Have you ever had this happen to you?
You find a long tail keyword phrase that gets 200 searches per day on Google, and has under 1000 competing webpages. A well written article based around that keyword phrase should generate some steady page views.
So you write and submit the article. After an initial flurry of pages views, you haven't received a single page view in weeks.
On paper, it should be getting much more exposure.
Well, yesterday I wanted to try an experiment with one of these articles. I wanted to see if I could "generate" more exposure for the article, at least temporarily.
As it stood, it only had 48 page views and 13 click thrus in almost three weeks of publication at EZA. It also hadn't received a new page view in almost two weeks. I was baffled by it.
So I went to Google and typed in "myniche forum". I registered for just two of them. I started a thread that was like, "I just submitted an article about such and such. I was wondering if you guys could read it and let me know what you think of it."
That was it. My other option, especially if I was going to do this on a more consistent basis, would be to link to the article in my sig file.
I saw the results almost instantly.
Before making the posts, my article had 48 page views and 13 click thrus.
After just three hours (on an article that hadn't received a page view in almost two weeks), my stats for that article were now 117 page views and 37 click thrus.
Not only that, but the CTR for this traffic (34.8%) was higher than the normal CTR value (27.1%).
In total, I spent a total of about 20 minutes on this project. Could I have written more posts? Sure. Could I have found more forums? Yes, there were plenty to choose from. I just chose the first two.
One more thing:
This is just my thoughts, not fact. But by linking back to the article, I am not only getting new readers, I am also increasing the amount of backlinks for my article.
And because they are focused (top forums in this niche), this will raise my article in the search engine results. The higher you go, the more page vieews you will get.
I just touched the surface with this strategy. I hope that it gets some people thinking.
Best wishes,
JoeMack