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How I Built My Blog From Nothing To Success In 6 Months
By SEO Advisor | February 27, 2010
I am new to blogging and like most new bloggers I tried a few things I learn in the beginning. I quickly realized what worked for established blogs doesn’t work for a new blogs like mine, JohnPaulAguiar.com
The sooner you realize we all can’t be JohnChow with a million ads, the better your blogging will be. There is nothing wrong with wanting to monetize your blogs traffic, there is just a fine line to offering information and shoving ads and in your readers face.
I slowly leartned that to much to soon is bad. I hade to many 125×125 ads, I had Google Adsense, I had banners in header and sidebar, I even had banners in each post, it was just way to much.
I’m just happy that I learned this quickly, since my blog is only 10 months old and 2 of those months I left the blog quiet to work on other things, as you can see Sept no posts, Oct 1 post.
I Decided To Get Focused
Once I came back in Nov, I started to really focus on what I wanted my blog to be about, and what was important. For me building a list is important, offering strong helpful content is important, building a community on my blog for other bloggers is important.
So knowing all that I started to stop the leak on my blog and offer what is important to my targeted readers.
At that time my blog had a Alexa score of about 2.2 million, and my 3 month Alexa score was 1.1 million
As of today I have a Alexa score of 168,603
What I Did Evey Day
First I dropped a lot my ads, now I still have ads up and I think a few ads that fit what your blog is about is ok, but don’t over do it. I try to stay away from ads that are to big and flashy and distracting.
My big secret to my new success is……Hard Work, Hard Work Each Day!
I know, no big underground secret, but it is what works, below are a few things I have done…
– Using my 40,000 strong twitter community to drive traffic.
- I comment on blogs related to my blog, I comment a lot, I have about 50 blogs saved on my RSS Feed so I can follow each day.
- I comment on KeyWord Luv blogs to get nice Keyword anchor link backs.
- I comment on Comment Luv blogs
- I bookmark each post to about 40 sites with onlywire.com
This has got me to 5,435 uniques below.
My focus now is to post atleast 3 times a week and that alone will boost my traffic by atleast 50% monthly.
I also have 5 top blogs where I plan to guest post, which will really get things growing on my blog.
Final Thought
You first need to know what you want your blog to be about, then post content and ads, and information that fits that topic perfectly. Design wise I would keep things different to stand out, but don’t get to crafty since you still want your blog easy to navigate.
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