Since I posted the Year 1 Stats a few people emailed to ask how on earth Blogstorm got 11,200 visitors from the Digital Point forums.
The answer is simple, I created a thread offering something no DP members could resist – an Amazing new way to build thousands of one way natural links for free. This thread got 960 replies before the moderators closed it a couple of weeks ago.
The killer part of the thread is that people had to reply to get the script so the thread kept getting bumped up to the top of the category it was listed in and never got buried.
You are probably wondering how I got the traffic to my site? I simply sent all the respondents a link to this post. Unlike most free things on DP this was actually useful and had no catches.
Pretty simple way to market a blog if you ask me.
Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Leeds based digital & SEO agency Branded3. Patrick also runs Blogstorm.You can get our blog posts delivered for free by email every day - simply add your email address to the box below or alternatively grab the RSS feed.
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Very clever trick there Patrick… But how did 960 respondents turn into 11,200 visitors?
Gyutae, it might be the signature link effect too.. When members see that this person has some popular threads, they try to find more about his talent and work through his websites that are in his signature space.
So signature also might have helped.. Just a guess though.
@Gyutae:
There are 100 readers for every responder on digitalpoint. I have done a similar post like this myself and it has only received around 60 replies but has sent over 3000 visitors.
LOL great work
Dude 60 replies and 3k visitors is 50 readers per responder…
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