Traffic Windfall I Just Noticed

April 6, 2009 on 7:58 pm | In General | 12 Comments

I noticed that Marc Dussault recently posted a video to YouTube on how to speed read on screen using a very cool program called Rapid Reader.

What’s interesting is that quite unbeknownst (great word that, unbeknownst) to me, he mentioned Marketing Results and our URL in the video as the source of the tip. That video has now been viewed 38,787 times so far, meaning that (up to) 38,787 people have heard our name and URL as a result.

While I can’t track the type-in traffic that may have resulted directly, this does illustrate the potential worth of providing value to “Sneezers”, who then re-package or re-transmit those ideas to their audience.

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This is a great site just like a marketing bible, lots of information to digest, I will definitely bookmark it.

I would say what Marc Dussault did was a very good way to get traffic to a website just like people making great videos about music adding images and then viewers coming in and adding those same very popular videos to their sites or blogs which in turn make them more interesting.

Ruben

Comment by Ruben Rivera — April 7, 2009 #
Yeah, that is an often overlooked area of internet marketing. A lot of people spend a lot of time on trying to get that ever precious anchor text and link juice(and rightfully so, that stuff is powerful). But not many people in the industry try to drive traffic through entertaining and creative ways. Like they say “Content is King”.

Comment by Minneapolis SEO — April 8, 2009 #
The video definitely is one possible stream of traffic to your site. Considering that 39,314 have viewed it (including me), you can only expect more people who will get the chance to jot down the url and take the time to visit it.

Comment by Jared|Speakwealthnow — April 13, 2009 #
Great contents will make readers to drop by and keep them coming back since they can find what they need in the website/blog.

Comment by LinkDirectory — April 22, 2009 #
I also use RapidReader – for me it does great job.

Comment by Gume — April 26, 2009 #
Congrats on the traffic surge, i just looked at the video and it seems convincing, i think i will be checking rapid reader out, thanks guys

Comment by Jim in Miami — April 30, 2009 #
The video is good! I’ll use ‘Rapid Reader’ in my system.

Comment by Steve — May 14, 2009 #
Hey Will, that’s a very interesting point you make. I’m going to have to keep that in mind for the future. I just found your site here actually, and I can already tell there’s a lot of great information available. I’ll definitely be reading more in the future.

Cheers!
Mina

Comment by Get Money Fast — June 3, 2009 #
I’ve found Hub Pages gives a pretty nice boost when you get a mention on a popular Hub.

Comment by Beauty Salon Bromsgrove — June 8, 2009 #
thats grr8 to have more traffic on the site.
Your video is really gud bcoz every body wants to save time and rapid reader does this.
good work!

Comment by Wedding Cake Toppers — June 14, 2009 #
Great video. I must look into using Rapid Reader. Thanks for the valuable info.

Comment by Lorraine — July 20, 2009 #
Embedding URL’s into videos does improve type in traffic. We do it with all of our racing car and other automotive videos that we upload to Youtube and our type in traffic has grown quite a bit because of it.

Comment by Bill — July 28, 2009 #