Comments on: What to do When Your Blog Plateaus

By: Christine Groth

Christine Groth — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:40:37 +0000

I think creating new products is one way to attract more visitors. A blog that is always evolving, and changing with the internet arena is what that survives.
http://www.ConquerMS.com
Christine

By: Chloe

Chloe — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:56:47 +0000

havent experienced it yet.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:13:33 +0000

Niamh, alternatively, I could use the builtin RSS widget and point it to one site from the other…be nice if i could get it to show associated image with each headline as mini-thumbnail, but you can’t have everything…

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kidney foundation car donations — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:28:39 +0000

Being different and standing out from the crowd seems to be missing from this post, although there is another more recent post focusing specifically on that issue.

By: Dick Carlson

Dick Carlson — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:35:57 +0000

My traffic had pretty much leveled out, and this was really of great use for me. Thanks for the help!

By: duncan

duncan — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:29:49 +0000

hey thats kewl come check mine out (im new)

By: sexyMG

sexyMG — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:08:57 +0000

Nice post…My traffic gets bigger every day just becaue of stumbleupon, google is really bad advertiser for me

By: Siri

Siri — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:54:31 +0000

Well written post Chris. I agree with most of ur points..:)

~ Siri

By: Niamh

Niamh — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:51:39 +0000

@David Bradley Well done. There is a widget called a Blidget that shows a list of recent posts. There is another widget to go with it that people can click on and show your list on their blog. So maybe you could experiment with that sort of thing to show the recent posts from one site on the other and see if there is some interest.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:57:38 +0000

I climbed slowly from around the 1600 mark (RSS subscribers) to the 2200 mark earlier this year and then to about 2500. Then I got an award nomination and that and other factors have raised it to about 2800 average during the middle of the week. I wonder about the niche spread idea. I have another blog in which I waffle on about hacks and computing tips and such…I wonder whether my more sciencey readership would appreciate some overlap or would I risk losing my niche audience altogether?

By: bloggernoob

bloggernoob — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:55:39 +0000

Keep pressing on. Focus on other projects but keep pressing. If you have a monetized blog keep holding on to it. Its like real estate, gotta keep holdon. like monopoly.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:34:12 +0000

My blog traffic is far from plateauing – it is showing irregular spikes caused by stumble traffic, though the valleys which I assume are loyal readers are growing more slowly than I like.

I’ll revisit this article again with a valid plateau complaint / comment when it happens! ;)

By: John Matthew

John Matthew — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:54:52 +0000

hey, I was wondering why my blog plateau-ed, and was stagnating. Thanks for the tips. I will implement. read my short story “The Cobbler” here:

http://johnpmathew.blogspot.com/2007/11/my-latest-short-story-cobbler.html

By: Bryan Froden

Bryan Froden — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:46:48 +0000

I just started blogging about a month ago. So I have’nt really run into this problem yet. This is definitely something that I need to plan for.

By: Derek Baker

Derek Baker — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:34:04 +0000

Great post I have not seen this happen yet but now I know what to do once it has. My posts still seem to be getting good buzz and I am even getting natural backlinks which is nice.

By: George Burke

George Burke — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:16:08 +0000

I have just gotted started blogging but I have seen growth unexpectadly. I really don’t know where my traffic is coming from. I enjoyed reading this post. For me it shows that I really need to narrow my focus or find a way to separate interests in a way that better serves readers.

I think that blurred vision maybe a sign that someone is ready to either run multiple blogs or have another page for posts that may not be of interest to the vast majority of readers. I wander, “What is the best method for organized multiple topic posts?”

By: Roseli A. Bakar

Roseli A. Bakar — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:18:55 +0000

Well you are right with the Feedburner notification when someone unsubscribe from your blog, you can have an idea whether your blog is enticing to your readers.

Good post..

By: Dr. Nicole

Dr. Nicole — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:45:09 +0000

Hey this is great information, and I would just like to say THANK YOU for all your great tips!!! I am in process of transitioning my blogging from a hobby to pro and have had a lot of questions that you have serendipitously answered!!

Thanks for providing this service and keep up the great advice :D

Nic

By: David

David — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:29:21 +0000

I have three or four readers who have been around for most of my blog’s life and I am very attached to them. But they liked the subject matter from last summer . Well the blog is now six months old and I have discovered other things. It really hurt to move beyond my friends in order to achieve more growth. But it had to be done or I would have lost my enthusiasm for blogging. I still have things in there that they like. But my impression is that the new stuff provokes some negative reactions. I wish they would come out and tell me more about their feelings. But they won’t do it.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:06:52 +0000

Great advice and tactics here for combating a stale blog.

I think all bloggers experience this from time to time. Its just a case of pushing on, making your content interesting and giving your readers a reason to subscribe.