How to generate traffic to your blog
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@nitawriter
I only began blogging in April [she said with a wry smile]. And I do think raincoaster’s idea on you blogging about how to generate loyal readers is a great one. I’d hit on such a post, for sure, for sure. All my best,tt ;) -
One of the best ways of generating traffic is bitching. (Key word: traffic, not loyal readers)
1. Bitch at famous people. Or launch a public attack on something public. For example, you could make fun of Steve Irwin’s death or claim Beyonce has tourettes.
2. Bitch at a blogger/several bloggers/a group of people online. Oh, and don’t forget your blog link.
3. Do something completely ridiculous/unheard of/creative and work hard to make it spread like wildfire. Aka a meme. It helps if it’s really really cruel, like threatening to light a kitten on fire and videotape it. (But don’t do that, you’ll probably get threatened by PETA)
-Oh, and when people start bitching at you for it, you know they’re just trying to steal hits ^^Or, you could go all exhibitionist and camwhore-ish.
Note: This only works if you look good. Or if you’re showing off some strange anomaly, like a third breast.You could also do the boring old “I care about this, that, politics, economics, blabla, prostitution in the Phillipines”-stuff. But that takes time, effort, passion, and all those other morals we’d rather do without. (:
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Well I’ve got the #1 post on WordPress at the moment, so I repeat myself; catch a meme. In this case, it’s bound up with “use haterade” because it’s Olbermann’s speech about Bush in Vietnam. It evidently got to the Dao Report on Salon.com.
Blog about things people will be looking for, but only things which interest you; if a blog loses its integrity it loses it’s steam; you can see that with blogs people have signed off on and are phoning it in. Perez is still a hit because he’s straightforward about being the famewhore that he is. I totally thought my top post today would be the Jack the Ripper reconstruct, but that just shows you what I know.
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Bitching only works if the blogger does it in a funny way. There are some that can get away with it while others can’t. It depends on how it’s done.
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Agreed. Some people are angry and bitter, but that doesn’t make them Oscar Wilde. Still, if what they hate is hated by enough other people, they’ll get pageviews.
nosy, you are just too nice a person to become fluent in haterade. It wouldn’t be authentic to you, so you wouldn’t be able to do it well and your blog would suffer. Blogs must have integrity.
There was a blog around these parts not too long ago that was consistently one of the top ten. Day in and day out you’d see this guy’s blog up there and you’d find him around the forums whining that he didn’t get as many hits as, say, Robert Scoble. And where is his blog now? A blog that does not have integrity will not survive. Karma’s a bitch.
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Seriously, he’s vile and a pig. I heard he made a Steve Irwin video after he was killed by a stingray. And he just hit the top 100 in Technorati. AARG!
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He didn’t make the video, but he did post it I think it was two days after the death. He plays up the outrageousness to generate controversy, no question. But, as we said earlier in this thread, it obviously works. Look at all the trouble Gawker got into with the Gawker Stalker maps, and now they’re the 19th most popular blog in the world.
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Another way for Blogs to get hits is to enter the various Weblog Awards that happen around this time of year. This was listed as [ enter contests ] in a blog post I read recently about driving traffic to your blog.
See for example: http://2006.weblogs.org/ Note: nominations are ending soon.
Especially enter those Blog Award contests that happen year round such as this daily one:
http://blogofthedayawards.blogspot.com/
Daily awards have many more people winning and they give you a much better chance of getting your name in lights.
If you make it into the finalists for the Weblog Awards, all the judges have to go visit you and then the voters can visit as well.
Some of these have lots of categories and you can enter several of them such as “Best Blog”, “Best New Blog”, “Best Blog ranked between 3701 and 4952 on TruthLaidBear” and so forth.
Winning an annual award in any of these categories can result in quite a bit of traffic.
One of my blogs was nominated for an award last year and then rejected for having too much traffic but just being nominated generated a few thousand new visitors over a couple of weeks.
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All these posts are very interesting to me, a new blogger. About writing a post on my blog about getting loyal bloggers, right know I admit I am not clear about how to go about it. However I decided that as I don’t know the techniques I might as well just do what I believe in. In fact I have written a post on blogging today, about why I blog. It’s not about getting loyal readers as such because I really do not feel I am in a position to advise anyone. The hits on my blog are limited but they are not too bad either by my standards. I am not yet equipped to write a top winning post I think. In fact when I think of blogs getting millions of views a day, I feel zapped.
Anyway thanks quotes for those links. Let me see if I can find something there…if one is rejected for having too much traffic, well I have an advantage because I do not have too much traffic! No jams my friends – so naturally everyone wants to come to the party. -
If you get the paid option in sitemeter it will allow you to track exactly which computers are hitting your blog daily; this will help you track just how loyal your readers are, or if you’re getting a fixed number of newbies daily. It’s interesting to compare if that’s what you’re interested in.
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Too much traffic was a call by the guy running those particular awards. He started them to help newer blogs get some more exposure and he did not want to be giving awards to blogs that were aready well esatblished.
That is similar to the philosophy at Blog of the Day Awards and it is rare but not unheard of to see a well-known blogger getting an award.
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Another interesting idea I have seen lately for generating traffic is called Stumbleupon.
They have a toolbar that you download and they have over one million members.
The active mebers click a button on the toolbar and go “stumbling around” visiting sites that other members have visited. Then they can vote whether they like or hate the site and they can write a review of it.
If you sign up and participate actively, you can find lots of interesting sites, rate them and let other people there know about interesting sites you have visited.
Often you will find that someone has already added your site to the system and you can just give it a thumbs up. If it is not there, you can write a review about it and see what other members think.The more active you are, the more people will consider your recommendations worthwhile.
You can get started here
http://www.stumbleupon.com/and if you want more help there, let me know.
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There are a few social bookmarking services, and I’ve just started putting in links to them; they’re pretty crude-looking though, with no cool icons. I wish WordPress would make this an automatic option in the sidebar of the Write page, like Categories, etc. Just another box with choices like Digg, ma.gnolia, etc. Would it be THAT hard to automate?
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Yup, such has indeed been requested.
http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=4714&replies=10#post-30732 -
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