Stop Here and Let More Traffic Flow in!
Many times we are so concerned to improve traffic to our blog but never cared our own actions are stopping a good traffic flow to our blog. Here are some tips as my experience taught!
#1. Fake Personality Works
I see ‘SEO Expert’, ‘Blogging Guru’, ‘Successful online marketer’ and so on crafted beautifully in their bio. How often have you noticed such phrases in twitter descriptions and Facebook profiles?
Some time back, I owned seommotips blog. I always felt it so hard to write posts there. Any visitor landed on ‘SEO MMO tips’ would expect excellent posts about search engine optimization when I was fairly learning optimization process. Thus, I’m in Bivori as somebody to present ‘the truth as I saw it’.
So, stop trying to be somebody Perfect (nobody is). When you become expert or professional, others will start calling you with that title – you’ll never need to!
You can start with being unashamedly the ‘real you’. Share your personality, your knowledge and people will love to follow you. Bring your uniqueness dial it up instead of hiding it.
#2. Invent that wheel Again
This is really hard to resist. How often you wished everything to be in your own blog? I’m not still free from this illness and wasting my time and energy reinventing the wheels.
The pieces are already there, the wheels are freely available. Don’t waste your time and energy to put the pieces all together on your own.
#3. Is It Perfect?
Perfection is unachievable.
No matter how careful, I often discover one or two typo here and there. Nile Flores pointed out that ‘hypocracy’ in URL of my post when I intended hypocrisy after a couple of days after it was published.
Sometimes I realize my words would have worked better if I had worded them differently. Every time I look at my blog, I see a number of small things (and a couple of big things as well) where I could have done better. It’s Okay, I should be doing better and it’s an ongoing process. It should not stop you.
Thus, stop trying to be perfect, try to improve every time and keep going.
#4. No Traffic? Great!
Just wondered? You are reading this post to learn how to increase traffic to your blog and my suggestion is ‘stop worrying about it!’
How many times a day you pull those Analytics stats? The Feed burner reach and Alexa numbers? I used to 3 times a day. I’d also installed a plugin that displays the real-time traffic stats. How you feel after every visit to those numbers? Anxious?
Stop that number game. Your readers are not numbers.
What matters in blogging is the relationship you’re building, connections you are making and the people you are helping. Your readers come to you for help and guidance and you can make a difference for them.
I do not mean the numbers have no value – yes they are important, but you can’t increase them by visiting Analytics 3 times a day. Rather help people, build relationship and connections, you’ll see numbers growing by itself.
Stop worrying about something that increases automatically!
#5. Change of Focus
Why did you start blogging? To share your experience? Your passion? You want to earn your living? To solve your problems? You are not much different than me!
However, realize that your blog is not for you. So, stop thinking about yourself – your posts, your traffic, your earning and a whole lot of ‘YOUrs’. You’ll find your blog is built when you shift the focus to your readers, your fellow bloggers, your friends and your colleagues. It’s a powerful way to share your influence by helping good people. It gets noticed and will drive lots more traffic back to your blog.
Thanks for being with me up to here. Let’s get connected and further discuss about blogging. Do visit my blog and comment below.
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Hello Suresh,
I agree with the points you have put up above in the post. I myself visit Alexa and Analytics many times a day and as you said it’s a total waste of time.
The best thing to do is to stop wasting time on such things and spending time on creating pillar content for your blog. And yeah, a blog needs readers not traffic.
Wow I spend 85% of my time checking my stats this is a big mistake and waste of time instead of building backlinks I just keep staring at the traffic stats of my blog thanks for sharing these cool pointers have a great week-end !
Anis,
Any beginning blogger should focus more on building great content rather than traffic and ranking. Once you have good amount of better content, it’s the turn to go for link building. Stats should be a handy tool to prove that your strategies are working as you expected!
Certainly Suresh ! Bloggers should not only focus on keywords loved by Google but should focus on great content through which visitors can be more attracted towards your blog again and again. This will not only enhance your writing capability but will also increase traffic to your blog site.
After a very long gap , i have read a blog post and going to comment [ my physical illness ] , there is no option to doubt on your points ! When we become some thing special then no need focus it our self , world will see it automatically . Have you ever see my FB or G+ profile about section even my blog bio , where i have clearly mentioned , I am a person who know nothing !
Is it meant , i understand nothing ?
Hi Thesaj,
I still remember the feeling I had after seeing the stats! In fact, any beginning blogger is suggested to read as many posts and be active in interacting with other bloggers rather than jumping in to see the traffic numbers.
Thanks for commenting.
that is just awsum post. thnx
These were good points. It is easy to become addicted to watching analytics and lose focus on growing your blog. Working on that next post is so much more rewarding and it gives the visitors something of value. Thanks for the tips. No need to reinvent the wheel.
That’s the best tips to offer. More research and refinement will produce better post, ultimately more traffic rather than a dying effort obsessed with stats.
Thank you Jennifer.
Thanks for sharing your great experience Suresh.
Frequently checking the analytics daily is a meaningless activity and it would decrease the blogger’s productivity too.
I learned a lot on how to get more traffic flow to my blog from your great experiences, thanks for sharing it!
Hi Nirmala,
Glad that you find it useful. After all, the blogging success lies in great content and even greater interaction. Spending time to create content, promoting them and building relationship with fellow bloggers will reward better.
Hi Suresh, Great article bro. Totally agreed with all your points mentioned above. When i started blogging i would check my Analytics stats and Alexa rank many times a day which is really a waste of time. To Increase loyal readers for our blog we need to provide Quality Content and we also need to build good relationship with readers. Thanks for Sharing this Great Post!!
That’s very true Sai. Relationship is something magical. After blogging is being a part of community!
All are great points in your article! It truly cannot be about “YOU”. It has to be about what are you doing to help your VISITORS and to converting them from just visitors to FOLLOWERS. It definitely can be considered an uphill battle!
Hi Jason,
‘What goes around comes around’ is very true in this respect. You help more people, you’ll find more people in your blog, which in turn offers you more traffic.
Thanks for the great article . Writing real time and unique content is main factor of getting traffic but one thing , self claimed celebrity never become success
That’s very correct, Purbita. You’ll be more comfortable being yourself and on the other hand, people will go to the universities if they are to find teachers. We love bloggers because we can identify ourselves as them!
Thank you for the comment.
Great post! I’ve noticed how quickly one can get caught up with thinking “what will users like” instead of creating content that is about you and your passion. If you are doing/blogging about what you love then changes are you are doing it better than the average person out there doing it for other reasons.
As you go on blogging you’ll start realizing about your traffic and their need. Its better to write for your readers and not only the posts, the Ads and Banners too should be changed accordingly. You can look in your blog stats to find which post is getting more attraction and what sort of content your readers favor more.
Hi Suresh,
Thanks for contributing an amazing post on my blog. I hope my readers are enjoying your post. Well fake personality does not work anymore, I’ve seen lot of SEO gurus and etc calling their self Guru’s and expert but I think you’re right no one is perfect, and you don’t have need to call yourself expert, its just matter of time, once you show your expertise peopls will call you Guru and expert in that field.
Regularly checking analytics and alexa is just waste of time, you can check your analytics data and alexa rank after 2 days for knowing your audience. My blog next post is about Knowing your Audience for better connection, I hope you’ll read it.
Thanks again for the nice post!
That will be really interesting to read Bashir. Waiting for your post.
Self claimed expertism and big bluff may work for short term achievement but as a blogger we always need to look for long term strategies and go on building reputation. Shortcuts are really short, I guess!
A nice post!! It is a fact that a plethora of bloggers these days are concerned with what Analytics has to offer, and shy away from making their own efforts to create some good and quality content for the readers. You have actually spread the word of cuation through this post. Learning through your experience was an amazing thing. Thanks for the share.
Thank you Aayna and I’m really glad that you find my experience useful. We’ll keep on exchanging experiences 🙂
this article is quite interesting thanks for this informative article
Hi Rajkumar,
It’s been a quite gap these days talking to you. Where have you been?
Thanks for commenting here and I really appreciate that.
Hi Suresh,
By speaking from your heart through your blog traffic flows in naturally. Like-minded people find you. This is how you can become a wild success in the blogosphere. Loving these tips buddy.
Forget being perfect. Typos, screw ups and all type of mix ups are inevitable. Good friends or nice folks point them out to help you out and people who are nasty simply lack the courage to blog like you do. Your worst critics are usually people who are confused admirers, as strange as that sounds.
Be at peace with messing up, blog from your heart, allow your personality to come out and you will drive an increasing number of visitors to your website.
Thanks Suresh,
Ryan
That’s an awesome comment.. Thank you Ryan. I really appreciate. You really summed up the article in such a sweet way 🙂
Change of focus is one of the main reasons many bloggers lose out on the traffic. Wasting time on checking the blog traffic status is another mistake that most bloggers make. Thanks for highlighting these and thanks for sharing the useful information.
Often we are more preoccupied with our own benefits, isn’t it? It’s fairly easy to realize that we get more by giving more!
Thanks Fatima
Indeed, perfection is only a concept. Trying so hard to reach a certain level can be a bad move. Instead, come up with quality content and be unique. This will surely help you on the long run. I enjoyed reading this article. Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
Quality and Uniqueness! Yup the two best mantras. Agreed with you Dan.
A lot of time is spent on checking stats especially in the initial stages..I used to do it a lot..To be honest, i was quite addicted to the data given by various analytics sites…It took a lot of time for me to realize that it was becoming very unproductive..This was because poor stats demotivate you like anything..It is better to focus on developing content or promoting the blog and leave the stat checking for the end of the day..I thoroughly enjoyed reading this post..Thanks
The best use of time and keeping high spirit will certainly help to attain goals! Enjoy blogging.
The stats thing is definitely something that I encourage people to do. Stop worrying about the numbers and worry more about user engagement, both on-site and off-site. 10 engaged readers are worth far more than 1000 uninterested visitors.
That’s true Dave, but the line parallel with x-axis often hurts and you’ll quickly start to feel if blogging success is unattainable. There’s nothing bad in checking stats to see the effectiveness of your campaigns.
We’re always talking about getting a huge traffic to our blogs, but why we do never talk about the quality of this traffic ?
You can get tousands of visitors a day, but a lot of them wil only visit your blog once and leave, increasing your bounce rate.
We have to pay attention to quality.
There’s no use of getting thousands of traffic if you have no content worth promoting. We set out for promotion once we have something we believe is useful.
Traffic are not good or bad. It is you who can/cannot make use of that traffic. If you attract untargeted traffic will increase bounce rate. So, its better to be real and increase relationship rather than wish to see huge numbers.
Thank you Hicham for the comment.
I completely agree to you. I am a newbie blogger and I take a look to my Blogs (techbin.org) stats atleast 2 times a day 😉
Now i think I am not gonna do it!
Two times a day is not that bad 😉
Vishes, lets get connected. Lets share more and help each other. Lets learn more and write more. This will bring in traffic much faster, I believe.
Thank you for commenting here.
Hey Suresh,
Nice post and Thanks for sharing this post with us. I am totally agree with you that in a single day we visit alexa and Analytic many time and its totally waste of time and I really like the point of not considering reader as number.