Traffic Drop?

[G-I]

I'm noticing a traffic drop on my sites is anyone esle noticing something like this, and would anyone be nice enough to share some tips on how to increase me current traffic?

[lillianboo]

That's perfectly normal for a newer blog. Traffic up in beginning for a variety of reasons (just submitted to directories, google, etc) and then dies down pretty fast.

You can search the board for a variety of ways to increase traffic, ranging from link trades, directories, rss aggregators, social bookmarking sites, etc.

[Randy]

G-I,

I have not seen your blog, so you may or may not be doing these things. Keep in mind these are things I do. Others do things differently and I could be doing it all wrong, but this has worked for me.

Quick note, you have to have a Yahoo and a Google account to do what I have listed. Without those what I have list is not totally doable.

Specifically what you can do is: (if you are not already, that is)
1. Use PicRush. It is more of a traffic trading thingy, but I feel it is well worth the effort.
2. Make sure the surfer has a clearly defined way of bookmarking your blog. Hogtied Movies I use Addthis.com and Feedburner to place bookmarking icons on my blogs. That is the way I do it, others may feel it is overkill, but it works for me.
3. Use Feedburner to offer email subscription to your blog.
4. Use the Feedburner Ping serve to ping the world about your updates.
5. Submit your blog to MSN.
6. Submit your site to Yahoo Site Explorer you may have to have a Yahoo account and be logged in first.
7. Submit your feed to Yahoo! Search: Submit Your Media RSS Feed
8. Login to your Yahoo account and go to MyWeb and bookmark your site. That puts the blog in the searches done on the sites people have bookmarked to MyWeb and it will get traffic.
9. Get a Google account, login and go to Your Google Dashboard submit and verify your blog. You will not be able to add a sitemap if it is a Thumblog you are working with, but I do not worry about that.
10. Add your URL to Google.
11. Add your URL to Google Blog Search.
12. Get a del.icio.us and a Bloglines.com account and bookmark the blog. I get good traffic from Bloglines and del.icio.us so I would appricate you not telling anyone else.
13. I also submit to Gigaboost, and ping Web Blog Directory, and IceRocket . You can probably skip #13, I do this and really have not seen any direct evidence it does a lot of good, but it only takes a second to past a URL and hit submit...

If you do not have a marketing strategy, develop one. I realize it would be great to use every available marketing method available but it is not practical in my not so humble opinion, unless you limit your number of blogs.

Hope this helps... Remember it is strictly my way and in my opinion a valid way to market a blog.

Point of Clarity: This is not the sum total of my marketing efforts. There is also cross linking, addition text, meta tags, and sevral other things I do. I just realized that it might appear the list I made above is all I do, when it reality it is just the start.

Randy

[PornStash]

Originally Posted by Randy

2. Make sure the surfer has a clearly defined way of bookmarking your blog. Hogtied Movies I use Addthis.com and Feedburner to place bookmarking icons on my blogs. That is the way I do it, others may feel it is overkill, but it works for me.

Randy,

I do my bookmarking methods exactly as you do, albeit arranged slightly different (an example), but the method's the same. As far as the email box goes, I customize mine by adding this:

Please note: [SITE NAME] is an adult site and as a result of your subscription, you will receive links to pornographic material in your email inbox. If you do not desire this, please do not proceed. Thank you.

The above will display in the subscribers confirmation email, not on my web page. I just want to make sure thay absolutely know what their getting when they sign up. Piece of mind sort of thing.

As for the rest of your list, many of those things I do myself, some I have not thought of, and am glad you posted.

Great information!

PornStash

[HeisseSeiten]

Thanks a lot Randy for your great list, with doing the points of your list you make a very good basis for your blogs.
Excellent information for newbies like me =)

[garcia]

Pornstash---mind if I steal that little "add on" to the email sub text?

[PornStash]

Originally Posted by garcia

Pornstash---mind if I steal that little "add on" to the email sub text?

Garcia,

Please feel free to use it. Anyone else as well.

Thanks,
PornStash

[Bakdoor]

Originally Posted by garcia

Pornstash---mind if I steal that little "add on" to the email sub text?

Too late! i already got it

[G-I]

Originally Posted by Randy

G-I,

I have not seen your blog, so you may or may not be doing these things. Keep in mind these are things I do. Others do things differently and I could be doing it all wrong, but this has worked for me.

Quick note, you have to have a Yahoo and a Google account to do what I have listed. Without those what I have list is not totally doable.

Specifically what you can do is: (if you are not already, that is)
1. Use PicRush. It is more of a traffic trading thingy, but I feel it is well worth the effort.
2. Make sure the surfer has a clearly defined way of bookmarking your blog. Hogtied Movies I use Addthis.com and Feedburner to place bookmarking icons on my blogs. That is the way I do it, others may feel it is overkill, but it works for me.
3. Use Feedburner to offer email subscription to your blog.
4. Use the Feedburner Ping serve to ping the world about your updates.
5. Submit your blog to MSN.
6. Submit your site to Yahoo Site Explorer you may have to have a Yahoo account and be logged in first.
7. Submit your feed to Yahoo! Search: Submit Your Media RSS Feed
8. Login to your Yahoo account and go to MyWeb and bookmark your site. That puts the blog in the searches done on the sites people have bookmarked to MyWeb and it will get traffic.
9. Get a Google account, login and go to Your Google Dashboard submit and verify your blog. You will not be able to add a sitemap if it is a Thumblog you are working with, but I do not worry about that.
10. Add your URL to Google.
11. Add your URL to Google Blog Search.
12. Get a del.icio.us and a Bloglines.com account and bookmark the blog. I get good traffic from Bloglines and del.icio.us so I would appricate you not telling anyone else.
13. I also submit to Gigaboost, and ping Web Blog Directory, and IceRocket . You can probably skip #13, I do this and really have not seen any direct evidence it does a lot of good, but it only takes a second to past a URL and hit submit...

If you do not have a marketing strategy, develop one. I realize it would be great to use every available marketing method available but it is not practical in my not so humble opinion, unless you limit your number of blogs.

Hope this helps... Remember it is strictly my way and in my opinion a valid way to market a blog.

Point of Clarity: This is not the sum total of my marketing efforts. There is also cross linking, addition text, meta tags, and sevral other things I do. I just realized that it might appear the list I made above is all I do, when it reality it is just the start.

Randy

Thanks for all the great information Randy, I did take a few pointers for your post and put it down on paper

[G-I]

Originally Posted by PornStash

Randy,
Please note: [SITE NAME] is an adult site and as a result of your subscription, you will receive links to pornographic material in your email inbox. If you do not desire this, please do not proceed. Thank you.

Not a bad idea at all PornStash