Building Traffic Momentum
Any time you build a burst of traffic to your web site, you are bound to garner the attention of many traffic ranking services.
This can benefit your web site because it allows you to get more exposure and ultimately more traffic.
But in order to create a burst of traffic, you need to control to control traffic sources that can send traffic almost immediately.
Two of the biggest sources of traffic that come to mind are:
1. Email
2. Twitter
Both of these methods of communication allow you to reach your prospect with your message quickly and have them respond fairly fast.
Traffic sources like pay per click search engines can’t nearly bring traffic as fast unless you are buying an enormous amount of clicks every our.
When I did a blog post regarding the FTC and rebill offers, I sent out an email to my list and also did a tweet on twitter and the traffic came in fairly fast.
Below is a screenshot on Alexa that shows my blog post as the third web site listed under “Hot Pages”, which is category that lists the most popular web pages on the web at that moment.
This is a direct link from Alexa.com that also resulted in a windfall of traffic to my blog post other than the email that I sent out to my list and the tweet that I did.
I used to think that Twitter was a waste of time because there are not a lot of people making huge amounts of money from it, but I now see it as a great way to generate instant traffic.
Besides, email and Twitter, what other forms of instant traffic are there?
Please let me know by leaving your comments. 
Cheers
Gauher
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September 2, 2009
2:29 pm #comment-1
Hi Gauher,
Curious as to what percentage of the traffic came from Twitter versus your list.
Finally spelled your name right!!
Thank you,
Stephanie
September 2, 2009
3:17 pm #comment-2
Stephanie: I don’t know exactly because I didn’t use a tracker. But I do know traffic came from Twitter as some people told me they saw my blog post on Twitter.
September 2, 2009
4:14 pm #comment-3
A press release that catches on!
September 2, 2009
6:16 pm #comment-4
I was skeptical about social media. Just got home from Magic Bullet on Monday and started following everyone Amish is following on Twitter and now here I am on your blog.
I think the momentum is just begining to build for all social media.
I bought “Marketing in a Groundswell” by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff while I was at the airport and am now a total believer. This book is a must read for all Marketers.
September 3, 2009
3:12 am #comment-5
Twitter traffic feels a bit unpredictable to me. It’s hard to guess which post would be re-tweet by other users and which would not. I mean, sometimes when I tweet about my latest post, I got a huge traffic spike, but sometimes I just don’t. So…I’m really not sure about the whole Twitter thingie.
Other form of traffic that has been proven over and over again to work is Stumble Upon, I guess.
September 7, 2009
1:51 pm #comment-6
Hi Gauher,
I feel Social news sites and Google news drives instant traffic to one’s blog or website apart from email and twitter.
Even these two mediums have not been leveraged efficiently by most of us, I believe there is lot to tap in.
September 7, 2009
10:26 pm #comment-7
PPV Baby.
Rocket yourself to the top of Alexa, Quantcast, Comscore, Youtube, and pretty much anything else you want for a reasonable price.
But then you knew that already…
Jonathan
September 8, 2009
8:21 pm #comment-8
Gauher, understand, if you did not have this CPA course, if people did not talk about you and the course, if you were not as experienced as you are today, you could tweet untill you get blue in your face, nobody would give a damn.
I tweeted several times about your CPA course, I wanted to get credits from you. I posted information about your CPA course with my affiliate ID on ning. Nobody gives a damn about it either. People have to have you on their minds, then it would mean something to them.
Twitter is full of people that start following you, because somebody put some stupid software in place that promises something. The crowd starts following, but they would not spend a penny. I just deleted 30 people that started following me and sending me stupid messages about their cats and dogs – not quality followers. It’s easy to get into a mess on Twitter. Their have to be other than Twitter efficient methods to create traffic.
September 8, 2009
10:57 pm #comment-9
Hi Gauher and other readers:
Anyone had much luck with Digg?
September 11, 2009
12:41 pm #comment-10
Hey Gauher,
Great presentation at the Magic Bullet Seminar.
I just recently started utilizing Google Alerts. One of the alerts is a keyword for one of my websites. And about once a week my website shows up. Originally, I wanted to see the latest gizmo that came up with the keyword I was tracking. But then it dawned on me. Maybe I should write an article or post on what is currently being discussed for some short term gain.
Anyway, as I was reading your post I started to wonder if there was a list somewhere of top alert feeds. I have not looked into it because it just came to me. You could create a blog or website based on that info. In theory whenever you posted an article to your blog it would show up on that particular alert feed. Who knows? Crazier things have happened.
September 25, 2009
10:05 pm #comment-11
Posting a link on a popular forum brings in a lot of hits but if the content isn’t great you’ll get a high bounce rate with little new subscribers.
October 1, 2009
2:07 am #comment-12
I ususally see a spikke in traffic whenever I stumble one of my internal pages. However most of the time – about 80% of the time or maybe even more, stumble traffic are usually window shoppers and checkout the page I stumbled and continue on their merry way. Teaffic from my email list is more valuable as I find they not only check out the pages I recommend but continue on a treasure hunt around my website’s pages. However the one thing I like about stumble is that its another link pointing to my website and if one visitor is converted to a customer, then its all good. Would love to know what the gentleman in the post above meant by PPV?
Thanks for sharing Gauher
October 1, 2009
12:05 pm #comment-13
“Traffic sources like pay per click search engines can’t nearly bring traffic as fast unless you are buying an enormous amount of clicks every our” There is a small mistake here, it’s hour not our! Try correcting it Gauher. Yes, a very responsive email list and a vibrant twitter list will help bring swarms of immediate traffic. Nice.
Respect
Viju Dallon
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