Take Back Your Life…How to Get More Traffic to your Site With Just One Post a Week..
This post may or may not help you. I say this because it doesn’t directly involve how to make money but rather, focuses on how to free up your time so you can actually do the things that you need to do in order to be successful. As always, bear in mind, I am not an expert in this…it is just how I see things and what works for me.
Thanks for reading. Last week, I went over the 114 things that I know now that I wished I had known when I first started doing internet marketing. This article actually got a few links and with those links came several hundred visitors a day (I want to personally thank those of you who promoted it). Anyway, long story short, one of the comments on one of the forums kind of got me to thinking. Here is the comment….
It’s a great list and I agree with most of them, but a couple of statements surprised me, like “page rank means nothing” and “don’t blog every day.”
I may save Page Rank for another day but address the other thing (underlined above) that surprised this reader.
Most bloggers blog every day because they want visitors to come to their site every day. They think that content = traffic = goal eventually reached. The problem is that content, no matter how good it may be is not indicative of how much traffic you will get. I intend to explain why this is the case, at least from my viewpoint.
I don’t blog every day. In fact, I don’t blog every other day. I am a weekly blogger and what I do probably goes against the grain of everything you have probably been told from the moment blogging became a “thing” for you.
I can’t blame bloggers for thinking that blogging everyday is the way to eventual fame and fortune. After all, all the popular bloggers…the John Chow’s and Darren Rouse’s of the world blog daily and sometimes even several times a day. It would only be natural to think that if you follow their “blueprint”, that that would at least get you on the road to success.
The thought process goes like this….
…..if I blog daily, then my readers will come to my blog daily and this will increase my traffic…..
This is a flawed way of thinking things through and I will give my reasoning here in a sec. The important thing to remember that just because I state these things is because they work for me…In other words,this is my opinion and you are entitled to disagree.
Why My One Weekly Blog Post will get more traffic AND out rank your daily posts 99.7% of the time….
While you spend most of your time WRITING, I spend most of my time PROMOTING.
The way I see things, if I was to combine some of the popular keyword queries in my niche (make money online and internet marketing), there are a potential 2 million + people out there who are actively interested in what I am interested in each month.
- That is 2 million + potential visitors/readers/prospects that could come to my site and would actually be interested in what I have to say.
- That is 2 million + potential prospects that I could sell to every month.
The problem, of course, is getting these 2+ million people onto my site, right? If you happen to rank in the search engines for competitive term(s), that would be perfect.
But the reality is that most of us don’t have the time or patience to spend a year or more to rank for these terms (you should…but most people won’t/don’t/or can’t..)
After all, if they don’t know you are there, you might as well not exist. I want to clue you in…while writing a ton of content and having a lot of posts could make your website more sticky, it doesn’t do anything for you in terms of people knowing that you are “out” there.
Bloggers love to write….but writing, even if the content is ‘unique’ or ‘great’ has very little to do with getting popular and getting traffic…
You have heard the myth before; If you write unique and great content, you will get traffic. If it were that easy, there would be more bloggers in this world that would get a ton of visitors. We all want to believe that the cream rises to the top….in reality, it is more like articles or posts that are promoted and are good rise to the top….
Writer’s love to write and since most bloggers consider themselves, in the very least, to be okay at writing, I imagine that most think that writing ALOT will eventually pave the way for bigger things. It hardly ever works out that way for a variety of reasons but the biggest reason is that they spend way too much time writing and not near enough time promoting their site.
In fact, I would bet that most bloggers would admit that they don’t have enough time to start another site, even if they wanted to, because of the amount of time they spend coming up with new material for thier one blog.
And I would tend to agree with them…IF I spent my time blogging daily.
Now I am pretty long winded. I write novella’s for posts. But a few years ago this wasn’t the case. I was doing what I thought I should be doing…probably what you think you should be doing too….blogging daily as a tactic to try to increase exposure…
Let’s do the math: Coming up and researching a topic 30-60 minutes a day = 3.5-7 hours a week of research…Writing the content 30-60 minutes a day x 7 days = 3.5-7 hours a week of writing. Total amount of time spent wasted = 7-14 hours a week per blog.
Blogging daily was exhaustive to me.
It taxed my brain.
I was constantly trying to think of where my next blog post would come from. I thought that writing was enough.
Blogging burnout followed…
It took me a couple years and 6 failed websites to realize that just because you blog daily and think you have good content (which I didn’t but that is another story for another time) doesn’t automatically mean that you will get a lot of followers.
I was actually forced to change my frame of thinking out of necessity. At the time, I was having one of those years where my marketing efforts weren’t matching the money that was coming in. My income was not keeping up with my out-go. I had to get a day job and was forced to not work as much on my sites.
Because of this, I started spending less time padding my post stats but writing long, well researched articles and started spending more time on promoting each post as a separate entity to my site (which it is….since google ranks pages NOT sites.)
What I discovered surprised me and actually saved my sanity….(I could have been stuck in the 9-5 trenches instead of caring for my daughter in the day…which is another reason why I try to compact my marketing efforts). By actually putting most of my efforts into promotion, I am able to build a base very quickly.
I have 3 authority sites now(this site will be my fourth….eventually). I have one in the pet niche, one in the sports gambling niche (which is seasonal), and one in the music niche. I post no more than one post per week in each of these niches.
Typically, it takes me roughly 8 hours to write for all 4 websites (which I divide up throughout the week)….the rest of the time is spent promoting the post I wrote the previous week,formulating ideas for my upcoming posts, and promoting my microniche sites (which hold very little value, from an authority standpoint but make a little money here and there)
Now, YOU tell me…if you are writing daily and I am writing weekly, who is going to be able to promote more often? If you promote, you will get visits. If you promote a lot, you will get more visits….
I could probably go even farther and get the most mileage out of this blog by NOT POSTING but 1-2 times per month…and spending the rest of the time doing self-obsessed shameless promotion.
Alternatively, if you don’t promote, then you are relying on luck to get you there..you are relying on an A-lister to link to you…and that won’t happen if you don’t “exist” in their eyes…..
So what kind of promotion do I do? The ultimate goal is to get ranked for your keyword organically. If you are like me and gun for the highly competitive keywords, then you won’t see a lot of traffic for awhile. For this reason, I use a variety of honey pots to draw them in….The purpose isn’t necessarily for traffic in and of itself…it is to get people talking….
- Forums- I usually will use the actual post title to advertise in the signature.
- Comment marketing- While comment marketing is not the best way to draw in hordes of traffic, what it does do is get the webmaster to visit. If your stuff is good enough, they may link to you. And with unsolicited links, comes traffic….
- Guest Posting- I mentioned this in a previous blog post, how to guest post on a blog to get more traffic. Guest posting not only brings in traffic (supposing that they get traffic) but will also give you the option to potentially network with the webmaster of the site itself.
- Article marketing- Once again, I post the link to my article…not to the main site. My tactic is to get people interested first and then get those people to talk about it.
- Blog Carnivals- I post in blog carnivals weekly. They are the dinosaurs of getting backlinks.
There is actually another reason to promote your site….if your content is good enough, someone out there will link to it. Social Proof is a biggie when it comes to becoming popular. If you haven’t read my post of viral marketing theories, you should.
Posting Less Frequently Means that You Can Put MORE Thought into each Post
It is all about mileage here. What makes more sense? Creating off the cuff posts on a daily basis and getting little to no traffic for the post or creating one authoritative post a week that gets backlinks and feedback?
- Posting less frequently gives you the chance to actually put more than a few minutes thought into the things that you do write.
- Posting less frequently also gives you the chance to walk away from your work and revisit it when your mind is fresh.
- Posting less frequently allows you to thank more in depth about whatever topic you are talking about.
- Posting less frequently allows you to find an angle to your story.
- Posting less frequently gives you extra days to reflect on your story and revise as needed.
- Posting less frequently allows me to find the right images (if I want) to generate the most emotional response.
By NOT Posting Daily, I Give Each Post it’s Day in the Sun
Most bloggers operate under the belief that if they don’t post daily, they will get less traffic to their site. I operate under the belief that if I wait awhile before I post, I will actually give the post the most exposure I can….like I said before, it is all about what will give me the most mileage.
- The extra days allows me to aggressively promote my post.
- Because I promote each post separately, I get a chance to also get deep links to each post.
- The extra days of non posting actually allows more visitors to find it easier….(if you post daily, it will fall off the front page quickly)
- And the more exposure my post gets, the more opportunities it gets to be noticed…
Your goal should be to become the ‘echo’ in the echo chamber….not the echo chamber itself…EVERY POST YOU MAKE should be the best post you can write.
Now, obviously, if you are posting the same 500 word blurb that you would write for a daily post, then you may get noticed and still have nothing happen. If your idea of a blog post is a recap of the following week or a top 10 list of something that has already been covered or weekend link list fodder, then you would be better off writing daily. Chances are you won’t get natural backlinks anyways.
Posting Weekly Allows Me to Make Every Article a Potential Homerun
How much of your stuff would you actually read if you found your site?
This is a simple enough question. There is this belief that content for content sake is good enough. That is why so many people believe that PLR (which for the most part is trash) is good enough to suck in traffic and dominate the SERPS.
This belief is actually flawed. While it is true that you can rank using PLR material, the true test isn’t ranking…the true test is how the people who visit your site will like your material enough on its own merits.
Not everything is going to stick. I know this. Not everyone is going to have the same “world view” (as Seth Godin would say). Not everyone is going to get what I want to say. But by not posting daily, I am able to put my best foot forward ALWAYS. I am able to write something that I would be proud to show off. And therefore, my site won’t have that yet another blog in the echo chamber kind of feel to it.
Posting weekly also gives me time to mull things over and find things that I think are interesting to write about…
If you are posting daily, you have roughly 24 hours to figure out what you are going to write about next. 24 hours…..24 HOURS…at first, this is easy. After all, when you are first starting out the range of topics could be so large that you could probably fill a blog with a few months of posts. And then the well starts to run dry…suddenly 24 hours doesn’t seem to be enough time…you start to compromise your posts. You throw up pictures of what you ate last night…you start a friday link love filler post…
You are suddenly like a rat on a wheel…and the pressure starts to mount…Burnout is next. (Ironically, this pressure isn’t really relative to how much traffic you get..you will feel the pressure regardless of whether you are getting 1,000 uniques daily or 10)
Because I post weekly, I have 7 days or 168 hours to think about each post….
- What I want to write about…
- Formulate the story….
- Build an outline…
- Consider the headline…
- Develop a marketing plan for the post (since I promote each post individually)…
- Find pictures and photoshop them if necessary…
- Write the post…
- Walk away for a couple days and re-read the post and edit or add as necessary.
What happens is I wind up with the best post I could possibly write for the week (which some may not be impressed but it is my best) rather than 5-7 posts that are okay.
And because I don’t have a 24 hour timeline, I am free to brainstorm for my next post.
Because I Write Weekly, my Posts will Typically be More In-depth and Longer….and….Search Engines Love Lots of Content….
Like I said eariler, I post Loooooong articles. I do this for a variety of reasons. For one, I like to try to cover everything that I am trying to expound on. Another reason is I think in order to really cover things in depth, it usually merits more than a 500 word post to do it justice (I hate the typical fast food post).
But the main reason is because the search engines love content.
You have probably heard that content is king. Bloggers have taken it to heart. They believe that creating content involves writing content daily. Internet Marketers believe that content can be cheapened with PLR as that is content too, right?
**On a side note, most PLR articles will never get the social proof it needs to go anywhere. Essentially, you would be relying on the mercy of the search engines for traffic…
The best thing about writing long posts is that long posts give your site more keywords to rank for and to drive traffic to. More of the long tail keywords to rank for. More semantic terms to rank for. Essentially, you are giving the search engines EXACTLY what they want, all in one swipe…content.
And provided that your content is yours, and you are PROMOTING each post (to get indexed and get traffic), then you will rank for many more search terms.
This is something that the professional adsense publishers know and understand. You can go two routes in regards to adsense sites…you can either have very little on your page other than adsense (which would result in more clicks) OR you can put a lot on your page (which would result in more clicks because the majority of people will start to read, get bored and move on).
In summation, these are the reasons why I suggest NOT writing daily to your blog. You may or may not agree with this. It is what works for me and has been a formula I have been following for the past few years with positive results.
I don’t blog daily. I blog weekly. I do this because:
- I can put my best foot forward in every blog post. I put more thought into my posts. I have a chance to write and in some cases, rewrite what I have to say. Because of this, every post has the potential to be a home run. Every post could get backlinks.
- I can promote each post as a separate entity for maximum draw. Focusing on promotion rather than writing daily gives me more leverage when it comes to building a traffic base while I am waiting to get ranked organically (which is where the real traffic is). By promoting each blog post, I am getting deep links to my pages..not just my home page. This looks more natural to the search engines.
- Writing less often means that my posts can be longer- Longer posts may not be a good thing in terms of keeping readers interested (then again, we all scan pages and cherry pick what makes sense to us)but it is a good thing in terms of getting ranked for MORE keywords. And the more keywords you rank for, the more potential you have traffic wise. Plus, there are few authoritative 500 word articles.
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Hi Leo,
I've read your post and I have to admit that what you've written makes sense. Up until now I was under the impression that posting on a daily basis was the way forward. I've even worked according to a weekly schedule and planned a way of categorizing my posts so that I can make it as exciting as possible for my readers.
And you’re absolutely right, I’ve been wracking my brains some days, trying to figure out ways of writing interesting posts and spending countless hours just staring at the screen. Duh!
So I’ve decided to take up your advice and concentrate on promoting good, well written and content driven posts on a weekly basis on forums, social media sites and also submitting them to article ezines.
By the way, I’m curious to know whether you use an article submitter to send off your posts to countless article directories, and if so do you find it of use.
Thanks for your help
Guy
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Hi guy, thanks for stopping by (my god…did I just make a rhyme?)
It does make sense, right? Obviously a site just starting out needs to have some content already built up…usually I will have 15-20 posts before I even think about promoting my site. After that it is far easier to build one kick-butt-in-your-face article a week and promote the bejesus out of it. Plus, the biggest incentive is you can spend a lot of time actually formulating feature quality posts for your growing readership.
As far as automated article submissions, I have done it once or twice and didn't really see much benefit. Currently I use ezinearticle and a couple other article directories as I am looking for traffic (and the best article directories are the ones that in the very least have a chance to rank in the SERPS.) Other than that, negotiating guest posts are great ways to build quality backlinks as well as promote your stuff…plus you are networking with folks in the same niche as you are in.
I appreciate the comment and the question.
Hi Leo,
Thanks for the updates re article submission.
Look forward to reading future posts of yours.
regards
Guy
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A timely post on a subject I have been considering for some time. I have a few sites that are now doing quite well and your thoughts echo my own conclusions. It's nice to see someone a bit further down the road coming up with the same ideas. I think in time, with experience, people can get better at turning out quality but I agree in the early days it is worth creating something to be proud of. I also like the idea of developing a routine so that you can have a target and actually deliver. We all know how intermittent we can get if we let things slide.
Good luck.
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Thanks for stopping in….I think that most bloggers and internet marketersknow that this is the way to generate good traffic that actually sticks BUT writing for bloggers is so much fun and exciting and internet marketing types are so narcissistic that the idea to do the "not so fun" stuff seems to fall by the wayside.
I heartily agree that one post a week (or at the very least not one every day) is a viable strategy. It can be boiled down to it's simplest elements I think – daily posts are more likely to attract the repeat visitor than the search engine visitor. while the former is great there's no question the convert less.
Patrick
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Hi Leo
I found your blog this morning and thank goodness I did…then trying to sign up to Intense Debate you dropped off my screen and it's taken me half an hour to find you again! But luckily or it may be unluckily for you, find you I did.
I started to plough my way through the 114 do's and don'ts. Marvelous! Sheer genius, why isn't everyone as nice as you??
War and Peace won't fit in this comment, so
Well done & Thanks
Hi Izzie,
Thanks for stopping by and thank you for the great compliment! As far as "nice"…well I guess that is all in the eye of the beholder, right? I appreciate you too…
Thanks Patrick…I think that most bloggers are still riding the "good daily content" gravy train kind of philosophy. But let's be real here…given the most precious resource that we, as bloggers, have (time), most people are not capable of creating good and unique content on a daily basis. Some may want to argue the fact and may be right (maybe) but what I have found is that carefully thought out content wins over daily content anyday.
BTW, I think we are alike in a lot of ways, writing style wise and philosophically as well.
Thanks for stopping in.
This post offers a wealth of insightful ideas. I intend to explore it in more detail. Thanks for your views!
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Hey Leo…I completely agree with your analysis. I started a few blogs in the past and tried to post everyday and I got burnt out before I ever saw real results. It made me give up on blogging for awhile and focus only on my niche sites. But now I've learned to spread the posts out a bit and let them breath a little before posting again. I still write short posts sometimes if I just want to get a point across, but my best results come from the well-thought out posts that took time to research and write.
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Thanks for stopping by Liara..
Hey Mike,
Yeah, I have a ton of niche micro sites. What I have found is that authority sites with good posts not only contribute to the "conversation" but are an excellent way of building backlinks to your site b/c people actually like what you have to say.
Thanks for stopping by…
Hey Leo, just found your site while doing a little research for a joint venture I am working on with one my corp. clients. In skimming through your post I have to tell you Leo, I find your post quite refreshing.
I have been playing this game for over 12 years and 100% of my income is generated from the internet. It took almost about half that time to develop the needed skills and knowledge to really make serious money online – I still learn or relearn something almost daily. You have to to keep your edge. I am 54 and when I stated out I wasn't real sure how to even turn on a computer.
Anyway the point I want to make is your writing style is perfect for people just getting started with or thinking about an online business (as well as us old forts). Factual – well thought out – stimulating – easy to understand without all the hype and purposeful misleading information.
On this post about blogs – I want to share something. I manage on various levels and or consult on sites for corporations and small business.
One of my corporate clients only sells products they create. Their newest product has been out for about a year now and it is so unique it turned into a customer service nightmare. It is a reversible edible bowl maker. (a unique muffin pan) They sell 10s of thousands of these yet despite included instructions and a newsletter customers were returning them because they could not get the concept behind the pan wrapped around their heads or calling in for help.
We are talking hundreds of calls a day here. Customers get the number from the website/online store, I suggested a blog dedicated to the pan.
I set it up for them then placed links to it from every page of their site, wrote it up in the newsletter, got it listed number 1 on Google out of 1,220,000, and now they might receive three calls a day on using the pan. This has saved them thousands of dollars in having to maintain a full staff just to handle customer service calls on a single product line. Now the newsletter (which is still sent out) too has been merged into the blog.
Which is another point to make – even if you have a blog you cannot afford not to promote and maintain a mailing list and send something out regularly in not you are loosing money. An too as you mentioned Leo you have to know and understand your customer – design your site for them – and write for them.
Thought I would share Leo – didn't mean to write an article. sorry.
Hi Jim,
Thanks for the compliments. Great story on how to implement customer awareness via a blog with live updates. I have always been a big advocate of the hybrid blog/website platform…let's face it, a website is better than a blog if you are doing ecommerce BUT a blog is a great way to bridge the gap in terms of getting information out into the internet FAST (because of a blog's XML capabilities).
Thanks for stopping by and I really appreciate the compliments.
Hi Leo,
Thanks for dropping by my blog and thanks for the long article on promotion. I have noticed you also write fairly long comments on blogs too. Is there any reason for this (I mean does it help with Google or building a network or backlinks etc…)? Promotion certainly seems to be the name of the game, I see Griz wrote on his blog that he spends 90% of his time working on promotion in one way or another. Strangely enough promotion is actually more difficult than just writing the articles in the first place, particularly if you are the shy retiring type like myself, it goes against the grain! Although I'm sure it is more beneficial in the long-run. I guess I need to get more articles in Ezinearticles and the like. Just out of interest if you had to recommend just ONE way of getting good quality backlinks what would it be?
Hey Vic,
I write long comments for two reasons, actually…the first one is that I contribute content to the post (in other words, you may get ranked for whatever I mention)…it is just a way of giving back to the community and to sites that I find interesting. As far as other reasons for the long comments, I have been testing whether long comments will actually improve traffic conversion from blogs. The jury is still out but I think that if you have something smart to say, then the chances of someone checking out your site are much higher than the typical "great post…I liked it" comment.
Plus, a lot of time, you are not necessarily trying to leech traffic from the blog itself, but you are targeting the webmaster (the reasoning goes like this…I write a great comment…the webmaster goes to my site to check it out more out of interest than to see if I am legit…I make a "network friend" that may be mutually beneficial at a later date.
Best places to get backlinks…that is the million dollar question, right? The best places to get backlinks WITHOUT having to worry about getting sandboxed is to find blogs that will allow you to guest post. (that is my opinion at least)
I currently do use link building sites (linkvana, ect) as well but have found that I get sandboxed pretty quick and then it becomes a waiting game. For this site, I haven't done anything…I am trying to do things as legitimately as possible… (so far so good…2 months in and the last time I checked I am on page 2 for one of the keywords I am targeting out of 66 million…at least in my datacenter)
The problem with doing traditional link building is that if everyone can do it (social bookmarks, forum posting, ect) then you have to think that the value of the link can't be that great. And since most people are looking for those free "don't have to do anything" types of links, they will never get it. They will continue to do what everyone else is doing and then wonder why they can't rank for {keyword}.
If you have money, you should utilize it. But the bigger key is how linkable your content is. What kind of social proof profile can you build to get people to link to you?
Grizzly is great. And I know he says that content is not king but I can guarantee you that he gets far more links BECAUSE of his content than he does purchasing links and what have you. Just my thoughts anyways.
I have a question Leo.
How does blogging make you money?
I'm missing a few links on the whole IM stuff. Have you written a blog on how blogging makes money?
How do those 2 million people out there find your blogs. What are they searching for? I understand keywords, page ranking blah blah, but how ill bloggin earn the dosh?
BTW, I agree once a week is enough for any blogger!
Cheers
Man, talk about a loaded question…..
blogging in and of itself won't make you much money. However, that said, there are a number of ways you can approach making money with blogging…some of the more popular ones are:
1. Use a blog as a vehicle for building a list
2. Adsense and contextual ads
3. Advertising on your site when you do get traffic- this is the route most sites use when they are using social means to generate traffic.
4. Sell your own products
5. Sell someone else's products (affiliate marketing)
6. Sell a service (if you have an SEO blog, you sell SEO packages)
Each of these have their own sets of pros and cons and there are different strategies that can be employed to maximize profit potential. There is no blueprint. Almost every niche will respond differently.
As I stated before, the best way to make money is to rank in the search engines for whatever keyword you are gunning for. Really, that is the half of it. All a keyword is is a conversation. What the keyword means to someone has to be discovered. If you know what people are looking for when they do a query, you stand a much better chance making money.
Hopefully in a year or two, this site will rank for "Internet Marketing". How I will monetize the traffic is not something I can plainly say. It really depends on what I discover people who search for the keyword are looking for I guess. Luckily, I have some time to figure it out, ya know?
One of my authority sites is monetized with adsense. Another is nothing more than a loss leader to grab email addresses, which I sell relevant products to my list. Both would likely respond differently if I switched up monetization methods. Like I said, there is not one make money strategy that can act as a blueprint…every situation is different.<span class="idc-clear"></span>
Leo, Just found you (via one of your comments on another blog by the way
) and am an instant fan. I enjoyed the post and have added your blog to my reader. Just goes to show that your promotion is working!
Thanks for stopping in and thanks for the great comments. As for the "promotion"…I know
Hi Leo,
What a relief to know I don't have to write everyday to be successful as a blogger! Thanks for the ad vice on promoting the blog and creating quality content.
Hi Leo,
I completely agree with your logic on posting well thought, completely researched and comprehensive post once in a week and spending more time on blog promotion (I am presently running too slow on my blog promotion compared to writing and replying to comments at my blog).
I must say that you are really very knowledgeable and write things based on your experiences without hiding anything, not everybody has the privilege or guts to do it.
I want some more explanation on your tip of "putting the title of the post in the forum signature". Do you keep on changing your signature when you post new content Or Do you post each of the titles in your signature separately on new forums without changing the previous ones at the old forums Or Do you post at the forums where multiple signatures are allowed? Example: If someone has 100 posts, then should he/she create 100 signatures at forums, each with title of those 100 posts?
Also, please share your experience on – Does it helps more in terms of Search Engine ranking or traffic etc. if the blogger comments at the blogs relevant to his/hers? Example – If I have a technical blog on computers tips and tricks then should I always/mostly comment on blogs related to my blog, i.e., computer hardware, software and networking etc.?
Needless to say, I am going to read all yours ex posts and the future ones at the earliest as my time permits!
All the best!
Hi Rajesh,
Sorry for the late reply..in Memphis it is unseasonably warm and I had to take advantage of it today with my wife, dog and child (park time). Any as far as being knowledgeable, I only know what works for me and I also understand that what works for me may not work for everyone.
Re: Forum Signatures and posting my posts….Understand that I use forums more for potential traffic and getting indexed quickly…not for backlinks…(I am about to write a backlinks vs. promotion post later this week)..so it doesn't really matter if the site will overwrite my previous signature or not.
I use basic ad copy techniques for my titles on the forum (in some cases it is the title itself, in other cases, it is something more alluring) and track the response (how many visits come to my site from the forum), time spent on my site, & bounce rate (did they go to another post or leave after reading the post?).
What has worked for me has been using just one signature link only. Just like anything else, if you give someone too many options, they may completely ignore your link OR you will be dividing potential clicks between how many sites are in your signature.
Re: SE rankings- Like I said, I primarily use forums as a way to brand myself and my site. The link juice that comes from forums are seriously diluted and aren't really a good backlink strategy. Traffic and promotion (branding)…that is what the forums will do for me.
Re: blog comments- Once again, I don't bother commenting on other people's blogs (comment marketing) as a backlink strategy b/c it really isn't very effective (like I said earlier, I will explain this next week). I comment on blogs to get noticed by the webmaster….any residual traffic that comes from my comment is fine. Because of this, I will rarely comment on a blog that is outside my niche…I sometimes target vertical markets though.
Hope that helps clear the air for you. Thanks for stopping by…
Hi Leo,
You replied quickly within 12 hours and that's not slow, so there are no reasons for sorry
Moreover, you are sharing your valuable blogging experiences for free, so I don't mind whenever you reply!
Thanks a lot for sharing more about what is working for you with answers to my queries. Enjoy the weekend
Hi Leo,
You have some very interesting points here in your article. I would love to know how you are using Friend Feed…to accomplish your goals. That is how I found this article. I'd like to know how you do this. I've only used Friend Feed for a short time, but I can see that it obviously works.
Thanks for the post.
Hi Sherry,
Thanks for stopping by. Yeah, I admit it….I use friendfeed, lol. And frankly, it works pretty well as far as getting residual traffic to this site. It is just another way to be social and using social sites has a different set of rules to use and manage it effectively.
I am actually working on a post in regards to friendfeed and some of the other social networks I use but I was intending on leaving that for a couple weeks down the road.
I will leave you with this though…..
I started using friendfeed for this blog 20 days ago (exactly)…..Here are the numbers…(the second number is in comparison to my other traffic….
1. Total visits via FriendFeed- 130
2. Pages per visit- 1.51/1.90
3. Avg. Time on site- 2:24/3:42
4. Bounce Rate- 78.46%/70.05%
So, as you can see from the time on my site and the bounce rate, the time spent on my site via friend feed is much lower and the bounce rate is much higher. Bad? Not really. To be frank, the numbers don't tell the whole tale. Some rooms did better than others. I have just been testing the waters to see which rooms speak the same language as me.
Anyway, I do intend to kind of go over this at a later date. For now, hopefully this will be enough to wet your appetite to the possibility of using friendfeed for promotion.
This is a very interesting article. And actually, completely different from what other websites claim out there. However, it makes complete sense. If we are not marketing our articles, then how will people come to know that such articles even exist. Thanks for giving this insight.
Thanks for visiting. That is what the world is about, right? Different opinions. The way I look at it, you can work your hands until they are blue but if no one knows you exist, there is little chance you will recognized.
Very interesting! I came here via Griz, by the way. I've been posting daily and confused about whether it was the best so your post is really helpful.
I found your blog in my Google alerts (actually via a comment you made on another blog — I was intrigued by his awe at the length of your posts). After reading this post I think you'd be interested in my post 'content is NOT king' . So may new bloggers rush to publish every day, defining content as any 200 word post they can feed the daily readers. If readers are like me, they oversubscribe to blogs on Google Reader and don't open the reader for some blogs until a week later [can then see 7 full posts, no need to visit and click any ads!].
Also I want to contact you but didn't see a form or email addr. Do you have a SU or Blog Catalog profile?
Hi SBA, you points on your blog are well taken. Content is much more than what some people make of it. Sure, good content will get you noticed but really without content, you won';t get ranked in the search engines. And search engine traffic isn't dependent on opinions from readers or suggestions.Thanks for stopping by.
Hi craniac, thanks for stopping by. There is nothing wrong with posting daily. Some niches require it because of the volumes of information out there.
Is there a reason why you change your name between Leo and onlinemarketing? Is this for SERP as well?
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@jae jun- since the links in the comments are “nofollow” it doesn’t mean a damn thing. I may have messed things up a bit when I was using a different commenting system (which crapped out link luv…I dumped it)