You wonder how those bloggers can actually just spend very little time in a week yet they still get the same amount of traffic to their sites? You wonder how they participate so little in the blogosphere, almost never make comments on other blogs nor do they lurk on forums? There are two simple answers, 1). They’re already an established blogger and 2). The traffic that they get is pretty consistent.
Now the first answer is understandable, they are an established blogger. We all know it takes time to be an established authority blogger. Some of the top bloggers in the space were fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time.
But for us who’s definitely not considered as a top blogger in this space or any other space, what we could work on is getting consistent and recurring traffic to our blog. Yes, this is the same traffic that could repeat again and again with little to no maintenance at all. By driving consistent traffic, there’s a better chance of getting more loyal readers to your blog as oppose to just a one time visit.
Here’s a short quote on my guest post on BlogEngage about driving consistent traffic:
“One thing that sets apart good bloggers from just the average ones is the ability of the former to drive traffic on a consistent basis. Driving traffic these days is easy but what counts the most is on whether the traffic that you’re going to drive is going to convert or not.
Conversion can vary depending on the goals that you set as a blogger but the bottom line here is that every serious blogger must aim for consistent and returning traffic, not just a one time spike.
In this post, I would like to talk about different things that you can do in order to get that consistent stream of traffic. But before that, let me just cover first the facts about traffic and why you need to aim for consistency.”
I also happened to share some personal stuff on this post on how I thought I was already getting consistent traffic but still I don’t so you may want to check the article out.
Yes, driving consistent traffic is really the key point for any blog. The guru’s would have never became guru’s if they would not have done that. Nice post on BlogEngage Melvin. 🙂
“Driving traffic these days is easy”
Really?? How?
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Consistent traffic I think is more effective if it is more targetted.
Well… for some reason… I personally think unless you are a popular person in your niche… or else consistency is not going to go your way… Look at John Chow and some other big time blogger… do you think telling them to start a new blog with a new pen name… and asking them to do traffic consistency… they can make traffic like what their blog have right now…. will is totally bullshit… they can’t….
I know… problogger has a personal blog which do not get as much traffic as his main blog… and that is the reason why I said you had to be popular to have consistency…
Thanks Sahil. Feel free to comment on that article and retweet it for me. 🙂
@slava well driving traffic is easy first and foremost, because its too general.
When someone says he wants to drive traffic, I believe its not enough of a goal. Driving traffic can easily mean just buying 10000 bots traffic for $5 or having your friends refresh your site for a thousand times.
Driving traffic is easy mainly because its too generic. I can go to forums and spam my links. I will be banned obviously but still I could get 50-100 views. Know what I mean?
I don’t get consistent traffic because I don’t post as much on my blog.
I suppose once a week isn’t enough.
Driving traffic means stat you need to provide some fresh content on a regular basis and also doing your SEO on a daily basis. Not only that you will be driving traffic on a regular basis but you could also increase your traffic as time passes by.
Just because you now have a Web site doesn’t mean people other than your current customers will visit it.You have to consider number of factors like keyword,site maintenance,site designing etc.To drive more traffic to your site you have to be very careful
SEO and articles. Keep your blog updated on a regular basis and you’ll gain more traffic.
Yeah I am also agree with you , if your website or blog having substantial traffic then you can get Search rankings as well as page ranks automatically
Driving consistent traffic it’s harder then I expected.
I have to learn more about this.
lol, i had already read that post before i came up on this site,Anyway, thanks for that..