got is 5000 visitors in one day.

Thanks for this post!

Why do you say is worthless? you get backlinks, sharing, exposure and I had conversions as well (leads) why do you say is worthless? may be you are doing it wrong?

To the OP

1. How may up votes would you need to get a decent spike in traffic?
2. Do you:
   • create the full post on Reddit, with a link to your site?
   • create the full post on your site, and post the link on Reddit?
   • create the full post on your site, and post the full post on Reddit, with a link back to your site?

This depends a lot on the subreddit, but roughly I have calculated that each vote is equal to 100 visitors, what I do is create the content on my site and then drop it in the sub reddit that better fits my content example: if it is something about how to make money I may post it on r/entrepreneur it if it is something about dating it may be in r/seduction etc...

The ghosting process happends when your user is just submiting the same site and it is not interacting at all, that is why it is so important to really interact with the comunity in order to avoid been seen as spammer

The title is the key to the traffic.

Exactly, you really need to take care of the users you create, interact in the community, etc...

No, a squeeze page is a big no, no, think about it, what does a squeeze page have to do in a newspaper? you need to think in reddit as a place where you are going to post "news", "Stories", that is the key, you need to approach it more like a Public Relationship excercise, that is why so many people is failling because there the marketing is not direct, it is way more subtle, you have to give them the 2 + 2 so they can come up with the answer, and all of them scream 4!!!

They are not, if you are extremely skillful you may insert your keyword on the title of your post, that will work as the anchor text, BUT the most iumportant part here is:

a) The traffic you are getting from the site.

b) If you create an enticing title, you may create a serious discussion on the page bringing several comments and creating a high PR page and removing the "no follow" attribute they put on the new pages.