5 little things that count...

[Reece]

Here are some ideas for people looking to increase traffic to their .mobi sites. These are methods I've tested. These are simple, free methods that involve nothing sketchy which could have you penalized by search engines. Nothing complicated like SEO here... Just simple things that every domainer out there could and should do!

1. forward similar names to your developed site.
Result: Approximately 30 additional uniques daily courtesy of forwarding 373 names to antioxidants.mobi.

2. Make a blog.
Result: Approximately 2-3 uniques daily. I don't even update the blog, although I do plan on doing such in the near future, just to make sure visitors keep coming! I thank Wordpress for that and the fact that I have tagged my posts with subjects which are currently not being discussed on many blogs.

3. Make niche mini-sites.
Result: Do you know what ORAC means? It's okay if you don't -- 99.99% of people don't. But that select 0.01% of people are probably very interested in the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity of foods, so that's what I'll use the name for (very niche market as you can see!). I don't even update the site, however, the information (orac scores of respective foods) is information that really doesn't need to be updated (which is important because time is money, afterall). Make a little "this information is provided to you by: yourmainsite.mobi" and you'll start getting hits to your main site. Approximately 2-3 uniques daily achieved daily thanks to this site which took me around 3 hours to construct.

4. Use your developed site in your signature on forums, especially forums which are directly related to your site. Post quality replies (do not spam links) to blog entries on blogs similar to yours. People who like your style may in turn visit your blog and hence your site.
Result: Approximately 20 additional uniques daily.

5. Update your main site frequently with unique content relevant to your site.
Results: 8746 hits in the past month on a site most people told me wasn't made for mobile... Give your visitors a reason to visit your site instead of someone else's.

[Scandiman]

Beautiful post. Rep added.

I remember the antioxidant bashing. You just silenced that. Congratulations.

Do you by chance know your percentage of mobile users?

[Reece]

Beautiful post. Rep added.

I remember the antioxidant bashing. You just silenced that. Congratulations.

Do you by chance know your percentage of mobile users?

Thanks Scandi :) Traffic is approximately 78% mobile.

[Scandiman]

Thanks Scandi :) Traffic is approximately 78% mobile.
Yea, it's pretty clear that no mobile users will have any interest in antioxidants. :laugh::laugh::laugh:

[Reece]

Yea, it's pretty clear that no mobile users will have any interest in antioxidants. :laugh::laugh::laugh:

I never could understand it, really. To me, I'd love to be sitting in a grocery store, whip out my cell phone and be able to compare foods. Someone looking to lose weight could see how much better of a choice apples are vs raisins, or on the converse, someone looking to gain weight, yet remain healthy would choose raisins over apples. Someone whose family has a history of heart disease or cancer could choose foods which would lower their risk. Not needed? I'd sure prefer to know that a little bit of cinnamon daily might be enough for people with mild diabetes...

With all the health claims circulating in grocery stores lately, people need to have some way to source facts from marketing.

I've always believed that .mobi wasn't just a "mobile web" (and my names sure show that!), but a whole new web designed for mobile users. To say that people won't search for certain information or products via their cell phone just doesn't make sense. Why assume that a cell phone user wouldn't be interested in this information? We really don't even have enough mobile internet users yet to make such a judgement! Sure, they may search for certain terms more on their desktop, but is anyone going to tell me that a word with 30k+ Overture isn't going to be at least useful to a few people on their cell phone?

[hedgefund]

Great advice, thanks

[Reece]

Great advice, thanks

You're most welcome :) Developed sites help us all and there's no greater incentive to develop than lots of traffic.

[newton]

Great post Reece .. rep'd

[Reece]

Great post Reece .. rep'd

Thanks Newton :) Working on on a vegetable section for my site as I type this. Hoping to have >100 pages developed on my site by the end of the month.

[coast]

Thanks for the valuable advice. Rep added.

[texasgamer]

Here is another important thing I would like to mention. Backlinks are a good thing. It helps your web sites and it helps the mobi community.
Please submit your mobi compliant web sites to the directories:
http://mobility.mobi/showthread.php?t=546&highlight=icue.mobi

I have seen that some of our members, have not submitted their developed mobi sites to all of the directories. I really did not understand this, so I invited one of our fellow members, with quite a few developed mobi to submit his sites to my directory www.icue.mobi (http://www.icue.mobi) .
He replied that he was to lazy, but said I was welcome to do it for him!
So if there are any other people that for any reason, have not submitted to my directory, then please post or pm me the names of your sites and I will submit them myself. You can't get a better deal then that! :)

[Reece]

Here is another important thing I would like to mention. Backlinks are a good thing. It helps your web sites and it helps the mobi community.
Please submit your mobi compliant web sites to the directories:
http://mobility.mobi/showthread.php?t=546&highlight=icue.mobi

I have seen that some of our members, have not submitted their developed mobi sites to all of the directories. I really did not understand this, so I invited one of our fellow members, with quite a few developed mobi to submit his sites to my directory www.icue.mobi (http://www.icue.mobi) .
He replied that he was to lazy, but said I was welcome to do it for him!
So if there are any other people that for any reason, have not submitted to my directory, then please post or pm me the names of your sites and I will submit them myself. You can't get a better deal then that! :)

Thank you very much. I'll be submitting my new site that I'm working on -- quercetin.mobi.

Rep added to you and Scandi, thank you both! :)

[GijsZePa]

Here are some ideas for people looking to increase traffic to their .mobi sites. These are methods I've tested. These are simple, free methods that involve nothing sketchy which could have you penalized by search engines. Nothing complicated like SEO here... Just simple things that every domainer out there could and should do!

1. forward similar names to your developed site.
Result: Approximately 30 additional uniques daily courtesy of forwarding 373 names to antioxidants.mobi.

2. Make a blog.
Result: Approximately 2-3 uniques daily. I don't even update the blog, although I do plan on doing such in the near future, just to make sure visitors keep coming! I thank Wordpress for that and the fact that I have tagged my posts with subjects which are currently not being discussed on many blogs.

3. Make niche mini-sites.
Result: Do you know what ORAC means? It's okay if you don't -- 99.99% of people don't. But that select 0.01% of people are probably very interested in the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity of foods, so that's what I'll use the name for (very niche market as you can see!). I don't even update the site, however, the information (orac scores of respective foods) is information that really doesn't need to be updated (which is important because time is money, afterall). Make a little "this information is provided to you by: yourmainsite.mobi" and you'll start getting hits to your main site. Approximately 2-3 uniques daily achieved daily thanks to this site which took me around 3 hours to construct.

4. Use your developed site in your signature on forums, especially forums which are directly related to your site. Post quality replies (do not spam links) to blog entries on blogs similar to yours. People who like your style may in turn visit your blog and hence your site.
Result: Approximately 20 additional uniques daily.

5. Update your main site frequently with unique content relevant to your site.
Results: 8746 hits in the past month on a site most people told me wasn't made for mobile... Give your visitors a reason to visit your site instead of someone else's.

Good Tips !!!

Rep added...

Martin

[Reece]

Good Tips !!!

Rep added...

Martin

Thanks Martin :)

I played around with some SEO (meta tags, keyword density) on my orac.mobi site. Was ranked 58th previously for the keyword "orac". I'll let you all know what impact that made once I see some changes.

Another tip:

1. Don't discount the value of submitting quality articles to places like EzineArticles.com. If you get published, you now have a link from a reputable source. Not to mention that people who search for what you write about on this site (assuming you write about the same topic as your site) and then end up visiting your site aren't just traffic -- they're targeted traffic!

[Reece]

I posted some information about quercetin on a blog I started up to promote it (and my other .mobi sites). The blog is only 3 days old and traffic is already soaring. It's not even 8 a.m. here and I've already had 21 visitors to my blog today -- think of all the free advertising that is! Received 2 uniques today to quercetin.mobi thanks to the blog (and a relevant post I made on it yesterday night to entice people to go to my site).

[Gerry]

1. forward similar names to your developed site.
Result: Approximately 30 additional uniques daily courtesy of forwarding 373 names to antioxidants.mobi.

Reece, are you able to measure traffic from the source of EACH INDIVIDUAL NAME?

When it comes time to renew, that is going to be a hefty bill. In a year's time, those with zero or a very low number on the traffic counts would not seem to be worth renewing.

The overall traffic count may be great, but if all that taffic is coming from only a handful of domains out of nearly 400???

[Reece]

1. forward similar names to your developed site.
Result: Approximately 30 additional uniques daily courtesy of forwarding 373 names to antioxidants.mobi.

Reece, are you able to measure traffic from the source of EACH INDIVIDUAL NAME?

When it comes time to renew, that is going to be a hefty bill. In a year's time, those with zero or a very low number on the traffic counts would not seem to be worth renewing.

The overall traffic count may be great, but if all that taffic is coming from only a handful of domains out of nearly 400???

Hey Gerry,

I currently don't have it setup to tell where the particular hits are coming from. I can only analyze past trends and see that the second I forwarded my names, uniques were up 20-40 every single day. I plan on developing the large majority of the names over the next few years, so I'm not too worried about renewal costs. Hopefully after this year, Google will be out of adsense beta and we'll all be able to put relevant ads on our mobis helping to reduce the burden of reg fees :)

[Scandiman]

Hey Gerry,

I currently don't have it setup to tell where the particular hits are coming from. I can only analyze past trends and see that the second I forwarded my names, uniques were up 20-40 every single day. I plan on developing the large majority of the names over the next few years, so I'm not too worried about renewal costs. Hopefully after this year, Google will be out of adsense beta and we'll all be able to put relevant ads on our mobis helping to reduce the burden of reg fees :)
Check the server log at the destination url. Depending on how the name is forwarded it may show up as the referring url.

[Reece]

Check the server log at the destination url. Depending on how the name is forwarded it may show up as the referring url.

Doesn't show up :( Ah well. Wasn't planning on dropping the names anyway :)

[Scandiman]

Doesn't show up :( Ah well. Wasn't planning on dropping the names anyway :)
If it's not too much of a hassle, make a simple landing page for the domain with a link to antioxidants. That way you will definitely get a referring URL.

[Reece]

If it's not too much of a hassle, make a simple landing page for the domain with a link to antioxidants. That way you will definitely get a referring URL.

Thanks Scandi :)

[Syrup]

....so I invited one of our fellow members, with quite a few developed mobi to submit his sites to my directory www.icue.mobi (http://www.icue.mobi) .
He replied that he was to lazy, but said I was welcome to do it for him!
So if there are any other people that for any reason, have not submitted to my directory, then please post or pm me the names of your sites and I will submit them myself. You can't get a better deal then that! :)

Have just submitted 4 new adult sites to icue.mobi after seeing this thread:

WellHung, BigBum, HiGirl, HiBoys

I built them using sexgoesmobile 2 days ago and have already sold 6 videos!! Commission so far is around 6 euros. Very impressed, and hopefully it will continue.

[texasgamer]

All approved! Thanks for the submissions Syrup and good luck with your sites!

[MrMobi]

very insightful.mobi thread and posts here...thanks for the fine info and generousity.. rep added Reece n Tex...quick question...is there much point in developing my directindex.mobi or directoryindex.mobi with the number of directories already available? Would i be best to just sell them to some unsuspecting buyer or perhaps owners of a directory already for whatever they go for on sedo? Tnx.