On Sept 24 I made a post about a popular iPhone game called Pocket Frogs and saw the number of visitors to my site increase more than 1000% over the past week. Yes, my blog is predominantly about Internet Marketing (or at least I try to make it that way), but there are times when certain stuff like games and technology interest me. Since I own my blog, I guess there is no harm blogging about anything that tickles my fancy. When I checked my Google Analytics reports over the past week, I was shocked and surprised to see that from an average of 50 unique visitors a day, it was climbing steadily to about 400 – 500 visitors, with about 15 reader comments on that single post alone. This has affirmed my belief that ‘keyword hijacking’ works to a good degree if you use it well. Of course this is a grey area if you blog about something you are totally not interested in. But hey, I’m a regular player of this fun and addictive game too. I named my post ‘Pocket Frogs Breeding Pairs Guide’, which is what I suppose most people would search for. This is going pretty much going deeper than ‘Pocket Frogs’. Players of this game would know that the breeding portion of the game is the part that people find enjoyable, and hence targeting ‘breeding’ and ‘breeding pairs guide’ is a good strategy. I’m getting lots of ‘irrelevant’ traffic from people interested in Pocket Frogs and they probably won’t click on the ads or affiliate links. However, the traffic is free so I ain’t complaining. If you are more creative/sneaky you will probably find gold mines of low-competition keywords to hijack that are more in line with your site content. Hope this helps anyone wanting to boost their blog visitor traffic.
Yep, that's the way it always works and that goes to the show the importance of article marketing as well. Good content brings in traffic. Sometimes you just happen to rank for a keyword that a lot of people are searching on and it brings in a boat load of traffic. Some of my best performing articles were kind of in off-the-wall but somehow related topics. My best performing article on ezinearticles is an article with a title that indirectly relates to my website.
Yeah who cares if it's irrelevant traffic! You weren't expecting a flood of traffic from that post so it was a nice surprise that it worked out for the best. You might get a small percentage of people clicking on your ads which is fine! My blog always gets random traffic (not 4000 uniques though), I would get traffic from misspelled words etc.
Its all well and good getting traffic, but you really do want targetted traffic to your site (which I'm sure you know). Why don't you try running a test and writing a post about something else to do with this subject and try and get targeted visitors, add a little CPA and your laughing!!
Would you care to answer a few questions? 1. Did you post the article in other places to get publicity? 2. Where did you get most of the traffic from? Google itself? Im not being rude etc Just keen to learn