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Does BC get you a lot of traffic?
Posted by ginahomolka • 10/01/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blog catalog, traffic
If so, please explain how to best use blog catalog to your blog's advantage. I wnt to increase traffic and currently use Entrecard to do so. How can bc work for me?
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It definitely gets me some traffic--though nothing, it seems, gets me a lot...-
There are millions of blogs out there. It's stiff competition. Just keep plugging away. Very few people are overnight successes.
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How do you get most of your traffic? Just by visiting other blogs?
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I don't think that you can get traffic by visiting blogs. The only way to get traffic is to write and stop worrying about traffic. Too many new bloggers are concerned with "getting traffic" instead of concentrating on writing. RE: Entrecard, it is a traffic exchange web site. You don't want this kind of traffic. You don't want a random visitor who can care less about your blog content. You want people who are interested in what you write about. The only way to get an interested visitor who will read your blog is to get search engine traffic, and that you get by staying consistent with your posts. -
Well, that's mostly not true at all. Other ways to get interested visitors who will actually read and participate include getting links on other relevant sites, having relevant listings and reviews, and leaving comments on relevant blogs/news sites/posts. Paid advertising on relevant sites is another, and the list could go on.
It's also not necessarily true that traffic like that which comes from EntreCard doesn't matter. It's true if you care about people actually reading your blog and participating and returning (to a degree--some bloggers, dependent on subject matter and layout, report a lot of return and multi-page traffic from EC), but some people's goals are such that numbers count, even if those numbers are artificial (Alexa ranking, anyone?)
Finally, consistency isn't what it used to be in the search engine world--as evidenced by the large number of reported first-page terms in these forums from people who really can't understand how they got to be ranked for "natural gardening tips" on a blog about European fashion or some such. If the blog itself gets good traffic and is regularly indexed and your post is well-constructed, you can attain solid search rankings based on a single post. For example, I have the # 6 search result for "pay/half stores", and similar results for other variations of the store name...15 months after I made a single post about the store. For about the first three months after I posted, my post ranked above the chain store's official site.
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BC does help a little bit. I find that by checking out other blogs and leaving comments, most bloggers will return the favour on your site.
A lot of my traffic comes from search engines and by registering on as many blog directories as possible. In fact, I've gotten some good traffic from bloggapedia.com.
You should check out timethief's blogs to help get some traffic: www.blogcatalog.com/user/timethief -
I get almost 70 percent of traffic from Entrecard. But Blogcatolog traffic is better, because people from BC tend to read more pages of my blog. As for search engines, well they give me almost 0% traffic-
That's interesting. And how do they come across your blog? Through discussion groups? Or through commenting back?
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BC gives me some but not much.-
Me, too. Most of my visitors come over from Google.
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Some, I get 10% of my social site traffic from here which can range from 25% to 40% of the total traffic for the listed blogs on any given day. -
Going to other's blogs and making a meaningful comment that fits the post is always a good way to attract people to your site. The blog's author and the people that read your comments.
If you get involved with some discussions here, and others get to know you and check out your blog, or just because your answers to thing intrigue them. A lot of writers here on BC tend to share IRLS of something good or funny that they find too.
But really making sure your blog is in good working order will encourage better search engine results, and very good content consistently will help with traffic from other avenues too.
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Such "comment trades" are often meaningless, however. It quickly degenerates into a back & forth game where no one's actually reading your blog, they're just scanning (if that,) just to have something short & relevant to comment about. I've had some of my "readers" compliment me on photos that I've specifically said I didn't upload.
Ultimately a not-for-profit blogger should enjoy their blogging more than they concern themselves with traffic. Traffic is largely an illusion & quality traffic is minimal, at best. -
But Lana--imagining the photos you don't upload can be a wonderful experience!
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drjay1966; How very Zen!
Evidently the photos I don't post are among some of my best. *LOL* -
@LGramlich: This way works for me and I enjoy going to other blogs and reading their stuff.
Yes there are some who take advantage and play around and try to scam...but that's okay too. I just delete the comment or spam. No big deal!
But in the long run... I have made some really good friends and have some long term readers that come to my blog from doing this! And I value them.
I don't trade comments. I read a post if I am intrigued I write a comment if not I move on. I do not expect one back but it's is nice when I do get one.
But like I said it all boils down to content and consistency too. -
I have had some comment on the wonderful products I sell too. And I have no products on my blog...
But there is always the "dirt under the fingernails" when it comes to tending and growing a beautiful plant!
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Articulates; I'm not talking about spam. I'm talking about long term readers who clearly don't read (at least occassionally.) My husband & I have multiple examples of this every week. Comment trading breeds it like wildfire, as people (yes, even our "long time readers,") try to cram in as many comments as possible in hopes of getting similar traffic back, but that doesn't ensure quality traffic at all.
If you want to test the true popularity of your blog &/or the quality of your traffic, stop playing the comment game & see what happens. I'm just saying...
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So far, I just got my blog approved today, so 0%...maybe 0.1% if I'm lucky... -
Good to know. What I like about Entrecard is the exposure to a few new visitors I would never have had otherwise. And I have a few favorites that I would never have seen before.
Madame X- It's true, I posted a recipe for a Mojito and that seems to bring me the most traffic through google. -
BlogCatalog has been most beneficial for me in regards to networking. I've met some amazing people through BC! -
yes it is, -
its those related blog posts that bring in the traffic so blog on what the discussion talk about and people will click out---> -
BC brings me bits of traffic but not something to be counted on -
It gets me a little and I'm on and off it through out the day.
I used to get more than half of my traffic from entrecard but it was a lot of time to drop to get people to stop by my site for 3 seconds. In the end, I decided that it wasn't worth it. Once I cut back on dropping my entrecard traffic dropped to almost nothing. That said, I am now a pr2 and have started getting more traffic from the search engines. The entrecard traffic might have helped get me there??????/ -
I find BlogCatalog is good for traffic and has also increased my followers on Twitter -
I like BlogCatalog because it may not provide quantity but it does provide quality. I only want people who are genuinely interested to look at my blogs otherwise I can't see the point. -
Its ok traffic. Its not something I would rely on though. I agree with search engine traffic. It is the best because people are looking for your content. -
ya my blog is getting traffic.just participate in discussions.and add friends.by this ur bc rank will increase so that u will be displayed in the search results of blogcatalog.best of luck..... -
Surprisingly, i get more traffic from my tags and from submitting to blog directories. There are selected few from BC who would bother reading my music rants(Celtic music is NOT pop music). -
I get some generic traffic from BC -however that is not the reason I'm here. I'm here because I enjoy the people and the actual structure of the forums and I enjoy the administration functions. -
I got some, not as much as Entrecard traffic though but as all EC people experience, once you stop dropping, they stop coming. -
Wow, I posted this question a year ago. I get so much traffic from google search engines that all other traffic is a bonus. But BC did get me a lot of traffic when I was a newbie.
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