My sites bring in several hundred thousand visitors per month. That's when I'm NOT working them. Case in point: one of my first key sites - I have not promoted it for the past year and a half... (been busy with other stuff), STILL has over 1040 sites that link to it or recommend it... it STILL gets HUNDREDS of article submissions weekly... and I haven't submitted it to search engines in over two years!

Further into the stats when I reviewed them, a whopping 80.4% have bookmarked that site and returned to it at some point in the past year! That tidbit staggered me. (I never used "forced" bookmark tactics ever). In fact, I don't even usually suggest it!

What's cool about that (to me anyway), is it is still in the top 3 pages for key HIGH popularity words in Google! When I was checking out of curiousity, I nearly fell over to be honest. There's another engine that brings more traffic than even Google... (and no, its not Yahoo).

Surprised? I was. While top 3 page isn't necessarily the best... the key is as I stated a moment ago - I have NOT submitted it to search engines in over two years. (Yes, previously we were in the top 5 results on the first page when I *did* work it).

In checking just now, I still come up #16 on Netscape, and an incredible #6 on MSN!

Remember: I have not submitted this site to any search engines in over two years. WOW.

Here's some more results:

Test site 1 grew from 10,556 visitors/month to 65,007 in just over three months.

Test site 2 grew from 3,300 visitors/month to 165,022 in under two months.

Test site 3 grew from 16,972 visitors/month to 268,165 visitors in less than two months.

The site my former partner has in the top of the engines and receiving huge traffic is ranked (at this exact moment), #11 on Google, #4 on Excite, #11 on Yahoo, #2 on Netscape Search, and #1 on MSN.

Most recent examples that I've used for myself: Last year, one of our main websites grew from 1011 to 10,170 in one month... to 55,968 the next... to 102,655 the next, to 121,282 the next. That was with barely any promotions. In fact, I didn't pay a cent for it. For the entire year (the first four months it was just parked), it had a total of 791,425 visitors to it for 8 months. (real people - not "hits").

Another main website of ours, last year had 1,075,759 visitors. Just this year, that site has grown even faster. We made some adjustments to it... in January it had slowed (we hadn't worked on it for a while), to 40,581 visitors for the month. In February, it shot up to 264,765 visitors for the month... and in March, has had already 386757 up until this moment, at 14:27 p.m. March 24th. That's already, 692,103 visitors for 2005! Reported period Month Mar 2005 First visit 01 Mar 2005 - 00:00 Last visit 24 Mar 2005 - 14:27 Traffic viewed * 386757 (4.45 pages/visit) Traffic not viewed * 7695 * Not viewed traffic includes traffic generated by robots, worms, or replies with special HTTP status codes. That's a whopping 16,253+ page views PER day in March alone... and it keeps going up! At this rate, if we didn't receive any new traffic, this site alone will have 5,327,524 page views for the year! (Calculated this way:    January 31 days + February 28 days + March 19 days     = 78 days. 365 days - 78 days = 287 days x 16,247 = 4,664,611 4,664,611 + 662,913 already received = 5,327,524 visitors).

Remember, this last stat is just one website. Want to hear something more powerful? That site is so popular, more than 23% have already bookmarked AND returned! Repeat traffic is definitely more effective than one time traffic, don't you agree?

Another site gets over 6,000 visitors per month (I've barely done anything to it... yet).