She also has a weekly cartoon feature which seems to draw a crowd, hopefully someday this will be a daily cartoon feature, as this would probably develop more stickiness over time.

Though she doesn’t have a huge following, maybe 250 – 300 hits a day, she has gained an incremental following of many unique readers over the past four months since starting her new blog. Many of her readers accidentially ran across it on blog explosion, dotmoms, langalist, freekatie and search engines, and continue to stick around on a day to day basis.

So what makes them stick? I often ask myself this question, and I’m still not sure, but I believe there are many different parts that play into the whole of why they stay. A combination of many things.

I think with her blog, she tends to have a unique artistic talent and writes about things her readers relate to. She talks to them, emails them, and truely enjoys thier company in the cyber world, and makes them feel at home.

However, she also has a lot of time to write, do her art work, and focus on her audience, as she has a husband who loves to do the behind the scences work of finding new ways to bring unique people to her blog, manage the layout and technicalities of its workings, and enjoys researching what makes a good blog tic.

By the way, I accidentially came across your site from someones site traffic tracking page, I think it was thezeroboss, and I’m eating up this great information. Thanks

Super blog by the way – but one thing I’ve noticed which always seems to bring back visitors is simple curiousity. The best way I’ve found so far is by using it with headlines tied to current news events.

For example my most recent post is titled “Bombings, shootings & Perry Marshall” which is about the recent UK troubles.

The curiosity factor comes by tying it in with well known marketer Perry. It actually then talks about his new free series on spirituality which I posed as the answer to the uncertain times we live in.

Curiosity seems to work every time – get it into your blog headlines. I have a lot folks reading my article ‘Copywriting Secrets Of India’s Mystics’ simply due to it’s title alone.

It’s an easy to way to revive interest of old ‘lapsed’ newsletter lists etc – look at the news, add curiosity to your blog post headline and announce it to your old list. People are interested in the info, not necessarily you so they’ll visit.

Try it, it’s fun coming up with eye ball grabbers this way.

All the best and keep up the good work.

Dave.

When I make my first mil, I’ll come down to Oz and buy you dinner.

I blog. LOTS of blog entries, and I try to be the Queen of Linkage. I also point readers to my internal content. However, I’m spending so much time blogging I am slacking on the content. Hmmm.

Newsletters. 2x a week, one with articles, one with a Blog Roundup.

Also, I just try to be myself, which is a bit of a geeky dork who’s trying to make sense of a lot of very complicated stuff out there.

That there is the key to a successful repeat visits… nice one Vic, could not have said it better myself…..

Did I mention we got slashdotted today!

I’ve put FAQs on sites where visitors can ask questions and this has been great for getting people to come back. Translating this for blogs, means using your visitor’s query as a topic for your blog.

This shows community spirit and that you are indeed listening to your audience

The one thing I can say is that usualy if I find that has had an effect on me is just asking the readers to respond. That seems to have the greatest effect on me as far as a site and its “stickiness”

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Salutations,

Fred

We are not earning huge wads of money either but it’s been growing month over month for some time now.

Great content is a given, but is there anything that pushes it just that little bit that takes it over the top?

If you want ad clicks, you need SE traffic. IMHO.

Thanks to all for commenting!

I hadn’t thought of it until just now, but there is a telecom blog I read that uses photos periodically. The blogger inserts posts from time to time with nothng but photos of where he is travelling at the time. He travels around the world and offers many interesting photos – conferences, monuments, sporting events, etc. I have to admit that I like his photos :-)