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Originally Posted by jamestl2  I didn't mean I was posting in the wrong forums or anything, I just didn't believe that any forum sigs in general gave that much power to search engines, high traffic links, etc. |
James, I'm starting to believe that all the stuff that people talk about as useful blog traffic building tips are just "talk". People do the stuff because it can't hurt to do it, but does it actually build big amounts of traffic to your site?
Don't get me wrong, I DO think there is a duplicatable approach to building traffic but I am really starting to think that most poeple don't really know what it is. They *think* they know, but they don't really know. They just repeat what they heard. I would even go as far as saying that a lot of people with successful blogs don't really know what actually made them successful because they basically did "everything".
What I've seen in traffic patterns time and time again with blogs is not linear growth which might look like this:
500 Hits
600 Hits
700 Hits
etc.
Nor do you see exponential growth that might look like:
320 Hits
640 Hits
1280 Hits
etc.
What I've seen time and time again is a pattern like this:
320 Hits
400 Hits
800 Hits
825 Hits
5,099,388 Hits
It's like all of a sudden it's BAM! a crapload of traffic just shows up and then it grows linear/exponential from there... What I'm interested in looking for is why this happens. What CAUSES these QUANTUM LEAPS in traffic. Study Steve's traffic, study JohnChow.com and you'll see what I mean.