http://watchmebuildtraffic.com One Man's Efforts To Build Blog Traffic... Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:54:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, I'm sure the majority of you reading this will be aware that Wordpress 2.6 has been released for download (July 14th if my memory serves me correctly). I'm going to wait a few weeks until I decide to make the switch from the previous version to Wordpress 2.6, for various ... http://watchmebuildtraffic.com/2008/07/wordpress-26-release-contain-yourself/ I started using entrecard just over a week ago, as a means of driving raw traffic to my blog. What do I mean by raw blog traffic?  I'm referring to the type of traffic that isn't necessarily visiting your blog for your content.  In the case of entrecard, people may be visiting ... http://watchmebuildtraffic.com/2008/07/using-entrecard-for-raw-blog-traffic/ In one of my previous posts on blog spelling and grammar  I ranted and raved about my opinion on the subject, i.e. I can't stand having the misfortune to stumble across a badly-written article. This was my opinion, but now I'd like to hear your opinion on the whole spelling and ... http://watchmebuildtraffic.com/2008/07/blog-spelling-and-grammar-your-opinion/ 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 ... http://watchmebuildtraffic.com/2008/07/sticky-blog-traffic-conclusion/ Okay, so I looked at the best sources for sticky blog traffic in my last post.  Now, I'm going to flip the coin and look at the worst sources for sticky blog traffic. The sources below will, in all likelihood, bring you short-term traffic, and in some cases may even bring ... http://watchmebuildtraffic.com/2008/07/the-worst-sources-for-sticky-blog-traffic/ In my last post, I introduced the subject of sticky blog traffic, i.e. traffic that sticks after it has visited your blog. In this post, I will look at the best sources for gaining sticky blog traffic, the holy grail of building your blog traffic. In my opinion, there are not ... http://watchmebuildtraffic.com/2008/07/the-best-sources-for-sticky-blog-traffic/ Sticky blog traffic is traffic to your blog that sticks, i.e. when sticky traffic makes its way to your blog, it will stay and read what you have to say.  Sticky traffic will also often return to your blog after discovering it, and if you're lucky will also bookmark your ... http://watchmebuildtraffic.com/2008/07/sticky-blog-traffic-an-introduction/ Over the last couple of weeks, spam comments on my blog have been gradually increasing, to the point where it's getting a little annoying.  I'm constantly deleting spam comments from my Wordpress control panel, and I'm sure you'll agree it gets fairly repetitive after a while. So I've installed the Wordpress ... http://watchmebuildtraffic.com/2008/07/stop-spam-comments-with-akismet/ The question I'm going to pose to you is the following: "How many blog posts do you need before you start to see regular traffic?" This is an area that I'm interested in hearing peoples different opinions and experiences.  My blog currently has between 50 and 60 blog posts, and I've read ... http://watchmebuildtraffic.com/2008/07/how-many-blog-posts-for-regular-traffic/ Building forum trust is something which should be done if you truly want your blog to be noticed by other forum members.  In one of my previous posts on blogging forums, I encouraged my readers to join internet forums related to their niche, in order to interact with other people ... http://watchmebuildtraffic.com/2008/07/building-forum-trust-5-things-you-must-do/