Saturday, September 14, 2013

The Top 8 Ways of Drawing Traffic!

by Kaye George

I think a LOT of people have blogs. In fact, this site (http://snitchim.com/how-many-blogs-are-there/) has gathered the following facts as of April 2013.

Tumblr, 101.7 million
Wordpress, 63 million
Livejournal, 62.6 million
Weebly, 12 million
Blogster, 582,754

Wow. Just wow. This makes me feel good that anyone at all ever visits this blog, or my solo one.

What makes a person visit a blog? Probably not an announcement of a new book, or even books on sale, unless that person is a big fan. In that case, they probably already know what you have coming out from your newsletter or online posts.

Probably not pictures of kittens or puppies on Facebook. Those get a lot of likes and some shares, but don’t make people think, Gosh, I’ll bet I should visit her blog.

This place lists some ways to get people interested in visiting your blog:

I’ll admit, I don’t understand #6. But I’m trying #3 today, as a scientific experiment. Here goes!


2 comments:

Jacqueline Seewald said...

Hi, Kaye,

I'll certainly take a look at it. Thanks for the suggestion.

Morgan Mandel said...

I was curious enough to see what they were. Smart strategies.
Morgan Mandel