If there’s a trick to getting schmillions of visitors without a huge marketing budget, I don’t know it. But I have found that posting worthwhile stuff regularly leads to a steady increase in traffic.
By “worthwhile” I mean articles that are worth reading now and will be worth reading a few years from now. You can’t [...]
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If your domain has issues, one of the problems you may need to address is your inbound links. You need lots of them, but they need to be from reputable sources. Paid text links or spammy directory links will only get you so far, and then they start biting you in the ass. Over the [...]
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I finally got one of my sites Dugg. I’ve had sites get traffic spikes from sites like Reddit, but Digg is a whole new ballgame. It didn’t go as well as it could have, because I thought I was prepared, but I was wrong. Here are some things you need to know if your site [...]
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I’ve been busy! Project B-2 Bomber went through a “perfect storm” of traffic. I had 4 all-time record breaking days in a row – meaning, every day broke a whole new record for single day unique visitors.
Day 1: one post gets picked up by a blogger whose link sends hundreds.
Day 2: same post gets picked [...]
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I just don’t get it. Alexa’s new ranking system is even further off than the old one, and we have Quantcast which does a far better job tracking accurate visitor counts and even sorting out demographics (it’s connected to Neilsen, who does the TV ratings in the US, which is the direction web stats have [...]
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I checked my stats this morning and got some exciting news: Project Mai Tai looks like it may get double the number of visitors this month that it got in April. Memorial weekend may take a dent out of that – Mother’s Day did – but it’s still a lot of growth.
Project B-2 Bomber has [...]
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For the past few months, I’ve let Project B-2 Bomber coast. It was clear to me it wasn’t going to become a big earner in the foreseeable future, so why keep putting in the effort to build it?
As a result of this coasting, six weeks went by during which my team and I posted maybe [...]
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I have a new method of site promotion: write stuff, and wait for people to link to it.
Marketing theory says you can’t do that. I say when you’ve got a small base of readers already linking to you, you can. It might not be the quickest method, but:
Two months ago, I bought three ads for [...]
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I was pleasantly surprised to receive this recommendation on EntreCard from ChickenSoupForYourSoul:
A very informative blog. in addition you will never regret about advertising in this blog. I have generated 65 new visitor by placing my EntreCard here. Way to go
I never really tried to guess how many new visitors this site could send [...]
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I’ve decided to set up an advertising budget each month and start promoting my sites through methods other than SEO and free forms of promotion. The question is: how? Where? This is a whole new skill I have to learn.
I think I’m going to start by advertising on relevant sites, buying (no-followed or Javascripted) text [...]
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