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My visitor number is dropping, how can I change this
Posted by Manictastic • 10/16/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
So I've noticed that I'm getting less and less visitors and less and less comments on my blog manictastic.blogspot.com
Now I wonder what am I doing wrong?
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Maybe you could try to increase the frequency of the posts and change your current template?-
what's wrong with my template?
frequency I can understand, but it's hard to come up with decent stories everyday or so -
If you like your template and you feel there's nothing wrong with it, stick to it. Personally, I don't like your background color.
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If you have a nicer colour code in mind, you can always tell me, I'll look into it one day.
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Do you like this font better? maniguistics.blogspot.com/
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Just because visitors have dropped it doesnt mean you have done anything wrong, my ranking goes between 30k and over 100k on alexa.
Each day, week, month can be different, just keep adding the good content and they will come.
Dont judge a blog by comments, ive seen some massive blogs with hardly any comments.-
I just like comments, they make me more eager to write stories.
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if you like comments you might consider removing the no follow tag that blogger puts in your template. removing this tag would allow comments to be indexed by google, giving a bit of link love to each commenter. I am trying to figure out how to do this for my own blog, after reading a great post by clairec23 who unfortunately didn't mention exactly what the tag is that needs removing so I am still trying to figure out that detail
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once you've found it, please explain it to me
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Sorry!! I can't remember the exact tag. I'm on blogspot so it may be different for some of you...just go click into the html, expand the widgets, press ctl+F to get the find and replace option up, then type in no follow, it should lead you to the tag. -
go into your template (edit HTML) - expand widget temaplates - search for rel='nofollow' - you'll find one tag for comments and one for backlinks (if you've chosen to have them on your blog) - delete either / both :-) -
open the edit html tab in your blogger account. then click on expand widget templates and search for nofollow. delete rel='nofollow' in your code (it occures 2 times ). that should do it.
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I was just about to say here it is rel='nofollow' but y'all beat me to it I'd going to add that to my post, I just didn't think anyone would see it, thanks for pointing it out libdrone!
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thank you Thank You THANK YOU everyone for telling me how to do it. Was easy enough. I love my commenters!
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Indeed thank you everyone.
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Visitors and comments really do fluxuate for a variety of reasons, many nothing to do with our blogs.
For example, I had my highest traffic to-date during the summer. Once families started getting Back to School, there was a dip for about a week, and things have been up and down depending on holidays since.
Last year I had high traffic all through December because I think people's schedules were more relaxed.
If you have a general idea who your audience is, maybe consider what might be happening to their schedules right now. It might be something to do with that. -
You have 14 posts for the 2007 season
The concept for any website / forum / blog is fresh content
You have less than 2 posts per month.
A community like blog catalog will rise in the ratings because they have a member base that that feeds fresh content to their site all day long.
Lets say for 1 day, no one showed up and and posted anything, the ratings would drop. So, especially a blog, content has to be added with some sort of consistency.-
Well okay, but I've posted every Saturday, that's consistent, I'm sure I wouldn't make it everyday or every two days.
Guess I shouldn't be hoping to getting one visitor a day
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your blog's background color and the text color do not match ... it might just me but the color combination hurts my eyes ...
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You could try featuring other popular blogs and post about them at your blog!
Feel free to post about ours and our regulars will head over to your blog as you post coments with us - this works for us and we average 15 comments per post..take a look and get amongst it!
www.gosmelltheflowers.com/blog -
I am a regular reader, really don't see any problem with your blog and was therefore surprised about the traffic part. You post good stories, consistently, once a week. (I know that writing such stories take some time and it would be difficult for you to post more frequent than this).-
thank you, meghan
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Can you give me some tips to increase the ranking and visitors to my seo contest site: www.seocontest2008india.com .How many methods i can use to increase the massive traffic and ranking withing one month(31st March) -
Did you really need to dig up Mani's old thread for this purpose? -
I have nothing against seeing my name more often
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Well, it looks like your wish is coming true.
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trying to post daily can be a challenge at times (time, lack of things to write about), but i agree with all others that keeping it fresh is key. if i come across a site that hasn't been updated for weeks/months, i move off of it. one other suggestion.... keep stories short, to the point and add visuals wherever possible. the deserted part 1 story was pretty long (liked the size of the others better). hope that helps.
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"Trying to post daily can be a challenge at times"
So can reading the dates on threads.
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Honestly, you do NOT need to post EVERYDAY to get tons of visitors and comments to your site. Read this www.datmoney.com/2008/02/do-not-force-yourself-to-write-posts.html for an example... I know someone who only posts TWICE a week and gets over 100,000 pageviews a month.
But there are plenty of ways to get more visitors to your site. I can list it but it seems someone beat me to it. But let me know if you need help! -
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Same thing is happening to me...must be something in the air?-
Old thread...I've got to learn to look at the date FIRST.
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