Comments on: Why Targeting Other Bloggers Is A Losing Strategy In The Long Run

By: Stevo | China Travel

Stevo | China Travel — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:51:07 +0000

True. Entrecard sucks. Blogging is difficult, few people realize.

By: Brawnydt

Brawnydt — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:36:06 +0000

Great posting, and great analogy. It’s refreshing to hear some unique thoughts about the matter. Forums are definitely a great way to go. Since I haven’t come out of the mythical google sandbox yet, most of my traffic is direct links from useful forum posts, and also helping out on the tripadvisor forums. The trick is not to sound like you are spamming the forums, but to actually provide useful info that makes people want to visit your site to see what else you have to offer. The result has been great, my average visitor time according to google analytics is about 4 minutes. That’s pretty good in my opinion.

I’m finding it takes a lot of work to make a blog monetarily worth it. There is no easy solution. In the end it’s always the fruit that’s way high up in the tree that is the ripest. Ya gotta be willing to climb.

I’m glad I found your site, you’ve got some great insights. Thanks a lot!

By: J.C.

J.C. — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:05:51 +0000

Very informative and useful post and I had to leave a comment. I am an absolute newbie in blogging but after doing it for a couple of months I have realized what is the thing that the most of the bloggers are suffering from – it’s all about the readers, and I guess only way to develop that is by building traffic to your blog. Now there is so many ways to do it, I wonder which one is the best? Cheers.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:44:19 +0000

I wouldn’t really call building traffic a problem. It’s easy to build traffic, but since it’s a cumulative process (and everyone wants everything now it), you get a lot of low quality blogs & comments like gary said.

But commenting & following blogs related to your own will help expand your readership, your own content and the direction your blog heads toward.

By: Nathan D

Nathan D — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:25:01 +0000

but, getting some link juice is worth it in the early days, no?

I agree with @Mike Bradbury — give us the goods on how to build traffic

By: Mike Bradbury

Mike Bradbury — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:41:14 +0000

This is a pretty decent post. You make a great point, though, I would have liked to see more concrete solutions to the problem of building traffic.

I agree that following and commenting on hundreds of blogs is no way to gain readership, but I think completely discounting them is a mistake as well.

The best strategy, if you have the diligence to pursue it, is to write blog posts for forums/social bookmarking sites (web 2.0 versions of forums) that you can continually link back to in your forum posts … and …

follow blogs with the same amount of authority as you. They’ll be much more likely to drop you a blog roll link (which is really what you’re aiming for).

That’s my two sense