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Old 03-26-2007, 11:46 AM
Ben_Grimm Ben_Grimm is offline
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Default How long does it take to get traffic?

Assuming that you build a niche site and submit it to a few hundred directories, how long does it take to get some traffic? Also how long and how many links,ect. does it take to get past PR0?

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Old 03-26-2007, 12:02 PM
JoshK JoshK is offline
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Default Re: How long does it take to get traffic?

Depends on competition of course.

There's no real answers to any of your questions. They all just "depend" on various factors.

Google brad callen's SEO made easy guide. That's a good primer for some of your questions. Don't purchase the product seo elite which the book is pushing. It's a good product I have it, but everything you need can be done by hand.

Actually i'll just get a link...

https://best1-host.com/seoeasy.pdf

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Josh
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Old 03-26-2007, 12:38 PM
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Default Re: How long does it take to get traffic?

PR only updates 3-4 times per year.

95% of those directories are crap and will never send you any traffic.
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Old 03-26-2007, 12:48 PM
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Default Re: How long does it take to get traffic?

Yes directories arn't for traffic, generally they're just for obtaining good pr backlinks.

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Josh
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Old 03-26-2007, 01:58 PM
Ben_Grimm Ben_Grimm is offline
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Default Re: How long does it take to get traffic?

Thx guys.
-Josh
Im actually glad that you were the one to respond because my roommate referred me to a post you made a few months ago when I was trying to get started with my site. I think it was called Adsense routine or something like that. Ill check out the link you posted. Thx again

-Grimm
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Old 03-26-2007, 06:20 PM
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Default Re: How long does it take to get traffic?

I started a fantasy baseball blog about 6 weeks ago, and am averaging about 300 visitors per day. Most of the traffic comes from link swapping with other fantasy baseball blogs - I emailed a bunch of them asking if they wanted to swap links and most said yes. One in particular that gets a lot of traffic is still responsible for around 25% of my traffic...and that's just those coming directly from his site, not those who now type in my URL directly. The other big source of traffic was when I started using the 'label' field in Blogger...suddenly started getting lots of google traffic. Particularly when I posted about somewhat obscure players who haven't gotten a lot of press yet.
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Old 03-26-2007, 07:59 PM
IRuleYouHard IRuleYouHard is offline
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Default Re: How long does it take to get traffic?

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The other big source of traffic was when I started using the 'label' field in Blogger...suddenly started getting lots of google traffic.

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Can I get a lesson? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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Old 03-27-2007, 03:31 AM
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Default Re: How long does it take to get traffic?

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The other big source of traffic was when I started using the 'label' field in Blogger...suddenly started getting lots of google traffic.

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Can I get a lesson? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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When you create a new post there will be a small text box below the main one that is for "labels." Simply type in whatever is relevent and separate each label by a comma. For example, on my last blog post my labels look like this: poker, hold'em, multi-tabling, results, bad beat, 24. Basically in the post I commented on my reults for the day, the fact I was playing more tables than usual, some bad beats, and made a comment about 24.

I actually didn't start the using the labels until this thread. But they definitely do work. My blog has only been up for a few days, and ahd no other visitors other than me. After I started the labels earlier today, about 10 random people have visited the site.

Definitely recommended for a start-up blog.
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Old 03-27-2007, 07:35 AM
zoobird zoobird is offline
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Default Re: How long does it take to get traffic?

Addition to something I said - much better than swapping links is swapping references (with links) to eachother in posts, or swapping guest articles.

Also, I didn't even know to use commas in the labels field.
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Old 03-27-2007, 01:18 PM
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Also, I didn't even know to use commas in the labels field.

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I guess it might work without commas. I just did it automatically with commas and that workd perfectly.
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