increase blog traffic

In the last few days, I’ve covered a lot about Blog SEO on my blog. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at the comment area! Today, I want to discuss about different kinds of traffic.

There are basically lots of ways to get blog traffic. I’ve published a post that includes 120 ways to get traffic to your blog. The question right now is not how to get traffic. It’s “What kind of traffic fits your blog and allow you to earn the maximum cash or income?”

There are many kinds of BLOGS. I’m going to separate all of them into 5 kinds of blogs: Authority, niche, review, personal and seasonal. The blog traffic you choose depends on the blog you are writing. I’m going to discuss about 3 kinds of blogs which are the most popular ones:

1. Authority Blogs:

Authority blogs are blogs which are written by people who have high authority in certain topic. If the topic is about ‘blogging’, the guy who is blogging got to have lots of knowledge, information and well-known in blogging. One of the example is Darren Rowse in ProBlogger.net.

Unless you are really good (I mean one of the best in the world), you don’t start this kind of blog. The traffic that fits this kind of blog is ANY KIND OF TRAFFIC. The blogger will get visitors to subscribe, sell some affiliate products, earn some ad revenue and sell their own seminars with their blog. If you are ready to go for it, use the 120 ways.

2. Niche Blogs:

Every blog is niche, but the niche blog I’m talking about here is VERY niche. There might only be only 100 – 300 people searching for related information on Google. One of the good example is ‘how to start a blog’.

This blog is not suitable to use forums, blog commenting, article directories, Facebook or Stumble Upon because you won’t get many visitors no matter how hard you try (believe me with that because I’ve tried). Even visitors came to your blog, you won’t sell them anything or there’re hardly any advertisers want to put up a banner ad on your blog.

The easiest way to get blog traffic and make money from it is combine Adsense and Blog SEO. Instead of working hard to reach them, let them search their way to you with Google. They might not buy anything when they reach your blog. With that ‘looking around’ attitude of theirs, it is good to make money by letting them to click on ads. They get to look around and you get to make money.

3. Personal Blogs

Personal blogs are blogs that talks about the life and things that happened to the blogger herself/himself. If you are someone really cool or have some personality that attracts people. It is always good to start up this kind of blog.

You can talk about your life. But most personal bloggers don’t just talk about things in their life. They narrow down the topic and talks about their personal experiences in that topic. Yaro Starak (who is my first blog mentor) is one of the good example. He blogs about his own personal experiences and life in Internet marketing. He mixes internet marketing with his own life and experiences. He have a great smile and attractive personality that attracts lots of people.

You can use relationship traffic strategies with this kind of blogs. Avoid advertising, focus more on relationship building such as forums, blog commenting, video and Stumble Upon would be great!

If you know bloggers who are struggling and getting little traffic from blogging, get them to read this posts. You might save them lots of money and efforts and support them to be successful indirectly.



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