Comments on: Traffic Spike http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/01/traffic-spike/ Personal Development for Smart People Sat, 17 May 2008 04:40:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: blogHelper » Steve Pavlina - A Short Case Study in Single-Blogging http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/01/traffic-spike/#comment-10223 blogHelper » Steve Pavlina - A Short Case Study in Single-Blogging Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:27:49 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/?p=394#comment-10223 [...] For one, there’s the exceptional writing pointed out at ProBlogger. If we were to look at just length, yesterday’s article on Branching Out clocked at 1671 words - quite a bit more than the usual blog post. His writing is on topic - i.e. solely on personal development - and being a reader of 1 week, I’ve seen solid and clear articles - lent authencity by personal experiences. But not being an expert on the topic, I won’t elaborate on this. Steve also acknowledges that viral word of mouth brought substantial traffic. We already know that personal referals bring the most permanent traffic, especially for blogs in more personal niches. Success with social bookmarking is another. Most bloggers can only dream about experiencing a traffic spike as a result of being tagged by 3 top social bookmarking sites, i.e. digg, del.icio.us and shoutwire. [...] […] For one, there’s the exceptional writing pointed out at ProBlogger. If we were to look at just length, yesterday’s article on Branching Out clocked at 1671 words - quite a bit more than the usual blog post. His writing is on topic - i.e. solely on personal development - and being a reader of 1 week, I’ve seen solid and clear articles - lent authencity by personal experiences. But not being an expert on the topic, I won’t elaborate on this. Steve also acknowledges that viral word of mouth brought substantial traffic. We already know that personal referals bring the most permanent traffic, especially for blogs in more personal niches. Success with social bookmarking is another. Most bloggers can only dream about experiencing a traffic spike as a result of being tagged by 3 top social bookmarking sites, i.e. digg, del.icio.us and shoutwire. […]

]]> By: Feld Thoughts http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/01/traffic-spike/#comment-10189 Feld Thoughts Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:10:41 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/?p=394#comment-10189 <strong>Polyphasic Sleep</strong> I got a note from an entrepreneur (Steven Livingstone) who is pondering polyphasic sleep and asked the question: I've just blogged something looking for advice from successful people on sleeping patterns as an entrepreneur. I haven't read much (if an... Polyphasic Sleep

I got a note from an entrepreneur (Steven Livingstone) who is pondering polyphasic sleep and asked the question: I’ve just blogged something looking for advice from successful people on sleeping patterns as an entrepreneur. I haven’t read much (if an…

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