How we got 30000 visitors in Week 1

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Vido 16 Jun 2007 at 5:28 pm

Patrick,

I think the reason to your success has been the top-notch content you put out since day one. I loved you articles on Google Analytics!!

azzam 16 Jun 2007 at 5:33 pm

Let me be the first to congratulate you on an excellent achievement in the numbers of the traffic received and certainly on a simple, brilliant but obvious solution that one day will be a common tracking tool as any other analytics tool.

Patrick Altoft 16 Jun 2007 at 6:21 pm

Thanks guys.

There are plenty more awesome posts to come.

Liam 18 Jun 2007 at 10:05 am

This article doesn’t say how you got the visitors, it simply says you did get them.

To be fair to the Kawazaki guy, he didn’t spend the money to get the visitors, he spent it on getting some custom scripts built, getting legal advice and domeain registration.

He got the visitors by knowing the right people, getting the right media attention and blogger links for free. Guess you did the same? Or not?

Patrick Altoft 18 Jun 2007 at 4:04 pm

We didn’t really use any existing relationships with people, I just emailed a few key bloggers. Something anybody could do I guess.

I will be posting more in depth about how to get on some of these sites in the future.

Kahuki 19 Jun 2007 at 9:57 am

That is really awesome. How many visitors did you have before?

Patrick Altoft 19 Jun 2007 at 3:06 pm

Last week was our first full week so we didn’t have any traffic at all before then.

peter 23 Jun 2007 at 8:23 am

Let me be the first to congratulate you on an excellent achievement in the numbers of the traffic received and certainly on a simple, brilliant but obvious solution that one day will be a common tracking tool as any other analytics tool.

sam 26 Jun 2007 at 8:54 am

congratulate you on an excellent achievement in the numbers of the traffic received .

m07 01 Feb 2008 at 11:47 am

great post.keep up the good work.

Lawrence 25 Apr 2008 at 2:27 pm

“We didn’t really use any existing relationships with people, I just emailed a few key bloggers.”

Didn’t you just contradict yourself there?

The secret is quite simple. You’re good!
You are known / credible because of the quality of your work, including:

“Patrick writes about SEO and social media for the popular E-Consultancy website and has been quoted in publications such as The Times, Guardian, TechCrunch, Mashable, the Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land, Ars Technica, ZD Net, CNet News.com, Information Week, The Inquirer, Web Pro News, CNBC, and Wired.”

I doubt very much that someone anonymous can achieve the same result as you have. Or the kind of buzz Dean Hunt talks about on his onw blog.

What doesn’t look impressive, though, are stats for average pageviews and time on site. One would expect people to visit more than 1.54 pages of a new expert blog.

Your google traffic looks impressive in terms of pageviews. But those were only 75 visits.

What are you engagement stats like a tear on?

Yannis 02 May 2008 at 12:43 am

Great stats…All referrals.

ZaggedEdge 24 Jul 2008 at 4:37 am

Patrick, pretty cool stuff. Did you have well established social media accounts?

thecooleasy 15 Jun 2009 at 4:16 pm

good info. thanks guys

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