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Could you give some examples of alternative ways to get Google quality traffic that fall under "the open web"?

by todd3834 12y ago

TheMagicHorsey 12y ago
Exactly. I want to be edified as well. I have not found another way to get organic traffic.
- EGreg 12y ago
  Develop content that people would share with one another, and find on other sites. Videos - develop videos that drive "traffic" to your website ... Vimeo YouTube 5min or your own site Blogs - have people in your company start writing blogs and sharing their expertise on the web, and others will naturally want to check out your products ... LinkedIn Blogger or your own site PR - have people cultivate relationships in forums and with publications and post stuff that your bloggers write there are many ways to get traffic besides relying on one search engine and by the way, even ON that search engine, you should be creating all kinds of things to "take over" the first page, if you are really trying to vie for traffic e.g. on GOOGLE: youtube videos will show up if you make them google+ profiles will show up if you make them local listings, images, maps, bla bla bla which means Google is telling you to upload a lot of content to GOOGLE owned properties in order to promote your site so if you really want google traffic that badly you should do it!
  - Vik1ng 12y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_search So what you say might answer the first question, but not the follow up one. Well, your "e.g. on GOOGLE:" answers it, but the fact that you use google for that example already shows that there really isn't any way around that. He wasn't asking how to improve ranking. He was asking for alternatives to google search traffic. (Unless I got that wrong)
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    - EGreg 12y ago
      But I just told you. Social. Linkedin. Vimeo. YouTube. Other things. Sure you don't get the "instant win" of having a big player link to you. But you also are not so dependent on ONLY that big player. It's kind of like the difference between being discovered by an A&R department of a record label or going the indie route like Ben Haggerty.
      - TheMagicHorsey 12y ago
        But people won't discover my blog posts and videos without Google. Or do you suppose spamming my Facebook feed promoting my work website is the way to go?
        EGreg 12y ago
        How do you go from "people won't discover my own site under google's new algorithm" to no one on linkedin and other places will ever discover any articles linking to my site without google?
        TheMagicHorsey 12y ago
        We do post things on LinkedIn and Facebook, however we get only a tiny fraction of the traffic that we get from Google. In addition, the traffic from Google seems to convert to paying customers at a higher rate--not sure why yet.
EGreg 12y ago
Can you define Google quality traffic exactly?
- pyre 12y ago
  In a generic sense, traffic that finds your page relevant (i.e. not someone searching for shoes and ending up on this HN thread).

Could you give some examples of alternative ways to get Google quality traffic that fall under "the open web"?

TheMagicHorsey 12y ago

Exactly. I want to be edified as well. I have not found another way to get organic traffic.

EGreg 12y ago
Develop content that people would share with one another, and find on other sites. Videos - develop videos that drive "traffic" to your website ... Vimeo YouTube 5min or your own site Blogs - have people in your company start writing blogs and sharing their expertise on the web, and others will naturally want to check out your products ... LinkedIn Blogger or your own site PR - have people cultivate relationships in forums and with publications and post stuff that your bloggers write there are many ways to get traffic besides relying on one search engine and by the way, even ON that search engine, you should be creating all kinds of things to "take over" the first page, if you are really trying to vie for traffic e.g. on GOOGLE: youtube videos will show up if you make them google+ profiles will show up if you make them local listings, images, maps, bla bla bla which means Google is telling you to upload a lot of content to GOOGLE owned properties in order to promote your site so if you really want google traffic that badly you should do it!
- Vik1ng 12y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_search So what you say might answer the first question, but not the follow up one. Well, your "e.g. on GOOGLE:" answers it, but the fact that you use google for that example already shows that there really isn't any way around that. He wasn't asking how to improve ranking. He was asking for alternatives to google search traffic. (Unless I got that wrong)
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  - EGreg 12y ago
    But I just told you. Social. Linkedin. Vimeo. YouTube. Other things. Sure you don't get the "instant win" of having a big player link to you. But you also are not so dependent on ONLY that big player. It's kind of like the difference between being discovered by an A&R department of a record label or going the indie route like Ben Haggerty.
    - TheMagicHorsey 12y ago
      But people won't discover my blog posts and videos without Google. Or do you suppose spamming my Facebook feed promoting my work website is the way to go?
      - EGreg 12y ago
        How do you go from "people won't discover my own site under google's new algorithm" to no one on linkedin and other places will ever discover any articles linking to my site without google?
        TheMagicHorsey 12y ago
        We do post things on LinkedIn and Facebook, however we get only a tiny fraction of the traffic that we get from Google. In addition, the traffic from Google seems to convert to paying customers at a higher rate--not sure why yet.

EGreg 12y ago

Can you define Google quality traffic exactly?

pyre 12y ago
In a generic sense, traffic that finds your page relevant (i.e. not someone searching for shoes and ending up on this HN thread).