Traffic

I have built websites with Wordpress and SBI and had no problem getting traffic, so I thought getting traffic to a dolphin social site would be fairly easy! But I was wrong no matter what I do I can not get any traffic to my site. Has anyone got any tips for me or tell me what I am doing wrong? I know the site is still new but after a few months I would expect a small trickle of traffic!

since when it is active?

3 months ago.

Are you paying Google or Facebook at least $1000 monthly to promote your site? if not this is what you are doing wrong....

Getting traffic is just about the biggest problem with any new website. One thing that helps is have a website with a easy to remember name and that has some age on it.  All the search engines look at how old the name is and if it is owned by the same company for a long time. So, if you have just gotten a new name for your website that has not been used - then you will have a bit more trouble getting into the search engines.

I have several names for website that I keep and the ones that are over 5 years old get listed in a couple of days and the new one can take about 2-3 weeks to show up

You should also look at fiverr.com and pay a few folks to visit you site to increase your rankings. Not the biggest help, but it works and it is cheaper and a $1000 bucks per month for adwords.

Also, hire bloggers and reviewers to blog and review your website.  

And another thing that really works for me is to watch the news, when there is some hot topic in the news visit the fan or group pages about it on Facebook and somehow work you site into the conversation.

Getting traffic is very important, but something even more important - do you have a GREAT and AWESOME website.  All the advertising and money in the world will not help a crappy website.

Anyway, just a few ideas - you probably already know about these - but maybe someone that doesn't will get a few ideas after reading. 

 When you create a Wordpress site it will get indexed and start pulling in hits pretty quickly.. Dolphin is the other end of the spectrum, it's going to take a lot of SEO work before you see any traffic.

Thanks for your help everyone.

You don't need ££££'s to get traffic to your Dolphin site ... my own sites are prove of that and some people here know how much traffic I can get at times ... FYI on average I get 100K + unique visitors per month and at different times I have had 30K + unique visitors within 48 hrs. I don't spend one penny on advertising to get all this traffic and the sites are Dolphin based (this should make you see that Dolphin is not the issue for low traffic).

Just invest some time and sweat for example:

1) Fresh unique content (try and publish a few new things per day).

2) Share your content across networks you are at (without it being too spammy).

3) Review all your main site pages and make SEO improvements where required (SEO strong titles, description and keywords).

4) When you post things try and use keywords in the content URL.

5) Include keywords within the actual content a few times (about 3 - 5 times per keyword, more than this is BAD).

6) Make contact with authority sites, bloggers and other popular sites/people online and see if they will give your content or website endorsements.

This is just a few things but they WORK wonders when done right and will make all the difference to what you want to achieve (high regular traffic).