Where New Blogs Get Their Traffic From(Part Deux)
Seeing that the comments from yesterdays post “Where New Blogs Get Their Traffic From” were so thoughtful and full of great information I thought to dig a little deeper into what most of us bloggers look for. Which is good information, to help make our blogs better. Now mind you, I pulled that post out of the thin air to write about with no preconceived notion that it would be received and commented on so well, I decided to do a follow up. I see this follow up will have a part three to it also. I think we all believe not to make our posts so long it takes 30 minutes to read them.
Even though this blog is supposedly based on men’s issues, I feel this topic is well worth posting about even if some of our regular readers will simply just skip over it. (Note to regular readers I will make sure to add a hot picture of women for visual “help” if you read the entire post.)
I am far from a being a professional, nor a blogger who has been at his craft a long time (3 months). But I do have over five years of knowledge from building and maintaining regular websites from scratch. I used analytics to help define and improve the websites I built. But if you were to put the graphs of a website next to a blog you will see two very different analysis. So that is why to me, blogging is very new to me in regards to who my audience is and more importantly how to maintain the blog on a day to day basis.
One word on analytics, there are many analytical programs, services and websites that offer all kinds of information that the end user can use to help improve and find problematic areas. I have used all of the top programs for analyzing traffic. But I recommend using Google’s Analytics and also Google Webmaster Tools. They are both free, easy to implement and they are chock full of information. You will probably ever need or want to know all the info that is gathered daily. But you will find some them very necessary tools if you want to continue to build and make your blog better.
There are a few more programs out there I find useful and they are also free, they all can be upgraded to a “professional version” by paying a fee. These analytic programs help define who your core visitor is, in terms of demographics. While these are good to know, I do believe they are more useful for people who are advertisers. Advertisers want this info to help them make better buying decisions. It helps them decide what sites or blogs they are going to spend their advertising dollars on.
The two I refer to are: Quantcast and Complete . Both of these companies provide site analysis to help in pinpointing specific demographics of your blog. If you’re already a publisher with CMF, you have access to Complete. That is how CMF finds all your ranking information. You can find yours at the bottom right of your dashboard when signed into CMF.
There are many others, but as bloggers, our main task should be on writing good posts and keeping our eye on that goal. Again if you read the previous post from yesterday, all the comments gave incredibly good recommendations and helpful tips for all bloggers.
And as always, I also learned more from the comments that readers left then I knew when I first started writing the post. Bloggers are very helpful individuals and we all have a propensity to go out of our way to help one another. You should be proud to be a blogger. Also when I say blogger the definition that I believe is this:
A blogger is a person who decides to write about one or more topics for others to enjoy, read and sometimes learn from. A blogger is self indulgent at times, humorous or serious, some are both. Bloggers believe that others will enjoy what subjects they are writing about. But most importantly a real blogger is one that sticks to some type of time frame to update their blog with new content. A blogger does not copy verbatim from another blog, but might find ideas for a post by reading another blog. If a blogger does use some information from another blog or website, that blogger will give the respect due to the person who originally came up with that information and give them the credit.
For instance here is a good definition of what a blog (web log) is: It comes from a website called MarketingTerms.com
Blog
Definition
A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.
Information
A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person’s life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.
People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate the publishing process.
Blogs are alternatively called web logs or weblogs. However, “blog” seems less likely to cause confusion, as “web log” can also mean a server’s log files.
Has I previously stated. Originally I was going to make this post about the feedback (comments) I received from the yesterdays post. That being said I will tomorrow do another post about the great comments that all the readers left. They gave all of us good information, especially for us newer bloggers and even some of bloggers who have been around a while.
I also have some great insights and would like to go over some of the points that were left in the comments. Also there are a few good traffic generators that were not spoken about, that for bloggers are VERY important.
I did not forget my promise for our regular male readers, enjoy. God willing we will see you tomorrow.
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My blog is just goofy. I do care somewhat about the numbers, but not too much. When it’s not fun for me then I’m out of here. So, I just do my own thing, but you got lots of great advice and some great tools in this post.
Have a terrific evening Glenn. Big hug.
Nice follow up to yesterdays post. I would also agree that bloggers, in general, are very helpful to one another. I have had the opportunity to ask questions of some top level bloggers, and they didn’t even blink in replying. There have also been occasions to write guest posts at some of these. They are more than willing to have me help then, and myself. Bloggers are very good at understanding how this community works.
Thanks do much for sharing such useful and free information. It is always so much more effective when a person of layman’s language shares as it is easily understood and absorbed. Ya..Ya..the intensive of a hot woman most definitely will increase your scrollers …if not readers
So when do the women followers and I have to say…you have a higher percentage of women commenters here…get their eyes treated with some hot male body parts???? Hmmmmm…
Once again…thanks a ton for sharing worthwhile information!
All the best in the New Year!
Glenn
You hit it right on the nose this time. I have two blogs, however only one of them really stays on course and that’s my archaeology blog. Friends Revolution is really a mixed bag of sorts, and whenever I go of course I do tend to lose some readers. I spend alot of time on webmaster and analytic’s checking keyword usage and other stats to stay on track.
Good Morning i read your site often and wanted to wish you all the best for the New Year!