Non-SEO Marketing for Instant Massive Traffic
How long does it take for a fresh, new website to start getting traffic?
Well, if you are going the SEO-way, I would say about one month, at least. At worse, maybe you will need six months.
Now, I have been testing this lately … what if you can get massive traffic in less than a week.
What you need is non-SEO marketing techniques.
So what is non-SEO marketing? -Any other method of marketing your website that does not involve SEO, and in my book, also does not involve advertising.
Is it effective? -Sure!
My new little website is getting about 200 visits a day now, which is less than 7-day old. A friend of mine started a website about 2 years ago and started to get on average 200 visits per day on the first month itself. That site now has about 5000 to 8000 visits per day.
Now here’s the thing. Many of us worry about non-SEO marketing … here’s why?
- SEO has been drummed into our minds everyday …
- Non-SEO marketing requires good, unique website … while we build page-generated websites (TE, DG, TH, etc)
- Non-SEO marketing is not consistent traffic … well, there’s pros and cons to this one
I am not writing this saying that SEO is no good. It is. I still use it. At the minimum, you must at least have a search-engine-friendly website.
But what I am trying to say (and I am guilty of it myself), we need to build more quality website. Be unique, and offer solid content.
So far I can think of these non-SEO marketing:
- Press release
- Articles
- Viral Giveaways
- Blog Comments
- Forum Postings
And lately, I tried Forum Postings and have been getting good results. But there’s a right way and a wrong way of doing it.
When I am at forums, I am always annoyed when people simply start a new thread and put in ads. I consider this spamming. This is the wrong way …
Now, here’s the right way. I was promoting my XSitePro Templates. I didn’t simply go to forums and started posting. Instead, I used Google, MSN and Yahoo to look for forum threads discussing XSitePro.
When I found some, I read through what the thread starter was looking for, and also how others have responded. Then I would respond with my own opinion, and end it with a link back to my site. To make things easier, you may want to register and create a signature for your profile.
Result … my XSitePro Templates website is getting about 200 visits per day in the last few days.
Here’s the extra bonus when you do non-SEO marketing. If you do it right, it will automatically help you with your SEO marketing. So it’s kinda killing two birds with one stone.
Hmmm … thinking of it this way, I don’t think that we should be worrying about SEO too much. I think we all should start with a good, solid website with unique content. Make sure that the website is saerch-engine-friendly. And then just focus on the non-SEO marketing.
What do you think? I am sure that you’ve experience some non-SEO success yourself, right? I am looking for responses from you if you’ve tried any non-SEO marketing (which does not involves advertising). If you have experience with Articles, Press Releases, etc … please do share …
