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Re: Show HN: TrafficGun – Grow Your Traffic Easily

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Post by coderdude »

yabbadabbadoo wrote: post #19
coderdude wrote: post #14

This reminds me of the highly-untargeted spam emails that I get all the time from people asking if they can write blog posts for me. Naturally, they would contain a lot of links to some other site. The idea has definitely been done before. Think PayPerPost, SponsoredReviews, etc. Sounds like an excellent way to get yourself deranked by Google.

Hey! Thanks for the feedback :) 'highly un-targeted' is the keyword in your comment. With TrafficGun, there's no spamming ppl with unwanted requests. Every user on the platform is amenable to cross-promotion. As for PayPerPost, SponsoredReviews etc - our focus is primarily on cross-promotions b/w bloggers who vet each other. Finally, re:Google - We encourage all users on our platform to nofollow all links. TrafficGun…

Content for the sake of exchanging traffic by means of links. I'm not convinced this is much different (if any different) than what I mentioned. SponsoredReviews focuses on bloggers writing ads for products. Your idea is to have the arrangement be two-way so that both sites write about the other but then you have the issue of all these sites stacking up two-way links which looks like link exchanges. I doubt Google is going to be thrown off by the nofollow links. It's been abused to stop pagerank 'leak' to the point of losing its original meaning. I don't think emphasizing the use of nofollow is going to save anyone from Google realizing sites are putting out farm-style content.

Re: Show HN: TrafficGun – Grow Your Traffic Easily

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Post by bpg_92 »

danielvinson wrote: post #17
yabbadabbadoo wrote: post #2

Hi guys, I'm the co-founder of TrafficGun - a platform to make cross-promotions b/w bloggers easier. Happy to answer any questions.

Why call it TrafficGun? Feels like a weird name and carries bad connotations.

Maybe something related to mailgun.com ?

Re: Show HN: TrafficGun – Grow Your Traffic Easily

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Post by bduerst »

yabbadabbadoo wrote: post #6
kposehn wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you provide more details on one-way traffic?

Sure! If you find a site who metrics - traffic, niche etc - that you like, you can send them a request to write about your site/product in exchange for a fee. The fee is set by the owner of the site.

So it's basically a link exchange for blogs?

What's the incentive for a popular blog to link to less popular or newer blogs?

Re: Show HN: TrafficGun – Grow Your Traffic Easily

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Post by yabbadabbadoo »

bduerst wrote: post #33
yabbadabbadoo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure! If you find a site who metrics - traffic, niche etc - that you like, you can send them a request to write about your site/product in exchange for a fee. The fee is set by the owner of the site.

So it's basically a link exchange for blogs? What's the incentive for a popular blog to link to less popular or newer blogs?

When you get a request for cross-promotion, you can see the metrics of that site (traffic, niche, age etc). If the metrics aren't to your liking, you can simply decline the cross-promotion request.

Also, it's actually not about exchanging links - in fact, we strongly encourage all users on our platform to nofollow the links. This is about teling your readers "Hey! There's this interesting blog you should check out" - and getting the same in return.

Re: Show HN: TrafficGun – Grow Your Traffic Easily

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Post by kristopolous »

jakejake wrote: post #30
proksoup wrote: post #26

Reminds me of what my first impression of LinkExchange was. Webrings! Everyone wins. No sarcasm.

Ah web-rings! I remember they were quite fun and interesting at first. I'd actually click from one site to the next in a ring to check them all out. Of course that was a time when there were limited numbers of sites for niche topics, and discovering them was a more "word-of-mouth" thing. I was also surfing on a 56k modem. Not to poo-poo on what seems to be an honest effort with TrafficGun, though. I don't know if the…

It's how it works. All the star, follow, reblog platforms basically expose your presence on that persons "blog" in a push manner.

Twitter, tumblr, pinterest, instagram ... They all have a number of indirect ways of this.

And as someone who has had to do icky marketing on these platforms, doing that process is the best way to grow.

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