Most of my traffic comes from comments on other blogs. Te fact is that "Living in the Metaverse" is about Second Life which is a community (though a large one) for itself and that the part of blogosphere related to it is functioning very well. So, my main source comes just as you pointed in your first tip. Problem with that is, sooner or later, you did all the job done and after that presence on other blogs is not giving as much new readers as in first month or two. I need something to break that wall.
Sure, there is some traffic from search engines. According to Google Analytics, it is about 25% of newcomers. I must admit that I am not SEO obsessed. reason for that is that blogging is, for me, more writing and communicating than playing games with bots and algorythms. That doesn't mean I don't care about SEO at all. WordPress is doing pretty good job out of box, and I do think that keywords should appear in title, tags and through the text. It is just that if I have to compromise SEO for the reader experience, readers will win.
Tech Bold
· 2 years ago
Most of my traffic comes from Google, and social networking websites. But direct visitors are not bad either.
SELaplana
· 2 years ago
95% of my blog's traffic are coming from search engines. 5% are my regular visitors.
Kyle Eslick
· 2 years ago
Pretty much all of my traffic comes from search engines. I find that even when big sites link to me, I still only get 5-10 hits from them. Links don't seem to go as far as they used to.
Matthew
· 2 years ago
I just asked the same question to our readers at BAYB and got a great response
Tip #1 is what I'm doing now. As a newer blog I get the vast majority of my traffic from social networking. I'm slowly building a regular readers and loyal subscribers. I'm beginning to recieve a small amount of search traffic but MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog and backlinks from other blogs and articles are keeping me going right now.
mmoexplorer
· 2 years ago
I write about video games and mmorpgs in particular. The best way I have found to attract readers is to comment on forums and create new threads about my latest article.
Michael
· 2 years ago
Most of my traffic comes from Google, the rest is direct traffic, digg, technorati, and then referrals from other blogs.
Gaje Master
· 2 years ago
I had to comment on your post also. I get traffic by following these rules. I always make it a rule to comment on every blog that I visit because more than likely the blog author will check your blog out. This will cause you to get a little bit of traffic. I try to be social amongst the bloggers.
Homemom3
· 2 years ago
Wow, popular topic this week. Most of my traffic seems to come from networking, but if you want a specific (not counting all those I comment on and they come comment on me) I'd go with BlogCatalog. It actually shocked me to see that BlogCatalog was bringing in more traffic for me compared to Mybloglog, which I like more. I'm slowly getting people to find my site through the search engines and my most popular topic is giveaways.
trevor ginn
· 2 years ago
My (non direct) traffic comes from teh following sources
Google and other search engines Comments Link exchanges Del.icio.us Stumbleupon Blog directories
Tech Blog
· 2 years ago
To start a new blog, social is one of the best ways to build traffic. MyBlogLog is a great one and I have met dozens of people through that site - including you and Matthew from BAYB
Terry Reeves
· 2 years ago
I setup a blog on a new domain with nothing more than a introduction post to see how quickly the big Goog would find it. It took less than 24 hours and the really amazing part was that in less than 6 hours I got a Google news alert for my name that had just a link to that blog. My name appears nowhere on that blog. Apparently Google reads the Whois otherwise that alert could never have happened.
Anyway, that blog still receives trickles of traffic and I have never made a second post to this day. The next funny thing is the traffic comes from pages that "no longer exist" when I visit the referring link. I am really not sure how or where this traffic source originates.
Thanks for this post, BTW. I will be cranking out my first real blog within a few days and I need the info.
cooliojones
· 2 years ago
Mostly commenting on a whole lot of blogs and actually adding something to the conversation. I'm implementing SEO and I have also joined link trains that boosted my visitation. 1000 unique hits a day is my current goal.
Red
· 2 years ago
I seem to get the most traffic from stumbleupon and both the google and yahoo search engines.
jackbravo
· 2 years ago
It's funny actually. At first, the only traffic I was getting was me logging on from different computers and going to my site. Then I wrote an article on associated content about my site's content. Miraculously, that got listed on google as #1 in a very very tight niche - that is only if you searched "one thousand push ups" not "1000 push ups" or "push ups." Then I started getting traffic from people viewing my article. Afterwards, I added the "1000" on my site instead of spelling it out and that got indexed. Now I get 5-10 visitors a day who happen to be looking for how to do 1000 push ups. Now I know that's not the kind of traffic that will make me any money, but I do feel like I have a presence (a tiny tiny speck of a presence, but a presence nonetheless).
Seriously, Social Networking has made all the difference for me.
chris
· 2 years ago
I get my traffic just by talking about things everyone needs to know about. For example it is now summer and many peoples grass is dieing from the heat so I wrote a blog on how to keep your grass green and healthy in the summer months.
Brad Roberts
· 7 months ago
I definately agree that being an active contributer to social networks and websites related to your own is a fantastic way to gain that little bit extra traffic. Of course, there's no arguing that Google is the ultimate way to get traffic as they are like a "home base" for the internet. If you're not on Google you're pretty much a no one.
However there's another search engine that I believe people often forget about. Youtube, in my opinion, is the second most popular search engine in the world (right behind Google of course). If you have a view videos hosted on their website it can add that little bit of extra traffic. Of course the other benifit of having your videos on Youtube is that Google also occasionally puts the Youtube results along with the Google results. So it's a win win situation.
Another way to actually keep visitors is by writing your articles on a frequent basis. If you're taking a week, month, year etc. hiatus you have the potential to lose not only loyal visitors, but subscribers as well. Setting a certain frequency of posts you write weekly will help you not only gain visitors but keep them.
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Problem with that is, sooner or later, you did all the job done and after that presence on other blogs is not giving as much new readers as in first month or two. I need something to break that wall.
Sure, there is some traffic from search engines. According to Google Analytics, it is about 25% of newcomers. I must admit that I am not SEO obsessed. reason for that is that blogging is, for me, more writing and communicating than playing games with bots and algorythms. That doesn't mean I don't care about SEO at all. WordPress is doing pretty good job out of box, and I do think that keywords should appear in title, tags and through the text. It is just that if I have to compromise SEO for the reader experience, readers will win.
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Google and other search engines
Comments
Link exchanges
Del.icio.us
Stumbleupon
Blog directories
Anyway, that blog still receives trickles of traffic and I have never made a second post to this day. The next funny thing is the traffic comes from pages that "no longer exist" when I visit the referring link. I am really not sure how or where this traffic source originates.
Thanks for this post, BTW. I will be cranking out my first real blog within a few days and I need the info.
Here's to growth and, of course, push ups!. :)
Seriously, Social Networking has made all the difference for me.
However there's another search engine that I believe people often forget about. Youtube, in my opinion, is the second most popular search engine in the world (right behind Google of course). If you have a view videos hosted on their website it can add that little bit of extra traffic. Of course the other benifit of having your videos on Youtube is that Google also occasionally puts the Youtube results along with the Google results. So it's a win win situation.
Another way to actually keep visitors is by writing your articles on a frequent basis. If you're taking a week, month, year etc. hiatus you have the potential to lose not only loyal visitors, but subscribers as well. Setting a certain frequency of posts you write weekly will help you not only gain visitors but keep them.