Comments on: High Traffic Blogging Steve Style

By: Musa

Musa — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:32:00 +0000

Yes its very true, ‘it takes good publishing for people to see it’. I’m in the pool of poor traffic at the moment but am confident that with the kind of quality information i post, people will eventually notice my website.

By: Redundant Stocks

Redundant Stocks — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:17:03 +0000

The content should always be for the humans first, and many bloggers miss this basic point.

By: Biztone

Biztone — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:25:54 +0000

I agree. When the writing is dedicated to readers and not search engines, that’s when the blog will grow over time. I like Aristotle part as well. That’s great advice.

By: dukeofweb.com

dukeofweb.com — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:11:21 +0000

This represents a dichotomy for many of us, but illustrates why it’s important to rely on wisdom and experience beyond that of your own. It’s challenging to write valuable, compelling content when you feel like nobody’s looking. It’s like putting on a magic show and the auditorium is full of empty seats. While I struggle with that every time I invest two hours in a post, I continue to put my best effort forth, with the mantra that “someone will see this and enjoy it, today or a year from now.”

By: Andy World

Andy World — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:34:46 +0000

Content is king. Style is also important. Relevance counts. Patience is the key to a success blog. You can blog on almost anything, but you need to be patience and never quit. Blog with passion and if the lucks heading your way, you going to have one of those high value blog with amazing traffic.

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:59:29 +0000

This is great info and it needs to be repeated. I recently stumbled across this blog with a lot of great information. But it was written in a high tone MBA language. I find its better to write like I talk which is very converstational. I find that this doesn’t alienate anyone and I am still able to get my point across.

By: lektury

lektury — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:40:11 +0000

Create valuable content. – Takes good publishing for people to see it
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By: 728huey

728huey — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:22:33 +0000

I agree that content is king when it comes to blogging. However, I have surfed through many blogs which have only a few posts made to them during the last year, and in some cases, were last posted to several months ago. I would add that in order to get high traffic, you need to post regularly and ping the blog services after you post so that people know you have new content.

By: odzież dziecięca

odzież dziecięca — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:50:01 +0000

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By: elephlux

elephlux — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:08:33 +0000

This is an interesting post and from it, it’s obvious content is most import to keep people coming (so as to accumulate more readers over time). But most all of these points mean nothing if you have ineffective means of publishing your high quality content to the world. For example:

1. Create valuable content. – Takes good publishing for people to see it
2. Create original content. – Takes good publishing for people to see it
3. Create timeless content. – Takes good publishing for people to see it
4. Write for human beings first, computers second. – Takes good publishing for people to see it
5. Know why you want a high-traffic site. – Because we all do.
6. Let your audience see the real you. – Takes good publishing for people to see it
7. Write what is true for you, and learn to live with the consequences. – Takes good publishing for people to see it
8. Treat your visitors like real human beings. – Takes good publishing for people to see it
9. Keep money in its proper place. – It’s in my wallet
10. If you forget the first nine suggestions, just focus on genuinely helping people, and the rest will take care of itself. – Takes good publishing for people to see it

So my question is this: if you have high quality content, how do you become an A-list blogger?

By: Aparaty cyfrowe

Aparaty cyfrowe — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:11:40 +0000

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By: Lukich

Lukich — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:46:10 +0000

I think that Steve made one point – write your own good content that’s of interest to others. Not quite sure if there was any need to go on forever on what good content means.

By: HostingDiary

HostingDiary — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:30:11 +0000

too there too? Sorry ’bout that.

By: HostingDiary

HostingDiary — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:23:48 +0000

I think Steve has one of the best blogs on the internet. I’ve spent hours at a time reading his archives. Nice streaming podcast setup he has too there too.

Andrew

By: stuart

stuart — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:11:38 +0000

It’s a good read. Interesting perhaps that points 5 & 7 can often work against each other. Writing what is “true for you” may not always transform into a high traffic site. I guess it is somewhat dependent on the type of site, in Steve’s case with a self-help blog, writing what is true for him may well be why people read it. However in other sites, even though you’re still writing for the public, putting too much of what is “true for you” whilst ignoring what may be “true for everyone else” into the site can be a serious error is my opinion.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:11:05 +0000

I don’t entirely agree regarding the comments about SEO. Well, I do agree, I don’t think it’s worth actively working on SEO above writing for humans as Steve suggests, however I think long term the SEO impact can be significant and as such should not be completely ignored.

Thankfully most blogging software such as WordPress (which Steve and Darren both use) go a long way to optimize for SEs with the owners not having to change anything. That being said there is still a lot that can be done, most of which is quite simple. My advice is to get a basic understanding of Blog SEO so while you do what Steve says, produce content to help people, you are also conscious of the little tweaks you can implement at the same time that will help your long term SEO.

Sometimes, and this is an important issue for me given I’m producing a blog traffic course, successful bloggers will write how they produced great content that helped people and got stupid amounts of traffic as a result. This is true and no one will ever argue against writing good content to bring traffic, but I don’t think it’s fair to say that it alone is a traffic strategy. Good content only forms the foundation of a traffic strategy.

Steve’s case is a bit misleading because of how emotionally compelling his topic is. It’s so “raw”, it deals with core topics of interest to most human beings (who doesn’t want to be a better human!). Steve also happens to be a great teacher who communicates his knowledge well, in a compelling manner and of course has the knowledge and experience to draw on to do so.

For the “average” blogger I think they need a little bit more than “write good content that helps people” as a guide to getting blog traffic.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:54:38 +0000

that’s my approach on most of my blogs too Andy.

I think the pendulum can swing too far in one way or the other.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:29:36 +0000

Strange advice about the SEO really. The adsense on Steve’s site is driven by SEO. If he does not include enough focussed keywords, then he will not get targetted ads. SEO in blogs is not difficult and so there is no real need to ignore it, just set it up and be mindful of things like focussed headlines and keyword rich text. As Darren says, some niches are based on ‘first time’ visits.

Really, the answer is to do both, in my opinion, or rather, choose the right approach for the niche.

Andy

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:56:56 +0000

sorry for not including the link – bleary eyed oversite last night when I posted it. Fixed now.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:20:42 +0000

I think it was a brilliant article and has certainly re- alligned some of my own thinking as I embark on my personal blogging journey..

Just try to genuinely help people …is a good summary of his Philosophy.. and you can’t go wrong with that.

Thanks Steve and thanks Darren for bringing it to an even wider audience

Rob