Thirty days ago I started my Marketing Ideas En Masse trail to see what kind of results I could produce. Wow, am I amazed by the results of the test trial. Let’s dive into the numbers and see what we find.
Effects of a 30-day trial on search results
Before this trial I was averaging about 90 search engine hits a day and growing (slowly). About last week I started averaging 200 hits a day mostly from Google. So in 3 weeks I doubled my search engine traffic and it seems to be holding pretty steady. Some of my most successful posts are:
- Marketing Ideas #17 Tim Ferriss Trial by Fire on the History Channel
- Tim Ferriss Trial by Fire a huge success leading to a new show
- Marketing Ideas #14 McDonalds Free Coffee Monday
- Marketing Ideas #20 McDonalds Anti Starbucks Marketing Campaign
Each of these stories is more or less a new topic at the time of writing that I was able to take 1st or very near the top of the search engine due to their freshness in the search world.
How to beat out other blogs on a new topic
I have to admit that I had an advantage in taking the top positions on a number of these searches just by posting. I run a WP Plugin call Auto Social Poster on this blog that helps to automatically bookmark posts on sites like Delicious and Flurl. What happens is pretty simple. I hit publish and in a matter of 15 minutes I have a post with backlinks zooming to the top of the search engines. In the case of the search term Seth Godin Tribes I outranked Seth Godin’s site and Amazon.com for the first 24 hours. I am still just below them both.
Conclusion of 30-day trial
I view the trial run as a success where I am now getting twice the search volume daily than I was at the start of the trial. Another thing I realized is how important it is when boosting search traffic to blog about new things. With the amount of backlinks Auto Social Poster gets me from the start tends to carry the post on the first page of Google for a while. Without building more or better backlinks, those results will slide but at the same time so does the search volume. I will plan another 30-day trial soon and make it a little more daring. Have any ideas?
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Would you believe that even though I have the Auto Social Poster plug-in I still haven’t installed it or tried it? Ooops. I forgot I had it actually!
Glad the trial worked out – search engine traffic is good traffic indeed, IMBL is on track to get 30,000 hits this month!
Congrats on your successful marketing test. Thanks for mentioning the auto social poster because I wasn’t sure about using it but you’ve made a believer out of me.
Is this simply works like an human being, and how much the quality of social bookmarking through this software. Let me know please.
@Web Designing, I does work just like a human and the quality of the links are pretty poor. With that said is it is automated so it really doesn’t matter. Typically, enough of those links are enough to take top positions for new keywords or trends.
Hey Josh,
Congrats on the success, doubling your search traffic is very impressive. How often is Google crawling your site?
Steve
@Driveway Sealing, thanks, it looks to be about every 30mins or so
Josh, are you sure your doubled SE-traffic is caused just by this method you are using since you didnt stop producing new content? I have listed some of my fidings about seo at my site How to make money online, you might find them useful!