Comments on: Build Upon Your Strengths as a Blogger

By: Linda Yezak

Linda Yezak — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:13:26 +0000

Some of the tips you’ve listed I’ve already done, and I get mixed data. When I write a political/social post, I get more links to my site (probably through the tag search), but my regular readers don’t care for these posts. When I write funny or sentimental posts, my readership climbs and I get more comments. I have a good mind to start another blog for my more controversial posts . . .

By: Inchirieri Masini

Inchirieri Masini — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:18:31 +0000

Hi this is a good article and very usefull.Keep doing the good job.
Thanks again.

By: Elja Trum

Elja Trum — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:25:40 +0000

Thanks for the tips, Darren. I definitly going to look into these numbers and do something with them. Makes perfect sense and it’s actually weird that I haven’t really looked into it before.

By: Parth

Parth — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:46:11 +0000

Really great tips here Darren! As always. I think focusing on the positives is great, but one problem I see is a blog becoming to forulaic. But I’m sure another aspect to it is to prevent such a thing from happening through constant analysis. When you sense things getting a bit stale, it’s time to switch it up again.

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:23:30 +0000

 This was really awesome I had never thought of so many view points. That will be great if we analyze our blog regularly.

By: Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:12:11 +0000

This is so true, on my blog I am known for lists, lists that help people build links, market their sites and many other resources to help with Internet marketing and this is what I build on more and more.

By: Hary

Hary — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:49:42 +0000

It’s awesome tips darren. Sometimes we should using any humors or eye-catching logo in our blog to make our visitor return into ouq blog.

By: ct

ct — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:36:28 +0000

So this works like the continuous improvement process, where you try to make each cycle better than the previous one with a little modification where the aim is to shape up the performer and get rid of everything that doesn’t work out.

Or like the 80-20 principle, focus on 20% of work which is responsible for 80% of rewards.

By: Blogging-to-make-money.com

Blogging-to-make-money.com — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:41:40 +0000

Good information, thanks for helping me increase my blogger skills !

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:59:25 +0000

My main blog is only about a month old, so it is hard to measure which articles are more popular yet. I have noticed that a couple have ranked decently in the search engines for some terms, yet others are lost out in cyberspace..lol

By: Agent SEO

Agent SEO — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:32:52 +0000

This is exactly right! I’ve had some posts that seem to do well even though I have no idea why…

I just need to learn how to build upon that a bit more…

By: dandellion

dandellion — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:28:50 +0000

Search engine traffic can be dubious. Currently my top post gets a lot from Google and Google images, but when I took probably just bounced. Building more upon those keywords would give more traffic, but that traffic will never convert to subscriptions. On the other hand, it might push post’s ranking and give a bit more visibility to readers that might be really interested.

By: ITrush

ITrush — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:42:49 +0000

Another important factors to look for.. thanks for listing down.

By: Make Money Online Tips

Make Money Online Tips — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:03:32 +0000

I guess I need to install Google Analaytics and analyse. I never thought of analyzing my strengths. Thanks Darren for showing me the light :)

By: pestcemetery

pestcemetery — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:17:04 +0000

Thank You, excellent suggestions I’ve already done 2 and filling in the rest of the list.
Thanks also for your book. I enjoyed it alot.

By: Cindy Sue Causey

Cindy Sue Causey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:40:16 +0000

“I Can Has Cheezburger”.. Every time I see it, I can’t help but think their logo is absolute genius, one of *the* most creative ones I think I’ve ever seen.. :D

By: SEO Tips

SEO Tips — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:10:28 +0000

Great post very on key to what most Bloggers need to do. This is something that I believe is on going whether you have 100 unique views a day or 100,000 you should still be analysing your traffic and your plan works well.

By: Jennae @ Green Your Decor

Jennae @ Green Your Decor — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:01:57 +0000

I really needed a post like this. I haven’t spent nearly enough time analyzing what works on Green Your Decor. I think I have a long date with Google Analytics in the near future.

By: Musings of a Housewife

Musings of a Housewife — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:59:53 +0000

A very helpful post. I plan to take more time and analyze my blog with these questions. But I wanted to pop on and say that I’ve had an epiphany of sorts — I actually wrote about it last night on my blog.

My traffic leveled off over the past year after increasing steadily for the first 2 years of its existence. I was driving myself CRAZY trying to figure it out. Then a friend cautiously informed me that my blog had changed over the past year. I’m a mommy blogger (and I am not ashamed of that title!) :-), and in her words, my blog had become more “businessy” and less me.

When my blog gained popularity and I started getting cool perks, I actually got away from what made it attractive in the first place. I felt like I had to be more purposeful in my posts, I guess, and I stopped posting a lot of the random, newsy posts about my life that had attracted people in the first place.

What I’m getting at is, I had let go of what was working, and that really hurt my growth. I’m trying to get back to what was working in the first place, and so far my readers are extremely encouraging.

All that to say, this article makes an excellent point — figure out what it is that you do well, and just do it! :-) Thank you for that great advice!

By: Tumblemoose

Tumblemoose — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:14:44 +0000

Ok Darren,

First, I just have to say that without a doubt, this is the most useful post I have EVER come across. The practicality of the tips and the depth of content are over the top. You’ve seen my comments here and at TwiTip and you know I’m not a gusher. Well, I’m gushing now! I cannot wait to get started on this project.

My blog is just about 6 months along and has seen peaks and valleys. As of late things seem to have stagnated and I’ve not had a clue why. Now, I have a method to help figure that out and for that, I am grateful.

Perfect.

Cheers

George