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MadStacks

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Hey everyone,

Been lurking for a few months now, finally decided to jump in.

I have a site and I heard that Fiverr was a good way to get traffic. Do any of you guys have experience using it?

And if so, what would be the best option to purchase? Get Traffic, Social Bookmarking & Links, SEO Services, or Blog Mentions?

Would the SEO stuff be comparable to hiring someone on oDesk?

It's just hard to believe that all of this stuff is 5 bucks.

Please let me know your thoughts and experiences. Thx :)
 
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James Fake

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I'm going to try to be as nice as possible. You need to do more research on your own. Google is a hell of a source. There is literally thousands and thousands of articles on SEO. Do you due diligence.

With that said; Fiverr is not going to get you anywhere. Would you buy a toothbrush from Dollartree and expect it to work better than a $10 Colgate? Cheap things are cheap because they suck. This goes for 99.9% of everything in life.

I've used Fiverr for many things and still do, but for SEO.. that's a double hell no. Use it for things like setting up Wordpress cause yeen got no time, or cropping pictures for you, small tasks..
 

mayana

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I wouldn't use Fiverr for anything like "driving traffic", blog mentions, social media followers (unless for some reason it's really important to just look like you have a lot of followers without them being real people). It's a you get what you pay for situation.

Best case scenario? You waste your five bucks. Not too much of a risk there.

Worst case? Your website's "reputation" with search engines tanks because you have spammy links to your site from all over the internet.

My advice to you would be to spend some more time crafting and developing the value/content that you are going to offer and develop a long-term, genuine plan on how you are going to let people know about it. Unless you've got some serious cash for marketing, that's the only REAL way to get authentic traffic.
 
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marklov

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You can either teach yourself by using online resources Or you can pay a proper professional and proper being the key word here rates wont be cheap.
Cheap services could cost you more than just $$
 

Timbonitus

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What could work is if you use someone from Fiverr to create simple videos with voice-over work (about whatever you're trying to promote) and then upload the videos to YouTube with keyword targeted titles, include a link in the description and captions of the video, and that should send some traffic in your direction. Obviously, if you want LOADS of traffic, then you'll need to upload a bunch of different videos.
 

Griff

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My experience with fiverr hasn't been great. I wrote a kindle ebook and it just wasn't selling so I bought one of those gigs where they promote your ebook to their millions of facebook/twitter followers and the like. The guy I used had lots of 5 star ratings so I thought, "why not, it's only 5 bucks." Well, it didn't do a damn thing for my sales so I'm glad all I spent was $5.
 

PhotoKid95

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I used fiverr to get endorsements for my linkedin profile, works pretty well for small things like that.
Fiverr is a good resource to use if one is trying to accomplish tangible things that are measurable. ex: "get 100 likes on facebook page" vs "advertise your page to 100 people."
 
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Butschal

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Do not do any sort of SEO or backlinking with Fiverr.

Your wallet will end up $5 lighter, you'll get no traffic, and your link will be plastered across hundreds of different websites that you can't read because they are in Chinese.
 

Ma Co

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Why don't you spend 30 min. a day yourself and generate guaranteed laser targeted traffic yourself without risking getting sandboxed by emperor Google?

Here's how:

1. Go to Google Alerts and set ~50 keyword alerts relevant to your niche (general keywords, related keywords, competition's keywords, problem keywords, ...) Use Google dorks.

2. Follow the Alert Emails and post links on relevant blogs and forums. The key is to send valuable content when leaving your links or it will not work.
Start adding value to some forums and leave your links - also in signatures if possible. Again - it only works if you add good solid stuff.

3. Refine/ adjust alerts, replace alerts, add alerts, register in forums that get relevant traffic.
Rinse & repeat.


Instead of Google Alerts you can also use Google directly:

1. Filter by "24 hours"

2. Filter to "date"

3. Again, search for relevant keywords and use Google dorks.

For example for blog commenting:

"Your Keyword" + "Please login to be Post Comments!"
"Your Keyword" + "Blog Comments Powered by Disqus"
"Your Keyword" + "Leave a new comment"
"Your Keyword" + "Comment on the Post"
"Your Keyword" + "Related content"
"Your Keyword" + "Enter your comment:"
"Your Keyword" + "Comments on this entry:"
"Your Keyword" + "Sign in to comment on this entry."
"Your Keyword" + "Comments (You may use HTML tags for style)"
"Your Keyword" + "Login or register to post comments"
"Your Keyword" + "Login or register to post or rate comments"
"Your Keyword" + "Leave a Reply" Name "(required)"' 'Mail (will not be published) "(required)"' "Website"
"Your Keyword" + "You must be registered and logged in to leave comments."
"Your Keyword" + "Sign in to Comment On this Entry"

You can do the same, of course, with forums.

Doing it myself. Works. But naturally, you can now go to Fiverr and outsource this!
 

jesseissorude

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It's just hard to believe that all of this stuff is 5 bucks.
That should be your first warning!

Cheating Google will turn out very bad for you in the long run.

Don't chase vanity numbers such as likes, web traffic, linkbacks, etc. Go for quality traffic. Google knoooooooowwwws.
 
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