Jan 26 2009
Getting traffic for your blogs
The key to successful blogging is getting traffic. If you don’t get traffic, there is nobody to view the ads and you don’t make any money.
But the key to getting traffic is writing about the things people are searching for information on. I have been looking at the traffic statistics on this blog, and was surprised at what I found. This blog is a mix of advice on debt and budgeting, plus advice on how to make extra money, plus posts on what is happening in the economy, particulary as regards news about the mortgage lenders.
To my surprise I found that most of the hits to the blog came from people searching for infomation on the mortgage lenders. In other words they were searching for news that affected them. It has made me rethink what I write on this blog. Sure, the stuff about how to earn extra money is useful to people - but people don’t search for information they don’t even realise exists! A better way for me to go about things may be to write about news on the lenders, and add reminders at the bottom on the post that readers can find all sorts of helpful information by clicking on the categories listed in the sidebar.
