Written on December 30th, 2005 at 02:12 am by Darren Rowse

Three simple actions that doubled my website traffic in 30 days

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The following post on how to increase website traffic was submitted by Adrian W Kingsley-Hughes.

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I started the PC Doctor blog in May of 2005 and for the first few months my traffic was really low - down in the few hundreds of visitors a day. It was pretty depressing I can tell you and there were times when I thought about quitting.  I knew that the site was in the Google ’sandbox’ and so I either had to keep on plugging at it until it was out or I had to give up.

Fortunately, I decided to keep on posting but in the interim I decided that I was also going to do my utmost to drive traffic to my site manually until Google kicked in. I took a look around at what some of the successful blogs were doing and came up with three tactics that helped to double my website traffic in a month.

  1. First, I made the most of Technorati tags.  I tagged every key word in each of my posts. Initially I did this manually but them I discovered a WordPress plugin called SimpleTags that made the job a whole lot easier.

    I found that by tagging my post effectively they were getting a lot more attention then their untagged counterparts, and as an added advantage I was getting focused, quality traffic to the site!

  2. I leveraged my existing website.  I’ve been running my business website for a few years and that was getting modest levels of traffic that was relevant to my blog - so why not try to drive some of that to my new blog! I placed a few FeedBurner headline animator blocks on some of my most popular pages and after a day or so I noticed a significant increase in traffic for 5 minutes worth of work on my part.
  3. Finally, I made effective use of trackback links to popular sites. If I commented on a post on another site I would make sure that I set up the appropriate trackback for it. The results from this are varied depending on the site and post that you are linking to but since I liked to comment and interact with the wider blogosphere anyway, it was free traffic!

Using these three simple techniques, I took The PC Doctor blog from a few hundred hits a day into the thousands in less than 30 days. This kept my interest in the site until it came out of the Google sandbox and I started to receiver some serious traffic. However, I’m convinced that these actions I took at the early stages have helped me create a loyal and targeted readership that continues to benefit my blog today.

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370 Responses to “Three simple actions that doubled my website traffic in 30 days”

  • Lindsay

    December 30th, 2005 3:25 am

    How do you “tag” words in posts? (My blog is on Typepad, so don’t think I can install any plug-ins.)

  • Louis

    December 30th, 2005 3:26 am

    The reason I don’t like tagging very much is that visitors when they finish reading your posts click on the technorati tags instead of Adsense, Amazon link or whatever money making links you have.

  • ~Dawn

    December 30th, 2005 4:38 am

    How do you do trackbacks? I see those, but don’t understand them.

  • Todd Brill

    December 30th, 2005 4:53 am

    Normally, a blog will list their trackback somewhere near the end of a post. You can (usually) copy and past the URL of the trackback into your post editor. In WordPress, when you create a new post, there is a field to include a trackback URL. Just paste it in there.

  • Kashif

    December 30th, 2005 5:07 am

    Incidentally I have implemented Technorati tags and trackback techniques on my blog http://www.pakquake.com and it got on top of SEs pretty quickly.

  • Quick Online Tips

    December 30th, 2005 5:09 am

    I use a free service Haloscan for trackback services in Blogger. Have a look at the end of any post on my blog.

  • IO ERROR

    December 30th, 2005 5:19 am

    Louis, you don’t have to display Technorati tags. I don’t. They are only in my feeds, where pretty much only Technorati sees them.

  • adamsb

    December 30th, 2005 5:29 am

    Good stuff, I’ve just installed the tag plugin-

  • Louis

    December 30th, 2005 5:37 am

    Hi IOerror, Do you use the plugin http://vapourtrails.ca/wp-keywords to have your tags just in the feeds or something else ?

  • wayne sutton

    December 30th, 2005 6:49 am

    IO Error, how did you put the Technorati tags in your feeds only?

  • Joseph Nilo

    December 30th, 2005 7:07 am

    Theres a great tutorial for users of Blogger, Firefox, Deli.icio.us, and Technorati here:

    http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/11/blogger-delicious-categorizer-script.html

  • Dmitry Chestnykh

    December 30th, 2005 9:40 am

    Louis: can’t you then hide the DIV with tags using CSS? Is this acceptable by Technorati and other tag search engines?

  • Luke

    December 30th, 2005 10:07 am

    Some very sound advice. I’m still having troubles getting my head around trackbacks though. I gather that when you write a post relating to an article on another blog, you can insert a trackback to it.

  • Greg

    December 30th, 2005 10:51 am

    Thanks for the tips, I’m going away this week but will try them next year. Thanks for explaining trackbacks Todd, never really understood them until now.

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  • Shirley George Frazier

    December 30th, 2005 1:31 pm

    I also appreciate the tips and look forward to trying at least one, starting with the Technorati tags. I’ve had problems understanding how to include them on my site, but I’ll give it a try this weekend.

  • Johnny

    December 30th, 2005 4:32 pm

    I congratulate you for having such a successful blog! Not only are your links better than some of the random ones generated in Google Searches, but your tips actually work, compared to the other “optimization” sites that have 3 Adsense blocks and a couple of sentences repeating google’s tips.

  • mark

    December 30th, 2005 5:15 pm

    thanks for the tips. I didn’t quite know about it, but plan to use it soon.

  • IO ERROR

    December 30th, 2005 7:11 pm

    At the moment I’m using a heavily modified version of the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin. It’s heavily modified because UTW doesn’t support Atom feeds, and Technorati prefers Atom feeds.

    I’ve been meaning to get around to writing a simple tag plugin that doesn’t have every feature but the kitchen sink, and just plain does its job, but I’ve been so busy blogging… :)

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  • Ozh

    December 31st, 2005 12:31 am

    Oô … No offense to anyone but I find it quite amazing that some readers of this blog, i.e. people you would say they are probably blog aware to say the least, still don’t know about technorati or trackbacks …

  • hyip farm

    December 31st, 2005 1:19 am

    Hi. Those that wanna use technorati tag and make it invisble, all you have to do is delete part of the code in the simpletags.php file. I did it to my site http://hyipfarm.com .
    The tags are invisible now and technorati can still detect them.

    You have to delete 3 stuff

    Step1
    In the simpletags.php file find
    $pre_replacement = ‘Technorati Tags: ‘;
    and change it to
    $pre_replacement = ‘ ‘;

    Step 2
    Find . trim($ttags[$i]) .
    delete it.

    Step 3
    Find . $ttags[$i] .
    delete it.

    Enjoy! No more worry that people will go away from your site from clicking those tags.

  • hyip farm

    December 31st, 2005 1:21 am

    sorry wrong link. the link to my blog is at
    http://hyipfarm.com/blog

  • Marco Raaphorst

    December 31st, 2005 1:58 am

    The categories of Wordpress are the same as tags for Technorati. So if you post them under the right categories, Technorati will pick them up correctly.

  • Marco Raaphorst

    December 31st, 2005 2:02 am

    forgot to mention on thing:
    - you need to open an account for Technorati
    - make sure Technorati is pinged after posting, use for posting: http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

    no plugins are really needed to trigger Technorati other than the standard functionality of Wordpress.

  • Holly Ward

    December 31st, 2005 6:30 am

    While you might not “need” a plugin to trigger Technorati, in Wordpress, by default, the only tags applied to an article are the pre-defined “categories” that you check off when you post it. Now you could go in and add a category corresponding to each of the tags you feel an article might merit, but I think that’s a lot of work, and then you have this huge categories list that would quickly become rather unwieldy.

    Take the blog post I wrote about this post. One of the tags I applied to it (using this very plugin, in fact ), was “ProBlogger”. Now I thought that was very relevant for this one post. But am I ever going to tag another post “ProBlogger”? I suppose it’s possible, but I certainly wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of setting up a category called “ProBlogger”. Plus then “ProBlogger” would have shown up in the list of Categories in my sidebar, which might have looked a little strange. I could type in the html by hand, of course, and that was what I was doing before I found this plugin, but I notice that I didn’t add as many tags per post, again because I am lazy. I might not “need” this plugin, but I”m certainly finding it very useful.

  • Marco Raaphorst

    December 31st, 2005 6:48 am

    Yes, Holly Ward you are right. If you want to add tags you probably never need again again, such a plugin works better. And I do believe that plugin is great.

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  • Sean Wilson

    December 31st, 2005 8:11 am

    Hi, Excellent article

    I’ve got the HTML for Feedburner Headline animator blocks.
    How do i insert the HTML into my signatures?
    I use Thunderbird & Outlook

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  • Cary

    December 31st, 2005 8:27 am

    I just use ecto, and that makes it simple as pie :)

  • Skipease

    December 31st, 2005 8:39 am

    Adrian, I just looked at your traffic chart on Alexa.com and I must say that it is quite impressive.

    I too was concerned about the technorati tags directing traffic away from my site. Thanks to the previous posts for the tips on how to make the tags invisible on your site.

  • TEX

    December 31st, 2005 10:09 am

    Ok, so I love the tagging, but I tried the trick so that the tags don’t show up (I’m not worried about people following links to leave my site, but I don’t like the visible clutter) and it just flat out did not work.

    Anyone got any other suggestions?

  • Dmitry Chestnykh

    December 31st, 2005 10:15 am

    TEX: You can hide it with CSS. Wrap your tags in <DIVgt; with id, for example…
    <div id=”tags”&gt….</div>
    then add style for tags to your CSS file:
    #tags { display: none; }

  • China

    December 31st, 2005 2:49 pm

    I tried the trick from HYIP farm but it didn’t work. Anyone else has been able to get it to work, seems like a great solution.

    Happy new year you all by the way

  • John

    December 31st, 2005 7:37 pm

    thanks for the tips. pretty cool to find someone who’s so wlling to help others out.

  • Marshall Kirkpatrick

    December 31st, 2005 10:08 pm

    I’ve got two bookmarklets that make adding tags to the ends of your posts very easy at http://marshallk.com/bookmarklets

    That said, I sure hope people are going to limit their tagging to subjects that the posts are honestly about. The last thing I want to have to deal with is tag spam, and that’s totally on its way isn’t it?

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    January 1st, 2006 10:59 am

    great post, I’ve installed the plugin :D

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    January 2nd, 2006 7:23 pm

    I myself have been following step 1 and 2 and must say that does make a difference. Didn’t know about the Feedburner service though.

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    January 3rd, 2006 7:56 am

    hmmm…i wonder if just leaving a comment here will increase traffic to my little blog.

    only one way to find out i guess.

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  • mark

    January 3rd, 2006 6:37 pm

    what’s with ppl repeating the saem comments b/w […]?

    I don’t understand.

  • Razvan Antonescu

    January 3rd, 2006 7:41 pm

    They are not repeating they sent trackbacks from their blog. The trackbacks appear as comments and the text is the link from their blog :)

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    January 3rd, 2006 7:46 pm

    You might want to add a little disclaimer to your title - sort of a your mileage may vary kind of thing.

    I’ve been “tagging” or adding keywords or categorizing my sites for ages - little if any traffic ever comes from technorati and technorati seldom shows accurate activity on any of my blogs.

    While you may have had great success due to the topics you cover obviously not everyone will have the same success.

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    January 4th, 2006 4:27 am

    I’m pretty technologically/blogging intelligent, but I don’t understand trackbacks — does anyone know of a good link explaining it?

    Thanks!
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    January 4th, 2006 12:30 pm

    Thanks Razvan for the info. :)

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    January 7th, 2006 1:37 am

    How do you tag words in Drupal ?

  • Teli

    January 7th, 2006 2:56 pm

    In response to Dawn’s question:

    How do you do trackbacks?

    There is a WordPress Trackback Tutorial (could be helpful for other blogging platforms, but geared toward WordPress users).

    I also have to agree with Clark - mileage may vary. There have been many complaints on Technorati not properly indexing sites or displaying accurate links.

    While I can’t say I have any complaints about Technorati, I have noticed that some sites receive quite a bit of traffic from them while others seem to be missing completely.

    And, for those who want to make their technorati tags disappear, wrap them in a specific <div> element and apply a bit of CSS ingenuity.

    example:
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    in CSS file:
    .tech-tags {display: none;}

    Hope that helps someone out :)

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    January 17th, 2006 12:09 am

    I am the web designer for a property company based in Bangkok. At the beginning of the year I implemented the strategy you so rightly put forward above, using WordPress and including the Technorati tags. The site now has five times the number of hits! I would like to thank you for the advice given. It has been so successful I have also implemented a similar programme for a consultancy company in the UK who outsource all of their their SEO work to us. Their site was only put live yesterday so I cannot gauge its success as yet, but we are both highly confident that this is the way to deliver SEO strategies to our clients. We have abandoned our link building strategies since the Jagger update and now concentrate on content augmentation and article writing, with great results. Once again, thanks.

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    January 17th, 2006 10:34 am

    thats great news John Sylvester! Your site looks pretty nice too.

  • edward

    January 17th, 2006 12:52 pm

    I couldn’t sleep and browsed the web for some weblog tips. Especially about getting more traffic. Those 15 visitors of my weblog aren’t enough. That’s how I came on your website.

    Thanx for the tip on technorati tags. I installed the plugin right away.

    Maybe a little late ;) but hé who knows.

    I must say I don’t understand your 3rd tip?? How do you use trackback links to popular sites?

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    January 19th, 2006 8:05 pm

    I find the steps quite reasonable.
    Do you fight spam using trackbacks? I mean do they bother you?

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  • squire

    February 3rd, 2006 1:51 pm

    Try the technorati tag generator

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  • John Hamman

    February 8th, 2006 8:48 am

    Tags definatly seem hard to grasp, least the part about where to put them on the page. I have 3 questions then;
    1. Is it better to have one word tags or is 2 words acceptible
    2. Does the tag have to appear in the RSS feed?
    3. Does it affect you to have tags that do NOT point to technorati? Like for example, a tag that points to your own categories on your blog (using the rel=”tag”)?
    john

  • Marco Raaphorst

    February 15th, 2006 11:01 pm

    Like I stated before: categories in WordPress are exactly the same as tags. Technorati has updated their information about this recently:
    http://www.technorati.com/help/tags.html

    In Wordpress 2 it’s possible to add categories on the fly while creating a new post. I think this is a better system than any plugin I have seen. Because categories can not be redundant and can be renamed, it’s cleaner than specifying tags per post.

    I don’t understand the confusion myself but it’s probably because categories and tags are different words :)

  • Teli

    February 20th, 2006 5:00 am

    In Wordpress [sic] 2 it’s possible to add categories on the fly while creating a new post. I think this is a better system than any plugin I have seen. Because categories can not be redundant and can be renamed, it’s cleaner than specifying tags per post.

    Yes, Technorati will use the category name as a tag in WordPress, but tags and categories are two different things.

    What happens when you only create a single entry on a specific subject? Or if your entry covers a number of subjects that may not warrant having a completely new category created (on the fly or otherwise) for it?

    Think of tags as meta filing without needing to clutter your sidebar with unnecessary categories.

    Lorelle has a nice run down of what the difference between tags and categories are for anyone interested.

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  • Milo Riano

    July 16th, 2006 3:04 pm

    I would like to thank the author. Of all the advice I have read this is the most valuable to me.

    I came in late for the FIFA World Cup only updating my site a week before the events with almost me as the visitor. I followed these three steps and I ended up the month of june with an average of around 500 - 600 readers and some it even went up to 1500 depending on which post I trackback to.

    Cool man… I have read this post way way back but only got the time to put the plugin, find sites that have great traffic to trackback to.

    Come to think of it, I have not done the feedburner tip yet coz I only signed up a week ago for that service and I will hook up in one of my decent traffic sites and I would expect more readers coming in.

    Thank you so much…

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    September 9th, 2006 1:59 am

    Very good points. For an immediate jump in your traffic stats try submitting your post to Digg or Reddit.

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  • Ohad Gliksman

    September 23rd, 2006 7:48 pm

    As someone who is always on the look for more traffic to my blog, I have to agree that technorati and trackbacks can generate an amazing amount of traffic to a site.

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    September 28th, 2006 5:18 pm

    Good ideas, this helped when I started out. I’ve now compiled a more indepth plan of attack for those interested at

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    Sort of a new bloggers view on the whole situation. But I have to give props to this site for doing it’s part. Thanks!

  • Chris Harrington

    September 30th, 2006 5:08 am

    Just adding the Technorati tags alone has increased my traffic about 25% in a month. Great article.

    –Chris

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    October 3rd, 2006 11:15 am

    Trackback is probably the greatest of the three. Although Tagerrrati and Deli.cio.us placing are very helpful - if you can get them.

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  • Binit

    October 5th, 2006 9:26 am

    I see 105 comments already to this “no so bad” article by Problogger, but I am not sure how much it can help me increase traffic on my blog.

    I have to say that I do get considrable amount of traffic everyday but I need more. I mean what about that third stage??

  • miriguy

    October 7th, 2006 12:09 pm

    nice post ;) yeah, I think qumana can be something useful when it comes to do that technorati tags ;)
    I personally use them for my blog. What I want to know is.. is that trackbak thingy u do we call linkbaiting nowadays?

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    October 17th, 2006 12:19 am

    Thanks Darren, your tips are awesome. I am trying to get more readers but am struggling. I will give these a shot.

  • Rugjeff

    October 27th, 2006 1:30 pm

    WP SimpleTags is awesome. Thanks for all the tips…I hope they work as well for me as they have for you.

  • Russell Ackner

    November 28th, 2006 7:10 am

    For someone who has been blogging for years, you tend to think you know everything when starting over. Unfortunately the blinders are usually on when starting over. These 3 simple tips have increased my traffic to my professional blog http://russell.ackner.com already - within the first week.

  • Lucas McDonnell

    November 29th, 2006 6:15 am

    I’m new to the blogging world, and I’ve been looking for ways to create trackbacks when I post to my site (http://www.lucasmcdonnell.com). While the tips posted above are extremely helpful, I have yet to come across a really simple, step-by-step approach to how to properly create and manage trackbacks.

    Does anyone have any suggestions?

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    January 13th, 2007 3:26 pm

    Thanks so much for the tips!

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    January 13th, 2007 11:32 pm

    Great tips

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    January 17th, 2007 2:07 am

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  • JackieB

    January 27th, 2007 7:53 am

    Hi thanks for the tips. I will be putting this knowledge to work for my website http://www.lonewolfradio.com right now it averages about 50 U.V. a day so i’ll update in a month.

  • Sheltie Nation

    February 1st, 2007 5:19 am

    Darren’s site is always useful & informative. I hadnt thought of adding tags to help improve website traffic. I plan to go back & add tags to all my posts (manually since I have typepad) and see if it helps - or based on others comments, see if it directs traffic away. Time will tell. Thanks for an informative site.

  • Gazzali Maidin

    February 2nd, 2007 1:14 pm

    hi darren

    i need your help for the two things below

    when i type the word i want to tag

    Question1 : Is the above correct way of tagging words to technoratii
    Question 2 : Why when i try to get into have a feedburner it give several reasons for not validating it. What shall i do?
    Question 3 : How can be a feedburner be bringing traffic? a little confuse

    regards
    gazzali

  • Gazzali Maidin

    February 2nd, 2007 1:19 pm

    hi darren

    i think my message is distorted.

    Question 1 : i use [ key for tagging but it doesnt work - the bracket is printed in my pages
    i use

  • Gazzali Maidin

    February 2nd, 2007 1:22 pm

    hi darren

    sorry for so many comments. Message distorted again.

    Q1: shall i use bracket key or arrow key for tagging. Bracket is not working.
    Q2 : How to tag technoratii
    Q3 : How to install a feedburner. I have tried but to no avail,
    Q4: Still not sure how a feedburner gives traffic

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    March 24th, 2007 10:19 pm

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    Nice resource here with good tips for people like myself with new blogs and who are still new to blogging.

    Many thanks.

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  • Marc

    May 20th, 2007 1:43 am

    Wow this really helped. I hopefully can get more people to my site which needs more hits badly.

    Written very well.

  • abduzeedo

    May 23rd, 2007 8:52 pm

    Really cool article, I will start doing that… thanks a lot.

  • Hillary

    May 25th, 2007 3:15 am

    Wow!!! Good job. Could I take some of yours triks to build my own site?

  • Mike

    May 26th, 2007 3:05 pm

    Decent tips but the advice to hide the tags with display none seems shady and unimportant, just div position absoulte and locate the tags to the side or in the footer section for each post, nobody will click off your site as they are away from the article and not tempting to click and not hidden with shady display none.

  • John Rohan

    June 2nd, 2007 2:23 am

    Tips #1 and #3 are fine, but I just don’t see how they can possibly substantially increase traffic if you don’t have much to start with. I think tip #2 is the real deal, but if you don’t have another sucessful web site to leverage, I guess you’re screwed.

    I’ve been running a blog for about a month now, and I tried all the above (except leveraging another web site, since I don’t have one).
    Right now, my traffic is so pitifully low its embarassing. Above you say you were depressed when your traffic was in the low hundreds. Imagine having far lower than that. What I want to know is, how did you start with that much traffic to begin with? I check everything every day in Google Analytics. Technorati brings in only 2-4 hits a day, sending trackbacks and leaving my sig when commenting on other sites (and if I really hustle) only brings in 6-12 hits or so. Search engines bring in about 10 hits a day.

    And feedburner, atom, rss, etc. I admit I don’t understand all the differences fully yet, but doesn’t someone need to go to your site first before they’re going to subscribe to your feed? In any case, no one has signed up for mine yet as far as I can tell.

    I’ve gotten a lot of good feedback on my site, but few people find it. (About 50% of my traffic is direct) I even tried Ad words and Blog ads, and they worked, but only while the ads were running, and in the end I was spending about 1 dollar in advertising for every 4 hits I was bringing in, not a great ratio. And since my site is not commercial, I’m not going to spend a huge amount on advertising. I tried everything else, announcing the site to friends and family, leaving my sig when commenting in google groups, registering with every search engine service, using Digg and Reddit, exchanging links with others, etc. If anyone has any other suggestions, I’m all ears. Help!

  • Chris

    June 2nd, 2007 12:44 pm

    I’ve tried it and it hasn’t worked

  • Alvin

    June 10th, 2007 10:14 pm

    Yes, they are right… Most of my blog visitors will click the tag instead of adsense. My adsense revenue greatly drop down… Thinking whether is there any way to change the placement of tag…

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    June 14th, 2007 6:35 pm

    This one makes sence “One’s first step in wisdom is to kuesstion everything - and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.”

  • Muzz

    July 5th, 2007 6:51 pm

    Thanks for this, I think I’m gonna do some experiments with trackbacks and tagging and see how much of an effect it has (if done right I assume).

  • J

    July 12th, 2007 7:25 am

    Ha ha. You only had hundreds of readers, Louis? I still only receive about ten page views per day. So it sounds like you were doing pretty well, especially when you compare yourself to me.

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    July 16th, 2007 2:49 am

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    July 28th, 2007 6:14 am

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    August 2nd, 2007 10:49 pm

    I tried to make money from blogging. But my traffic is extremly low that it is below 50 per/day. I tried different topics, but i couldn’t find success. I deleted my blogs because i had no profit from it. I want to strat from the beggining. Can you help me?

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    September 1st, 2007 12:27 pm

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    September 6th, 2007 11:48 am

    This is the exactly the kind of information I have been looking for. It seems like whenever I google ‘website traffic’ all I get is people trying to get their hands on my money with what I would suggest might be unproductive results. As a new website owner, it may take me a while to wrap my head around what I have to do - but I will start looking around now. A sincere thanks.

  • Jen

    September 6th, 2007 5:23 pm

    My google traffic is so off-an-on, and my rank keeps changing. It’s impossible to figure out what is working and what is not.

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    September 9th, 2007 9:23 am

    I have been trying to get my site, http://www.artcitadel.com, to increase traffic for a few days now. It seems that even though all the content is original google does not love it :( Will try some of these suggestions.