So you have started a blog and you have loaded content, done a little search engine optimization and you are now waiting for the traffic to pour in. Stop right there! Go back and let’s take a look at the whole process all over again.
Never begin a Blog with your focus purely on traffic generation.
Too many eBooks and coaching programs focus on traffic generation, and it’s easy to understand why many believe this is the ultimate goal for any website or blog.
Sure, traffic is very important but it is not the most important element of your blog. The quality of your blog content, its readability and the information that is given out should be your number one priority.
So many will argue that there are 100s of blogs with automated drip fed content that are very successful. The reality is they may be successful, but for how long? Will that blog get repeat visitors?
When your blog is built to meet the needs of the user, you will get a loyal following who will come back again and again rather than once off visitors.
How to turn one visitor into many visitors.
Imagine doing an AdWords campaign, article distribution campaign or any other traffic generation method, and every visitor that you receive automatically become 100 visitors. This is what can happen by placing blog quality over blog traffic.
You see the wonderful thing about the internet is one person that visits a site twice is considered as two visitors. So, if a Blog has ever changing content that’s interesting, and therefore entices a visitor to return again and again, you have made one visitor into many visitors.
Blog Traffic is not even the second most important aspect of your blog
So you have great blog content and your blog looks fantastic, is it now the time to drive traffic to your blog? The answer is yes! But this too is not the second most important aspect for a blog.
You now need to concentrate on keeping the traffic you have driven. Make sure that you get people, not just to visit you blog but also to subscribe to it.
Your ultimate goal should be to get as many loyal followers as you can, and if you are able to email them or update them on any new content, it’s much easier than expecting them to just remember to visit your blog.
In conclusion
Blog traffic is important but it is far more important what you do with that traffic and where that traffic is generated from. One hundred quality visitors, who will always be around, are many times more valuable than one thousand once off visitors.
So, it’s best to keep visitors interested by offering valuable content and getting them to stay interested by creating a relationship through blog posts, comments and emails.
So, go out and build your blog, don’t think about what you can get out of it, but what you can give in return, and you will soon reap the rewards in blog traffic.
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