The End Result
Not really the end result since this project is still enjoying a healthy and fruitful life, but after 9 months of careful planning, remaining flexible to the marketplace, and nurturing our most valued asset; our users, we surpassed our milestone of 100,000 visitors.
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Great, But Is It Repeatable?
In case you weren’t already thinking it, you are now.
The answer is Yes.
Taking what we learned and applying the concept of pumpkin hacking, we started a new blog at the end of July 2012 to test the transferability of our strategy, and here were the results:
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In the first 12 days we had over 17,000 visitors. In the first full month, we had over 50,000 unique visitors coming to the website over 100,000 times (see below).
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And it didn’t slow down…
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By the end of the 3rd month we were receiving over 100,000 unique visitors, and over 200,000 visits.
Conclusion
This is very possible.
With careful planning, an SEO focused content strategy, and an understanding of the power of information architecture – you can grow a new website to over 100,000 organic visitors per month in less than 1 year.
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Thanks for reading.
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