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3 Months old - Am I still new to blogging?

Posted by iratedog • 10/04/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: day, per, visits

I just read a discussion asking whether you get more than 100 visits a day.

I was wondering at what sort of time span you'd expect to reach this level.

My main blog: theiratedog.blogspot.com is now 3 months old. But I'm still tottering around at an average of about 15 views a day, sometimes as low as 2, sometimes as high as 40.

Is a 3 month old blog expected to be doing better by now? If so, what could I do to improve?

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10/04/09

Friday13

I don't know. I've been blogging for more than two years and will mostly get a handful of visits per day (which is fine by me).

It's not so much about being "new" or "old" to blogging, but the effort you make into promoting it everywhere you can.

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10/04/09

MadameX

"Expected" is a funny word in this context. There is no norm. It depends on your niche, what kind of promotional efforts you make, how often you post, the quality of your work, what kind of connections you have with other bloggers, whether you use social media to enhance your readership...etc., etc., etc.

Back in the exclusively-print days, a piece of "wisdom" repeatedly passed along to unpublished writers was "No one is going to knock on your door and ask to see what's in your file cabinet". The fact that your file cabinet is now accessible on the Internet doesn't change that.

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1. 10/05/09
  
  iratedog
  
  Right, ok. So I have to show people my filing cabinet. That's a good metaphor...or is it an innuendo?
  
  Thanks for the help!
2. 10/05/09
  
  iratedog
10/05/09

acousticguitarist

I think it would take about 4 months as a natural progression if you were consistent and had a reasonable blog. You can do things that make a difference like change your header, my traffic went up about 30% when I changed my header (the traffic landed and stayed longer), it doubled when I added youtubes. I find all I need to do is post once a week and the blogs average between 850 and 950 visitors a day, in a few weeks it will double because of the changes I'm about to make.

See if you can get your blog featured on About dot com, that gave me an increase of about 40% over night for a week or so, then dropped to only 15% and now sends about 5%. But if you can find a number of sites that send traffic, it all adds up.

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1. 10/05/09
  
  iratedog
  
  Ok. I saw a list that I think you wrote on another thread. One of them was "use twitter correctly" and now you've mentioned YouTube. How do YOU use Twitter and YouTube? I already have an IrateDog account on both, but I want to know how to optimise my use of them.
10/05/09

acousticguitarist

embed youtube videos. Use stuff that people like and get in before other people. Once you find stuff you think is great, use it to pull traffic in. Add the code to your blog, but write a little article about it,
google.about.com/od/googleblogging/ss/embedyoutubesbs.htm

make sure that you untick related videos

and at the bottom of your post, always add a link that points back to another post on your site.

Twitter: www.chrisbrogan.com/50-ideas-on-using-twitter-for-business/

Get a copy of Yaro's Blueprint for Bloggers, all you'll need to do is subscribe your email www.blogmastermind.com/video/

I use his stuff as a reference in the classroom to teach blogging, there is so much info in his bluerpint for bloggers, just follow a few of his ideas and it will help

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10/05/09

sorcerer

getting more visitors is possible if you update your blog with content which are unique in your blog.
I increased my traffic from 5 to 46 everyday.
Hope I wil reach a 100

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10/05/09

lifeshighway

100 visits a day would be a dream for me, I am also hovering most days in the teens. My next big goal would be 50. Been blogging for 8 months and I have stagnated for the most part.

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