How to Earn Traffic (without selling your soul) Rand Fishkin | CEO http:// bit.ly/trafficwithsoul
May 15, 2015
How to Earn Traffic(without selling your soul)
Rand Fishkin | CEO
http://bit.ly/trafficwithsoul
There’s a War Going On
Aggressive Marketingvs. Authenticity
Aggressive Marketing Demands…
Keyword-Stuffed PostsJust for SEO
Content Writers Aren’tParticularly Interested In
Shoving Out More Posts to Meet Traffic Quotas
Following People on Twitter Just to Get them to Follow You Back
Begging for Linksand Shares
Submitting Your Site and
Posts in Artificial Ways
Repetitive Social Shares to Reach a Bored Audience
Doing Distasteful Things Just
to Earn Future
Favors From Others
Pushing Visitors to “Subscribe” or “Follow”
Cold-Emails for Guest Posts or Links
That Stuff Sucks
Authentic Blogging is About…
Being You
Writing About What Excites You
Promoting Only Those Things that
Truly Capture Your Interest
Developing Relationships with People You Like
We Can Solve This Problem
Have Your Cake…
And Eat It, Too
Let’s Talk About
Authentic Marketing
(No. It’s not an oxymoron.)
The Strategy…
Connect Your Passions
With What Your Audience Needs
Discover the Intersection of Content You’re Excited About
And Content
That Excites Others
Build a Brand With These Three Qualities:
#1: Loved
(specifically by you)
#2: Unique
#3: Memorable
Commit Yourself to Trying
And Failing
Again and Again and
Again.
The Tactics…
Don’t Stuff Keywords and Don’t Write for Keywords
But When You Write Something, Check if There’s a Searched-for
Phrase to Include
Don’t Write 3X a Day Just to Get More Traffic
Do Commit to aConsistent Schedule
Don’t Follow People on Twitter Just to Get a Follow-Back
Do Interact w/ Influencers Whose Content You Like
Do Keep a High Signal:Noise Ratio
Don’t Beg for Links or Shares
Do Make it Easy for Others to Share Your Work
Don’t Submit Everything You Publish to Every Site
Possible
Do Make an Effort to Promote those Special,
“1 in 100” Posts
Don’t Repeat Social
Promotions if You’re
Uncomfortable
Do Know that Only 10-20% of Your Followers/Fans are Online at Any Given Time
Don’t Join Every Network Under the Sun
Do At Least Have a Presence on These:
Users: 90mm 850mm 200mm 120mm 12mm
Do Share Your Posts on Your Top 2-3 Networks
Don’t Share Stuff You Don’t Like
Just to Earn Followers/Fans
Do Share Stuff You FindAmazing & Worthwhile
(and find more of it)
Don’t Do Distasteful Favors Just to Get “You-Owe-Me-Ones”
Do Be Generous to Others and They’ll Be Generous to You
Don’t Push People to Subscribe / Follow / Share
Do Make it Easy to Find Those
Features
Don’t Cold Emailfor Guest Posts
Do Build Relationships and Let Your Friends Know You’re Interested
But Rand…
I’m Not aProfessional Marketer
You Don’t Need to Be.
I Don’t Have Time for Marketing
20 Minutes per Postis All I Ask
I Can’t Really Do This; Can I?
This is when Geraldine started
her blog
This is where people usually
give up.
Past 3 months are averaging 3.5K
visits/day
You Can Do It.
p.s. SEO 101 For Travel Bloggers
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-101-for-travel-bloggers
Rand Fishkin | CEO
@randfish
www.seomoz.org/blog
http://bit.ly/trafficwithsoul