David Sifry's tips for increasing blog traffic

More and more people are trying to increase the popularity of their blog. There are multiple reasons on why you might want to make your blog popular, but the question is how you can. David Sifry, the CEO of Technorati, offers some specific insight based on what he has noticed on how you can make your blog more popular.

  1. React quickly.
  2. Make your posts easy to read.
  3. Link, link, link!
  4. Optimize for search engines.
  5. Post, post, post!

The interesting thing about these tips is that he stresses "quantity". Many bloggers go after quality instead of quantity and their blogs are not too popular. From all of the blogs that I have over seen, I have noticed that quantity is a key factor. Most of the popular bloggers in the Technorati top 100 post frequently, even if they are not "great" posts. This does not mean that you should post a lot of low quality entries, but you should try to increase your posting frequency, it can only help. For anyone interested in increasing traffic to their blog and also ways to monetize their blog, a great resource to check out is Darren Rowse's blog, Problogger.

via Micro Persuasion

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Blog Universe News, July 28, 2006

“Optimize your blog” — Wired has a popular article on how to optimize your site for more traffic. Ill break it down for you: React, Simplify, Link, Optimize, Post. It’s also covered on Crunchnotes, Pronet Advertising, Post Bubble (podcast), Micro Persuasion and Problog...

Reader Comments (2)

Natalie Ferguson, July 27, 2006

ahhh, but where to find the time... ;)

Neil Patel, July 27, 2006

It is time consuming. Everyday I spend at least an hour or two blogging, which includes finding stuff to blog about and then writing on it.