This post is a case study about an accidental discovery through my blog recently. I must say that this is one of the most uniquely tested and proven methods ever known to me with regards to generating a huge amount of traffic over a short period of time.
The influx of visitors into a website is often associated by many with that of financial gains or profits. While this statement is apparently not without basis, the benefits of deriving a huge amount of traffic into a website may also include the ability to reach such a nobler motives and social responsibilities by means of proliferating the awareness and spreading the information by the organizing charitable institutions or individuals.
The Case
The recent political uproar in Egypt (#jan25) had caused quite a stir to the world at large. Since many Malaysian students, most of whom studying medicine, were residing in the affected Egyptian cities, their safety became quite a concern specifically to the parents of those students and generally to the nation. The situation in Egypt turned from bad to worse when the lines of communication to the outside world, in particular the internet, were cut down and thus instilling more worries into the minds of the people in Malaysia.
A friend of mine who was a student over there wrote me a long message in Facebook, asking for my assistance to spread the word concerning an allegedly real situation in Egypt at that time. She wrote to me on behalf of her friends who were still in Egypt and described the actual condition experienced by the Malaysian students there. From the message she sent, she basically tried to inform the authorities that those living in the main Egyptian cities needed immediate evacuation as public chaos and rampant criminalities were the order of the day. In addition to that, she specifically set up a blog to spread the word about this unfortunate political chaos.
My Execution
Most people would, by default, write an ordinary blog post: briefly mention the situations in their post, express the way they feel about that matter, and explicitly tell their readers that the intention of that post is non-other than trying to get as much visitors to the blog as possible. In my opinion, such effort would work depending on the situation and urgency of the event but in most cases, blogposts which have a cause will always fail to attract the masses. As for me, I do have the intention of attracting visitors too but I do it in a slightly different way.
The usual underlying problem in traffic generation is that when people have a vague idea of what to do to get the most out of such a scenario. In the same vein, a sense of antagonism would be harboured by some people because they think if they were to give this guy a retweet or share his link on Facebook, he’ll surely reap the benefits alone.
In this case, you can’t really blame those people for thinking like that because the blogosphere is a dog-eats-dog world where everyone is seemingly competing with one another. Thus, there is always a tendency for rivalry to take place among bloggers. So what I did in response to this was to let them copy the whole entry and repost it in their blog (in praise of the idea of a tumblelog). I specifically told them to copy the entry, each and every sentence of it and do whatever they could to spread the news as widely as possible. It proved to be working.
At this stage other bloggers would think, “hey, I’ve got the latest scoop about the latest buzz in the internet world, free content, legit and has its own cause. I should post this in my blog to let people know what’s going on so that something could be done.” They won’t think that I’m in this solitarily for my own personal gain because they have a part in it.
Now here’s where the magic happened. Please note that I did not ask them to give me credit at all but being cultured bloggers themselves, those who copied my post have had the simple courtesy of crediting the entry back to me, by way of citing myself as the original source. Readers of those blogs would then in turn clicked on the link which led to my site. The process did not stop here. Other bloggers would keep on reposting the entry, creating a long chain of reactions, so long as the matter-of-subject was still shining under the limelight.
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Done with the blogging part. Now how do we get loads of people to retweet this even if they don’t read the post?
Given the circumstances that there was a necessity to urge the Malaysian government to extend help to the Malaysians in Egypt at the quickest rate possible, I purposely included the Malaysian Prime Minister’s tweet handle in the post title. By doing so, each retweet published will be automatically subjected to the Prime Minister at the same time. The tweet is good that people will hit the retweet button the instant they read it because it brings a matter of some importance and has a reputable receiver, that is the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
People will also be encouraged to retweet because they will then be able to take part in the expression of a shared sentiment to a credible audience. It is as good as it is thus gives people more confidence to retweet it as some are really concerned about their follower counts that they carefully choose what to retweet and what not. Again, if masses know what to do they will take action.
The Result
The actual entry on my blog
I got a whopping 500 retweets, at least 4000 Facebook shares and at least 50,000 pageviews for that page in the same day it was published. The blog that I was promoting managed to get 30k fans on its Facebook page for that day.
The title says: [Latest] The Egypt Crisis – The Condition of Malaysian Student @NajibRazak. Now tell me, who wouldn’t retweet this?
What Now?
For the purpose of this contest and its theme (traffic generation), I strongly believe this is one of the best ways to gain traffic. I’m not saying that this is the ultimate success formula for all but what I’m sharing here is essentially an overview of how to tell people what to do and actually make them think that they should do it. This is as legitimate as it is and let us imagine if charity causes or donation drives on the internet implement this kind of strategy – I’m sure they will be achieving results more favorably.
What do you think? I’d love to hear your insights on this. Don’t forget to give me some love by retweeting this, you know you want to. I really appreciate it and thanks for reading =)
Shout out to my best buddies, Amir from Project 2074 and Yuyu for helping me with the proofreading task and final editing. Thanks a lot!
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Thanks for the tip. I just love learning new ways and methods to gain traffic..
By the way, Great blog
Twitter: ariffshah
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Thanks for stopping by. I believe there are lots of other ways for generating traffic. This can be one of it if implemented correctly.
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bro!! style la!! cari traffic international tuh!!
Twitter: ariffshah
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Cari traffic tu takdelah sangat. Cuma saje aku nak cuba nasib, tengok berapa jauh boleh pergi. Harap dapat sokongan daripada semua.
Btw. Thanks sebab baca.
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Twitter: wpexplorer
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That is nice and all…but the real question is how much money did all this traffic generate?
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Don’t think that’s an appropriate question to ask around.
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Twitter: wpexplorer
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I don’t mean a specific number. I mean did all that social traffic actually increase any earnings or was it just traffic? Ultimately you are a blogger because you are trying to make money, just like everyone else, no?
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I don’t mean a specific number. I mean did all that social traffic actually increase any earnings or was it just traffic? Ultimately you are a blogger because you are trying to make money, just like everyone else, no?
From your “angry” reply, I assume the traffic burst didn’t result in much increase in profits…
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Of course with tremendous amount of pageviews in a day, your income will increase. That’s just how it works. The numbers are subjective depending on the ads company you’re working with and the campaign that is running on your blog.
Hope that answer satisfies you.
And no, I don’t blog purposely for money because if I do, I’d create all those niche blogs like most other people do. It’s just a personal blog. But that does not stop me from making my blog better than other blogs that are created to generate income. To me achieving extraordinary achievements like this satisfies me and that’s that.
Hope this answers your question.
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Twitter: nandimaan
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I just interfering into your conversations.Great post no doubt and its ob course an unique method for traffic burst.Anyway all the blogger are not from money making niche,some are blogs about money making niche but most are generating some money from their blog,whether they blog for money or blog for personal life it doesn’t matter.
If I blog for personal life and discover such huge traffic burst for my content,then I obviously take the advantage for generating money from those traffic burst.
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Twitter: GrowMap
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IMHO, Ariff was sincerely focused on sharing the status of Malaysian students and the traffic and potential income it might generate were additional benefits. Again IMHO, A.J.s question indicates that his primary interest is how much money he could make using this idea and not the benefit Ariff intended to share by publishing that information.
It appears that Ariff stumbled upon this successful strategy and shared it. He did not know the strategy and then – taking advantage of a trending topic – publish just anything in hopes of benefiting financially.
Intention is important and where your heart is will eventually be revealed. Some famous bloggers serve manna and fools line up to buy from them, but the best bloggers are not financially focused and only later do they decide that monetizing would allow them to spread more good faster.
You WILL be judged by what is in your heart and that is not an easy thing to keep hidden for long.
What those who lack discernment can not tell is which came first – the motive or the good. For example, one of my last ten posts is about Kikolani’s new ebook on How to Promote Blog posts. That fits perfectly with the theme of this post so I’ve selected it to feature in CommentLuv in this post.
Since her inexpensive ebook has an affiliate program and Kristi is well-known in CommentLuv circles, it is possible that I could earn affiliate commissions by sharing it. What is key, though, is that I share it because it could benefit those reading this and NOT because it could send a little cash my way. (That post was published March 1, two weeks before this post existed so I could not personally have planned to have it available as one of my last ten posts today.)
We have to learn that when we focus on the greater good – as many bloggers do – we are rewarded EVENTUALLY; when we focus on selfish motives and money our intentions will become obvious and only fools will fall for that forever.
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As for me, it is not only generating traffic and converting it into cash, basically what you have done, you have built an authority blog. From now on it would be easier to turn the traffic into the income if you wish so.
Regards. Pathan
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@Growmap
Thanks for the lengthy comment Gail. It’s nice to see an old friend again. Well, you get it right, crystal clear. It’s just the rule as it is, when we do something out of the goodness and not profit, then we will duly be rewarded for it because of the sincerity but when we do something with purely profit in mind, then it won’t go as well as we had expected because it lacks passion. People will easily be irritated by it.
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Thanks for commenting. I fully agree with you. Sometimes people just focus on SEO and popular keyword without even thinking of site authority which guarantees an everlasting surge of visitors. Good blogs just survive without even striving for their sustainability because people just love them.
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em..that was nice ariff. You learn something useful from that article. It works and i believe you like it. It happens and it will repating itself soon. Just keep writing and you can see another 50k impression of article exist again in future.
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Thanks for stopping by Haikal. To tell you the truth, I did not expect it would be that successful and after looking at the post again, then only I realized what actually had happened there. So I wrote this post. Hopefully it would be beneficial for all.
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Very nice, but how does that translate into a commercial setting?
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Basically write something that could make your readers think that they should share it, that they are obliged to do so rather than directly asking them to do so. It is tricky but it works.
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The short answer is watch what is trending (breaking news) and write about that. Many will be doing that so make sure your contribution is share-worthy and not just rehashed information.
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Awesome tips from Ariff Shah. Now, that’s somehow work on me too, in Twitter part. Kudos and thanks again Ariff.
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Thanks for stopping by Zara. Glad it worked for you.
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Amazing! That was really a viral post. I believe that a combination of proper keyword title, keyword manipulation on the body of the post, social media distribution and good timing will make a post hit an organic flow of traffic. Congratulations! You have a good dontent!
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Amazing! That was really a viral post. I believe that a combination of proper keyword title, keyword manipulation on the body of the post, social media distribution and good timing will make a post hit an organic flow of traffic. Congratulations! You have a good content!
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Thanks kirapermunian!
When writing a tweet, the selection of words is the utmost important because from there, some people would just RT if they feel that the tweets they are reading is worth RT-ing without having to go through and read the link itself.
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When i saw the title of ariff’s post in his blog, two things pop ups in my mind.
One, the issue that we put up in his blog was a current issue, everyone wants to know about it.
Secondly, that post might generate huge traffic, and he wants the traffic at the first place.
About the power of twitter and facebook, everyone knows it. What makes difference here is the issue that he wrote in his blog.
But I do agree about the linkback, when someone read it, he may led to ariff blog.
The reality is, you’ll not have chances like this everytime.
ps: why get butthurt when someone accuses that he wrote it for the purpose of traffic, when he really meant it? How do I know? The post you read above proved everything!
Twitter: ariffshah
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Not sure where you are getting about the butthurt part and the relevency to this whole entry.
Then again, I’m just reporting my discovery. Perhaps some part of this method or the general idea of it can be applied in some other situation.
Thanks for your comment.
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Not sure where you are getting about the butthurt part and the relevancy to this whole entry.
Then again, I’m just reporting my discovery. Perhaps some part of this method or the general idea of it can be applied in some other situation.
Thanks for your comment.
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Great tip! You’ve got my brain spinning with ideas!
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Glad you got my points. Good luck and thanks for commenting!
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Twitter: blognames
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This is great idea to gain traffic. Traffic is necessary for earning. I will try these method.
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I wish you all the best. Do share with us your success story after wards. Thanks for reading.
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Hey Ariff,
Amazing results you have achieved with just one post. Well done and thanks for sharing this.
Good luck with the contest
Mavis
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Thanks Mavis. Hopefully you learned a lesson or 2 from my post.
Btw. Love your article. At the end of the day good quality content and a highly optimized page is always the best way to sustain organic traffic. Serve the best content we could provide and we’ll get the best result.
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I guess the fact that you put the twitter id of the Prime Minister of Malaysia in the title of your post must have worked more than anything else. I have got a few thousand visitors on my news blogs in the past when i wrote about current events, but never gained so much tweets or facebooks shares, thanks for giving this idea, this is certainly something new for me.
and for the others who are commenting on the earning potential of this method, am sure you can implement this idea on any commercial topic that is of current events…
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I’m confident this method if being used at the right time will yield desired results. As bloggers, they just have to be creative to use certain methods at certain situations to gain traffic.
Glad you learnt a thing or two from this case study and hopefully you’d gain success implementing it in your blog. Thanks for stopping by =)
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Thats a great example on how an interesting message, sent at exactly the right time, can go viral and create a lot of interest and traffic via social media.
Twitter: ariffshah
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With the correct tone and structured writing, you would attract people’s attention much easier. That’s what happened here, combined with the right message at the right time, you’d get an outstanding result.
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That is some serious traffic. Congrats. I think the key to that success is the timing of your post, and staying focused on spreading that message on other social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
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To tell you the truth, the referral part (people copying my article and linking back to me) was the real reason this was successful and where the majority of traffic actually came from. This is new and I don’t think the masses out the knew about this strategy. It is proven and it is the best way to spread news as well.
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Great tips here Ariff. It’s great what you have done for the Malaysian students.
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Don’t think I played a major role there but with that information being spread to other people in a short amount of time had resulted people taking actions and making decisions faster than they used to.
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hey dude how about people who don’t blog about controversial issues? Like me.. i blog about gadgets and fashion accesories.. Any tips here?
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Twitter: ariffshah
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If you have some budget, maybe a giveaway or freebie would be a great way to increase your blog’s popularity. Other than that, maybe you can learn something or two from other posts in this traffic generation contest. I’m sure you’d find something there.
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Hey Ariff,
there is really something sneaky to that “tactic”.
)
Not telling them that they have to link back – but make
them feel obligated to do it…
Cool.
Greetings,
André
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People generally do the opposite, when you ask them what to do, they won’t do it but when you did not say anything, they will do more. That’s just how people think at general.
Use it and the result will be overwhelming.
Thanks for stopping by André. Really appreciate it.
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Ariff,now i know how to get more and nore traffics from readers.Thanks for sharing such a good info and well done for this article.I hope that you will continue your writing since it is very usefull yet helpfull.Bravo!
Twitter: ariffshah
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Thanks for dropping by Haiqal. For me doing something different from what other people do has always been my favorite thing to do. i just love experimenting with new methods. It’s interesting and intriguing as well.
Will share more in my blog in the future. See how it goes.
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this is really great tactic.. good one ariff!
, you really know how to make your post go viral. The part that really amazed me is adding PM’s twitter handle in your post title.
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yeah. It was like a snap decision at that time. This is one of the best strategy I accidentally discovered and I’m proud of it.
I do really hope somebody in the PM’s office read my blog. Now that would be something else altogether.
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This was a very good blog; great idea and it was well written. You got to the point and with no ‘filler’ it was informative.
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Thanks Mike. Well my friends did all the editing for this post. Credit goes to them for splendid editing and perfect grammar.
I suggest you read up other posts as well in this contest. I’m sure there are other good ideas for you to implement in your site.
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I’d like to know the number of bloggers that acted as your first layer – i.e how many readers took your post and were first to republish it. My new posts get very few views so don’t think this would be great for me.
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Twitter: ariffshah
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I so much want to know the actual numbers but unfortunately I just can’t get the data. I was away for a while during class and when I got back, I only realize the extraordinary number and hits that came to my blog. It was mind boggling.
Maybe you need more time to establish yourself. Everybody have been there and only time and consistency pays.
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Hey Ariff… I think people are likely to spread something for humanitarian reasons — but you’ve definitely taken it to a new level.
I’m sure it’ll work for other (more commercial) topics, but it’ll require some tweaking. I’m brainstorming with Google Trends, maybe some Google Insights.
Good stuff!
Dahlia
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yes they will, but to get it done at an extraordinary rate like this is a total different thing all together.
I’m sure with the right tweaking, you would be able to implement this in other topics as well. Good luck and do share your success story later on.
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Great tips here Ariff,I will try these with more ideas
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Thanks pedro. Hopefully you’ll achieve success with this method.
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it would be good for current affairs blogs and websites that report the news as it happens.
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Twitter: ariffshah
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Yeah. This would be great if once a while applied at those sites. But the success rate will decrease if they use the same strategy everyday. This is a good method even better if combined with other method so that people would not get too accustomed to it and actually get bored in the long run.
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Wow~~ Great idea. Allowing people to auto spread for you~~ Indeed it will works~ Thanks for the idea.
Great content is mean to share to everyone. =D
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Twitter: ariffshah
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That’s the best part of this method, people do the promoting part for me instead of I have to do it on my own. You don’t see this happen often in the blogging world.
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nice bro..proud to be malaysian..thanks for the tips
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Thanks for dropping by and supporting me bro. Hopefully I will make us proud.
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That is incredible traffic for one day, it goes to show that quality information is valued especially at at time of crisis. Are you still receiving high hits for that blog post?
Ash
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For that post, nope. Clearly it shows some content is only good while it is the buzz of the day but then again, I gained quite a number of fan base and followers after the burst, so I guess the benefit is a long term one.
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Twitter: pocketinfos
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Your post is very well put together and not all bloggers blog to make money.
Of course if your content is consistently good you will attract a loyal fan base.
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Twitter: ariffshah
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Thanks for reading. A traffic burst like this is the best way to determine whether your blog has consistent good content or not. Look at the conversion rate (number of followers and fans gained) it it’s a lot then your content is good for the masses.
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Interesting… and would probably work for many kinds of posts. Lemme give this a try!
Twitter: ariffshah
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I wish you all the best for that. Thanks for reading =)
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Yeah, I am thrilled by this, even for the fact that you are a student. I just started blogging and I am in it for fun and for profits.
chao!
Twitter: ariffshah
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Blogging is fun. One thing that I learn, blog properly from the start and don’t cut corners. As time goes by, you’ll develop your own skill and style that defines you as a blogger. From there you will gain followers and have your own fan base.
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Wow 50k page views.That’s a lot.current issues really can attract people to read especially big issues and hot story in market.Thanks for sharing
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Thanks for stopping by. For a small site like mine, yeah 50k is a lot. Hopefully there will be opportunities like this in the future.
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omg this is so cool..thanks
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Thanks for dropping by suara people. Glad to have you here.
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goodone again, today via commentluv I saw three fantastic bloggers but not all do blogging for money till now even I dont i just started to share the troubleshooting things with all my friends and relatives under one link but later on I found its helping others as well so I continued the things
Twitter: ariffshah
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Blogging is not necessarily for money as some bloggers dont put even a single ad on their site. That said, when you have a network on your own and have your own fan base, you could do wonders from it.
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Wow, now that’s mightily impressive, but how long did your visitors stay on your site, did they visit other pages or just stop by the one.
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Twitter: ariffshah
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Some actually stayed and followed my blog by becoming a fan at my Facebook page. Pageviews for the overall site substantially increased for the next couple of days. Then again, you can’t always gain 100% long term benefit from this, right?
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I’m always concerned with the bounce rate when it comes to getting visitors on my blog(s). I think it’s more important to get them to stay if you can.
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As bounce rate is concerned, I don’t think it would be suited well for a personal blog like mine. In my opinion, bounce rate works well with niche blog/sites because it can prove that our strategy in getting targeted traffic is working.
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great read, good example of how social media can give a tremendous boost: all depends on quality, fan base and timing.
What I do wonder, though, is have you seen any lasting increase in traffic because of this?
What I mean is I had such an experience once, where I posted a list of Photoshop alternatives and had it submitted to Digg (you know, back in the day..). I got like 11000 pageviews in a day (I nearly died in excitement), but my blog wasn’t very optimized back then so traffic quickly went down again. Never had it stick to anything higher than 50 daily pageviews after that.
How does such a burst of exposure affect your Google ranking?
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I managed to get some new followers through my blog’s Facebook fanpage. That’s a big win already as the number of fans there never decreases, unless you are being annoying to your fans.
With people talking about my blog in their site, that simply increases quality exposure for my blog. That’s different from Digg because blog readers are somewhat loyal to the source (blog) they get information from whereas at Digg, well they just loyal to buzz of the day. That’s why you did not manage to sustain the attention you got earlier.
Talking about Google, I was ranked first for the keyword ‘mesir’ within a few weeks of the traffic burst and now have fallen to the second page of SERP. With such exposure and attention, Google will list you on the first page for the related keyword.
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Twitter: wiseautoclinic
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I’m learning just how many tools there are to get traffic. Picking the right topic at the right time quickly gets passed around with today’s social media! Thanks for the useful information!
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Twitter: ariffshah
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Right topic at the right time might work but then again we still have to compete with the media itself (online news agencies). It is how we execute things and put it in place that matters a lot.
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Twitter: bloggingj
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I will surely follow your write up. Getting 50 thousand views is a lot!!
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Twitter: ariffshah
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Thanks! That is quite an amount but I’m sure there are some other better and proven methods out there. Cant wait to discover more.
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wow thats amazing
congrats on the success and thanks for the tips!
Twitter: ariffshah
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Thanks for stopping by and I wish you all the best. Hopefully my article is beneficial for you.
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Twitter: dotcosecrets
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Thank you ariff. “tell people what to do” and “actually make them think that they should do it”.
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Twitter: ariffshah
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That’s just something I learn from my blogging experience, do something that people don’t usually do and you’ll get unusual result.
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thank you for sharing this with fellow bloggers. you could have kept this information and your traffic to yourself. i believe that posting this information reflects what type of person you are and that you are not one to take advantage of a situation.
i am certain that charities will read your information and those that are trying to generate traffic for it will follow your example.
Twitter: ariffshah
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I’d love to see charity organizations implementing more creative and engaging way so that their causes will gain desirable and if not extraordinary result. Now that would make the world a better place, right?
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Twitter: abdusfauzi
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hmm. this is what should happened when they obey the blogging etiquette : credit.
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Twitter: ariffshah
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I really wanna see our local bloggers having more etiquette and culture and they dont just create blogs for the sake of making an income out of it. That just kills the blogging scene.
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Twitter: BluberryIceLtd
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That’s a great post with useful tips. I mat try to adapt slightly what you say and see if I can make it work in my niche. Thansk for the informative post
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Twitter: ariffshah
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Your welcome. Hopefully it’ll work for you. You can also read up other posts in this blogging contest. I’m sure there are lots of other tips and tricks that can be adapted. It’s all about trial and error, if this does not work for you, try other methods as well.
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Twitter: kjhosein
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Hi Ariff – interesting approach. The main thing that I would be worried about is the search engines not knowing which blog had the authoritative version, and thus ranking the copies higher than yours.
A secondary worry is that for articles with different subject matter, other bloggers aren’t going to be as courteous and link back to the original.
But glad to see this tactic worked for you. 50k pageviews for a single post in a day is remarkable!
Cheers!
_Khalid
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Twitter: ariffshah
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For that day. I was ranked at the first place in Google SERP. I think over the years. Google search has improved tremendously. With taking into account social share points, they can determine real links that people are promoting instead of links that are up there by means of artificial and non ethical methods.
As for courtesy is concerned, guess we just have to trust people, especially out readers. Yes, there are people like that who would never link back but I believe those are the minorities.
Thanks for the comment and for actually spending time reading my post. Appreciate it!
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Twitter: dragonblogger
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A most excellent example of an article gone viral and trending, my question Ariff is did the traffic surge cause any site outages or performance impact? Most bloggers on any sort of shared hosting couldn’t suffer such a surge without having a denial of service on their blog which would lead to most people getting a 500 error if not worse which would have a backfire effect. If one is to try and go for surges like this, I would suggest you are on VPS or dedicated hosting. I don’t know any shared hosting plans that could cause your blog to survive a surge like this and not provide an outage.
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Twitter: ariffshah
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I was wondering the same this after the surge but from my Site Uptime and Montastic report, I did not get any alerts at all informing me of any outages or error. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m using a cloud hosting account rather than the traditional shared hosting that made all that difference.
My site was not optimize at that time (no caching, no CDN) yet it worked well. Total bandwidth consumed for that day was around 6+ GB.
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Twitter: stellaanokam
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Hey Ariff:
That’s was blogging gone wild, I must say. What a creative way to use blogging to do GENUINE social good, and also increase branding and exposure.
Definitely, that kind of post would push your post high up in the SERP. Quick question here: Did you manage to track how that massive amount of traffic influenced other SEO parameters?
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Twitter: ariffshah
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Unfortunately no. The tsunami like surge of traffic came from numerous sources (mainly from other blogs. Facebook share and Twitter) and it did not occur to me to do an in-depth investigation of the exact percentage gained from SEO. As I said, this was all unplanned and happened like somebody did a magic trick. You never know that the last thing a blogger would do (letting people copy their content) would actually reward them greatly.
Sometimes, the unconventional method works better than those of well known. You just have to experiment more often to gain more knowledge in traffic generation.
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Twitter: orangakaun
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nice tips there..awesome!
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Twitter: ariffshah
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Thanks a lot orang akaun
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Twitter: thatgirlisfunny
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You’ve given me an idea to test out your strategy for one of my causes that needs a big boost from like-minded fans. Really good stuff! I’m entered in this contest too. I called my traffic generation tips vibrant because they were accidental and fruitful. Your idea has generated staggering numbers that are truly reflective of being vibrant. I’m intrigued. I have to re-read your post and then get busy with the idea of asking people to re-post. Funny how something that we’re not supposed to do worked so well. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
Well done!
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Twitter: ariffshah
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I’m overwhelmed that the very objective I’m writing this report is achieved. It is really satisfying to see people generate more ideas out of what I have done rather than doing the exact same thing that I already did.
Thanks for the your support. I really appreciate it and really hope this article could make it somewhere throughout this contest. At least getting it published in the ebook is my goal at the moment.
Being a blogger, you must always be prepared to give your fullest in every post you write on your blog. There must be some level of consistency and quality control to be looked at if not when situation like this happens and you fail to deliver, you won’t get the maximum benefit out of it.
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Twitter: BellaEnveeus
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Hi Ariff,
First and foremostly, reading your post and noticing that you share everything without holding any information back proves your sincerity and how genuine your technique is. It is true when you said that what matters is our objective in what we write and what we share with our readers. If in our hearts, we’re just looking to generate money, it will be translated to our blog posts and attract less readers in comparison to someone who does it just to share knowledge and information (yet at the same time, appreciates the money it is generating).
When I first started blogging, other bloggers I knew just told me that in order to increase traffic to my blog, I have to blogwalk a lot. But due to my work, that is quite impossible. Now, after reading your post, I think I might give it a try and see if your technique might work for me too.
So thanks for sharing Ariff!
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Twitter: ariffshah
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Blogging is about sharing. That’s the very principe I hold on from the very start of my blog. I share everything that I know and that sharing and teaching has made my blog successful. Bring it to the next level and let people use your content, then it might work wonders. You never know.
Other than that, at the early stages of blogging you just can’t focus on the making money part. Most bloggers have this misconception that they will make lots of money once they start a blog, which is why those kind of blogs never see a future. Money is good, but without focusing on the content first, you won’t even see the money. Once you have perfectly done your content sharing part, then only u’d enjoy all the benefits that come with blogging.
Thanks for reading =)
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Twitter: myuliawan
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A wrote a very useful experience for us all.
Twitter: myuliawan
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I learned a lot about writing tips from the blog Ariff. Thank you
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Thanks a lot Bang Iwan and good luck to you!
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Twitter: wazy84
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nice tips ,good for all blogger
keep it up bro
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Twitter: ariffshah
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Thanks for stopping by. Harap ada info yang berguna dalam entri ni.
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Twitter: razis
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steadyla bro..baru tau ko join contest nie. akan ku komen byk2 kali. BTW..info ini sgt berguna…
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Twitter: ariffshah
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Memang tiap tahun aku masuk kalau ada idea. Tahun ni nasib baik la idea cun sikit masuk dan aku rasa artikel mi boleh pergi jauh. Kalau rajin tolong RT la..
And thanks sebab singgah.
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Two problems I see with this:
1. It relies on a rather unusual situation, How often do you have inside information when a coup is going on?
2. By putting your content out there, you may end up in the Google Sandbox because they could assume you were proliferating duplicate content all over the web.
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Twitter: ariffshah
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I guess for the long term yes, maybe Google won’t take this into account but the idea of letting people use your content and giving back the referral link to you works quite well depending on the situation. As I have stated this is not the only way to gain a burst of traffic like this, but it is unique in nature and it worked on my side. Thus sharing the idea of it will hopefully let people generate new ideas and methods out of it.
Then again apart from making your site popular with lots of fans and followers at social media sites such as Twitter & Facebook, there’s no other permanent way to gain traffic other than those two. It’s the accidental factors like this that people should know which encourage them to work hard and not just that, but work creatively.
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i agree.
news stories can drive traffic if it’s hot news. but after the event, the traffic will drop down dramatically.
it will not assured of stable traffic.
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Twitter: khairulzamri
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tanx nice info, the best input will be guide to move forward
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Twitter: ariffshah
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thanks for reading. I will write up something on this in bahasa.
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“I got a whopping 500 retweets, at least 4000 Facebook shares and at least 50,000 pageviews for that page in the same day it was published. ”
Ariff, this is simply amazing. I bet you got many people link to your article which helped with the overall domain trust. I would say, pretty nice job
All the best, Jane
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Twitter: ariffshah
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Yeah. Got quite a number of backlinks just from this post. That’s a great thing really as some people really strive to get backlinks. Maybe in the future the content wont be as much use, but the backlinks still count as backlinks. Thus contributing to higher domain trust and authority.
Domain authority will result in better ranking in SERP, and there you have it, again will contribute to more traffic.
It is those small things that we do that work matters the most. Cost effective and legit.
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Nice post, I like sharing the experience from the succesful ones, it is very motivational, thanks.
All the best,
Allice
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Twitter: ariffshah
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Thanks for reading Alice. Hopefully some new ideas would be generated from reading my article. All the best to you too.
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Twitter: suffer8zine
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wow! nice entri bro, RT!
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Salam…
nice info…ariff…
In my opinion….we must know what issues play in the people’s mind at present…
and play with the issues in our blog
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Twitter: SineaPies
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Very inspiring post. A great call-to-action can bring substantial results.
Twitter: Alexwhalley23
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That’s brilliant.
Sneaky, but brilliant.
Viral marketing ebook style but with a live post. Love it
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Twitter: adaminbiz
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That’s funny how commercials play with our minds…
I did not read the article. I browsed through…
And what i seen is next:
Sub heading: “My execution”
and 2 columns under it with portraits of six beautiful ladies…
I thought to myself: “If that man executes ladies in order to get 50K hits, i’d better leave that site, before i turned to be just like him.”
Interesting but like others I would be concerned about duplicate content.
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Twitter: todayhaspower
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This is clever. It encourages us to be thinking of ways outside the box.
I will keep this in mind. Thanks.
Enjoyed that thanks -loads to think about now!
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Twitter: selfishyayun
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selamat atas terpilihnya artikel ini jadi pemenang kontes… aku ingin sekali menulis tapi bahasa inggrisku kacau jadi aku takut tidak masuk seleksi.
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Twitter: UstazLove
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Salam..
Tahniah sebab menang tempat ke-2 “Traffic Generation Blogging Contest Winners”.. Ustaz Love tumpang berbangga sebagai rakyat Malaysia
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Twitter: wii4everybody
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Well this is great! but still what if Google could assume you were proliferating duplicate content all over the web? and of course you got real lucky since that was a world wide event that involves human life… still Congratulations on winning second place! xD
Oziel
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It seems like this would be a one-time phenomenon with real-time current events that pique everyone’s interest. How do you think this would work for a static site? I don’t see it being all that beneficial but I could be wrong.
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Twitter: Mazzastick
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We have to learn and use any kind of unique and original ideas to bring traffic to our site.
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Twitter: inqtravelers
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Interesting strategy but not something you could really use every day.
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Twitter: swamykant
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Very nice strategy. Providing immediate call to action for a noble cause is the secret of your success.
Thanks for sharing the secret.
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Twitter: authopublisher
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I also get a flush of traffic when I post according to a Twitter trend and promote it on Twitter.
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Twitter: phycrewz
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kau mmg terbaikla ariff!! tanx..mmg berguna untuk blogger baru nak aktif mcm aku ni..
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Twitter: seommotips
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That was wonderful as far as traffic generation. You caught the right time and the very best method to cash the traffic.
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Thank you so much for the information you provided, it is an awesome idea for generating more traffic to a blog.
Also Congratulations on coming 2nd place in the contest.
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I got the URL of your blog from the blog where you are the second winner of the contest.Congratulation on your achievement.Your this post on your blog is informative.Thanks for this knowledge.
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Man, you really got 50k pageviews to one of your posts? That is an hell of a great achievement. You seem to be skilled in internet marketing a lot. Did it get you many backlinks? Just asking
Adam
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Amazing!! So much to take in at once – I’ve bookmarked for study later, thanks.
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Twitter: khabri chacha
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that’s great,, congrats for the good results,, nice share
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This is all well the fact that you managed to generate so much traffic.
But did this turn in to business?
This is the real question!
That was really a viral post.
Thank you so much for the tips. Nice work.
Regards
Karlos
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