Comments on: How Simple Posts Can Find Your Blog Readers

By: Spyros

Spyros — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:28:09 +0000

Indeed, simple posts are most times the best way to attract visitors. However, simple posts tend to also contain simple keywords and this means that unless you have an established website you certainly won’t be found :)

By: Custom PHP

Custom PHP — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:24:21 +0000

Very interesting article. Keep it simple stupid – KISS. I learned that in the military years ago and find it holds true to most things.

By: Franco

Franco — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:32:26 +0000

Great point! I’ve tested both styles and I like the type
of traffic I attract when I stick to simple fundamentals and a personable casual style in my blogs…

I guess in my niche, the over analytical or over technical mindset just doesn’t really click with me…

But it’s a good point to really “know” your target niche
and the mindset it tends to attract.

That way you can work on attracting people that are like minded and have more fun in your work.

Great post. Thanks!

By: Kwame

Kwame — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:24:02 +0000

I always use the KISS system. Blogging = Keep It Simple System = Easy to read and digest.

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By: High Fiver

High Fiver — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:25:12 +0000

Starting a blog and then breaking the threshold of getting vistiors is the challange. Leaving comments like this would probably get me just 10-20 hits and then the traffic drops off.
Sometimes even niche content also doesn’t pull people in. Just wondering if the reverse approach ie. thinking from the point of view of less-intelligent-beings who would like to know “how to … whatever” and then solving that “how to” help in anyway because page ranking would probably get them the answer at some high ranking site like answers.com.
So if somehow I think if one can build trust in the audience and you know meet upto that expectation of delivering everytime they read your post is what is required.
But then again how do you convince people and build an expectation in the first place. Which gets everything back to square one.
Its about building you know, Wow this person really knows his/her stuff!!! kind of thing which would pull back visitors.

By: Albert Mong

Albert Mong — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:45:18 +0000

That’s a really good point. My experience shows that a divulgatory post about electronic music called “what is minimal techno?” gets more views that more technical, or specialized posts.

By: Tom Lindstrom

Tom Lindstrom — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:20:15 +0000

I totally agree with the others, the post has to be simple and right to the point.I have tried to follow this advice, and it has really increased my traffic. Do not think too complicated.

By: lee

lee — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:29:25 +0000

As a almost complete novise,this is a great tip,simple clear and to the point.

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:25:30 +0000

This is such a useful tip. My blog is mainly intended for folks who run small businesses. Many of them know nothing at all about the blogosphere. They might have a (pretty bad) Web page but have never heard of basic concepts like permission marketing, “benefits, not features,” what SEO is and what you can do on the non-tech front to improve it, etc. etc. etc.

For myself, too–because I’m self-taught, there are all kinds of gaps in my understanding. So a simple reminder to use keywords in my anchor text is really helpful! (I got that one from Copyblogger yesterday.)

By: Mateo S

Mateo S — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:50:19 +0000

Of, Course, Keep it simple is most the time more affective!

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By: Markus Merz

Markus Merz — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:29:30 +0000

Hi Darren, I have used 103bees for this purpose since Christoph started with this new feature. In my linked German article about Mozilla news I have aggregated those questions (see: “Fragen zu Mozilla Firefox oder Thunderbird, die hier so eintrudeln …”, translation: “questions about Firefox or Thunderbird flowing by…”) in an own paragraph and I have also added alternative versions of the different questions to sub paragraphs. The success is quite astonishing (SEO wise) the only difference to the one-question-one-article approach is that I am aggregating those questions in a ‘living’ paragraph inside a ‘living’ article.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:45:02 +0000

I also agree that the simpler posts seem to get the most traffic. I also notice that some of the more obscure topics get more traffic as well. There are a lot of people out there looking for hard to find information.

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By: Thuan

Thuan — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:27:08 +0000

I’m a newcomer when it comes to blogging, that’s why I visit this site like everyday. Thanks Darren. I learnt a lot.

I just had 9 visitors today, so I should spend more time to get traffic to my website. I have a personal blog, so it was rather difficult for me to find out how people actually found my blog. 103bees looks like a good tool to watch over these statistics. I dout that I will have to write simple posts, but it would be interesting to see what people might actually see in my blog. I’m not sure myself. Still trying to figure out the fundamental questions.

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By: James

James — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:22:48 +0000

I try to follow Occam’s razor as much as possible, summarized to be “All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.”

But this is really hard when you are making a new blog, do you think that people should focus more on writing larger articles when first starting and then moving to more simple posts? Or just keep a steady mix?

By: Salman Siddiqui

Salman Siddiqui — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:07:45 +0000

I haven’t used 103bees and others but my vote to simplicity. Very true.

Thank You for the reminding 103bees and hit tail. I heard about this from your blog some time back but couldnt take time out as I am an engg student to along with being a blogger. Its tough to take time out of engg curriculum but I am loving blogging.

haven’t implanted ads yet as I want to have a solid reader base. This tip will help me…

By: Shawn Blanc

Shawn Blanc — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:37:55 +0000

I don’t know how many times I’ll throw up a quick “non-pillar” post and it will suddenly get 2 or 3 times more comments than the last several posts that I worked so hard on.

Keep It Simple, eh?