There is a little extra bounce in my step these days, a little louder song in my heart, a little more giddy-up in my...um...whatever is powered up giddy-up.
I have been seeing more and more opps that are lising Real Rank as the dominant requirement. This make me happy. It hasn't been a tidal wave of opps available, but things are a lot better than they were last month. I had faith that this would turn out to be case. I had faith in the IZEA peeps.
Look, it wasn't going to happen all at once. Breaking free of the Google chains and educating advertisers on what really matters...it's like turning a battleship around. It takes time.
By the way, that battleship analogy totally rocks.
I still have not been grabbing too many opps lately, but it's more a case of me being slower than some of you other guys, heh heh. I need to get back on the ball and be ever-vigilant.
So...now that the battleship has begun to turn around, now what?
Well...gotta get some traffic.
I was talking to my dear friend Janna the other day. She's been busy trying to boost traffic to her blogs. One of the actions she has taken is to participate in a lot of those linky-deal-things that are day of the week dependent (obviously I have no idea what to call them) like Wordless Wednesday and Manic Monday.
Another good idea is to hold contests in which other bloggers need to write posts that will get folks to visit your blog. My dear friend Drew has been running several contests this month, and my dear friend Colleen has also done so in the past.
Wow. I have a lot of dear friends.
My main blog Pointless Drivel has much more traffic than my junior blog, Pointless Directives, and the latter is the blog I do paid posts on. One of the things I have tried to do is keep most of my sculpey posts on Directives and then direct people over to there on days when I run a sculpey post on Drivel.
If you like that, you'll love all these over here...
It seems to be working. I certainly get more comments over there than I used to.
So now that the ship is beginning to turn, what do YOU do to build your traffic?
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Richard said...
Personally I like to twirl around on my head with the ballerina outfit you lent me. That seems to drive traffic...but maybe in the wrong direction.
Dec 14, 2007 10:20:42 PM
MyGoodFinds said...
Surely is looking better and I'm smiling ear to ear :) ! Nice positive post Mr. Fab.
Dec 15, 2007 10:37:24 AM
Chica said...
Wow, I didn't know that posties could post here, this is pretty rad Fabster.
I don't do anything but sign up for those blog linking sites, such as fuelmyblog, blogcatalog, and things like that, and it's only been recently that Blog catalog has got me some traffic. It's been the best so far. Although the people who visit don't comment, they visit because I am just another number in their tally of so called friends. I am not their friend, I don't add them unless I genuinely like their blog.
That went a little off topic there but, I am slowly gaining traffic, even though they are silent people who I wish would comment more. lol.
Dec 15, 2007 1:42:37 PM
BenSpark said...
Fab,
I've been blogging for nearly four years, it hasn't been until this past year that I have seen such growth on my blogs. One thing I make sure to do is blog daily, always have fresh content. I also participate in a couple of weekly memes like Photo Hunters and Green Thumb Sunday, that way I get a diverse group of people visiting the blog and those memes correspond with the overall theme of my blog which is photography. I also find that participating in sites like zooomr and flickr and commenting there has attracted blog traffic. Also commenting on other blogs that I like has also done well. the contests have been great and people have been visiting my blogs because of them too.
Also I write for other blogs like FuelMyBlog and sometimes if I do a photowalk I write it up on Photowalking.org. And through blog catalog I am part of a group of bloggers who have volunteered to do guest posts. That is a great way to put your writing style and unique vision in front of a different audience.
Dec 15, 2007 4:25:13 PM
dew said...
I've had pretty consistent traffic for 2 years now, and never really did anything to try and get more, but after having one of my pages stumbled by posties a couple days ago, I have had an extra 20,000 unique visitors in the last few days. Sure most of them are just to the one post, but a lot are visiting other posts, and traffic is still traffic. My RR dropped from the 600's down to 20 today!
Stumble Upon is awesome, and as I saw it mentioned somewhere else, it's not like a big rush of visitors and you're done like Digg, it's a roller coaster, people will keep visiting for a long time.
Dec 16, 2007 11:21:35 AM