Traffic Android Blog

There are many ways to build your website traffic and nearly all of them involve acquiring some measure of inbound links from a variety of sources. The biggest question everyone seems to have after they realise that the way to get traffic is to get links, is “how do I get people to link to me?”.

Well, there’s no magic bullet here. Provide value and people will link to you. Of course you can still get the ball rolling by building that initial stream of traffic yourself. Depending on your niche, sometimes this will be largely all you need. In other cases your proactive efforts can increase the traffic you already have.

In all cases, it’s helpful to know what proactive inbound linking strategies you can employ. A very popular method of building those links yourself is to use social media marketing, which is a big field of study all by itself, but a good chunk of which can be boiled down to contributing content and value to large collaborative networks (such as Digg, niche-related forums, etc.) and posting “open” bookmarks to worthwhile sites, using social bookmarking websites such as Del.icio.us, Linkatopia, Simpy and so forth.

It’s simple, but oh my god is it time consuming. Not only do you get to spend time creating accounts at every one of the sites you might want to post articles, content, posts, replies and bookmarks to (and there are well over one hundred of these), but then you get to spend time logging into every single one of them and going through what is usually a multi-step process to build those inbound links to your website.

And let’s not forget that this is for just one page. Want to promote ten worthwhile pages on your site? Wash, rinse, repeat, ten times.

What’s more, the grand poo-bahs at Google are very smart. They know what natural link development looks like and what artifical link development looks like. To an extent, anyway. Basically when someone puts up a new website, unless it’s providing something of significant value or cultural interest, it will not be linked to by regular people at anything more than a steady trickle. Google knows this, so watch how quickly your new rankings drop when their algorithm catches up and sees a hundred or more links suddenly pointing at your website.

And so, in order to do your social media link building, you have to do it slowly, which means (a) committing yourself to a lot of very boring work and (b) motivating yourself to be consistent and stick to a daily routine of doing so.

Honestly, I can’t be bothered. Seeing as I’m a software developer, I figured I’d kill two birds with one stone. I’d create an application that can automate both the work and the routine and I’d have a great product to sell to others who might get some use out of it.

So here we have Traffic Android, which has taken all my days and nights since I started it several weeks ago. It’s a good thing I’m single right now and not being relied on by anyone for anything, because it means I can get this out to market much more quickly than many of my fellow developers would be able to do.

Take a look at the Traffic Android website for information and a screenshot.