This is a case study I have been wanting to start for some time, however I always get excited when creating a new site and I usually jump straight into some sort of link building for it as soon as I’ve got my content published and indexed in Google.  Below is a quick rundown of the case study –

The Case Study

[icon style=”help” ] Will a website with quality content and no SEO generate traffic and revenue?  Or from another perspective, will my users do my link building for me and how much user interaction do you need to get search engine traffic? [/icon]

[info] The goal is 1000 visitors per day and revenue of at least $1 per day.  Revenue can be generated any way I want – adsense, CPA, affiliate, email, banner ads etc. [/info]

You may be wondering what website I will be using for this case study….well it’s this one!

That’s right. I plan to publish honest, quality content that, first and foremost, is beneficial to my visitors.  This means no spam & no spun junk.  It will be interesting to see if you can generate traffic and revenue from a site with zero marketing or SEO.

How Do I Plan To Do This?

I hope to be able to achieve my goal the way Google and most other search engines first intended search results to be influenced by….THE USERS.  It’s amazing to think, literally every service, tool & ebook out there is teaching us to do things that, really, our users should be doing for us.  That’s right, link building is supposed to be a natural thing, not something a tool or virtual assistant does. It hasn’t quite panned out this way, people soon realised ways to cheat the system and make it appear a website or page was gaining backlinks naturally via its users and this is how SEO and most of the tools and services today came into existence.

I hope the link building will take care of itself after a while, once I get the blog filled up with some helpful content hopefully my readers will want to share it themselves and build links for me organically.

It’s going to be tough, I’ve never done something like this and I’m no expert in IM so I don’t expect my content to get syndicated to hundreds of blogs every time I publish an article.  However I feel I can provide honest feedback on certain aspects of internet marketing which newbies to the game will find useful.

I decided to start this case study after earlier in the year I read a lot of webmaster’s had significant drops in their traffic due to Googles algorithm update named ‘Panda‘.  This update was a good thing, while it’s still being tweaked’ it certainly is making our search results return higher quality results.

What’s next?

Work my ass off and start creating content and commentary on the world of internet marketing.  I dont think there is much point for the time being in posting weekly updates on this case study.  Simply because the results are likely to be a lot slower than compared to a site where I was link building to.  I will post monthly updates of traffic and revenue, any if anything big happens in between I will be sure to let you know.

You can follow the progress of this case study by following the link below.