How many unique visitors do you think a new site that is well promoted in the first month of it's running?
700 is way too low for well promoted site. I opened my site 3 weeks ago, and I am currently on week 4 and get around 1.1k unique visitor per day now (week 4)
Depends on how much you spend. Spend $1Mil and you could get 500K+ uniques, spend $1000 you could get 1000K uniques depends on what you mean by well promoted.
Depends on what kind of site and how many searches are done for your phrases if you're going the organic way. Is the site GOOD? Will everyone end up telling their friends, family and pets about it? Could be 1 or 1 million, so many variables. It's a very general question. Now if you said a blue widget site and overture shows 1 million searches per month for "blue widgets" and assuming you were to get in the top 10 organic search for "blue widgets" or advertise via PPC maybe you could make an educated estimate.
It all depends on having a unique and wonderful idea. Because if you're site is another copy of 200 other sites, then chances are even if you spend 1 million, you will only end up with like 50k visitors, which probably will never get you that money back. But if you have something thats addictive and amazing, then even if you spend 1000$ you might end up getting 1million+ visitors.
If promoted well, I would say somewhere between 1,000 - 2,000 visitors in the first full month. This really depends on your niche, but when search engines start to pick up on your site (a few months in) traffic will really spike and you'll be able to spend less time promoting.
Wow how have you done that and how much have you had to spend to do that?!! My sites are new and I'm really struggling with traffic - trying to work SEO but nothing seems to be making much difference?
Well I have one site, that has a niche, it has an extremely good community that if delivered what they want, they quickly come and you get like 10,000 visitors a day, WITHOUT ANY promotion. Yes, that's a fact. How? Well we started testing our Alpha program, in a secret URL, and then suddenly word of mouth after our 14th Alpha version which was actually working very well. Then suddenly, we're getting thousands of visitors a day on a secret URL :S :S :S. So we just moved it to root of the site, and went from there. We're still in Alpha, but our competitions program is not as good as ours. As for my other site, it is not a niche, it is more of a how should I say this... It's probably been done a million times... its a Web development and Programming website and forums. After a tiny bit of promotion (Basically, just sig links in DeviantArt, A programming forum, and a few in Facebook), we have created an active Forum community at FuriX.net with 95 registered, (very low), but most of them actively posting. However, we only get about 99 visitors a day, mostly from Google. I haven't used a sig link for over a month, so thats why it dropped from 200 a day. Perhaps when I have time to advertise and work on it, maybe I can get it to around 2000 a month with hard hard work. Without spending any dollars.
A year since I started I have 6000 uniques a month, but I sell sinks and only have people interested in sinks visit.
I started a blog in mid April. Last month was 4k uniques/8013 visitors/100,490 page views. I think that I have peaked as far as what I can do for free, and I will probably have to start spending money if I want to double that. Many people have absolutely no traffic for a few months. There are a lot of variables.
Hi, I think there has to be moderate expectations for a new site. I have seen estimates that there are 100 million websites on the Internet at this time, and they are all competing for eyeballs. It is very difficult to get any kind of recognition or stickiness with this kind of competition. Observe how difficult it is for cable TV channels to get and maintain viewers - and there are only a few hundred channels in this case. My site, Links.com, gets about 1800 uniques a day. Alexa and Quantcast both estimate that it is in the top 100,000. That is all. And Links.com is very good name with lots of organic capabilities. Out of the gate, without any promotion I had about 600 a day. Judge for yourself the quality, uniqueness, stickiness of your site - and have humility when you do this. It is very difficult to get into the top 100,000. Every site that is in the top 100,000 (or better) is there as the result of lots of hard work. If you are getting low traffic, so are the other 100 million. It is possible to get spikes, by tweaking SEO, but if you look at the graphs of lots of the popular sites, you will see spikes and then it comes back, because it is so expensive to "move" a site into the upper echelon. So don't be concerned if it is low. And also, don't spend lots of money for some temporary blip (I had one of those when my site was new to the search engines and the "gave my site a chance"). If you are serious about your business, you will have to grow it like any other business. The dot.com era, where someone can make lots of money while doing nothing is long past. You have to create something new, better, competitive and interesting to get someone's attention. BTW, I still haven't done this. Good luck! Rich