What Is Traffic? How doing nothing wins (but keep publishing!)
Note: This Article can easily be titled why all SEO agencies are fake!
Dear all content marketers and bloggers,
What is Traffic?...
I mean,
What is the best way to get more organic traffic to existing content?
Some fancy pants SEO technique?
Link Building?
Guest Posting?
Skyscraper content?
Super long stuff 10,000 words plus?
Is it writing super fantastic content best on the net and out doing you competition?
We all rack our brains training to "out do" competitors. We all want more and we want it NOW!!!!!!.
For those that don't know me, technical SEO I love! kinda geeky and appealing to me...appeals to my engineering side!.
The very best technique is this...
do nothing.
absolutely nothing!.
Create it and publish it and do absolutely zero.
I just checked an old site of mine. Every post I wrote was just published and that's it. No updating of content, no link building or guest posting or any SEO Voodoo!.
Just once and done!.
To my surprise and shock!
Each of my top content (something I was not watching) were all racking in thousands of organic visitors each post with the top 1 having 3000+ Search traffic alone, the next best about 1600+
Were these great articles...hell no!!! and by all admission!.
were they fantastically optimised, of course! but on page SEO only!..
Zero off page...no link building, no guest posting, nothing at all..NADA!
How long were these posts?.....
one was 800 words, the other about a 1,000 round.
No single article was over 1000 words, yet generating thousands of search traffic alone EACH!.
Be patient, be chilled, relax and keep publishing new fresh content.
What you learn here at Wealthy Affiliate is far superior to anything anywhere so much so that to generate thousands of organic visitors per post you don't need to do anything special. Just follow the training and stick with it.
If an average article quality wise can attract 3,000 organic visitors with about 800 words from a newbie (at the time) by doing nothing off site (not even social media) there is no telling what a great article can and will do.
Just have patience, stick with the training here at wealthy affiliate and do not deviate. Keep publishing and I swear..the traffic just grow as time rolls past.
I double dare you all to go check your traffic and top posts and roll back a few months and see how little traffic your articles get organically and what they are getting now...
...hey you done nothing to start getting all that extra traffic.
That is the power of The minimal SEO techniques taught at WA.
As long as you keep building, and publishing new fresh content you will get that traffic;
I'll end this with a very true and apt movie quote.
"Build it and they will come" Field Of Dreams.
EDIT:
I just realised the value of the two posts I mentioned from ad revenue (I did not and still don't have ads on the site) would be worth $60 & $30 per month respectively (only from organic traffic generated).
Those were not review pages but funnelled to reviews and thus could have still generated affiliate sales. still cool $90/month for doing nothing at all!.
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Hey I can handle that. I am going to relax now and feel confident in my ability to do nothing.
Don't do just nothing...Keep publishing.
I come to the conclusion, all the fancy pants SEO techniques do is get you that traffic quicker and with an added risk (even if white hat techniques) of a penalty.
I Mean, I have seen with my own eyes on my own site exactly how an article can and will mature over 2 years to go from 50-->3,000 visitors organically.
You have made my day. I thought my older posts were just collecting dust (so to speak). I'll just keep the ball rolling with new content. Thanks for sharing... Very inspiring for me!
Maturing like a fine wine. I could n't believe what I seen myself - article that started off with 30-50 views each just maturing over time to an incredible amount - note I only looked at organic traffic!
That's great for you. My only traffic so far is from people I ask to go check it out. I can even identify when they've done so.
I'm getting ready to publish post # 11 and am really focusing on traffic after 50 posts. I'm motivated and expecting traffic to start building. My articles get indeed very quickly and I'm beginning to take every open opportunity to write. I'm not good at the SEO piece and my site health has suffered because of that
I was posting 15, 20 and 25 posts per month while active on that site. increasing by 5 posts per month per year.
I have experimented with other sites with as little as 10 posts per month - literally no traffic. Ideal minimum I have found is 1 post every other day.
Keep plugging away,
and seek out QSR less than 50 for your first 100 posts, basically just now you have no authority in your niche and no trust. That builds up over time.
Sometime crazy stuff happens, I started a new site in January - by in April I had 13 organic visitor..I just stumbled on and wrote and published an article in August which is pulling in 300+ alone in first full month out ranking high authority sites (inc two national newspapers).
With SEO the two most important things are quality content (cover the topic in detail) and time.
The on page SEO follow what is taught here and you will be fine.
Wow this really helped answer that question in my head. Now I can focus where I thought. Just write regular content.
Makes perfect sense. Thank you.
Lily 😊
You do that and watch how your top articles grow..I tracked mine over 2 year period went from 50 organic sessions to over 3,000 by doing absolutely zero!.
Jaw dropping to say the least.
Appreciated if you report back the crazy growth over time by doing zero!.
That´s really interesting as a new approach Derek, having read and listened to Brian Dean and Neil Patel; i think you have the makings of a guru:-), Alan.
Thank you kindly...I certainly have the same hairstyle as those two do...
Note Alan, I am referring to my very first site built with WA
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Good advice and I'll keep writing.