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Got Mad Stumble Upon Traffic

Dec 22, 2008 plugins, stats, stumbleupon, traffic generation

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Well, by mad i mean more than what i was getting before, which was not much. Observe this image.

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This is the stats from Woopra. If you don’t know what Woopra is head on over there and check it out. Awesome real-time stats. You can even start a chat with anyone that is on your site!

As you can see i’ve had over 2000 hits today. Yesterday was a fair few and the day before was even more than that. but today is the best so far. You can see what post is getting the traffic. That post is 5 months old now and i stumbled it as soon as i posted it. 2 days ago it was a post about finding a niche that caught the SU bug and went a bit nuts. That was also a few months old. I think what might have happened is that post was made popular and then someone stumbled the website worth post which then caught on.

To be honest i really don’t have much idea how StumbleUpon works. Why would a post be so popular 5 months after it was initially posted? Does it take someone on Stumble Upon with a large following to stumble something in order to get the crazy traffic? Why doesn’t it work with everything? I guess there are answers to these questions out there but i haven’t looked for them yet. I would really like to reverse engineer what happened so i can make it happen again! I wonder if now the blog has started to get this traffic that it will continue. I guess i just need to keep posting interesting things and try to get visitors to view more than just that one page for 3 seconds. hah.

Anyway, i thought that was cool, at one point there was 53 people online at the same time. rad.

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Youtube Videos 2 Months On

Nov 7, 2008 affiliate marketing, stats, traffic generation, youtube

A while back i posted about a couple of videos i uploaded to YouTube. Well, here are some screen grabs of the insights for both of them another month down the track.

VIDEO 1

VIDEO 2

Video 1 never really took off actually, and I’m not too sure why. Could be the music i think haha, i might change that. Video 2 has always been the better performer and after some tweaks on the info after some of the commenters pointed out a few contradictions (:$:$) it picked up even more.

I was concerned that they might fizzle out after i added an annotation box to the second video and the views took a hit almost straight away. After taking that out you can see that the views picked right back up again! Now the second vid is doing pretty well and I’m getting about a 15% CTR back to my landing page which has resulted in quite a few sales for the products which is nice.

If you can manage to get a video up to 500+ views a day with a decent affiliate program then you will be absolutely laughing. If you then duplicate this across the plethora of Tube sites then you will be laughing all the way to the bank! This is very achievable. These 2 vids are in a pretty random niche.

I think my next video marketing attempt is going to involve some sort of singles/dating service affiliate program ;). I’ll keep that one under my hat until i have some decent info to tell you guys!

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computers internet blog

Oct 22, 2008 google, stats, traffic generation

Seriously i get some crazy traffic from this search term. On two of my blogs, this one and my personal blog. But whenever i search on that term, of course i get nothing. I’m beginning to think maybe this is just StatPress resolving some whack keywords as it does come up with some doozies. Anyway, i thought i’d create a post with it just to see if i can actually rank! hah! At the moment there are about 18,500,000 results for computers internet blog so let’s see.

computers internet blog

“computers internet blog”

[computers internet blog]

lol

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Don’t you love stats?

Oct 21, 2008 blogging, stats, traffic generation

And especially when one of your blog posts makes it onto some high traffic forum of some sort.

On my personal blog long ago i posted about a certain contact laxative known to UK residents. Today again it took off on a motorbike forum. Funnily enough it is mostly motoring forums that pick up the post! must be something to do with sitting on their arses all day!

Finding something that people can relate to and or find highly amusing can benifit you in getting bucketloads of free traffic. Just keep your finger on the pulse and you might find something to blog about.

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YouTube Insights

Oct 9, 2008 marketing, traffic generation, video, youtube

I have done a little bit of YouTube marketing but not really in any great depth. I decided to do a few experiments with some of the new tools that YouTube have provided and see what the results were using the awesome integrated google insights.

Here are the stats for two videos i put up recently in the xbox repair niche.

Video 1

Video 2

Both videos have been up for just over a month. My tactic here was to get them viewed as much as possible as quickly as possible without any effort. 

What i did was grab a couple of vids that were supplied as affiliate tools and just uploaded them as is. I then purchased 5000 views for both videos at a total cost of $3. What this did, was get my featured as being one of the most viewed users. Having that many views in such a short period of time also gives people the impression that your video has some authority meaning they are more likely to watch it.

As you can see by the stats both of them were slowly gaining in popularity with video 2 having more overall hits. This is probably due to the fact that video 1 was actually a little bit shit. You can see that after a while they both took a bit of a hit and views gradually started to decline. On video 2, as it was far more popular that the other, i decided to have a play around with the annotations feature. All i did was put a little box up the top right with my website URL in it.

Now of course i already had my URL in the comments box as you do, and was getting a great deal of click throughs already, so i thought why not draw attention to the site even more? As soon as i did this the views dropped quite significantly on both videos, even tho i only added it to the 2nd video. I’m not really sure why this would affect the views but it seemed to so i removed the box and views started to creep back up.

I think adding that small annotation box was not a good idea. Overall the popularity has dropped and it looks like the videos are going to fizzle out. This was an interesting and eye opening experiment with video marketing. I have learned quite a bit from it.

If you are interested here are some more stats from insights.

Intersting stats for age groups. Maybe parents trying to fix their kids xboxes on the cheap!?

Not at all surprised by this graph huhuh.

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Ever Wondered WTF Those Random Referrers Are?

Aug 29, 2008 traffic generation

If you’re like me and you have your face stuffed into your website’s statistics reports all day, you might have noticed from time to time you have some pretty interesting referring URLs listed. Mostly you might be wondering how the hell someone gets from some random Russian porn site filled with ads to your innocent little site which is totally unrelated. Well there is a way that this is done and there is also a good reason behind it.

It’s called “Referrer Bombing”. It is very easy to do and there a number of different methods. There is the manual way, where you use a handy little Firefox plugin called RefControl. Like so:

What this does is spoof your referral URL with whatever you want which in turn shows up in the stats log causing webmasters to give in to their curiosity and check out your site.

There is another way and that is to have written (or just buy one from someone) a program/script that does this en mass. A ReferrerBot if you will. What these apps can do is simply run 24/7 spamming (yes i would call it spamming) your URL to a massive list of sites that you could get off someone or find yourself thru certain services.

You can see how this might be a sneaky way to increase your hits and maybe even convert them into profits, however there are problems in doing this to attempt to increase your affiliate commissions. Spoofing cookies is not true directed traffic, it is fake redirection of the traffic which is a black hat method. Most of the time this would be detected by affiliate managers and could land you without a paycheck or even banned from their networks.

So in conclusion, this is a way to get a little bit more traffic to your site but not a very good way to increase your commission profits.  You could however go on a RickRolling rampage just for the hell of it!

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Six ways to get traffic to your new site or blog

Aug 5, 2008 traffic generation

I thought I would share some of the techniques people use to get traffic to new sites and blogs.

1. Find keywords which have a high search rate but low competition, target them, and away you go. Well, to be fair it is not as easy as that but if you do your research then really it can be done!

2. Make a page on your site dedicated to the above keyword, but make it quality. Let’s call this page our ‘high quality high search high profit’ page. Promote this page more than anything else on your site for a while, so that you get ranked very high in Google for the term you are targeting. Submit this page to as many social bookmarking sites as you can with the anchor text being the keyword you are targeting. Do the same for a few directories.

3. Use free classified sites like Craigslist to your advantage, these kind of sites have hundreds of thousands of visitors per day and they can be highly targeted if you do this properly!

4. Find a forum related to your niche and make quality posts there. After you have made 10-15 posts that actually contribute to the community, add a link to your site in your signature. Most forums will be more than happy for you to link back to your site in your signature if you are contributing. Link to quality content on your site when relevant (and ONLY then), too. Forums can be tricky, quite a few have strict rules so please be careful and make sure you are not going to annoy anyone by promoting your site. You probably want to build up a good reputation for a little while before diving straight into the “look at my site” posts.

5. Use sites like WetPaint Wiki, HubPages, Squidoo and other user-generated content sites to promote your site. Do this in a subtle way - make your pages on these sites have information that is useful to the reader, but link back to some of your own articles and posts a few times.

6. Comment on other related blogs (if you’re running a blog that is) - many believe this is pointless due to the NoFollow tag but it lets other readers and site owners aware of your website, and can bring small leaks of traffic every now and then. I have a “do follow” plugin installed on this blog ;)

    I hope you find these helpful!

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