From the category archives:

Website Traffic

Generating Links

June 7, 2008

I came across a wonderful post about generating links to your site. Keep this in your file of blog resources and refer to it whenever you are feeling a little down about your site’s traffic (or lack thereof):
How to Get Legitimate Backlinks
The article does an excellent job of detailing the ways NOT to get links [...]

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Increase Traffic with BloggingZoom.com

November 1, 2007

Oh yeah! This is what we have been waiting for. Court at CourtneyTuttle.com has collaborated in creating a service that can best be described as a Digg for the masses. Enter BloggingZoom.com.
On first impression BloggingZoom.com looks like Digg. But here are the key differences (according to Court):

Bloggers are not penalized for submitting their own content, [...]

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Using Stumble Upon To Increase Blog Traffic

October 28, 2007

My StumbleUpon Page
When I first started blogging I had no idea what StumbleUpon was. I quickly learned the basics, installed the toolbar, “stumbled” a few articles, and had a few of my articles stumbled. Sure, it was fun. And the spike in my blog traffic was great when my articles got stumbled. But beyond [...]

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Your Blog’s Audience and RSS Subscribers

October 24, 2007

When starting a blog, the first issue that needs to be dealt with is topic. What are you going to blog about?
For some the answer is easy. Perhaps you are an expert on stamp collecting, or photography, or mountain climbing. Done. Easy.
For others finding the right topic is difficult. So, a more general type blog [...]

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Increasing Blog Traffic – Cross Blog Conversation

October 23, 2007

Today I came across a post at BlogSecurity.net called Should You Display a Subscriber Count? Here David discussed the pros and cons of showing how many subscribers your blog has, and he brings up many good points to consider.
But one thing that David wrote in this post peaked my curiousity.
Out of interest, BlogSec currently sits [...]

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How Often Should You Post?

October 20, 2007

Blogging can be a business. Many of us are hoping to eventually earn a nice part time income (or at least cover our hosting fees!).
But the problem is that when you blog part time, you usually do something else full time. Which means that there is very little time left for writing quality material.
I came [...]

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Is “Quality Content” Holding You Back?

October 9, 2007

One of the mantras of successful bloggers is “quality content”, “quality content”, “quality content”.
But that can be intimidating. Subconsciously,  I think I don’t post when I feel that I have nothing worthwhile to say. But am I really the best judge of that? Should I just write about what is on my mind and let [...]

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Blog Traffic

October 6, 2007

It is clear that the success of a blog hinges on traffic. More traffic equals greater success.
It is also clear that climbing Mt. Everest might be easier that getting gazillions of people to come read your blog. It is downright discouraging.
My philosophy is that perseverance will prevail. If you just hang in there the traffic [...]

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Increase Traffic with BlogRush

September 16, 2007

Look at my sidebar and you will find a new widget by BlogRush. This widget displays a random list of links to other blogs (that have registered with BlogRush) on similar topics.
The potential for increased traffic is great. It is free to sign up. During the registration process you select a category for your blog [...]

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