All Traffic Has It’s Uses
Even though some traffic might not result in sales or referrals etc, it’s “bad” traffic, it can still serve a purpose, if you can somehow channel it correctly.Â
I have a directory (The Poddys Directory) that I created 9 years 10 months ago. It’s really out of date, needs a complete rewrite and splitting into multiple domains, but it does get alot of traffic and has over 10,000 backlinks to it.
Well, in the past month or so I noticed that certain pages, mostly Jokes (I have almost 2,000 pages of jokes on the site) were getting a lot of traffic according to my site stats. I have also been getting a lot of traffic in from Stumbleupon, but until this week I never put 2 + 2 together.   Well I finally figured it out last night - I looked in Stumbleupon, and found at least 10 pages of jokes that had over 40 people who liked them on Stumbleupon.  Someone must have added them a few months ago, and other people have also given them a Thumbs Up.   Now there is nothing special about these jokes, they aren’t the greatest jokes, but for some reason they got reviewed on Stumbleupon. Just yesterday (1st July) alone, one page received 2,789 views!
The bad news is that despite my having updated the page a few weeks ago, practically nobody who visits clicks on the Adsense or CJ ads. But it’s traffic nevertheless.
So how does this relate to Squidoo?
Well, if I add a link to my Jokes Index lens on Squidoo, and I can encourage 10% of the visitors to my lens, that’s maybe 200 visitors per day. Then, they might also visit multiple lenses, get hooked, and might even sign up on Squidoo, or give my lenses a Thumbs Up on Stumbleupon too.
It just goes to show that even bad traffic does have it’s uses. All traffic helps drive the ratings up, in this case Poddys.com is a PR3 rated site, and it’s just a matter of taking that worthless traffic and converting it into something more worthwhile.
I hope to add the links back to Squidoo tonight, and will hopefully see some changes in my lens views tomorrow.
Will keep you posted…
Meantime…. 1 lens in the Top 100, and 9 more in the Top 2,000.
Tags: jokes, poddys, Squidoo, stumbleupon, traffic, visitors
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:50 am
This is why I look at traffic stuff although numbers tend to put me to sleep. You learn so much about how and what you need to be focusing on by seeing what people are searching for, clicking on, where they go, how they come, etc. I’ve done entire new lenses based on that information. Hope it turns out to be a big bonus for you!