How is it that you browse arround the forums, and you allways see people posting their statistics, with something like June - 850 July - 2,300 August - 2,850 And following they claim "I havent really been doing much marketing to the site" However, most of those sites seem legit, and the statistics look legit, however... how do they do it????????? I've had my site www.eliteDeco.com since february, and my average uniques is been between 30 to 60 a day, and I've been like crazy, exchanging links, and maximizing content, however my uniques remain the same, in the mean time, this people keep selling, or talking about, their sites, and how in 3 months they generate 2k - 3k uniques... can someone give some ideas? thanks.
they probably weren't indexed by the search engines the first month, then got in and saw a traffic increase. Pretty common and easy
My site was indexed the very first month, but still my traffic simply jumped from 10 to 50 now back to ~35 ... it never went up to 100 uniques and stayed that way. also, those sites are featuring $250 profits... $250 is not much, but if you can do that thing 20 times, you got your self a good income. I don't see how they are doing it..
Word of mouth If a site has useful, good content or tools visitors themselves will refer other visitors. That's kind of how word about google spread as well.
they are getting backlinks and getting ranked well. Depending on the niche for the site it's either going to be very easy to get ranked or very hard. Getting indexed is only half the game, it's getting good rankings that makes the difference. I've had it go both ways. Some sites sit there with almost no search traffic for the first few months while others get hundreds or thousands of uniques after a couple weeks.
Yeah, wise words there. Achieve relatively good serps, have unique/original or really useful, interesting content & your website should promote itself.
Totally. Niches pop up at the top of google in around a week. One niche site I run, I update an article twice a week and I stay on top. NICHES ARE KEY!
one of my sites traffic is doubleing every month about 50% of traffic is word of mouth on forums,blogs,myspace pages, websites, and now im ranked number 1 for alot of quality terms related to my niche this is just a hobby site also just keep adding new content when you get it/think of it
Most definately, I'm ranking really high on a niche as well. The domain is brand freakin new, 3 months old, number 1 on a lot of keywords, phrases and it gets lotsa searches. It will only be a matter of time before the serious $$ starts rolling in. In regards to this topic, it's all relative. Don't compete with all the sites...create a niche if you must, then the traffic will follow.
Have you tried adwords? Since your site is an ecommerce site,the conversion might be good if it has been put to good use.