Comments on: 15 Blogging Tips and Tools – Blog Case Study

By: Easton Ellsworth

Easton Ellsworth — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:44:55 +0000

PhiMix, I’m happy for you that your traffic is increasing. Try posting two or three times a day for a week and see what that does to your traffic.

A big reason to post as frequently as you can (without letting the quality of your posts dwindle) is that every post represents one more opportunity to be visited – one more listing in search engine results pages, one more topic that someone might be interested in, one more answer that someone might be searching for.

However, it all depends on you, your topic and your readership. Perhaps your blog and your thought processes lend themselves more naturally to posting every few days, and perhaps you have loyal readers that would leave you if you posted more often. Or maybe your focus is not to drive as many readers as possible, but rather to provoke thought, and so you focus on longer, less frequent posts. There’s advantages and disadvantages to both extremes.

By: PhiMix

PhiMix — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:57:15 +0000

Why is everybody saying that you should post as often as possible? Personally I have stopped subscribing to several blogs because they posted to often and thereby made it to difficult to keep up.

I only post every second or third day and my number of visitors is slowly increasing :)

By: Easton Ellsworth

Easton Ellsworth — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:54:26 +0000

Spencer, thanks for your interest. I love stats, but unfortunately my tips above are mostly qualitative. The one quantifiable tip I listed here was posting frequently - and I can say that when I consistently average three posts a day instead of one, my traffic approximately doubles. I hesitate to try to provide exact percentages because (as I'm sure Darren would attest) traffic can be difficult to analyze in detail. See the BusinessBlogWire Sitemeter stats for more number-crunching fun.

By: Ian's Messy Desk

Ian's Messy Desk — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:50:16 +0000

Blogging Tip – Use the Right Tool

Which tool is the right tool? The one that works for you. There are lots of options and opinions out there. Find the blogging tool(s) that work best for you. The Microcontent News Blogging Software Roundup Weblogs Compendium – Blog…

By: Spencer Hoyt

Spencer Hoyt — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:47:00 +0000

Thanks for the tips!
Do you have any hard numbers that support your tips? Just Curious!

By: Easton Ellsworth

Easton Ellsworth — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 14:16:40 +0000

I appreciate the comment, Leon. No offense taken – I’m sure many of my tips will resonate people not so much for being new as for confirming what they may have already started to experience.

Thanks to all of you for your kind and positive comments. I’m planning to start a wiki that will compile blogging tips – if you’re interested or have any ideas on how to collaborate to pull it off, let me know.

By: Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah Owyang — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 12:14:08 +0000

I love your message here Easton, the passion comes through!

By: ruudik niitmets

ruudik niitmets — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 09:50:45 +0000

Good post Easton,i enjoyed every word of it.Going to look at the KMM to see more of it. As a blog starter i need to learn a lot before i go to public myself.

By: gaman

gaman — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 07:44:37 +0000

Nice post. I find tagging my posts with Technorati and purchasing blog ads via blogads help to increase my traffic.

I’m also using several wordpress plugins to make my blog SEO friendly.

By: Diane Ensey

Diane Ensey — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 04:05:03 +0000

Great post, Easton! I’m going to start using CoComment starting immediately to keep track of my commenting.

By: Hal Halladay

Hal Halladay — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 00:23:12 +0000

Nice job Easton. I like your style and tips. Best of all I know you have lived it all first hand. I am sure there are more good things to come.

By: Leon

Leon — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 00:17:08 +0000

Good tips. No offense, but most of them the average Problogger reader already knows. The one that stood out for me was the frequent posts one. Had no idea it would affect traffic so dramatically. Plus, your blog is about making money off your blog. Just about every blogger does that, so it’s bound to generate traffic.

By: BusinessBlogWire

BusinessBlogWire — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:08:04 +0000

15 Blogging Tips I Live By And Tools I Use

Darren Rowse was kind enough to publish a post of mine at Problogger today. In the post, I talk about 15 blogging tips and tools that I have found important. Have a great weekend (or whatever’s left of it, if…

By: chase

chase — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:21:36 +0000

thanks for the tips

By: Easton Ellsworth

Easton Ellsworth — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:54:06 +0000

Thanks Satish. One thing to always look for is targeted traffic – that is, you want people to come to your site who will be interested in what you have to say or offer. One of the most critical things you can do to boost the amount of relevant traffic to your blog or website is to practice good SEO – search engine optimization. Darren and others have posted tons of great tips on blog SEO on this site.

I find it interesting that as I write this on a Saturday afternoon in the United States, it is already Sunday morning in Darren-land.

By: Satish Bhardwaj

Satish Bhardwaj — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:43:17 +0000

In my previous message I misspelled Accept. I spelled it as Except. I tried to correct it after I sent my previous message. I could not. Please read the last sentence as “ACCEPT MY CONGRATULATIONS> Thank You.

By: Satish Bhardwaj

Satish Bhardwaj — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:39:20 +0000

Congratulations. You have generated a very good traffic for your site. It is noble cause you are pursuing. Helping bloggers make money. First thing they have to learn is to generate traffic for their sites. I’ve purchased keywords at search Engines and I’ve keywords that have been given a good rank by search engines in their free listings. Yet my sites
NEW ERA WISP: and
PIXELS HOMEPAGE

don’t produce traffic anywhere near the traffic your site produces. You are a genius. Except my congratulations.

By: 7 Blogging Tips » Easy Money

7 Blogging Tips » Easy Money — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:28:14 +0000

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By: Easton Ellsworth

Easton Ellsworth — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:19:42 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Martin. I’m flattered to have a few of my words appear under Darren’s banner here – he has a great resource and I’m always referring people to ProBlogger.net for tips related to professional blogging.

I miss reading you at HomeOfficeVoice but I’ve followed the link to SmallOfficeMedia and I like what I see. Keep it up!

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 14:45:16 +0000

Easton … great post – you have great clarity in your writing and this one does your network justice.

Know More Media is one blog network that is going places, imo – they focus on a fairly tight niche: business – and they have some great blogs and cool blog names.

They’ve come onto the scene, stayed out of any blog fights, never hear a bad word from them against anyone and are marketing themselves in quite savvy ways (eg: the big moo thing, as an example).

Keep it up, I’m rooting for ya! (and no folks, I’m not auditioning for a gig … yet!)

Your blogging tips – I find these most useful #1, 2 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 ;-)