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Advice on Traffic--Please Help

Posted by pwise79 • 8/06/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: advice on blog, blog help, increase traffic, new blog, SEO, traffic

Hello. I am fairly new to all this and have a blog that has been up and running for just under a month now. I just wanted to get some feedback about how long it usually takes for you to start getting some good traffic, and I was wondering how my blog was rating as far as traffic at this stage of the game. I get an average of 30-40 hits every day with 10-14 new visitors. I am wondering if this is a good start or is it pathetic for my first month? The things I have been doing are: I have been getting links on other blogs, have submitted to TONS of directories, search engines, etc. and have accounts here, with Zimbio, Adoptic, Blogher, Work It Mom, Mom's Blog Network, Digg It, My Bloglog, and Social Spark. I have been networking, commenting on others' blogs and submitting articles to blogs and online magazines. I also have meta tags and keywords in my blog's header html.

Does anyone have any feedback for me? Do these things I am doing generally take a while to start sending traffic or am I not doing enough? Please let me know what you think!

Thanks in advance!

-Petra

User Comments

8/06/08

Teck

Your off to a great start and the amount of hits for your
first month is better then some of the other blogs on the net
that are a month old...

I wrote a couple of articles recently that gives a few tips
on how to direct traffic your way.

Top 6 Ways To Get Your Blog Noticed Fast On The Interweb:
teckline.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/top-6-ways-to-get-your-blog-noticed-fast-...

How To Lock In A Potential Audience
teckline.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/how-to-lock-in-a-audience/

Teck

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1. 8/06/08
  
  soonergirl
  
  Awesome ideas, Teck!
2. 8/06/08
  
  Teck
  
  Thanks! soonergirl,
8/06/08

pwise79

Thanks Teck! I appreciate you weighing in!

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1. 8/06/08
  
  Teck
  
  Your welcome! pwise79,
8/06/08

pwise79

Does anyone know how to add tags to each individual post using Blogger? Also, does anyone know how to get a social bookmark bar for Blogger?

Thanks!

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1. 9/20/08
  
  GetSmart
  
  Do you use technorati? They offer a tag generator. Create the tags then it will generate tags for you and you will copy and paste into your blog post. It's easy and works great.
  
  Does this help you?
8/06/08

tatasmagik

I use blogger and found LOTS of good info on customization at BloggerBuster.com (including social bookmarks in the footer). I blogged a post on what I feel are good resources: www.imnotbeautifullikeyou.com/2008/07/great-resources-for-bloggers.html

Have you signed up with Feedburner?

Thought about Entrecard?

Sounds like you are doing pretty good to me!

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8/06/08

weblogian

Join all social network do not miss even a small growing network cos 1 person one click count. BC is great help for me. Promote ur post using the shameless category and people will surely visit ur blog

Donot forget to put social bookmarking button in your blog. Digg Dugg as much as you can. Visit other blog and comments. Don use " Nice blog, visit mine too" comments. just give what you really want to say. Everyone has the curiousity to know the person who commented so this is a great way to drive traffic to your blog.

Wish you luck
And lastly you are invited to join our growing BC groups
www.blogcatalog.com/group/weblogians

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1. 8/07/08
  
  JP2112
  
  I disagree. Submitting your content to every blog network and directory listing you can find is only going to lower your PageRank. Many of those sites are spam magnets that just attract the attention of splogs who steal your content, and some of them just use your registration info to send you mindless amounts of email. One or two hits a month isn't worth it. Keep your content special by submitting it to Yahoo, MSN, Google, DMOZ, and let it filter down to the rest.
  
  --JP
2. 8/07/08
  
  keropidark
  
  I'd have to go with JP2112 on this. When I started 3 months ago I wanted a way to get exposure. I joined BC and mybloglog. I find BC to be the most trusted and full of people with real passion for their blogs. At mybloglog I get a lot of garbage comments and even some fool that tagged my blog with his name.
  
  From what I've gathered, timing plays a part in the traffic thing. Bloggers have to discover you and it takes some time to get the word out. Sorry I'm not much help but I wanted to tell you my experiences with different blog communities and let you decide for yourself.
  
  good luck
3. 8/07/08
  
  JP2112
  
  It's the "bad neighborhood" theory. If most of your backlinks are from low-quality, fly by night blog directories that feel spammy, Google will pick up on that and your site will slip in the SERPs.
  
  And while we're on the subject, I'll never understand those "visit 10 blogs and get 1 hit on your blog" schemes you see on some websites. They only produce irrelevant traffic (i.e. people who aren't going to comment or buy anything) and links which can hurt your site if, say, a gardening website sets up a link to a site about monster trucks. Google can see right through that.
8/06/08

Arashmania

Petra, you're doing really well, i think it's an excellent start! I'm relatively new too, but don't have your numbers.

I think it also comes down to spreading the news of your blog. Tell your friends and family members too and so on. and keep being proactive, that always helps.

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8/06/08

pwise79

Thanks so much! Your suggestions are all really helpful!

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8/06/08

Kiwipulse

Start using entrecard, use their toolbar. Drop 300 sites by day in 20 minutes. Comment on the sites you drop.

- You will receive at least 100 visitors per day that way
- If your comments are effective, you will receive 50 visitors
- Use the points that you earned by dropping and buy advertisement spot. Buy the cheap one for the begginning.

If you do that long term, your traffic will increase. Its then up to you to write interesting post to make your traffic come back.

The best way to get traffic is, work on your SEO. Im receiving 80% of my traffic that way. My old post that I wrote several months ago still get traffics.

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8/06/08

ModelElaine

Sounds pretty good for the first month. I wish I had your energy

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8/06/08

barryfromtexas

It sounds like you are doing well. Also just visit blogs you like and leave comments. What goes around comes around in the blog world.

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8/06/08

DrowseyMonkey

Your blog looks great and that's a good amount of traffic for a new blog Have you joined BlogHer? I think they have a lot of similar blogs, also do a search here of similar blogs ... and then start visiting and commenting and getting to know other bloggers. That's really the best and the most fun way to get your blog out there ... because not only do others get to find your blog but you find a bunch of great blogs too. Win/win.

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8/06/08

gingerbeer25

I have been blogging for almost 4 months, have a google rank of 5 and get about 1100 uniques a day is that about where I should be?

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1. 8/06/08
  
  DrowseyMonkey
  
  That's over & above where most people are!
8/06/08

gingerbeer25

WOW...when I read some of the how to blogs they are talking about visitors in the thousands I always leave feeling inadequate.

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8/06/08

PinkLily

Wow...you make me feel so inadequate and a lazy bump! My blog is 2 months old - the average unique visit is only 16. The most number of unique visits I have is 120+ per day. I joined a very active group on miniatures collection (I collect them) and I notice a spike in the visits whenever I post links to the discussion group to show off my new miniatures.

www.diaryquirkylady.com

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8/07/08

bladeaxe4

you can even get free traffic without joining any more number of sites, do visit my group ! lol, telling u for real !

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1. 12/01/08
  
  bladeaxe4
  
  i have deleted the group ! hurrey ~
9/15/08

artofreed

you can broadcast your post by blogcatalog to your friend, do the link exchange, join the discussion group. Blogging must be patient !

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9/15/08

timethief

Here are some useful links
www.webguru-india.com/blog/20-tips-to-increase-blog-traffic/
www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/effective-ways-to-get-real-visitors-to-yo...

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9/15/08

jan4insight

You're doing a heckuva lot better than I am, and I've been running my blog for 9 months!

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9/16/08

fated82

It takes time to generate traffic. Besides google, you can try stumbledUpon, twitter, digg and technorati. Add value to BC and you will see your traffic start to rise.

If you have time, write articles for ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com. Lastly, depending on your niche, answer questions at yahoo answers. Do these consistently, you will see a rise overt time.

Don't spam post on social media sites though. Send only those worthy of attention.

Good luck!

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9/16/08

blackzero85

Nice articles, teck.

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9/16/08

Teck

Thanks compliment blackzero85,

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9/16/08

tjefferson85

These are some good links and suggestions, my blogs only a month and a half old.

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9/16/08

timethief

There are no easy ways or shortcuts to increasing traffic to your blog. In blogging content is king and if you write good content and promote it then the result may be an increase in organic traffic, or not. What determines success is whether or not the traffic you do attract "sticks". In a nutshell, that means you need to focus on creating relationships with other bloggers by leaving meaningful comments on their blogs, and by encouraging "organic" traffic that translates into a faithful blog readership for your own blog, by responding to the comments you get.

Organic Traffic: Organic traffic is any traffic that comes to your site without being paid for. This includes people who visit via links in forums and blogs, traffic from search engines, traffic from word of mouth, or traffic from bookmarks. Organic traffic generally comes to a site naturally and is not driven by marketing campaigns.

Inorganic Traffic: Inorganic traffic is traffic that is pushed via marketing campaigns. Banner ads, search engine ads, etc generate inorganic traffic. Generally speaking this form of traffic is semi-immediate depending on how much you blanket the Web with your advertising and slowly dies out over time unless more money is spent to build a new marketing campaign.

Social networks can be good places for promoting your quality blog content. Here are two links that may help you use social networks effectively.
How to use Digg effectively onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/how-to-use-digg-effectively/
How to use Stumbleupon effectively onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/how-to-use-stumbleupon-effectively/

You can also participate in blog carnivals blogcarnival.com/bc/tempdown.html and by submitting posts to ezines.

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1. 9/16/08
  
  blogonsmog
  
  Timethief - I suspect you are doing really well based on your pagerank. Do you ever pay for traffic or do you strive for completely organic?
2. 9/16/08
  
  timethief
  
  @blogonsmog
  Do you ever pay for traffic or do you strive for completely organic?
  
  I have never paid for traffic. I don't submit my own posts to Digg, Reddit or Stumbleupon, etc. I focus only on organic traffic. By insuring I have a reader and search engine friendly blog (basic white hat SEO), and that the content I write is of high quality and of interest to other bloggers, I do get traffic, and I'm satisfied with the amount that I do get.
9/16/08

blogonsmog

Petra - you are doing really well.

After reading this thread I'm getting frustrated My blog is about three months old, I get maybe 3 or 4 visits a day. PageRank 0. I suggested it to DMOZ.ORG and they ignored it. I suppose I could be a little more active in the digg / stumble...

I'm starting to submit articles to ezinearticles.com - hopefully that will help somewhat.

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9/16/08

dosox

Huh.. those little banners are just another obstruction, be like google...
text ads works better these days. Well 30-40 is average for the first few months... make sure you keep working or else you'll lose your money

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9/16/08

bradhart

Something else you can do to really get noticed is looking for guest blogging options on other blogs. What you specifically want is to be doing it on places that have live links i.e. the nofollow tags removed.

For example I am looking for people who want to blog on their favorite TV show, new music, new movies and new DVD releases. I am also looking for a woman to give her perspective on the democratic campaigns this fall. On yet another blog I have guest/contributing blogger opportunities for parents (especially stay at home parents) of multiples and parents with kids less than a year apart or several really close in age.

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9/16/08

Profitimo

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12/01/08

pegasusryusiken

ping in a los of places, go into social net, do a lot of articles, read about seo,... and be patient.

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12/18/08

Frusketer

Your off to an amazing start! and what you did here is a perfect example of how to get traffic to your blg - I bet almost everyone who left a comment for you visited your blog - not only are you getting direct traffic by what you're doing here and in other places but all that you are doing will improve your ranking on the SERPS and automatically get you some great organic traffic...

Check out www.frusketing.com/blog for great tips for new marketers.

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12/18/08

Jhangora

U doing great so far Pwise79. I agree with Kiwipulse regarding Search Engines being the best source of long term traffic. Do a small analysis of the blog with free seo tools available on website.grader dot com and seomoz dot org . U'll need to register on seo moz. I found these two sites very useful.

Cheers.

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12/18/08

timethief

The best way to find tips on this topic which comes up daily is to use the Discussion searchbox in the forum sidebar. That way we don't have to keep typing out the same tips over and over again.
www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/how-you-bring-traffic-to-your-blog
For example if you click the search result link I provided above this is what you will find:
www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/what-do-you-like-to-increase-your-blog-tr...
www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/how-do-you-get-traffic-to-your-blog#comme...
www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/how-to-get-more-traffic-1#comment_668522

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6/09/09

funnysmsjoke

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