The Philippines and Getting Website Traffic from Offline Sources
Online referrals from other websites and search engines are the usual ways of getting website traffic. Getting website traffic from offline sources is also possible if you associate with the people who control those sources.
The Filipino American Journal
An old friend of mine, the owner of TheFilipino.com, contacted me today and asked for permission to publish some of my articles related to the Philippines in a Filipino-American newspaper he has taken over.
The name of the newspaper is The Filipino American Journal and it's distributed in more than 25 metropolitan Phoenix and Tucson locations in Arizona, USA. The website itself won't be completed until the first issue from the new publisher is available.
The "by line" will include my name and website address. There are thousands of Filipino-Americans living in metro Phoenix and Tucson. I expect to see website traffic from that source within a few days of publication.
Maybe I should send him a couple of beer gift baskets. It would be the least I could do for him in return.
Art Bell and Coast to Coast AM
I contacted Art Bell by email when he was in the Philippines in 2006. It was my intention to talk to him on the phone or in person, but I found out that he had returned to the US a little over a month later.
I recently sent him a message telling him about my article, "Subversive Filipinos Make Me Puke", which is on the first page of both Google's and Yahoo's search results. The last part of the article talks about the vile email hoax that caused Art to have to stop working for a week due to death threats and hate mail.
The purpose of the article was twofold: The first purpose was to air my own personal feelings about the subversive Filipinos that continue to undermine the government of the Philippines. The second purpose was to deflect the misguided Filipinos to my article when they searched for the phrase, "filipinos make me puke" on either Google or Yahoo.
Art replied with a message of thanks and I later responded to his reply by asking him to mention it the next time he hosts Coast to Coast AM, but I didn't push it. He's only on board to host 15 shows per year and could easily forget about it.
Coast to Coast AM has more than a million listeners worldwide. Can you imagine how much website traffic this blog would receive if he mentioned my website address? Even a mention from one of the other hosts, George Noory or Ian Punnett, would result in significant website traffic.
Other Offline Sources
Associating with the people who control offline sources is one way to get website traffic from those sources, but there are other offline sources that will work just as well. I'm looking for some awesome sources or techniques.
Can you name a few?
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Thats pretty cool…going from one medium to another. Nice job!
Thanks, Larry. I imagine he'll be looking for other blogs of Americans living in the Philippines in the future. If I spot one, I'll make sure to pass it to him.
I don't know how effective it would be cost wise, but getting an ad in those in-flight magazines, particularly if your blog was travel or region related would probably be a good way to promote
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You want to know something? That's a great idea. After I start putting pictures and assorted stuff on this blog, I can take out an ad in whatever magazine Philippine Airlines puts in the cabins.
Great article RT!
Good to think outside the square sometimes and this is an excellent suggestion, Thanks.
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It's amazing how ideas come from outside sources instead of from within. It's one of the reasons I encourage comments (even if some are borderline spam) with the CommentLuv and KeywordLuv plugins.
I like that airplane magazine idea. Talk about targeted traffic.
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The funny thing about is that I didn't think of it first.
A long time ago, one of my articles got published in a magazine, although it is impossible to track offline traffic so I'm not sure how much it helped. I don't focus at all on offline sources of traffic, mainly because I'm an SEO kind of guy. Unless Google's bot can exit the Internet and record links from the real world, I don't think I'll be utilizing offline sources anytime soon.
A few years ago, I think it would have been worthless. Now, however, offline mentions can create online counterparts.
That is pretty cool! I like the idea. Good job.
I like the idea that you shared. Thank's a lot.
I think t-shirts is a good way to do this. Better than plastering stickers everywhere.
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T-shirts. Now, why didn't I think of that?
It is always the best ways to catch peoples attention, T-Shirts!!!
you lucked out. most of us cannot depend on strokes of fortune like that to help us out with traffic generation. but you got my attention, so now i'm heading off to read your post about how to get screaming traffic…