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What I did right to increase my traffic

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by swapshop, Jun 5, 2009.

  1. #1
    What I did right to increase my traffic

    Read the threads here and other SEO forums

    Created some sites using standard CMS code

    Modded for SEO
    Researched Keywords
    Modded title to be different on every page

    Used RSS feeds to popular content
    Waited for Googles Sand pit to expire

    Removed RSS content and went for user content

    Created a widget to generate back links
    Created a toolbar to generate back links

    Waited.....

    Made minor mods to
    Keywords
    Title
    Description
    On Page SEO
    Off Page SEO

    Waited.....

    Researched web logs

    Waited.....

    Took a year but now the sites running over 300-500 hits a day and growing quickly.

    Added some spam mods
    Checked the logs and removed troublesome countries and IP's

    Waited......

    Added some mods to promote free promotion techniques to then promote my other sites....

    Waited and Watched.....

    Forgot about Google PR .....(didnt loose sleep)

    Waited.....

    Researched and waited to maximize keywords.....

    Removed rel="dofollow" as it was harming results......

    Waited....

    Increase in traffic is huge and really....really growing.....

    Checked the content and banned some spammers adding massive keywords....

    Made sure content was King....

    Added more spam mods and spam lists.....

    Waited....

    Massive gain in traffic again....tripled to 15000+ hits a day....

    Natural backlinks thru the toolbar and widget......this was the increase in traffic.....

    Added link to major social networks.....

    Added some hub pages on Squidoo, Myspace, Bebo....etc

    Promoted content on Stumble and yep waited.....

    Traffic just keeps on coming....

    Moved host to new unlimted plan.....

    Dreams can come true so visit Social Networking


    Comments welcome as this is the forum where i learned to get a great SEOed site.
     
    swapshop, Jun 5, 2009 IP
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  2. Lever

    Lever Deep Thought

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    Perfect. That's what every decent webmaster should do - understand SEO and the 'Net, work on building genuinely good content that people will link to and support that with homegrown links. Patience, timing, understanding and being active/proactive are all key. If any of that sounds too much for some people then they should consider a different profession :)
     
    Lever, Jun 5, 2009 IP
  3. swapshop

    swapshop Peon

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    Funny as I didnt believe SEO and content is but king at first but now i do.

    The more I read the web stats the and the more I slightly change keywords, desc, title, content the more traffic.

    Really basic stuff but the trick is to wait and watch.

    I think we get sucker into changing and then expecting a change to occur, this is not how it happens.

    Wait and watch, wait and watch........

    See what users think by using clickheat as a example see what users think but reading stats....make educated guess's based on this.

    Clickheat showed me how important search was.... it turned out to be the most used and clicked on portion of the site.

    I changed the mysql query to more suit a better returned result..... hence more hits due to better user experience.....strange but true.....

    Widgets increased the back links, increased the traffic and hence search becomes more important....

    Look at the stats and see how many pages a typical user browses....pick on the user with 20-30 % more pages and see what they were after....

    Change the site to reflect this but keep in my this is one user....

    Truly this works as my site is the proof....
     
    swapshop, Jun 5, 2009 IP
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    waxman1000 Peon

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    Good work dude. Your tips are worth looking at
     
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    jkadin Peon

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    Great inspiration guys great post. Most webmaster's can learn from this post. Most hurry to get the ball rolling, by most hurrying the ball is going downhill instead of uphill and can't figure out why.
     
    jkadin, Jun 5, 2009 IP
  6. DKS404

    DKS404 Greenhorn

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    great post.. this is what seo should be like.
     
    DKS404, Jun 5, 2009 IP
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    webcosmo Notable Member

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    Very nice of you sharing this. Thanks pal.
     
    webcosmo, Jun 5, 2009 IP
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    Fracisc Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for sharing your experience. It sure helped me.
     
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    DigiSpeed Peon

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    #9
    Awesome man. So it's: tweak, wait, watch, interpret results, tweak again (educated guess). Thanks for sharing this. It's not often you find a sensible, non-hype post and information like this in even a 12 month space of time. Very rare find indeed.
     
    DigiSpeed, Jun 5, 2009 IP
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    rockman10 Peon

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    Thanks for the sample roadmap. I will try and incorporate some of your ideas to help my promotion.
     
    rockman10, Jun 6, 2009 IP
  11. gbit

    gbit Active Member

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    great thread dude nice one..... +1 for you.
    I also do not worry about page rank as most of the other guys do.
     
    gbit, Jun 6, 2009 IP
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    Superb organization ill also make it one day
     
    beemboy, Jun 6, 2009 IP
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    SEO is a slow process. When it's done, you would not be happier. So, it's worth waiting.
    Great post. Thanks.
     
    mnoposter, Jun 6, 2009 IP
  14. swapshop

    swapshop Peon

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    #14
    Some other SEO stuff to think about

    On page and off page SEO.

    Made a new change and again waited to see the impact...point dont make to many changes in one hit because you will not be able to see if each one is a good or bad change....

    So heres some more tips....

    On page SEO

    Changed the keywords, title and description to see a big big difference in stats.
    Now I have reflected the above change in the logo image rather than a standard CMS image name. Took a while to find the code in the CMS but added some dynamic variables to the logo.

    See the code below I have simply changed the name of the image to be my keywords.... rather than the second example

    Example 1 the SEO On Page Change
    <img src="images/linksprocket-Sports-Entertainment-Technology-Region-Travel-Social-News_image.jpg" />

    Example 2 the non SEO CMS standard image name
    <img src="images/logo.jpg" />

    Now its missing some even more basic On Page SEO tags like alt and title

    Example 3 On Page SEO Alt and Title
    <img src="images/linksprocket-Sports-Entertainment-Technology-Region-Travel-Social-News_image.jpg" alt="Social Bookmarking" title="Add your bookmark"/>

    Alt tags are a good way to get some more keywords on a page. Title is good for the user experience but allowing most of the popular browsers a privative tool tip...Remember most SE's dont read java script so use externally called .js and if you use tool tips go for the title tag.

    The trick here is to not over pack keywords....
    Make sure your keywords, description and title are also reflected in image names but do not occur more than 3-4 times.

    I made these minor changes and again waited and watched....2-3 weeks to see the web stats reflecting user searches for my tags even on images....

    This is a very simple On Page SEO trick that works....

    Again dont expect the change to work over night....

    Make the change watch and wait....if your stats reflect the change stay with it i.e you get more keyword searches hitting your site

    http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=e...Social+News&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=

    if the change show less web stats then again make another change but do all of this slowly....
     
    swapshop, Jun 7, 2009 IP
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    rashida Active Member

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    Adding Links to the social network is one of the best way to increase the backlinks.
     
    rashida, Jun 8, 2009 IP
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    anisbd Active Member

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    Thanks for sharing your experience. it's helped webmasters.
     
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    wow..you must be feeling very happy.How about the income?is it good?
     
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  18. swapshop

    swapshop Peon

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    itcoll

    At this stage havent focused on income. With out traffic you will no have income. That will come later.

    Focus on traffic , On and Off page SEO.

    Made another change after some research.

    Banning some troublesome users posting bad sites like warez, porn etc. These can hurt the site if Google or other SE think they are affiliated or in a partnership with the site.

    This more is just common sense. You do not what to be linking to bad neighbors.

    Keyword change and image file name change is really working well. Dramatic increase in traffic via the keywords used in the image.

    Will post bad when we make additional changes as the site is now humming with almost one submitted story per minute.

    Next step is to start looking at my competition and see why they rank better and how to move past them on the SE results.

    Another interesting point that i have learned after running web sites for 5+ years (totally green at the start) is to not just focus on SEO and content.

    Whats the point of havent a website that has massive hits / visitors if it runs slow?

    At the start I was struggling to learn mySQL and PHP. Now its a breeze (well better :))

    To keep the DB optimized i created a PHP script to connect and then run optimize on all tables once per day. The more hits the more you need to optimize.
    Second script to automatically publish stories after x days. This covers me when i havent got the time to check.
    Third script to search from a txt file all spam words i dont want. Script finds a word say porn or warez it will then connect to the DB remove the user and associated user and post information.
    Modded the script to remove all comments to futher reduce the spam.

    Found a killer PHP script to monitor the IPs hitting the site. If any BAD BOt hits the site they are passed via the .htaccess into a loop than simply slows the BOT and returns no real results. The BOt doesnt seem to like this and hence doesnt come back.
    I do this to ensure the BOT dont take my bandwidth.

    If a BAD BOT executes a search query then another this will slow your site down so if the BOT is of no use why allow it? If it doesnt read the robots txt file then place it into a loop.

    This script then writes the domain or IP to the txt file and bans its with the deny directive.

    This also brings me to the next critical change and point.

    Set your robots txt file to delay SE to this

    User-agent: *
    Crawl-Delay: 3600

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /scarecrow.php

    User-agent: aipbot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: ia_archiver
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Alexibot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Aqua_Products
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: asterias
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: b2w/0.1
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: BackDoorBot/1.0
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: becomebot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: BlowFish/1.0
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Bookmark search tool
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: BotALot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: BotRightHere
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: BuiltBotTough
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Bullseye/1.0
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: BunnySlippers
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: CheeseBot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: CherryPicker
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: CherryPickerElite/1.0
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: CherryPickerSE/1.0
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Copernic
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: cosmos
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Crescent
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Crescent Internet ToolPak HTTP OLE Control v.1.0
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: DittoSpyder
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: EmailCollector
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: EmailSiphon
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: EmailWolf
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: EroCrawler
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: ExtractorPro
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: FairAd Client
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Fasterfox
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Flaming AttackBot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Foobot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Gaisbot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: GetRight/4.2
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Harvest/1.5
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: hloader
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: httplib
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    User-agent: HTTrack 3.0
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    User-agent: humanlinks
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: IconSurf
    Disallow: /
    Disallow: /favicon.ico

    User-agent: InfoNaviRobot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Iron33/1.0.2
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: JennyBot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Kenjin Spider
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Keyword Density/0.9
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: larbin
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: LexiBot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: libWeb/clsHTTP
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: LinkextractorPro
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: LinkScan/8.1a Unix
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: LinkWalker
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    Disallow: /

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    User-agent: lwp-trivial/1.34
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    User-agent: Mata Hari
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    User-agent: MIIxpc
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    User-agent: moget
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    User-agent: NetAnts
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    User-agent: NICErsPRO
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    User-agent: Offline Explorer
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Openbot
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    User-agent: Openfind
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    User-agent: Openfind data gatherer
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    User-agent: Oracle Ultra Search
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    User-agent: Python-urllib
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: QueryN Metasearch
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Radiation Retriever 1.1
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    User-agent: RepoMonkey
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: RepoMonkey Bait & Tackle/v1.01
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    User-agent: RMA
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    User-agent: searchpreview
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    User-agent: SiteSnagger
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    User-agent: SpankBot
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    User-agent: SurveyBot
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    User-agent: suzuran
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    User-agent: toCrawl/UrlDispatcher
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    User-agent: True_Robot
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    User-agent: True_Robot/1.0
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    User-agent: turingos
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    User-agent: TurnitinBot
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    User-agent: TurnitinBot/1.5
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    User-agent: URL Control
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    User-agent: URL_Spider_Pro
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    User-agent: URLy Warning
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    User-agent: VCI
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    User-agent: VCI WebViewer VCI WebViewer Win32
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    User-agent: Web Image Collector
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    User-agent: WebAuto
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    User-agent: WebBandit
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    User-agent: WebBandit/3.50
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: WebCapture 2.0
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: WebCopier
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: WebCopier v.2.2
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    User-agent: WebCopier v3.2a
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    User-agent: WebEnhancer
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    User-agent: WebSauger
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    User-agent: Website Quester
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    User-agent: Webster Pro
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    The delay ensures that Google or other SE dont take to much bandwidth. Google allows you to change the crawl speed within the UI of webmaster tools but after x days defaults back.

    I see Google, Yahoo doing massive 17,000= page crawls continuously. Since I am getting massive backlinks making massive traffic I want to slow SE down. Not discourage them but control the rate they crawl the site.

    Monitoring webstats is important but no one seems to chat about huge traffic and MySQL queries? Controlling BOTs IP and Subnets to your site allows the Web Server / DB to serve pages fast.

    Once per week we also truncate some Tables example logs, errors etc to ensure the DB is keep as small as possible. You may find like us that you need to now mod the PHP / MySQL query to become more efficient and create a index.

    check the actual MySQL query code to see that it is the most efficent example"

    Similar way (not the same!) by updating strict "=" with "LEFT JOIN tbl ON" it's possible to speed up loading speed In my case I reduced the default code MySQL query time from 4s to 1s on a search.

    Again this proves that its not just about SEO but back end performance as well.
     
    swapshop, Jun 9, 2009 IP
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    jamaican Peon

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    Thx..I think this is good tips. I will try it to get much visitor.
     
    jamaican, Jun 9, 2009 IP
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    #20
    I just love your loooooooooooooooooooooong, boring and pointless posts.

    A lot of useless words to describe a website growth in a few paragraphs. And most of all, not a really growth.
    That website could get faster, better and much solid results if instead of "waited......" you would post a press release or article.

    So far so good. Keep going
     
    Johnyboy, Jun 9, 2009 IP