Question

Realistic?  New client is expecting 1000 unique visitors PER DAY after three months on a brand new site, no backlinks, no content (yet), no social media following, no paid advertising.Realistic? New client is expecting 1000 unique visitors PER DAY after three months on a brand new site, no backlinks, no content (yet), no social media following, no paid advertising. Niche is government regulatory compliance. Do-able?  

Answer 1

Yes very doable. Easy as a cake. For annoying people I would recommend a traffic bot. Many big agencies are using it. A friend who works in one of Netherlands biggest seo agencies had to please the mayor of a big city in her idiotic campaigns. They gave her 4000 unique visitors per day all using Diabolic traffic bot. This will be shit for your seo and possible Google rankings. All direct traffic. Basically the politicians we're angry why their offline marketing campaign resulted in a much too low amount of visitors to the website so they blaimed the webdesigners. It was a butt ugly marketing campaign with shitloads of money spend on people walking with flyers, bus stop posters, tv commercials, huge posters in many places. All resulted in total 20-40 visitors per day to campaign website

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And that's called fraud.  

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2nd comment I've seen from you today, you remind me of a cowboy  

Answer 2

Theoretically, yes. In practice - very rarely happens. We're talking 1-in-a-billion chances.  

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Thanks @narcotize - thats what I thought too.  

Answer 3

Do-able sure, but i wouldn't sell him that shit. it'll be you who it falls back on if you make promises you can't guarantee.  

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Yeah, I'm thinking its going to be a case of client education.  

Answer 4

Regulatory compliance? Highly unlikely it will ever hit 1k/day

Answer 5

Unlikely, to say it mildly.  

Answer 6

No links, no content , no ads, no social media ? Only thing left is doing a massive publicity stunt that gets them a lot of attention. And most likely has to be something negative  

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@dioscuri Coronavirus is hot right now  

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Depending on the business.  

Answer 7

Im curious now, what are their reasons for 'no content' and 'no backlinks'? Sure we can all learn something here

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He said "no content (yet)", from which I inferred the content is coming. They would have to own the queries outright to do this with just on-page optimization.  

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Yeah exactly. What I'm saying is that they are going from a standing start - no assets yet in the form of content, no links build, no strategy, literally just a website and thats it.  

Answer 8

Regulatory compliance. as in banking, lending, ? Can’t be THAT many people even looking for it

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@nila17365 oh jeez. Good luck bruh  

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Let me do the math here .  

Answer 9

Yeah, I wouldn't want to waste time with this. And this comes from a desperate man. On that note before the wrong ideas come across. I do like easy wins. Not saying this is hard or easy. Just saying, with these demands comes headaches.  

Answer 10

Look up traffic for eatablished sites to tell if there is even that big of an audience

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Hi @leo24073 - yeah it is just about feasible, its the timeframe that bothers me more than the goal.  

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@nila17365 seems quite difficult

Answer 11

Lol no

Answer 12

I achieved that for 1 week, I made a site called fixtheappstore. com that was an open letter to Apple. it went viral, got like 10000 visitors and then died . But. just because went viral, otherwise it was a piece of shit to be honest

Answer 13

Sell them on something that matters. Like conversions. What the hell does traffic matter if they don't convert?  

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@asthenic99 looks nice and biz love to outrank their direct competition

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@darien but in the grand scheme of things means very little of you don't get conversions.  

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@asthenic99 have to agree. But you know people love their ego. When I first started rank n rent my standard sales pitch was: "how would you feel if you outrank your competition on the most important kws? " Have not stopped using this line

Answer 14

What's the total addressable market in that vertical? I highly doubt it's 150, 000/m and they want to take 20% of that pie in three months? Idiots.  

Answer 15

If you assume a 2% sitewide CTR (which is decently good) you'll need 50K impressions a day. Look at your keywords, their secondary keywords, see if the volume is there and how many pages it will take. For a brand new site, that's probably a big ask, but go in with real numbers so that you can set real expectations.  

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Thanks @squiggle That's a great point

Answer 16

With a ton of outreach and referral traffic it's possible. Just SEO? No way, not that I'd take bets on.  

Answer 17

B2B companies don't need 1k visitors per day but hey - if wishes were horses.  

Answer 18

No content, no backlinks etc why even bother having a site.  

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The sites brand new and they don't know any better

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@nila17365 but from what you said it has nothing on it so it's like a blank book that doesn't have a publisher.  

Answer 19

Not because it is impossible (not. much is impossible with the right budget) but for sure this. client will be a pain in your arse

Answer 20

If it's a site that writes about trends, celebrities and breaking news, it's definitely doable. If it's just a regular business site, not even close to doable.  

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The latter  

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@nila17365 oh boy

Answer 21

Do they have a budget available for programmatic advertising? If they’re (or you) planning on utilizing a long term paid media strategy in addition to a comprehensive SEO strategy, I’d you can get the traffic (and more). Otherwise, brand new site & domain are going to be a challenge. I have a recommended vendor if you’re interested. Wish I got referral fees but I don’t. (Also industry and vertical could matter. )

Answer 22

It depends on the topic. If it was the topic of COVID-19 in a big enough population country, you could get much more than 1000 visits a day

Answer 23

Not doable. In 12-24 months with weekly content then maybe. If there is enough search volume and a range of topics for what they do