Viral vs Organic Traffic

Which of these two options sound better to you? One, you could have a blog post go viral, bringing thousands of visitors to your website in one day. Or two, you could have one well optimized post that brings you a small amount of organic traffic (that is, traffic from search engines) each day. A lot of people would choose option one – how cool would it be to see hundreds of shares on one of your post, hundreds of visitors browsing your website at one time, right? Well guess what – a lot of people are wrong. The steady organic traffic would by far be the best option, and here’s why. 

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Wordpress vs Disqus

These days, we have a ton of different comment systems to choose from for our WordPress powered blogs. We have Livefyre. We have Disqus. We have social media commenting systems such as Facebook and Google+ comments.  And of course, we have WordPress’ native, default comment system. The two most popular of these being Disqus, and WordPress comments. But which is the best one for your blog? You may be surprised! 

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We are impatient. It’s human nature. We want to see things done, and we want to see things done quickly. And that’s no different with our traffic numbers. You take a look at Google Analytics, and the results are disappointing. Although the numbers are slowly climbing, it doesn’t seem to be fast enough. Ever have that feeling? I know I have!

Maybe you’re starting to get too impatient. You see a service selling traffic, and you’re tempted to buy into it. I’m here to stop you. Here are my top 4 reasons why you shouldn’t pay for traffic from traffic services, such as Fiverr gigs.

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If done right, using forums to gain traffic to your website can be one of the most rewarding efforts. However, the wrong approach to doing so can do nothing but get your IP on a permanent blacklist. So how exactly do you go about it? 

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We’ve all heard that commenting on other people’s blogs is a good way to bring traffic to your website. But did you know that there is a certain technique to doing it? While the wrong technique could do nothing but waste your time, the proper technique could generate hundreds of visits from only a single comment! So what exactly is the proper technique to blog commenting for traffic?

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Although it’s completely possible to have a successful website without being indexed and ranked on the major search engines, it sure helps a heck of a lot. After all, how cool would it be to get free, effortless, targeted traffic to your website? It’s pretty great, in fact, niche websites thrive on it. So what are you waiting for anyway? 

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