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Slow and Steady Blogging

Slow and SteadyMany of you have read about how a blogger needs to keep churning out posts frequently so as to explode their traffic and increase readership count. You read tips like “Publish a post everyday” or “Write frequently to make them return often” and happily accepted and followed them with the hope that you will become the next problogger. More often that not, you or the other newbie or not so newbie blogger get frustrated or dejected when the statistics of your blog’s traffic or readership feed subscription does not look as impressive as how some of these probloggers have achieved. Actually, not all tips work for everyone except probably this - slow and steady blogging is a proven way.

 

More Time To Think and Plan

Blogging at a slower pace (which I would mean not more than 2 or 3 posts a week) gives you more time to think and plan your blog postings. It gives you room to write a quality blog post which would provide value and attachment to your readers. You would be able to space out your blog posts so that they are consistent.

 

More Time to Explore and Craft An Outstanding Post

It gives you time to explore other blogs or scour the net for information and get more ideas to craft that quality post. Many bloggers who reported success with their successful and timeless posts recounted on how they invested numerous hours to research and write those posts. If you were to write a post on the 100 most beautiful wordpress themes or 50 delicious chicken recipes, you will definitely need to spend a lot of time reading. Read on »

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. 26 Feb 08 | About Blogging, About Traffic, About Writing | Comments (3)

It Does Not Matter When You Post

Enter to publishSome bloggers recommend that the best time to publish a blog post is on Monday or Tuesday, supposedly because that’s when most people check out blogs after a weekend away. True perhaps because from my own experience, traffic seems to be at its highest on Monday - Tuesday and slowly tapers off towards the weekend. The number of feed subscribers also seem to follow the same pattern. Notwithstanding what these bloggers recommend, I would like to offer an alternative view that it does not matter when you post. Post any time and any day that you like.

 

Contents

People are attracted by what’s written in a blog. When you have brought about a reputation as someone who writes useful and helpful posts or entertaining stuffs, your readers will still come back to your blog regardless which day you publish your post. Create a hunger in them and they will keep coming back. Some loyal readers return daily or frequently in a week to see if something is new. It does not affect these readers the time and day of the week that you publish your post.

 

Search Engine

If your blog targets readers from the search engines (all you bloggers who care about SEO would know what I mean), you should concentrate more on the right kind of words and phrases to publish than the time and day to publish your post. I still get incoming traffic from search engines to my blogs daily despite not publishing anything new. One good example would be my food blog at Delicious Asian Food which ranks highly on for some recipes and gets a decent amount of traffic from search engines daily, even on weekends! Read on »

. 08 Feb 08 | About Traffic, About Writing | Comments (3)

The “Secrets” To Increasing Blog Readers

PopularEver wondered why some bloggers seem to draw more and more readers as they continue blogging? You notice that their RSS subscriber count increases weekly or monthly and you wonder what is the secret to their success. It is no secret really. I have been observing some blogs which have grown from less than a hundred feed subscribers to a few hundred and some with less than a thousand to a few thousand. I use feed subscribers as a yardstick because a growing feed is an indication of growth of regular readers. And I believe that the actual number of readers far exceeds the feed subscribers shown. My observation tells me that these bloggers have something in common and they are as follows:-

 

Personality

Blogs convey a personality of its own. As bloggers express themselves, their personality shows and like it or not, readers can be attracted to certain personalities based on the way thoughts are being expressed. This is especially true for personal blogs. Even in niche based blogs, popular bloggers seem to exude a distinguished personality from one another. Blogigs.Com for example, comes to me as a “down to earth, truth be told” kind of blog because the blogger, Costa, reveals the truth about some of the real struggles of a blogger which many other bloggers identify with. That makes him all the more approachable as fellow bloggers share with him the same struggles or even successes. Do you see a personality coming from your favourite blogs?

 

Resource and / or Knowledge

Many of these popular blogs continue to churn out posts which are full of resources. The sharing of their knowledge keeps readers coming back to learn more. Niche based blogs do well in this area if their blogs are a resource centre. Having a blog with a name which includes the word “tips” or “secrets” will not be successful per se if it does not provide the amount of resources one expects from it. When it comes to resource, the blog which ranks highly in my mind would be Steven’s Vandelay Website Design. This guy continues to give his readers value packed posts week in week out. You just need to see the popular posts on his website to have a feel of the amount of work he has invested to make his blog grow. Unbelievable.

 

Work

Popular bloggers give the perception (I think in many cases it is true) that they have invested a considerable amount of time in planning their blog post, researching and writing it. You cannot be successful in attracting more readers without putting in the required hard work. One of the reasons why Skellie is so popular today is because she invested countless hours to write and craft insightful posts. The readers’ appreciation of her work shows in the comments which they leave in her blog. You can tell whether a blogger reads other blogs or news or articles by the contents they post. You will need to learn before you can teach. Some bloggers, unfortunately, attempt to teach before learning and it shows in the posts they write. Read on »

. 21 Jan 08 | About Blogging, About Traffic | Comments (12)

What Kind of Sites Benefit Greatly From Email Subscription

I have read about offering email subscriptions to readers but did not implement it on my sites until late December. The results were encouraging. There has been an approximately 10% increase in blog subscribers at my food blog in less than a month’s time and this is attributed to readers who subscribe via email. That blog now has 211 feed subscribers. Not here though. There is only 1 email subcriber todate since I enabled email subscription on this site in late December.

 

Without pretending to be a guru on feed subscription, my hazard guess is that certain sites will benefit from having email subscription made available. These sites are those which caters to those who are less savvy about RSS, casual but loyal readers and those seeking plenty of information or resources. Tech sites are less likely to fare that well in this department.

 

Honestly, I do not even know what RSS or that orange sign means until I have been blogging for about 2 months. What more to say those who do not blog (with no disrespect to their intelligence, of course)! I would say that a majority of my food blog readers are people who are out looking for a recipe (as evidently shown in my organic traffic trend). It is likely that they are more comfortable with the phrase “Email Subscription” or “Get recipes delivered to you by Email” than “RSS” or “Subscribe to my Feed”. The same perhaps for many other niche sites. Read on »

. 12 Jan 08 | About Traffic | Comments (3)

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