If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or via email. Thanks for visiting!
Increasing traffic can have some pretty different meanings. On the road, it’s another sign of frustration to follow. On the web, it’s more people coming to visit your site and see if you’ve got anything useful to say. One good way to increase your traffic can come from your fellow bloggers. Michael Martine decided to experiment in boosting blog traffic. Think about it — this can provide multiple benefits.
- It drives traffic to his site. While you’re there, you might find other Related Posts of interest, and decide to check them out, too. I did. I am a voracious reader.
- You can drive traffic to your site by commenting and have other people checking out your website in return. How much traffic will that end up being? Who knows, but it’s all worth a shot and creates back links. It all depends on the participants, amount of traffic on the various sites, etc.
- It can expose you to other blogs worth reading. Of the 4 people who first commented, I had an outside interest in several of them. One specializes in Loss Prevention and I passed that link along to my dad, who is also in the security field. We’re also using the same theme.
Maybe he would like to read it, though it is not a subject I am directly interested in. Another specializes in real estate in Tampa, Florida. This interests me because I’m thinking idly about where we should live next, and I see information on diving too, which is another interest. I also have another friend who is in real estate in Tampa, so he should be aware of the competition and I’m going to pass it on. The Common Culinarian was interesting, but I had to leave the site before I got too hungry! - And before you know it, you’ve bashed out a quick but useful post illustrated with examples. How cool is that? It’s not even like work!
Just further proof that there’s all sorts of good information out there on the net, and you can find it in the most interesting and unusual ways. What ways have you used to drive traffic to your site?
Tags: How To, HowTo, Increasing Traffic
3 responses so far ↓
1 Hal // Dec 22, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I’m glad to see you seemed to enjoy the site! Hopefully, I whet your appetite for more food posts, which I’ll keep cooking up!
One think you might want to mention that I saw somewhere, and it seems to work, is to post items that are “10 things about…” or similar. These posts are easily stumble-able, digg-able, and technorati-able. Actually, this is the reason I started the “127 foods that fight fat” series. And, I think someone from the blog swap “stumbled” it–that was the best day my blog has seen in its 28 day existance! I’m definately keeping that in my pantry!
Okay, enough, you can stop groaning from the really bad food puns now
Thanks for the link back!
2 Robert // Dec 22, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Heh, I’ve done 1 of those so far. Still starting out. Stumble has been quite good to me, the others…not so much.
I’m still getting slowly indexed, so maybe it will take a while. I only started not quite 2 weeks ago, so I’m not too worried yet.
Thanks for stopping by!
3 CarpetGuy // Jan 21, 2008 at 3:07 am
I have been doing the same on my homebrew blog, and now my newest one, OpinionHead, I am hoping this will be a fun site, it is Politically Incorrect, and has a discusion board for more interactivity. So, just as written above, that site, by Michael Martine, has gotten me motivated!
Leave a Comment