Someone pointed out a blog post they found in Google Blog Search, showing that you can get traffic from Google Finance and wanted to know if it would work.
Short answer, yes. Long answer, use intelligently.
There’s a bit more to it than mentioning public companies in your blog posts, as I talk about in the video series on hidden sources of Google traffic that came out this June. I’ve been using this method for a while and admitting to it since January of this year.
So if it works, what’s the problem?
Well, do you want traffic that will click, buy or subscribe, or do you want junk traffic? If you don’t blog about Google, but just mention them in hopes of showing up on the stocks page, the browsers won’t click through or stick. What good is it to get an extra 300 visitors if they just turn around and leave?
On the other hand, when it works, you can get decent traffic, and you then only need to be set up to process it properly. So make sure you’ve done your research and really have informative posts for the people who click through that is line with what you blog about on a regular basis.
