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14 Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic
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Most bloggers and webmasters find themselves searching hopelessly for a way to attract new readers and visitors to their sites. Here are a few very simple tips that can be used to accomplish just that.
- Use a fresh design – If your website is messy, sloppy, disorganized, the colors are hard on the eye or don’t match then your site will go down the drain. Use a clean layout that is easy for your visitors to navigate.
- Write creative content – Some people have said that you need to write a post every day. This simply isn’t true. It is better for your site to write one well-written, creative article per week than to load your blog or website with short, meaningless posts.
- Guest blog – If you have the opportunity to promote your writing style at another popular blog, take it! This is a great chance for you to expose a new audience to your writing and to get some people to come visit your site.
- Respond to comments and emails – People love to visit a blog where the author is interactive and responsive. Make it your goal to respond positively to every comment that people leave at your site.
- Comment on other blogs – 99.9% of comment forms have a field where you can enter your website address when leaving a comment. This way when that blog owner or their readers see your comment, they can click through and find your site.
- Make list posts – This post is a perfect example of a list post. List posts are food for search engines like google and yahoo. They allow readers to gain information on a subject in a quick, concise manner.
- Develop relationships with fellow bloggers – Build relationships with fellow bloggers by commenting regularly on their sites, by requesting link exchange, and by mentioning them on your own blog.
- Reread, edit, and go over your posts – When your posts are filled with spelling errors and grammatical errors you will drive away smart readers. Readers become distracted by these type of mistakes and, believe it or not, it destroys your credibility. Remember Dan Quayle.
- Make your readers feel at home – Even when you receive a negative comment or critical comment you need to be creative in finding a way to respond in a positive manner. People may disagree with your position but don’t ever let them disagree with your disposition.
- Be a comedian – In the hit musical Singing In The Rain, there is a song called Make ‘Em Laugh. “They’ll be standing in line for that old honky-tonk monkey shine!” People will come to your site when you can present valuable information and make them laugh at the same time.
- Have polls on your site – People like voting on things and watching as the results tally up. Polls are popular and popular means more traffic.
- Write catchy post titles – Posts with catchy, creative titles receive much more traffic than those with boring, bland, unoriginal headlines. Often users will browse through your posts until a headline catches their eye. If no headlines catch their eye, well…you know.
- Keep improving your blog – It has been said that the day you stop growing is the day you start dying. I believe that is true in the blogosphere. The day you stop growing and improving your site is the day your visitors will begin declining.
- Use images in your posts – When you can illustrate your topics and articles with attention grabbing artwork or photography people are more likely to view your content. I personally use Flickr to find excellent photography.
Here’s the bottom line: put a little bit of tender loving care into your website or blog and you will be able to build a solid base of readers and regular visitors. If you don’t worry about your site then visitors won’t bother coming by to read your work.
So what are you waiting for? Get out there and build your blog!
Nicholas Cardot
Nick uses his blog Site Sketch 101 to express his passion for helping bloggers and webmasters connect with real people through brilliant designs, unique content, and genuine creativity. Nicholas Cardot has 187 post(s) at Site Sketch 101
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Wayne from iDetectorist.com said:
Great post, as usual.
In the early days of my blog I changed themes, colors, etc. pretty often. Would you say it’s possible to change things too much? Is an occasional theme change ok? How much is too much?
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Eric B. said:
While changing up your theme once in a while can be helpful, be careful not to change it too often. It can confuse returning visitors, who may have to relearn how to get around your site all over again, and this can hurt usability.
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Renino Niefes said:
I’m doing this right now. I also keep changing themes and stuff. Would it affect my site’s stats?
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Nicholas Cardot said:
It can definitely affect your site’s stats. If people see a fresh theme they might tweet it out and invite their friends to check it out. If the theme changes too often then they might not even bother to return to the site themselves.
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Renz said:
Thanks Nicholas. I already got my final theme for the succeeding months. It’s technicide theme and I love it.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Renz –> That’s good. Changing can be great but it can also be highly distracting.
Nicholas Cardot said:
Occasionally it’s actually great to switch up your theme and bring new life to your website but if it’s done too often people will get highly annoyed.
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Robomaster said:
Especially since it’ll effect your branding. You want to get a memorable, usable, and cool theme and stick to it, at least for a little while. Then your readers will remember the look and *bam*, you’re blog is branded.
E.g. “Oh wait, this is the blog I was just on the other day, it has all those pink flowers on the header!”
or
“Aha, this is the blog that had that great post on car rentals. They still have that cool sidebar”
You get the point. Apologies for my overly-done examples…
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Robomaster –> No. It’s good to provide examples and the more thorough your comment is the more seriously it will be taken.
You’re right about branding. I don’t recommend switching themes more than once…and maybe even twice in a year. And that’s only when you’re first starting out. Once your established and have begun building a readership, I would limit it even more. It’s alright to make tweaks to the theme. I do that all the time. But I’m going to keep the same theme here for a long time.
Steven said:
Hey Nick,
nice advice with the traffic increase. Although a major one would be PERSISTENCE and ACTION, because without those two, a blogger can know everything there is to know about traffic and still get slim count of readers with his/her lack of effort and consistency.
Steven
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Persistence is incredibly important. That’s a great point. What do you mean by action? Do you mean that you need to take action and actually work on your blog or do you mean something along the lines of calling your readers to action?
Living with Balls said:
I couldn’t agree more with #2. I see too many blogs just clutter up their page with short meaningless posts.
I try to focus more on writing fewer, more quality posts.
Renino Niefes said:
Ouch. I “was” guilty about this too.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I think that you can have a short post that provides great quality. I wasn’t speaking so much about the length of the post as I was about the quality of the post. Just make sure that what you are writing really offers something for your readers to enjoy.
Eric B. said:
Excellent tips, especially about writing creative content, and guest posting on blogs.
It’s better to put some effort into a post every so often, instead of pumping short and meaningless posts every day. That’s what Twitter is for.
And guest posting is also an excellent way to get new visitors to your site. Hopefully, that blog will be related to the subject of your blog, and the readers will be interested in what you have to say.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
That’s a good point about guest posting. It is a great way to get your writing out in front of a whole new audience. The exposure can really increase your own readership.
Chris said:
I think a post every other day or every third day is a good idea as long as it gives valuable info. I like to do a lot of posts like “The Top 10 Movies..” etc., and use different subjects. I did a post about my 5 favorite Stallone movies and it’s my most popular post as far as Google is concerned. It’s funny, the posts that I thought would be really popular sometimes aren’t and the posts that I thought weren’t my best do well. I guess it’s hard to judge what people will like sometimes.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Sometimes it is difficult to judge which ones will be the most popular, but each time that happens, I hope that you learn from it and work to provide more articles like the ones that your readers enjoyed the most.
Chad said:
I especially like #1, but not only for navigation and mess. If your site is immediately pleasing to someone’s eye, they might take a little longer to look around the first time.
I find myself regularly having subscribed to sites I don’t really care for content-wise, because the design initially grabbed me.
This can be great in the early days of your site when you’re trying to attract return visitiors but don’t have a ton of content yet.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
That’s true. I’ve done the same thing in the past. And then I don’t remove them from my RSS Reader until after I feel like getting around to it. So a great design backed with awesome content is really the way get results.
HelpfulAdvisor said:
Great ideas here. These are solid, and I must mention that I’m glad to see that you didn’t suggest quick, short posts.
I’ve seen the keep-posts-short advice on other blogs, and it really bugs me to read that kind of advice. Mostly because quality and short don’t always go hand in hand.
I get it that some blog readers are looking for particular info and only skim your articles for what they need.
But, that shouldn’t be a reason to compromise your quality. Short or long, the post should contain good, useful, and relevant information.
If we have to compromise quality in order to cater to short attention spans, there’s something wrong in the universe as I see it.
Some articles on my blog are short(er) and some are long. The end goal to each and every one is to have it be of utmost value and quality to the reader. The feedback I’ve received so far tells me others enjoy my writing. (Thank goodness!)
A good example of a successful long-poster is Steve Pavlina. His articles are massive at over 2,000 words per essay. However, he has a huge following, and a huge bank account, too.
Nick, I’m all over your tips, and I thank you for showing us the way to success. You truly lead by example!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Thanks, Jay. I think you summed it up right with your idea that regardless of the length of the post, we’d better be ensuring that it provides the utmost value to our readers. Don’t sacrifice quality to achieve a word count or a certain posting schedule.
Alan @ Basin Glass Pipes said:
Thanks for the post. I think you are totally right about the importance of interaction with people on your blog. It helps build a community and gets everyone more involved with the discussion.
Nicholas Cardot said:
You’re right. I’ve learned that every reader in my audience has different experiences and different outlooks on the way things should be done online.
I want to learn from each person just as they learn from me. I can only learn from them if I can engage with them enough to get them to engage with me.
Karol Zielinski said:
I’m sorry for advertising my own blog post, however I’d like to present much more informations about increasing blog traffic…
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Phaoloo said:
Get your point on commenting, it really works and can drive traffic as well as build relation with other blogger
But dunno why Social Media is not included in this great list? For some guys out there, social media is the most source of traffic to their blogs.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Social media really is a great way to drive traffic to a site and I probably should have mentioned it. Thanks for pointing that out and bringing it to light for everyone else.
Andrew said:
Nick, for the first time I think I’m going to have to disagree with you on #1.
Although it’s probably more an argument of semantics, but design IMO doesn’t drive traffic.
Site design is only going to effect the visitor once they get to your site. So while this is important when it comes to retaining your visitors, I’m not convinced that it’s in any way going to drive traffic to your site.
That is unless of course your design is so darn impressive that word spreads and you do get visitors who just want to see what people are raving about. Even then it’s low quality traffic. Unless of course you have a design blog.
For the rest of the list though, it’s a great collection of tried and true methods that can be used to promote and drive traffic to any site, not just a blog.
Nicholas Cardot said:
Andrew –> You’re welcome to disagree, but I would argue that my point is incredibly valid. I visit a lot of websites that I click away from as soon as I get there simply because they’re ugly. My wife and several of my friends have told me that they do exactly the same thing. This means that I’m not going to be revisiting their site tomorrow, or the next day, or the day after that.
If you can have a site that creates a great first impression then you get the opportunity to show off your content. If not, then like me, many people will not look around or return. If you can gain 5 new readers per day then you would have 150 readers at the end of a month. If three of those five new visitors each day never stop to take a second glance at your site then you will only get 2 new readers per day and at the end of the month you’ll only have 60 regular visitors.
Return traffic is still traffic. In fact, we all know that return traffic is more valuable than first time traffic because it reflects the people who are already familiar with our site and still keep coming back.
I maintain that design is incredibly important for increasing web traffic.
Renino Niefes said:
Very nice article! I will definitely follow these 14 steps to increase my few days old blog site.
Nicholas Cardot said:
Great! And good luck as you start your blogging journey.
Josh Star said:
Some very valid points! Social bookmarking is an effective way to generate more visitors too.
From a purely personal perspective, I feel that attracting high readership rates is alot like the art making friends; be social, outspoken and funny!
Nicholas Cardot said:
I like that. It’s like going back to high school all over again.
ZXT said:
All are very true. I’ve been doing most it and I can see my traffic increases steadily.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I’m glad to hear that. These tips will definitely help. They’re driving this site to new heights all the time and they’ll do the same for other sites as well.
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Elena said:
Fabulous post Nick. I have to admit the one I have to work on sometimes is the proofreading sometimes. I get busy with school and then rush through my post.
I love what you said about negative bloggers. I think the more popular your blog is, the more likely you will find a naysayer in the bunch.
I also find that keeping myself on a blogging schedule makes me more organized in what type of posts I write and the more thought that goes into writing the post, the more effective it will be.
I will have to look at polling again. I had tried it in a widget form but that didn’t work the way I thought it would. I think if you make a poll as part of your blog post, it’s more of an invitation to be interactive.
Again, thanks for the inspiring post!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Elena –> There certainly are negative people out there, but we can learn from them and make ourselves better.
izzat aziz said:
i think you should put 13 to number 14, after do all 1 – 13 you can just stop there you need to improve more and more.. but one thing that concern me, when the blog is well known “a top blog” they seem lost the muscle, there is no longer good post by them unless it is post by guest author.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
izzat aziz –> I’ve noticed that sometimes also, but remember that building your following is harder than keeping your following. Once you have a large number of readers it’s easy to keep going. It’s the building part that’s so difficult.
Chris said:
Nick,
I just wanted to say that I downloaded and read the first pages of your book and I think it’s great. I would encourage everyone to download it as well. I found it to be very encouraging and helpful. I think it will be a huge success. One thing I was wondering was how do you find the time to get all of this done around your very demanding military schedule? Do you ever sleep? LOL.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Chris –> Thanks for that great review of the book. I’m glad that you’re liking it. If you like this, just keep in mind that it’s only a fraction of what the real book is going to cover. I selected 3 chapters out of 15 chapters that are going to be in the book.
Gabe | freebloghelp.com said:
Polls are one thing I’d like to start using. So many ideas, so little time!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Gabe | freebloghelp.com –> That’s exactly how I feel.
nFormas design said:
Great post. I will try to make some things of this list. The first is comment here…
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Nicholas Cardot said:
nFormas design –> Great job on your first comment here and thank you for it. I hope these items really help you to accelerate your blogging.
Tony said:
How effective can guest posting be? I absolutely agree with the importance of regularly editing and rereading all of your posts. No post should ever die after it has been published.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Tony –> Guest posting is most effective if you post on a blog with more traffic than your own site. This way you can expose yourself to larger audiences than you have been previously exposed to.
Sanna Lee said:
Thanks for the tips. I’ve had trouble engaging comments from readers who have read my blogs – perhaps this is because I’m fairly new to the blogosphere… ?
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Sanna Lee –> Thanks. I just checked it out. I looks really good. Keep up the great work and don’t ever stop growing.
Nicholas Cardot said:
Sanna Lee –> If you’re new, then there’s certainly a lot for you to learn. Tackling the online sphere can be a difficult task. And learning to really connect with people online can be equally as daunting. I’ll do what I can to set you up for success.
Vikas said:
Useful post!
‘Be a comedian’ is a nice point; humour is often missing from blogs.
BTW you really look like a comedian in your profile pic [even your name is a bit unusual]. You can write about it sometime.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Vikas –> Ha ha. I think that I should be upset that you think I have a funny name but it really amuses me.
LOL
Vikas Gupta said:
Cardot is a bit amusing! And it is seen in conjunction with your profile pic here, I really begin seeing you as a comedian!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Vikas Gupta –> Ha ha. I’m so glad that I can amuse you with my name.
Vikas Gupta said:
An important tip is missing:
MAKE IT A DOFOLLOW BLOG AND SPREAD THE GOOGLE JUICE!
Nicholas Cardot said:
Vikas Gupta –> That is a good tip. I think that we should be focusing every aspect of our blog on how to be the most useful to our readers. Dofollow is a great way to be useful to them.
Vikas Gupta said:
Does dofollow leak a lot of juice?! SEOmoz recently had a post on it and suggested that blogs should not be dofollow!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Vikas Gupta –> No. It doesn’t. You don’t lose PR by linking out to others. You either share it will others or it goes to waste. It’s kind of like a fire. If I have a candle, it won’t go out when I reach over and light your candle. But rather we’ll now have two candles burning with page rank.
sernan said:
i have followed some of the tips above and they are all true, my traffic increased and not just traffic i have made some friends…
But i was wondering about the pictures specially getting them in flickr, do we need to give credit for the owner or should we ask permission first? or just get them and use them…?
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Justin L said:
Hi Sernan,
For images off flickr, check right of the image to see what their current license is on the photo. Under “Additional Information”
This will tell you how to use the image. Try to give credit to the author regardless.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
sernan –> Creating real, genuine connections and friends online is incredibly important. It will lead to a much richer form of traffic than just getting random hits.
Justin L said:
Wow Nicholas, you blog has grown insanely fast. Congrats on developing it so smoothly and rapidly. It’s very difficult to pull that off but you’ve done it extremely well.
Kudos!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Justin L –> Thanks. I sure appreciate the kind words. It’s difficult, but I’m learning that anything can be accomplished online when you learn to really reach out and help people as much as you can.
Ron Boracay said:
Nice Nick, this just proves that there are still many new ways, and sometimes, out of the box ways to improve your blog traffic.
I also think, incorporating social media to those tips also helps.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Ron Boracay –> Innovation is a great key to success. People need to return to the basics and they need to be exploring new concepts as to how to please and interact with their readers.
Sarge said:
Polls are certainly something I would love to implement on my blog. What polling software do you recommend?
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Sarge –> I’ve used Wp-Polls for sidebar polls and I’ve been pretty happy with the results.
Jeevanjacobjohn said:
I guess the problem with guest blogging is that most people don’t know what to write in other blogs/sites . I have faced this problem too. I don’t know what to post in another blog. If it was your own blog, you don’t need to worry If the article wasn’t successful. But if the reader evaluates that your article in another blog is poor. I don’t think they will visit your site. If you can add more details to the guest blogging, I am sure that It will be helpful to everyone. Thanks for the wonderful post.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Jeevanjacobjohn –> I’ll have to put some information together on that. I’ve made it my policy now that if anyone asks me for a guest post then they need to provide me with a specific topic. When they give me the topic then I can usually knock them out quickly.
Calvin@Body Health said:
I totally agree with your tips #4 “Respond to comments and emails”. I’ve seen many bloggers actually don’t respond to comment, and commentators would feel that blog owner does not respect their opinion and comment.
Blog commenting would be the most effectiveness way to drive traffic.
Nice tips Nicholas!
Cheers,
Calvin
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Geo said:
hey nicholas,
I had to be honest and i don’t use the following 3 items as i should:
Respond to comments
Comment on other blogs
Develop relationships with fellow bloggers
I am looking to increase the traffic more, the site is loaded with text and i just can’t get over the hill.
Thanks again for the great info and maybe i will find a solution while reading your posts.
Nicholas Cardot said:
Geo –> I hope so. To be honest, if I commented at your website and you didn’t reply then I would probably not return. With several people feeling that way, this would ultimately result in less traffic over time than you could have had.
Kok Siong Chen said:
I would like to try the list post which i never do it before. Thanks for sharing!
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Kidgas said:
Nicholas,
This is a wonderful blog. I love the design. I ran across your blog from your guest post at beginnerblogger.com so point #3 is certainly valid.
I will be adding this blog to my blog roll right away since it is so good and will be useful to my (few) readers.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Kidgas –> I’m excited to hear that and I look forward to having you as a regular reader. Thanks so much for the link. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with me if you have any questions.
Vinish said:
Really Nice Post, I am not bringing humor to my post when i write, i will try to be humors.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Vinish –> Humor is an amazing way to connect with people. People love to laugh and if you can provide that enjoyable experience while at the same time educating them about something then people will return again and again for more.
scheng1 said:
I have heard some bloggers mentioning that they hate their blogs. I wonder how they can attract readers if they dont even like their own blogs.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
scheng1 –> Ha ha. That’s so true. How can you inspire others to something that you’re not inspired about?
Mrs Dem said:
Thanks for this information- I like your list. I particularly agree with number 2. I much prefer quality over quantity. It isn’t easy to write well and it takes time to produce quality writing. The blogs that I like to read (yours is one of them) usually have about one post a week.
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Eric said:
All good things to do here if you want to help improve traffic. I think people forget to be creative about their work even if it’s blogging. I also think people have forgotten to give before you get and a few other key elements when it comes to blogging.
Having helpful reminders of this will definitely help everyone out who may know a few very important key elements in doing well with their blog but lack greatly in another area.
From a regular visitor who always looks forward to your work, great stuff.
Harwinder said:
Great article and really well thought out. The comments are equally useful.
I’m doing about 10 out of 14 things correctly, from your list. Need to work on the other 4.
Thanks !
BTW, I think there’s a small typo in your post:
Get out “their” and build your blog!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I just fixed that typo. Thanks for letting me know about it. I appreciate it.
A.S.Ragothaman said:
I’m doing this right now. I also keep changing themes and stuff. Would it affect my site’s stats?
Nicholas Cardot said:
A.S.Ragothaman » If you change your theme once, it can stir up excitement as people explore the site and enjoy the new features. But only once. If you change is more than once or so per year then your users are going to get annoyed and not return. I had a site once where I switched every few months and I actually received emails from people telling me that they wouldn’t be back simply because they were tired of seeing new themes every few months. I learned that lesson the hard way.
Paul O’Rear said:
Great post, Nicholas! Good information. Thanks especially for #8. I’m probably a little anal about this, but it drives me nuts to be reading a blog post (or even a Facebook post!) that is nearly impossible to follow because of all the misspellings and grammatical errors. I understand that on one is perfect (especially me), but there is a noticeable difference between a post that was obviously written in a hurry with no effort given to proofreading, and a post that was written with careful attention to detail.
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Paul O’Rear said:
See, I told you I wasn’t perfect! In my own comment concerning the need to proofread one’s work, I wrote “I understand that ON one is perfect” rather than “I understand that NO one is perfect”. So I am now responsible for driving MYSELF nuts!
[Walks away slightly embarrassed]
(I hope I spelled “embarrassed” right!)
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Paul O’Rear » Ha ha. No need to be embarrassed. I’ve done the same thing myself. LOL. Besides this give us a great memory to share as we think about how we first met online.
“Hey, remember that time when we first met and you were writing about grammar.”
“Yeah. I remember. Why do you have to bring that up?”
I’m glad you found Site Sketch 101 and I’m happy to have connected with you.
Don Gilbert said:
I am glad that posting every day is not a prerequisite for good blogging – half the blogging world out there would be out of business if that were the case, ha!
Anyways – you’ve done it again Nick. Great post with great suggestions. I really enjoy coming to and interacting with your site.
When it comes to Catchy Post Titles – I have found that the more topical the title, the better traffic it gets. People will click into your blog post just because of your great title. However – it needs to be creative and not necessarily witty or something that only you and your current followers would understand.
Some say content is king – I say RELEVANCE is king!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Don Gilbert » Ah. The Content is King debate. You just opened up one of my pet peeves. I agree that Content is not king by itself. I think that in order to truly be effective you have to have Awesome Content, a Brilliant Design, and a Commanding Influence.
Ed said:
thanks for the tips
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Fire said:
Hi Nicholas,
Our site is based on photos with not much of writing. We did update our post few times a daily to get the content fresh for the visitor.
Any suggestion or improvement we could make to improve our blog traffic?
Thanks
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Self Improvement said:
Hey Nicholas. I’ve always been interested in link exchanges but never knew how to go about it because I don’t know a lot of bloggers personally. But you just made it so clear! Build relationships with them by commenting on their blog. Thanks for that one.
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Suresh K said:
thanks for the great post to increase traffic especially for build relationship with bloggers is very important for getting success in blogging..
Nicholas Cardot said:
Suresh K » Building relationships online is one of the greatest elements to building a strong online presence. Don’t underestimate it’s effectiveness.
Sonali Agrawal said:
That is all so true. The only thing among these points that I have done is give a fresh face to my website. That has surely helped a lot, and hopefully, I am able to accomplish the other points that you have mentioned.
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Anthony V. Gibby said:
Nice post. I definitely took a few notes from this post. I will not promote any new site I have until I have clean and well organized site, because I don’t need to drive away any visitors.