1700 Page Views in 4 days on new website

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Christian Little, Mar 20, 2008.

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    So I've been working on a new website for an old client, basically it's an affiliate news portal. Simple concept, but we're adding alot of special content and features to it once the site launches.

    The other day I changed my DP feed to the new site, and BAM 1700 pageviews over 4 days, and the site wasn't promoted anywhere else except for on Entrecard (which didn't start until this morning).

    The only content was a brief interview between the sites' owner and myself.

    Anybody else seen that kind of result from a simple feed link on digitalpoint?

    We haven't really started promoting the site yet because it's still partially under construction. When it's ready next week we're doing an official launch, but I was just shocked that it got that much traffic.
     
    Christian Little, Mar 20, 2008 IP
  2. Gentile2

    Gentile2 Peon

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    #2
    so you simply posted a link to your site on DP and got that many views?
     
    Gentile2, Mar 20, 2008 IP
  3. sultanofseo

    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    if you have a catchy title on your feed, like the one you have now - it will attract some visitors. and depending on your post count for the last 4 days, you might have gottent enough exposure to get that kind of traffic
     
    sultanofseo, Mar 20, 2008 IP
  4. Dale King

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    Don't mistake pageviews for traffic. That's a common mistake that many marketers make. Pageviews are not an important stat. Unique visitors are.

    Dale King
     
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  5. Christian Little

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    True Dale. We have 950 uniques in total. Either way, it's quite impressive for just a basic link.

    Gentile - it's my RSS link. If you look at the link beside my avatar that's the one.
     
    Christian Little, Mar 20, 2008 IP
  6. mjl

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    i got 1700 views in 1 day on my site i just stared it this week i did it by promoteing my web page
     
    mjl, Mar 20, 2008 IP
  7. Neticule

    Neticule Well-Known Member

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    #7
    what do you mean by a "feed link", do you just mean the link in your signature? Im a bit new around here :p

    UPDATE: Nevermind, I found it after 10 minutes of looking around, lol
     
    Neticule, Mar 20, 2008 IP
  8. deccanbazaar.biz

    deccanbazaar.biz Banned

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    if i am not wrong the search engine bots also hits the page that is crawls the content for indexing isnt that considered in hits/page views ???
     
    deccanbazaar.biz, Mar 20, 2008 IP
  9. Neticule

    Neticule Well-Known Member

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    Damn, I guess I cant use the feed, my blog uses b2evolution... *cries*

    Update: it took me a few hours but I switched to wordpress :p I like it alot better so far.
     
    Neticule, Mar 20, 2008 IP
  10. James Long

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    How do you add a link to your 'recent blog' just under your name?
    I am also quite new to the forums!
     
    James Long, Mar 21, 2008 IP