This contest is over. Congratulations, Tara of http://www.aspectacledowl.com. Random.org chose your comment! I will be emailing you for your details.
If you’ve been anxiously awaiting my next theme giveaway…
Wait no more!
Once again, you will have the chance to win the StudioPress Genesis Framework AND the child theme of your choice! (Up to a $100 value, depending on the child theme you choose.)
If you already own the Genesis Framework then you can just select another child theme.
What’s So Great About The Genesis Framework?
1. Many of the themes include several dashboard options to make customization easy.
For example, the Prose Theme (what I use) is great for non-coders because it has loads of design/style options. You can adjust the font colors, font sizes and more right from the WordPress admin area.
2. Clean code! (Great for SEO, page loading and more.)
3. Crisp, clean layouts
4. Several of the themes are mobile responsive (which means the theme adjusts for easy reading on smaller devices like phones and tablets).
Soon all the StudioPress themes will be mobile responsive. (You can use the filter on this page to see which ones are already mobile friendly.)
5. They have amazing support! I always get a response within 3-5 hours.
How to Enter
Like previous contests, I’m making this easy. 🙂
All you have to do is answer ONE of the following questions for a chance to win. Please respond ONCE (multiple responses will void your entire entry.)
Choose One Question to Answer:
1) Name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been the most useful for your website.
Or…
2) Name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been a complete waste of time for your website.
I will contact the winner by email and announce them here on this page after the contest ends on Friday, May 24, 2013 @ 11:59CST.
Rules and Terms
- No purchase necessary to enter or win (I will purchase the theme for the winner.)
- Only one entry per person (additional entries will be deleted and I will be checking emails and IP’s)
- One winner will be chosen using Random.org
- Contest ends Friday, May 24th at 11:59pm CST
- Entries that don’t follow the rules and requirements will be voided
- Please don’t forget to enter your CORRECT email address in the form (won’t be shown to anyone but me). If you win, that’s how I will contact you.
Pinterest has been the best traffic source for selling my books on Amazon.
Article marketing on Street Articles hasn’t been productive for me, at all.
I think that YouTube has been the most beneficial. My readers love to just watch instead of read and its easier to get my points across in a video too! My stats show that many people click thru from my link to a relevant article in the YouTube description, so this definitely helps my traffic.
Answering question 1: Getting backlinks to my site not only improved my search engine ranking but it also brought me lots of traffic from those domains.
I am still new to this and I’ve created my first blog 2 months ago, but I do have an answer to #2:
sharing it with your friends and family waist of time
Q: Name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been a complete waste of time for your website.
A: Flooding the web with applications such as Twitter
Pinterest has been the most helpful for my jewelry website, whereas Google + and Facebook have worked wonders for my blog.
I am still new to this and I’ve created my first blog 2 months ago, but I do have an answer to #1:
sharing it with your friends and family through Facebook or just word of month. My friends and family would give me advice on the direction that I should be heading. For example, what I should write on my next blog post or what not to include the next time I write. I’m just a teenager but I’ve decided to utilized my writing skills and what my area of expertise is….I hope this helps 🙂
Answer to question no 1
It was buying expired domains with lots of links to them already there.
Number 2 : Twitter and Facebook is not working(at least for me)
Answer to question no 2.
Twitter, may be because I haven’t give enough time to it.
Hi Lisa, thanks for the opportunity to get a FREE Premium WordPress Theme (need a new one for my new Domain) 😉
My Answer to Question:
2) Name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been a complete waste of time for your website.
Answer: It has got to be Twitter as I find it a total waste of time after building it for 3 to 4 years and nothing beneficial had come out of it despite a Following of 18,000s and more! Appending info regarding newly article posted on my blog seems totally ineffective at all.
Still assessing Google+, IBOToolBox and Facebook which has a better responses from the community there.
Cheers and have a great day!
William
Answering
2) Name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been a complete waste of time for your website.
A) I’ve been trying to get “likes” on Facebook and have been signing in as The Facebook Page, then looking for “other pages” to Like & Comment on…but have had zero responses to Liking my Page. Even took out a small ad to generate LIKES…nothing.
The question: Name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been the most useful for your website.
The answer:
Well, my website is under maintenance now, BUT when it was up and running a few days ago I used to focus on a certain keyword. I didn’t see it helping much. I watched one of your videos (for starters in website building, like myself) and what hit me like a rock on the head was one word: Content! You said, “find something you love doing, something you know how to do well and This will be your success” In my head, and I hope I am right, this means that a website without a good content will never get traffic. And most importantly if I love what I do 3 years from now then my website will do well.
One of the reasons my site is under some changes is exactly that. I am working on it for almost 10-12 hrs a day and I love it. And I can say that for the first time it doesn’t frustrates me.
So, yup, Content for me is the 1st thing that leads to traffic. Content and especially content I love and know about!
-Katie
I am new blogger so can not answer question 1 but 2. spamming on yahoo answers is a bad way of getting traffic. You get a traffic and comments from Yahoo but not the targeted one but with the offer to get paid traffic.
I am answering No (2)
At first I targeted one specific keyword for my website. It was getting good traffic based on the competition for the keyword. And then I did something I thought would increase my site’s traffic but it did exactly the opposite. I stuffed my site with keywords here and there in a bizarre way thinking that the more the keyword density, the more traffic I would get for the keyword in the search engines. But that step drove my site away from first page to 12th page. I had to work hard since then to get my site back to it’s previous position and that cost me a lot of time.
1. Automation! Whenever I post onto my blog, it automatically sends the post to over 10 different social media platforms including Digg, Google +, Facebook, Tumblr, etc. Once you figure out how to do it, every post you submit is broadcasted across the web through multiple mediums. You get readers of all types with little to no hassle. Much of my traffic comes from individuals clicking the links that have been automated.
Most useful: Offering a gift for email opt-in.
For me, the most helpful tip was leeching subscription members. It’s a tip I got from Social Triggers. Basically, you become active on forums or websites that are related to your topic/industry/niche. The people there already have an affinity for the niche, so if they see that you’re doing material on the niche as well, it’s much easier to gain them as an audience members. It’s not leeching, but more like targeting.
I’ll answer #1: I’m just starting so I don’t have anything that has been tried and true. I will say that subscribing to YouTube and other informational channels have been priceless in my quest for startup information on using WordPress, SEO and other similar marketing strategies. I’m would love to win this free premium site and framework as it will kickstart my online presence..by either allowing me to use myself or to gift to a client 🙂 Thank you for the opportunity Lisa!! Good luck to everyone that enters…
Awesome contest. Well, for me most useful traffic building tip is blog commenting, but simply leaving random comments isn’t much useful. However, meaningful and valuable comments are much useful to get exposure and also traffic to site/blog. Hope to win and good luck to all the participants. Thanks Lisa 🙂
#1 – Video Blogging has been helpful lately
Pinterest has been an incredible traffic-building technique for me. I’ve realized that image traffic is as important as search traffic is.
Q. 1) Name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been the most useful for your website.
A. Driving traffic from my organization’s Facebook page to either my blog or sales-based web site.
Answering questions on sites like Answer.com in your industry can help drive traffic to your website.
The traffic building tip that has been the most useful for my Web site is to create valuable content for my target market on a consistent basis. I tried posting new content every week but was inconsistent because of writers block or a project taking longer than I anticipated. I decided instead to post my tutorials every 2 weeks instead to give the best quality content and take the pressure off.
Name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been the most useful for your website:
– Definitely making my YouTube videos has helped.
2)i’m a new blogger but SEO, Facebook and guest blogging have all really helped me !
Hey Lisa!!
One great tip to build traffic would be magazine advertising whether offline or online.
I am answering question number one. I find google analytics, social media and having updated sitemaps very helpful.
Question “Name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been the most useful for your website.”
Answer: For our event hosting site using Meetup.com has been a great help in advertising for us. We actually use several different but similar formats for meetup groups and we have several different organizers to manage them all. Not only that, but cooperating with the leaders of other meetup groups to utilize their meetup lists also helps to gather more eyeballs for the events that we throw. The more emailing lists we get on the better.
Thank you for the opportunity Lisa!
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1) Name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been the most useful for your website.
Recently, one great source of traffic for me has been LinkedIn groups. Joining groups in my niche has allowed me to connect with people who are willing to share and exchange content.
1) Name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been the most useful for your website.
Hi Lisa, I found a lot of value in your video regarding website navigation and using analytics to study the path that users take in finding content.
Thanks!
Not sure, but I think the one traffic builder for me has been my reference to my site from my youtube videos.
I’d have to say that backlink building, having great content (and focusing on keywords) and well as strong social media marketing (for the most part – twitter) have all really helped me in the past (all in one package) – but if I’d have to choose which one I’d probably say twitter.
One thing that had helped me significantly is Twitter and YouTube. While I was creating my website, I was building up my audience with twitter and YouTube. After a week or two of tweeting and making videos, I started directing people to my site and got more views than I was expecting (and positive feedback!!) It was a great boost for me.
I wish I could name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been the most useful for my website, but I’m still in the beginning phase of getting my site up and running. Just from what I have seen and read though over the last couple of weeks I have been doing research, Google + is an up and coming source for social networking. It is my hunch that it will continue to take off and improve traffic to any website. I am planning on using this tool as well some of the other tools that Lisa has talked about.
I am new to WordPress but I am an average blogger. For the first question my answer would be social media like Facebook and guest posts.
And for the second question , I literally wasted a lot of time in pinging my blog
Answer to
1) Name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been the most useful for your website.
In each article I posted on my website I used in the first and last sentence the keywords (in bold) for which I wanted to rank.
Spamming…
Answer No 1. Social Media is no doubt the biggest source to get traffic now days… sites like stumbleupon, digg, and google Plus is doing important role in traffic. if u r stronger in social media , then your website will get more traffic from it…
One thing I’ve found to be a waste is mass Twitter following from your competition. I used to get a decent response to this, but now doing so gets your account suspended.
One traffic building tip as I understand is using SEO, I’m in the infant stages of launching online so this is very timely, thanks
Lisa, I will share my toughs on this one
2) Name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been a complete waste of time for your website.
I have paid for too much money to a company that promised that they could get me to the top of the Google tree and now realize that I need to learn how to do it my self…:(
My one-traffic building tip or technique that has been the most useful for me is to use Tumblr. I have a huge success in using Tumblr to drive traffic to my website simply because my target audience is there and Tumblr tagging system has improved a lot which makes it easier for me to find out what popular tags I can use. This leads to more people discover my post and if I include a link to my blog, this will drive them to my blog.
The traffic method that has always worked best for me has been SEO. Its how I generate traffic to all my sites and will continue to be, however email marketing is my next method to try.
Cheers,
Missy
I’ ll answer both question!
My answer 1:
Blog-Directorys! Sometimes called RSS-Directorys or the like. Entering my website into a bunch of these just gave me a few more pageviews and I wasted over 2h for entering the info into various forms.
2:
It’ s while back, but in the AppleDeveloper Center you could add a website as “app” when the design was responsive. This gave me a couple hundreds more pageviews everyday for almost two weeks (after this time other apps where at the top and the list and pushed me out of view). However I gained about 50 returnig vistiors!
Hello this is me siddharth and i am answering the question 1) Name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been the most useful for your website.
The main thing to do is to submit your website to different search engines and directories and you have to write guest posts on high PR blogs so you can get the higher PR and you have to use google keyword tool and wire unique and more content thats the grate way to drag traffic to the blog !
Answer-1) Sharing your content on other social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, Delicious and StumbleUpon are very much beneficial and enhance your traffic and side by side, accept trackbacks and pingback on WordPress.
Answer-2) Posting a comment with a link of your site and writing for a multiple sites with sharing a link of your blog.
Pinterest has been my source of traffic as i have recently discovered the secret of pinning and follow group boards.
I am answering… 1) Name one traffic-building tip or technique that has been the most useful for your website.
Ans.) Google+ Page. Google+ is one of the social networks ignored by many website/Blog publishers as they are more into facebook and other social networks like Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest. My Google+ Page is a success and my site is verified on my G+ page, so it was a great achievement. That’s one of my simple traffic building tip.