No doubt. A lot of the pros are thinking, "Duh!" But like you said and I believe I said so also, a lot of the noobs may not know or understand this valuable information. That's the problem with some pro bloggers. A lot of the time, they don't speak at everyone's level and it makes it really hard for beginners to understand.
I have toyed with Yahoo Answers, but you have piqued my interest again, I will have to take a look at it again - thanks
I just tried a few out... I didn't know you could place a link in the answer - very nice, it is probably nofollowed, but you are right, that should help drive more traffic
Both youtube and yahoo answers bring me a small percentage of traffic and thats okay. For youtube I implemented myself For yahoo answers someone else out of the blues took my sites URL and put it there and yes they do click ads
Yeah - some of these ideas work. Social bookmarking can be good - Yahoo Answers is good. But it isn't long term really. There is only one really long term method that is free and works the best.
Google sends me 6500 uniques per day so i dont think relying on google only is a waiste of time... goal is about 100k a day from google, not sure i should be waisting my time with social networking sites
And what exactly would happen to your site if you were to some reason fall off the Google rankings? From the sounds of it, your site would die. It's never a good idea to throw all of your eggs in one basket. This is especially true when it comes to blogging.
I don't see how forum posting can increase traffic. You need to have a lot of posts in order for the backlinks to work. It will take some time. Yes. Yahoo Answer do brings traffic if you give a good answer.
If your aim is to make money from Adsense then you should only be focusing on organic traffic. Don't forget your job isn't to only send traffic to the advertisers but also to send them traffic that has a decent convertion rate. The best chance you have of that is to get search engine traffic to your site. Sending bunk traffic to Adsense advertisers will get you smart priced. Focus on search traffic, that is what will get you paid. The OP talks about bringing traffic from other channels to diversify in case Google takes a dislike to your site. Don't waste your time, instead build more than one site to diversify your income stream. If one site takes a hit in the SERPS you have others that are still making cash. Ttomp13, you're retarded. This is the Adsense forum. Giving retarded advice hurts people here, pretending to be some kind of expert hurts people here.
Stonkin, I agree... You guy's dont jump to anything. Google will give you warning if you use other sources for adsense traffic. Google only want search engine traffic and manual traffic. If you use other techniques to bring traffic to your adsense sites, be careful dont use clickable links there..