How I Doubled Traffic and RSS Readers in Seven Days
Trying to increase traffic to your blog is not an easy task. All in all, this is one of the main reasons that a lot of people give up on blogging after only a couple of weeks. Although I felt good about this blog’s progress at the end of July, I am even more optimistic about the future after the way things went this last week.
On Tuesday August 1, I posted my freelance writing income for July 2007. While I thought that this would get people talking, I was not expecting the results that followed. Within a couple of days this post made its way around the blogosphere, and really hit it big when John Chow featured it on his blog.
You are probably wondering what this did for my blog, right? First off, it has helped to increase comments. To me, this may very well be the biggest benefit; I feel that comments are a great way to make the most of the blogging experience. At this time, my freelance writing post has 33 comments; my personal best for this blog.
Additionally, my daily traffic has doubled. I thought that this may only be temporary, but it appears that the numbers are holding steady for the most part. The reason that I am optimistic is that my RSS readership has also doubled. Obviously, this will have a positive effect as time goes on.
Although a lot of this success has to do with top ranking blogs linking to me, I feel that the quality of my original post is where everything started. Think about it this way: if my original post would have been poorly constructed, nobody would have ever taken notice. This is why you need to make sure that you put your all into every post that you write. You never know when a John Chow or other big time blogger is reading!
Despite the fact that I got a huge boost over the past seven days, I am not going to stop working hard this month. The way I see it, the more great posts I make, the more publicity this blog will receive. Sounds easy enough, right?
August 7th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Congratulations on getting featured on JohnChow, that must’ve been awesome. Well deserved. Hopefully my RSS Readers stats will improve over time :).
August 7th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Leonid - It was quite awesome, and as mentioned, quite beneficial! Keep writing quality posts and your stats will increase. It just takes time!
August 7th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Hi Chris,
Congrats on all of the publicity. I’ve just stumbled your page here.
I have to agree with you that quality content is the key to success with blogging. Once you’ve got the content the search engines and popular bloggers always seek you out.
I’m using this method quite effectively on my new forum the Paid Insider.
Best regards,
Matthew Sherborne
August 7th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
congrats Chris
Your content quality is very high and that made me subscribe from when you just started blogging here.
August 7th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Congratulations! I’m sure it only gets better from here.
August 7th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Quality begets exposure, which begets more readers. You did a good job on that article! And I also notice that anytime a blogger posts figures…especially really good ones…their posts almost instantly become classics.
August 7th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
The secret is, keep writing
August 7th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Sounds easy enough; good luck with the challenge
August 8th, 2007 at 12:52 am
Keep on pushing, and pretty soon, you’ll be at the top! We need to see some new faces among the top bloggers- go for it!
August 8th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Thanks guys! Michael, you are right! I would love to find my face among the other greats. It is definitely something to work towards…
August 18th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
hi nice post, i enjoyed it