07-24-2014, 06:40 AM
First of all, please note that this thread is NOT intended for those who'd like to share some basic stuff like on page SEO, names of software, or generic statements such as "facebook" or "social media" etc - so if you are looking to increase your post count, please look elsewhere. Let's make this thread something advanced and worthwhile for everyone's benefit. Blackhat methods, gimmicks, sneaky tricks are welcome!
So guys I have an entertainment blog - which is similar to 9GAG, and I was wondering if you guys can share some really good, real traffic methods to grow this site's reach. I've tried out many out there, but interestingly, apart from occasional SE pickups and social media pickups bursting to around 5000 visitors a day, the site remains at ~200 users a day on average all the time. Obviously there's an increase as in January 2014 I got around ~100 only but given that 6 months have been passed and I've been consistent I'm actually thinking this should be more.
Now I'm not a total newbie. I have tools, the site has a dedicated VA I pay every month, and I've used/tried out paid methods as well. Let me share what I've been trying out - these are good stuff, but perhaps I could use some "better" stuff.
- Around 3-4 posts a day, keyword targeted (mostly common sense but I've recently started doing KWs first and then posting accordingly + inspiring from google trends. But since the site is like 9GAG, I'd say both methods are sensible given the content is for viral purposes), nice headline, tagged images, keyword stuffed description etc. Basically posts with good onsite SEO.
- Posting manually to social media channels - FB, Twitter, Pinterest
- Additional social media love - Posting to reddit with provoking titles (worked well with ~100 traffic bursts, until accounts get banned for excessive content from a single site), pinterest (worked well with ~100 traffic bursts etc. But same results - 3+ accounts great accounts with 2k + fans each got banned, mainly for posting on about 10+ boards a day), twitter (didn't do much - account is still active, updated everyday 5k followers, very low traffic to the site), facebook ads (got about 1k fans by ads 100% paid - not worth it as they are hardly active)
- Video - creating videos and posting on YT. Low traffic.
- Backlinks - Got DFL to blast cheap links at every post on a daily basis (about 4k a day) - almost no result.
- Traffic - tried Adfly about 5k users, nothing much. Also this ain't safe for adsense which is the main method of revenue as of now.
Overall website status: alexa 1.3 mil rank, 200 average visitors a day, 80% bounce rate, Adsense average 25 USD a month, very fast loading custom theme and nice design, over 500 manually done posts.
Basically what I need are general users. Can be from any country, any age etc. As long as they are real (non-incenticied like a d f .l y links were NOT allowed here!!!) that's all I probably need.
Let's share some thoughts, and methods including paid ones. I appreciate your feedback, in advance - not judgements. If I remember some other stuff I've done I'll post again. :)
So guys I have an entertainment blog - which is similar to 9GAG, and I was wondering if you guys can share some really good, real traffic methods to grow this site's reach. I've tried out many out there, but interestingly, apart from occasional SE pickups and social media pickups bursting to around 5000 visitors a day, the site remains at ~200 users a day on average all the time. Obviously there's an increase as in January 2014 I got around ~100 only but given that 6 months have been passed and I've been consistent I'm actually thinking this should be more.
Now I'm not a total newbie. I have tools, the site has a dedicated VA I pay every month, and I've used/tried out paid methods as well. Let me share what I've been trying out - these are good stuff, but perhaps I could use some "better" stuff.
- Around 3-4 posts a day, keyword targeted (mostly common sense but I've recently started doing KWs first and then posting accordingly + inspiring from google trends. But since the site is like 9GAG, I'd say both methods are sensible given the content is for viral purposes), nice headline, tagged images, keyword stuffed description etc. Basically posts with good onsite SEO.
- Posting manually to social media channels - FB, Twitter, Pinterest
- Additional social media love - Posting to reddit with provoking titles (worked well with ~100 traffic bursts, until accounts get banned for excessive content from a single site), pinterest (worked well with ~100 traffic bursts etc. But same results - 3+ accounts great accounts with 2k + fans each got banned, mainly for posting on about 10+ boards a day), twitter (didn't do much - account is still active, updated everyday 5k followers, very low traffic to the site), facebook ads (got about 1k fans by ads 100% paid - not worth it as they are hardly active)
- Video - creating videos and posting on YT. Low traffic.
- Backlinks - Got DFL to blast cheap links at every post on a daily basis (about 4k a day) - almost no result.
- Traffic - tried Adfly about 5k users, nothing much. Also this ain't safe for adsense which is the main method of revenue as of now.
Overall website status: alexa 1.3 mil rank, 200 average visitors a day, 80% bounce rate, Adsense average 25 USD a month, very fast loading custom theme and nice design, over 500 manually done posts.
Basically what I need are general users. Can be from any country, any age etc. As long as they are real (non-incenticied like a d f .l y links were NOT allowed here!!!) that's all I probably need.
Let's share some thoughts, and methods including paid ones. I appreciate your feedback, in advance - not judgements. If I remember some other stuff I've done I'll post again. :)