Single Best Way to Generate Website Traffic?
Posted by admin on Monday, November 9, 2009 · 4 Comments 
How to generate
website traffic?
Several years ago,
there were so called
“traffic
generators”
which were supposed
to bring surges of
traffic to your
website with a push
of a button. And the
way they did that
was to automatically
generate thousands
of pages for your
site which were then
supposed to be
indexed by search
engines and result
in traffic from long
tail keyword
searches. Apparently
that worked.
But it doesn’t
work now because the
search engines got
“smarter”
and they treat
duplicate content
differently. But
what if those
thousands of pages
were unique enough
for not to be
grouped into
segments?
That’s what I
decided to find out.
It’s a
common belief that
if you write
content, traffic
will come, even if
you don’t do
keyword research or
any search engine
optimization, nor
use any other means
to get traffic.
Content is supposed
to attract visitors
by itself. And it is
true… The only
problem is that the
amount of traffic is
closely related to
the amount of
content, or rather
different pages.I’ve ran a
couple of
experiments in
different niches to
see how the content
affects traffic.
I’ve set up
little blogs and
began posting every
day, making really
short posts but lots
of them. And lo and
behold, the traffic
began coming in from
various obscure long
tail keywords. 10,
20, 30 visits a day,
and with a clear
trend upwards.
I’ve run
another a lot more
aggressive test and
with a little bit of
keyword research.
I’ve set up an
auto blog that would
aggregate feeds of
the keywords from
Google’s
latest trends. It
has slowly gained
traffic from 100s to
up to 5k unique
visits per day. Then
it was slapped by
Google, as I would
have expected to
happen to such an
aggressive
experiment.
Even though these
experiments may not
be very
statistically
significant, I have
enough proof that
content indeed
attracts traffic,
especially if you do
at least some minor
keyword research.
The only problem is
that it requires you
to create hundreds a
lot of pages of
rather unique
content. The only
relief is that those
pages don’t
have to be very
content rich –
one of my blogs only
had a picture and a
single sentence for
each post.
The conclusion would
be the following:
- Content really attracts traffic.
- To get more traffic you need more pages.
- The pages don’t have to be very content rich.
How to use this
practically?
- If you have a blog, consider writing shorter but more posts.
- If you don’t have a blog on your website, add one – it’s a great way to add more content.
- Consider user generated content – comments, ratings, reviews, bookmarks, forums, pictures, videos and so on.
All this may not be
new to you, but what
I mean to do with
this post is to draw
your attention to
what is rather
forgotten. Many
times I’m
guilty myself of
paying all my
attention to SEO,
PPC and other ways
to get traffic and
forget what
potential the
website has by
itself. You
don’t have to
look for the traffic
generators far,
there’s on
already built into
your website!
December 31st, 2009 at 1:06 am
Hey man can you please tell me how you got your tag box to look like that?
December 31st, 2009 at 11:29 am
Charles,
It’s the wp-cumulus plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/
March 5th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Are you have a tutorial how to make a autoblog?
And how to make many blog quickly?
thanks…
March 5th, 2010 at 11:56 am
Hi,
I don’t have a tutorial for that, but it’s fairly easy if you’ve ever set up any blog. The difference is you need a plugin that posts content automatically.
The fastest way to create auto blogs I know of is Wordpress Direct. There’s also a new product Auto Content Cash coming up, but can’t say much about it yet.