Traffic Trends

Our favorite blog has made a steady progress, albeit at a relatively snail increasing rate along its 8 months infancy old age. The blog dwells on driving and car review in leisure manner, not a niche topic. It discusses general issues on self experience motoring and automotive technology perspective; consequently it covers huge subtopics to wide array of auto makers. Mostly in the format of historical chronology towards engineering marvels and the impact to auto market sales reach.

Though admittedly have a bias tendency to that automaker with characters of poised ride and handling which unfortunately inherited that classical era of 1980 – 1990s car manufacturing period. The period of which most auto makers were tinkering with multivalve engine, fuel injection and open loop engine management; a simple engineering robustness and at the height of sophisticated ride-handling balance.

The era of which each auto maker has distinctive trait and has not suffered much of massive cost cutting measures which consequently leads to recent generic mass production cars of today. Today’s cars has generally longer maintenance interval yet possess great difficulties for DIY tinkering and once it reaches its life time expectancy the maintenance cost is exponentially escalating.

Combining such bewildering issues above with today’s car buyer preference is at best “Mission Impossible” tasks. The blog received a significant appreciations on classic car reviews particularly; 1986 G class Mercedes Benz and over the time 1997 Honda Accord. As well as to some degree on other topic such as classical rare cars, old cars for beginner, beginner rally cars and my favorite balanced ride-handling yet quite difficult to maintain Peugeot 505 and the eerie flying carpet ride of pre 1990s Citroen’s model.

Now we all are aware of the writing challenge toward decent blog content’s commitments, and to make the matters complicated; SEO, keyword selection and content research, writing style for the purpose of traffic generation. You would easily spot this self personal development reflects on traffic curve; it rises at faster rate in the beginning and then tapering off later on. It was a massive 140% increase down to 40 % trough into bottoming out 1%; mind you the July figure is short by 4 days for the month.

The greatest challenge was to make any intended keyword relevant to each article, then creating a useful and enjoyable blog’s readings. Towards the midway there was also self interest for portraying the highest possible keyword within, though it was not as challenging to promote SpiderWeb Marketing System on this very blog. Or interpreting what had gone wrong as one my other blog being regarded as spam blogging, not an easy task for newbie.

Every bloggers has its own unique way to ride along the individual learning curve to match its distinct goal in blogging world. That is regardless the goal is intended for mere conveying information to share or the ultimate challenging to be the authority blogger. There you have one particular unique blogging learning curve; so what’s yours look like?

Analysis of traffic xchange supplier;

Analysis of traffic xchange supplier;

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Traffic exchange provider has long been recognized as a pivotal role to generate traffic at minimum cost. The more you surf the more traffic is directed to your own site. Does such traffic suit your target market? Mostly no, yet for the purpose of knowing and testing the incoming stream of traffic within your new site it is quite an acceptable practice.

How do we analyze these providers for our purposes? For quite some time I have been using "easyhit4you" on my cluster of sites. Three of which are very specific niche and rich of good quality content. In the beginning I did use the provider to improve my ads impression. Gradually I found my self building more sites to accommodate affiliate programs. These affiliate sites are unfortunately do not have relevancy to my niche sites. Exactly within the same period I also found some relevant stuffs which for some reason are not appropriate to be put on the niche sites, so I deliberately created some dummy acting as sort of page slave. One of my site "Glossary" is conveyed as my e-page and I have freedom to test whatever configuration of affiliate ad display.

I even went overboard by building some my way of traffic widget to watch my own site portfolio. I put seo statistic meters on those important sites here in one basket, so now I have sort of a dashboard to monitor those sites. I might leverage this portfolio dashboard in the near future. Coming back to traffic exchange issue; I am considering to extend the service of traffic exchange beyond just easyhit4you. Other providers seem to be the new guy on the block, having PR of less than 3, whist the one that I have already been using has PR5.

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YouTube traffic blueprint

This is not one of those “getting rich quick” scam method, what it does is maximizing your traffic potential. Say you have target of generating traffic around 500 visitor on certain time frame. You may opt for paid review, but it would not generate recurring visitor nor would it suit your particular niche.

Then for using adword PPC you would at least need 10 cents multiplied by 500 which is $ 50. The next batch of 500 new visitor would also cost the same amount, yet using this YouTube system it would only cost you $7 once. The first batch would cost you less than 1.4 cents, it spiraling down to 0.7 cent on the next batch {700/1000}. The more traffic you generate the less cost it would be, and so on.

By utilizing video on your site you would attract more attention and get your message across rapidly, this is an incredible Web 2.0 concept for driving targeted traffic. Another benefit would be; your site get faster rank improvement on most search engine, particularly on Google. Certainly there is the downside, you could not reach easily to those visitor using dial up modem. Yet demographic target could be adapted to those using broadband, in fact this is your crunchy market segment.

So how do you learn the method? You would learn the method through exactly the same technology; video learning. The video helps trainee to understand, its visual graphic style allows anyone to grasp the knowledge much faster. It is a proven effective one-on-one training method which is suited to everyone for any niche and even for the beginner.

Through this one-on-one video training, SteveNam will step by step guide you as how you could get traffic to your site. YouTube Traffic Blueprint system consist of four e-book on YouTube with Camstasia software which worth more than $ 127 value. There is a further bonus and yet all this valid for a limited time only. Hurry up make decision on this terrific internet marketing tool and head for Traffic Blueprint!

SEO standard practice

4GreatBuys.com has been ordered by State Attorney General to refund its customers to the tune of $24,432 and another $25,000 for civil penalty. Apparently 4GreatBuys.com had failed to deliver its SEO services which cost up to $90 per month promising its customer of being the top 20 ranks on search engines.

The source of Seattletimes pointed out further that there were 100 complaints around the country, but did not elaborate cases from other SEO company services. How do you do your SEO work? Do you trust those company and outsource the work for you, or simply you do the work yourself?

I would find selecting paid SEO services as an overwhelming task. As there would be no binding clause indicating a sort of mutual SEO criteria between customer and the producer to make a good deliverable SEO services. No mutual understanding simply convey no deliverable, period! Building Findable Websites: Web Standards SEO and Beyond

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Should we really consider SEO outsourcing, how do we know a particular net company has such reputation? 4greatbuys.com has alexa traffic rank of: 1,512,548, (for US alone is 982,649) not that good do reckon? Which its 28% traffic is coming from US, the remaining 72% is from other countries. What happen to those clients from outside US which predominantly contribute to this company? Rough estimate would be close to 300 complaints, who protect this side of clients? Since we know that US has the most legal protection when it comes to internet bounding law.

Another stats for this company, around a fortnight after State Attorney General's decision is that a 60% and 30% decrease of its global users and its page views respectively has dwindled down! Apparently the news has spread over the net. Hence be very careful if you opt for SEO outsourcing, it is indeed a necessary internet marketing tool.

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Traffic benchmarking #2

I have covered blog traffic issue on my past 2 articles, one being my personal opinion while the other one from a blogging "guru" Yaro Starak. Yaro's article emphasizes on mostly content development, blog-walking and social community participation in order to create a stream of traffic building up. Where as for the content itself, it is highly dependent of each individual blogger's main target. A popular market target with top searchable keyword has always been very competitive, unless you are really genius and Internet savvy person it requires a long time effort to become a high profile blog.

On the other hand a niche market which has high relevancy to your expertise may provide you with firm gripping to grab a sizeable chunk, that is loyal traffic yet at a much smaller quantity segment. As the number grows, leveraging on this segment seems to be a more viable choice. At least that is my interpretation on Yaro's article.

Whatever your choices and on any level of blogging cycle you need to arm yourself with tool to monitor your traffic, traffic benchmarking is indeed a task that ought to be understood as you embark on blogging. This is what I have in mind as I started blogging a few month earlier. By joining two social communities such as Blogcatalog and Technorati enable us to monitor our own traffic, the latter in particular has blog authority feature. Making a virtual contact, blog-walking and traffic benchmarking are all in one package!

Prior the social joint I followed a recommendation from a good book (similar to this Braschi's) for blog-directory submittals. The submittance has a pre-requisite preparation to properly provide for Meta Tags on both your website's title and its description. Check your meta tags here;

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Scrubtheweb.com has alexa rank of: 67,424, this figures might indicate a reasonable indication on their services. For a free meta tag builder on your site head to; Meta Tag Generator, you would certainly need to learn the xml code in my case blogger code tag.

My way

Every blogger has its own unique path to success. Frank Sinatra had its own way, so did the so called "Guru". My own path was and is still primary on content. Once you have set your horizon, you need to be able to position your self to test every opportunity, every mistake. Blogging could be much like marketing effort, that is if the intention is to monetize.

You don't know the mistake till you make one. Along the journey of my path has recently crossed one hurdle. My genuine intention was to ease my visitor to navigate my Amazone-Astore. It;s a 9 pages long within a frame inside my posting, consisting of few categories product. I have made direct links to each category within the writing right above astore. Alas the fuzzy spam algorithm falsely detect it as a robot induced spam.

It has been a week now and it still could not be restored. And this is one blog of a few that I have put a lot of effort as a newbie. 4 months of solid hard work to put everything on it may become vanish, due to my inability to absorb new jungle of internet jargons. Let alone the grey area encompassing third party's in-house rules.

I have been enjoying to see my traffic developed by joining communities like :

1. Technorati
2. Blogcatalog
3. Mybloglog
4. Travellerspoint

And do a bit of traffic analysis on ;

1. Alexa
2. Google
3. Shinystats

My stream of traffic though, has not converged as yet into quality one! I am still working on it, as much as I learn how to monetize the blog. See my spam blogging story!

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10 Blog Traffic Tips

In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else's blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that's about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major "pillar" articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don't have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need a easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that's the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger's article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it's sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will likely come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it's so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it's worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn’t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it's worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box". You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I’ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won’t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

I hope you enjoyed my list of traffic tips. Everything listed above are techniques I’ve put into place myself for my blogs and have worked for me, however it's certainly not a comprehensive list. There are many more things you can do. Finding readers is all about testing to see what works best for you and your audience and I have no doubt if you put your mind to it you will find a balance that works for you.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

To get more information about Blog Mastermind click this link:

www.BlogMastermind.com

Traffic benchmark

Ordinary newbie bloggers ask a lot about traffic. As your content grows and genuinely think your articles are of good qualities. The next agenda would be ; how do we get more traffic?

A good starting point would be what is your current traffic? We need to establish a benchmark as to whether our blog could attract any visitor at all. My own experience after a few months blogging and a few blogging books indicates that first priority should be given to find the most popular topics/ keyword to start off with.

Second priority would be whether such topic is within your own capability to write decently. Either way start with what you'd like to write more passionately, it's better if you do have good supporting evidences. Your digital pictures is your strong arguments.

A survey on Blogosphere 2008 by Technorati clearly indicates that top 250 blogger write around 10 postings on daily basis. Also by signing up as Technorati's member you'll get a good indicator of your blog is doing.

The indicators measure wether you have adequate authority as well as the rank number of your own blog.