Catfight Over Website Traffic? How I Shut up a Scammer…
Catfight Over Website Traffic? How I Shut up a Scammer…
The other day I was on a general forum (not a marketing one) and someone had asked the question “How do I get more traffic to my website?”
Some girl had already responded to this post with the most absurd advice I think I have ever seen given to that question. She said that you should hire a particular SEO firm to wite articles for you at $1000 / each. She then went on to “warn” this poster that they shouldn’t try to do anything get traffic themselves or else they would mess up their ranking permantly.
Excuse me, Say what?
Well, I responded first by debunking the concept that you must hire out to get traffic. Second, I said that if you’d have to be crazy to pay $1000 to have an article written. Unless of course, you are a billionare in which case - sure, share the wealth. Then, of course I listed about a dozen free ways to get traffic as well as pointing out that traffic and SEO aren’t the same thing.
Well, the story goes on because this little whatever she is decided to come back and argue with me that I didn’t know what I was talking about and that you can’t get traffic without at least $5000 monthly budget for SEO (not even PPC!). LOL! So I posted my stats. 14,987 visitors in one month (the 1st month!) - not a penny spent. 8971 Visitors on another site - one month, not a penny spent. I haven’t heard back from this dimwit yet. Mabye she’s having her head examined.
The reason I’m telling you this is because it occured to me that there are people like this girl out there who want to rip you off and rob you blind. That really makes my blood boil because that is how SEO’s and marketers get a bad name. People fall for this stuff and of course wind up on the loosing end when they are spending a small fortune and have little or nothing to show for it.
So, moral of the story is that if you cross paths with this scammer or one of her cronies don’t fall for it. If you are creative and take the time to work some of the free and dirt cheap traffic techniques, you will have more traffic than you would have even if you spent thousands.
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Website Traffic & Traffic Scams Amber on 21 Jan 2007
