How to generate traffic to your blog
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Generate traffic? I’ve been sending plenty of people to my wife’s blog here at WordPress from her website. However, Worpress have now informed that I have to remove links to my wife’s website from her blog!
Ignore that fact that I send loads of visitors to WordPress via her website… and I know for a fact that WordPress has had a good few new members because of this, I’ve now been told to lose the links to her own website :-(
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@artpromote
Sheesh! Here you are again speaking for your wife and complaining like a bawl baby about Mark’s advertising decision. Haven’t you lived long enough to learn that happiness is a choice you make between your ears? And don’t you get it yet?
Your wife can have all the advertising she wants by simply self hosting or hiring a web host and downloading a free blog template from http://wordpress.org. And IMO it would be easier for her to make a choice if you weren’t bent on manipulating others after a decision has been made by doing both her thinking and her speaking for her.
Your wife has said:As far as I’m concerned I totally can’t understand what all the fuss is about a silly [commercial] link at the end of each of my blog [posts]. If this WordPress service is so against it for whatever reason and singled out my blog to make an example, well, I can live with it.
So if your wife can live with it – let’s give her the last word.
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And here we have an excellent example of how NOT to generate traffic to your blog; violate TOS, wail like a banshee in the forum (and get the rest of your family to do the same), and bail rather than adhere to the terms of service.
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I’d like to say AMEN to that but there’s no doubt some troll out there working up to rant and looking for a flaming meme theme.
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Perhaps I should tell the tale of Gavilan…mwahahahaha! No, I”ll leave them in suspense.
Meanwhile, getting back to the subject of the thread, I have a couple of suggestions I don’t recall being put in here yet:
Link to very popular sites and CLICK THROUGH that link once it’s up. Even famous people check their referrer stats, and if they like what they see they might link back. I got linked to top science blog Pharyngula this week for basically this reason; the post was #2 on WordPress for two days and is now still in the top 10. Mind you, your own post better be up to snuff for this to have any effect at all.
In fact, click through ALL your links in a post. People do follow things back and look around.
Register with Pingoat or an alternate pinging organization; WordPress pings through Pingomatic, but if anything goes wrong with Pingomatic you’ve got a backup. I manually ping for every post.
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What happened to Gavilan??
But I click most of my blogroll everyday. I’m not the AP or Reuters. So those bloggers are my sources. And I rather link back to bloggers than to huge corporations. :)
But you should also know your audience. Who are the ones that usually leave comments, if they leave comments. Alot don’t. But I think my audience are mostly women, I think. But also when I was at Blogger I had this code put in and they showed the time of day when people came. Since I’m American, I looked at it in U.S. time and alot came to my old blog during work hours. And then also really early morning. So I guess that’s the work hours of other countries.
Also don’t go from normal and nice to all of a sudden to a complete lunatic on your blog. You might lose alot of your core audience.
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The Death of Gavilan, the short version:
Gavilan was relentlessly self-promotional in the forums, while having a blog apparently entirely composed of plagiarized materials. Eventually someone who was drawn to check his site noticed this, contacted the actual author of one of the posts, Gavilan refused to credit it properly, and the rest is “This Blog Suspended for TOS Violations”.
Never draw attention to yourself when you have something to hide.
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Like my encounter with a former gay male porn star. lol I was going by what another blogger said. But he told me to take it down or re-write it. Which I later did. But he asked me if I knew Matt from WordPress.
~ birds chirping ~
I said I don’t know him but I see him on the forum.
~ looks around ~
But hey, I learned a few new porn stories from him and I sent him a Thanksgiving e-card the other day. lol
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Getting off the subject a bit here (cos I dont know Matt) I have claimed my Blog at Technorati, filled in all the details and read everything I can on creating Technorati tags and, well I still dont have a clue what i am supposed to do to make these tags. How dumb do I feel now. Any help would be appreciated here, an Idiots guide would be even better. I have read the walk through and just dont know were I am going wrong.
*Feels so Dumb Noscere puts his fingers in his ears and awaits the world of WP to erupt in laughter*
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Here’s a wrap-up from Matt on how to increase traffic to your blog http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/15/more-traffic/
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You’re welcome. I would also like to mention that if you use an off-line editor like BlogDesk or Windows Live Writer they have technorati tag generators built into their programming that you can use. http://www.blogdesk.org/en/index.htm
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Timethief, I downloaded BlogDesk that you mentioned, I just used it on my last blog, its exacly what I was looking for. Thank you.
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Does anyone else’s Yahoo email account have the blank target tags in their emails when links are sent? Or is it just me? Seriously, I’m cursed when it comes to blogging.
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Content is the King!
Google/Yahoo shows the results of a particular query on different ranks (or pages) depending upon the country from which the request originated. So, if a particular word shows your result on page two from your homeplace, it might be page one or three from somewhere else. Personalized search will also effect the result rank as well.
http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/ranking-reports/ is handy tool that keeps a history of your most recent rank checks.
I think it is also not a good idea to tag/categorize a post if you are writing just once or have a very minor reference to the category as that will bring in people but not returning visitors.
The theme makes a difference, easy navigability increase the time people will spend on your blog. And the themes which have links to previous and next posts (e.g. pressrow) after a post is completely loaded itself helps people noticing more of your content.
Jump to comments (e.g. pressrow) is a good link on top of each post as well, there are many people who just want to jump to comments to see if there comment has appeared or has been replied to, of course recent replies widget helps as well.
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Yes Live writer is a great editor for WordPress. I, also, just downloaded BlogDesk (Thanks Drmike and Timethief)and Thanks to Raincoaster for posting the tip (way back) about pingoat, I didn’t know about it. They have a “find out how much your blog is worth” link, there, which is funny…mine’s only worth $261.22….any buyers ill give it for 1/2 off lol
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Use the Technorati Blogworth Calculator instead. They’re all boondoggles and fake numbers, but this one is WAAAY higher. Also, you can plug in a fake blog, change the name, and look like you’re worth millions; good for a laugh and an ego boost, but I recommend you not save the results.
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