A Mish Mash On Traffic And Search Engines
Getting traffic onto your site can be difficult and there are many different avenues available. Entre Card is delivering a reasonable supply of traffic. BlogRush is also starting to bring in traffic. You may have noticed the ad banner at the top of the sidebars for Better Traffic. They have brought some good traffic to my other site, Just 4 Families, and that traffic has been well targeted to the family niche. At $15 for 2000 visitors (that 75 cents per 100), it is one of the cheaper and better quality traffic sites.
Looking at more traditional traffic generation and search engines, I have noticed one little quirk that is really worth exploiting if you can.
Any of my posts that have been dugg (through Digg) or stumbled (with review) by a half dozen or more people have a higher search engine position than those posts that don’t. I noticed this today, again using my Just 4 Families site as a guinea pig. This site has fairly similar type posts such as potty training and temper tantrums etc. The posts that had been stumbled or dugg appeared on page one of Google while those that hadn’t been where way down on pages four or five (some not at all).
I also noticed that if the article has been submitted to a directory, in this case a parenting type directory, it appeared close to the top. In most cases the directory listing was one or two and I was just below it (so much for the duplicate penalty problems – obviously Google can see that it is a directory).
The lesson, get all of your posts dugg or stumbled. If you receive several more diggs or stumbles then your post may well move up the rankings. It should be noted that this page one gift is only short lived and as higher ranking sites get indexed, your post will move down the results pages. The first day or top on page one sure does add to your traffic though – and they are visitors who have visited because your site met their search query.
Traffic – buy it cheap (so long as it is targeted), or stumble your way to the top – either way, good traffic is good traffic. If you use a traffic generating site, let us know how well it performs.
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