Blog advice
-
Do you do a free blog advice service? I ask because my traffic has plummeted recently despite following the techniques to gain readership. It’s a bit disheartening as my traffic was on the up before christmas. It suggests that people aren’t coming back.
I know I shouldn’t be taking it too seriously but once you get into it it’s difficult not to. -
Google just updated their listings and a lot of folks are reporting that they took a big hit. You may have been affected by this.
I wrote upa few months ago an article on getting folks to your blog. It’s over at http://pimpmyblog.wordpress.com if you want to give it a read.
Hope this helps,
-drmike -
Thanks drmike. Your comments are much appreciated. I will take a look at your article. Glad to know it wasn’t just me taking a hit.
Cheers again. -
ironically my stats lately are on the up. i pay credit to my wonderful regulars who loyally visit and improved writing in comparison to when i first started. :P
-
One bit of advice in the “Generating traffic” thread was that people can use stumbleupon to help generate traffic and interest in their blog.
I know one guy in Canada who now finds that to be his most important source of traffic.
When I go to the reviews section and look for your blog I find this:
“We don’t have a record of
http://thegroundhog.wordpress.com/”I will add it for you and tell a few friends to review it as well but you really should be doing that yourself.
Watch your statistics for a few days and let us know if it helped. You should see this both in the referrals and in an increase in traffic.
Let us know what your traffic is like right now and then let us know again in a few days.
Thanks
-
Hi quotes,
Thanks for your email, although I don’t understand a word of it! I’ve never heard of stumble upon, so how I should be doing something myself that I have no idea about seems a bit harsh.
Which reviews section did you look at where I was not listed?
BTW my stats have suddenly leapt up by 14 in the last half an hour – is that what you’ve done? Forgive me – I’m still a bit new to this. Thanks -
Stumbleupon.com is a sort of toolbar add-on, so when you’re blog surfing and you see something neat you just click a button and it gets recommended to all the other members. I’ve gotten a few hundred hits from it, but you don’t actually need to join to get the benefits: I haven’t. You wait for Stumbleupon members to think you’re neat and then it goes viral…or not.
-
-
-
Sorry it seemed so harsh. There is a thread about generating traffic where this was discussed and you indicated that you had read it.
I am noting a strange bug in the IE7 toolbar for stumbleupon when interacting with wordpress.com blogs
It only happens on WordPress.com blogs.
When you try to review a brand new blog that has not been added/reviewed before, the popup window comes up and lets you fill everything in but then when you hit submit, instead of saying “Rating Submitted” or whatever, it goes off to la-la land and never comes back. The rating does not go into the results and the wordpress.com blog is not added to the database or the rotation.
-
@tthegroundhog
(1) This thread contains information pertaining to how to get search engine attention. http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=5859&replies=9
If you have done these things as well as registering with Technorati and claiming you blog then you have covered the basics.
(2) If you do not use the Categories widget you are cutting your blog of the global tagging system that wordpress.com has (see: tag pages) and that will preclude hits on your blog that may have otherwise occurred.
(3) If your blog is confined to a narrow topic such as one sport or one pursuit and particularly one of local or regional interest then you can increase your traffic by doing as drmike suggests (a) linking to local or regional online newspapers, newsletters and topical online magazines, as well as (b) becoming a member of any regional, local or topical forums. I have found that (c) joining regional and local listservs and forums and posting to them regularly (d) handing out business cards with my blogs urls on them has brought me traffic from people who are not bloggers and who would not have otherwise known my blogs existed. :) -
Here is the big “Mother of all Traffic Generation Threads” thread.
http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=1273&replies=105
Some of the relevant items include this:
“Another interesting idea I have seen lately for generating traffic is called Stumbleupon.”
http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=1273&page=3&replies=105#post-35565
and this:
http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=1273&page=3&replies=105#post-35471
-
Thanks for the advice and links. I think I read all the generating traffic threads and links but I don’t remember stumbleupon or similar.
-
I’ts probably mentioned in the Social Bookmarking threads. Use the forum search box to find them.
-
After quotes did whatever he did there was a half-hour spike of about 15 hits. Since then it is worse than ever. In fact, I think it’s fair to say it’s dying. I’ve only had 6 hits today and one article read.
I don’t understand :( -
@thegroundhog: One area you could improve is post titles.
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/11/22/the-secret-to-blog-success-is-in-the-title/Here’s a list of how to market your blog:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/blog-marketing-explained/This is the most popular post I’ve had on blogging tips:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/you-can-be-a-good-example-or-a-horrible-warning-how-not-to-be-a-successful-blogger/I find I spend more time promoting my blog, getting links, commenting on other blogs, reading/linking to other blogs than I do writing for me blog. Kind of sad, really. I have some friends who blog with very entertaining content (to me at least) but they’re in the 300 hits a day range because they don’t spend a lot of time on marketing.
-
you could try reading other wp blogs and commenting in it. i get lots of hits by doing that because the blogger would at least reciprocate once, and his/her readers may help too. most of them don’t return regularly, but you have to comment in many blogs before you can find one blogger who likes your content and become your regular reader. i have two or three by doing so.
and if you’re just starting out, the stats can be pretty bad. i only get regular stats after a year of blogging.
-
Thanks engtech and Sulz,
I’m on a downer today and everything is looking half-empty. Thankyou for humouring me with replies, without telling me to stop whingeing! Your advice is stellar and has perked me up. Cheers. -
It goes up and down. Two days ago I was slapping my monitor and yelling at the blogosphere, “What is wrong with you people?? This is COMEDY GOLD!!!” and my stats were in the toilet. Now they’ve caught a rocket. Just keep plugging away, and do the blog promotion ideas you see around insofar as you are able and have time. It’ll come around.
- The topic ‘Blog advice’ is closed to new replies.
WordPress.com Forums 