Free Traffic for Developed Sites
By Alan on Sep 10, 2008 in Domain Development
You have developed a website and spent time creating a bus load of relevant content but how do you get people to come visit? …. One of the best tips I can give is to take advantage of what is probably the biggest source of free traffic outside of search engines.
Wikipedia is a friend to all developers who have relevant content – they are not friends to those who park pages – but for people who develop content around topics then you must try and use Wikipedia to attach an external link to your site.
Remember, the Wikipedia police exist but good developers and site owners will be rewarded. Trust me, one of the sites we operate gets over 6,000 people a month from this simple text link – for free.
Elliot, I’m stealing your domain as a perfect example since its a top tier name.
Take for example the domain, TropicalBirds.com. The topic of tropical birds is not only completely relevant to what Wikipedia users would search for it is also a page that has yet to be created. From what I see (and I am no Wikipedia expert) but it looks like all kinds of pages exist for tropical bird types but none for the generic search of just “Tropical Birds” – Search results are here
The category of Tropical Birds should have a top level page containing information on the breakdown of species, habitats etc…
In this case, a site owner could opt to build the top level page while at the some time adding the external link to the bottom so as people finish reading and want to move on for more information the odds are some will click to the site TropicalBirds.com
So many other possibilities when domain owners take the time and develop – parking can only take you so far but once you have content …. the ride begins.
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P.S. Elliot, If you want me to delete any reference to TropicalBirds.com just let me know – I think a lot of readers know the site from domaining.com and when I couldn’t find a top level page for tropical birds it was a perfect example here.
Kelly Lieberman | Sep 11, 2008 | Reply
This is an excellent idea. I am going to give it a try with a few of my sites and see what happens. It is always great to get a fresh approach on domaining…. I always know that there is more that I should be doing, but someties it is nice to try something different for a change.
Thanks!
Alan | Sep 11, 2008 | Reply
Just remember to make sure its relevant – this doesn’t work for everyone since some of the “wikipedia police” are idiots and it depends on who is watching the topic pages your content revolves around – but if you can get a link in it’s great .. and free !
Mickie Kennedy | Sep 11, 2008 | Reply
Great post. I wonder about the possibility for abuse. I suspect Wikipedia polices better than dmoz, which became ripe with abuse in years past, but I wonder what is the art of getting included if you don’t have the connections.