How I Increased Search Engine Traffic by 450%
Pearsonfied has two great Wordpress themes available for free, listed in Wordpress official site as one of the must have theme, I have to admit that the author - Chris Pearson is a very creative person.
His recent article on how to increase your blog traffic by a whooping 450% is unbelievable. In his post, he argues that in order to achieve this miracle, you need to use his “cutline” wordpress theme. He showed graphs indicating a tsunami of visitor to the site after switching over to his theme, which he claims that has special meta or tag or some code that are able to get you a higher ranking in search engine.
In the image above, note how my search engine traffic jumped an astounding 455% from September to October. On top of that, the total number of search strings that resulted in visits to Pearsonified jumped up 232%, from 1,128 to 2,619. - Chris
I hate to say this but whatever he wrote there are all bullshits. Well, not really, come to think of it, if you’re a Blogger user and just switch over to wordpress, chances are you’re going to experience this sudden increase of visitors - definitely. One of the main reasons being is that you got your own domain name and Google tend to rank you higher. The other reason would be the headline of each post, Wordpress or most of its theme tends to display the title of the post first then follow by the title of the blog, which is a search engine friendly feature.
I have a few blogs and in order to witness this so called miracle, I was fooled into switching over to Chris “cutline” wordpress theme and to my dismay there is no 450% increase in visitors.
Chris said just give it a try and you’ll know without any facts to back him up. It is like me telling the entire Blogger Blogspot user that by using template from GeckoandFly, you’ll have a higher ranking in Google thus a 200% increase in visitors. Nice try Chris but no thank you.
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Stijn V.
November 8th, 2006Well, if this story is true then it’s a good idea not to include a link to his place. Not even a rel=”nofollow”.
David Krug
November 8th, 2006I’m guessing you put cutline on there for like 1 and half minutes and when your site didn’t just explode you got pissed off and turned it off.
I mean you still have to write content, build good links and do all the other stuff you normally do if you are a good blogger. Like write interesting content. That’s a huge part of Chris’ success is he writes great content that people link to.
Switching to wordpress and better semantically pure code is what helped HIM increase his traffic.
He didn’t say that if you drank some koolaid danced around a bonfire and flashed his theme on your site that magically you would turn in to Seth Godin.
If you are looking for that check aisle 9.
Peace out dude.
Chris P.
November 8th, 2006If you’re going to practice yellow journalism on your site, then you would be doing your readers a great favor by getting all of your facts straight.
Your post is riddled with holes, and while I’m certainly open to the idea of a dissenting viewpoint, I did want to take the time to point out the things you’ve said that are incorrect.
I never said that you had to use the Cutline theme in order to achieve this “miracle.” In fact, I even mentioned in the comment thread that similar results could have likely been achieved with a different theme.
Next, you’ve made it abundantly clear that you didn’t take the time to actually read or comprehend my post, because you say, “he claims that has special meta or tag or some code that are able to get you a higher ranking in search engine.”
The reality here is that I said the theme had lots of built-in SEO features with the exception of an auto-generated meta description. In case you don’t understand plain English, that means that the theme does not include this feature.
The fact that you hollered “bullshit” without even taking the time to comprehend what I was saying leads me to believe that you carried some sort of bias with you while reading the post. Perhaps you viewed it as shameless self-promotion, or perhaps you thought I was claiming something that I wasn’t.
Although I thought my headline was abundantly clear, apparently I need to spell it out to you here. I never said that YOU could improve your search engine traffic by 455% in one month. On the contrary, I wrote that post to show others how I did it.
Putting that kind of information out there on my site serves as a contribution to the entire Web development community. Perhaps somebody somewhere can take the information that I’ve provided, apply it to their own scenario, and achieve something remarkable.
Clearly, it’s not going to work for everybody, but to sit there and say that no one could be helped by such information is not only shortsighted, but also naïve.
For the record, “most” WordPress themes do not come with a properly-formatted title field, although there are certainly quite a few out there that do.
Finally, the fact that you viewed my post as evangelism about some kind of “miracle” is really a compliment. Apparently my copy was so compelling, engaging, and clearly presented that you believed you could go out and achieve something similar.
So, if I get nothing else out of this, thank you for having a definite emotional response to my work — it’s always nice to know you’re doing things that are effective.
Brian Clark
November 8th, 2006Did they teach reading comprehension where you went to school?
David Krug
November 8th, 2006Do you believe in censorship?
Britgirl
November 8th, 2006Come on! And you had the theme on your blog for how many minutes - sorry - days?
BTW - your article is very good promo for Chris P :)
GeckoFly
November 8th, 2006I had the theme for a week on my other blog, and traffic drop 200%. It is good for my blog too. thanks chris.P
I guess he was right about traffic - not for my other blog but this, i’m getting a tsunami of visitors for geckoandfly.
thanks again chris. :)
David Krug
November 9th, 2006What an asshat.