Want to get tons of traffic to your site? Want to create a site which shows up among the top websites in the world? There are a few ways to guarantee that you get tons of traffic. Is traffic really a valuable thing? If you’re looking at Google analytics it is. If your blood pressure rises every time your traffic goes down, you’re playing the traffic game! So come play the traffic game with me and let me show you a few ways to keep breaking new traffic records.
4 Surefire Tactics To Get Tons of Traffic
Getting traffic can be a dirty game and if your eyes are glued to your Google Analytics or other traffic tracking software, your goal is most likely to increase the numbers. Just like a game of pinball or any basic video game, we keep playing because we want to beat our last record. The same goes for bloggers. They keep playing to beat others and to beat their own traffic records.
Sensationalize People
Stop worrying about the other person’s emotions, they’ll be able to handle it! Talk crap about the leaders of industry but make sure to intermix that with legitimate news articles. You’ll not only anger the leaders but you’ll also get the attention of their followers. It’s a guaranteed way to get some traffic and build some buzz about your website!
Pump Out Tons Of Mediocre Content
What’s that you say about all those typos I made in my last article? Guess what? I don’t care. You know why? Because by pumping out tons of mediocre content, I’ll get “visitors” to keep coming to my site. Yes, my numbers in Google Analytics keep going up because I am trying to go after your keywords by developing a content machine. Any of the remaining keywords that I forget about I’ll leave for you as scraps!
Play The Google Trends Game
Let’s go surfing on the Google News wave! What’s that I hear? That’s the sound of buzz about the latest virus plaguing the web and everybody is searching about it! All I need to do is write an article about it, get indexed by Google news in under a minute or so and suddenly I’ll get thousands of visitors coming to my website to hear about the virus and how to protect themselves. Will they click on anything else? Who really gives a crap when I’m riding a massive wave?!?!?!?!
Turn Half Truths Into Full Truths!
Want gamble away your credibility? Take a rumor which is floating around and confirm it. If you screw this one up you can kiss your credibility goodbye but in the world of the internet, anybody can confirm a story. In a world where the news cycle is dead and information flows freely, you can become the source of information and get tens of thousands of visitors instantly! So go gamble away and either you’ll strike gold or fail miserable. When there is no news cycle you can just set up a new website and try again if you really mess up bad, right?
Why Beating Your Traffic Records Is Worthless
I think you got the point by now. There are plenty of ways to getting tons of traffic but it’s not all valuable. The real problem is that when you are getting tons of traffic, a smaller fraction of your visitors will actually convert into buyers (buyers of your sponsors’ products or buyers of your own products). In addition to potentially scaring away your existing readers, you will attract tons of people that you didn’t originally want coming to the site.
I’ve tried some of the strategies above. In the case of the fourth issue, what’s interesting is that even if the originator of a story is wrong, the crowds will eventually find the truth. While the truth will be found, and your personal integrity may be lost, what you realize is that you were simply a rest stop on a fast highway. With that in mind, what’s the point of testing the system with lies, if you know that the system exists?
Integrity And Quality Content Drives Influence
Rather than spending your days tracking the waves of traffic coming into your site, it makes more sense to believe in the concept of targeted influence. While your numbers may not initially show it, the act of creating interesting content will attract interesting people. Those people who seek out your content are much more likely to make a purchase or contribute to your cause than the random visitors who dropped by because you were looking to boost your numbers.
In other words, the traffic game is pointless. The influence game is what matters and that comes from hard work and a dedication to creating valuable information. Take it from someone who has tried both models. The numbers are as valuable as a name brand clothing item. They may help drive perception but on their own they can never drive true influence.
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Great article. Relevance also comes into play when it comes to the page that is linking to your website. Links from random, unrelated pages are not worth as much as links from highly relevant pages of a website.Although all links help, on-topic links are the most valuable.
Thanks for the information.
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A good SEO link campaign to focus traffic to the site from relevant places such as article subs and blog posts-if the reader is reading the article the likliness of them following any link is 200% higher than an unrelated text.
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Good article. Depending on your strategy to drive traffic, your content is going to vary. Yes, the end game is how much money are you making from your internet marketing business. For example, I will put mediocre content on blogs and websites that are not my main target site. However, my main target site, I will always aim for real content so that people dropping by or finding my website will stay for a longer period of time.
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First time visitor, after reading that article I've added this site to my bookmarks... I'm always looking for ways of optimising my site and it seems as though this could be a good one. I definetly believe in good content, but I also belive in good traffic.. Good traffic is important thats why i believe targeting longer tailed keywords is hugely important, for example:
If I was selling T - shirts it would be most probable that there would be tons of people searching for that term, but something like t-shirts for sale would not generate so much, but would instead create 'quality traffic' and would probably generate more sales than the huge numbers of traffic 't shirt' would generate.
Anyway thats my thoughts
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Your declaration to contribute integrity and quality content strikes a responsive chord within me but I may not have clicked on the post had the title of the article not galvanized my interest. Indeed, it is so important to create an appealing title -- preferably one that contains useful keywords or keyword phrases.
As knowledge without wisdom is meaningless so is traffic that is not targeted. Thanks, Nick, for the invaluable reminder!
Best Regards,
Andy Lax
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First time visitor here, but I thought I'd drop a quick note. I was a bit disappointed reading the article until I reached the last few paragraphs.
I totally agree that there are two ways to build your site and that the long term model, that is, creating good content and a dedicated following will pay higher dividends than the quick traffic hit model.
I've tried both ways with a few blogs I have run and I have to admit there's something nice about seeing the visitors climb and climb, but you soon realize you're not building followers, but visitors and visitors don't pay the bills like followers do.
So with my current site, I've taken the long road. Building a background of good content, interacting with my visitors and commenters, etc. We'll see how well this works.
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Exactly. I've played the traffic game and it is not only addictive but exhilarating when you beat your records. The only problem is when you try to start making money off of that ;)
Please let me know how the new strategy pays off! I truly believe in the longer route toward building a valuable following. It's hard work but it's bound to pay off.
Best,
Nick
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Good call...but I'm thinking a really great strategy would be to develop *good* up-to-the-minute content to take advantage of trends and interest. Sort of like the news organizations used to do when "up to the minute" meant within 24 hours.
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You are definitely right. There are a number of strategies which combine lots of content and are actually informative. Scaling that business model is very difficult however. If you are looking to build a media business then it's great strategy.
Best,
Nick
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