This is the final installment of my sticky blog traffic series of posts.  First, I gave an introduction to sticky blog traffic, followed by my perspective on both the best and worst sources for sticky blog traffic.

In this blog post, I will give my conclusion based on what I’ve spoken about over the last three posts.  You’ve probably picked up on what I’m getting at in my previous posts, but I’m going to extrapolate a little on why there are big differences in the methods I’ve examined for gaining sticky blog traffic.

First off, if you’ve read my posts on the best and worst sources for gaining sticky blog traffic, you’ll have noticed a common theme, which is:

Short-term traffic to your blog based on:

paid for traffic;

entrecard, and;

social media sites;

will not, generally speaking,  bring you sticky blog traffic.  The methods above are great for gaining immediate exposure for your blog, don’t get me wrong.  But in using these methods, you may be in danger of sacrificing the quality of visitors to your blog.  By using these methods, you will, in all likelihood, see an immediate increase in your visitor statistics.  But the chances of these visitors becoming regular visitors are slim in the extreme.

On the flip side, in my best sources for sticky blog traffic post, I outlined three methods, namely:

search engine traffic;

blog commenting, and;

forum traffic.

These three methods for gaining sticky blog traffic are longer-term by nature.  If you have the patience to stick with these methods, you’ll have a far greater chance of gaining long-term sticky blog traffic.  Follow these tactics and your blog will eventually attract an audience which is genuinely interested in what you are saying, i.e. they are primed for your niche, all you have to do is provide an eager audience with what they are looking for.  The best type of traffic to your blog is already primed for the information you are giving.

 

So, to conclude, I would recommend concentrating your efforts on the longer-term methods of gaining blog traffic.  I am in no way recommending that you only concentrate on the longer term methods.  In fact, I’d say that you have to devote some of your time to getting your blog ‘out there’ regardless of the eventual audience.  As I mentioned in a previous post, I am using entrecard as a means of getting raw traffic passing through my blog (the majority are passing through and no more).  But don’t devote a high percentage of your time following the non-sticky route to blog traffic.  Stick to the longer term methods of gaining relevant, hungry and targeted visitors to your blog and you won’t fail to build your audience.

My posts on building your sticky blog traffic are based on my own experience within my own niche, and I’m sure that after reading my series of posts you’ll have an opinion on whether or not they are accurate or not.  I’d love to hear about your own experiences with regards to gaining repeat vistors to your own blog.  Please leave a comment below, I’d love to hear what you think about my posts on methods for gaining sticky blog traffic!

Related blog post(s):

Sticky Blog Traffic - An Introduction
The Best Sources For Sticky Blog Traffic
The Worst Sources For Sticky Blog Traffic

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