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A Traffic Building Success Story: From Zero To Over 22,000 Hits In One Month

Posted by impauldotcom • 8/04/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blog marketing, blog promotion, blog seo, Build Traffic, impaul.com, increase traffic, new blog, traffic building experiment, Web 2.0

After reading multiple traffic building / SEO success stories I figured it was time to hit the pavement and try it for myself. I was a seasoned traffic vet back in web 1.0 when I was manually coding websites every day. But after a couple of years away from development in the corporate sales world it was time to brush the cobwebs off and see what I could muster with my part time blog impaul.com.

Quick Stats from July 1 - July 31

* July traffic report - 22,537 hits, 16,351 users
* spent one hour a day
* 14 posts
* 31 comments

Goal - My original goal was very simple - 1,000 hits, 500 users for the month of July. I had one simple rule to follow spend no more than 1 hour of work on impaul.com a day. This includes writing and promotion. Note: I used zero money just time (arguably is worth quite a bit of money).

Results - The traffic results for July exceeded my goals with 22,537 hits, 16,351 users.

Why? - I had three reasons for this experiment. 1) Pride. Build something from nothing and to hone my traffic building skills. 2) Build credibility. As I begin to selectively accept writing (mashable maybe?), site development and SEO side jobs I needed to ensure clients and myself that I can perform. 3) I wanted to keep impaul.com fresh. I hate having stale websites. Unfortunately, with my travel schedule I still have trouble making time for this site.

User Comments

8/10/07

alanzPL

Well done:D

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8/10/07

identikit

4) luck

is like winning the lotto

well done

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8/10/07

identikit

well alexa doesnt think so

alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=www.impaul.com

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8/10/07

Tyrebagger

The correlation between Alexa stats and real traffic figures is about 0. Really, Alexa is a total crock, and if advertisers didn't require it, nobody would care about it.

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8/10/07

identikit

we already talked how much can be wrong? 30% ? with the traffic rank 2,516,064 you get aroud 20 visitors per day.

with a website created in 2005 and almost no links i find very difficult to believe those figures

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8/10/07

crystalcash

I don't know about Alexa. My traffic rank bounces every week anywhere from 200,000 - 700,000, but my traffic remains the same every week. But it is a little hard to believe that a site with that many hits can be over 2,000,000. My blog only gets 50-100 a day.

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8/10/07

Sicarii

Congratulations, mate!

I'm looking to boost traffic to both my blogs too, and sure can learn a thing or two from your experience if you are sharing. :-)

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