Avoiding a Downturn in Blog Traffic, Ad Clicks and Revenue Pt 0 - Introduction
I've been "pro blogging" full-time now for about 5-6 months and have noticed a direct correlation between the amount of traffic, clicks, and ad revenue I get on a particular day and a number of causal factors:
Mind you, I don't yet have a significant amount of steady traffic on any of my blogs/sites to prove any direct evidence, which is why I use the term "correlation" (which means that there appears to be a connection, but it's based on educated guess and visible patterns rather solid evidence).
I've also noticed that my cooking blogs tend to get a fair bit more engine traffic than repeat visitors. That may simply be because I've been woeful negligent in posting regularly (factor 1), or that readers are only looking for one-off information, or they are not finding what they need. (Without comments from readers, it's difficult to be sure.)
I must say, however, that most of the time, I have intentionally been applying a haphazard posting frequency on all of my blogs to experiment and see what the traffic results will be. This mini-series of blog entries provides a bit of insight. Details are in individual posts (see navlinks, below). Each "Part" number is related to the items in the list above.
(c) Copyright: 2005-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/
- Number of days per week that entries are posted.
- Number of entries posted in a given 24-hour period.
- Time of day that the entries are posted.
- Number of blog search engines and directories pinged per post.
- Length of posts.
- Relevancy of keywords in a given blog entry compared to the rest of your blog entries.
Mind you, I don't yet have a significant amount of steady traffic on any of my blogs/sites to prove any direct evidence, which is why I use the term "correlation" (which means that there appears to be a connection, but it's based on educated guess and visible patterns rather solid evidence).
I've also noticed that my cooking blogs tend to get a fair bit more engine traffic than repeat visitors. That may simply be because I've been woeful negligent in posting regularly (factor 1), or that readers are only looking for one-off information, or they are not finding what they need. (Without comments from readers, it's difficult to be sure.)
I must say, however, that most of the time, I have intentionally been applying a haphazard posting frequency on all of my blogs to experiment and see what the traffic results will be. This mini-series of blog entries provides a bit of insight. Details are in individual posts (see navlinks, below). Each "Part" number is related to the items in the list above.
(c) Copyright: 2005-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/
