Comments on: Blog Stats June 2009

By: Damien Riley

Damien Riley — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:44:45 +0000

@Dragon Blogger: I’m sort of boorish on traffic these days. I just want a number. Perhaps as I master more nuances of this “biz” I will pay attention to bounce rate etc. Since I’ve dropped Entrecard I’ve seen increases in visits. I have 30 or so friends on Stumbleupon that will Stumble whatever I send them because we have built trust. The bottom line is trust. I have another person upset with me because I out an “Epoxy” ad in the middle of my teaching blog. Perhaps he doesn’t need extra money. My wife and I do. So …. the point is this: advertisers like traffic and so traffic is good. Stumbleupon works better for me than anything so far, but it us not all I do and I am always open to new sources. Thanks Justin!

By: Dragon Blogger

Dragon Blogger — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:31:48 +0000

You will see huge traffic anomalies, if you find yourself using Entrecard, Stumbleupon regularly one month but then stop using it the next, these services account for way to much “fake” traffic where you need to almost constantly promote just to maintain “Visit” numbers. That being said, I gain a few extra readers each month from stumbleupon but 99.9% never leave a comment or mention anything about my blog they visited.

By: Damien Riley

Damien Riley — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:27:16 +0000

@Hannah: Traffic building is a process every good blogger challenges her/himself with. Most the buttons and widgets on this site are geared toward traffic building. The biggest source so far for me has been Stumbleupon but I have multiple traffic sources that work well for me. I list and link them in the article above.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:13:11 +0000

Hi Damien

I don’t know if you can help me but I’m hoping you can – I seem to gain traffic and then lose it again what can I do to try and keep it going?

Han

By: Damien Riley

Damien Riley — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:19:21 +0000

@Jobless: I want to thank you so much for your excellent comment. As with many words in our language, “automate” can be interpreted multiple ways. I thank you for illustrating exactly what I do not mean when I use the word.

In my blogging work, automation means something like this: “Organization and routines that produce income streams.” I would never do a mass Twitter scheme, I would never create or use a “bot.” If you read the things in this post that I refer to as “automation” they are: Social Media, Text-Link-Ads, and ADsense. I do not support or promote software or code that illegally creates automated income. Thank you for prompting me to make that important distinction. As a teacher I have methods of automating parts of the day through routines, that is another example of what I mean. I hope that gets me out of the doghouse!

As far as the backlinks: Have you checked yours on Yahoo? It is a pretty good counter but all the engines are different numbers. You may be comparing say your Google popular number with my Yahoo! comprehensive one and they are vastly different. I decided to use Yahoo! because they had the widget I use in all three sites.

The way I actively get backlinks (and have gotten them for 3 years fairly competitively) is through writing for other sites. I routinely write stuff for about 8-10 other blogs and sites as regularly as I can. Another way is through joining Social Media and entering my link there. Those are just a couple things I do. The most important and most rewarding is to write stuff people link to.

By: Jobless

Jobless — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:05:56 +0000

I don’t like automating anything. It’s cheap and spammy. Quality over quantity. I would rather have 70 of 100 twitter friends visiting my blog when I make one post to twitter instead of 7 of a thousand “friends” unfollowing me everyday because they think I’m just a spammer.

This is a quality post, though. You have an amazing number of backlinks. How do you do that?

By: Damien Riley

Damien Riley — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:50:35 +0000

@Jessica The Rock Chick: Thank you for the compliment. Good question on sponsored posts. I think my “voice” and “style” in doing them has evolved.

For that reason, I don’t want to give you a canned answer. I will say this: Your sponsored posts should not be more than every other post at the most and they should reflect your core values for why you blog.

My readers, I hope, would know by now I value cash for my family as a trade-off for time I spend blogging. Therefore I have no shame in doing sponsored posts. Last, I am ALWAYS honest in what I blog. I say that in my disclosure page.

By: Jessica The Rock Chick

Jessica The Rock Chick — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:48:20 +0000

I’ve been reading thru your CAN method posts for tips! Got quite a few! And……I aenrd my first $10 through blogging the other day. Have to start somewhere, I guess, right? Let me ask you something…did you feel funny about writing paid posts at first or is this just some odd thing with my psyche? LOL

By: Damien Riley

Damien Riley — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:34:27 +0000

@Eric: Thanks bro. I can show you what I’ve learned about getting traffic. As far as music goes, I’d love to do it. I finish Summer School July 16th and then I have three weeks off. Let’s do something then.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:06:02 +0000

Damien,

Thanks for the heads up about blogging. I would like more traffic and am glad to know you have figured it out for yourself and enjoy sharing the Riley Method.

I was listening to “Thought It Was You” and think that our talents could still produce some more great works if we could only find the time to get together.

Eric