Everyone has their own little spiel about increasing traffic to your web site and blog. Earlier this week, when I heard Joseph Jaffe speak, his advice was to be in it for the long haul.
Based on my own experience, I couldn’t agree more. Each month it seems I gain a quality link here and there based on the new content I produce. And now it seems as though each post attracts just a little more traffic than the last.
Here are a few thoughts I have about building blog traffic:
- Choose a quality blog host. I recommend using blogger or wordpress.
- Pick a topic or series of topics and make that your thing. It will be easier to attract new links if you are offering up bits of information that is new and timely.
- Customize your look & feel. This will help your credibility with other bloggers and help you attract links.
- Keep at it. If at first you don’t succeed in building your blog traffic, keep at it. It is unlikely that other bloggers will link to your blog if it is brand new because of the high likelihood that your blog could be abandoned.
- Mention your blog in as many other social networks that you are a part of.
- Submit your content to social bookmarking sites like Digg.
- Interact with other bloggers by leaving comments and adding to their discussion. This will help them find your blog and build your credibility.
I’m just curious - what would be considered decent blog traffic?
Good Question - I think “decent” traffic levels are relative to your topic of interest, as well as your goals and objectives.
I will work on a longer explanation and post it to my blog. Thanks for the comment.
Great, looking forward to reading more about it. cheers