A Fascinating Study on How Sites Are REALLY Getting Traffic (with Jim Harmer)

[@speakingscripts]

You were awesomely insane in this video, happy!!! Thank you Jim Harmer for being entertaining, and Ricky Kesler (who was hiding in the background shouting out the numbers), you guys are truly are an insider for the genres you teach about, you're the master for bringing in more traffic with vlogging and blogging!!! In this video I learned a lot about camera lenses and pink dry erase pens and more! But most importantly I learned that info products and memberships do best on KZbin, ads do best on blogs, lead generation and affiliate does equally well on vlogs and blogs, but eCommerce where you have to send the visitor to a website in the end anyways doesn't do as well on vlogs as it does on blogs. That creates so many questions in my mind concerning what do you consider an affiliate product. You mentioned a camping vlog/blog trying to sell tents. I'll dive deeper into this if I can, I learn so much from you guys. Keep it coming!!! If I enroll in your school I'm sure I will get all the answers I'm seeking and a billion times more!!! You'll see me in class soon! Thanks a million (literally)!!! -CEO Ben Arnold (ChatFellow)

[@autismsomeassemblyrequired5657]

I love how Jim kept looking to Ricky for the answers to the math questions :) Great video guys. Gave me plenty to think about and consider as I move forward.

[@MarideMari82]

Oh boy! These videos have convinced me start a KZbin channel next to my website. My head is exploding with ideas... what have you done to me?!

[@aaronfreeman8252]

That's what Jim and Ricky do! 😉

[@MarideMari82]

@@aaronfreeman8252 they really do!

[@rebeccagutierrez1960]

Jim, I love your spontaneous spontaneity while doing your videos lately. Yes, I know... I'm being redundant on purpose.🤣

[@amitbansalbhopal]

I have added

[@jasonstallworth]

Towards the end when you talked about not forcing it (regarding Pinterest), that really resonated with me and it's something I think we all need to remember. Great info, as always!

[@inxj]

Thanks, these studies based on real world data are so helpful!

[@MAKEMONEYMARK8]

Love Income School Great video I enjoyed watching thanks for posting it. Keep up the good work!

[@OdLuisMarcano]

Thanks for sharing all your experience Jim 🤗

[@kf88743]

This is why I support you guys. The info is great....but it's the packaging and presentation that makes it top notch...imho

[@kaydeeshorizons5436]

Oh man, as usual, this video is packed with content and a couple of hilarious moments (intro/outro). I absolutely agree that certain traffic sources work better for certain niches and others for other niches. All a matter of finding the right ones and then doubling down on them while keeping your streams of traffic diversified at the same time. Easier said than done but nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy! :D

[@sherissepins7105]

Love it! I'm just starting to build a YT channel and experiment with some of your ideas, and I gotta say, this video really sold me on recommending YT for anyone who sells services/courses, etc. I can't wait to see my results from using Pinterest (I'm a Pinterest Strategist) to drive YT traffic and help grow my channel - I think this combo could be a fantastic way to expand my client's reach. For the most part, they are tired of the FB/IG grind and ready to use platforms that have a bigger organic reach and can generate leads faster. I always recommend they check out your channels if they are looking to get started either blogging or YT'ing. Thanks, Ricky & Jim!!!

[@johnede4670]

Gosh, this is a whole course, Thank Guys!

[@NancyUlrich]

Pie charts everywhere. Now I'm hungry...But my brain's full. Thanks.

[@noobfighter8262]

This is amazing👍👍👍 I'm 90% depand on ads! And I'm so happy that blog do batter for ads! 😅😅😅

[@kevinsmak]

I have 100k subscribers and rarely get any sales when selling products. I think those rates may work depending what your niche is on KZbin but for me as mentioned I'm lucky to get a single sale on a product, even if the video takes off. I mainly have a demographic of 18-34 so I feel the age range is good and get 35-50k views a day. So yeah not sure things match up across the platform it is very niche specific and if the audience connects well with you.

[@p3t3mit]

I think that's a very interesting point. Way to go with your channel BTW! I know make-money-online type of channels will have a much higher ad revenue, and most likely a better conversion rate. Make-money-online is almost a buyer's intent niche, most likely. I'd be interested to see the avg conversion rates for different audiences and niches

[@jc4evur661]

The thing about having that many subscribers is that you can rapidly test all kinds of products to see what resonates. The one thing I've learned after all these years of internet marketing is that my own assumptions are frequently wrong. Test Test Test! Have you thought about doing a Poll video? You know, ask viewers what they want reviewed? Or what subjects they want to see a video on?...there's clues right there.

[@aaronfreeman8252]

@@jc4evur661 this is so true! As a marketer you must always be testing to see what works and what doesn't! 🙂

[@everything80spodcast68]

This is one of the best videos yet. I've found that Quora is a good way to get decent traffic (though not super sustainable) if you're primary goal of your website is ads.

[@augustine98]

Great to see someone mentioning Quora. I get over 20k visits per month from Quora.

[@NormanMJ]

@@augustine98 holly Molly... What niche

[@sara_s_]

@@augustine98 how does it work?

[@augustine98]

@@NormanMJ Self help

[@augustine98]

@@sara_s_ It's all about choosing the right questions to answer. I have personal conditions that a question must meet for me to answer it. Then I craft an answer for it and link to one of my articles. I created my Quora profile early this year and I have 7 million views as at now. The good thing with Quora is that it is easy to predict an answer that goes viral but then their moderators are hard to handle especially when you are starting out.

[@tonysmith6849]

$3,500/month? Wow, that's much better than what SocialBlade thinks you make :) You mentioned that KZbin can convert at 4%, is that only for online courses or could you expect the same CVR for affiliate/product sales? What price point? Thank you for your answer, keep up the great work.

[@charlieparkeris]

The RPM on finance/business related content is high.

[@tonysmith6849]

@@charlieparkeris SocialBlade has last 30 days views as 220K, so $3,500 would imply a RPM of $15.9 (that's using their income, not incl. KZbin's portion) which is crazy high. Good for them.

[@hhefner9659]

still waiting for them to answer your question.

[@abhirammithur1032]

Just discovered your channel today and here I am commenting at the new video just after 20 mins of release 😍

[@inthekitchenwithmatt]

Awesome information! However, the flaw I noticed is that 4k from the 100k subscribers is off. That is assuming that every subscriber watches your new video, which never happens. I wish it did! lol, the percentage is way less, depending on your channel. Of course, there are plenty of new people who aren't subscribers that will watch the videos too and never subscribe :) But yes your main point of people watching youtube videos being more opt to buy is spot on. I think a more appropriate statistic would be something like out of the total views, how many people buy, as opposed to subscribers. Just my two cents, haha.

[@kaisongideon6075]

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[@bostonnathanael4165]

@Kaison Gideon instablaster =)

[@kaisongideon6075]

@Boston Nathanael Thanks so much for your reply. I found the site on google and im in the hacking process atm. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.

[@kaisongideon6075]

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[@bostonnathanael4165]

@Kaison Gideon happy to help :)

[@KaterinaGasset]

Great points! Very revealing! Organic search is still very good and important. Thanks for another video.

[@JBN011A]

Liking the videos again. Kind of started getting stale. You have breathed new life into your inf9. This is awesome informative

[@Targetter]

Really great information, confirming my decision to double down on revamping my yt channel and publish 3 blog posts + 2 yt vids per week. I like your pie charts and how you looked at Ricky when you had to do the math :)

[@richardrivera7740]

You guys are so funny and awesome,,, thank you so much for the info!

[@catheb2225]

Good morning Jimmmmm!!!

[@urjaverma8089]

Very useful!

[@FishinMoney-Darren]

More motivation to get my KZbin rolling better.

[@samanthahayes7433]

We can still use videos on our websites or blogs to connect peoples.

[@trystonantol8685]

retargeting ads on youtube when used correctly is a better way of going about yt ads in cases like ecom, etc.

[@LoveBombMedia]

product niche and conversion techniques play a MASSIVE role in how many sales you make.....

[@bernhard.rieder]

Also.. biggest problem to all of us is the outreach to subscribers. What’s the best way to reach them? My losses in outreach to existing subscribers are 80%. It’s massive.

[@WeeklyHow]

Haha I freaked out when you started writing on the lens

[@realMartinHamilton]

Great job using your pie charts!

[@BusinessEnglishSuccess]

Interesting stuff - thanks!

[@samroger2]

Everyone would tell you to go head first into KZbin. But here's the thing. KZbin now prefers long videos so it gets a little more complicated to get traction. It works but, then it needs a lot like really a lot of efforts. Pinterest is relatively easy. So, try but don't go for Insta. It's more hits and misses and your hashtag seo needs to be right and what not.

[@sohailape]

My website is ranking no 1 for a very competitive keyword on bing but not ranking for that keyword on google at all since it is very highly competitive. What do you think should I do? My site is 3 month 7 days old.

[@Richardisonline]

Thanks for sharing... awesome

[@rahulchoudhary4303]

Great analysis sir.

[@alisonheslop5682]

thanks great info to help with which platform to use.

[@violet4447]

How you guys analyse the search volume of keywords thar you find through Google search analysis?

[@PaddleGuy1]

Thanks for this - off to see the pinterest course now !

[@sarthaksikdar]

good insight as always

[@heysaswata]

Another awesome stuff!

[@pragee22]

I am saving up to join ur project 24! i wish i heard u before !

[@Carrie1111-j9x]

Did u join ?? How is it ?

[@JamesTaylor-ir4ou]

Great video! For some info products, a full-on YT channel might not be feasible. In that case, wouldn't it be better just to find YT influencers to push your product? Or, are you estimating these numbers based on the idea that they own the brand?

[@KevinWhitsitt]

You can take the sound from a KZbin video and make a podcast. I've gotten some decent traffic from it.

[@aaronfreeman8252]

This is definitely true! However, most often the format of a YT video isn't necessarily a good format for a podcast episode, and vice versa

[@noelgarciax]

My anxiety went up when you started to write on the lens Lol

[@aaronfreeman8252]

Mine too! However, Jim is a photography master, so he knows what he is doing 🙂

[@martinarcimovic]

I watched this twice and now I want to eat some pie 😆

[@jayp_2023]

Great stuff!

[@markbennett6297]

Thanks for sharing your research!!!

[@upvotecomment2110]

I thought this was a Challenge and you keep spinning while presenting the Idea :)

[@HistoriasOficiales]

🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮

[@studentbaba5715]

Just wanna say thank you! You guys really helped me and now my site is growing now

Where is WP School? It's not mentioned in the describtion

[@IncomeSchool]

Sorry. It’s now called Income School Tutorials.

@@IncomeSchool Thanks a lot. How about the Margin one. What’s that one called now?

[@samanthahayes7433]

We can still use videos on our websites or blogs to connect peoples.

[@pruthviks8000]

I m from India i had no job now .. I had decided to start home automation niche ? How was the competition. What can I do ? Can I able to start the site

[@carrienishikawa1465]

I am grateful to know about wpschool. I am having so much trouble with my site. Have Acabado, following project 24, but run into so many issues that never getting to start blogging. I am not trying to make it pretty or customize, but I go to my site and it tells me I half to update PHP? I think. But then somewhere tells me the new PhD is not compatible and to do something different. There is something else. I don't have headers or footers really. Uploaded that demo site or whatever and what I have is somehow cross pollinated. P24 tells me to take certain steps and then Acabado video says something which is different, but you get to Acabado video later in the lessons. Very frustrated. If I wasn't anxious to blog, I probably wouldn't bother. I hope WPschool is the answer.

[@michaelstephenvargas8821]

You can update php on your hosting(find a yt video for it). update that sucker to the latest I think 7.3 or something. Don't think about header and footer at the ghost town phase, just write the content then get back to designing later

[@carrienishikawa1465]

@@michaelstephenvargas8821 thanks, just always some security issue. Layout, but thanks will do

[@preciouspaws1400]

Traffic is still an issue for me 😭

[@urjaverma8089]

Am I seeing Nathan being awkward over here? :D It is strange to see him here versus in the latest videos of Income school: awkward to pro screen presence evolution! :))

[@TheOliviajules]

Can I boost my channel to other countries?

[@erock7254]

I gotta get on the YT!

[@melissajenniferbruno5343]

What if you don’t wanna get on the camera for KZbin?

[@wearedallasfortworth7723]

Love these but the volume is always so low.

[@celtpro]

Oops there goes my $1000 lens. Good job for a whiteboard marker. Love your art, it is really going places. On a more serious not though, those charts got the point across nicely. Each area have there benefits when they are utilized properly.

[@TheOliviajules]

I don't have time to blog. I'm currently posting in facebook, instagram, and linkedin. That is sooooo time consuming! I would LOVE to promote my mlm health business worldwide. Is there a way to promote in other countries in my KZbin Channel even though I just started???? Please help!

[@davidvoorhies812]

Love the stats.

[@bernhard.rieder]

Your sales conversion calculation is wrong. You might get 2% Subscribers in your email list. From those 2% conversation rate of your email list you might be able to reach max. 50% considering a high open rate and an even lower click rate. From the let’s say 30% click rate you’ll get a 2% sales rate. If you are good. Now, run the numbers again how much you‘ve sold. Cheers 🍻

[@KunLehane]

Jim is very good at the videos!

[@Maxi_Shubert]

Guys, just couple years ago you were streaming on youtube helping people with their websites and you even flew to UK to help Carl with his website. Another time were taking 100 phone calls , trying to help people. Where is all that value and help that you had before? People still wants you to help them with their websites...

[@IncomeSchool]

We just barely did a site overhaul for a subscriber and have a list of more on the calendar.

[@emidio8290]

@@IncomeSchool I have really been inspired by all the valuable lessons that you guys share for free. I only wish I was one of the fortunate ones to get you guys working with me on my site over a weekend (or, an hour really...hahaha). Thanks for all the great stuff you guys share!

[@salimahhaji8132]

Thanks you for your most valuable videos

[@cxa011500]

I'd really like to start a KZbin channel, but I'm at a loss for niche I can do. I've seen a lot of suggestion lists, but I can't seem to nail it down. :/I don't have any serious hobbies that I can think of. I watch movies and TV shows, but not really passionate enough to talk about them at length. I usually even forget characters names when I do. I did martial arts and like fitness, but I want to do a channel where I don't have to show my face, so I think those are out. I might be able to do a basic computer tutorial channel, stuff like doing stuff i _haven't _ n MS Word or Excel, but I see a lot of good videos like that and I'm not sure how would I monetize it. Maybe I could do something like a travel channel with stock video?

[@ocmetals4675]

I was in the same boat you were a few months a ago. Then I decided to learn something I was interested in and write blog articles about the things I was learning. You could do the same.

[@atifshamimkhan3678]

Lol This the Only School Which i Like Mostly to attend it 😂

[@derektanner7144]

Great tips. What do yall think of shopify? Just started a second site there that relates to my first one.

[@solomonmuchori5111]

Every time i see your intro I 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@vivekgbpec]

Well don't think if that's too simple to analyse! What about the role of gender, geography, age groups, cultural affinity of the topic which play their part! Also the difference between investment required to update blog vs video plays it's part!

[@YOUSSEFTIGGA]

hh, nice video. guys I have question I built my website with 34 articles should I leave it until I ranked by google or I start promoting it with Pinterest

[@wisdomtales4739]

imo, keep writing articles until you start to gain traction from google

[@serafinfleischer]

3rd Comment! Love you guys, thanks for all the info and help!

[@thanesbusiness5001]

youtube isn't terribly viable if you're non verbal

[@LofiWurld]

Does anyone make more than £10 a day with just ads? Is it even possible?

[@IncomeSchool]

It's absolutely possible

[@mantoshkumar-dh7zj]

Nice comparison

[@digiexploration530]

great stuff, I am launching my own blog and my goal is to start making money, so that I can... buy the membership in the income shcool.!!! )))

[@rohandominic3656]

Hello there! I had given up on Pinterest 4 months ago. I was focused on Google organic traffic. I tried my best to tweak and make my articles SEO friendly but to no avail. I think it’s because I have a broad niche. I'm almost lost. Does Pinterest do good on broad niche websites? I honestly regret choosing my niche. But honestly, it’s something that I’m passionate about. In hindsight, I should’ve chosen a narrow niche. But, I think it's too late now I guess cause I've also written articles with over 7k words. :( My niche is about life. It emphasizes the need to understand ourselves and how important it is to be cognizant of the surroundings in terms of psychology and philosophy. So my ideas are classified into existence, emotions, mental health, philosophy, social issues, and leisure\culture. So, it's pretty broad. Do you think it would do good on Pinterest? It's been 5 days since I'm pinning on Pinterest now. I'm getting a few tractions. But is it really worth spending time on Pinterest? ( I'm focusing on Pinterest cause I have a lot of infographics and stuff). I'm struggling. Please help me!

[@wisdomtales4739]

whats ur url..may be someone can shed some valuable suggestions here

[@wastedtalentinc8007]

You should niche down your articles even though your blog is broad which is what I have done on my broad site.

[@rohandominic3656]

MyPCTech Solutions lyfeclue.com

[@rohandominic3656]

WastedTalentInc Can you elaborate?

[@wastedtalentinc8007]

Rohan Dominic hi Rohan. I just had a look at your site and I think I know why traffic may be low. Have you done research on how often your article keywords are searched for by users each month? When I wrote my first 10 articles they were passion pieces which I thought others would love to read but when I started doing keyword volume research using ubersuggest and keywords everywhere I found that zero people were searching for those terms. So then I started to niche down to smaller topics and seeing which words or key phrases people we're actually searching for and rewriting my content or writing new content to answer those questions people were actually asking in Google or Pinterest or youtube. That's when I started seeing slow growth and now heaps of growth in traffic.

[@marid5573]

Hello! I wonder what you think about fact that 90% of my tradfic comws from Pinterest. Is it a bad thing?

[@jayp_2023]

I'd think about trying to get traffic from other sources to increase page views. You don't want be too reliant on a particular source.

[@wisdomtales4739]

Most of your traffic should come from Google in the initial stages.

[@FishinMoney-Darren]

Mari D I think it’s awesome that you have so much traffic coming from Pinterest. I don’t have many details but if your site is fairly new, that is not uncommon as it takes several months between 8 to 10 months for your first posts to start ranking in Google” if you did everything right”. When I first started my site, most of my traffic was coming from Pinterest as well but after one year it’s only a small fraction of the amount of traffic coming to my site because now most of it comes from Google.

[@charlieparkeris]

Same here, pinterest is killing it for me, sending thousands of visitors per day. And I'm pretty sure I can more than double my current pinterest traffic this year. Hopefully Google will catch up and start sending me good traffic, but my Google traffic halved after the May 5th update. So right now I've started to focus more on content that I think will do well on pinterest.

[@marid5573]

@@FishinMoney-Darren hey, thanks for your reply. Thing is I have very "strong" Pinterest account ( a few years old with more than 10k followers and half million monthly viewers). And my niche is fashion which is yeah very competitive but very good working on Pinterest. My site is only 4-5 months old and last month it hit 3k pvs and its increasing every month. Not only from Pinterest, some of my articles are already on 2-4 page of Google. So I am getting organic searches as well. I know it needs more time and more content. But bad thing is I am not still sure am I am writing the articles right or wrong way. I am little bit confused😐 You can check out my web, its maridfashion.com 😂. I really wonder what everyone thinking about it. Thanks for your reply again!

[@racheln4309]

Goog 😅

[@אודילישא-בנוגעלגוף]

The comparison between 100,000 page views and 100,000 subsribers is MISLEADING. they are totally different things. you can compare views to views, not views to subscribers.

[@charlieparkeris]

Pinterest is killing it for me. And after the May update cut my Google traffic in half, I've started to focus on creating content that I think will do well on pinterest. If you're in a niche that is popular on pinterest, don't ignore it, they send me thousands of visitors every day and the ad RPM from those visitors is good.

[@exposedthat]

What niches are popular in Pinterest?