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Debo Hobo · 2 years ago

Hey now, this is a very useful list I can use. I need all the help I can get. I could also use a back link from you let me know what I need to do.

Thanks :twisted:

John Cow · 2 years ago

Pay us 1 million dollars?

Steven · 2 years ago

A lot of those should be fairly common sense, at least I hope they are. I think number 7 is subjective. Some people believe shorter posts are better with certain exceptions.

I do agree that building traffic or getting anywhere in the blogging world can take time, lots of it at that. However Mr. Cow is doing a terrific job his first month, so I must say congrats ^_^

LuKiaNo · 2 years ago

1 million for a link? A little expensive don't you think?

John Cow · 2 years ago

Is it? Ok, we'll drop down to 100k

Webd360 · 2 years ago

I'll give it to you in monopoly money :razz:

Cubofild · 2 years ago

I have only 90k monopoly money! :lol:

John Cow · 2 years ago

DEAL!

Steven · 2 years ago

LOL a box of monopoly money doesn't even come with that much money. You'd have to buy multiple boxes :smile:

Cubofild · 2 years ago

Says who? :lol: I have SPECIAL one from Bil Gate$

Steven · 2 years ago

LOL. Now we talking about it, I miss playing monopoly, its been years. I actually own the online edition. Odd that Google of all things is not on the board.

Webd360 · 2 years ago

Lol, yea monopoly is fun and to pay the 100k I probably would need a few boxes, or maybe monopoly deluxe has enough to cover it :lol: ?

Cubofild · 2 years ago

Now for real, in my monopoly game i have more than 1 mil.$ in fake money, but it's europe version, maybe becouse of that!

Steven · 2 years ago

Then we're going to have to do a currency exchange to get the correct dollar amount in US monopoly money

mahdi yusuf · 2 years ago

SERIOUSLY! HAHA that was the funniest comment thread!

Navjot Singh · 2 years ago

And maybe the longest nested thread too. :mrgreen:

Robert Klein · 2 years ago

Hi

I am new to blogging, but I seem to be conforming to your guidelines rather well.

I must say though that I took the most reassurance from your comment that the process of audience building takes a great deal of time.

My principal subject matter on Global Warming is as timely as it gets, yet it too takes time to expand.

I could write on a whole slew of other subjects, but i cringe to think how long that would take to gather an audience.

regards

bob

Stay At Home Dad, Geek Style · 2 years ago

That actually sounds like a niche that is good to get into, although it's not my cup of tea. You have a lot of people out there who are really passionate, and if you can get your SEO straight, you could capitalize on all of the Google-ing people do when they see something on the news.

DevDad

Fatgadget · 2 years ago

Nice post, some great tips in there :mrgreen:

Bloggeries · 2 years ago

Thanks for the Post Mr. Cow. I like your writing style because the way you described it was pretty much how it went down. If you liked the article and are interested in reading the rest of our ever expanding library of blog tutorials and articles please visit our blog forum where they are listed for discussion.

Thanks for all the positive comments,
Rob

Stay At Home Dad, Geek Style · 2 years ago

I'm checking out your forums now. Looks like it's doing pretty well! How long ago did it go live?

DevDad

James Wilcox · 2 years ago

Some good tips, but nothing that hasn't already been said over and over again at the many blogs I read. That should also tell you something...these ideas work. Definitely not overnight, but they work eventually.

The only thing I disagree with is to write what readers want to read...that sort of goes against the whole nature of blogging. Write what you are passionate about, the audience will find you in due time.

John Cow · 2 years ago

Just because you've seen these tips before doesn't mean the rest of the world has too. A blog can't provide new information for everyone in each post.

And yes, we agree, you should write what you're passionate about, not what you think your readers want to read.

Cubofild · 2 years ago

Nice tips, and i can't say i saw all of them!

Steven · 2 years ago

I agree with Mr. Cow. They do come up often but there are always readers who haven't seen these tips. However I would hope that most would have some common sense to know some of the things on this list. Others are fairly helpful. None-the-less, a good post.

Webd360 · 2 years ago

I agree with Mr. Cow too, as long as you are writing anything non-fiction chances are that its been said before, but everyone certainly hasn't heard it before

Cubofild · 2 years ago

I think everyone should write everything they know and there will be some people that don't know that! :smile:

Steven · 2 years ago

We already do that on our own respective blogs lol

Bloggeries · 2 years ago

Also never put into "your words". :wink:

Bloggeries · 2 years ago

"Above all else, write about topics that people actually want to read."


It's meant to be make sure to include some posts about what's popular in your niche. Remember if you have a quality resource you will have a decent stickiness as well so all relevant traffic is good traffic. If you write about what you think people want to hear you'll try and be everything to everyone and end up nothing to no one. Thanks for bringing that up and giving me a chance to clarify.

Steven · 2 years ago

Good point. I think we should focus on adding 1 reader a day at the beginning like earning 1 dollar a day when you're ready to monetize your site. Then from there you progressively move forward and gain more readers per day and continue to increase from there. All those points are important but having a goal of increasing traffic is good as well.

Bloggeries · 2 years ago

Absolutely until hopefully one day it just begins to snowball for you. If you don't set realistic goals your blog or any other project faces a high percentage of burning out. You have to be passionate about something to stick with it until it's success most of the time. Sometimes you get lucky and get picked up immediately but it's definitely not the norm :mrgreen:

Steven · 2 years ago

Oh I totally agree. And I love blogging. I hope that people don't just get into it because they want money out of it. I feel there is a rise of people like that. I mean they should at least love blogging, not just the topics they write.

icedragon · 2 years ago

how about this, our page is a PR-zero, if you don't make a link to us, we will make three daily backlinks, reviews, even banners linking to your blog, so your pagerank will drop down slowly :twisted:

we really don't know if this work, but, if your site gets a little link love from the great beef, the great cow, or darren rose your PR goes up, maybe in the opposite way also works . . .

Cubofild · 2 years ago

"or darren rose your PR goes up" , that sounds like EVIL plan to get PR7 in next update! :lol:

Steven · 2 years ago

You guys can all link to me if you like, I am still sadly at a PR0 too :cry:

Navjot Singh · 2 years ago

Why not try linking me? Even I am at PR 0. :lol:

Johnny · 2 years ago

Great post, even though I have seen many of these before it never hurts to see them again to refresh my memory on something I may be forgetting.

browie · 2 years ago

Pretty good post. I'll have to try some of those so I can get more readers to check me out.

Aquanetta Jones · 2 years ago

I'm quite mooved by your post. One question, if the person suscribes to the feed, how can you get that to actually count as site traffic? I need to moove up mine.
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Steven · 2 years ago

Some advertisers account for that. It doesn't actually count towards site traffic as far as numbers go.

Navjot Singh · 2 years ago

Yeah feeds are never counted in actual site traffic, but they provide great value. If you want to get advertisers for your blog, higher number of readers will help. Also sites like Text-link-ads.com value number of feed readers as well. So one should work hard towards increasing feed traffic as well.

Steven · 2 years ago

I just love seeing the numbers go up knowing you have some fans out there reading your site. As long as that holds true, the traffic numbers don't matter as much as most people hold them for. I mean they are important, but having loyal readers is too

ForumeR · 2 years ago

Sorry, i can't find your post about viral tags. There are so many i tagged you before but i still not seen your reciprocal to my blogs :(

I tagged you here

http://www.feedget.info/2007/07/boost-your-page-rank-before-google.html

Please just put to my link

http://www.feedget.info

Best regards
:)

alanj878 · 1 year ago

I guessed this post was designed for blogging content

Increase Traffic · 1 year ago

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OpeOffice.org Beta 3 · 1 year ago

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