How I Quadrupled My Blog’s Traffic In 3 Months
Posted by Mert Erkal on Dec 27, 2007 in Blog, Copyblogger, Making Money Online, Marketing PR, WordPress | 134 comments
As 2007 goes by, it is the right time to inform you about the performance of Search For Blogging. The above snapshot has been taken today from SiteMeter.com. As you can clearly see from the figures, my blog’s traffic has increased significantly each month:
(*) the growth rate for Dec will be close to 40% based on my assumption that the monthly visits will be around 4000.
Search For Blogging is only 4 months old. Despite that, the performance was good and satisfactory for me:
RSS Subscribers : around 100 in average everyday (stats provided by Feedburner)
Technorati rank : 124,132 (Authority 60) – 185 blog reactions to Search For Blogging
Alexa rank : 253,520
Well, let me tell you step by step what i did to achieve such a good performance:
- Last August i discovered Yaro Starak’s Blog Profits Blueprint and then joined Blog Mastermind. Blog Mastermind program has dramatically changed my blogging. Now i know all the tactics & strategies to earn my living from blogging. The good thing is, i am ready to share all my knowledge and expertise with my fellow readers completely for free.
- I dedicated nearly 3 hours each day to my blog for the last 3 months. As i have a 9-17 job, i used the time as efficient as possible. I have limited watching TV to 1 hour per day. I carried a note book with me everywhere, and took notes. Imagine, i have been thinking about my blog while jogging.
- During this period, i discovered my role in the blogosphere; developing a network of good bloggers, giving hand to new bloggers, learning new concepts and sharing them with others. These are all in line with my core personal values.
- Even though my aim is to earn my living by making money from blogging, i did not put money in the first place. It makes me feel good to make others happy for free.
- I added new friends from MyBlogLog and Blog Catalog each and every single day. How did i select new friends? I started from my recent visitors. You can find MyBlogLog visitors under Recent Readers widget on your blog(if you have inserted the widget to your blog)
- Longer feature posts improved my blog’s traffic. I discovered that when you deeply analyze a concept from A to Z, and then write a post about it the impact is amazing! You are rewarded by many incoming links. Here you may find my best long posts:
- 4 Keys To Blogging Success
- How To Track Your Keywords with HitTail
- 2007 Bloghology by Search For Blogging & Peopleized.com
- I took full advantage of social networking and social bookmarking. I have been to everywhere; Facebook, Linkedin, Digg, StumbleUpon, Blogging Zoom, Blog Catalog, del.ici.us, Gozino, Sphinn etc. For example i have more than 200 Facebook contacts. Please read my post Spread the Word Online using Social Networking
Meanwhile, feel free to add me as your friend:
- Facebook : Mert Erkal
- MyBlogLog : Mert Erkal
- Sphinn : merkal2005
- StumbleUpon : Merkal2005
- Digg : merkal2005
- I invented the term Bloghology and started a campaign. This campaign has doubled my traffic in a day. I broke a total number of comment record (42!) with this post 2007 Bloghology by Search For Blogging & Peopleized.com
- I have spent a lot of time on WordPress design, themes, plugins etc. I started to share my WordPress experiences with weekly Tips for Improving Your WordPress Skills series. I got very good response from my fellow readers.
- I started another series titled Speeding Links for Search For Blogging Readers. I spent 30 minutes each and every day to discover really great blogs and bloggers. Then i introduced them to my readers by giving links to those amazing bloggers and their awesome posts. This has helped me develop a good relationship with those bloggers. In the end we became friends with them.
- I developed a habit of submitting each and every post to Blogging Zoom. I got good traffic from Blogging Zoom, and my posts have been better indexed in Google. This way my blog received significant traffic from search engine results. Read more about Blogging Zoom here See How Easily You Can Increase Traffic
Well, the list goes on like that. I hope you now have some idea regarding how to quadruple your blog’s traffic in 3 months. In a nutshell, from my own experience, i defined 10 basic principles to successful blogging:
- Find your and your blog’s role in the blogosphere
- Give helping hand to new bloggers
- Don’t put money in the first place, money will find you
- Develop good relationship with other bloggers, leave comment, link to their posts
- Be proactive, plan your future
- Open your mind to new ideas, projects
- Focus on quality content, do not spend most of your time reading big bloggers
- Never underestimate yourself
- Have a road-map in your mind, take little steps everyday to reach your goals
- Do it your way!(Frank Sinatra!) Do not emulate big bloggers. Be yourself, no matter what they say (Sting!)
In a few days time i will inform you about my 2008 goals. Enjoy!
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Thanks for sharing, I already do mlost of htose things, but a few I haven’t.
Thanks, I look forward to more of your great tips, I have bookmarked your site, so I can easily reference it.
Hi Mert, Thanks for the nice and helpful article. This is really nice of you to guide new blogger’s. i also started blogging since September 2007. Now I have also left job and want to earn my living through blogging. before I started blogging i researched a lot about earning opportunities on Internet and found blogging a good to earn money and become popular in the world. But blogging is not an easy affair. One has to be regular, precise and friendly with other blogger’s. your tips shows the same. I also have never spend any money for blogging. There are so many free resources which can be utilized to the fullest to become a professional blogger. Thanks again for your nice post.
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Wow, that’s amazing to get that much traffic! Thanks for sharing these tips, hopefully I can apply these to my blog. John
I am a new joiner to the blogging world… i like one of the pointer, “Do it your way!(Frank Sinatra!) Do not emulate big bloggers. Be yourself, no matter what they say (Sting!) “, that should be how one blog …..
Very impressive traffic. I’d like to get there as well.
90 days is a good target. My blog, http://www.thelazyslacker.com is 21 days old, have just over 2 months left.
Anything over 30K visitors a month would be awesome
Great achievement dude. I would love to reach that in next few months.Btw, thanks for the tips
hy! nice job mert
I am also new to blogging but I am an expert in other forms of marketing. Getting to grips with all this new technology and the changes on the web, in the last few years seems very challenging.
Wonderful article!!!
Pretty impressive! hard work will get you places! Blogging still gets me traffic whether its linked to my website or not.
Ok, but wha’ts the ‘scam,’ because your subject says “How I Quadrupled My Blog’s Traffic In 3 Months,” so when I clicked here, I expected to see detailed steps, like “I really plugged my blog on FaceBook” or “I used super-duper meta-tags,” but… all we get is this lame chart showing your traffic “increased”?!
Ok, yeah, that’s great, but where are the steps? Maybe I’m missing the point?
Hi Jeff, it is a long post. I wanted to prove my blog’s success with the stats. That is why I started with the stats. Then I step by step wrote about things I regularly did to achieve those stats. Read below “Well, let me tell you step by step what i did to achieve such a good performance:” and you will find the steps.
Mert,
thank you for posting these tips. i have been working on my blog pretty much non stop for the last month. seeing this article really will help me optimize my operation and make the most of my time.
this has been very helpful and valuable.
Mert, I tried to sign up for your newsletter, but rec an aweber error.
Will try again.
Great info!!!!
@ PJ: Thanks for your interest. It was a temporary problem. I fixed it now. Please try again.
This is an old post, but still contains some great information =)
Was going to also mention the aweber issue, I will try again later as well.
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Very useful tips, I’ll use them in my blog.
Thanks again Mert.
Hi Mert,
Where is the link to read the steps you used?
Thanks,
Shabnam
Now more than one year down the line, it would be great if you can update your readers about how your traffic has grown. Don’t you think so?
Thanks for the informative post. Agree that TV is one of the biggest time killers and that blog activity is much more useful and satisfying (and often educational).
All the best from the UK
I am trying to do as many steps as possible according to your teaching and hopefully I can achieve success too..
This one is a really helpful and insightful post.. Thanks and keep up the good work. Most of the Bloggers are not aware of many points you’ve listed.
Thanks Ruhani, it’s been almost 14 months since I wrote that post. But many things are still same. You need to find your role in the blogosphere and engage with other bloggers. This is the secret formula of success in blogging
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This is a good post for people who has starting blog. Thanks for guide.
You are always welcome Ugur!
I know this is kind of an old post but I just read it for the first time and your tips for increasing traffic are still very relevant. Thanks.
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As I'm just beginning on my own blogging journey this was inspiring, despite being old
Came here from StumbleUpon and it's pretty amazing that your post is still listed in top 10 for blogging after all this time. Food for thought, ie quality prevails. Thanks!