 Blog Traffic Questions
I've asked this in another thread but I'd like to more specifically focus on it as it's own thread. This is especially targetted towards Steve and any other successful bloggers who have built a solid foundation of traffic to their sites.
Here are my questions:
1) How does commenting on other blogs relate to bringing traffic to your blog? Is it based on building more incoming links for search engine optimization in order to increase your Page rank on Google? Or is it actually meant as a way to build incoming links from people clicking on your link after reading your comments?
2) When I study traffic patterns on blogs, I almost always see no traffic for a period of time, like 3 months, 6 months, 2 years, etc. and then all of a sudden you see this HUGE leap from like 400hits a day to like 4,000,000 hits a day. How does that happen? Is this what's necessary to succeed? Some form of "publicity" to launch the popularity of your blog? If so, how can we control, encourage or create such an event? Do we just keep writing good solid articles and submitting to Blog Carnivals and commenting on people's blogs until we catch our "big break"? |