a single source, nothing corroborates it
Judge guest posts by relationships, not clicks
Five guest posts on large sites, timed to publish on launch morning, sent under five hundred visits between them. The traffic from a big blog is always smaller than the size of the site suggests. What the placements are actually worth is the relationship with the host and the credibility of having been published there.
The method
- 01
Judge launch guest posts by the relationships they open, not the traffic: the click-through from big sites is smaller than you expect.
What it returned
- 500
All five guest posts together sent fewer than 500 visits to his site
Sources
- What I learned selling $6,000+ of my ebook today.Nathan Barry · nathanbarry.com · The Launch Strategy · 2012-09-04
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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