Blogs - Keeping traffic?

[Lord Saru]

What are the different methods of maintaining the present traffic you have to your blog? It might seem more difficult to maintain the present traffic than to bring new traffic but maintaining the present flow of traffic is also important.

What are your thoughts?

 

[RH-Calvin]

Definitely its a hard task to maintain the present traffic. We get more new traffic from various sources rather than have returning visitors. According to me a good way to make visitors return to your blog is to have frequent updates and spread the news through emails and social media. This will help some of the visitors to subscribe to your blog for any new updates.

 

[Lord Saru]

How about a prompt to join a mailing list or to subscribe to the RSS feed?

 

[cyimking]

Pay to have traffic come to your blog but have ads as well so you can generate some profits. Example, you pay $50k a day for traffic. This traffic helps with ad revenue so now you make $60k from ads. At the end of the day, you make $10k. Yes, I actually know a guy who has this business model and yes he actually makes $10k a day from it.

 

[Page]

What's wrong in linking up the RSS feed to social network and gets posted as there is an new content. Just needs to be an very high Facebook account with allot of likes

 

[Lord Saru]

Pay to have traffic come to your blog but have ads as well so you can generate some profits. Example, you pay $50k a day for traffic. This traffic helps with ad revenue so now you make $60k from ads. At the end of the day, you make $10k. Yes, I actually know a guy who has this business model and yes he actually makes $10k a day from it.

Looks great. But I dont think I am very confident to do it now 😛

What's wrong in linking up the RSS feed to social network and gets posted as there is an new content. Just needs to be an very high Facebook account with allot of likes

Will take time to build. But thats a very good idea.

 

[Cierra]

I think interaction and networking with others, specifically bloggers, is key. With blogs usually being content heavy SEO is important as well.

 

[Deleted member 4320]

I think with a blog you need to promote posts rather than the entire site. If you have a good post people will want to read another so it's worth getting quality content and giving the link to people directly rather than jus giving out the index link.

 

[Lord Saru]

I think with a blog you need to promote posts rather than the entire site. If you have a good post people will want to read another so it's worth getting quality content and giving the link to people directly rather than jus giving out the index link.

I agree with this. But wont it seem a little strange to promote a particular post rather than the entire blog itself?

 

[Golddisk]

I think with a blog you need to promote posts rather than the entire site. If you have a good post people will want to read another so it's worth getting quality content and giving the link to people directly rather than jus giving out the index link.

I agree with this. But wont it seem a little strange to promote a particular post rather than the entire blog itself?

Not really, if you go into Facebook or Twitter lots of sites promote specific content instead of their whole site, so I think this is a common way to get traffic to your site. It doesn't always mean that traffic will convert into people who revisit your blog, though.

How about a prompt to join a mailing list or to subscribe to the RSS feed?

I have used these, but they just don't seem nearly as popular as they once were. I think these features peaked in 2008-2010, and now it is all about social media.

 

[Deleted member 4320]

Not really, if you go into Facebook or Twitter lots of sites promote specific content instead of their whole site, so I think this is a common way to get traffic to your site. It doesn't always mean that traffic will convert into people who revisit your blog, though.



I have used these, but they just don't seem nearly as popular as they once were. I think these features peaked in 2008-2010, and now it is all about social media.

Exactly. Promoting one bit of content is way easier and more effective than the whole site. If the blog is about health, you can promote a post about running to a group interested in outdoor exercise rather than giving a bunch of swimmers a homepage full of articles about tennis for example.

It is very effective that way. But it's a constant battle, you need to always push content. That's why news sites can often get featured and go viral because they have a team marketing the site.

It's all about consistent engagement really.