Recently, here on the blog – a poll was presented asking, “How many unique visitors do you get daily?”
After many contributions to the results – I discovered most bloggers are in the 5-50 visitor per day range. The focus of this post will be getting your blog out of this range – and into the 100′s & thousands of visitors daily categories.
The Theory & Philosophy
There are a number of ways to start getting hundreds upon hundreds of visitors to your blog.
Personally, from the many blogs & communities I’ve developed – there are a few aspects that should be paid close attention to.
- Social Media – Take the time to being growing your social media presence. Start a Twitter account revolving around your blog’s niche, & develop a Facebook fan page. It’s important, while broadening your social networking horizons, to be genuine & helpful. You’ll grow your following just by being a real, flesh-and-bones human.
- Fresh, Consistent Content – Although I say it hundreds of times over, creating content is truly king. Create good content. Create funny content. Content, content, content. Give your readers no reason not to share your magnificent content with other bloggers, and you’ll soon find that word of mouth becomes rather powerful in generating traffic.
- Commenting – This aspect of blogging is oft-times overlooked. It’s important to “get out there” and share your thoughts and opinions with the blogosphere. Be sure to write quality, in-depth comments instead of spamming blogs just for a link. You’ll surely regret it in the long run.
- Inviting Design – Give your readers an enjoyable place to spend their time. Don’t overrun your blog with ads, or flashy graphics. Keep your blog design simple, clean & inviting.
- Develop Community – As you begin to increase your blog traffic, a sense of community being to be developed. Start toying with blog forums as another area in which to expand your community. It’s also important to keep your comment discussions going by posting replies to those that comment on your own blog.
How have you gone from 50 to 100 blog visitors? What are some ways you’ve found success in generating blog traffic?
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I am currently sitting in the ~60-85 unique visitors (not including spiders and bots) per day range. I find that most of my traffic is generated at the time new content is posted.
On Mon-Sat I post between 2-3 stories generating normal traffic numbers, but on Sundays when I take I break it’s down around 15-20. Whenever I post a new story I do a number of different things with it to push traffic:
- Send it to twitter using the “Tweet This” plug-in.
- Post it on my Facebook wall where I have ~660 friends.
- Ping services such as Google, BlogPulse, Bloglovin, and other blog indexes.
Currently the majority of my traffic comes from Facebook but I am slowly seeing an increase in referrals from twitter and Google searches.
I use “StatPress Seolution” as well as Google Webmaster Tools to carefully monitor traffic trends and search rank positions to push content that generates the most traffic.
It is currently a slow process but in the past week I have had about 220 unique visitors and over 1000 page views and for a blog that is less then a month old I couldn’t be happier.
Regards,
Nick
I currently have about 300 daily visitors. The majority of these coming from social media. My to do? Write more articles again!!! As you say, content is king…
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September 30, 2009 at 10:04 am
Nick, great thoughts. And thank you for sharing with us. There really is a juggling act balance of visitors blogs go through as new content is posted – like you mention. Users certainly increase when new content is delivered. What’s important is that those new visitors are harnessed upon first visiting – and converting them into long lasting, loyal readers. Great work – and much success to your blog!
Bjorn, social media is certainly a large traffic generator for myself too. What social networking platforms work best for you?
My most used social platforms are Twitter, Facebook, and Yahoo Answers. Which ones do you use?
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October 1, 2009 at 9:07 am
Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed & StumbleUpon are my top social networks. They bring in the most traffic, and allow me to communicate with the most individuals.
To be honest, I am not familiar with Friendfeed. And as for StumbleUpon, I am on it, but hardly get any traffic from it. How do you use SU to generate traffic if I may ask?
I think I’m going to focus on social media. I’m having trouble getting through it.
Thanks for your tips I will also focus on social media.
I am currently getting 300-350 unique visitors a day, but am hoping to push that to 500 in the near future. A lot of it will have to do with being active in my niche.
After 10 months, my website is getting 100+ visitors per day. Majority of that traffic is from search engine, the rest from comments and forum. The niche itself was the key, followed by content. Recently, I am getting increasing visits via the comments on other blogs, as well as social media.
Personally, I can’t stand infolinks. Lots of sites have them, though.
Accidentally pass your mouse over a link and you get a popup. Most of the time it swiftly goes away, but if it gets stuck, you can’t read the content.
I currently have about 300 daily visitors. The majority of these coming from social media. My to do? Write more articles again!!! As you say, content is king…