What kind of traffic do "young" blogs typically draw?
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I’m just curious, and would like to hear from seasoned as well as new bloggers:
How were your numbers in the early goings, and how quickly did you begin to see people take notice?
I don’t write for the traffic, but i do enjoy knowing my work is read. I think I’m doing some fair numbers early (over 5k hits in less than 3 months), but i also see myself as having a slight edge over some due to the fact that I’ve written for a lot of major publications in the past.
If you don’t mind sharing, what kind of attention did you draw in your early blogging days?
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There is no accurate answer to this question. There are as many different kinds of blogs as there are blogging niches. Some bloggers blog frequently and provide unique content and others don’t. Some blogger bolog in very populare niches and other don’t. Some are skilled at blog promotion and some are not. Suffice to say that appples and oranges comparisons have no value.
Here are 25 basic steps to take to increase traffic to your blog:
1. Structure a reader and search engine blog;
2. In blogging content is king create unique, high quality content so publish fresh content frequently;
3. Learn basic SEO so you can use keywords effectively and apply basic SEO to your headlines, blog and posts;
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results.
4. Make your blog posts look professional;
5. Create at least 4-6 pillar posts and continue to create pillar posts;
Pillar posts are also referred to as flagship content. Pillar posts are comprehensive posts that offer great value to readers as the contents are timeless in nature. They define you as having authority in the niche you blog in.
6. Select and link to appropriate anchor text;
7. Leave meaningful comments on related blogs and encourage comments on your own blog;
8. Develop relationships with other bloggers so you can build a blog readers’ community around your own blog;
9. Support the blog centered communities on related blogs by commenting on them and promoting posts from them;
10. Link to authoritative sources in your posts;
11. Deep link to your earlier related posts in your new posts;
12. Assign appropriate categories and tag your posts with care;
13. Link to related authoritative blogs in your blogroll;
14. Provide RSS feeds for subscribers;
RSS (Rich Site Summary or really simple syndication) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
15. Having a well designed theme is important, evaluate your theme for effectiveness, and if required, create a new header, make improvements or replace your theme and reduce page loading time;
16. Avoid cluttering your blog with widgets that lack reader value and slow page loading time;
17. Buy your own domain and domain mapping;
18. Verify your blog with the three big search engines.
19. Get organized, use an online to do list by developing a blogging workflow;
20. Join social networks and social media sites like Facebook and use Twitter, Friendfeed and other Free RSS directories to promote your blog posts;
21. Promote your blog through social networks, online groups, and selected directories;
22. Develop a social media time management strategy and stick to it;
23. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival;
24. Become a guest blogger on sites with higher page rank than your own site.
25. Create newsletters and/or ebooks for your subscribers.This is a support forum. There is no discussion forum here any more.
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I always just say it’s impossible to tell if you’re a success if we don’t know your goals. What traffic were you aiming for? “10,000 a day” or “better than average for a knitting blog” or “enough to make a good income from WordAds and retire to Florida” or “enough to fill the bottomless hole in my soul” these are all valid sets, but the answer to the question differs for each.
I suppose it would be safe to say that the average new blog receives fewer than 20 visits per day in the first month, and that it is abandoned within six months.
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a great response. And to tell you the truth, I don’t really have a big goal other than expanding my reader base. Although, I wouldn’t mind making a few bucks from WordAds…although I’ve got to think I’m WAAAAY off from that, at this point. lol
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Then the key metric to look at is not the integer, the number of views. The key is the INCREASE in views, the growth. A growth of 100% a month is great for any blog with fewer than 500 hits a day, and difficult to achieve, but some new blogs on hot topics get sprinkled with pixie dust and go huge immediately.
There seems to be a flattening-off point between 100 and 300 hits a day, and it’s not easy to break through it.
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