Blog traffic / link ratio? (Esimated of how much traffic will result in a link)
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Hi,
Was wondering if people could please tell me some estimates of how much traffic is likely to gain links to a blog post?
For example 1,000 hits = 1 link, Hence 10,000 hits = 10 links to a blog post?
I understand there is no magic ratio I just want to know what people have achieved. I’m after averages not just a one off really successful blog post too.
Please specify the topic you achieve this in e.g. SEO, photography, business, heath... etc.
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Thanks Kieron, This definitely helps! It looks like guest blogging in terms of link building is significantly more effective. Still it would be great if someone had figures on traffic/links ratio... as I’m guessing this would be more accurate than amount of articles to link ratio.
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The following data is from Link Building Seminar, Scaling White H by Will Critchlow in 2011. The rough number of articles published to gain an addition link from a new domain:
- Cracked.com : 2 articles
- Wikipedia.com: 4 articles
- BBC: 12 articles
- Nytimes.com : 17 articles
- Mahalo.com: 30 articles
- Ehow.com: 50 articles
- Youtube.com: 100 videos
- Faceboo.com 400 new users
- Amazon.com: 500 products
- Answers.yahoo.com: 900 new posts
High quality articles are more likely to generate links the poor quality articles. Other factors also have an effect like humour.
Hope this gives you some ideas, on what is required to produce a link.
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