Dec 11
I’m curious. What brings you the most blog traffic?
If you have stats on your blog, can you do me a favor? Look in them and tell me where you get most of your blog traffic. Is it from technorati? Fuel My Blog? Digg? MyBlogLog? Blogarama? Other blogs you post at? Google? Somewhere else?
Yesterday I discovered Douglas Karr’s blog and and interesting conversation about blog communities. Then we got into a discussion (in comments to yesterday’s post) about blog contests that sometimes get little results.
So I’m curious about where average and beginner bloggers get their traffic. I’m not talking the Seth Godin or Probloggers of the world. I’m talking about you and me and where our visitors come from.
I’m going to turn this into a blog carnival and submit it to BlogCarnival.com with the urls of all contributors included and would love you give you a bit of linky love in the process. So… just hit ‘comments’ and let me know where your traffic comes from. Thanks!
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Silvie Hi, I have been considering your post and I thought it was interesting.
On occasion I had to create a website for my clients and I was always wondering the same thing, How to increase traffic hits on my web site?
My recommendation is as follows:
- Edit HTML content
- Indexarse in most browsers
- Indexarse in most directories blogs, classified in the appropriate categories
- Develop a title containing the words that best identify and differentiate our site or blog
- Develop our metatags description judiciously, but we differentiate identifier
- Use reciprocal links
- Use an attractive design.
That information is accessible
Wait - that Google is indexing, heheh!
We need to be patient because the process can take from 3 to 6 months. Not always successful.
If we make good publicity but our product is bad, not receive visits!
The fate is important!
Thanks and Bye
Sorry for my bad english, I use Google traductor and that cause comical traductions. Bye!
Ne soyez pas désolé. Je suis heureux de vous voir
(Mon Français est très mauvais)
Oh, please don’t say sorry. I’m so glad to see you join in.
(my French is very bad)
The bulk of my traffic comes from Stumbleupon and then Blogcatalog…
The bulk of my traffic comes from Stumbleupon and then Blogcatalog…
I’m getting a lot of my traffic from Fuelmyblog and from links at other FMB users blogs., including this one. This is because I have been participating in FMB and working at it. I get some traffic from other blogs that i have left comments on. I was part of the melee at Doug Karr’s blog post where he panned social blogging sites - again FMB was in the middle of that. I suspect the hits that I have had from Doug’s blog have been Doug checking up on me, not that I’m paranoid or anything.
I believe that you have to chose your networking site(s) and learn the ropes. Each one is different. When you find one that works for you contribute to it’s success and it will contribute to yours. Technorati, Blogging Zoom, Stumbleupon, Digg etc. send me a hit once in a while. MyBlogLog has given me a few.
I have been commenting on blogs that interest,or infuriate me lately to test Doug’s theory. I’ll report back later. Of course I’m not going to the ones that he recommends, so if it doesn’t produce traffic it will be my fault and not that of his system.
I have had relative success (relative being the operative word) from Digg however that only comes on occasions when I digg myself. I’ve found it to work much better if your posts are factual not personal. I think digg has a pretty big tech and political bias. Even if you include a personal touch on one of those categories you can expect to get some visitors.
Also, I’ve noticed that frequent commenting on other blogs brings traffic in at a disproportionately higher rate than rare posts and I don’t think that is all to do with the blogger reading as ROTUS eluded to but it probably does have something to do with it.
Hi Linda,
I find mine depends on what I’m posting. When I get into what’s current and connected to celebrities and all that’s pop culture, I get hits from different sources than if I post say, about anorexia or salvia.
I went through a time when I had a lot of traffic from Technorati, then other times it’ll be tons through Wordpress searches. Then there was the time blogtoplist seemed to be the ticket. I know I get some from fuelmyblog, but if my hits go into the 1-2000 area, that’s a slow day for me. When I’m paying attention to the blog and trying at it, it’s usually from 2500 - 3000 a day. I would never expect to get that just from fuel.
I just try stay on top of current topics (could be a health topic even, not just celebs) and find that this helps. One thing that a new blogger doesn’t want to hear, is that time is the best weapon. Blogging regularly and finding your blog identity leads to traffic. I know I didn’t want to hear that a year ago, but it is true.
Some people participate in tons of link exchanges and awards and link memes, but I find those exhausting. They’re great for people who enjoy that, but I try do those in moderation. I prefer to just write, be me, post all my wackyness and let the regular readers be there because they enjoy being there.
Oh.. and a few posts about something nude doesn’t hurt.
Summarized: all of the above techniques and lots of hard work!
Mainly I depend on search engine traffic and keep on evaluating everything I do and anything I can find:
that’s why I am reading here and now
that’s why I closely monitor the blog showing their daily statistics at http://www.linkylove.net/addyourlink
Unlike ordinateurvivant I don’t submit to search engines: if a search engine cannot find me, then I am doing something wrong.
I still need to reveal the secret of Joey Moggie attracting tons of visitors without updating her blog!
Like my mentor Fracas (whose amount of visitors is my daily target…) says:
something nude helps
time is an issue, let me explain the latter
Search Engines
I use 2 ways to get search engine traffic:
the fast and furious using Google Trend Labs. I leave the honours to somebody else to explain the nifty gritty of it, but you could have a look at my Google Trend Labs case study : you can get a lot of visitors fast, but this flood of visitors will only last a few hours to a few days
the slow and steady doing all the right SEO techniques: like ordinateurvivant says: you will only get your flood of new visitors in 3 to 6 months… French Swear Words is my example here.
Communities
I use the "go party with your famous friend" technique.
You know the girl that’s always famous on the party? If it’s not you, then the best thing to do is stand next to her (The way Kim Kardashian got famous standing next to Paris Hilton). (The way Bush Junior could get so far in politics)
How it works? In stead of doing your own thing in communities or blogspot, you add your blog to the profile of somebody you know.
Your blog gets instant attention thanks to just standing in the shadow of your friend
Now if you really get better than your friend, your friend should have the love to stand in your shadow and grow with you.
That’s a win-win I practiced with the blogspot Link Love profile: the original blogspot profile is not mine nor the vivid amount of blogs underneath…
Further on: communities are all about participating in the community, so you have to see for yourself if it works for you.
Natural Visitors
Meaning somebody just types in: "mysite.com" in their browser. I leave the honours to somebody else to explain the nifty gritty, it works for me for Gwen Stefani Sweet Escape.
Pointing visitors to your other site
Saw links on other bogs you have, especially on:
bogs attracting lots of visitors or
being right on topic.
Again hard work and looking at the bragging me and Fracas did in response to Linda’s request, we did manage to convert a few of our visitors in participating to her contest (which is the next step after attracting visitors, so 1 participant could well be the result after 1000 visitors).
Evaluate yourself
Keeping track of what works and looking for new ideas every day!
oops… double post.
HI
Mine are a combination of dodgy searches on Google (hey I have ‘teen’ in my title……. yesterday was teen ironing sexy!!) and the following….. Technorati, FMB, Blogrovr, Facebook which surprised me, sitemeter. & that is about it I can see from my statcounter
Does that help ???
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very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
I’m not sure who you don’t agree with?
I got this on fracas too. There was no link so I thought it might not be spam but I guess it is.
I don’t agree with you, love your blog, quite interesting post…. I get them all the time, especially the nice blog ones
All spam (yet without a link, I don’t see the logic, unless they try to get in twice and then bypass your spamfilter with real links…)
I don’t agree with Linda not posting her visitors though
Happy Newyear you all, since you are all under the snow, me might as well disappear for a few weeks …
Hi Linky… yup, that’s what I think they’re doing. Get posts in twice by not adding links - bypass the spam filter and then they can blast you with links.
Not sure what you mean by not posting my visitors. I have a widget at the side that keeps the top 7 most frequest posters listed and links right to their blogs.
: )
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