Does Your Blog Resemble A Soap Opera

Anyone who watches soap operas or prime time series, knows how each show ends with a “cliff hanger”.
It’s so compelling, you mark your calender, and watch the show the next time it airs.
Now, that’s not to say, I haven’t landed on a few blogs, that resemble a true life soap opera, but [...]

Comment Luv Plugin Increases Traffic

Recently, I noticed that Catherine, had added a new plugin to her great business blog.
It is called “Comment Luv”
The Comment Luv plugin, when activated, inserts a link to your most recent post, when you leave a comment on a blog that has the CommentLuv plugin activated.
Today’s Lesson
I have been analyzing the CommentLuv plugin [...]

Wanted: New Bloggers Who Want More Traffic

I’m on a hunt for new bloggers. It doesn’t matter what your call yourselves….newbie bloggers, nubes, first time, infant, virgin, etc….. I have a proposition for you.
Here’s my situation:
I have a full time job and am blogging, what could be called part time, however, my time spent on blogging is steadily increasing.
Today’s Lesson
If you [...]

0 to 30 Seconds - Can You Answer My Question

To continue my readership building series, I am doing a test.
Can I provide a reader with an answer, to their search string, within 30 seconds of entering my site?
Today’s Lesson
Since blog statistics provide tons of information, I check my blog’s stats on a regular basis.
If I check my AWStats (visit duration) [...]

ADD Reaches An Epidemic Level For Online Searchers

Today, my inquiring mind, took me on a Google search. I wanted to know, “how people search online”?
I typed in “how people search”, using parentheses, to get exact results (without the parentheses, I got 180,000,000 results).
Today’s Lesson
My consensus is: if we can determine how people search online, we can create a [...]

Blog Visitors Can Be Like One Night Stands

You may be asking yourself, how can I meet a loyal blog visitor?
In the “personals of blogging”, your may state that you are looking for
“A visitor who will visit my blog often, who will share their thoughts, stroke my ego, and who may even be available for a long term relationship.” [...]

How To Increase Traffic To Your Blog

Trying to figure out how to increase traffic to your blog, can be mind boggling.
You know you write great posts, but visitors are few, and far between.
You have created a professional looking homepage, but what good is it, if no one visits?
Today’s Lesson
On a regular basis, check your blog [...]

What Are Paid Links

For some time now, there has been a debate going on about Google decreasing the page rank of a website or blog, if it has “paid links”.
Today’s Lesson
So, what are paid links?
Not knowing for sure which links Google considers as “paid links”, I decided to go right to the source. [...]

Help For New Bloggers With Low Traffic

Are you a new blogger, or as some of you call yourselves, “newbie blogger”, “nube”, “novice blogger”, “infant blogger, etc? Are you disheartened by the low visitor counts your blog is experiencing? Are you looking for help?
When you hit the “publish” button, do you wonder if your post actually went [...]

Learn From Spikes In Visitor Counts

In my last post, I wrote about what can cause spikes in your visitor counts.
By studying what caused these spikes, you may be able to convert some of that “spikey” traffic, to regular readers.
Today’s Lesson
First of all, remember, spikey traffic, can be fickle traffic. Some of those visitors [...]

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