How I Generated 1,052 Unique Visitors To My Blog In 72 Hours
February 22, 2009
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post explaining how I brought in 184 unique visitors to my blog… just with a simple trackback that took me 2 seconds.
Like any good scientist marketer, I repeat my experiments to ensure accuracy and precision in my results. So the other day, I wrote a blog post called Web 2.0 Is Dying… Or Is It and linked it to the post on TechCrunch (which then got displayed on the trackback list).
72 hours later…
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Oh, that’s great. So we should be the first one to trackback? Looks like you are the first to trackback 🙂
LOL up to you. It’s really a win/win situation because I’m sending traffic to you and you are sending traffic to me 😉
Great advise, thanks so much. Heard it via twitter 😉
Haha awesome 🙂
Hope you are following me as well at http://www.twitter.com/stanleytang
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Hey Stanley!
Great post! Those are some impressive numbers! I checked out http://www.techcrunch.com/ but was unable to find a way to post articles.
Can you let us know how you were able to post to http://www.techcrunch.com/ please?
Thanks, and have an awesome weekend!
Erik James
http://www.twitter.com/ErikJames_
Your post are always straight to the point 🙂 and also awesome to read !
Thanks again.
Alessandro
All traffic is not great traffic though – I commented on the other post which I found through reading what you had to say on *this* post. But I’d rather have 5 quality visitors that generate sales, profit and income than I would 100 or even 1000 visitors who are of no value.
In fact I’d say the strategy you adopted was risky – if I were reading Techcrunch and clicked on the trackback to your blog entry, I’d have been disappointed; you said nothing new and indeed Techcrunch had said a lot more in a lot more detail… so does that make me want to follow you or just stick with Techcrunch…? Hmmm.
Twitter and Facebook “friending” seems to have generated a social media culture where numbers and quantity are the most important asset: they are not. Facebook has 175 million users but where’s its profit? Twitter has hit the mainstream with millions of daily users but, again, where’s its profit. Much of social media is all just marketing b/s at the end of the day – if you’re in business you need more than window shoppers.
Yes I do agree with you to some extent. You’ve got a good point about the quantity over quality aspect.
However, it’s always a lot easier to monetize 1 million visitors than 1 thousand visitors. You will be able to attract potential advertisers who are looking for exposure.
Plus, my stats have shown that people have TechCrunch have actually gone on to click on other links and read my other blog posts, which do provide value that is different from TechCrunch. And I did offer my own viewpoint on the blog post TechCrunch talked about, which was the death of the TERM web 2.0.
But yeah, thanks for the comment. Always love seeing other peoples viewpoint 🙂
Yes, you’re right in terms of monetizing a million visitors over a thousand… depending on the monetizing strategy. For advertisers and selling eyeballs (metaphorically – I’m assuming there are no jars of them on shelves 😉 then, yes, totally.
But look at Alex Tew and the nightmare of pixelotto.com after his million dollar success with the MDHP – no shortage of visitors, thousands of high rank links to the site, but not much on the cash front.. they weren’t targeted eyeballs providing, or even looking for, any value. They were curious eyeballs with zero value as that business wasn’t designed to monetize merely through eyeballs (well, in a way it was, but indirectly).
You monetize through ads and eyeballs pretty directly, so yes I can see the direct relevance of increasing visitors and quantity – just I think you ought to be wary of how much that may impact your personal brand and damage reputation if people keep coming here just because of ‘tricks’ you’re experimenting with.
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hm, very inspiring, im gonna check out your post on techcrunch 🙂
Nice experiment! This is the way to get traffics and also share them with related blogs.
Great article. Simple quick and to the point. I’ve just started my new blog. I look forward to figuring the traffic thing out.
This is a great idea Stanley. I’ll be sure to try it out. Cheers.
How do you have the title of your post showed in TC? For the first time, I used the trackback URL from TC and it is only displaying my blog name… not the title of my article.
I’ve just started a new blog and really appreciate any ideas that help get my site traffic, so thanks for sharing.
Great article. It was really helpful for generating ideas on traffic generation for some of my websites. WHen you’re looking at quality of traffic, have you found any countries in general that just have a negative effect on your sites?
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