Hey everyone, I moved domains, getting 500-700 pageviews/day on my art & toy blog until google had a problem with me not nofollowing links and noindexing specific pages. I fixed all those problems, moved domains (had OpportunityLOL.com and OppLOL.com, and am nearly done moving all content over after heavy editing. Once we moved, things picked up. We're only partially indexed, and I'm only up to 50 pageviews from google so far, so we expect to get up to 500 minimum more pageviews. We're now doing 1k pageviews, trending to hit 1400 pageviews today, 1250 yesterday, and similarly well before that. I'm feeling like I'm at the max I can currently do to market. Here's what I've been doing: Twitter - 42k followers, tweeting every 10 minutes from 9am until midnight. I have enough unique content that's appealing to twitter readers (fun art, funny videos) that I can do this every day if I wish. I often post less, but when I found out how scheduling a lot of tweets per day I got a large push. Facebook - We're running giveaways on a weekly basis and they're pretty good - custom toys and fun things. Linkedin - Have a profile, added and networked a bit, received 2 great recommendations, and posted occasionally. Stumbleupon - I have some articles on the website, lots of followers, and participate daily. Digg - I have an account with 1300 followers and about 10 of the better unique content articles online. Reddit - 2 articles submitted to date. Sitemap submitted to yahoo, google, and bing. I have a decent amount of backlinks, and ~130 pages of unique content articles. We're quickly being reindexed and will be back in full on top for important keywords within a week. So, what next? I'm not a ton from the traffic, so I don't have much of a budget. What should I be doing now to grow my website? I'm pretty sure in a month I'll have #s good enough to hit toy companies up for ad $ and then I may have a budget from there, but until then I'm looking for free methods to promote. Thank you for your advice!
Oh, and I can't edit otherwise I would - but I also have a Flickr group I prob spend 30 minutes on adding people and images daily. I kinda feel like I'm trying my hardest but I think I would be able to do more if I knew of other marketing avenues.
Well, you're getting hits for days, right? What type of link building are you doing? That's very important.
Honestly what you're doing is pretty good. Reddit can be great, but at the same time they're quick to downvote anything they consider "blog spam". On there you only want to submit your best content and only on the correct subreddits.
I'm doing forum postings, have a bookmark folder of follow blogs, and have 80 reviews - some of which have the companies linking to us.
You pretty much did everything you could do as far as the free stuff goes. Just keep on doing what you're doing and do it some more.