G-Man

I have about 3000 friends – they don’t all check my blog obviously when i post a bulletin but i get a traffic spike of 200-500, depending on the posts.

Comments on others blogs gets comments on mine. First impressions here count. Forums, signatures, trackbacks and links from other peoples blogrolls. My blogger profile can get a few.

Social bookmarking like furl or del.icio.us.

Allowing users to email subscribe to comments on posts gets return visitors when a new comment is added on a post they’ve commented on. Livejournal style… I always wondered why they have so many comments on those blogs, thats why!

People checking their webstats also come to my blogs. :)

When I first started the site, the only way to generate traffic was to self promote on relevant forums. This enabled the site to get established, and now most of my traffic comes via people arriving direct to the url (presumably people who have seen the site, bookmarked it, and are interested enough to keep coming back).

I have recently noticed alot of traffic coming from other indirectly related websites, which is normally when other people have linked to the site because they felt it had relevant content for them.

Google and other search engines throw maybe 6 or 7 referrals a day, which I guess is quite good for a non-mainstream site.

I no longer have to self promote the site as much as I did, which implies that once a site is established, it may generate traffic through 3rd party referrals alone.

I’m considering adding a blog to portfolio, with the aim to drive traffic up at other sites I have that are not blog-driven. Does anyone else use a blog as a primarily promotional tool for other sites they run?

Dave

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My blog is about personal development, so most of the posts are intended to benefit the reader in some way, either helping to solve problems or changing the way people think. These kinds of posts tend to generate a lot of interest and discussion across the blogosphere.

My style also runs contrary to the popular attitude of making short, frequent posts. I make some of the longest blog posts out there, with many being 4000+ words, favoring depth over breadth. I know this hurts me in terms of firing more bullets at search engines, but it helps greatly with providing reader value and generating word-of-mouth traffic. Search engines account for less than 5% of my total traffic.

I’m well aware that many people will not take the time to read one of my 5000-word mega posts, but those that do read them are often affected by them, and when people are affected, they’re far more likely to share that value with others.

I’ve also blogged about how posting can help generate substantial traffic:
100%+ Traffic Increase

My primary non-search engine referrers come from other blogs, Technorati tags, and forum postings – that I didn’t even make! I’ve made at least two postings that have turned into somewhat widely spread email forwards and are driving in traffic from all over.

I also look for creative and unique ways to not only keep my repeat visitors coming back but to drive in new visitors. Consider this: http://www.ioerror.us/2005/06/26/homeland-stupidity-threat-advisory-system/

Obviously that won’t work for everybody, but it’s beginning to drive a little bit of traffic for me, and my regular readers love it…

I personally had one of my sites listed on CSS Beauty but that’s back when CSS Galleries were infants and didn’t have that much linking power. Yet it did manage to throw some traffic my way.