If you’ve been following my blog you’ll know I’ve been experimenting like crazy this last month with new link building methods, new [tag]traffic generation[/tag] methods, and lots of new marketing stuff for my niche sites in general.
It’s been two weeks maximum since some of these tests have begun and looking at my traffic stats today, I thought I’d post three of the sites that have returned positive results and that I’ll be looking more deeply into in the future.
I think this is good because while alot of people talk about the ways you CAN get traffic, I’m posting those here that I’ve actually tested and that ARE sending me traffic, more so than others that have undergone the same tests.
Here goes:
1. Listible.com: This is a web 2.0 site that basically contains lists of resources to which you can submit various pages of content from your site as contributors. For example, there might be a list on Pets, and if your site has any pets content, you can submit that page or post on your blog (much like you’d do at digg.com) to be a part of that pets resource list. Then when people search for pets lists they will have a chance of finding you. The traffic from here is targetted compared to most social network traffic – someone searches for resources on pets and they find your content on pets, pretty good match and you could do alot worse.
2. CSSDrive: Remember I posted the list of CSS Directories that you could submit a site to for traffic? This is the site that’s showing up in my stats as delivering the most traffic – not a great deal but every little bit helps 
3. Entrecard.com – This is more from my tests with this blog but so far the results have been great. In fact of all the external sites in my stats that are sending me traffic, Entrecard is in the top 5. Although I suspect it will be MORE effective for ‘make money online’ people, I don’t see why it wouldn’t work just as well with any niche site.
You add your site and you setup campaigns to ‘drop your card’ to the sites of other related websites. Soon your site starts coming up in the entrecard community dashboard so other sites find you, other sites drop their card to you (so you earn credits) and with enough people dropping cards on you and you dropping them on their site, you can earn credits to run ads on their sites (see the entrecard banner on my sidebar – I’m supposed to be running other people’s ads there but haven’t done much of that yet). By doing a little work on it each day, it has the potential to create a small stream of (at least they’re…) targetted visitors.
If you’re not using these bad boys, ask yourself: “Why?”
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Thanks for the list, Andrew. I’ve never heard of Listible before but I’m definitely gonna check it out.
All the best,
Epiphany
Hey Epiphany,
Glad you enjoyed it, Listible is great indeed, you can add as many pages on your site as you like too so you can dominate the chosen list and score a tonne of traffic.
Take care,
Andrew
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for sharing all of your great ideas and results. These are the things that help the most. This site is in my bookmarks.
Victor
Hi Andrew,
Totally off topic – is that beach pictured at the top of this blog between Cairns and Port Douglas by any chance? Just curious…
By the way, I noticed John Taylor’s comment recently that your widget places him in England instead of Scotland.
It does that with me too, but in John’s case I can understand the poor widget’s confusion, he only lives a few miles north of the border!
I’m about 60-70 miles “deeper” into Scotland, but practically due west of John, and we can see the hills of Cumbria in England across the water of the Solway Firth, even more so when it gets as cold as it is now (unusually, the Gulf Stream generally counters that and even allows plants from AUS/NZ to flourish here), so the widget probably needs a bit of fine tuning.
Though I am concentrating on WordPress now, my first blog was at blogspot.com on Scotland, at http://www.scotlandsecrets.blogspot.com , so if you’re interested you might like to take a look. Usually it shows keyword triggered articles on our region of Dumfries & Galloway (where John is too), but right now it seems to only be picking up the keyword “Google”, wonder why
. The video widget seems to be working though.
Enjoy the warmth in Queensland,
Paul
Kiwi in Southwest Scotland
(Wigtown – Scotland’s National Book Town
and southernmost distillery Bladnoch)
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for sharing these 3 sites, they are all new to me and they are something else to add to my to do list.
Hi Andrew,
As always, your tips and resources are top notch! Thank you so much for this information. You are my Internet guru!
Hi Andrew,
Great blog post as always.
Just thought I’d mention that I am a Firepow member and tried to add my Firepow blogs to Entrecard. They cancelled my account, saying that the blogs needed to be unique with original content, so using the Firepow blogs with the articles available from Firepow doesn’t work, you need to submit only your manually created blogs – or at least that’s my understanding.
It’s a shame though, as even over the 24 hour period that Entrecard had my account running, I could see some huge results