Comments on: Being ‘Discovered’ vs ‘Slow and Steady’ Blog Growth

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:29:29 +0000

I appreciate this article… After looking at launching a new blog I was trying to hone down my strategy. I think I will take a little of both!

By: SEO Genius

SEO Genius — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:18:11 +0000

I aim for slow growth rather than an erratic amount of traffic that you can never predict. I prefer the long approach and hope to become reliant on mainly search engine traffic and dedicated readers rather than a digg post on the first page.

By: moonburst

moonburst — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:16:27 +0000

Real articles for the people is what matters most, because it’s real people that the articles actually connect with. All in all if an article were to touch someone, that in actuality would cause the articles to spread for themselves. No matter how miniscule or unbelievably boring a topic might be to someone, there just might be a group of people on the net looking for specific answers to that topic. Nice answer to a not so easy question, Darren. As for now, slow and steady is winning so far. Hehe, will have to read some more of your posts!

By: Curtis Gray

Curtis Gray — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:11:32 +0000

That last sentence is really deep Darren. But seriously, these are the type of posts that people really need to see.

I personally started to blog because “I was gonna make so much money.” But all those posts about how I wish this would just happen, well, they sucked.

I for the last week or so have enjoyed writing actual articles. No, I don’t have a readership yet, but now I enjoy it a whole lot more and am more willing to stay on for the long haul.

By: Valuecdn

Valuecdn — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:39:49 +0000

Don’t forget the sitemap.xml generation and search engine pinging when you update your blog. Helps a lot for new blog owners and start-up sites.

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By: Complete Geek

Complete Geek — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:50:22 +0000

I’m definitely having a slow and steady rise. I’ve noticed something though. I have developed several relationships and found a couple of friends that I never would have met without blogging. It has always been about community for me.

I enjoy these relationships more than a sudden surge in visitors. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice when my graph shoots up on a particular day, but I know that these long time readers of mine that really appreciate my content will be back.

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By: Luciano

Luciano — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:49:37 +0000

The question and the answear are good! Here how I am trying to achieve a good traffic: I spot around on the net sites and blogs where I can participate with my comments posting and naturally leaving my web address…this gives a “boost of traffic” to my Blog of about 120 contacts a day for a while. Now I do not do this everyday because I do not want to pollute…at the same tima every single day I update my Blog trying my best to choose well the photos & videos….I did put adsense + amazon following your advice even if it is not really working. But it is not even a mounth that my blog has been completed with ads etc etc….I believe it is going to be well on the long run (I hope).
Ciao and thanks!

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:06:41 +0000

My newest blog is just one week old but it is my favorite of my blogs so far. I would be really happy with traffic period – whether it comes slow and steady or in spikes! :-)

Thanks for the great info as always, Darren.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:38:39 +0000

I have listened that in the case of blogs when it publishes a adsense publicity east is distributed between which it gives to his space or blog and the person who puts the announcement Is this truth?

I have seen that it exists other forms to make money from Internet.

By: Michael GR

Michael GR — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:27:42 +0000

I’ve just started my third blog 4 days ago, michaelgr.com, a personal one, and the growth has been nice even though it’s only been four days. No big links but already about 600 hits.

I’ll have to wait and see about which category it will fall under in the long term, though.

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Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:43:58 +0000

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By: Jackie Cameron

Jackie Cameron — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:07:56 +0000

This article is really encouraging Darren. Without doing much ( any really) research before I started blogging I just wrote as me. In my line of business being me is really important. Reading other blogs has given me ideas which I continue to develop. I have a small but regular band of readers and from time to time get a surge. That’s fine….And your comment “sometimes basic is what people are after” particularly works for me!

By: ashok

ashok — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:15:08 +0000

To #15, Ari – carnivals have not brought me much traffic, but I’ve gotten links from them I wouldn’t otherwise have had. Now granted, my blogposts are basically essays and the content is usually specialized, so I’m just grateful for the links.

Reading this post excited me, because my traffic is just beginning to pick up, and I’m worried about it regressing: it is possible to be wholly ignored online. I know some of the people dropping in, and it’s really neat to see that making one connection at a time is feasible and worth one’s time.

By: Dharmendra

Dharmendra — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:07:29 +0000

Good stuff..building relations with your audience is the most important step to get an ongoing growth of traffic to your blogs.Nothing works better than getting those audiences’ revisits to your site who can find something engaging and useful time and again from you.

I am also trying to make a genuine and honest approach to build such relations with my audience and so far so good in my favorite subject of Java technology.
This is Planet Java left for you all to explore at your own pace and will,

http://planetjavajee.blogspot.com/

Have fun

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By: Joost Schrier

Joost Schrier — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:55:13 +0000

My first thought when reading this article was something that I only see Brian Auer talking about. A popular post does not only help in the short run, but also in the long run because of the links it garners.

When you have a popular post (in our case: it gets a few links..) the links count towards your SER, if they’re not rel=nofollow that is. The benefits of this are obvious.

So, I guess it’s like Brian says; the popular posts add a step to your traffic/readers.

By: lee

lee — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:44:53 +0000

Darren, thanks for the post. I had actually asked this question in an earlier comment. As a new blogger I see my traffic building steadily, but not in surges. I wondered if I was missing something, but I think I’ll just stay on course and focus on writing good posts for real people. Great information!

By: James

James — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:12:02 +0000

A case of steady spikes (every day) would be nice.
Thanks Darren, it is always interesting to know how things worked with bigger blogs like this.